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{{quote|''We few... we happy few...''|'''[[Trope Namer|King Henry]]''', ''[[Henry V]]''}}
 
{{quote|''All for one, one for all...''|'''[[Alexandre Dumas]]''', ''[[The Three Musketeers (Literaturenovel)|The Three Musketeers]]''}}
 
A [[Band of Brothers]] is a group of people, [[Thicker Than Water|dedicated and loyal to each other beyond all other considerations]], due to the dangerous (usually combat-related) circumstances they have faced together. The spilling of their blood, mixed together with [[Fire-Forged Friends|a desperate life-or-death struggle]], make them a family as close as any mere blood tie can make them. Beyond mere comradeship, being a [[Band of Brothers]] evokes an ideal of grim determination to face whatever comes together, and to see it through together. It is this shared struggle that they become a [[Band of Brothers]].
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A [[Band of Brothers]] is often formed after a [[Misfit Mobilization Moment]]. They are equally often a [[Badass Crew]]. See also [[The Power of Friendship]], [[Blood Brothers]], [[A Friend in Need]], [[Fire-Forged Friends]]. Sometimes explain why the [[Mildly Military]] organization manage to remain efficient despite its apparent lack of regard for discipline and normal military procedure.
 
For our article on the TV series click ''[[Band of Brothers (TV series)|here]]''.
 
See [[True Companions]] for the wider, non-militaristic concept.
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* In ''[[Outlaw Star]]'', the crew is a [[Band of Brothers]]. Even though they all met under different circumstances and some at first didn't like the main character or each other, they all eventually become allies.
* Section 9 in ''[[Ghost in Thethe Shell]]''. Being a paramilitary special unit of the Ministry of the Interior in a mostly failed state, they regularily [[Properly Paranoid|get into conflict with other government institutions, as well as terrorists and organized crime]]. Togusa and Aramaki seem to be the only ones who still maintain normal lives next to their job, while the others seem to be almost completely isolated from the rest of society.
* The Gurren Brigade in ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' is [[La Résistance]] brought together by fate.
* Justy Tylor from ''[[Irresponsible Captain Tylor]]'' sees the crew of the Soyokaze as this ("You're like everyone else on the Soyokaze is to me...You're my crew...and you're all important to me"). Some of the Marines might beg to differ, though. Even so, they ''will'' face against the ''entire'' UPSF to save him. ''Twice.''
* The main cast of ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' becomes this, but only very late in the series. It's their becoming a proper [[Band of Brothers]], rather than just a group of people sharing a ship, that makes the ending as poignant and difficult as it is.
* ''[[Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (Anime)|Gatchaman]]''. One of the original [[Five-Man Band|Five Man Bands]], the Science Ninja Team may fight, argue and generally crawl all over each other's nerves, but when push comes to shove they'll go through hell for one another. Arguably the origin of the [[Super Sentai]] version of the trope.
* The crew of the Gekko in ''[[Eureka Seven]]''.
* The Yang team in [[Legend of the Galactic Heroes]]: being {{spoiler|betrayed by their own government}}, facing {{spoiler|the full might of Reinhart's armies}}, even {{spoiler|losing their leader}}, their group is not going to break.
* ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]''. The Straw Hats aren't just a crew. They're ''family''.
* The Bronze Saints in ''[[Saint Seiya]]''.
* The Black Knights in ''[[Code Geass]]'' is [[La Résistance]] under the [[The Chessmaster]] Lelouch
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* The most obvious example from the [[DC Universe]] would be Sergeant Rock’s unit, Easy Company.
* The various teams of ''[[X Men|X-Men]]'' display this trope at times. ''[[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]]'' would qualify as well, if three of its four charter members weren't already directly related by blood or marriage.
* The various [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]] teams are just as much a surrogate family as they are a crimefighting team. This is especially true of the "Original Five": Robin, Wonder Girl, Kid Flash, Speedy, and Aqualad. This was carried over in the cartoon.
** In fact, Nightwing and Arsenal's Outsiders were formed in a deliberate attempt to avoid creating a [[Band of Brothers]]. Naturally, given the characters and the circumstances, they failed.
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== Fan Fiction ==
* When not busy making Heavy/Medic [[Slash Fic]] or generic Scout Is Delicious responses, [[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]] fans typically portray the team as this. [[Ascended Meme|The official comics tend to agree.]]
* As noted in the Anime section, [[Fullmetal Alchemist|Roy Mustang's]] unit fits the trope, as shown in the [[Elemental Chess Trilogy (Fanfic)|Elemental Chess Trilogy]]. Jean Havoc even invokes the trope by name, thinking of how the unit is still "a band of brothers (and one sister, of course)" and he'd willingly die for any one of them.
 
 
== Film ==
 
* The ending, and in some ways the entire point of ''[[Zombieland (Film)|Zombieland]]'' is the forging of one of these between the survivors.
* The titular rodents in ''G-Force'' are one hell of a [[Band of Brothers]]. The original group is Darwin, Juarez Blaster, Speckles and Mooch. Later, Speckles removes himself from the group by faking his own death. It's made explicit by the big fight scene at the end, when Speckles realizes that he doesn't need to avenge his family; he's already got one in the form of G-Force, Ben and Marcy, and possibly Hurley too. Darwin actually references this during the original sneak-in to Saber's house; "We leave no rodent behind."
* The Burns Gang of ''[[The Proposition]]'' are a perfect example of an evil version of this trope. Arthur considers all of them to be brothers, including the ones who aren't his genetic brothers, one of whom is even of a different race. He truly loves them all, and has not a single cruel word for any of them. When told that his youngest (genetic) brother has found a girl and wants out, he is completely supportive. And if you're not his brother, you're liable to get shot, knifed, kicked to death, robbed, or possibly raped.
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* ''[[Black Hawk Down]]'': "Leave no man behind." That is all.
* The titular mercenaries in ''[[The Expendables]]'' are this, to the point that they take the member who betrayed them back by the end of the movie.
* In ''[[Robin Hood (2010 film)|Robin Hood]]'', after 10 years together in the army, Robin's friends choose to stick around even after Robin urges them repeatedly to go their own ways.
* Played for laughs at the beginning of ''[[Another Country]]'' when Rupert Everett's Russian spy character uses the quote in a conversation with a young female reporter. She does not recognize the lines, highligthing the differences in age and education between the two. Also, the trope is inverted or at least used with some irony because "band of brothers" here refers to members of the Guy Burgess traitor ring, aka the Cambridge Five.
* ''[[Act of Valor]]'': Bandito Platoon
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== Literature ==
 
* Possibly the definitive [[Band of Brothers]] in western literature is Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and d’Artagnan from ''[[The Three Musketeers (Literaturenovel)|The Three Musketeers]]''.
* The officer Cadre in [[Dan Abnett]]'s ''[[Gaunts Ghosts|Gaunt's Ghosts]]'' play this more or less straight in the later books, but subvert it earlier in the series, Elim Rawne is desperate that his commanding officer not die because, in his own words: "[[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You|if you're going to die, it's got to be me who kills you]]".
* [[Orson Scott Card]] calls this a "jeesh" (though only in the ''Ender's Shadow'' series), but still essentially the same thing in ''[[Ender's Game]]''. The fact that they're a group of military super-geniuses makes them particularly dangerous. Also referred to as a "jeesh" in ''Empire''.
* The core of the titular mercenary band in Glen Cook's ''[[The Black Company]]'' is a [[Band of Brothers]], and it's the only way the survive all of the crazy shit that happens to them.
* ''The Fellowship of the Ring'' from the ''[[Lord of the Rings]]'' ends up like this, especially the four hobbits and the three hunters. In fact, many novels that are based on small long-term groups with fixed rosters that do ''[[Dungeons and Dragons|D&D]]''-style adventuring result in a [[Band of Brothers]] of sorts.
** This shown when, despite Boromir's betrayal, the team goes instantly to rescue him. Also, Boromir fighting past when he should have died, to defend two of their number.
* Roran begins seeing his various groups of fellow soldiers like this in [[Inheritance Cycle (Literature)|Brisingr]], although his most notable relationship is with Carn. Furthermore, Eragon and Saphira have been this since day one, and Eragon's larger [[Band of Brothers]] not only includes Saphira and Roran, but also Arya, Orik, Nasuada, and Katrina. Granted, Roran ''is'' his cousin that may as well be his brother, and Orik ''is'' his foster brother.
* Several of these form during the ''[[Horus Heresy]]'' novels. Most of them are torn into shreds over the course; we ''are'' talking the backstory to [[Warhammer 40000]], after all. The best example is the Mournival, which starts as a [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]] and ends up as [[Blood Brothers|Torgaddon and Loken]] vs. Aximand and Abaddon in a fight to the death.
* The stormtroopers who become the Hand of Judgment in [[Timothy Zahn]]'s ''[[Star Wars (Franchise)/Allegiance|Allegiance]]''. An Imperial Security Bureau officer comes down on one of them for refusing to shoot unarmed civilians and in the process aims a blaster. The trooper's [[Damn You, Muscle Memory!|training kicks in]] and he kills the officer. The trooper's four friends collectively go "[[Oh Crap]]" and very quickly decide to go with him as he leaves, since he'll be executed if he stays and they'll probably be executed too, for associating with him. Although they argue, they stay together even later.
* Lampshaded in the [[Posleen War Series]]: "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. In years to come, men at home now in their beds will think of this day and do you know what they'll say? 'Jesus, I'm glad I wasn't with those poor doomed ACS assholes or right now I'd be dead'. But what the hell, that's why they pay us the big bucks. Board ships."
* In the Starfire novels by David Weber and Steve White, the [[Proud Warrior Race|Orions]] have this as an ideal for their armed forces -- ''farshatok'', which roughly translates as warriors who work together like the fingers of a fist.
* In C.S. Goto's [[Blood Ravens]] trilogy, Gabriel confronts another Blood Raven captain with his friends in the room, because he knows he can trust them to have his back even against the other captain -- that's why they were his friends.
* The entirety of the Mobile Infantry, from [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Starship Troopers (Literaturenovel)|Starship Troopers]]'', fits this trope.
* ''[[Great Alta Saga|The One-Armed Queen]]'': the handful of survivors left from the war
* Ellie Linton and her friends in [[The Tomorrow Series]] are a close [[Band of Brothers]]. {{spoiler|Later on, they even bond with the feral children they've taken in, to the point that Ellie nearly doesn't want to let them be sent to New Zealand---and one of the ferals, Gavin, does stay with them.}}
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* [[Terry Pratchett]] uses this a few times in the Discworld.
** Only a few people are allowed to refer to him as '''Mister''' Vimes, and they have to have fought at his side. On his side, not just near him.
** Likewise, in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Monstrous Regiment|Monstrous Regiment]]'', the half dozen soldiers of the eponymous regiment end up this way after saving the Duchy.
* The ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]''
* The Chaw of Chaws in ''Guardians of Ga'Hoole'-Soren,Ezylryb,Otulissa,Eglantine,Digger,Gylfie,Twilight and Martin. Coryn also fits into it not because he's king but as Soren's nephew.
* The cats chosen to find Midnight in ''[[Warrior Cats (Literature)|Warrior Cats]]'', become united and willing to die for each other like one.
* The 95th Rifles (aka The Chosen Men) and South Essex regiments from the ''[[Sharpe]]'' series by Bernard Cornwell.
** Hell, the entire British and Portuguese Combined Army seems to become this. [[My Friends and Zoidberg|Apart from the Cavalry. Bloody fairies.]]
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== Live Action TV ==
 
* Every version of ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' has this, from the original to the latest incarnations.
** Each member of ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'''s [[Power Trio]] was bound and determined to sacrifice their own life to save the other two if the situation called for it. This was shown spectacularly in ''[[Star Trek III: theThe Search For Spock (Film)|Star Trek III the Search For Spock]]'', where Kirk steals and destroys the ''Enterprise'' and [[The McCoy|McCoy]] risks his own life to return [[The Spock|Spock's]] ''[[Our Souls Are Different|katra]]'' to his body.
** ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation (TV)|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' had a bit of this going on, particularly during the first season, before the characters had worked each other out. Riker was uneasy about their second officer, Picard had to tell people not to let him "make an ass of himself" around children (and shouted Wesley out in the very first episode, thus enraging Wesley's mother with whom Picard ''already'' had an uneasy relationship), Worf disliked ''everyone'' (but [[Word of God|especially Data]]), and Troi and Riker had Uncomfortable Ex's syndrome. But within a matter of episodes (and fairly ridiculous episodes at that) it became obvious that they'd all pretty much die for each other.
* ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV)|Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]'' and ''[[Star Trek: Voyager (TV)|Star Trek Voyager]]'' both feature crews of people who don't even want to be on the same ship/station with each other, but over the courses of each series have wound up going as far as disobeying orders to save one another.
* [[Joss Whedon]] loves this trope:
** The Scoobies in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', with a [[Black Comedy|funny]] shout-out in the 5th season finale:
{{quote| '''Giles''': We few, we happy few...<br />
'''Spike''': We band of buggered. }}
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{{quote| '''Tara's Dad:''' You people have no right to interfere with Tara's affairs. We are her blood kin! Who the hell are you?<br />
'''Buffy:''' [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|We're]] [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|her family.]] }}
** Angel Investigations in ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]''.
{{quote| '''Angel:''' We've been pushed to the edge so many times; done things we were sure could never be forgiven. But we're always there for each other when it counts. We've never let the darkness win. And it's not because of the Powers That Be or the super strength or the magical weapons. It's because we believe in each other, not just as friends or lovers, but as champions. All of us, together.}}
** The crew of Serenity in ''[[Firefly]]'' in particular will do just about anything for each other. Even Simon Tam and Jayne Cobb, who hate each other, have saved the life of the other at least. Not to mention this exchange after Mal and crew save River from being [[Burn the Witch|burned at the stake]] in the [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment that named that trope:
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* Any ''[[Super Sentai]]'' or ''[[Power Rangers]]'' team. (And ''Power Rangers'' [[Reunion Show|Reunion Shows]] make it seem that all teams are like an extended family... again, if you remember that it doesn't necessarily mean you like each other.)
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|Battlestar Galactica]]'': If adult adoption were legal, [[Team Dad|Bill Adama]] would declare his entire crew as his children... though as the series wears on, his fatherly patience is repeatedly tested.
* ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'': The Moya crew sure qualifies. Certainly it's a very screwed-up [[Band of Brothers]], but it's still a [[Band of Brothers]]. Pilot and Moya in particular are the first to feel this way, but as the series goes on, they get closer and closer until eventually their one rule is "look out for the family, at all costs."
* The ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' crew captures the [[Band of Brothers]] spirit perfectly with their "We don't leave our people behind" refrain.
** Which was a catch-phrase at the SGC earlier (see the episode Abyss for a perfect example of how far this can be taken and understood). The members of the team become each other's best friends, confidants, and essentially nothing will cause more angst than when one is in trouble, wounded, or presumed dead. ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' epitomizes the [[Band of Brothers]] trope. Major Carter even says to one of the other characters, "We were a team. No one can even begin to understand what that really means." And calls Daniel's death{{spoiler|(presumed)/ascension}} one of the worst things she's ever been through. And, let's face it, she's been through a lot.
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** And, as many episodes including season finales have shown, you do ''not'' [[Berserk Button|mess with Michael's family or his friends.]]
{{quote| Michael: "[[Beware the Nice Ones|Fiona is not my past!]]"}}
* ''[[The A-Team (TV)|The A-Team]]''. From the almost father-and-son-like relationship between Hannibal and Face to [[Vitriolic Best Buds]] B. A. and Murdock, to Face and Murdock's [[Odd Friendship]] (really, how can a suave con man and a crazy pilot be best friends? Just ask Face and Murdock), you can tell they're more like a family than just a team of ex-military acquaintances. For instance, in the Season 2 finale, when Murdock gets shot in the chest during a job in the middle of nowhere, they pull out all the stops and even face possible capture by the military in order to save him. They even include the "we can insult each other, but when outsiders do it we close ranks" bit.
* "[[Band of Brothers]]". They even named the mini-series after the trope naming quote. Fittingly this series EPITOMISES a band of brothers. Winters, Nixon, Spiers, Bull, Lipton, Malarkey, Luz, Martin, Liebgott and many many more. And from what we see, the actors also lived up to this trope during the boot camp prior to filming, and still get together once a year for reunions.
* The ''[[Leverage]]'' crew has elements of this. Note how protective everyone gets when Parker is in trouble, or how they all get together to save Nate even when they've officially split up.
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== Newspaper Comics ==
 
* [[Flash Gordon (Comiccomic Stripstrip)|Flash Gordon]], Dale Arden, Hans Zarkov, Thun, Barin, Aura, and Vultan.
* Terry and the Pirates' Terry Lee, Pat Ryan and Connie.
 
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== Theater ==
 
* The [[Rousing Speech|full version]] of [[Shakespeare]]'s ''Henry V'' page quote reads as follows: ''This story shall the good man teach his son; and Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, from this day to the ending of the world, but we in it shall be remembered. We few, we happy few, we [[Band of Brothers|band of brothers]]... [[Fire-Forged Friends|for he to-day that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother]]; be he ne'er so vile, this day shall gentle his condition. [[Straw Civilian|And gentlemen in England now-a-bed]] shall think themselves ''accurs'd'' they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whilst any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day!'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAvmLDkAgAM Branagh’s delivery in his film version is a particularly well-remembered rendition.]
* One of the reasons that the plot of ''Othello'' works is that Iago is part of Othello's band of brothers, and thus it is assumed that he is playing the role.
 
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* [[Modern Warfare|Modern Warfare 2]] has this by the end, between Soap, Price and Nikolai. It's implied that Roach and Ghost were well on the way towards being a part of it, but their deaths cemented it for the first three.
* About half the missions in ''[[Mass Effect]] 2'' have the purpose of taking the "[[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits|Dirty Dozen]]" and turning them [[Misfit Mobilization Moment|into this]]. The final outcome of the game is determined in large part on how well [[An Adventurer Is You|Commander Shepard]] succeeds.
* The mercenaries of ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' are [[Heroic Sociopath|Heroic Sociopaths]] at best, but that doesn't stop them from working together like a well-oiled machine of death who are quick to genuinely thank and complement each other for a job well done.
** Meta-game wise, playing several rounds together can also transform a group of players who don't know each other (and aren't [[Griefer|Griefers]]) into a (temporary) Band of Brothers.
** Furthermore, the game encourages players to assist one another by various methods:
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* In MMORPGs a guild of players can easily approach a version of this. Although you will never actually meet them in real life, you become emotionally attached to those people and are willing to go out of your way to help them in-game and even outside the game. When one of them leaves the guild, it feels like a betrayal.
* In [[Baten Kaitos|Baten Kaitos: Origins]], this features heavily in a literal and figurative sense. Every time one of the monsters is defeated, Sagi gets a faint-inducing headache, and wakes up in a different world. {{spoiler|in this world, he is a sibling of the five people who group together and become Malpercio, the [[Big Bad]] of the sequal.}}
* Illustrated in ''[[Left 4 Dead 2 (Video Game)|Left 4 Dead 2]]''. When the game starts out, Four strangers have gathered on the roof of a savannah hotel just as the last evac copter flies off. Five levels later, they are bound by blood, bile, and a few other unrecognizable fluids.
** Also in the Sacrifice Comic, when it looks like our heroes are done for, Louis announces "I love you guys". Then {{spoiler|Bill}} Runs off to restart the generator and shouts, "Take care of each other, you guys are the only family I've got left!" {{spoiler|Bill's dying lines in the video game have a similar effect.}}
 
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* The Foxhound unit from the ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' fancomic ''[[The Last Days of Foxhound]]'' is a highly dysfunctional covert ops group that, in the earlier parts of the comic, all more or less hated each other. (Particularly with members Psycho Mantis and Revolver Ocelot, who do everything from exchanging put-downs to fighting deathmatches, and in one case Mantis only avoids being poisoned by Ocelot by sheer luck.) Of course, later on the group (well, aside from Mantis and Ocelot) does seem to be getting closer to each other to the point that the entire group risks causing, (or at least not preventing) an international incident just to save Sniper Wolf.
** And when Liquid discusses the idea with the ghost of the Sorrow, the latter mentions how the Cobra unit were closer than family, with them all considering the Boss to be a mother figure, in spite of her being the youngest of them. This leaves Liquid slightly [[Squick|squicked out]] as he notes the fact that the Sorrow and the Boss were lovers.
* In ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]'', the rest of the team saves Belkar from being killed by Miko, even though they hate him. Yes, they hate Belkar, but they hate Miko more, and Belkar's still a member of their team. They also keep him in the group to lessen the amount of damage he can do.
** The exact words Vaarsuvius said when [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0285.html saving Belkar from Miko] were, "Belkar is a horrible, loathsome, supremely selfish creature who behaves contemptibly, laughs at the pain of others, has no manners whatsoever, and whose mental acuity would be compared unfavorably to that of a table. And yet I find I still prefer him to you."
*** This works as a [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] for both Miko '''and''' Belkar at once.
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== Western Animation ==
 
* The titular Able Squad in ''[[Exo Squad (Animation)|Exo Squad]]'' is basically a [[Band of Brothers]], especially for characters like Nara Burns, who was orphaned by the war.
* Martian Manhunter feels this way about his fellow [[Justice League (Animationanimation)|Justice League]] members.
* Raven, the loner, is the first to call the ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'' her family. Five teenaged orphans living together is justified. Robin and Starfire complicate this somewhat, however, showing romantic feeling for each through all five seasons and ultimately becoming a couple in ''[[Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo]]''.
* The main crew of ''[[Transformers Animated (Animation)|Transformers Animated]]'' (plus Sari) is like this. Optimus even refers to it as "this family" in season 3.
* Arcee refers to her team as family in the first episode of ''[[Transformers Prime (Animation)|Transformers Prime]]''.
* The titular heroes from ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers (Animation)|Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers]]''. Mess with one, mess with them all. The [[Big Bad]] was [[Genre Savvy]] enough to try and work that in her favor.
 
== Real Life ==
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* To several Pre-Columbian Native American cultures, being a ''blood brother'' to another man meant being his brother not in the sense of family, but rather being the one man above all others that could be counted on to be there when the going got rough.
* During the Battle of the Nile, Admiral Nelson explicitly referred to his sea captains as a [[Band of Brothers]], and when once asked what he meant by the phrase, he explained that they were a brotherhood forged together in seamanship and blood.
* Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (pictured above), as described in the book and [[Miniseries]] ''[[Band of Brothers (TV series)|Band of Brothers]]'', is one of the better known examples.
** Private Kurt Gabel, 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment, quoted in the book ''[[Band of Brothers (TV series)|Band of Brothers]]''...
{{quote| ''The three of us became an entity. There were many such entities in our close-knit organization. Groups of threes and fours, usually from the same squads or sections, core elements within the families that were the small units, were readily recognized as entities. Often three such entities would make up a squad, with incredible results in combat. They would literally insist on going hungry for one another, freezing for one another, dying for one another.''}}
* "[[No One Gets Left Behind|We don't leave our wounded/our buddies/Marines/etc. behind!]]" is a principle of various real-life military cultures -- and of course their representations in fiction.
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