Four-Temperament Ensemble/Playing With

Basic Trope: Four/five characters with one of the five temperaments.
 * Straight: The Player Party in Tales of Troperia consists of the Hair Trigger Temper Prince Hiro, The Eeyore Prince Dennis, Genki Girl Princess Marcy, and Yamato Nadeshiko Princess Claudia.
 * Exaggerated: (A flanderized version of the trope)
 * Downplayed: The characters are quadruplets, and they have a mild disagreement over where to order out for lunch.
 * Justified: The characters carry magical weapons that react to their personalities.
 * Inverted: The characters all look very different, but they act like drones controlled by a single mind.
 * Subverted: The initial party is a four-temperament ensemble, but in the very first Hopeless Boss Fight, they lose Claudia, and become a Freudian Trio instead.
 * Double Subverted: The team gets a replacement member to fill the Phlegmatic slot later on.
 * Zig Zagged: The team is constantly losing and replacing their fourth party member.
 * Parodied: Before each major battle, the team introduces themselves, Super Sentai style.
 * Averted: At least one of the temperaments is left out completely.
 * Enforced: Write Who You Know with these four temperaments.
 * Lampshaded:
 * Invoked:
 * Exploited: ???
 * Defied: ???
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???

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