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The [[Six-Student Clique]] is often a subtrope of this.

 

 

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== [[Board Games]] ==

 

== [[Comics]] ==

== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[Cloverfield]]'' - Three boys (Rob, Jason and Hud) and three girls (Beth, Lily and Marlena).

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* ''[[The Berenstain Bears]]'' - For the longest time, The Bear family consisted of Papa Bear, Mama Bear, Brother Bear and Sister Bear. This balance was undone with the introduction of Honey Bear in 2000.

* ''[[Chronicles of Narnia]]''

** ''[[Prince Caspian]]'' has the same two boys and two girls, although that one also has Caspian as the protagonist of the B plot, so it blurs the line.

** ''[[The Horse and His Boy]]'' has one male human and one female human and one male horse and one female horse.

** ''The Adventurous Four''- Two boys (Tom and Andy) and twin sisters (Jill and Mary)

** ''Six Cousin Series'' - Three boys (Jack, Cyril and Roderick) and three girls (Jane, Susan and Melisande)

* ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' - To a certain degree, this series follows this by having a trio of males and a trio of females as the main characters, though it is rare that all six are in the same place at once or even directly communicating with each other.

** This is debatable, however, as there is no clear-cut delineation between "main" and supporting characters in the series, and the ensemble is forever changing.

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* ''[[Friends]]'' has three boys (Ross, Chandler and Joey) and three girls (Monica, Rachel and Phoebe).

** [[Happy Endings]]: Three boys (Dave, Max, Brad), Three girls (Jane, Alex, Penny), makes sense as it's a [[Spiritual Successor]] to the show.

* ''[[The Beverly Hillbillies]]'' - The titular family has two males (Jed and Jethro) and two females (Granny and Elly). Additional regular characters include two males (Milburn and Sonny Drysdale) and two females (Margaret Drysdale and Jane Hathaway).

* ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'' - Not counting the housekeeper, the titular family consists of one father with three boys and one mother with three daughters.

** Though it gets unbalanced if you count Lurch in.

* ''[[The Nanny]]'' - The Sheffield household has three males (Maxwell and Brighton Sheffield, Niles the butler) and three females (Fran Fine, Maggie and Gracie Sheffield).

* ''[[Coupling]]'' - Three boys (Steve, Patrick and Jeff) and three girls (Sally, Susan and Jane). This was enough to get it described constantly as the [[Trans Atlantic Equivalent]] of ''[[Friends]]'', when it wasn't much like it at all.

* A number of [[Edutainment]] shows enforce this.

* Though the group's composition is constantly in flux (often as a plot point), the titular Glee club of [[Glee]] spends most of it's time in an even 6/6 split between the boys and girls for season 1, and hovers around that number for most of season 2 as well.

** If you count just the main trio of characters due to their age then they fail the trope ''until'' Gibby becomes a full time cast member in the later seasons.

** If you also count Mrs. Benson because she was the only other major character on the show from the start, then it means women outnumber the men until Gibby comes along to make the main cast 3 guys and 3 women.

 

== [[Theater]] ==

** ...doesn't stop there, either. [[Persona 2]]: Innocent Sin has Tatsuya, Eikichi, and Jun, then Maya, Lisa, and Yukino.

* ''[[Final Fantasy]]'':

* ''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins'' has four female Companions (Morrigan, Leliana, Wynne, and {{spoiler|Shale}}) and four male (Alistair {{spoiler|who is optionally replaced by Teyrn Loghain}}, Sten, Zevran, and Oghren). And a (male) [[Non-Human Sidekick|dog]]. However, you don't have to recruit ''all'' of them and depending on whether you view [[AFGNCAAP|the Warden]] as a ensemble member, the balance can be tipped to either side.

** ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' follows the suit with four females (Bethany, Aveline, Merrill, Isabela) and four males (Carver, Varric, Anders, Fenris). However, Bethany and Carver are [[Mutually Exclusive Party Members]] and the [[DLC]]-only male Companion Sebastian can either restore the gender parity or skew it even further. The same [[AFGNCAAP]] disclaimer applies about the [[Player Character]].

** In the second, if the player character is light sided on Nar Shaddaa (and thus gets Mira instead of Hanharr), the party again has four males (Atton, Bao-Dur, Mandalore, and Disciple or [[Player Character|the Exile]]) and four females (Kreia, Mira, Visas, and Handmaiden or [[Player Character|the Exile]]).

* Both ''[[Baten Kaitos]]'' games. The first has 3 males and 3 females, while the 2nd has 1 male, 1 female and 1 Guillo ( a [[Hermaphrodite]] [[Perverse Puppet]] [[Golem]] that uses [[Voice of the Legion]], giving "it" both a male and female voice actor).

* In ''[[Magna Carta 2]]'', Juto/Crocell/Argo are your male party members, whilst Zephie/Rue/Celestine are your females.

* ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'' has Yuri/Raven/Karol as the males and Estelle/Judith/Rita as the females. And a [[Team Pet|male dog.]]

== [[Web Comic]] ==

* ''[[Homestuck]]'' - Eight boys (John, Dave, Karkat, Tavros, Sollux, Gamzee, Equius and Eridan) and eight girls (Rose, Jade, Terezi, Vriska, Kanaya, Aradia, Feferi and Nepeta). This even applies to large portions of the ensemble cast: the human session's exiles consist of two male Dersites (WV and AR) and two female Prospitians (PM and WQ), {{spoiler|although the White King - a male Prospitian - briefly joined them, unbalancing the gender ratio. For about ten seconds before Jack Noir chopped his head off.}} The guardians fit if you treat Nanna as John's guardian instead of Dad Egbert.

* The main four characters in ''[[Our Little Adventure]].''

 

* ''[[Scooby Doo]]'': Two boys (Fred and Shaggy), two girls (Daphne and Velma) and one dog (Scooby Doo).

* '' [[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' started off with Katara being [[The Smurfette Principle|the only girl]] for two boys (Aang and Sokka),but then Toph joined the team

* ''[[Bubble Guppies]]'', barring the [[Cool Teacher|teacher]] and the [[Team Pet|dog]], has three guys (Gil, Goby, and Nonny) and three girls (Molly, Deema, and Oona)

* ''[[Young Justice]]'' ends season one with four guys and four girls, thanks to adding several [[Affirmative Action Girl|Affirmative Action Girls]] since its all-male premiere.