I bet you will have a lot of fun with their adventures they are having!
Examples of True Companions in live-action movies.- Sure, they're rude, crude, and somewhat morally grey, but the Deltas from Animal House are definitely this. "They can't do that to our pledges! Only we can do that to our pledges!"
- The Crew (2000): The four main characters spent years as partners in crime in New York before retiring to the same Florida community.
- In Descendants, the four main Villain Kids are this. While at first it may seem like there is some genuine animosity between Mal, Evie, Jay, and Carlos, it soon becomes clear that all the teasing, mocking, and play-fighting they do is all in good humour, and they only do it because they're so comfortable with each other. The four are actually incredibly close, almost like siblings, and trust each other completely. If any one of them needs help or support, the others will immediately drop whatever they're doing to be by their side, whether it is to help prepare them to go on a date or to sneak on to an island teeming with villains to rescue a kidnapped boyfriend from vicious pirates.
- Jesse and Chester in Dude, Where's My Car?. They always hang together, have each other's backs, have twin girlfriends, and had no problem making out with each other to outdo an attractive couple in the car next to them.
- The Fast and the Furious team is this and is also one big happy surrogate family. It shows the most from Fast Five onward, but the bond is there even in the earlier films. Dominic Toretto is the biggest example of this, with his mantra of "You don't turn your back on family, even when they do."
- Game Night has Max, Annie, and their tight-knit group of friends, who stick with Max and Annie through and through when their weekly game night goes horribly awry, even though the situation doesn't involve them. Sarah, who was just Ryan's date for the night, serves as something of an Honorary True Companion, and she's a still a part of the group three months later.
- In the 2016 Film Ghostbusters reboot, the team become this. Jillian Holtzman delivers a heartfelt toast at the end of the film, calling Erin, Abby and Patty her family.
- Subverted in Goodfellas. Wise guys kill each other to save their own hides."Your killers come with smiles, as people you've known your whole life. And they always come when you are at your weakest"
- Stretch, Spoon and Cookie are true companions in Gridlockd. The group is a jazz trio who live together. Cookie has sex with both men, and the only reason they don't have threesomes is that Stretch says he can't get it up "in a crowd." Although both Spoon and Cookie are black, Stretch has N-Word Privileges with them. The group is so close that they all use the same bathroom at the same time.
- The main trio in the Harry Potter movies. The books have a lot more of them.
- "The Club"note from Holiday. Linda initially conceives it as all of John and Julia's friends put together, but in practice it ends up being Linda, John, and John's friends Nick and Susan, with an extra chair for Linda's brother Ned. They identify themselves as Very Unimportant People with no interest in being snobs or stuffed shirts, who enjoy play, fun, and adventure, and who want to make money only insofar as it allows them to lead better lives. Julia declines to join them.
- Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: After going through several hardships in their shrunken state, the kids eventually warm up to each other, leading to a romantic bond between Amy and Little Russ.
- The GSE, the West Ham United's firm, from Hooligans.
- Katniss Everdeen with Peeta and Haymitch. She even refers to Haymitch as part of her family in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
- In Kingsman: The Secret Service, Eggsy and Roxy, the only two candidates who demonstrate loyalty and compassion, quickly bond and look out for one another. Unusually for a film of this type, their relationship is completely devoid of sexual tension.
- The title group in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, once they survive being betrayed by their employer and The Mole and solidify their common goal, are implied to be becoming true companions.
- The Fellowship of the Ring from The Lord of the Rings definitely qualifies. Many of the members don't even know each other at first, but they become Fire-Forged Friends and risk their lives for each other repeatedly. When they're forced to separate, they still remain close and, the end of the movie, they all meet up again.
- To a lesser extent, the Company of Thorin Oakenshield from The Hobbit, where you can't always tell by them squabbling among themselves but loyalty is more or less the same. It helps that many of the members are actually related to Thorin by blood. Much of Bilbo's story is him being accepted by the Dwarves to the point that he's willing to do anything he can to save them, even if it means stealing the Arkenstone to broker peace with the Elves and Men and inviting the surviving members back to Bag End for visits after everything was over.
- In The Maltese Falcon. If you're a detective, it doesn't matter that you hated your partner and were sleeping with his wife — he's your partner, and if he's killed you have to do something about it.
- Marvel Cinematic Universe:
- Thor: Thor, Sif, and the Warriors Three are a pretty tight-knit group after adventuring and fighting together for thousands of years. Later on in the movie, Sif, Fandral, Hogun, and Volstagg risk everything to retrieve Thor from exile and are ecstatic when they're eventually reunited with him.Fandral: It's treason.
Volstagg: To hell with treason, it's suicide.
Sif: He would do the same for us. - In The Avengers, at first the superheroes have significant differences, but Nick Fury (leader of SHIELD) deliberately tried to invoke this to bring them together in a time of need. It was a huge risk for him and his career. By the end he succeeds.
- Guardians of the Galaxy revolved around a motley crew of criminals who eventually put aside their differences and end up saving the galaxy through The Power of Friendship literally. The nature of their bond is outright stated in the sequel:Nebula: All any of you do is yell at each other. You're not friends.
Drax: You're right... We're family.
- Thor: Thor, Sif, and the Warriors Three are a pretty tight-knit group after adventuring and fighting together for thousands of years. Later on in the movie, Sif, Fandral, Hogun, and Volstagg risk everything to retrieve Thor from exile and are ecstatic when they're eventually reunited with him.
- The Mighty Ducks: DUCKS FLY TOGETHER.
- Since Newsies is about a strike, the importance of solidarity and sticking together is repeatedly emphasised, as in the song "Once and for All":Once and for all we'll be there to defend one another
Once and for all every kid is a friend, every friend a brother! - Danny Ocean's band in Ocean's Eleven, original, remake and sequels. Especially notable in Ocean's 13 where in the beginning much of the team wants to drug, kill, and bury the villainous casino owner who betrayed their friend and caused him to go into shock.
- Rusty even walks out on a heist as he was breaking into the vault when he got a call saying his friend was in trouble.
- The Vietnamese film Owl and the Sparrow revolved around one of these made up of three people who meet each other in Saigon: a zookeeper, a flight attendant, and a runaway girl who sells flowers on the street. The last scene of the movie has the flight attendant leaving the airport to meet the other two, hugging the little girl when she finds them.
- Rebel Without a Cause, with Jim, Judy, and Plato.
- RENT has this when the seven friends band together in the wake of Benny's Face–Heel Turn, as well as the fact that half of them are HIV-positive. Even Joanne, an Ivy League lawyer who was only there because she was dating Maureen, gradually joined the gang and stuck around after the couple's breakup before Angel's death brought them back together.
- The main protagonists in Robots, mainly between Rodney and the "Rusties".
- Tom Hanks' group of soldiers in Saving Private Ryan.
- In The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Carmen narrates saying, "Together, it was as if we formed one single, complete person."
- Sleepers: Shakes, Michael, Tommy, and John. Shakes even opens the narration by saying "this is a true story about friendship that runs deeper than blood. This is my story and that of the only three friends in my life that truly mattered". Carol and Father Bobby can also be considered part of the group since they loyally remained by the boys' side despite everything.
- The cast of Sneakers appears, at the outset, to be employees at a small security firm, but when it comes time to circle the wagons, they work together like only true companions could.
- Almost everyone seems to be one of Bethany Hamilton's True Companions in Soul Surfer. Then the rival shares her Trophy with Bethany at the end.
- The Specials is all about this. It's a super-hero film set in between big disasters. During downtime for the Specials, when the big dramatic conflict is that a new member is joining, an old member is leaving to join a different team against their wishes, and a lot of the team-mates personal relationships are being reinterpreted.
- Nowhere in any of the Star Trek movies is this shown more than in Star Trek III: after Spock sacrifices himself to save the Enterprise in the previous movie, the entire cast hijack the Enterprise, sacrificing their careers, possibly even their lives, along with the ship and Kirk's son in order to kill some Klingons and go after a one-in-a-million shot at bringing the green-blooded bastard Back from the Dead. This is driven home even further when, in the next movie, Spock chooses to stand with his "comrades" at their trial, despite not being charged of any crime himself.
- Then there's the 2009 movie, in which Spock Prime manipulates events in the alternate universe, forcing that universe's Kirk and Spock to work together to defeat the Romulans, despite the fact that they hate each other. The experience causes them to grow to respect each other and eventually become friends. When the Spock of that universe meets Spock Prime and asks why he didn't simply show up himself to solve the problem, Spock Prime explains that he didn't want there to be a universe where his self was denied the strong friendship he shared with Kirk.
- Star Wars:
- In the original trilogy the core cast of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia, Chewbacca, R2-D2, and C-3PO. Over the course of three films they risk their lives, endure torture and hardship, and make tremendous sacrifices for each other. Even the droids are treated like people instead of property, both of them being repaired after sustaining damage that most people would just consider an excuse to buy a new droid. By Return of the Jedi Lando Calrissian appears to be on his way to joining (he clearly views Han and Chewie this way, but it's less certain how he feels about the others and how they feel about him), along with possibly Wedge Antilles (moreso in the books than the movies, but the last scene of ROTJ shows him as part of the group).
- A common complaint about the prequel trilogy was that, in contrast to the original films, the main characters, in general, came across more as a group of people with similar goals than friends and family that cared about each other. Then again, this may be why the main characters fail to come together and defeat Palpatine. Teamwork, people!
- The dynamic between Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Padmé could actually be considered something of a dark deconstruction of True Companions. Anakin and Obi-Wan have a somewhat strained relationship, but do care about each other deep down and view each other as brothers (Anakin also sees Obi-Wan as a bit of a father-figure), while Padmé and Anakin fall in love and get married. Obi-Wan is initially wary of Padmé because she's "a politician" in a very corrupt government, but Padmé still cares about Obi-Wan, going to great efforts to save him. As a result, the two eventually become closer, but the increasingly unhinged Anakin seems to interpret this as "my best friend is trying to steal my girl" and ends up trying to kill them both when he thinks they're plotting against him.
- In sequel trilogy, Rey and Finn quickly become Fire-Forged Friends along with BB-8, whom they’ve pledged to return to the Resistance, and are soon joined by Han and Chewie, with Han in particular taking the role of Team Dad. In second installment, they're joined by Rose Tico, who quickly develops a bond with Finn, who is also reunited with Poe Dameron, his first real friend who helped him escape from the First Order (Poe wasn't part of the initial dynamic though, due to everyone thinking he was dead for much of The Force Awakens), while Leia takes the role of Team Mom. As of the end of The Last Jedi, everybody has finally met up, so it seems likely they're all going to be this trope come the next film.
- The 2011 film Sunny revolves around a woman reuniting her high school friends when one of them is dying of cancer. A good majority of the film takes place in flashbacks of them in The '80s.
- Thirteen Days: Kenny O'Donnell and Jack and Bobby Kennedy. They've known each other since college and Kenny gets very irate when he thinks an Obstructive Bureaucrat is trying to play them off each other.
- The plot of the Japanese film Train Man (2004) revolves around a true companions group that forms around the title character, a shy otaku who saves a girl from a drunk on the train. The true companions group is made up of people intrigued by his story, who encourage him and give him advice on how to woo the woman. He in turn inspires them to get out of the various ruts they have been stuck in.
- The Wizard of Oz's Dorothy and crew, (both the movie and the original book).
- The cast of Zombieland, despite initial attempts to not form personal attachments to each other.
