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{{trope}}
{{quote|''Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea, comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are in evil.''
|'''Gandalf the White''', ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''}}
A [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]] is pulled together on emergency to [[The Quest|accomplish some grand goal]]. [[We Do the Impossible|They succeed.]] And then realize that they are not exactly held together by much anymore, and the team falls apart, with each member now free to pursue their personal endeavors.
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If this happens during the [[Time Skip]] between two installments of a series, it can become rather uncomfortable for the fans, who must suddenly start seeing [[The Protagonist]]'s former siblings-in-arms, to whom they've become attached, as semi-strangers again. In [[Real Life]], groups of people grow close to each other and part ways again all the time, but this is always a gradual, continuous process, while in fiction, it is often fast-forwarded to save narrative space, coming across as abrupt and forcing the fandom to adjust on the fly.
If the team falls apart because the single member who held them together is gone, it's [[We Were Your Team]] instead. If the sequel rolls along, this may be followed by [[Putting the Band Back Together]] (to which this is a counter-trope of sorts). Compare [[Let's Split Up, Gang!]] and [[Breaking the Fellowship]], which are temporary split-ups, either on purpose or because of external circumstances.
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== Anime
* Riot Force 6 in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
* While not really a specific team or organization, this is how the cast of [[
** Heck, they don't even seem to write or call, as no one knew Goku and ChiChi had a 4 year old son until the beginning of the Saiyan Saga.
* [[Samurai Champloo]] ends with Fuu, Mugen, and Jin going their separate ways.
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* At the end of ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' most of the characters leave Tokyo to go on with their lives. Misao and Aoshi return to Kyoto. Sanosuke {{spoiler|is forced to flee from Japan and become [[The Drifter]].}} Megumi leaves to search for her family and only characters remaining are Kenshin, Kaoru and Yahiko.
* A example that [[Mind Screw|seems strange in its simplicity]] is [[Daitarn 3]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htbueyleh38 In the final chapter], After [[The Hero]] Banjō defeats the enemy on Mars, the next scene is at his Mansion: [[Action Girl]] Reika Sanjo and [[Tagalong Kid]] Toppo say goodbye to [[Battle Butler]] Garrison and [[Spoiled Sweet]] Beautiful "Beauty" Tachibana, who takes her limo to her parent’s mansion. Garrison closes the mansion and takes the bus to an unknown destiny. There is only a light in one solitary window at Banjo’s mansion. [[The End]].
* Years passed between [[
== Literature ==
* The [[Trope Namer]], of course, is ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. While physically separated for much of the actual story, the Fellowship breaks apart after the Ring is destroyed and the members go about the rest of their lives. Aragorn rules Gondor as King Elessar with Arwen as his wife, Faramir and Eowyn get hitched in Rohan, Legolas and Gimli go [[Walking the Earth]], the four Hobbits return to and take back the Shire from Saruman and Grima Wormtongue, and then Frodo and Bilbo leave with Gandalf, Gimli and the Elves for the Undying Lands.
* After the whole Queen-and-Buckingham incident in ''[[The Three Musketeers (
* In the ''[[Dark Tower]]'' series, after {{spoiler|Eddie's death}}, the ka-tet, and the closeness inherent in it is broken. The remaining members of the group still pursue their quest, but it's not the same.
* [[Stephen King]]: after the seven children have successfully defeated ''It'' for the first time, all seven of them never meet
* The end of ''[[The Belgariad]]''. Some of the team got back together for the ''Malloreon'', and did it again at the end of that series.
* The [[
== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Band of Brothers]]'' ends with a narration of how the surviving soldiers went home and led separate lives. A few stayed in touch but most only met up again at reunions.
** Done visually in Spiritual Successor ''[[The Pacific]]'', as Sledgehammer's friends all depart the train to Mobile at various stops along the way. Most heartbreaking is Snafu, when you later learn that he didn't speak to any of his war buddies for nearly forty years.
* The Freaks of ''[[Freaks and Geeks]]'' have all joined a new group by the end of the series. Lindsay and Kim are following the Grateful Dead, Daniel has joined the Geeks, and Nick has started dancing disco, leaving only Ken.
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** The most you get is making Alistair king and staying in Denerim, where Wynne remains as an advisor and Leliana has business with the Grand Cleric.
** Happens again after ''[[Dragon Age II]]''. Varric tells Cassandra that Hawke's party drifted apart for various reasons, again with the exception of the love interest. It's vaguely implied that the fact this happened to both protagonists (neither of whom have been seen since) is not a coincidence.
* Ditto with any (surviving) party members from the first [[Knights of the Old Republic]]. T3-M4 stayed with the ship, HK-47 is found in pieces, Canderous fools absolutely no one who played the first game {{spoiler|even though he's under a helmet and has taken the name/title of Mandalore}}, Carth is an Admiral patrolling the Telos sector if you say Revan was light-sided. Bastila is {{spoiler|hiding with Carth}} if you say Revan was light-side male, {{spoiler|has vanished into the unknown in search of Revan}} if you say Revan was dark-sided (either gender), or conspicuously absent. The fates of Mission, Zaalbar, Jolee, and Juhani is "unknown" {{spoiler|mostly because a Dark-sided Revan would have to kill them}}. Kreia's final speech to the player character also states this will be the case for the second game's crew.
** Provided you trained them in the ways of the Force, the Exile's companions {{spoiler|become the Jedi masters that rebuild the order.}}
* The end of [[Vandal Hearts]] combines this with a [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]]. After you defeat the [[Big Bad]], each character moves on to something new, whether it's more adventuring the land, rebuilding the nation or collecting stamps.
* Happens in several endings of ''[[
* Seems to happen somewhere between ''[[Shadow Hearts]]'' and ''Shadow Hearts: Covenant''.
* ''[[Grandia II]]'' ends with a [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]] to drive the point home. Roan {{spoiler|now rules Cyrum Kingdom}} and occasionally goes out to travel [[King Incognito|incognito]]. {{spoiler|Tio}} works as a nurse, also in Cyrum. {{spoiler|Millenia, [[Literal Split Personality|now separate from Elena]],}} is a grade school teacher in Lilique City (where Tongue of Valmar used to be) and [[I Will Wait for You|faithfully waits for Ryudo's return]]. [[Non
* At the end of [[
** Similarly, midway through [[
** Most Tales game usually ends with the party members going their own way after finishing the journey, though most of the time they still keep in touch somehow. [[
* The epilogue of ''[[Legend of Dragoon]]'' has this with only two of the final party members sticking together. Obviously justified in that most of them had non-quest-related business to get back to, including running two countries and rebuilding the [[Doomed Hometown]].
* Happens at the end of every [[Fire Emblem]] game, usually shown in the form of a [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]], but the ones in the eight and ninth games stand out, as every character personally says what they intend to do now before venturing off.
* Happens in the beginning of ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', with an appropriate justification: The Normandy is curb-stomped by the Collectors and Shepard is killed in action. And then again between ''2'' and ''3'', while Shepard is being held planetside because of the events of the ''Arrival'' DLC mission.
== Webcomics ==
* The Order of the Scribble from ''[[The Order of the Stick
* [[
== Real Life ==
* World War II. The allies were united against a common [[Obviously Evil]] villain, the Nazis. When the Nazis were defeated, each of them pursued their own interests and sometimes turned on each other during the [[Cold War]]. Shows that sometimes a [[Big Bad|great evil]] is necessary to make the good guys act good.
** They never really broke apart, though; instead they went from [[The Alliance]] to [[The Federation]] (the United Nations). Which did little to stop them from plotting against and threatening each other with [[Bigger Stick
** It was as much a case of [[Enemy Mine]] as anything else.
** The battle lines shifted rather significantly between World War I and World War II as well.
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