History Series / TheMagnificentSeven1998

* EvenEvilHasStandards: O'Shea in "Wagon Train Pt 1." tells Powderman not to kill anyone, and is upset when one of the homesteaders is anyway. O'Shea claims in front of his men that he's trying to avoid a murder charge, but he would know there's no way the law could connect him to Powderman's attack on the camp. In Pt. 2, O'Shea with different rights, O'Shea is much more vicious, telling Powderman to kill the homesteaders if that's faster than scaring them.

** AttemptedRape: : In "Wagon Train Pt 2" three of O'Shea's reinforcements attempt to rape Charlotte. [[spoiler: Vin stops them.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: O'Shea in "Wagon Train" tells Powderman not to kill anyone, and is upset when one of the homesteaders is anyway. O'Shea claims in front of his men that he's trying to avoid a murder charge, but he would know there's no way the law could connect him to Powderman's attack on the camp.

* RomancingTheWidow: Buck and Ezra make a bet on which one of them can get close to a widowed woman on a wagon train, by making nice with the woman's bratty son. Josiah ends up winning.

** In "Vendetta", Chris, Buck, and Nathan are comfortable enough with Ezra to play poker with him. Although Nathan does ask Ezra how they can know he's not cheating. He point that they can't.

** In "Safecracker" Ezra does admit to cheating, but only to cheat a cheater.

* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: In "Manhunt", Josiah asks Rafe if he wants to become like his {spoiler: murderous father Owen by killing Owen. Rafe doesn't.]]

---> '''Inez''': In a battle of wits, Senor Buck, I think you'd be unarmed.

* ChekhovsGun: In "Manhunt" Vin breaks Chanu's wrist when Chanu struggles with Vin. This doesn't impede Chanu for rest of the episode, but it does provide Vin with a clue in the final act [[spoiler: that Chanu couldn't have strangled Claire two-handed and someone else is the killer.]]

* The season two premiere, "The New Law", does the same thing in a condensed fashion. Nathan throws knives, Ezra uses his holdoout derringer, Buck whoops and hollers, and flirts with a local woman in the middle of a gun fight, etc.

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

* DeadpanSnarker: Inez is often this, particularly to Buck who keeps hitting on hger.
---> '''Inez'': In a battle of wits, Senor Buck, I think you'd be unarmed.

* YoungGun: JD Dunne. He's shown in "Inmate 78" drinking milk in a saloon, from a beer mug.

& 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.

* PoliceAreUseless: Marshal Bryce in "The New Law" puts up a lot of regulations about what people can't do, and drives most of the Seven out of Four Corners. Despite the fact that it's said he's cleaned up several Kansas towns., [[spoiler: When ranchers Royal and James's hired guns attack the town, their leader Earl shoots Bryce when the Bryce orders him and his men to surrender their guns..]]
* PreacherMan: Owen Mosely in "Manhunt" is originally presented as this. [[spoiler: At the end, it is revealed he is a SinisterMinister, having murdered his own daughter when he found out she was pregnant with an Indian's child and claim it was God's will.]]