History Series / TheMagnificentSeven1998

* GoldTooth: Ezra has one.

* MeddlingParents: Every time Maude shows up. she essentially pulls Ezra around by his ear scolding him for wasting his talents and the skills she taught him by becoming a common lawman. She interferes with his plans to run the saloon by purchasing the local hotel and running him out of business, in an attempt to teach him a vague lesson about staying on his toes.

* DeterminedWidow: Mary is this, after her husband is killed. It's why she stays in the town.

* WeaponOfChoice: Vin uses a distinctive "Mare's Leg", a carbine similar to the one that Josh ([[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor Steve McQueen]]) used on ''Series/WantedDeadOrAlive''.

* CrusadingWidower: Chris.

* CourtroomEpisode: In "The Trial", Josiah steps up as Obediah's lawyer. He gives a moving closing speech, and while much of the episode doesn'tt revolve around the trial, it gets a lot of screntime.

* WardensAreEvil: The unnamed Warden in "Inmate 78" is corrupt and heartless, and in cahoots with the local sheriff to demand "bail' fom the families of people he locks up.

* KnifeNut: Nathan.

** Vin uses a Mare's Leg for a weapon, the same as Creator/SteveMcQueenActor's character Josh used in ''Series/WantedDeadOrAlive''. Creator/SteveMcQueenActor appeared in the original film, and Vin is the Expy of Creator/SteveMcQueenActor's character, Vin.

* WeaponOfChoice: Vin uses a distinctive "Mare's Leg", a carbine similar to the one that Josh (Creator/SteveMcQueenActor) used on ''Series/WantedDeadOrAlive''.

* FantasticRacism: In "The Ghosts of the Confederacy", Ezra (a Southerner) initially refuses to ride with Nathan (a black, ex-slave). [[spoiler: Ezra overcomes his prejudice at the end of the pilot]], but it comes up later in "Working Girls" when Ezra runs prostitutes through his "charm school", and Nathan angrily objects that Ezra is selling women into forced servitude.
** In "Manhunt, Rzra is the first of the Seven to believe that Chanu, an Indian, is a killer. Buck later joins Ezra in his belief. [[spoiler: They both come around to Chanu's side at the end.]]
** In "The Trial", Sheriff Stone isn't happy with Obediah because as he puts it, slaves took over his family plantation while Stone was with the Confederates in the Civil War.

* PocketProtector: Ezra gets shot, but it turns out the large sums of money he was thinking of making off with stopped the bullet. Played for laughs when he decides it's best his friends don't trust him with holding the finances in the future - despite its life-saving capabilities. It happens again in "Obsession", when a diamond brooch he won at poker deflects a bullet.

** In "Serpents", Stutz Sr. dies of unexplained reasons. it's implied that he died of natural causes, but he was presumably a healthy man, [[spoiler: being an active professional hitman,]] but it's never stated how he died

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Ranchers James and Royal are presented as the recurring villains in "The New Law" at the beginning of season 2, but disappear without a mention for the rest of the series.

* StealingFromTheTill: In "Chinatown", Brauner is skimming the Chinese workers' wages. Somehow, some of them realize this and Brauner has his men kill them to cover his initial crime.

* DuelToTheDeath: In "Love and Honor", Buck has to fight a duel with swords against Don Paolo, to defend her honor and keep Paolo from taking her.

** In "Achille", Ezra takes great offense at being accused of cheating, and seems sincere in his protests.

** In "Penance", Josiah drinks heavily {[spoiler: after visiting his institutionalized sister,]] rants about God, and gets violent.

* TheAlcoholic: Most of the Seven are drinkers, but Chris tends to go overboard and kick up a ruckus when he's thinking about his murdered family.

* NighInvulnerability: In "Achilles", Achilles believes he's invulnerable like his Greek accent. He says that he's been shot 11 times, and once saw a bullet heading for his face swerve. He seems to be the beneficiary of Impossibly Good Luck, [[spoiler: and his invulnerability doesn't protect him from dying at the end of the episode.]]

* Frameup: Josiah is framed as a serial killer in "Penance". [[spoiler: The framer, Cyrus Poplar, not only has the means to plant evidence incriminating Josiah, but also somehow knows that Josiah is having a crisis of conscience over his sister and will conveniently act guilty.]]

* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Ezra gives Li Pong enough money to go back to her family in San Fransisco, even though he wants her to stay with him.

* NotWhatItLooksLike: Ezra has to defend himself to Nathan after he is caught in a compromising position with Li Pong.