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{{quote|"''Hold your fire!... Daniel... Do you think you could find a language that could tell these people we're human like they are... and that we're friendly?''"|'''Jack O'Neil''', ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' }}

A typical [[Five-Man Band]] has [[The Lancer]] contrasting [[The Hero]] and [[The Big Guy]] contrasting [[The Smart Guy]] but the fifth role is more variable. This person is the [[The Face]] of the team and they are the one you want doing the talking. This is the super trope for the characters that could fit in that role.

A typical [[Five-Man Band]] has [[The Lancer]] contrasting [[The Hero]] and [[The Big Guy]] contrasting [[The Smart Guy]] but the fifth role is more variable. This person is the '''The Face''' of the team and they are the one you want doing the talking. This is the super trope for the characters that could fit in that role.

The Fifth Member will be substantially different from the other four members of the [[Five-Man Band]] to create a contrast with all of them. Like a pear in group of apples, they stand out because the other four contrast each other. They will also have better social skills than the rest to play off all four and provide themselves with a speciality of their own.

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== [[Anime and Manga]] ==

* ''[[Baccano!]]'': Luck does most of the talking and business for the Gandor family. His friendship with Firo is also the reason the Gandors have a good relationship with the Martillo Family. His brothers are either too quiet or too aggressive for such a responsibility.

* ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'': Tomoyo interacts with everyone and contrasts them with her [[Muggle~~|Muggleness~~]]. She's also emotional support for Sakura, and Syaoran too after he calms down.

* ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'': Tomoyo interacts with everyone and contrasts them with her [[Muggle]]ness. She's also emotional support for Sakura, and Syaoran too after he calms down.

* [[Code Geass]]: Kaguya invokes the trope in her bid for Zero's hand in marriage. "You'll need a public face, right?"

* ''[[Crest of the Stars]]'' deconstructs this trope with how Jinto feels about being forced into this role. Because he seems to get along with everyone (perhaps because he wasn't born into Abh society like everyone else) he has to act as a go-between both inside the Basroil's crew and with other soldiers. This means shouldering everyone's emotional baggage and translating for the one receiving the message.

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* ''[[Discworld/Going Postal|Going Postal]]'': Moist for the Post Office staff. It's what Vetinari hired him for. Stanley's considered weird ''[[Even Nerds Have Standards|even by other pin collectors]]'', and Groat is... rather eccentric. Moist, however, [[Boxed Crook|is a con man]], so he knows how to sell an idea.

* Dolores Umbridge exploited this trope in [[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix|Harry Potter]] She doesn't want Hogwarts students trained in offensive magic so she fills the Defense Against the Dark Arts class with lessons like 'negiotation' and 'non-retaliation' on the premise that these skills are just as important for future Auror teams as curses and counter-curses.

** Note that while this might not sound like a bad idea, the fact that she is imposing these restrictions while a wizarding civil war is brewing in the background (plus the fact that she is personally a [[Complete Monster]] for various reasons,) make it clear that, in this case, being [[The Face]] is less useful than knowing how to defend yourself from homicidal lunatics.

** Note that while this might not sound like a bad idea, the fact that she is imposing these restrictions while a wizarding civil war is brewing in the background (plus the fact that she is personally a [[Complete Monster]] for various reasons,) make it clear that, in this case, being The Face is less useful than knowing how to defend yourself from homicidal lunatics.

* ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]'': Haruhi herself. She's always out to promote the SOS Brigade and Kyon notes that she 'knows how to get answers' peacefully from the apartment keeper during the investigation of Asakura's disappearance. Though in practice the trope is inverted as she steams-rolls people with either blackmail or [[Genki Girl|her personality]]... if she's not outright ignoring them.

** Asakura herself is a very nice and helpful [[Class Representative]] when she's not, you know, {{spoiler|being a [[Knife Nut]]}}.

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* ''[[Transformers]]'':

** ''[[Beast Wars|Transformers Beast Wars]]'': Optimus contrasts Dinobot and Rhinox contrasts Ratrap. Cheetor is neither strong nor smart nor a leader but something like a [[Tagalong Kid]] variety.

*** [[Knight in Shining Armor|Silverbolt]] is another example. He stands out in the group by being a wolf/eagle chimera and he's even social with his enemies. One of them even [[Heel Face Turn~~|Heel Face Turned~~]] because of his social chivalry.

*** [[Knight in Shining Armor|Silverbolt]] is another example. He stands out in the group by being a wolf/eagle chimera and he's even social with his enemies. One of them even [[Heel Face Turn]]ed because of his social chivalry.

** [[The Transformers (animation)|The original Transformers]] had Bumblebee who is the youngest of the Autobots and gets along with humans the best.

*** The same goes for Bumblebee's incarnation in [[Transformers Prime]].