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{{quote|''"[[Title Drop|Dude! We're getting the band back together!]]"''|'''Phineas Flynn''', ''[[Phineas and Ferb (Animation)|Phineas and Ferb]]''}}
 
This nifty little scenario is common in sequels, especially after a [[Time Skip]], but it also happens at the beginning, which basically just means that the original 'Band' existed prior to the beginning.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Happens in the 1990s ''[[Spider -Man]]'' series (and probably a number of other Marvel series) with the Six Forgotten Warriors who team up again years later.
* This is the main plot of the first ''[[Umbrella Academy]]'' volume, Apocalypse Suite, a comic book series written by Gerard Way and drawn by Gabriel Bá.
* Captain Metropolis tried to do this in a flashback in ''[[Watchmen]]'' only for it to fall completely flat.
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* The movie ''[[Once Upon a Texas Train]]'' has it happen twice: once with a band of train robbers and once with a group of retired Texas Rangers recruited to stop them.
* [[Clint Eastwood]]'s ''[[Space Cowboys]]'' -- because they are the only astronauts who know COBOL.
* Terry Gilliam's ''[[The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Film)|The Adventures of Baron Munchausen]]''.
* An odd subversion of the trope appears in Quentin Tarantino's [[Kill Bill]] (parts 1 and 2), which sees Uma Thurman's character visiting each member of her once-lethal team of assassins in their new lives and attempting to kill them all rather than reuniting them.
* That other little Dan Aykroyd film ''[[Ghostbusters]] 2''.
* ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Film)|Star Trek the Motion Picture]]''. Kirk had to do some string pulling to get Spock and McCoy back.
** ''[[Star Trek VI: theThe Undiscovered Country (Film)|Star Trek VI the Undiscovered Country]]'' was slated to feature a similar sequence, with everyone either preparing to retire or move on to other jobs, but they scrapped it and just had a bit of dialogue before the briefing starts.
* For the audience, though not the characters, ''[[Star Trek (Filmfilm)|Star Trek]]'', the 2009 movie, is essentially this trope as well.
* In ''~I'm Gonna Git You Sucka~'', John Slade reassembles the team of black heroes who once took down Mr. Big.
* The first ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' movie had the group disband at the beginning, and then rejoining for another mystery.
** Also done with the animated movie "[[Scooby Doo Onon Zombie Island]]."
* ''[[The Mighty Ducks (Filmfilm)|The Mighty Ducks]]'' sequels. What was [[Egregious]] about this is that each film also resets them to total incompetence so they can be retrained. Never mind that they won [[The Big Game]] in each previous film.
* ''[[Armageddon]]'' arranges for this. NASA wants Bruce Willis's character to help their team; he'll only go if he can take all his own band of oil drillers. They have split up across the country -- that's what they do when they're on leave. Government force is gently used to put them back together.
* The Robert Rodriguez film ''[[Desperado]]''. El Mariachi is reuniting his former bandmates, and tells them to bring their guitars, [[Chew Bubblegum|but not to play music.]]
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* Basically the premise of ''[[The Country Bears]]''.
* [[Morgan Freeman]] actually says the line in the film version of ''[[RED]]''.
* The 2011 film ''[[The Muppets (Filmfilm)|The Muppets]]''.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
* Happened in [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[IT]]''.
* ''[[TwentyThe YearsThree AfterMusketeers (Literaturenovel)|Twenty Years After]]'', the sequel to ''[[The Three Musketeers (Literaturenovel)|The Three Musketeers]]'', is both an example and a subversion. Cardinal Mazarin asks d'Artagnan to find his three old friends, who have left the service long ago, and convince them to join back and help the Cardinal against his enemies. But only Porthos [[Jumped At the Call]]; Athos and Aramis excuse themselves... {{spoiler|and we find out several chapters later that the reason is that they are already involved with the other side.}}
* Happened in the ''[[Discworld]]'' book ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]''. It was '''played straight'''. In a ''[[Discworld]]'' book. Anyway, what happens is that the world is about to end, and so Death tries to round up the other three members of the Four [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse]]. They all refuse, but later come just in time anyway and decide to {{spoiler|start kicking Auditor butt instead of heralding the end of the world. This includes the fifth horseman, Kaos, who also joins just in the nick of time.}}
** Can it really be played straight when the band is The Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
** The concept of [[Fan Nickname|Pterry]] playing something straight is [[Nightmare Fuel|scary]], but we've got to accept that sometimes, weird things do happen.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In Season 9 of ''[[Stargate SG-1 (TV)|Stargate SG-1]]'', Cameron makes multiple mentions of 'getting the band back together'.
** And when Colonel Carter returns in episode 6, she asks, "but who's the new backup singer?" about Vala.
* ''The Return of [[The Man Fromfrom UNCLEU.N.C.L.E.]]: The Fifteen Years Later Affair''
* The 2002 revival of ''[[Auf Wiedersehen Pet]]'' begins with the surviving members of the old gang (last seen in 1986) getting together for another member's wake. {{spoiler|It turns out that he's not really dead, but arranged his wake as a stunt specifically to reassemble the old team. They soon learn that another of the old gang has died -- not surprisingly, since the actor who played him had died in 1986.}}
* The second season of ''[[Phoenix Nights]]'' begins this way.
* A season premiere of ''[[Bones (TV)|Bones]]'' happens this way, with Brennan, Booth, and the Squint Squad reuniting to help Cam with what was thought to be one case (which turned out to be two). And by the way, [[It Makes Sense in Context|CAM is really the lynchpin personality.]]
* [[Sharpe]]'s Waterloo begins with Sharpe, Harper, Harris and Hagman, the last of the Chosen Men, coming back together from France, Ireland and wherever the other two have been to see Napoleon defeated once and for all.
* ''[[NCIS (TV)|NCIS]]'': Vance disbands the entire team in a season finale, but [[Status Quo Is God]], and naturally they put the band back together in the season premiere.
* Lt. Daniels spends most of Season 2 of ''[[The Wire]]'' putting the Barksdale detail from Season 1 back together as the new Sobotka detail, which he hopes to eventually turn into a permanent Major Case Unit.
* The whole point of the [[Disney XD]] show ''[[I'm in The Band]]''.
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== Music ==
* [[Truth in Television]]: All the many, many literal bands who have reformed "for ''one last tour'' (seriously, this is it, we promise)!"
** Of particular note is [[Aerosmith (Music)|Aerosmith]], who formed in the early 70s and broke up in the 80s largely due to rampant drug use and personality conflicts. After they all went to rehab, the original lineup got back together, have been cranking out album after multi-platinum album ever since, and are still going strong as of 2009.
** [[Eagles]] broke up over internal conflicts, but reunited and have been going strong ever since. As Glenn Frey put it:
{{quote| "We never broke up, we just took a fourteen year vacation."}}
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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* [[WCW]]: After Kevin Nash lost a "[[Ten -Minute Retirement|Loser Retires from Wrestling]]" match Nash & Scott Hall were spotted in the audience one ''Nitro''. When asked by the Roving Reporter what's going on since retirement Nash said "We're putting the band back together." Nobody could figure out what he meant by that until a few weeks later when the new [[New World Order|nWo]] debuted.
** For those unfamiliar with wrestling, Hall and Nash were longtime best friends and had worked together in WWE as Razor Ramon (Hall) and Diesel (Nash).
* Hall and Nash like this trope. They've reformed the Outsiders in [[TNA]] a couple times, and as of 2010, have formed "The Band" with fellow Kliq member Sean "X-Pac" Waltman.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* An interesting videogame example comes from ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'', where your party gets split up upon entering the World of Ruin, and you (as former second banana Celes) have to put the party back together. Since it's a game, you don't ''have'' to -- but it's expected. Includes a classic case of the former leader, Terra, having retired from fighting and being unwilling to rejoin.
* ''[[Star Fox (Video Gameseries)|Star Fox]] Command'' is a video game example. Various events have led to Fox being all alone by the beginning of the game. Although he's really hesitant to do it at first (going as far to hire his rival Wolf instead in one branch), there's at least one branch of the storyline where Fox gets together the entire original Star Fox team.
* In ''[[Persona 3]]: FES'', two months after {{spoiler|the Main Character has sealed away [[Cosmic Horror|Nyx]]}}, the ex-SEES members get back together for one last dinner in the dorm before it closes down. While they're there, they get trapped inside the dorm by a mysterious force and [[Groundhog Day Loop|have to relive the same day over and over again]]. They then discover a stairway leading to a new [[The Heartless|Shadow]]-infested dungeon beneath the dining room table...
* ''[[Super Robot Wars]] W'' features this in the second half of the game, and some members hqave been building up for it, too.
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* ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'' has one of these after the [[Time Skip]] that followed the [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle|Not Quite]] [[Very Definitely Final Dungeon]] .
* Another video game example in ''[[Baten Kaitos]]: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean'', right after [[Disc One Final Boss|Geldoblame]] is revealed to have been manipulated by {{spoiler|Melodia, Fadroh, and Kalas}}, the entire party ends up separated and scattered across the five floating islands, and Xelha has to rescue the other {{spoiler|four}} members before you can travel to Wazn to get the next [[Plot Coupon]].
* Subverted in ''[[Mass Effect 2 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 2]]'': after [[The Man|the Illusive Man]] offers [[Player Character|Commander Shepard]] a list of candidates for his/her new crew, you can tell him to shove it because you already have a [[Badass Crew]] from the first game. However, it turns out none of them are available anymore (Kaidan/Ashley are on a top-secret mission for the Alliance, Garrus slipped off the radar, Tali is leading an expedition for the Flotilla, Wrex reigns on Tuchanka, and Liara is on a crusade against the Shadow Broker). Doubly subverted, however, when ''some'' of your old crew do come back, namely, {{spoiler|Joker, Dr. Chakwas, Garrus, Tali, and ([[Guest Star Party Member|temporarily]]) Liara}}.
** Kaidan / Ashley and Liara return as full party members in ''[[Mass Effect 3 (Video Game)|ME3]]'', as do Garrus and Tali provided they survived the [[Suicide Mission]] (Wrex is still busy leading the krogan). You can also pull in a few Normandy [[NP Cs]] from both of the previous games.
* Taken rather literally in the Co-op Story Mode of ''[[Guitar Hero]] III: Legends of Rock''. Halfway into it, your band splits up (well, the singer and drummer at least), and then they meet again three months later and rejoin. The subsequent song block is even titled "Getting the Band Back Together".
* ''[[Star Trek Elite Force]] II'' starts with the ''Voyager'' coming home triumphantly... and your Hazard Team being disbanded by an asshole bureaucrat with [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]] who thinks that all's well in [[The Federation|Federation]] space. Some time later, Munro, your [[Player Character]], is teaching combat tactics to cadets at the Academy, when Picard comes along and, after telling to bureaucrat to shove off, asks you to rebuild the Hazard Team, this time on the ''Enterprise''-E. All but one former team members come back (plus two new ones), and the one remaining is later found by pure coincidence.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* The [[Red vs. Blue]] Recollections trilogy begins with us being told that most of the old characters had been relocated after the end of season five and so Washington has to re-recruit some of the team members. Although, throughout all three movies, we've never had the entire team restored. {{spoiler|Some characters have also been apparently [[Killed Off for Real]], but we've yet to see if it sticks. Other characters like Church and Sheila seem to have been replaced with copies like Epsilon and F.I.L.S.S.}}
* In [[TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life (Webweb Videovideo)|TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life]], Eric and Dash reunite the [[Five-Man Band]] in order to rescue James.
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* An episode of ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' is entitled "Dude, We're Getting the Band Back Together!", in which the Flynn children try to reassemble the band "Love Händel" (a parody of [[The Eighties|80's music]]) in time for their parents' anniversary. Interestingly, one of the songs from this episode got nominated for a freaking ''[[The Emmys|Emmy]]'' for best original song.
* [[Metalocalypse]] plays this straight, when Pickles decides to put back together his old ''[[Glam Rock]]'' band, Snakes N' Barrels.
* The ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'' episode "How Long Is Forever?" had Starfire disappearing until Twenty Years Into The Future. When attempting to find her friends, we discover that Cyborg's main power ran out, and so he's trapped in the tower; Beast Boy was sold to the circus (and went bald); Raven was put into an asylum; and Robin became Nightwing.
** And yet, she still manages to put the band back together... definitely an example, although an extreme one where ''everybody'' [[Changed My Mind, Kid|initially refuses and yet shows up in the nick of time to help]].
* [[Wolverine]] begins to do this in the first episode of ''[[Wolverine and Thethe X -Men]]'' to varying degrees of success.
* Used in ''[[Extreme Ghostbusters (Animation)|Extreme Ghostbusters]]'' when Egon's teammates from the disbanded [[The Real Ghostbusters|Real Ghostbusters]] appeared in a few episodes.
* An episode of ''[[King of the Hill]]'' (Bwah My Nose) had this when Hank and the gang demanded a rematch by playing flag football against the team who beat them in a high school state championchip who are now taunting them. Hank called up every teammate to participate in the rematch.
* The season finale of [[Scooby -Doo! Mystery Incorporated]] has the gang disbanded--Fred to look for his real parents, Daphne to wallow in misery with her family, Velma to ponder what she's done (not coming forward about Angel Dynamite's real identity), Shaggy off to military school and Scooby Doo being sent to a farm. Part of season two's focus will be on Scooby's promise at the conclusion of the season one finale, to get the gang back together and track down Professor Pericles, who has two pieces of the Planispheric Disc.
 
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