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Wait until we have somewhere to move them to, please.
EDIT: And I just launched a YKTTW
to be the supertrope, to stop the misuse.
Wait, wait. Is it that males are prohibited from being The Chick, or that females are prohibited from being any of the other roles?
What? Why couldn't a female character fill any of the roles in a Five-Man Band?
I kind of get why The Chick has to be female (is the same true for the Dark Chick in a Five Bad Band?), but don't see why that necessarily implies that all other members of the Band must be male.
Edited by Jordan HodorAFAIK, The Chick is Always Female, but the other four roles are not Always Male.
Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.Citation needed.
The only relevant change I have actually seen is Eddie adding the bit about Always Female to The Chick, which is relatively recent and I don't agree but fine. The rest (gender restrictions on other Five-Man Band roles) I don't think is actually true, but feel free to present evidence to the contrary.
Hm, on 12/23/11 Fast Eddie added the following line to The Chick article:
"Yes, we understand that a role very like this could be filled by a male, but this is a trope is component of a Five-Man Band, which is specifically four guys and a girl. Examples of male characters acting in this way can be found in The Heart." (emphasis added)
Edited by rodneyAnonymous Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.I can definitely see where he's coming from on this - the "classic" Five-Man Band is a much more specific thing then the 'Team Of Five' ensemble trope that it's normally seen as.
Five-Man Band is one of the most abused and shoehorned in tropes on the site, because it is not just a "Team Of Five" despite tons of people using it that way. The more restrictive definition is probably to lower the misuse.

If Fast Eddie made a policy call on the page for The Chick (a Five-Man Band has four male members in non-Chick roles, and a female Chick) that has not been put on the Five-Man Band page itself, does that still mean I should break out the chainsaw on examples with females outside the Chick role?
Edited by Ramidel