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* Is there something about the names "Sakon and Ukon"? Because ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' has conjoined twins Sakon and Ukon, too. The team they belong to is called the Sound Four -- or Sound Five when you actually include their leader, or Sound Six if you "mistakenly" consider Sakon and Ukon separate people.

* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'': During the Russian infiltration on the government black site, the huge Colonel Dovchenko steps out of his vehicle to address the personnel in the guardhouse outside base, before he suddenly moves aside to reveal four armed Russian soldiers, all standing in a single file, who then guns down all personnel in an instant.

* ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' does this. Thugs and other yakuza you run into probably have a bunch more hiding somewhere for you to beat up (using ''[[GrievousHarmWithABody them]]'' as the weapon of choice, potentially).

* ''VideoGame/StarOcean:''

* ''Franchise/DragonQuest''
** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestMonsters: Joker'' shows individual monsters roaming around the areas which you touch to enter battles, but you might see two or three monsters once the battle starts.

** Played perfectly straight in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIX'', the first entry in the series to show enemies on the overworld (previous entries had used RandomEncounters).

* ''VideoGame/GrooveCoaster'' features a variation of this in the charts for "Good Night, Bad Luck." On Normal, the game will throw what appears to be a Dual Slide note (a diamond-shaped note with two arrows that indicate that both Boosters have to be hit in the indicated directions), only to [[CameraScrew pan the camera]] at the last split-second to reveal that they're actually two Slide notes (a single Slide means only one direction has to be hit with either Booster) that have to be hit separately. This gets worse on the Hard chart, where the game will throw out what appears to be a ''triple'' or even ''quadruple'' Slide note and then split it into separate single and Dual Slide notes accordingly; you ''know'' that a ≥triple Slide would be impossible with the arcade controller, the real problem is that the reaction time to figure out the correct sequence is so short that this gimmick is effectively TrialAndErrorGameplay.

* Some of the minion and environment cards in ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse represent groups — the Blade Battalion and Raptor Pack, for instance, show several members of the group on the card art. Many of them deal damage (or other affects) based on how many hit points they have left to represent how many of their numbers are left. Implied in the case of Grand Warlord Voss's minions — while there's only one shown on each card, the fact that only ten are needed to overrun the world indicates they represent larger groups of his army.

*** The reborn incarnation of the [[AnIcePerson Ice]] [[BonusBoss Dragon]] does this in the [[PolishedPort GBA-exclusive]] [[BonusDungeon Dragon's Den]], too.

* ''VideoGame/VisionsAndVoices'' uses tiny white clouds to represent enemies. Touch one and you're suddenly in battle with 3-5. Since almost all boss battles are [[BonusBoss optional]], bosses are also represented on the map as a single sprite that you need to walk up to to fight...most of which turn out to be {{Dual Boss}}es.

* Averted in ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994''. With the exception of enemies summoned by enemies in combat, every enemy you meet is represented by an individual (though often generic) sprite, and gather together at the beginning of a battle during the FightWoosh.

* {{Justified}} in ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''. Any trainer you meet could have a team of up to six Pokémon, because they're usually carried around in [[BiggerOnTheInside Poké Balls]].

* Any ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' trainer you meet, could be carrying up to six Pokémon.

* On the main stage map of ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'', black silhouettes of individual monsters will attack Link on the overworld map, revealing themselves to be crowds of mooks, or if they encounter you on roads, absolutely nothing at all.
** The ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' game ''Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?!!'' as well uses the exact same system, in a direct reference to Zelda II.

* In ''VideoGame/StarcraftII'', a real time strategy game which doesn’t usually allow this, a Protoss player can finesse a bunch of probes into the space of one probe so that they overlap perfectly, and since probes have no animated limbs or moving parts, you can move them as one so that they’re almost indistinguishable from a single probe. The only giveaway is the different appearance of the energy trail behind them. If you send these probes to attack the opponent’s mineral line, they will see this mass as just a harmless single scouting probe until the probes attack, resulting in a hilarious cheese win if it can be pulled off.

** Even worse in ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', where most enemies on the WorldMap are represented as either a puddle of dark goo, or an ArmlessBiped creature, instead of actual enemy types. They are shown correctly in dungeons, though.

** In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', Shadows on the map appear in various forms depending on the location they manifest in, such as armored knights in [[spoiler: Kamoshida's]] castle, or security guards/secretaries in [[spoiler:Madarame's]]
art museum. Once you begin a battle with one, it'll split apart into multiple enemies like in the previous games.

* In ''VideoGame/StarCrawlers'', enemies will appear on the exploration map as a single robot, soldier, or creature, but they could be anything from a single hapless mook to an entire squad of hardened soldiers when you transition to the battle map. Worse still, [[BossInMooksClothing they don't always display the most powerful unit in the group, meaning you think you'll be fighting a lowly robot walker and it's actually being flanked by a pair of hulking Xiphos war-mechs.]]

* Averted in ''VideoGame/EarthBound''. With the exception of enemies summoned by enemies in combat, every enemy you meet is represented by an individual (though often generic) sprite, and gather together at the beginning of a battle during the FightWoosh.

->''"Now, Guards, you stand no chance against me, ''''cause I'm [[TropeNamer actually four blokes]]!'''"''

* Is there something about the names "Sakon and Ukon"? Because Manga/{{Naruto}} has conjoined twins Sakon and Ukon, too. The team they belong to is called the Sound Four -- or Sound Five when you actually include their leader, or Sound Six if you "mistakenly" consider Sakon and Ukon separate people.

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun'' takes this trope UpToEleven, literally. It features a group of eleven henchmen the BigBad sends after Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppeli, all of whom share a single Stand named Tatoo You!, which allows them to phase into each other through the tattoos on their backs. Thanks to this, all eleven of them can practically exist in the same spot at ''once'' by hiding inside a single mook. Our heroes eventually learn that the hard way during a shootout with the group in a casino, when they find themselves trying to fight off mooks emerging from dead ones like a deranged game of Whack-A-Mole.