How to Gather Characters: Difference between revisions

 

* '''[[Avengers Assemble]]:''' The lead has a mission, and purposely goes about assembling a team to get it done.

* '''Daring Rescue:''' The hero gets [[The Call]] when a [[Pursued Protagonist]] and/or [[Distressed Damsel]] crashes into their life and asks for help. This method tends to combine well with the others listed here, with the [[Pursued Protagonist]] crashing into a classroom, or [[The Hero]] using [[Avengers Assemble]] to gather a rescue party.

** Seen in: ''[[Star Wars]]: A New Hope'' and ''Sorcerer's Kingdom''.

* '''[[Debut Queue]]:''' Each character is met and run into separately and consecutively in the [[Magnetic Hero|Magnetic]] [[The Hero's Journey|Hero's Journey]]. Sometimes each new character brings more into the fray because it's a [[Character-Magnetic Team]], leading to a [[Cast of Snowflakes]]. Sometimes it happens because [[Defeat Means Friendship]] as the hero is just that sympathetic.

* '''[[Everyone Went to School Together]]:''' The characters are all classmates, part of the same military unit, or [[Everyone Is Related|are a family]] and knew each other well before the events of the story. So when one of them gets [[The Call]], they all choose to make it a conference call. However, it's not uncommon for them all to share the same fate/destiny and get the call simultaneously, something an older character may have wanted to ensure by putting the future protagonists together for this purpose... when it isn't [[You ALL Share My Story|some vague force of fate doing it]], that is.

** Seen in: ''[[Harry Potter]]'', ''[[Naruto]]'', ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' {{spoiler|[[Laser-Guided Amnesia|sort of]]}}.

** Seen in: ''[[Cube]]'', ''[[The Usual Suspects]]'', ''[[Lost]]''.

* '''[[Welcome Episode]]:''' Sometimes the team has already been assembled by one or more of the above factors apart from one or more characters who are taken under their wing and who will probably play a crucial role in the story.

 

Contrast [[You ALL Share My Story]] which actually avoids this for the most part, you'll rarely see more than two POV characters meet per episode until the finale, when they tend to congregate en masse.