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Author: Routerie

Jul 28th 2012 at 2:32:05 AM

^^ This trope doesn't say the JerkJock dies first, or dies early. It just says he's one of the group. Does that movie have the other members too?

^ By the usual, ultra-broad FiveManBand definition, yes, but not by the correct definition.

* The Virgin is the story's hero/protagonist, but she is not the leader of the group, which is what FiveManBand's TheHero is.
* The Whore may or may not act as the foil to anyone, though she does seem to be the virgin's opposite.
* The Jock is not the big guy. The jock is athletic but he is no Beserker or GentleGiant or BoisterousBruiser - he is a jock, which we here generally call a JerkJock. 
* The Scholar a smart guy, but he is not TheSmartGuy, for the same reason that the jock isn't TheBigGuy: This isn't a team of adventurers who go on missions.
* The Fool isn't TheHeart. He's a happy-go-lucky ne'ev-do-well.

This isn't an adventure team... if anything, it should close to tropes we have for TeenDramas. We have SixStudentClique. but a TRS thread showed that it didn't hold up to analysis.

Of course all this assumes that this is a trope at all. I don't know much about horror flicks. I just know that Joss Whedon says it's a trope, a I believe he isn't entirely disliked on this site.