Line #13 PlayingWith/LosingTheTeamSpirit


1	'''Basic Trope''': A party-wide HeroicBSOD triggered by some staggering loss, whether an item or a life -- or worse.
2	* '''Straight''':
3	** [[TheHero Albert]] and his friends are shaken to the core after [[TheLancer Pike]], Albert's best friend, dies brutally at the hands of BloodKnight [[KnightOfCerebus Sanguina]].
4	** [[CloudCuckoolander Jeff]] accidentally destroys a [[PowerGlows light sword]], needed to fight the [[LivingShadow shadow wraiths]], and the team knows it cannot be replaced.
5	* '''Exaggerated''':
6	** A thief steals a sword that they can easily retrieve or replace. Everyone on TheTeam is DrivenToSuicide.
7	** All the members of the [[LaResistance growing resistance movement]] have a group-wide [[HeroicBSOD panic attack]] after their attempt to reach the Tower of Shadow reveals that the passage is blocked.
8	** The team falls into despair after their leader suffers from a gruesome ''paper cut''.
9	* '''Downplayed''': [[RebelLeader Their leader]] and several allies of theirs are captured and publicly executed; no one can talk as the survivors walk back to regroup, except the SourSupporter, who mutters about how they will get killed on the other possible routes.
10	* '''Justified''':
11	** Pike was the only one who could deal with the BigBad.
12	** Pike was TheHeart of the team.
13	** The sword was the only thing that could fight the shadow wraiths.
14	* '''Inverted''':
15	** Pike's death causes the RagtagBunchOfMisfits to put aside their differences in the name of [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge avenging him]].
16	** [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing Everyone celebrates Pike's death.]]
17	* '''Subverted''':
18	** Pike's death doesn't particularly upset Albert or any of his other friends -- at least, not to the point of anyone suffering a full-on BSOD.
19	** Pike dies, and everyone becomes even ''more'' devoted to their cause in his memory.
20	* '''Double Subverted''': They suffer a HeroicBSOD later on after remembering Pike.
21	* '''Parodied''': Albert and friends [[IntangibleTheft literally loose their team spirit]] to Franchise/CarmenSandiego.
22	* '''Zig Zagged''': After Pike's death, Albert starts [=BSODing=], while [[MysteriousWaif Willow]] suffers SurvivorGuilt mixed with an unhealthy amount of [[ItsAllMyFault self-blame]]. However, [[BlackMagicianGirl Marcy]], [[KnightInShiningArmor Kelvin]], [[CombatMedic Claudia]] and [[LoveableRogue Raven]] spur the others on, insisting that stopping now would make [[SenselessSacrifice his sacrifice meaningless]]. Then, when they finally find the SwordOfPlotAdvancement, Kelvin [[FaceHeelTurn turns on them]] and reveals his allegiance to the Emperor, shattering Marcy and Raven's resolve and sending Willow into ''another'' HeroicBSOD while shocking Albert out of his.
23	* '''Averted''':
24	** No one really cares when Pike dies.
25	** EverybodyLives
26	* '''Enforced''': ???
27	* '''Lampshaded''': "[[SarcasmMode Just great!]] With Pike gone, there's no way we'll defeat Emperor Evulz now."
28	* '''Invoked''': Sanguina studied the group long enough to determine that Pike's courage in the face of adversity was key to spurring on Albert and the others, and deliberately took him out.
29	* '''Exploited''': ???
30	* '''Defied''': The team stays together despite Pike's death.
31	* '''Discussed''': ???
32	* '''Conversed''': "Ironic, isn't it? Kill the right person and you kill the entire group!"
33	* '''Deconstructed''': The dead character had deliberately made himself vital to the workings of the team, to ensure that no one would replace him, and so had undercut the possibility of succession.
34	* '''Reconstructed''': But that was necessary for the team's cohesion. It takes them longer, but one of them finally takes the lead.
35	* '''Played For Drama''': [[TheBadGuyWins Emperor Evulz completes his plan to]] TakeOverTheWorld. [[DownerEnding The surviving heroes are executed,]] [[{{Tragedy}} along with everyone they cared about]].
36	* '''Untwisted''': Albert and the others aren't jarred by Pike's death because they assume HesJustHiding. But when they come across [[DeadGuyOnDisplay his broken body being publicly displayed as a warning to others]], ''that'' triggers a full-on FreakOut for the entire team.
37	----
38	Back to LosingTheTeamSpirit
39	----
40	%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
41	%%
42	%%* '''Implied''': ???

Context PlayingWith / LosingTheTeamSpirit