All The Tropes

How to Gather Characters: Difference between revisions

Page Discussion

How to Gather Characters (view source)

Revision as of 15:20, 9 January 2014

1 byte added ,  10 years ago
m
Mass update links
VisualWikitext
(Import from TV Tropes TVT:Main.HowToGatherCharacters 2012-07-01, editor history TVTH:Main.HowToGatherCharacters, CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported license)
 
m (Mass update links)
Line 1:
{{trope}}
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.
Line 6:
* '''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 HerosHero'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.
** Seen in: ''[[Krull]]'', ''[[Seven Samurai]]'', ''[[Dragonball]]''.
* '''[[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]]}}.
* '''Geographical Convenience:''' All the cast meets in a single location, be it an [[You All Meet in An Inn|inn]], [[You All Meet in A Cell|prison cell]] or a [[Closed Circle|deserted island]], having never seen or met each other before. Normally, they may never have chosen or considered working together, but are forced to by circumstance.
** Seen in: ''[[Cube]]'', ''[[The Usual Suspects]]'', ''[[Lost]]''.
Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/527170"