History Main / VFormationTeamShot

* ''Series/KamenRiderDecade: [[TheMovie All Riders vs Dai-Shocker]]'' has a 27-man JusticeLeague shot featuring almost every ''Franchise/KamenRider'' protagonist to date.

* The trope was originally named after ''JusticeLeague'', whose main characters are seen [[SinisterSilhouettes silhouetted]] in this manner in the opening.

* The cast of ''{{Glee}}'' gets one in "Theatricality" when they come to aid Kurt as he's being accosted by two jocks. They do this in full KISS and LadyGaga outfits.

* ''DowntonAbbey'' features it on their DVD covers, with Lord Grantham standing at the front.

* Most images of the {{Disney Princess}}es look like this.

* Used in [[http://wapsisquare.com/comic/pack-the-bug-spray/ this]] ''WapsiSquare'' strip.

* Done in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Brawl'' by [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario, Yoshi]], [[KidIcarus Pit]], [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link]] and VideoGame/{{Kirby}}, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP78qGZ214U as demonstrated here.]]

Quite apart from [[RuleOfCool looking really cool]], this shot also has practical advantages. For one thing, it makes all the characters neatly visible, but more importantly, the viewer can and will make inferences about the group's power dynamic based on the arrangement of the characters. The characters flanking the central figure on either side will be assumed to be the two second most important team members, with others descending in importance as they move further toward the tips of the V and thus further back into the shot. (To be clear, it's not a hard and fast rule that every V formation shot ''will'' adhere to this formula, but the viewer's expectation is definitely there. The designer of the shot will have taken that expectation into account, even if they're intending to subvert it.) Also, though this is less of a given, information might be conveyed by whether a character is standing to the central figure's left or right side. The left and right sides may represent different subgroups of the team, or indeed two separate (but probably not worse than rivalling) factions altogether.

In almost every show featuring a FiveManBand or a team of heroes, at some point in the opening or promotional materials the main characters will be displayed in a certain formation. The leader stands in the middle of the shot, with the rest of the team standing to each side of him, each slightly behind each other, forming a "V" shape.

They put it on DVD boxes, magazine covers, book covers and album covers too.

* In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'', the Axem Rangers group around the Breaker Beam like this, with Axem Red at the front (of course).

[[caption-width-right:300: Not to be confused with the B or Q Team formation shots...]]

* The elaborate choreography employed by *Music/{{NSYNC}} usually opened or finished with them in the [[http://i.imgur.com/vwVxr4U.jpg formation.]]

* The opening sequence for ''{{Metalocalypse}}'', and the cover of the FictionalBand Dethklok's album.

** Similarly, several aircraft formations mimick this. A four-plane version used by the Americans during WorldWarII is known as the Finger Four (named for the positions your fingertips are in if you look at your hand, [[DisSimile and if you aren't missing any fingers]], [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg not counting the thumb, obviously.]]

* Used many times on ''Franchise/{{BIONICLE}}'' covers or title pages. Most notably the first and second-to-last issues have Tahu in the front in the same pose, except in the latter image, one side of the "V" is made up of villains.

* Almost every piece of ''{{BIONICLE}}'' promotional art showing all six members of a given set wave did this within the first six years, occasionally with some variation such as one character flying above the pose. Come 2008, when set waves became more diverse in who was in them, this became considerably less frequent; after all, having heroes and villains posing together as a team wouldn't make all that much sense.

* The elaborate choreography employed by *Music/{{NSYNC}} usually opened or finished with them in the [[http://i.imgur.com/9FDr3bu.jpg formation.]]

* ''KamenRiderDecade: [[TheMovie All Riders vs Dai-Shocker]]'' has a 27-man JusticeLeague shot featuring almost every ''KamenRider'' protagonist to date.

* ''{{Kamen Rider Den-O}}: Final Countdown'' also has this, with 5 of the eponymous Rider's basic forms (assumed by the [[NobleDemon Taros and Sieg]]), [[TheLancer Zeronos]] Zero Form and finally [[TheHero Ryotaro]] in [[SuperMode Liner Form]], as they prepare to fight the revived Imagin army.
* ''Let's Go Kamen Rider'': since there were 28 Riders present, they couldn't do a traditional V-formation (since the formation requires an odd number), so they pulled off '''two''' layers: the movie's five central Riders [[{{KamenRiderDen-O}} Den-O, New Den-O]], [[KamenRiderOOO OOO]], and [[Series/KamenRider V1 and V2]], with the 23 cameo Riders behind them.

* The opening CG of ''DissidiaFinalFantasy'' has the ten villains [[OutOfTheInferno walking out of a wall of lava]] in a villainous Justice League Shot. A LegionOfDoom Shot, maybe?

* In ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'' (and ''Platinum''), when you beat the Elite Four, you go into the backroom and record your team into the hall of fame. After going through a montage showing each of your team members, it shows a Justice League Shot, with your trainer sprite in the center, and three Pokémon flanking you on either side. Their order depends on what order you had them in your party.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'' has now done this a number of times in it's openings as the crew grows, usually focusing on each one (with maniacal grin) before panning out as the ending shot.

* The cover of [[MonacoMine Monaco: What's Yours is Mine]] invokes this trope

* A generic clipart of the {{Disney Princess}}es looks like this. From left to right are [[{{Tangled}} Rapunzel]], [[Disney/{{Aladdin}} Jasmine]], [[Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Snow White]], {{Mulan}}, [[Disney/SleepingBeauty Aurora]], Disney/{{Cinderella}}, {{Pocahontas}}, [[Disney/ThePrincessandtheFrog Tiana]], [[Disney/BeautyandtheBeast Belle]], and [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid Ariel]].

* The [[CodenameKidsNextDoor Kids Next Door]] got one in their TV movie ''Operation: Z.E.R.O.'' when they exit their escape pods at the museum.