Four-Temperament Ensemble/Playing With

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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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