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* '''Played For Drama''': Captain Lonestar always works alone because [[NoSocialSkills he can't connect to other people]].

** Captain Lonestar ends up failing more often than not due his insistence on always working alone.

* '''Defied''': Captain Lonestar normally works alone, but recognizes that continuing to do this may cost him his life, and joins the team.

** Captain Lonestar is [[HatesEveryoneEqually misanthropic]].

* '''Played For Drama''': Captain Lonestar always works alone because [[LonersAreFreaks he can't connect to other people]].

* '''Inverted''': Captain Lonestar suggests that the team should disband and their members should each go off on their seperate paths, but they decline because they always work together.

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Conversed''': ???

** As a corollary to the above, Captain Lonestar is a PersonOfMassDestruction; teaming up with someone [[DestructiveSavior would put them in serious danger]].

** As a corollary to the above, Captain Lonestar is a PersonOfMassDestruction; teaming up with someone [[DestructiveHero would put them in serious danger]].

** Or Captain Lonestar is a {{Jerkass}} who hates working with other people.
** Or he just prefers doing things alone, no malice involved.

* '''Deconstructed''': Captain Lonestar ends up failing more often than not due his insistence on always working alone.

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Enforced''': The writer considered making Lonestar join but[[ExecutiveMeddling he was considered most marketable when aloof]].

* '''Straight''': Captain Lonerguy is offered to join the team, but declines because he always works alone.
* '''Exagerrated''':
** Captain Lonerguy refuses to save the people from the EvilOverlord because it might attract the attention of other good guys who might try to help him.
** Captain Lonerguy takes on an entire army all by himself, while not having [[OneManArmy the required qualifications]].
* '''Downplayed''': Captain Lonerguy sometimes works with the group, but usually works alone.
* '''Justified''':
** Captain Lonerguy always works alone because [[TheOnlyOne everyone else is incompetent]].
** Or Captain Lonerguy is a {{Jerkass}} who hates working with other people.

** His abilities work better when alone. When you can go invisible at will anyone else near the site just becomes a liability.
** Captain Lonerguy has lived most of a life where he had to do everything by himself and thus isn't accustomed to working with others.
* '''Inverted''': Captain Lonerguy suggests that the team should disband and their members should each go off on their seperate paths, but they decline because they always work together.
* '''Subverted''': Captain Lonerguy declines to join the team when offered, but later it turns out that he had been working with a ''different'' team all along.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...But this is actually a ruse to get the original team off his back by continually pestering him about the benefits of working together.
* '''Parodied''': Captain Lonerguy has invented a special radar that will alert him to the presence of anyone in the vicinity who might be of help to him so he can avoid working with them at all times.
* '''Deconstructed''': Captain Lonerguy ends up failing more often than not due his insistence on always working alone.
* '''Reconstructed''': ...But all those missions were nigh-impossible to accomplish with a team. Those he did he only succeeded at specifically ''because'' he was working alone.

* '''Zig Zagged''' : ...
* '''Enforced''': The writer considered making Lonerguy join but[[ExecutiveMeddling he was considered most marketable when aloof]].
* '''Invoked''': Having pledged to always work alone, Captain Lonerguy recognizes that he can't break tradition just because the situation is grim.
* '''Defied''': Captain Lonerguy normally works alone, but recognizes that continuing to do this may cost him his life, and joins the team.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Looks like Captain Lonerguy is going off on the mission on his own again."

* '''Conversed''': ...
* '''Played for Laughs''': Captain Lonerguy always works alone because in reality he's a bumbling idiot.
* '''Played for Drama''': Captain Lonerguy always works alone because [[LonersAreFreaks he can't connect to other people]].

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* '''Enforced''': ...

* '''Downplayed''': Captain Lonerguy sometimes works with the group, but usaully works alone.

* '''Downplayed''': Captain Lonerguy sometimes works with the group, but usaully wroks alone.

* '''Averted''': In spite of [[NonIndicativeName his name]], Captain Lonerguy is part of the team to begin with.

* '''Downplayed''': Captain Lonerguy insists on working alone, but only does so for a single mission.

* '''Reconstructed''': ...