Line #37 Main/TeamworkSeduction


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4	Two (or more) characters team up to seduce their target ''together''.
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6	Perhaps, in the past, they've both failed to secure the third party's affections, but who would ever turn down [[AThreesomeIsHot TWO PEOPLE]] hitting on them, or [[GirlOnGirlIsHot two girls]] or [[GuyOnGuyIsHot two guys]] making out with each other?
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8	An alternate version of this trope can be the two teaming up to put the desired character in a situation which would give either (or both) of them a chance to seduce him/her individually. For example, coming up with the idea to do an activity which needs three people, and then both try to get their beloved alone.
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10	And yet another form of this trope is when the two give each other pointers. Alice points out that if Carol showed off a little more cleavage, she'd look ten times hotter, and Carol admits that if Alice would rein in her bad habits and behave more [[ProperLady lady-like]], [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon she'd be much easier to approach.]] Both do their best to cooperate with each other, and then come at their LoveInterest with guns blazing. Alternatively, two guys could do the same--as could seducers of two different genders.
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12	The seducers also don't explicitly have to be "rivals". They can merely be two individuals who realize that they have a mutual crush and decide that they stand a better chance trying to seduce him/her together than alone. The target also doesn't have to be someone they're in love with or have feelings for; they could simply be trying to seduce him/her as a means to an end.
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14	There are three typical outcomes to this situation:
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16	# The crush [[ObliviousToLove STILL doesn't crack]] and the wacky hijinks continue.
17	# They manage to rein the crush in, but their rivalry, or unwillingness to share, ruins things.
18	# [[OneTrueThreesome Everybody's happy.]]
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20	Related to: RivalsTeamUp, TeethClenchedTeamwork. Compare RomanticWingman, where one person helps the other seduce the target without being interested him/herself.
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23	!!Examples:
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28	* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', this was suggested by the CloudCuckooLander Orihime, who said that if she and Rukia were both in love with Ichigo (Rukia says she isn't), they could "team up and the girls would win", but this was laughed off as silly...mostly because nobody knew what the hell she was talking about.
29	* In ''Anime/PleaseTwins'', Mina and Karen team up for an episode to seduce Maiku in a [[MistakenForGay mistaken]] attempt to turn him straight.
30	* In ''Anime/Persona4TheAnimation''[='s=] adaptation of the King's Game, Rise and Yukiko ensure the game is very lewd and sexual. However, things go a step further, when the protagonist winds up having all ''three'' of his potential romantic interests follow the perverse rules to have their own quality time with him (although Chie is clearly embarassed).
31	* Justified in ''Literature/StrikeTheBlood''. Protagonist Kojou Akatsuki is a vampire whose powers only work if he drinks other peoples' blood, and vampiric bloodlust is akin to actual ''sexual'' lust, meaning he has to be turned on to drink blood. So this trope happens ''twice''.
32	** On one occasion, a familiar turns out to need ''two'' peoples' blood to work properly, so when one girl fails to do it alone, the other steps up to the plate as well.
33	** On the second occasion, this trope is fully invoked, both because a single girl can't arouse the dying Kojou enough to save his life, and because only one of them has blood immune to the AntiMagic field preventing his powers from awakening. So it takes one girl to restore his powers and the other to slake his thirst.
34	* ''Kiss-x-Sis'': The Suminoe twins begin the series competing with each other [[BrotherSisterIncest for their stepbrother's affections.]] But once they discover [[TeacherStudentRomance he's begun dating their homeroom teacher]], Ms. Yuuzuki, Ako and Riko set aside their differences and [[RivalsTeamUp join forces]] to try to seduce Keita away from her.
35	* ''Literature/DeathMarchToTheParallelWorldRhapsody'': Having [[CharmPerson manipulated her way]] into being Satou's SexSlave, Arisa attempted this with Lulu when first spending the night with Satou, stripping both herself and Lulu naked in preparation to "service" him. The attempt was foiled by two factors: Lulu was too visibly uncomfortable with being used this way, and Satou wasn't interested in young girls.
36	* ''Literature/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'': Olivia and Angelica try this multiple times on Leon, though they end up subverting ReadyForLovemaking by falling asleep in Leon's bed during their first attempt. Noelle tries to give them common sense advice to take other approaches after they fail the second time.
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40	* In ''Art/NymphsAndSatyr'', four different nymphs all crowding around a single satyr to get him into the water seems to be this. [[AmbiguouslyEvil Whether they are actually interested in sex or are just trying to get him into the water is left ambiguous.]]
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44	* BettyAndVeronica in ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' have pulled this trick a few times, usually with both girls ruining it by fighting again. Since the two girls are best friends, though, "threesome" endings are rare but not completely out of the question (in a PG-rated sense, of course).
45	* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': In ''ComicBook/AdventureComics (Volume 2)'' #12, when Phantom Girl takes an opportunity to steal a kiss from Superboy, Triplicate Girl cuts in using two of her duplicate selves to steal Superboy away and get kisses for themselves.
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49	* In the ''Literature/TheGoblinEmperor'' fanfic ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/8029165 Blessings]]'', Csevet and Csethiro team up to seduce Maia.
50	* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12312193/1/ Crossroads - Between a Mermaid and a Princess]]'' features Misty and Serena teaming up to seduce [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Ash]]. Contrary to what might seem at first glance, the two girls are actually very good friends and willing to help the other on their weak points.
51	* Less seduction and more confession, but in [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/25493383 this]] ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' both Adrien and Kagami work together to get their feelings through to Marinette. It doesn't work the first few times because Marinette [[ObliviousToLove doesn't realize the two like her romantically since they're dating]] and she thinks ''they'' are being oblivious to each others' feelings.
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55	* Two women in ''Film/{{Panic\|2000}}'' (2000) do this so as to pick up a guy at a bar, though it later seems like it may have been a roundabout way of getting together with each other.
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59	* This is pretty much the ending of ''Literature/ThePyrates'', with the ChasteHero being approached by all of his potential love interests. It ends without showing the resolution.
60	* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': In ''Boston Brawl'', Fey and Tennyo team up to mess with Hank by play-flirting with him.
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63	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
64	* There was an episode of ''Series/GilligansIsland'' where Ginger and Mary Ann do this to Gilligan.
65	* Kelly Garrett, Jill Munroe and Sabrina Duncan ''Series/CharliesAngels'' stop short of full-on seduction with Bosley in order to get him to reveal [[NoOneSeesTheBoss what Charlie Townsend looks like.]]
66	* Santana and Brittany seduce and date Finn together in ''Series/{{Glee}}'' episode "[[Recap/GleeS1E14HellO Hell-O]]", though it plays out as the two girls having a date that they let Finn watch and pay for.
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70	* If this was a professional wrestling site we'd be calling it TagTeam seduction and the trope namers would likely be Quebec's DM Strokes and LJ Strokes: Twins Attraction. Most of their opponents happen to be straight men, so their masculine wiles are mostly used for off ring activities.
71	* Attempted by Wrestling/{{Sar\|ahStock}}ita and [[Wrestling/TheaTrinidad Rosita]] on Wrestling/EricYoung, but his loyalty to [[Wrestling/JessicaKresa ODB]] made him invulnerable to their charms.
72	* During the [[Wrestling/TruthMartini House Of Truth]]'s first Wrestling/RingOfHonor run and at the very start of their second, some combination of Wrestling/ScarlettBordeaux, Valerie Malone, Kasey Ray, and or Seleziya Sparx, the so called "Hoopla Hotties", would attempt to seduce enemies of the HOT, especially during the matches of Television Title holders Matt Taven and Wrestling/JayLethal.
73	* Wrestling/{{Aksana}} and Wrestling/{{Tamina\|Snuka}} tried this on Wrestling/BrodusClay. Unfortunately for them he already had two ladies trailing him. So then they tried to get rid of Wrestling/TheFunkadactyls, thinking it would work then.
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77	* In ''Videogame/Persona4'', something close to this is what Rise and Yukiko try to pull during the King's Game, when it's [[PlayerCharacter Yu's]] turn to be the King. Both of them make sure that the game is as lewd and perverse as possible, on the off chance that either of them will be picked.
78	* Subverted in ''Videogame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'', where the long-standing LoveTriangle between Yennefer and Triss ultimately gets resolved. If [[PlayerCharacter Geralt]] tries to romance them both, the two of them both appear to him in their underwear and imply that they're going to have a threesome. They handcuff him to the bed, but then pull out bottles of champagne to congratulate themselves and leave him ChainedToABed
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82	* Double subverted in ''VisualNovel/DaughterForDessert''. Heidi enlists the protagonist to try this stealthily with Kathy, because Heidi in sure that Kathy is bi. Kathy pretends to be offended, but she’s actually up for a threesome with the two of them.
83	* Multiple times in ''VisualNovel/DoubleHomework'':
84	** Dennis offers the protagonist his help in seducing Ms. Walsh; he’s been posing online as Jailson Mendes, a Brazilian actor. He reveals that he’s asked their teacher out on a date, and he expects that the protagonist can close the deal. If he takes Dennis up on his offer, he will indeed have sex with Ms. Walsh.
85	** After Johanna and Tamara bury the hatchet and agree to share the protagonist, the three of them take turns doing this to each other.
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89	* ''WebComic/MysticRevolution'': The entire concept is parodied in [[http://www.mysticrev.com/comics/talifinal2.jpg this comic]]. After having her come-ons rejected, Tali'Zorah removes her helmet in front of Shepard (from ''VideoGame/MassEffect'') to reveal herself as a combination of Creator/FeliciaDay and Creator/SummerGlau. They start making out together in order to entice him.
90	* ''Webcomic/SandraOnTheRocks'': Eloise and Nadine pull a particularly complicated and confusing seduction scheme on Alex, just to keep him off-balance and incapable of advising Sandra on geek culture. It’s a ZanyScheme that doesn’t really go anywhere because other stuff happens, though Alex does end up in bed with both of them (in multiple guises).
91	* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': Elliot [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2013-12-10 has a dream]] [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2013-12-11 about this happening]] with every girl he knows coming on to him.
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95	* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls,'' Candy proposes that she and Mabel team up to woo "white whale" Marius, leaving Grenda [[spoiler:who eventually wins his heart]] out of the loop. They don't seem to have a real plan for it and wind up getting in each other's way.
96	* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks''. Thanks to the law of Billups's home planet, as crown prince, he becomes king as soon as he has sex, which his mother is desperate for. To that end, she has a male and female guard attempt to seduce him (possibly to cover her bases re: which gender he prefers). When traditional methods fail, [[spoiler:she fakes her death to force his hand. Billups sets out to claim his birthright by sleeping with both guards together, which seems to suit them just fine. Until [[TheLoinsSleepTonight he fails to follow through.]]]]
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