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== Associated Character Tropes ==
* [[Big Brother Mentor]] / [[Team Mom]] / [[Team Dad]] / [[Cool Big Sis]]
* [[The Medic]]—Generally either [[The Chick]] or [[The Smart Guy]], or a combination of the two; more likely to be [[The Smart Guy]] the further up the [[Mohs Scale of Sci Fi Hardness]] you go.
* [[Mentors]]—The wise advisory type who comes and goes. Potentially organizes the team, trains them to be an effective group, and/or has a personal connection with the [[Big Bad]]. They [[Mentor Occupational Hazard|might be killed]] to give the group someone to rally around.
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Contrast with the [[Five-Bad Band]]. [[The Psycho Rangers]] are the collective [[Evil Counterpart]] of a given Five-Man Band.
Compare the [[Command Roster]], for military-esque teams.
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== Associated Tropes ==
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* [[Five-Token Band]] — When everyone is a different ethnicity.
* [[Transformation Sequence]] (or [[Lock and Load Montage]], if they don't have actual powers that allow for transformations)
* [[Transformation Trinket]]s (morphers, bracelets, senshi wands...)
* [[Token Evil Teammate]]
* [[Token Minority]]''/''[[Token White]]
This can sometimes literally be a musical group. Characters can also be divided by personality instead of function: See [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]].
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== Notable five-person bands ==
The subpages list examples of teams that fit '''at least four''' of the character tropes. Remember that they form a team dynamic; it's always tempting to match two of the characters in a show, then try to convince yourself and others that the other characters can be squeezed/wedged/stuffed into the description of the other character types, but that's not the point of the Five-Man Band trope. The individual character types exist outside of the band. '''The Five-Man Band only occurs when the team as a whole fits, not just a few characters.'''
As a rule of thumb, if your band example has to justify more than two types, or a single trope with more than two sentences of qualifiers, you're trying to pull a fast one. If it isn't a Five-Man Band, it isn't a Five-Man Band.
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