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6	Poor heroes. Sure, the idea is that you want to go out and save everybody, but what's the sense in doing it all alone? You're only one guy, and how much change can a single person affect in this crazy world of ours?
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8	What the hero needs if he really wants to get ambitious is a group of like-minded heroes that can help avenge the downtrodden, smite evil, solve puzzles together, all that good stuff. So if he is firmly resolved in his belief as to ThePowerOfFriendship, he makes a blatant effort to go out and find these other heroes, thus assembling the best team of warriors ever.
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10	The result of his search usually depends on where the work as a whole falls on the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism. If it's the former, he finds friends and saves the day. In the latter, everyone is either too much of a jerk or too evil themselves to be of much use.
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12	Usually how TheMagnificentSevenSamurai get started off. If it's very easy then it's YouAllMeetInAnInn (the adventure begins with the heroes meeting in an inn) or YouAllMeetInACell (when the story beings with a group of characters in captivity). If the hero has already worked with the ones they're recruiting, it's PuttingTheBandBackTogether (after a seemingly permanent split, a group of characters assembles once more).
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14	SuperTrope of {{Posse}} (TheSheriff recruits civilians to fight a specific threat). SisterTrope of MagneticHero (a heroine with remarkable personal magnetism who gains friends and allies with astonishing ease). Contrast AvengersAssemble (a {{montage}} of the members of a hero team being signaled to come together).
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20	* ''Animation/RimbaRacer'': After finding out that the Rimba Grand Prix is rigged, Tag forms a team with four allies. [[TheLeader Tag]] is a hot-headed newbie to the races, and constantly aims to win every race, but is kept safe and in check by his older mechanic and father figure, [[TheLancer Miles]]. His fellow teammates are [[TheBigGuy Sonny]], whose large frame and larger car do a lot of the heavy lifting, [[TheSmartGuy Meelo]], the socially awkward tech genius, and [[TheHeart Meika]], who is the most feminine and socially-active of the group. The team stays at five members until the later half of the first season, where [[spoiler:[[TheSixthRanger Tamira]] joins them to work against her former employer.]]
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24	* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Luffy wants to become the king of pirates, so he travels the East Blue and the Grand Line to assemble a ten-member crew, the Straw Hat Pirates, with which to find the mythic One Piece. During the Dressrosa arc, Luffy manages to get 7 pirate captains to pledge loyalty to him (resulting in the Straw Hat Grand Fleet) to undertake the perilous Operation SOP.
25	* ''Anime/SamuraiSeven'': Shimada Kanbei is hired to get a group of samurai together to defend the villagers who hired him in the first place. He even specifies "seven" samurai as the number needed, but settles for three in the interest of time constraints; after all, he doesn't want incompetents or braggarts, he seeks quality and integrity. [[spoiler:He lets two that have been with them from the beginning call themselves "samurai" as time goes on, and they meet another two on the way to the village.]]
26	* ''Manga/ShamanKing'': At first, Lyserg claims to be "searching for strong allies" to defeat Hao and joins Yoh's group after realizing how strong he is. He quickly defects to the X-laws due to not agreeing with Yoh's ideals and Marcos sweet-talking him to the group.
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30	* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'': Captain Metropolis keeps trying to form a league of superheroes but never ends up getting anywhere. The more positive-thinking costumed heroes who would likely have joined are inevitably turned off by the DarkerAndEdgier heroes being obnoxious pricks about the whole enterprise. However, this doesn't stop them from working together (in the loosest of terms) to cover areas during the police strike.
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34	* ''WebVideo/BronyDAndD'': Jeminya, deposed Queen of Directian, recruits the group to help her take back her throne and bring peace to Alatastica.
35	* ''Fanfic/CharacterChampionshipWrestling'': After Lucy Van Pelt, Bella Swan, and Zoe Payne form the [[LegionOfDoom END]], Emmy decides to seek out some allies for herself to beat them; namely, Reggie Rocket and Annie Frazier.
36	* ''Fanfic/FriendlyPrettyCure'': This is the plot of the first four chapters. Alana's mission is to find Pretty Cure warriors on Earth to defeat the evil organization, The Negative, threatening The Kingdom of Friendship. Her first task after recruitment is to have them meet Cure Desire, something Bobble aids her with. She ends up assembling a [[FourManBand Four-Woman Band]] comprised of Cure Laugh, Cure Wisdom, Cure Courage, and herself (Cure Sweet).
37	* ''Fanfic/KingdomHeartsLelouchOfInfinteHearts'': Tryca is a {{War Goddess}} seeking a Keyblade Wielder or Wielders to help protect her world from the Heartless and to seal its keyhole.
38	* ''Fanfic/{{Paradoxus}}'':
39	** Galadwen's whole shtick is that she trots the universe's many dimensions and timelines seeking elven populations to unify against the threat posed by the Burning Legion. In a 'TheOutsiderBefriendsTheBest' way, she focuses her efforts on faction leaders. The ones she pursues the most are what she calls the Elven Elemental Aspects which, while not her TrueCompanions, are among her most valuable allies. This includes Sylvanas Windrunner (Aspect of Dearh and Galadwen's sarcastic [[TheLancer Lancer]]) and Bloom Oðrson (Aspect of Fire who ends up being Galadwen's ambassador with the Magix Dimension). Additionally, there are Flora and Queen Daphne of Domino, with whom [[spoiler:she pulls the strings of the plot from behind the shadows]].
40	** Queen Daphne [[spoiler:remembers the original timeline, a BadFuture in which everyone she loves dies and the Burning Legion destroys the Magix Dimension]]. As a result of this experience as well as her duties as Nymph of Magix, she seeks allies to help prevent things from worsening. Her first SecretKeeper is her reliable husband Thoren, her EmotionalCrutch. She picks Flora because, out of all the Winx, she's the most level-headed to resign herself that [[spoiler:they can't thwart Bloom and Stella's deaths]]. When she meets Galadwen, their greater good-geared mentalities cause them to recruit each other in their respective plans. Finally, when her daughter Morrigan is revealed to be the newest incarnation of the Nymph of Time, Queen Daphne tells her the truth and even consults with her about which events in the timeline are immutable.
41	* ''Roleplay/WildemountExtendedUniverse'': How Gavriil meets the party. He's looking for a group to take on an assignment from Lady Olios.
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45	* ''Literature/TheDrawingOfTheThree'': Roland spends the entire book drawing a ka-tet of three people--a RagtagBunchOfMisfits composed of a drug addict, a SplitPersonality, and a serial killer--via magical doors that led to our modern time. The reason is that he needs them to access the Dark Tower.
46	* ''Literature/TheExecutioner'': In the second novel, Mack Bolan forms a 'Death Squad' of Vietnam veterans to help him in his war against the Mafia, but most of them get killed by the end of the book, after which he decides IWorkAlone. The two survivors, '[[MrFixit Gadgets]]' Schwartz and '[[TheSocialExpert The Politician]]' Blancanales, do help him out from time to time, and later when Bolan joins the government-run HeroesRUs unit Stony Man they form the basis of Able Team. He also recruits Phoenix Force, a FiveManBand of the world's best anti-terrorist operatives.
47	* ''Literature/TheShadow'': [[Recap/TheShadowPulpsS65TheChineseDisks "The Chinese Disks"]] is the story in which the Shadow's agents finally reach (almost) their full number, with the addition of Shrevvy, Druke, and Hawkeye. How are they recruited? Through special letters given to the chosen members by Harry Vincent. The Shadow recruits them to fight crime and manipulate the police.
48	* ''Literature/WarsOfTheRealm'': In the last book, the angel Validus realizes that bodyguarding Drew Carter from all of the demons in the world is too big a job for him and his partner Tren. So he goes all around the world and [[AvengersAssemble recruits the best angelic warfighting talent there is]].
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52	* ''Series/TripForBiscuits'': DoubleSubverted in the first episode. Bajo calls the Spacial and Extraterrestrial Phenomena Investigations (SEPI) to hunt his missing parents, who were abducted in a Mexican fast food truck. He's officially rebuked but, unofficially, hired so he can use the company's resources to find his parents during off-work hours. The only condition is that he can't use company personnel for that. He still manages to enlist Violet and a wrestling-suit-clad Amy for his mission by virtue of them sympathizing with him.
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56	* ''Literature/TheFourGospels'': Religious figure Jesus starts spreading his God's word by first hand-picking 12 apostles, his most loyal followers, amongst common people with no riches nor privileges.
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60	* ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'': The Bhaalspawn winds up doing this after they're forced to leave Candlekeep and their foster father, Gorian, is killed. Fortunately, it seems like half the Sword Coast wants to sign up with them (the other half wants to kill them).
61	* ''Franchise/DragonAge'':
62	** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening'': The fifth Blight obliterates the Grey Wardens, leaving only the protagonist, who is now the Warden-Commander of Ferelden. Half a year later, the player character is tasked with rebuilding TheOrder. The new members are an apostate, a benevolent Fade spirit, a Dalish elf mage, a dwarven Legionnaire of the Dead, a female knight, Arl Howe's rogue son, and a dwarven warrior from Orzammar.
63	** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'': The Breach has left the Inquisition without its leaders, so remaining members Leliana and Cassandra Pentaghast separate it from the Chantry to protect the Inquisition's future leader: the Herald of Andraste. The two women also task the Herald (or Inquisitor) with recruiting people for the newly independent Inquisition.
64	* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'': Commander Shepard spends the majority of the game recruiting and earning the loyalty of various mercs, criminals, and similar outcasts in order to form a BadassCrew in the hopes of defeating the Collectors.
65	* ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'': Karol keeps joining a bunch of guilds hoping to fit in.
66	* ''VideoGame/WorldOfHorror'': TeenIdol Mizuki is geared towards using her naturally high Charisma to secure as many Allies as possible to [[MoreFriendsMoreBenefits build up her perks]]. However, she's also seeking safety in numbers; surrounding herself with people offers some protection from a mysterious {{stalker\|WithACrush}} who's been hounding her.
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70	* ''VisualNovel/DeathMatchLoveComedy'': After realizing extended isolation isn't good for his sanity, Kei decides to trust his friends to help him take care of his bomb problem. They all happily join him, including his two LoveInterests whom he accepts as friends.
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74	* ''Webcomic/KeychainOfCreation'' opens up with Misho and Marena trying to get other heroes to join them on their quest, with the former having nailed a 'help wanted: saving creation" signpost to a tree in a remote forest for that purpose. To Marena's bewilderment, five other Exalted are quick to gather up for an interview. From that group, they end up picking a renegade Day Caste Abyssal (because she's cute according to Marena) and an elderly Air Aspect Terrestrial (because Misho thinks he's got a good backstory).
75	* ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'': While not a strong example, definitely deserves mention for title-appropriateness. Cale would be that hero.
76	* ''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': The prequel book ''[[Recap/TheOrderOfTheStickOnTheOriginOfPCs On the Origin of [=PCs=]]]'' explores the backstories of the members of the Order of the Stick, and how Roy Greenhilt wound up assembling them into an [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits adventuring party]] to defeat sorcerer Xykon, whom his father has sworn a Blood Oath of Vengeance.
77	* ''Webcomic/RPGWorld'': The introductory panels are about Hero proclaiming himself the one to "vanquish the evil war horde (and its leader Galgarion) but acknowledging he can't do it alone. Consequently, he spends the next few chapters collecting a RagTagBandOfMisfits comprised of a thief, a harlot, and an outlaw. A science pirate, two fuzzy {{Team Pet}}s, and a dance battler join later on.
78	* ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': Undine looks for a new group at Tessa's request after Tessa [[spoiler:gets depowered saving Undine's life and the rest of their team is killed in action]]. The first half of chapter five is dedicated to Undine's hunt for a new team. By chapter eight, while she doesn't join or form a proper team, she enters into a more informal duo with Heartful Punch and befriends HP's Magical Girl Power Training Club to get stronger.
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82	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'': Kion's first task as leader of the Lion Guard is to select his subordinates according to being outstanding in a particular trait--the Fiercest, the Keenest of Sight, the Bravest, the Strongest, and the Fastest. In an attempt to cleanse [[HerosEvilPredecessor Scar's tainted legacy]], Kion picks cubs from various animal species, not just lions. Their job is to be the Pride Lands' PraetorianGuard and preserve the balance of the Circle of Life. Later on, Kion passes on the torch to Vitani, who picks her companions among the Outsider lionesses.
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