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Some sort of Similar Squad ?
Yes, but the other squad is specifically noted to be better (whether in skills or morality) than the main one.
I'd file this as a Similar Squad overlapping with tropes like Always Someone Better, Foil, Mirror Character, and Shadow Archetype - being a set of similar characters is one aspect, and then they are also contrasting characters individually and for the squad as a gestalt character.
In extreme situations you might have inverted Psycho Rangers where an Anti-Hero Team is juxtaposed with a squad of more traditional heroes. Double subverted is a common play here in my experience, where the "better" team ends up having hidden issues that make them worse than the main characters.
You get a Geodesic Cast when you have several sets of these that are reflections in different ways
Edited by Scorpion451
In a work where the main cast are entertainingly dysfunctional assholes (Team A), there's a similar team on the same side made up of far more competent, successful, intelligent etc. people (team B), who are occasionally seen at work, outclassing the main team by a mile (and the main reason the work isn't about the better B-team is that it's funnier to see the assholes screw up or get bitten by karma). If they meet there's potential for overlap with The Resenter / Unknown Rival.
- Exterminatus Now has an Inquisitorial team that mirrors the main characters in terms of appearance and abilities, except they're all highly competent (instead of middlingly skilled and lucky) and actually enjoy each other's company.
- Eight Bit Theater has the real Light Warriors, who have similar classes to the main party but are actually good at their jobs, managing to find epic weapons by raiding dungeons (although they also serve as Butt Monkeys who repeatedly get their stuff stolen by the main cast).
- Any Macho Disaster Expedition plot that shows the men as bungling idiots and the women as competent.
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Edited by Chabal2