Basic Trope: A team member quits only to come back because the team needs their specific talents.
- Straight: Lance quits being a part of the Five-Man Band after getting into an argument with Hiro, but returns to their aid because his teammates needed his help.
- Exaggerated: Lance gets into a brutal fight against Hiro and quits the team and wishes for their death, but later comes back to their side during a battle with Emperor Evulz and his army of vile henchmen.
- Downplayed: Lance is offended after a brief argument with Hiro and, while he doesn't quit the team, refuses to come along on a specific mission. He later changes his mind and follows them, arriving just in time to save them from Evulz's henchmen.
- Justified: Lance realizes that even if he has disagreements with his teammates, he can't let them be defeated by the evil forces and thus The Power of Friendship prompts him to change his mind.
- Inverted: Emperor Evulz, Hiro's Arch-Enemy becomes his Token Evil Teammate until circumstances arise when he becomes his enemy again.
- Subverted: It seems that Lance is going to help his teammates fight against Evulz' henchmen, only to attack Hiro, shocking both his teammates and enemies alike.
- Double Subverted: ...but this was to let the mooks' guard down and Lance took advantage of this opportunity to take them all out one by one.
- Parodied: Lance quits the group after bickering with Hiro about pencils and stays on his tent looking very angry and bitter. He then comes out of his tent to help them catch a fly because he is mostly skilled in doing that.
- Zig Zagged: Lance quits the team after an argument about taking him for granted and being dead weight because he hasn't been very useful the past few missions, since they've gone against his skill set. Hiro contacts him saying that a mission has just come up where his help would be invaluable, and Lance relents, but afterwards he quits again and strikes out on his own.
- Averted:
- There is no argument between Hiro and Lance.
- Lance cannot show up to aid his teammates, or refuses to do so.
- Enforced:
- "We need to give The Lancer some Character Development and show the audience that despite his differences, he still cares about his teammates, even The Hero."
- Lance's counterpart died in the original Japanese footage and the producers didn't have the budget to shoot more than a few scenes where he fights alongside his team-mates, forcing him to become a recurring Sixth Ranger until season 2 allowed him to replace his white outfit with a green one and rejoin as a main member.
- Lampshaded: "Guess who came back from being such a quitter."
- Invoked: Chica gives Lance a Whoopi Epiphany Speech to convince him to help Hiro fight back against Evulz' henchmen.
- Exploited: Lance wants a bigger share of the loot/glory because he knows that the team can't survive without him, and quits until his team agrees to his conditions.
- Defied: Lance decides not to leave the group since the argument wasn't serious enough to upset him.
- Lance actually stays out of the group, becomes a Breakout Character, gets a Spin-Off, and went out of his way to actually cut off all ties that he makes the now More Popular Spin Off completely unrelated to his former group.
- Discussed:Hiro: You came back after what just happened between you and me?
Lance: Yeah. I guess it's because of a thing called teamwork. - Conversed: "I though Lance was going to leave the group forever, but thank goodness we get to see him on television with his friends again."
- Deconstructed:
- Lance realizes that if he helps his teammates, then all of them will mistreat him like they always do at every opportunity. To avoid getting harassed, Lance deliberately lets them get defeated by the villains and moves on with his life without them.
- Lance's team doesn't just forgive him after he comes back, frustrated that he's willing to show up to gain glory in a dramatic moment but isn't willing to undergo the day-to-day work of being part of the team.
- Reconstructed:
- The other teammates realize how badly they treated Lance, who also realizes how close the villains are to winning without him. So he goes on a Roaring Rampage of Rescue that ends with them reconciling and defeating the villains just in time.
- Lance doesn't even do it for glory or forgiveness. He simply knows when he's needed and can't just abandon them altogether. This gets the team to forgive him afterwards when they feel he's earned it.
- Played For Drama: Hiro apparently ends up getting killed, spending what seems to be his last moments telling Lance he's sorry about their argument. Lance then goes into an Unstoppable Rage to avenge him, upset with himself for leaving.
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