History Main / TwoGirlsToATeam

* For a long time, Advertising/MAndMs had mascots for the Red, Yellow, Blue, Orange, and Green M&Ms, with the Green M&M standing as the lone woman and no Brown M&M representative. However, as of 2012, a female mascot has been added for the Brown M&Ms, making for a team of six characters with two women. Made even more blatant in a NoTalkingOrPhonesWarning (later adapted for a 2015 commercial in the "Better With M" campaign) that stars the entire team in a faux blockbuster trailer. However, this trope has been subverted as of 2022 with the addition of the Purple M&M, thus giving the team four males and three females.

* In ''Fanfic/SupermanOf2499TheGreatConfrontation'', the newborn [[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League]] is made up of five members, two of them female: Franchise/WonderWoman and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}.

* Tigress and Viper of ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', nicely averting TheSmurfettePrinciple.

* In ''Manhua/CyberWeaponZ'', Rosaland and Anling are the only women present in the eponymous program, with Anling being the only human one.

* The No Names gang in ''ComicBook/TwentyFists'' has two women, Chel and Rei, out of five members.
* This happened in the 1960s with ComicBook/TheAvengers, with the Characters/ScarletWitch being joined by Characters/TheWasp or the ComicBook/BlackWidow.
* It also happened later on the Franchise/XMen, with [[Characters/XMen60sMembers Polaris]] joining [[Characters/MarvelComicsJeanGrey Jean Grey]]. In the All-New, All-Different team, Jean Grey soon returned to the X-Men to join [[Characters/MarvelComicsStorm Storm]], and after the Phoenix' death, she was replaced by [[Characters/MarvelComicsKittyPryde Kitty Pryde]].
* In the 1970s, the originally all-male [[ComicBook/TheDefenders Defenders]] evolved into a team with a gender-balanced core of two males (Nighthawk and the [[Characters/MarvelComicsBruceBanner Hulk]]) and two females ([[Characters/MarvelComicsValkyrior Valkyrie]] and Characters/{{Hellcat}}).

* Creator/WarrenEllis deliberately intended to reverse this trope when he created ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}''; they're three women and two guys. Although by that time it was nothing new, Creator/ChrisClaremont having done it two decades earlier with the original lineups of the ComicBook/NewMutants and ComicBook/{{Excalibur|MarvelComics}}.

* The ''ComicBook/RedRobin'' villains the Council of Spiders are a team of eight with only two women. When the group appeared in a ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' story they were expanded into an international organization and gained at least one more woman but the organization's team that was first seen maintains their original lineup.
* The DCU's ComicBook/RelativeHeroes team is made up of two girls and three boys all of whom are siblings by blood or adoption.
* ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' is a notable ''inversion''. The original team was composed of two guys and four girls. While the team lineup changed many times in subsequent volumes, the girls always outnumbered the boys.
* In the ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}''/''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' crossover ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'', Supergirl and Bleez are the only female members of Guy Gardner's [[Characters/GLRedLanternCorps Red Lantern Corps]]. Bleez was actually glad that Supergirl joined because she wasn't the only girl anymore.
* ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'' starts with four guys, but introduces two girls in the first couple of issues. After ''ComicBook/AvengersTheChildrensCrusade'' ends with [[spoiler: Cassie and Vision dead and Eli seemingly retired]], the reformed team has the same dynamic with [[[Characters/MarvelComicsKateBishop Kate Bishop]] and [[Characters/YoungAvengersTitleTeam America Chavez]].
* The ''ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentAvengers'' have [[ComicBook/{{Thor 2014}} the new Thor]] and [[Characters/MarvelComicsKamalaKhan Ms Marvel]], out of a team of seven.
* ''ComicBook/{{Champions|MarvelComics}}'': In ''ComicBook/Champions2016'', the team's lineup was four boys ([[ComicBook/{{Nova}} Sam Alexander]], [[Characters/MarvelComicsMilesMorales Miles Morales]], [[ComicBook/TotallyAwesomeHulk Amadeus Cho]], [[Characters/MarvelComicsCyclops Scott Summers]]) and two girls ([[Characters/MarvelComicsKamalaKhan Kamala Khan]], [[ComicBook/TheVision2015 Viv Vision]]). This shifted when [[ComicBook/{{Ironheart}} Riri Williams]] and [[ComicBook/TheUnstoppableWasp Nadia Van Dyne]] joined the team in the series' second (2019) run.
* As of post-''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint|DCComics}}'', the ComicBook/{{Shazam}} [[SuperFamilyTeam family]] has Mary Bromfield and Darla Dudley, a 1:3 ratio in a team of six.
* ''ComicBook/TitansRebirth'' originally starred four men and two women: Dick Grayson (Characters/{{Nightwing|DickGrayson}}), [[Characters/TheFlashWallyWest Wally West]] (Flash), [[Characters/GreenArrowSpeedy Roy Harper]] (Arsenal), Garth (Tempest), [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Donna Troy]], and Lilith Clay (Omen).

* ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'':
** The original team started off as four guys, then joined by Starhawk, who occasionally switches bodies with his sister Aleta (long story). The second issue of their first series has them meet Nikki Gold, bringing the team's gals to two, but Aleta wasn't treated as a full-on member until the 90s, and at that point the team gained another gal in Replica.
** The prototype version of the modern team, in ''ComicBook/AnnihilationConquest'', had Mantis and Deathcry as its only gals. Then Deathcry caught a case of friendly fire.
** ''ComicBook/Guardians3000'' has Nikki absent due to time going weird, Replica just completely gone, and Aleta forgotten. Instead, the Guardians have newcomer Geena Drake, and Starhawk experiencing a GenderBender, though Nikki does soon reappear.

* ''Anime/YuGiOh'' made keeping the number of girls on the show practically an art. Season one had Anzu/Téa and Mai. Season two, they got a little crazy and had Anzu/Téa, Mai, Ishizu, and Shizuka/Serenity all involved, although only rarely all in the same episode, as Ishizu wasn't really a member of "the gang". So, they sent Mai to the Shadow Realm and then left Ishizu behind when they shuffled the cast off to the filler arc, leaving just Anzu/Téa and Shizuka/Serenity for half of Season three. Season four had Anzu/Téa and Rebecca, and also for the first half of season five. The final arc had two different five-man bands, one modern, one ancient, with the ancient one having both Isis and Mana (three if you count Kisara).

* Music/Therion had a fluid line-up for years as far as singers and classical performers went, but then settled on having two female singers with different kinds of style since 2011. One has been Lori Lewis (though on tours, she is substituted by other singers most of the time), while the other position has been rotating a lot over the years (the most consistent was Linnéa Vikström, the daughter of their male lead singer Thomas Vikström, from 2010 to 2018).
* Music/Tristania was also this between 2010 and their disbandment (officially in 2022): they had Mariangela Demurtas on vocals and Gyri Smørdal Losnegaard on second guitar.

* Music/{{Delain}} were one of many SymphonicMetal bands employing the MaleBandFemaleSinger trope with Charlotte Wessels until 2015 when they added guitarist Merel Bechtold.

* In the 1970s, the originally all-male [[ComicBook/TheDefenders Defenders]] evolved into a team with a gender-balanced core of two males (Nighthawk and the [[Characters/IncredibleHulkBruceBanner Hulk]]) and two females ([[Characters/MarvelComicsValkyrior Valkyrie]] and Characters/{{Hellcat}}).

* ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'' starts with four guys, but introduces two girls in the first couple of issues. After ''ComicBook/AvengersTheChildrensCrusade'' ends with [[spoiler: Cassie and Vision dead and Eli seemingly retired]], the reformed team has the same dynamic with [[Characters/HawkeyeKateBishop Kate Bishop]] and [[Characters/YoungAvengersTitleTeam America Chavez]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Champions|MarvelComics}}'': In ''ComicBook/Champions2016'', the team's lineup was four boys ([[ComicBook/{{Nova}} Sam Alexander]], [[Characters/UltimateSpiderManMilesMorales Miles Morales]], [[ComicBook/TotallyAwesomeHulk Amadeus Cho]], [[Characters/MarvelComicsCyclops Scott Summers]]) and two girls ([[Characters/MarvelComicsKamalaKhan Kamala Khan]], [[ComicBook/TheVision2015 Viv Vision]]). This shifted when [[ComicBook/{{Ironheart}} Riri Williams]] and [[ComicBook/TheUnstoppableWasp Nadia Van Dyne]] joined the team in the series' second (2019) run.

* ''ComicBook/TitansRebirth'' originally starred four men and two women: Dick Grayson (Characters/{{Nightwing|DickGrayson}}), [[Characters/TheFlashWallyWest Wally West]] (Flash), Roy Harper (Arsenal), Garth (Tempest), [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Donna Troy]], and Lilith Clay (Omen).

* In ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'', Asuka/Alexis and Rei/Blair are the only main female characters in season 3 and season 4. This is the result of Rei becoming more prominent after her one-episode role in the first season, during which Asuka had been the only female main character by way of TheSmurfettePrinciple.
** Camula and Tania are the only female Seven Stars Assassins/Shadow Riders. Interestingly, these two are among the four best duelists of the Seven Stars Assassins, and they are two of three duelists who won spirit keys.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': 'Literature/MenAtArms'' expands the City Watch expanding beyond humans, recruiting Detritus (a troll), Cuddy (a dwarf), and Angua (a w[[spoiler:erewolf]]). In ''Literature/FeetOfClay'', they then get Cheery Littlebottom (a female dwarf), with Cheery and Angua being the main females in the Watch books from then on. (Salacia von Humpeding the vampire signs up in ''Literature/{{Thud}}'', Precious Jolson is referenced in the same book and gets a brief speaking role in ''Literature/{{Snuff}}'', and Angua claims in ''Men at Arms'' there are several other female dwarfs, but they're not ''openly'' female like Cheery is. If there are any others, they're resolutely OutOfFocus.)

* '''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': 'Literature/MenAtArms'' expands the City Watch expanding beyond humans, recruiting Detritus (a troll), Cuddy (a dwarf), and Angua (a w[[spoiler:erewolf]]). In ''Literature/FeetOfClay'', they then get Cheery Littlebottom (a female dwarf), with Cheery and Angua being the main females in the Watch books from then on. (Salacia von Humpeding the vampire signs up in ''Literature/{{Thud}}'', Precious Jolson is referenced in the same book and gets a brief speaking role in ''Literature/{{Snuff}}'', and Angua claims in ''Men at Arms'' there are several other female dwarfs, but they're not ''openly'' female like Cheery is. If there are any others, they're resolutely OutOfFocus.)