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* In ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'', the Nekomi Institute of Technology Motor Club consists of Tamiya and Otaki, until Keiichi shows up. These two skirt the edges of the [[Heterosexual Life Partners]] trope, until one of them starts going after the daughter of the university president.
▲== Anime & Manga ==
▲* In ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'', the Nekomi Institute of Technology Motor Club consists of Tamiya and Otaki, until Keiichi shows up. These two skirt the edges of the [[Heterosexual Life Partners]] trope, until one of them starts going after the daughter of the university president.
* In ''[[Ai Yori Aoshi]]'', the Meiritsu University's photography club is Suzuki and Sato, until Kaoru gets shanghaied just prior to the start of the show.
* In ''[[Hikaru no Go]]'', Tsutsui tries to create a go club at Haze Middle School. He's the only member until Hikaru shows up and manages to convince Mitani and all the gang to sign up.
* In ''[[The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'', the literature club has only one member, Yuki, who gets absorbed into Haruhi's SOS Brigade, which itself was composed of two members. Haruhi quickly recruits two more people to make the core of the show. On the other hand, the SOS Brigade is never officially recognized. {{spoiler|But the literature club is later threatened with disbandment since it's still only Yuki.}}
* The Student Council in ''[[Medaka Box]]'' starts off with just two members, although more have been added over time.
* In ''[[Rosario
* In ''[[Nightwalker]]'', the film club appears to consist of just Shunichi, Riho, and Mikako.
* The club in ''[[K-On!]]'' starts out with NO members, since all the previous members graduated. Ritsu joins to be president of a club, so she drags in Mio, Mugi wanders by after a day, and Yui manages to show up at the end the first episode, fulfilling the membership quota to save the club.
* ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'' has Nagisa trying to restart the Drama Club by herself until Tomoya joins up. From there [[Power of Friendship|everyone Tomoya comes in contact with joins pretty readily]].
* In ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'', the football team at the start of the story consists of only two players- they're able to play games only because Hiruma blackmails random students into joining the team when necessary. One of the central parts of the story is Hiruma discovering Sena's exceptional talent as a running back, forcing him to join the team permanently, and then exploiting his reputation in such a way that he can find other worthy permanent players. Even then, it takes a long, long time for them to finally assemble a permanent full team.
** This is one of the reasons the series is so fond of [[Who Needs Overtime]]; since they have ''just'' enough guys to field a team, virtually all of their full-timers play on offense, defense, ''and'' special teams - meaning that the team would simply be too exhausted to play competently should a game get to overtime.
* ''[[Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple]]'' has the Gardening Club, the only members of which are Kenichi, and a girl from his class.
* The Astronomy Club in ''[[Sora no Manimani]]'' was nearly disbanded before Saku joined, but with Hime eventually joining and Edogawa hanging around enough that he may as well be a member, it was saved. Mihoshi pretty much forced Saku into it, though.
* In the anime version of ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'', Fuyuki's occult club has only two members, and that's ''after'' Momoka joins.
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* ''[[Nichijou]]'' has the infamous Go-Soccer club, with just two members that are stuck doing nothing since the club 'president' made up the [[Word Salad Title]] for the club. Amazingly, this draws ''actual Go-Soccer practitioners'' down the line.
* The Fashion Club in ''[[Heartcatch Precure]]'' only had one member when the series started - founder Erika. She nearly manhandles [[New Transfer Student]] Tsubomi into joining, but calms down enough so that Tsubomi joins on her own and later convinces others to join by giving them discounts to her mother's clothing store Fairy Drop. By episode 7, Erika nearly loses the club because [[Student Council President]] Itsuki left school early and Erika and Tsubomi couldn't give her the list of club members. They're able to chase her down and save the club, though.
* In ''[[GA Geijutsuka Art Design Class]]'', this is what happened to the Art Club. Due to {{spoiler|a mishap when the [[Cloudcuckoolander]] president promoted the club the previous year}}, the club now only has three members. [[Downplayed]] in that while the club was eventually saved by merging with Campus Environment Club, the other club only have ''one''
* The titular club in ''[[Genshiken]]'' has a few members at the start, but arguably qualifies for this trope by dint of their sheer laziness (as the story makes clear later).
* The Biking Club in ''[[Bakuon!!]]'' appears to have only one member as of the start of the series, [[The Faceless|Raimu]]. {{spoiler|In reality, it doesn't even have ''that many'' -- the club was actually disbanded twenty years before, and Raimu's just been hanging out in the unused club room since then.}}
== [[Film]] ==▼
▲== Film ==
* [[Monty Python]]'s ''[[Life of Brian]]'' features a terrorist group that has split into [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_qHP7VaZE several very small and confusingly similarly named groups].
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== [[Literature]] ==
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* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': Buffy
▲* [[Harry Potter|The Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare]], of course.
** Also played for laughs in ''Buffy'': Xander and Willow were president and treasurer of the "We Hate Cordelia Club" in junior high. They were also
▲* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': Buffy & Giles were a club of two until they were joined by Xander and Willow. FWIW Xander and Willow were a club of three with Xander's best friend Jesse, who was killed off in the pilot.
▲** Also played for laughs in ''Buffy'': Xander and Willow were president and treasurer of the "We Hate Cordelia Club" in junior high. They were also it's ''only'' members (not even [[Forgotten Fallen Friend|Jessee]] was in it).
* The "I Hate Rachel Greene Club" from ''[[Friends]]'' consisted solely of Brad Pitt and Ross.
* The pilot of ''[[Glee]]'' begins with the titular club being a Club of Two before the adult hero steps in to get it turned around.
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* There was an episode of ''[[Flight of the Conchords]]'' where Jemaine and Brett were mugged by a two-man gang.
** Also, the Conchords' fan club has one (obsessed) member.
* The "End Hunger Now" club (at first with just one member) in [[
* The "Get Rid Of Slimy girlS" ([[Fun with Acronyms|GROSS]]) club in ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', which involves only the titular characters. So one of its two members may or may not be ''imaginary''. In the commentary for the 10th anniversary book, Bill Waterson notes that he and a childhood friend used to form these in real life all the time.▼
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* ''[[Persona 3
▲* The Get Rid Of Slimy girlS ([[Fun with Acronyms|GROSS]]) club in ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', which involves only the titular characters. So one of its two members may or may not be ''imaginary''. In the commentary for the 10th anniversary book, Bill Waterson notes that he and a childhood friend used to form these in real life all the time.
* In the "Real Life, Real Heart" stage of ''[[Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan]] 2'', the protagonist Yuri discovers that the famous choir club at her new high school has dwindled down to only the president, Kaoruko, who promptly begs her to help get new members and help them win a singing contest before the club gets shut down.▼
▲* [[Persona 3|Gekkoukan High]]'s Home Economics (read: sewing) club appears to be made up of only the Player Character and Bebe. Likewise, the Cooking Club is made up of only Player Character and Fuuka.
▲* In the "Real Life, Real Heart" stage of ''[[Osu Tatakae Ouendan]] 2'', the protagonist Yuri discovers that the famous choir club at her new high school has dwindled down to only the president, Kaoruko, who promptly begs her to help get new members and help them win a singing contest before the club gets shut down.
* ''[[Mana Khemia]]'': It's difficult to notice, since he gains two members at once, but the only one aside from Flay is a lone beastgirl. {{spoiler|Unless you want to count a certain ghost, Pamela...}} His club is about to be disbanded before they show up.
* Maribel and Renko, characters appearing in ''[[Touhou]]'' [[All There in the Manual|supplementary works]], are the only members of a university club for necromancers. And neither of them is a necromancer.
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* In ''[[Cherry Tree High Comedy Club]]'', protagonist Miley and her roommate Harriet (who [[Press-Ganged|joined "unofficially"]]) are the only two members of the eponymous club. Miley's goal is to find at least three more members before the end of April to make the club official.
== [[Visual Novels]] ==▼
▲== Visual Novels ==
* In the ''[[X-Change]]'' H-Games, the chemistry club only ever consists of two or three people depending on the game.
* In ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'', during Shizune's route Hisao discovers that "Shizune and Misha are the student council. The ''whole'' student council."
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* In ''[[Tsukihime]]'', Ciel is the president and sole member of the Tea Ceremony Club.
== [[Web Animation]] ==▼
* ''[[Homestar Runner]]'': Homestar and Strong Sad are the only members of the [
* Given that [[Red vs. Blue]] [[Person of Mass Destruction|Freelancers]] are named after US States (except for [[Noodle Incident|poor Florida]]) it's surprising that there are only about a dozen Agents, all told.▼
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* The titular club from The Anime Club segments of ''[http://gunshowcomic.com/181 Gun Show]'' consists of only four members. Justified in that they're actually a splinter group from the school's much larger Japanese Animation Club and aren't actually an officially recognized by the school.▼
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In the ''[[Arthur (animation)|Arthur]]'' episode, "My Club Rules" six start out in the Parade Float Club, but due to Wacky Hijinks everyone ends up in a club of one. They reband at the end showing the [[Power of Friendship]].
** Another ''Arthur'' episode: "Do You Speak Geroge?" Muffy & Francine make up their own language, Buster & Arthur make up their own language, etc. Finally they decide it's too confusing and all go back to English (or whatever the show is dubbed into in international markets).
* In ''[[Camp Lazlo]]'', Edward forms an anti-Lazlo club, and tells Lazlo that he belongs in "the Nothing Club". So Lazlo goes and forms the Nothing Club, and little by little all the others start joining him, while Edward's club dwindles down to just himself, since he's [[Grumpy Bear|the only one who actually hates Lazlo.]]
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* In a [[Made for TV Movie]] about the origin of the [[wikipedia:Guardian Angels|Guardian Angels]] I saw many many years ago they started as a club of two, who were joined by a couple of other people who had a club of two of their own doing basically the same thing. The "other club" which wanted to join with the proto-Guardians called themselves the "Magnificent 13" to make people think there were more people in the group than there were. (Details may be hazy, like I said it's been many many years.)
▲== Web Animation ==
* Often school clubs based on once popular activities and fads will fade out as older members graduate and incoming freshmen don't want to join. So even though in the past the club might have had dozens of members it is now just a
▲* ''[[Homestar Runner]]'': Homestar and Strong Sad are the only members of the [http://www.homestarrunner.com/79secondsleft.html Wet Knee Gumption Club]
▲* Given that [[Red vs. Blue]] [[Person of Mass Destruction|Freelancers]] are named after US States (except for [[Noodle Incident|poor Florida]]) it's surprising that there are only about a dozen Agents, all told.
▲== Web Comics ==
▲* The titular club from The Anime Club segments of [http://gunshowcomic.com/181 Gun Show] consists of only four members. Justified in that they're actually a splinter group from the school's much larger Japanese Animation Club and aren't actually an officially recognized by the school.
▲== Real Life ==
▲* In a [[Made for TV Movie]] about the origin of the [[wikipedia:Guardian Angels|Guardian Angels]] I saw many many years ago they started as a club of two, who were joined by a couple of other people who had a club of two of their own doing basically the same thing. The "other club" which wanted to join with the proto-Guardians called themselves the "Magnificent 13" to make people think there were more people in the group than there were. (Details may be hazy, like I said it's been many many years.)
▲* Often school clubs based on once popular activities and fads will fade out as older members graduate and incoming freshmen don't want to join. So even though in the past the club might have had dozens of members it is now just a [[Club Stub]] populated by a couple die-hards
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