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This entry rocks hard -- Gus
// Please modify names and such so these point to other character archetypes already done here. This page exists because this is a common group.
//What about The Visionary? Cordelia, Chiana, Zhaan, Doyle, Buffy to a certain extent. Someone with preternatural knowledge, often a mystical connection. In D&D you'd call them a Cleric.
//more props to this entry. The Chick is probably an amalgam of many weak characters, either to stand in for the viewer or be the reason for the four people's efforts. Someone who is just not superpowered. I think A-Team had A Chick, and I would posit that Xander is both comic relief and A Chick.
//Legolas has a similar body count to Gimli -- I wouldn't mark him as The Smart Guy. Also? Not that smart. -- Capoeira Girl
//Re Legolas as Smart Guy - Elves are generally (at least in fantasy and role-playing games) the fast, quick, quick-witted archer types, whereas Dwarves are stony, dour, strong axe-wielding maniacs. So even though Gimli the dwarf is smaller and Legolas just as capable, as a pair they offer the Big Guy/Smart Guy pairing.
// Is there another group similar to Five Man Band with a higher count? Firefly The Series with nine, the Fot R, Robin Hood's Merry Men, for example?
Hmm. Robin, Marian, Friar Tuck, John Little, Will Scarlet. Never mind that last one. -- Gus
Grev: I was able to pare Firefly down to five by leaving out the "paying customers"...and a bit of shoehorning...
I think there's a whole class of shows with larger groups than the Five Man Band, but smaller than Loads And Loads Of Characters--say, seven to ten regulars. All of the Star Trek series, Babylon Five, Justice League, etc., and while these do have common character types across them, I'm not sure the composition of the groups is nearly as consistent with respect to the character types as the Five Man Band. I don't think there's currently an entry that would cover these, but maybe there should be. -- Devils Advocate
//I don't think Legolas in the movie is portrayed as either weaker or more smart than Gimli, though. And I'm also pretty sure about the book. I'd also say that Gandalf is smarter (maybe also Aragorn -- the movie did elevate his sagacity), and any of the hobbits weaker. Either way, I think there are plenty of cites, so there's not much need for any extra-media ones that aren't slam dunks.
//The A-Team started out with a chick (Amy) who only lasted the first2seasons - CT
//Blakes Seven is an example of this, even despite the numbers. In the first season, I'd say Blake is 100% Leader, Avon is about 60% Lancer and 40% Anti-hero (changing to 100% Anti-hero in later seasons), Gan = 100% Big Guy, Villa = 100% Comic Relief, Jenna = 100% Chick, Orac = 100% Smart Guy and Cally = about 30% Mentor and 70% Mystic, a la Willow.
//Are the CSI crews a Five Man Band?
Five Man Band
//Though a comic book & not TV, "The Knights of the Dinner Table" forms a Five Man Band. A comic epic about the roleplaying hobby and the centerpiece of the gaming magazine of the same name, the Knights of the Dinner Table include five friends who get together to play Hack Master (a spoof of Dungeons and Dragons). B.A. Felton is a Hero and the group's DM, who struggles to present an intelligent campaign against his friends' hack&slash and munchkin tendencies. Brian Van Hoose is a Lancer and a games lawyer who invents incredible applications of the rules. Dave Bozwell, the youngest member, is a Big Guy who prefers a fighter armed with a Hack Master +12 sword. Bob Herzog is a Smart Guy - not because he plays intelligently, but rather for his preference for devious thief characters. Sara Felton, B.A's cousin, is the Chick (one who'd violently disagree with that characterization), a consummate roleplayer and B.A's ally for sensible RP. In their original Hack Master campaign, Bob, Dave & Brian's characters called themselves "The Incredible Trio", until Sara joined and it became "The Incredible Trio plus One". Sara's "special power", it would seem, arises directly from her feminine sensibility - rather than a compensation for weakness, her attenuation to social relationships prepares her to make smarter choices that satisfy B.A's interest in a plausible story.
//Nice addition, Mac Guges. Frankly I am a little surprised we don't see more examples from the world of static graphics, since that world is inspiring so much of today's animated/acted material.
//Would it be worthwhile to separate this into examples of the archetypes used by a five man band, and actual five man bands? The current lists have characters from a number of series that act as one of the stereotypes, but don't have them all, have extra characters, what have you. Shouldn't there be a section for exemplary, unquestionable five man bands, in this format:
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Gus: Looney Toons's recent clarification of the roles of Hero and Lancer raises an interesting notion. These two roles serve as foils of one another, making their characteristics clear in the contrast. It seems like this holds true for Big Guy and Smart Guy, as well. Big Guy punches through to the bottom line, for instance, while Smart Guy dithers about and over-elaborates. It seems like The Chick most often serves to leaven all the rampant testosterone. Looney Toons: I didn't clarify -- I edited someone else's clarification slightly. Silent Hunter: I haven't said it already, so I'll say it now- this entry is brilliant. I'd advertise this wiki with this entry. Do you think the Myth Busters are an RL example of a Five Man Band, or am I stretching it too far? For example:
Drop Dead Gorgias: Just stumbled across this article too. It rocks, if just for the TMNT theme song tie-in. Also, this discussion page should almost be subdivided into its own page, as it is mostly shout-outs of people who have stumbled across it and had to proclaim how awesome it is. Teen Titans: Five Man Band or not? Four of the characters are easy to fit into the character types:
Drop Dead Gorgias: Would Sealab2021 constitute a Five Man Band?
Aeon Ite: When I originally created this I used the term "Lancer" as a reference to the medieval sense; the lancer was a guy associated with lancing, as in "straight ahead gutsy charging in-your-face attacks", as opposed to the more general term Knight which carries with it connotations of nobility and such. I also had in mind Lance, from Voltron, and his corelation in the "band" to Lancelot from Arthurian myth. Both serve the same role, as secondary to the leader, probably the better all around fighter, yet obviously not cut out for leadership per se, due to some flaw. Croaker: Hrm. Robotech/Invid Invasion:
Ununnilium: If Galaxy Angel varies that much from the formula (and it does, believe me), it doesn't belong in the entry. Janitor: Yup. I pulled it out: The Angel force from Galaxy Angel does it a little bit differently...
Janitor: Hmm. I wonder if there is enough data here for a Lump about teams that are not a 5MB or a Power Trio? Seth: I thought more than a 5 man band was an ensemble? I believe we have a trope like that somewhere. This is a pretty cluttered page by design so adding more than examples from now on might make it unreadable to a casual reader (I believe the technical term is "Too long; Didn't read") Seth: Melancholy of Haurhi Suzimiya yay or nay?
Seth The formatting on this page is really strange, why is there so much code when every other page just uses basic
Drop Dead Gorgias: I'd like to propose Greys Anatomy as a five-man band:
Dark Sasami: I have to dispute the new addition of Galaxy Angel. I haven't played the games, so that may be accurate there, but at least in the anime, in no way is Milfeulle The Hero. The anime has no heroes. Definitely, definitely no heroes. Milfeulle is The Chick. And Mint is very much The Smart Guy. And Vanilla is not--well, she's not anything that fits in a Five Man Band. She's Vanilla. Oh, hey, looking up, I see that Galaxy Angel has been pulled out once already for not fitting. And we've got no The Hero and one doesn't-fit...I'm going to pull it again. I'll leave the second series alone, because I know nothing about it. Seth: I have to dispute the Fantastic Four as being a Five Man Band Lale: The roles matter more than the numbers IMHO. Fast Eddie: Oddly enough, the shoe does fit, number size aside. Dark Sasami: Well, when I appointed myself Official Five Man Band Nazi and kicked out a whole bunch of bad examples, I set down the arbitrary rule that you have to match at least four out of five. And I can't argue with the characterizations. I'll give them a yea. Moved over on 15th April 2007
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