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Author: ShanghaiSlave

May 19th 2014 at 4:09:30 AM

* In Red Garden the four girls take on the monsters they're fighting one at a time, but it's mostly justified due to their low skill level and '''the way the creatures are cornered for them to fight'''. (i.e. the team has nothing to do with the creatures getting cornered)
* nothing to bold in these, no "'''manipulated the situation to give them that advantage'''" at all. which is what you claim the trope herein is. These are all "'''enemies don't gang up on heroes for some reason'''". A mere observation.
** [-In many RPGs the villains/random enemies rarely attack in well-balanced specialized groups, and even fellow adventurers only come in pairs, at most. It is very rare that you see a Non-Player Party that actually functions and interacts as a team, rather than say, the bad guy and four random mooks devoid of personality. -]
** [-In Pokemon it's only towards the end of the game that you'll encounter trainers with numbers of pokemon even approaching the six you likely had by the second gym (bug trainers exempted due to lower levels). Nearly all of them have only have two or three.-]
**[-Often happened in the Sonic the Hedgehog series due to later installments Loads and Loads of Characters syndrome. Sonic Heroes has at exactly a dozen characters (albeit divided into four teams) against Dr Eggman. Later games have subverted this and reverted back to using Sonic as the only playable character.-]
**[-Zig-Zagged all over the place for the Final Fantasy series. Played straight in early JRP Gs like the early Dragon Quest titles. -]('''ZeroContextExample''')
** [-Tended to happen in most Transformers media, especially the animes. Transformers Energon took this Up to Eleven, while almost two dozen Autobots appeared through out the show's run, the Decepticons rarely exceeded six or seven. Adding to that Decepticons were the only Transformers Killed Off for Real and half of them were a near harmless Quirky Miniboss Squad.-]
** [-In Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars, There can only be 3 enemies in battle at once. You, however, can have up to 4 squads (for a total of 11 participants on the protagonist's side)-]