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Author: THEBATHEAD

Feb 25th 2014 at 4:26:52 PM

The one thing that keeps me in agreement with Fast Eddie is the word "man." While "guy" is becoming more and more gender neutral, "man" is staying steadfastly male. Also, I was looking at the name crowner and agreed with the general consensus that "Five Man Balancing Act" was the best name so far. However, I'd like to add my own, "Five Guys," for two reasons: We could include both tropes under discussion under the same umbrella and we could have an EvilCounterpart trope, "Five Bad Guys." Or, do you guys want two separate tropes? The TropeNamer is, to be clear, the original guys, with Dad as TheLeader. Given how "guy" is more gender neutral than "man" I think it wouldn't pose a problem. Either Five Guys or the current crowner would also be able to accommodate examples where one character from one pair was a foil of a character from another pair in a third way, up to four times, too. Of course, this shouldn't be another huge umbrella: TheLeader must be in the middle of ''both'' the main pairs and there must be exactly five main team members, with one or more {{Sixth Ranger}}s. But what about a PowerTrio where the two foils aren't foils in a way covered by any subtrope? And what about a pair of foils with no mediator or a group of four with a leader presiding over a leaderless PowerTrio? Or three pairs of foils and a mediator or not? Should we start new YKTTW discussions for those? And does there have to be a team dynamic as strong as in the current FiveManBand?