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** The Forsaken, considering their aptitude for science and cunning, would be TheSmartGuy. Also TheSneakyGuy.

** The Forsaken, considering their aptitude for science and cunning, would be TheSmartGuy. Also the TokenEvilTeammate and TheSneakyGuy.

** TheSmartGuy: Subverted; there is no single smart person because everyone has to be smart to be in this business. Despite that they still make a FiveManBand.

*** {{Token Evil Teammate}}s: Nemetes and Naevia (though she later subverts it)

** TeamPet: Zafira

** TheOneGuy: Eriol Mondial (the only guy who actually fights on the front-lines)

The roles typically hit most of the archetypes of the FiveManBand but without numerical or gender restrictions. There may be two or more characters holding the same "role", though often in different ways; a team may for example have an OmnidisciplinaryScientist-slash-GadgeteerGenius as the tech-savvy {{Smart Guy}} and TheStrategist-slash-TheChessmaster as the tactics/manipulation-savvy {{Smart Guy}}. Likewise, you may have two Big Guys -- e.g. one is the long-range heavy-weapons specialist with a mean haymaker if you come up close, the other is the BigFreakingSword-wielding close-quarters bruiser -- or they're a BattleCouple duo, with [[ActionGirl the female half]] being possibly a case of CuteBruiser and/or MusclesAreMeaningless (unless AmazonianBeauty is in play), and their respective fighting styles follow some sort of a "masculine vs. feminine" contrast (and [[MasculineGirlFeminineBoy not necessarily with the "right" sex]])

* ''Film/{{Inception}}'': Extractions have to be done by a team because there are different roles involved.
** TheSmartGuy: Averted; there is no single smart person becaue everyone has to be smart to be in this business.
*** The Extractor: Dom [[TheLeader leads the operation]] and [[TheFace does the talking]]. He is the one pulling out information. In this case, the one planting it
*** The Chemist: Yusuf mixes the phlebotium that allows The Team to reach the third level
*** The Architect: Ariadne was recruited to construct the dreamworld that The Team would use.
*** The Forger Eames has the ability to copy someone's appearance in a dream world. [[TheBigGuy He also has a grenade launcher.]]
*** The Point Man: Arthur is in charge of doing the research and he's smart enough to figure out how to simulate falling in zero gravity.
*** The Tourist: Saito; yes even he counts because he's a CEO that twisted Cobb's arm into doing this in the first place

** TheBigGuy: Tien, a varying between ArrogantKungFuGuy, TheStoic, and GentleGiant but [[LeeroyJenkins he keeps fighting]] even after [[CantCatchUp getting outclassed.]]

** The second (and third) TagalongKid / TheDividual - Goten and Trunks, who become BrattyHalfPint Gotenks when they FusionDance.

*** {{Sidekick}} [[SateliteCharacter to Tien:]] Chiaotzu, with little character development or screentime, first to officially retire from fighting.

If the team's membership is large enough, there may be two or more characters holding the same "role", though often in different ways; a team may for example have an OmnidisciplinaryScientist-slash-GadgeteerGenius as the tech-savvy {{Smart Guy}} and TheStrategist-slash-TheChessmaster as the tactics/manipulation-savvy {{Smart Guy}}. Likewise, you may have two Big Guys, each of whom has a distinct fighting style -- e.g. one is the long-range heavy-weapons specialist with a mean haymaker if you come up close, the other is the BigFreakingSword-wielding close-quarters bruiser -- or they're a BattleCouple duo, with [[ActionGirl the female half]] being possibly a case of CuteBruiser and/or MusclesAreMeaningless (unless AmazonianBeauty is in play), and their respective fighting styles follow some sort of a "masculine vs. feminine" contrast (and [[MasculineGirlFeminineBoy not necessarily with the "right" sex]])

** SergeantRock / TheHeroine: Nanoha Takamachi
** FairCop / LightningBruiser: Fate T. Harlaown

** TheMedic: Shamal

** My Little Pony Tales: Starlight, Sweetheart, Melody, Bright Eyes, Patch, Clover, and Bon Bon
** G3/3.5: Pinkie Pie, Scootaloo, Toola-Roola, Rainbow Dash, Sweetie Belle, Cheerilee, and Melody
** G4: Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Applejack, and Fluttershy.

** TheLeader: Hayate Yagami

** SergeantRock: Nanoha Takamachi
** FairCop: Fate T. Harlaown

** TheSmartGirl: Teana Lanster

** TheOneGuy: Eriol Mondial

** CloserToEarth[=/=]TokenAdult (relative age): Locke

* In [[Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand Spartacus: War of the Damned]]
** BigGood[=/=]TheHero[=/=]TheLeader: Spartacus
** {{The Lancer}}s: Crixus, Agron and Gannicus
** [[TheBigGuy The Big Guys]]: Donar and Lugo
** TheSmartGuy: Nasir, Attius, [[spoiler: Laeta]]
** {{Action Girl}}s: Naevia and Saxa
** {{The Chick}}s: Sibyl, Leta and Kore
** {{Token Evil Teammate}}s: Nemetes and Naevia (though she later subverts it)
** {{Sixth Ranger}}s: Castus, Diotomos, Sibyl, Laeta and Kore
** {{Sixth Ranger Traitor}}s: Heracleo and Julius Caesar

** TheBigGuy - Tien
*** [[{{Sidekick}} Sidekick to Tien]] - Chiaotzu
** TheGenericGuy - Yamcha

** CloserToEarth[=/=]TheTokenAdult (relative age): Locke

** ScaryBlackMan[=/=]TokenReligousTeammate: Mr. Eko

* [[Series/LOST]]

** AlphaBitch: Shannon
** NiceGuy: Boone

** ScaryBlackMan[=/=]TokenRelgiousTeammate: Mr. Eko

** TheSmartGuy: Nasir

This is the SuperTrope to PowerTrio, FiveManBand, and FiveBadBand. If it's a military group, it's TheSquad. If enough members are legitimately {{Badass}}, it may also be a BadassCrew. They can also be a DreamTeam. Compare and contrast BandOfBrothers. See also CastCalculus for typical breakdowns.

* ''Film/Inception'': Extractions have to be done by a team because there are different roles involved.

* ''VideoGame/WildArms3'': There's four of them and they travel together across the wasteland. TheChick is also TheLeader, TheLancer is the ''actual'' [[TheHeart emotional center]], that TheBigGuy is the best mage in the party with the worst melee attacks, and TheSmartGuy is a MightyGlacier with a sniper rifle. It gets to where one suspects the party's design is an intentional complex {{Deconstruction}} of the usual personality-to-party-role stereotypes in your average RPG.

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' is a group of six adventurers and eventually two {{TeamPet}}s. Some of the roles are distributed among several characters, notably by having two or three major damage-dealers and two people capable of outsmarting the leader.