History Main / PuttingTheBandBackTogether

* In season 3 episode 4 of 'Series/{{Zoo}}'' Jackson tells Abe, "C'mon, let's get the band back together." immediately prior to the full assembly of the cast primaries following season 2's cataclysmic conclusion.

** So do both post-timeskip parts really. Although there isn't a moment where they ''all'' meet together [[spoiler:until the very end]], a lot of time is devoted to the friends trying to reunite with each other after [[spoiler: 15 years apart]].
** Also happens literally, with [[spoiler:Kenji's band getting back together for a reunion concert after "Bob Lennon" becomes an underground hit in Friend-ruled Japan.]]

* In ''ComicBook/WonderGirl'' Vol. 1 the surviving members of ComicBook/YoungJustice band together to help Cassie deal with ComicBook/{{Hercules|Unbound}} and the [[ComicBook/NewGods Female Furies]] who are trying to force her to help her estranged father Zeus and the other gods. This includes Arrowette who retired from heroics even before the team disbanded and Empress who retired from any heroics not happening in her own back yard when the team disbanded, though of the three founders only [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim]] helps out as [[ComicBook/Superboy1994 Kon-El]] and [[ComicBook/{{Impulse}} Bart]] were dead at the time.

* In ''VideoGame/BatenKaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean'', right after [[DiscOneFinalBoss Geldoblame]] is revealed to have been manipulated by [[spoiler:Melodia, Fadroh, and Kalas]], the entire party ends up separated and scattered across the five floating islands, and Xelha has to rescue the other [[spoiler:four]] members before you can travel to Wazn to get the next PlotCoupon.

** Defied in ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' when Picard is suggested that he recruit his old friends from the ''Enterprise'', he refuses, not wanting to jeopardize them in his new mission. This is also a bit of LeaningOnTheFourthWall as Creator/PatrickStewart refused to do the show if it was going to be some ''TNG'' reunion show. Ultimately defied by season three, when it did indeed become a reunion show.

** Defied in ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' when Picard is suggested that he recruit his old friends from the ''Enterprise'', he refuses, not wanting to jeopardize them in his new mission. This is also a bit of LeaningOnTheFourthWall as Creator/PatrickStewart refused to do the show if it was going to be some ''TNG'' reunion show.

* The ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' Recollections trilogy begins with us being told that most of the old characters had been relocated after the end of season five and so Washington has to re-recruit some of the team members. Although, throughout all three movies, we've never had the entire team restored. [[spoiler: Some characters have also been apparently KilledOffForReal, but we've yet to see if it sticks. Other characters like Church and Sheila seem to have been replaced with copies like Epsilon and F.I.L.S.S.]]

* An unusual variation in ''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya The Disappearance Of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'', where Kyon reassembles the SOS Brigade... or at least their alternate universe counterparts.

* In a rather unusual use of this trope, Kyon does exactly this in the 4th ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' novel. Of course, it's a AlternateUniverse, and no one knows about "the band".

** Xavier met similar problems in the ''Anime/XMen'' anime, mostly with Scott.

* In ''Film/TheMuppets'', Muppets fans Walter, Gary, and Mary try to get Kermit to get the Muppets back together after learning that Muppet Studios is going to be bought by an oil magnate, in hopes that they can organize a telethon to buy it back. [[spoiler:The telethon is unsuccessful, but the group decides to stick together, and they end up getting the Studio back anyways.]]

* A variation happens in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Brawl's'' adventure mode. [[spoiler:Almost everyone becomes an inanimate trophy, and the few remaining characters have to find them to reanimate them and get them back into the group]].

* The quartet of Music/EltonJohn, guitarist Davey Johnstone, bassist Dee Murray and drummer Nigel Olsson, along with lyricist Bernie Taupin and producer Gus Dudgeon, helped create Elton's most critically and commercially successful period (''Honky Château'', ''Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player'', ''Music/GoodbyeYellowBrickRoad'', ''Caribou'', ''Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy''). Elton broke the band up in 1975, which led to a DorkAge in Elton's career which was only halted when Elton rehired Johnstone, Murray and Olsson in the band, hired Taupin full-time and made the ''Too Low for Zero'' album in 1983. The album was critically and commercially successful, and thanks to Creator/{{MTV}} videos like "I'm Still Standing" and "I Guess That's Why The Call It The Blues", led to a CareerResurrection in the mid-eighties.

* Music/VanHalen managed to pull it twice after the [[Music/{{Extreme}} Gary Cherone]] era imploded after the critical and commercial failure of their sole studio album, ''Van Halen III''. Eddie Van Halen would go through drug and alcohol addictions, survive tongue cancer (he has since replaced cigarettes with vaping) and divorce to longtime wife [[Series/OneDayAtATime1975 Valerie]] [[Series/HotInCleveland Bertinelli]]. Then in 2004 came a reunion with previous singer Sammy Hagar, with new 'Van Hagar' compositions for a GreatestHitsAlbum and a tour. But said gigs would be marked by in-fighting (for starters, bassist Michael Anthony only returned because Hagar demanded it) and Eddie's re-emerging alcoholism, leading to another disbandment, followed by Sammy and Michael forming Music/{{Chickenfoot}}. Eddie would sober up, rekindle talks with original singer Music/DavidLeeRoth, and begin a world tour with Eddie's son Wolfgang replacing Anthony. Wolfgang would even convince his dad that the band could make another album, and ''A Different Kind Of Truth'', Van Halen's first new album in fifteen years and its first with Roth since ''1984'', would be released to commercial and critical success in 2012. Their last tour happened in 2015, and five years later Eddie died.

* ''Manga/FairyTail'': After the one year timeskip following the battle with Tartarus, [[spoiler:Natsu returns and is horrified to find out that Fairy Tail was disbanded. He and Lucy set off to gather the old members and bring Fairy Tail back together, and they first come across Wendy and Carla, who joined Lamia Scale. [[IdiotHero Natsu]] assumes everyone would immediately drop everything and rejoin Fairy Tail in an instant, and is shocked and outraged when Wendy and Carla adamantly refuse to leave Lamia Scale and the friends they made there. Though the two later agree to rejoin after beating their enemies.]].

* ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'' arranges for this. NASA wants Bruce Willis's character to help their team; he'll only go if he can take all his own band of oil drillers. They have split up across the country -- that's what they do when they're on leave. Government force is gently used to put them back together.

* Deconstructed in ''ComicBook/XStatix'': Putting the band back together proves to be a horrible idea that robs everyone of their well-earned happy ending, [[spoiler:[[KillEmAll and gets them all killed]].]]

* The ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' Recollections trilogy begins with us being told that most of the old characters had been relocated after the end of season five and so Washington has to re-recruit some of the team members. Although, throughout all three movies, we've never had the entire team restored. [[spoiler: Some characters have also been apparently KilledOffForReal, but we've yet to see if it sticks. Other characters like Church and Sheila seem to have been replaced with copies like Epsilon and F.I.L.S.S.]]