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re: The Squad more broadly, that would be a TRS issue. I do agree that tropes like Five-Man Band, The Team, The Squad, even Caper Crew are often ZCE magnets. People don't like to explain how a character fits a role, and are often just content stating that a character is the role. Maybe a reminder at the end of the description would help but I doubt it
But I think you have a good case for trope decay or duplicate trope. Apart from the "same but more specific" aspecr of The Squad with The Team, as far as I can see, The Squad is redundant with Command Roster and one of them need not exist.
Edited by amathieu13they edit warred by adding the entry back regardless of indentation. that's an automatic suspension. you should edit the OP to draw attention to that.
i guarantee you this was a Five-Man Band shoehorn at some point. it reads exactly the same.
e: i will note that the troper in question has now moved all the tropes to their own bullet, deleted The Squad, and at least attempted to add context. but the edit war still needs to be dealt with.
Edited by ChloeJessicaBump this. What to do with The Squad? As noted, all of the example on that page are ZCE and its problem is almost identical to Five-Man Band's (which stuck in TRS for some months already, so I don't think send it there would help).
It's thriving enough with 644 articles linked to it.
Edited by KuruniThat's not something this ATT is suited to answer.
If you would like ask if The Squad is worth taking to the TRS, you can ask questions in the TRS General discussion thread
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As the main issue the query has been for resolved, I'll lock this as resolved.
Macron's notes

I come across this example on SCP: Overlord.
I removed it
citing tropeslasing, ZCE, and indentation problem (I also sent the tropeslashing notifier to the troper who added it, but neither ZCE since they already got one from another edit nor indentation (I just forgot that)). They added it back later
, without tropeslasing but otherwise the same.
At first, I was about to report them as problematic troper. But as noted, I didn't sent them the indentation the first time. And for ZCE, I'm surprised that even The Squad page itself is so light on context that none of the examples there explain how each of the members fit the roles. So I'm willing to assume that the troper just learned from bad examples and think it's good enough.
So I'm going to send them a second ZCE notifier after this post. But really, The Squad's example section looks pretty bad (and consider how TRS never actually fix the problem for its cousin "The Team but more specific" Five-Man Band, I have little faith in that).