Character-Magnetic Team: Difference between revisions

** ''[[Angel]]'' does that, too, to a smaller extent. At the beginning of the first season, there were three main characters with no real minor or reoccurring characters yet. By the end of the fifth, there were eight (if you count Fred and Illyria separately), as well as two dead main characters, two or three non-main characters working with the team (depending on when you count it), Conner, and more minor reoccurring characters like Knox, Nina, Anne, Conner's "parents", and a few other random Wolfram and Hart employees. The cast never got as big as Buffy's, though.

** Both shows are notable in that they need to keep picking up new team members because old ones have a nasty habit of [[Killed Off for Real|dying]], [[Put on a Bus|being put out of commission]] or running away to the spinoff.

** And if you've worked in a hospital, you know that's [[Truth in Television]].

* ''[[The OC]]'' has this thing going on where nearly every new character, even when they start out as antagonists, gets assimilated into the Cohen clan sooner or later.

== [[Video Games]] ==

 

** Heroes in ''[[Saga Frontier]]'' can just about always run into somebody willing to join them for little reason than their own boredom. But really, being that the multiverse has a population of about 100, it's a nice thought that an actual statistically significant number of people are willing to get off their duffs and help save the world. Not quite the usual "5 plucky youths vs. the world while everyone else is busy [[Dying Like Animals]]".

** In ''[[Fire Emblem]]'', if there's a named character on the field, good odds point to that character either joining you or being the boss of the level. In ''Path of Radiance'', many characters decide to join your army for the flimsiest of reasons regardless of any protestations from your characters.