The Psycho Rangers: Difference between revisions

* The Linear Guild in ''[[Order of the Stick]]'', were [[Invoked Trope|deliberately chosen]] by their leader to be this. This gets to the point that he's unwilling to face the Order of the Stick without a full team of evil counterparts, because he's invested so much time and effort into cultivating that identity of them as a team.

* Sven's Gang in ''[[Cwen's Quest]]'' appear to be this having a counter part to each of Cwen's friends and allies. Overlaps with [[Evil Counterpart]] a bit, although Cwen's [[Revenge Before Reason|isn't exactly a hero]].

** There are two other examples that follow the trope a bit more closely, as well. First there's the Dark Warriors, with the technically-a-villain-but-actually-really-nice Garland (as opposed to [[Heroic Sociopath]] Black Mage), the haughty dark efl Drizz'l (as opposed to haughty regular elf Thief), incalculably stupid pirate Bikke (as opposed to incaculably stupid Fighter), and LARP fan Vilbert (as opposed to pen & paper rollplaying enthusiast Red Mage).

** Finally, there are the Other Warriors, made up of the shady and unethical Rogue (Thief), the rule-bending Ranger (Red Mage), the normally friendly but incredibly vicious Berserker (Fighter), and Cleric (Black Mage). Cleric doesn't fit quite as well as the others until you notice that he deliberately plays the Gods themselves against each other to increase his own power.

* Almost every subgroup has a counterpart team on the opposite side in ''[[Transformers]]''. The Triggerbots and Triggercons, the Protectobots and the Combaticons, the Aerialbots and the Stunticons, etc.

** The G1 origins of the Aerialbots and Stunticons are an inversion, with the former created by the heroes to counteract the latter.

*** What's ironic about this is that the Stunticons themselves are a type of Psycho Rangers for the Autobots as a whole. They were created by Megatron because he wanted a unit of car-based warriors to counteract the Autobots, the vast majority of whom had car-based alternate forms.

** Due to a shortage of Autobot combiners, however, the Constructicons and Predacons never had exact opposites. The Dinobots and/or Omega Supreme were the arch-enemies of the former, and Sky Lynx was the enemy of the latter. (Despite being small compared to Predaking, Sky Lynx has defeated them more often than not. Because he's that good. [[Insufferable Genius|And knows it.]])