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Okay, you know [[Cast Calculus|how many characters you want in your cast]], [[Cast Speciation|what roles they'll play]], and even [[Colour-Coded for Your Convenience|picked out a color scheme for each]]! But how do you gather them into a cast? Here's a few ways writers use to bring together their diverse cast:
* '''[[Avengers Assemble]]:''' The lead has a mission, and purposely goes about assembling a team to get it done.
** Seen in: ''[[Ocean's Eleven]]'' and ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''.
* '''Daring Rescue:''' The hero gets [[The Call]] when a [[Pursued Protagonist]] and/or [[Damsel in Distress]] 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]] [[
** Seen in: ''[[Krull]]'', ''[[Seven Samurai]]'', ''[[Dragon Ball]]''.
* '''[[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.
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