Works titled after the organization or team that they revolve around. A blanket way of naming Character Titles.
If it names the characters explicitly (or implicitly by numbering), it's a Multi-Character Title. If their team name is their number, it's The Notable Numeral. If the team is a group of parents/children/siblings/cousins or otherwise relations, it's a Family Title.
Usually occurs in tandem with Protagonist Title.
Examples:
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Anime & Manga
- ARIA
- Black Lagoon
- Cat's Eye (a Triple Meaning Title referring to a team of sisters, their cafe business, and their father's painting)
- Detective School Q
- Digimon Tamers (Started as a Multi-Character Title but the titular Tamers eventually team up)
- Digimon Data Squad
- Eden of the East
- Fairy Tail
- Genshiken
- Get Backers
- Haibane Renmei
- Hellsing: One-Word Title, named after the Hellsing Organization.
- Hetalia: Axis Powers
- Hunter × Hunter (Vaguely so since, while this is a Protagonist Title/Job Title, there's actually a Hunter's Organization in the story.)
- Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
- Juuni Senshi Bakuretsu Eto Ranger
- Knight Hunters
- K-On!
- Ouran High School Host Club
- Log Horizon
- Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club
- Marvel Anime: X-Men
- Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team
- Powerpuff Girls Z
- Samurai 7
- Science Ninja Team Gatchaman
- Seton Academy: Join the Pack!
- The Seven Deadly Sins is named after the Seven Deadly Sins, a Badass Crew formed by seven criminals who were recruited as Liones Kingdom's most powerful knights.
- Four Knights of the Apocalypse: The title of the series is the collective name of the four knights from The Prophecy.
- Special A
- Tweeny Witches is known in Japan as Magical Girl Squad Arusu, referring to the titular trio led by Arusu.
- Voltron
Arts
- The Night Watch: Its original title starts with the phrase "Militia Company of District II" and the painting is a group portrait of them.
Asian Animation
- 4 Angies
- Happy Heroes, as well as the alternate title Happy Friends used in a majority of the official English translations, both refer to the main group of heroes and are actually used as names for the team in the official English descriptions from Miao Mi for the Season 7 and Season 8 episodes, though the team is mostly called the Supermen within the show itself.
Comic Books
- All-Star Squadron
- Alpha Flight
- The Avengers
- Young Avengers
- West Coast Avengers
- Force Works
- Batman Incorporated
- Batman and the Outsiders
- Beasts of Burden
- Subverted with Birds of Prey. The titular group doesn't actually have a name. After many years of publication, one character suggests they call themselves the "Birds of Prey" and is shot down.
- Marvel's original Champions (1975) and Champions (2016)
- Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!
- The Defenders
- Damage Control
- Death Vigil
- Doom Patrol
- The Eternals
- Fantastic Four
- Freedom Fighters
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- The Invaders
- Josie and the Pussycats (Also counts as Protagonist and Friends)
- Justice League of America
- Justice League International
- Justice League Task Force
- Justice League Europe
- Justice League of America (2013)
- Justice League of America (Rebirth)
- Justice League (2018)
- Justice League Dark
- Justice League (Infinite Frontier)
- Justice Society of America
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- Legion of Super-Heroes
- Les Légendaires
- Men in Black
- The Outsiders
- Rat Queens
- Red Hood and the Outlaws
- Relative Heroes they start out as just four siblings and a babysitter on the run but it becomes their team name while they flee across the country.
- Runaways plays with it. The team isn't called "The Runaways" until long, long after they are established as a superhero team. Even then, it's used sparingly.
- Secret Six
- S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Suicide Squad
- Teen Titans
- Team Titans
- The Terrifics
- X-Men
- Watchmen is not really an example. The hero team is named the Minutemen, and the title refers to the phrase "Who watches the Watchmen".
- Young Justice
- Youngblood (Image Comics)
Films — Animated
- The Incredibles (and, by extension, Incredibles 2; also counts as Family Title)
- Pokémon Heroes (Also counts as Family Title)
- The Powerpuff Girls Movie (Also counts as Family Title)
Films — Live-Action
- 12 Monkeys
- 13 Assassins
- 300
- 300: Rise of an Empire
- The Avengers (1998)
- The Black Six
- The Boondock Saints
- Brotherhood of Blades
- Brotherhood of Death
- Charlie's Angels (2000)
- Charlie's Angels (2019)
- Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
- Children of the Corn
- Deathgasm
- DC Extended Universe
- The Dirty Dozen
- The East
- Entourage
- Fantastic Four (2005)
- Fantastic Four (2015)
- Gangster Squad
- Ghostbusters
- G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (both [[protagonistTitle heroes]] and villains, even)
- The Goonies
- Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (Also counts as both a Family Title and a Job Title)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Also counts as Antagonist Title)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Heathers
- Hells Angels on Wheels
- Inglourious Basterds
- Ilang: The Wolf Brigade
- The Invitation (2015)
- Josie and the Pussycats (Also counts as Protagonist and Friends)
- Kingsman: The Golden Circle (The subtitle also counts as Antagonist Title)
- Kingsman: The Secret Service
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- Legion of the Dead
- Lemonade Mouth
- Lesbian Vampire Killers
- Little Giants
- The Little Rascals
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- The Magnificent Seven (1960)
- The Magnificent Seven (2016)
- The Manson Family
- Marvel Cinematic Universe
- The Avengers (2012)
- Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
- Ant-Man and the Wasp (Also counts as Name and Name, Multi-Character Title, and Family Title as the titular heroes are Legacy Characters and the previous holders of the mantles, who are the new Wasp's parents, appear in the film in major roles as their mentors)
- Eternals
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
- The Marvels (2023)
- Men in Black
- The Mighty Ducks
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie
- The Monster Squad
- The Monuments Men
- The Muppets (2011)
- Mutant Girls Squad
- Nam Angels
- Navy Seals (1990)
- Ocean's 11
- Ocean's Eleven
- Police Academy
- Power Rangers (2017)
- Quantum of Solace (Also counts as Antagonist Title)
- Red Tails
- Remember the Titans
- The Replacements (2000)
- Ricki and the Flash (Also counts as Protagonist and Friends)
- R.I.P.D.
- Seven Samurai
- Slash (2002)
- Small Soldiers (Also counts as Antagonist Title)
- Society (Also counts as Antagonist Title)
- Spectre (Also counts as Antagonist Title)
- Spotlight
- Sunshine Cleaning
- S.W.A.T. (2003)
- Tokyo Gore Police
- Two Thousand Maniacs!
- The Untouchables (1987)
- X-Men Film Series
- X-Men is the inaugural film that introduces the titular team (but mostly Wolverine)
- X2: X-Men United revolves around the Enemy Mine scenario between the titular team and the Brotherhood.
- X-Men: First Class focuses on the inaugural team.
- Watchmen
- The Wanderers
- The Warriors
- The Wave (1981)
- The Wild Angels
- The Wild Bunch
Literature
- Animorphs
- The Cheetah Girls (also TV and a movie...take your pick of category)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- The Fellowship of the Ring: Also The X of Y and Protagonist Title.
- Night Watch (Series):
- Night Watch
- Day Watch
- Princesses of the Pizza Parlor: The series title, which is also mixed with Protagonist Title, talking about the Princess Protagonists.
- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
- Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note
- Warrior Cats: SkyClan's Destiny and SkyClan and the Stranger. Also, Thunder and Shadow focused on POV characters in ThunderClan and ShadowClan.
Live-Action TV
- American Horror Story: Coven
- American Horror Story: Cult (Also counts as Antagonist Title)
- American Horror Story: Freak Show
- Army Wives
- The A-Team
- Auction Hunters
- The Avengers (1960s)
- Band of Brothers
- Baywatch (a Double-Meaning Title that also makes it a Vehicle Title note .)
- Beetleborgs
- Bellisarioverse
- Birds Of Prey, although as in the source material, they're never actually called that.
- Boston Legal
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine
- Charlie's Angels
- CHiPs
- Cobra Kai
- COPS
- CSI-verse
- Dad's Army
- Danger5
- Doom Patrol (2019)
- Empire
- Entourage
- FBI
- The F.B.I.
- FBI: International
- FBI: Most Wanted
- F Troop
- The Following (which refers to the Cult, also making it an Antagonist Title)
- Fringe
- Garrison's Gorillas
- The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
- Glee
- GLOW (2017)
- The Goodies
- Gotham Knights (2023)
- Hawaii Five-O
- Heroes Join Forces
- Hogan's Heroes
- Hunters
- Law & Order
- Law & Order
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
- Law & Order: Trial by Jury
- Law & Order: Organized Crime (a Double-Meaning Title referring to both the Organized Crime Task Force and the syndicates themselves, the latter also making it an Antagonist Title)
- Legends of Tomorrow
- Leverage
- The Librarians (2007)
- The Librarians (2014)
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
- Marvel Cinematic Universe
- Mayans M.C.
- McHale's Navy
- The Mickey Mouse Club
- Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
- Monster Warriors
- The Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nóg
- MythBusters
- NYC 22
- NYPD Blue
- One Chicago
- Pan Am
- The Playboy Club
- Pretty Little Liars
- The Rat Patrol
- Red Band Society
- Rescue 911
- Sea Patrol
- SEAL Team
- The Secret Circle
- Sense8
- Sliders
- Sons of Anarchy
- Spartacus series:
- Gods of the Arena: Refers to both the gladiators and the the founding members of the titular arena.
- War of the Damned: The damned refers to the titular protagonist and his team of rebels, who are Doomed by Canon.
- Spyforce
- Stargate SG-1, with SG-1 being the team.
- Suits
- Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad
- Every Super Sentai and Power Rangers series
- Several of Survivor's seasons, namely: both of the two Fans vs. Favorites and Beauty vs. Brains vs. Brawn seasons, Heroes vs. Villains, Worlds Apart (subtitled "White Collar vs. Blue Collar vs. No Collar", which composed of people in the aforementioned working class, hence overlapping this with Job Title), and Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers.
- S.W.A.T. (1975)
- S.W.A.T. (2017)
- Team Knight Rider
- Titans (2018)
- Torchwood
- The Umbrella Academy (2019)
- The Unit
- The Untouchables
- VR Troopers
- The Whitest Kids U' Know
- X Company
Tabletop Games
Video Games
- Assassin's Creed
- Awesome Nauts
- Deep Rock Galactic
- Freedom Force
- Gate Keepers
- The Legend of Dragoon
- Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (Also counts as Antagonist Title)
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Also counts as Antagonist Title)
- Overwatch
- Pokémon Ranger (Also counts as Job Title)
- The Red Riding Hood Sisters, from the Dark Parables series
- Shining Force
- Star Fox
- Star Wolves
- Super Mario Bros.
- Team Fortress Classic and Team Fortress 2 (as of tie-in comic #6)
- XCOM
Visual Novels
Web Animation
Webcomics
Web Original
- Economy Watch
- Emma Approved
- The Guild
- Noob
- React: The "Staff React" and "Generational React" episodes.
- SERA 00
Western Animation
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force
- Avengers Assemble
- Biker Mice from Mars
- Bionic Six
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids (Also counts as Protagonist and Friends)
- Captain Planet and the Planeteers (Also counts as an inverted Protagonist and Friends)
- Centurions
- Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
- Code Name Kids Next Door
- Defenders of the Earth
- Exo Squad (used similarly to Job Title)
- Extreme Dinosaurs
- Extreme Ghostbusters
- Freedom Fighters: The Ray
- G.I. Joe
- The Herculoids
- I.N.K. Invisible Network of Kids
- Josie and the Pussycats (Also counts as Protagonist and Friends)
- Justice League, Justice League Unlimited and Super Friends
- King Arthur & the Knights of Justice (Also counts as Protagonist and Friends)
- Kingdom Force
- Legion of Super-Heroes
- The Legend of Vox Machina
- Men in Black: The Series
- Monster Force
- Monster Math Squad
- Mighty Orbots
- The Powerpuff Girls (Also counts as Family Title)
- ProStars
- The Real Ghostbusters
- Averted with Recess, though a few foreign dubs have it named The Recess Gang
- The Scooby-Doo gang originally had the unofficial and unused team name of Mystery Inc. It would become the title of one of the darkest series of the franchise.
- The Secret Saturdays (also a Family Title)
- SilverHawks
- Star Wars: The Bad Batch
- Star Wars Rebels
- Street Fighter
- Street Sharks (Also counts as Family Title)
- Superfriends
- Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go
- Sushi Pack
- SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron
- Team Umizoomi, a somewhat-literal example.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003), and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)
- Teen Titans (2003)
- Thunder Cats 1987 and Thunder Cats 2011
- Time Squad
- The Tool Street Gang
- Ultimate Avengers
- Ultimate Spider-Man: Web Warriors
- Utimate Spider-Man vs the Sinister Six (also counts as Antagonist Title)
- The Weekenders
- Winx Club
- Wolverine and the X-Men (2009) (Also counts as Protagonist and Friends)
- The X's (also a Family Title)
- X-Men: The Animated Series
- X-Men: Evolution
- Young Justice (2010) is a subversion. It draws inspiration from a comic book about a team called "Young Justice," but in the show, the team is simply referred to as "the Team" as they are a covert ops group and have no need for a public name.
