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1%% Please observe the Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment. Avoid using political and religious examples and don't start an Administrivia/EditWar.
2
3The FiveManBand is a group of characters whose members fall into archetypes which all complement one another. These are examples of things which can, with some imagination, be thought of as fitting those archetypes.
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5[[foldercontrol]]
6
7[[folder:Awards]]
8American Awards
9||TheLeader||The Oscars||
10||TheLancer||The Golden Globes||
11||TheBigGuy||The Emmys||
12||TheSmartGuy||The Grammys||
13||TheHeart||The Tonys||
14
15
16[[/folder]]
17[[folder:Body]]
18||border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0
19Fingers
20||TheLeader||Index finger||
21||TheLancer||Pinky finger||
22||TheBigGuy||Middle finger||
23||TheSmartGuy||Thumb||
24||TheHeart||Ring finger||
25
26||border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0
27Senses
28||TheLeader||Sight||
29||TheLancer||Hearing||
30||TheSmartGuy||Smell||
31||TheBigGuy||Touch||
32||TheHeart||Taste||
33||{{Sixth Ranger}}s||Balance, Temperature, Proprioception and Pain||
34[[/folder]]
35
36[[folder:Cardinal Points]]
37[[BlatantLies Four]] Directions, Lakota style
38||TheLeader||South (represented by red)||
39||TheLancer||North (opposite South, they always fight)||
40||TheBigGuy||East (lazy)||
41||TheSmartGuy||West (the home of the [[LightningCanDoAnything Wakinyan]])||
42||TheHeart||Center (with shades of SixthRanger)
43||SixthRanger||Above, Below||
44[[/folder]]
45
46[[folder:Console Wars]]
47||border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0
48Platform/PlayStation {{Killer App}}s
49||TheLeader[=/=]BigGood||CD-ROM (in general)||
50||TheLancer||VideoGame/GranTurismo||
51||TheSmartGuy||[[VideoGame/MetalGear Metal Gear Solid]]||
52||TheBigGuy||VideoGame/CrashBandicoot||
53||TheHeart||VideoGame/FinalFantasy||
54
55{{Creator/Nintendo}} {{Killer App}}
56||TheLeader||Franchise/SuperMarioBros||
57||TheLancer||Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda||
58||TheSmartGuy||Franchise/{{Metroid}}||
59||TheBigGuy||Franchise/{{Pokemon}}||
60||TheHeart||Franchise/{{Kirby}}||
61
62{{Creator/Sega}} Franchises
63||TheLeader||Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog||
64||TheLancer||{{VideoGame/Shinobi}}||
65||TheBigGuy||VideoGame/StreetsOfRage||
66||TheSmartGuy||VideoGame/ShiningForce||
67||TheHeart||VideoGame/PhantasyStar||
68||SixthRanger||VideoGame/SakuraWars (debuted on the Sega Saturn, unlike the others that debuted on the Genesis)||
69
70Console Lines
71||TheLeader||Platform/PlayStation||
72||TheLancer||Platform/{{XBox}}||
73||TheBigGuy||Creator/{{Nintendo}}||
74||TheSmartGuy||[[Platform/IBMPersonalComputer PC]]||
75||TheHeart||[[UsefulNotes/GoingMobile Mobile]] [[DataPad Devices]]||
76||TheSixthRanger||Platform/OculusRift||
77
78{{Creator/Ubisoft}} Franchises
79||TheLeader||Franchise/AssassinsCreed||
80||TheLancer||{{VideoGame/Rayman}}||
81||TheBigGuy||VideoGame/RavingRabbids||
82||TheSmartGuy||Franchise/FarCry||
83||TheHeart||VideoGame/JustDance||
84||SixthRanger||VideoGame/WatchDogs||
85||TeamPet||{{VideoGame/Petz}}||
86[[/folder]]
87
88[[folder:Continents]]
89||TheLeader||UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}||
90||TheLancer||UsefulNotes/NorthAmerica||
91||TheSmartGuy||UsefulNotes/{{Asia}}||
92||TheBigGuy||UsefulNotes/{{Africa}}||
93||TheHeart||UsefulNotes/SouthAmerica||
94||SixthRanger||UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}||
95||TeamPet||UsefulNotes/{{Antarctica}}||
96[[/folder]]
97
98
99[[folder:Education]]
100
101Subjects
102||TheLeader||English||
103||TheLancer||Maths||
104||TheBigGuy||Physical Education||
105||TheSmartGuy||Physics||
106||TheHeart||Music||
107||TheSixthRanger||Art and Languages||
108
109Ivy League Universities
110||TheLeader||Harvard||
111||TheLancer||Yale||
112||TheBigGuy||Penn||
113||TheSmartGuy||Columbia||
114||TheHeart||Brown||
115
116The Claremont Colleges
117||TheLeader||Pomona||
118||TheLancer||Pitzer||
119||TheBigGuy||Claremont Mckenna||
120||TheSmartGuy||Harvey Mudd||
121||TheHeart||Scripps||
122[[/folder]]
123
124[[folder:Elemental Powers]]
125Western
126||TheLeader||[[ElementNumberFive Quintessence/Aether]]||
127||TheLancer||Fire||
128||TheBigGuy||Earth||
129||TheSmartGuy||Wind/Air||
130||TheHeart||Water||
131
132Chinese
133||TheLeader||Fire||
134||TheLancer||Metal||
135||TheBigGuy||Earth||
136||TheSmartGuy||Water||
137||TheHeart||Wood||
138
139[[RolePlayingGame RPG]]/[[VideoGameGenres Video Games]]
140||TheLeader||Electricity/Lightning or Fire||
141||TheLancer||Electricity/Lightning (if TheLeader uses Fire), Fire (if TheLeader uses Lightning)||
142||TheBigGuy||Earth||
143||TheSmartGuy||Air/Wind||
144||TheHeart||Water||
145[[/folder]]
146
147[[folder:Food and related]]
148||border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0
149Fast-food restaurant
150||TheLeader||UsefulNotes/McDonalds||
151||TheLancer||Advertising/TheBurgerKing||
152||TheBigGuy||UsefulNotes/KentuckyFriedChicken||
153||TheSmartGuy||Advertising/JackInTheBox||
154||TheHeart||Wendy's||
155
156UsefulNotes/McDonalds extra value meals
157||TheLeader||Big Mac||
158||TheLancer||McChicken||
159||TheBigGuy||Quarter Pounder||
160||TheSmartGuy||Filet-O-Fish||
161||Theheart||Chicken McNuggets||
162
163||border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0
164Italian food
165||TheLeader||Spaghetti||
166||TheLancer||Lasagne||
167||TheBigGuy||Pizza||
168||TheSmartGuy||Ravioli||
169||TheHeart||Bruschetta||
170
171||border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0
172Most famous cultural food types
173||TheLeader||French food||
174||TheLancer||German food||
175||TheSmartGuy||Italian food||
176||TheBigGuy||Indian food||
177||TheHeart||Japanese food||
178||SixthRanger||Chinese food||
179
180||border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0
181Pizza types
182||TheLeader||Pepperoni||
183||TheLancer||Cheese||
184||TheSmartGuy||Veggie||
185||TheBigGuy||Meat||
186||TheHeart||Hawaiian||
187
188||border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0
189Restaurant types
190||TheLeader||Hamburger||
191||TheLancer||Chicken||
192||TheSmartGuy||Pizza||
193||TheBigGuy||Steak||
194||TheHeart||Baking good||
195||TokenMinority||Asian||
196
197The Food Pyramid
198||TheLeader||Grains||
199||TheLancer||Dairy||
200||TheBigGuy||Meat and Poultry||
201||TheSmartGuy||Fruits and Veggies||
202||TheHeart||Sweets and Condiments||
203
204The Salad
205||TheLeader||Lettuce||
206||TheLancer||Spinach or Kale||
207||TheBigGuy||Onions||
208||TheSmartGuy||Carrots||
209||TheHeart||Croutons||
210||SixthRanger||Dressing||
211||SixthRangerTraitor||Tomatoes (the ex-vegetable)||
212||TheMentor||The Bowl||
213||TokenEvilTeammate||The Fork||
214
215[[/folder]]
216
217[[folder:Insurance Companies]]
218||TheLeader||State Farm||
219||TheLancer||Allstate||
220||TheBigGuy||Geico||
221||TheSmartGuy||Esurance||
222||TheHeart||Progressive||
223||SixthRanger||Nationwide Insurance||
224||TokenEvilTeammate||Farmers Insurance||
225[[/folder]]
226
227[[folder:Major Film Studios]]
228||TheLeader||Creator/{{Disney}}||
229||TheLancer||Creator/WarnerBros||
230||TheBigGuy||Creator/{{Universal}}||
231||TheSmartGuy||Creator/{{Paramount}}||
232||TheHeart||Creator/ColumbiaPictures||
233[[/folder]]
234
235[[folder:Music]]
236||border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0
237Rock Band Instruments
238||TheLeader[=/=]BigGood||Lead Vocal||
239||TheHero[=/=]TheLancer||Lead Guitar||
240||TheLancer||Bass Guitar||
241||TheSmartGuy||Keyboard||
242||TheBigGuy||Drums||
243||TheHeart||Rhythm Guitar||
244[[/folder]]
245
246[[folder:News Media]]
247||border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0
248FOX News newscasters and anchormen
249||TheLeader||Bill O'Reilly (most neutral character in the lineup; most watched show on cable news)||
250||TheLancer||Sean Hannity (similar to but not quite like the Leader; does the things the Leader will not)||
251||TheSmartGuy||Juan Williams (smart guy who foils the rest)||
252||TheBigGuy||Glenn Beck (literally)||
253||TheHeart||Greta Van Susteren||||
254
255FOX News Channel's The Five
256||TheLeader||Eric Bolling||
257||TheLancer||Andrea Tantaros||
258||TheSmartGuy||Greg Gutfeld||
259||TheBigGuy||Bob Beckel||
260||TheHeart||Dana Perino||
261
262The Weather Channel newscasters and anchormen
263||TheLeader||Jim Cantore||
264||TheLancer||Mike Seidel||
265||TheSmartGuy||Dr. Greg Forbes||
266||TheBigGuy||Stu Ostro||
267||TheHeart||Stephanie Abrams||
268
269MSNBC Nightly lineup
270||TheLeader||Lawrence O'Donnell (well, he does get The Last Word)||
271||TheLancer||Chris Matthews (his views sometimes tend to go in the opposite direction from the others')||
272||TheSmartGuy||Al Sharpton||
273||TheBigGuy||Ed Schultz||
274||TheHeart||[[Series/TheRachelMaddowShow Rachel Maddow]]||
275[[/folder]]
276
277[[folder:Other Games]]
278||border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0
279RockPaperScissors Lizard Spock
280||TheLeader||Scissors||
281||TheLancer||Lizard (while scissors are manmade and inanimate, lizards are natural, animate, and don't use manmade things)||
282||TheSmartGuy||[[TheSpock Spock]]||
283||TheBigGuy||Rock||
284||TheHeart||Paper (Unlike the others, it doesn't physically attack its opponents, preferring a form of passive resistance.)||
285
286||border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0
287''The Yu-Gi-Oh Card Game Elemental Heroes''
288||TheLeader||Elemental Hero Avian||
289||TheLancer||Elemental Hero Sparkman||
290||TheBigGuy||Elemental Hero Clayman||
291||TheSmartGuy||Elemental Hero Bubbleman||
292||TheHeart||Elemental Hero Burstinatrix||
293[[/folder]]
294
295[[folder:Science]]
296||border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0
297States Of Matter
298||TheLeader||Solid||
299||TheLancer||Plasma||
300||TheBigGuy||Supersolid||
301||TheSmartGuy||Liquid||
302||TheHeart||Gas||
303||SixthRanger||Bose-Einstein condensate (It wasn't produced until 1995, although it was theorized to exist before then.)||
304
305Chemicals (from the perspective of biological systems)
306||TheLeader||Carbon||
307||TheLancer||Hydrogen||
308||TheBigGuy||Nitrogen||
309||TheSmartGuy||Oxygen||
310||TheHeart||Phosphorus||
311||SixthRanger||Trace elements||
312||TokenEvilTeammate||Radioactive tracers||
313
314Main Biological Chemicals
315||TheLeader||RNA||
316||TheLancer||Protein||
317||TheBigGuy||Lipid||
318||TheSmartGuy||DNA||
319||TheHeart||Carbohydrate||
320||TheMentor||Water||
321
322Forces
323||TheLeader||Gravitational Force||
324||TheLancer||Normal Force||
325||TheBigGuy||Electromagnetic Force||
326||TheSmartGuy||Frictional Force||
327||TheHeart||Tension Force||
328||TheSixthRanger||Nuclear Forces||
329[[/folder]]
330
331[[folder:Lanugage]]
332||border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0
333The Vowels
334||TheLeader||A||
335||TheLancer||E||
336||TheSmartGuy||U||
337||TheBigGuy||O||
338||TheHeart||I||
339||SixthRanger||Y||
340
341Punctuation
342||TheLeader||.||
343||TheLancer||,||
344||TheBigGuy||!||
345||TheSmartGuy||:||
346||TheHeart||?||
347||TheSixthRanger||!? (Interrobang)||
348||TheMentor||;||
349||TheDitz||#||
350
351Romance Languages
352||TheLeader||French||
353||TheLancer||Portugese||
354||TheBigGuy||Spanish||
355||TheSmartGuy||Italian||
356||TheHeart||Romanian||
357||TheSixthRanger||Occitlan, Corsican, Catalan and Galician||
358||TheMentor||Latin||
359[[/folder]]
360
361[[folder:Sports]]
3621996 Chicago Bulls
363||TheLeader||Michael Jordan||
364||TheLancer||Dennis Rodman||
365||TheBigGuy||Luc Longley||
366||TheSmartGuy||Scottie Pippen||
367||TheHeart||Ron Harper||
368||SixthRanger||Tony Kucoc||
369||TheMentor||Phil Jackson||
370
371"The Big Three Era" Miami Heat
372||TheLeader||Lebron James||
373||TheLancer||Dwyane Wade||
374||TheBigGuy||Chris Bosh||
375||TheSmartGuy||Shane Battier||
376||TheHeart||Mario Chalmers||
377||SixthRanger||Ray Allen||
378
379USA's Women's Gymnastics Olympic Team 2012, aka the "Fierce Five"
380||TheHero||Jordyn Wieber - the media gave her the most attention, and reframed the marketing around her upset loss in the all around||
381||TheLancer||Gabby Douglas||
382||TheBigGuy||Aly Raisman - the actual [[TheLeader team captain]], but always framed as being the roughest tumbler||
383||TheSmartGuy||[=McKayla Maroney=]||
384||TheHeart||Kyla Ross||
385
386UFC Weight Divisions
387||TheLeader||Light Heavyweight (most of the major fighters are there)||
388||TheLancer||Middleweight||
389||TheBigGuy||Heavyweight (obviously)||
390||TheSmartGuy||Welterweight (the most technical fighters are in this division)||
391||TheHeart||Lightweight||
392||{{Sixth Ranger}}s||Bantamweight and Featherweight||
393
394Sports in the US
395||TheLeader||Baseball||
396||TheLancer||Football||
397||TheBigGuy||Ice Hockey||
398||TheSmartGuy||Basketball||
399||TheHeart||Soccer||
400||SixthRanger||NASCAR||
401
402Sports in Australia
403||TheLeader||UsefulNotes/{{Cricket}}||
404||TheLancer||UsefulNotes/AustralianRulesFootball||
405||TheBigGuy||UsefulNotes/RugbyLeague, UsefulNotes/RugbyUnion||
406||TheSmartGuy||Tennis||
407||TheHeart||Netball||
408||SixthRanger||Soccer||
409[[/folder]]
410
411[[folder:Technology]]
412||border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0
413Microsoft Office
414||TheLeader||Word||
415||TheLancer||[=PowerPoint=]||
416||TheSmartGuy||Excel and Teams||
417||TheBigGuy||Outlook||
418||TheHeart||[=OneNote=]||
419||{{Sixth Ranger}}s||Access and Publisher||
420
421||border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0
422Platform/AppleMacintosh
423||TheLeader||[=MacBook Pro=]||
424||TheLancer||[=MacBook Air=]||
425||TheSmartGuy||Mac Mini||
426||TheBigGuy||Mac Pro||
427||TheHeart||[=iMac=]||
428||SixthRanger||Hackintosh||
429
430||border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0
431The parts of a computer
432||TheLeader||Processor||
433||TheLancer||Graphics processing unit||
434||TheSmartGuy||RAM||
435||TheBigGuy||Hard drive||
436||TheHeart||Network adapter||
437||TagalongKid||CD drive||
438
439||border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0
440Control Theory
441||TheLeader||Plant||
442||TheLancer||Controller||
443||TheSmartGuy||Sensor||
444||TheBigGuy||Actuator||
445||TheHeart||Reference Signal||
446||TokenEvilTeamMate||Noise||
447[[/folder]]
448
449[[folder:TV Tropes]]
450||border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0
451AnAdventurerIsYou archetypes
452||TheLeader||The Jack||
453||TheLancer||The [=DPSer=]||
454||TheBigGuy||The Tank||
455||TheSmartGuy||The Nuker||
456||TheHeart||The Healer||
457
458||border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0
459FourTemperamentEnsemble archetypes
460||TheLeader||Phlegmatic II||
461||TheLancer||Choleric||
462||TheSmartGuy||Melancholic||
463||TheBigGuy||Phlegmatic||
464||TheHeart||Sanguine||
465||SixthRanger||Supine||
466
467||border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0
468MarySue archetypes
469||TheLeader||PuritySue||
470||TheLancer||AntiSue||
471||TheSmartGuy||MaryTzu||
472||TheBigGuy||GodModeSue||
473||TheHeart||SympatheticSue||
474||SixthRanger||FixerSue||
475||AloofAlly||JerkSue||
476||TheOneGuy||MartyStu||
477||TokenEvilTeamMate||VillainSue||
478||TeamPet||ParodySue||
479||TagalongKid||CopyCatSue||
480||BigGood||BlackHoleSue||
481
482||border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0
483TheSquad archetypes
484||TheLeader||TheCaptain||
485||TheLancer||ColdSniper||
486||TheBigGuy||DemolitionsExpert||
487||TheSmartGuy||TheEngineer||
488||TheHeart||TheMedic||
489[[/folder]]
490
491[[folder:Miscellaneous]]
492||border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0
493The Art Mediums
494||TheLeader||Live Action||
495||TheLancer||2D Animation (such as traditional or {{Main/Animesque}})||
496||TheBigGuy||3D Animation (such as computer-animated or {{Main/Machinima}})||
497||TheSmartGuy||Stop Motion (such as clay animated or puppet)||
498||TheHeart||Puppetry||
499||TheSixthRanger||Sprite Animation||
500
501||border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0
502Colors
503||TheLeader||Red||
504||TheLancer||Blue||
505||TheBigGuy||Yellow||
506||TheSmartGuy||Green||
507||TheHeart||Purple or Pink||
508||TheSixthRanger||Orange, Gray or Brown||
509||TokenGoodTeammate||White||
510||TokenEvilTeammate||Black||
511
512||border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0
513The Holidays
514||TheLeader||Christmas||
515||TheLancer||Thanksgiving||
516||TheBigGuy||Halloween||
517||TheSmartGuy||Easter||
518||TheHeart||Valentine's Day||
519
520Jewish Holidays
521||TheLeader||Shabbat||
522||TheLancer||Havdalah||
523||TheBigGuy||Rosh Hashanah||
524||TheSmartGuy||Simchat Torah||
525||TheHeart||Purim||
526||TheSixthRanger||Yom Hashoah||
527||TheMentor||Yom Kippur||
528||TagalongKid||Chanukah||
529
530||border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0
531Physical Displays of Affection
532||TheLeader||Kissing||
533||TheLancer||Hugging||
534||TheBigGuy||Sex||
535||TheSmartGuy||Dancing||
536||TheHeart||Holding Hands||
537||TokenEvilTeammate||Biting||
538
539||border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0
540The Numbers
541||TheLeader||1||
542||TheLancer||π||
543||TheBigGuy||∞||
544||TheSmartGuy||e||
545||TheHeart||3||
546||TokenEvilTeammate||i||
547
548Writing Utensils
549||TheLeader||Pencils||
550||TheLancer||Pens||
551||TheBigGuy||Chalk||
552||TheSmartGuy||Highlighters||
553||TheHeart||Erasable Markers||
554||SixthRangerTraitor||Permanent Markers||
555||TagalongKid||Crayons||
556||TheMentor||Quills and Styluses||
557
558[[/folder]]

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