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Characters don't exist in a vacuum; they interact with each other, sometimes in tropish ways.Ensembles are some of the more common group dynamics you'll find.

CompareExtraversion Tropes. ContrastSolitary Tropes. See also:The Index Team.

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• Alliance of the Alienated
• All-Star Cast
• Amazon Brigade
• Badass Army
• Badass Crew
• Balanced Harem
• Band of Brothers: A group of loyal, close friends who are just that because of experiencing dangerous situations together.
• Bash Brothers
• Battle Harem
• Beast and Beauty
• Big Bad Duumvirate: Two villains who work together and are both responsible for the work's conflict.
• Big Bad Ensemble: Two or more villains who cause conflict together but have independent goals from one another.
• Big, Screwed-Up Family
• Big, Thin, Short Trio: A group of three people where one is huge, one is skinny and one is short.
• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: A group of three people: one with blonde hair, one with brown hair, and one with reddish hair.
• A Boy, a Girl, and a Baby Family: A set of siblings comprising a brother and sister who are close together in age and a third sibling who is much younger than the other two.
• Breakfast Club
• Cadre of Foreign Bodyguards
• Cain and Abel and Seth
• Caper Crew
• Carnival of Killers
• Cast Calculus
• Cast Full of Crazy
• Cast Full of Gay: Most of the ensemble is LGBTQ+ in some way.
• Cast Full of Pretty Boys: Most of the ensemble is male and beautiful.
• Cast Full of Rich People: Most of the ensemble is wealthy.
• Cast Herd
• Cast of Personifications
• Catch-Phrase Spouting Duo
• A Cat in a Gang of Dogs
• Chorus Girls
• The Chosen Many
• Chromatic Arrangement
• The Church
• The Clan
• Classical Elements Ensemble: Fire, water, air, and earth are the themes of this group's members.
• Combining Mecha
• Commedia dell'Arte: A set of stock characters from old Italian comedy theater.
• Comic Trio
• Command Roster
• Cosmopolitan Council
• Counterpart Combat Coordination
• Coupled Couples
• Creature-Hunter Organization
• Creepy Family: A family that happens to consist of monsters or very strange and sinister people.
• Criminal Found Family
• Divided into Disaster
• The Dividual: A group who act as a unit and show little to no signs of individuality.
• Dysfunctional Family
• Eccentric Townsfolk
• Elite Army
• Elite Four: A group of four powerful people.
• Ensemble Cast
• Equippable Ally
• Fake Band
• Family of Choice
• The Family That Slays Together
• Female Rockers Play Bass: A band where the bassist is the only girl.
• Five-Man Band
• Five-Man Band Concert: WhenThe Team decides to form a music band to show unity.
• Five-Token Band: A group of five characters where each one is part of a different demographic.
• Four-Girl Ensemble
• Four-Man Band
• Four-Philosophy Ensemble
• Four-Temperament Ensemble
• Freudian Trio
• Garage Band
• Gang of Bullies
• Gang of Hats
• Gender-Equal Ensemble: The number of males and females in this team are equal.
• Geodesic Cast
• Girl Posse
• Gossipy Hens
• Grouped for Your Convenience
• Hacker Collective
• The Hecate Sisters
• Historical Domain Crossover
• The Hollywood Formula
• Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Four skeletal beings who usher in the apocalypse: War, Famine, Pestilence/Conquest, and Death.
• Identically Named Group: A group of characters who all share the same name.
• Joined Your Party
• Leader Forms the Head: The leader of a team that pilots aMecha controls the head.
• Legacy Team
• Limited Social Circle
• Little Guy, Big Buddy
• Love Dodecahedron
• Lovely Angels
• The Magnificent Seven Samurai
• Maid Corps
• Male Band, Female Singer: A band where the only female member is the singer.
• Masculine, Feminine, Androgyne Trio: A trio of characters: one masculine, one feminine, and one androgynous.
• Multinational Team
• Mistress and Servant Boy
• Monster and the Maiden
• Muggle in Mage Custody: A non-magical person is raised by magical people.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: One group member is nice, another is mean, and a third is a bit of both.
• Noble Male, Roguish Male
• Nobody Loves the Bassist: In a band, the bass player tends to be the least popular.
• Nuclear Family
• The Omniscient Council of Vagueness
• The Order
• Paid Harem
• Parent-Child Team
• Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Exactly what it sounds like, a male associated with the color blue who is often seen with a female associated with the color pink.
• Platonic Life-Partners
• Player Party
• Posse
• Power Stable
• Praetorian Guard
• The Psycho Rangers: A villain team consisting of evil versions of the hero team's individual members.
• Quirky Household
• Quirky Miniboss Squad
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: A conflicting group of societal outcasts who have little in common with each other.
• Rock Trio
• Rotating Protagonist
• Science Foils
• Sealed Army in a Can
• Sealed Cast in a Multipack
• Secret Project Refugee Family
• Siblings in Crime
• Sibling Team
• Similar Squad
• Specifically Numbered Group
• The Squad
• Standard Evil Empire Hierarchy
• Standard Royal Court
• Super Family Team: A superhero team that's also a family.
• Super Team
• Supernatural Team
• Swap Fighter
• Switching P.O.V.: A work changes its point of view between multiple characters.
• Sworn Brothers
• Tangled Family Tree
• The Team
• Terrible Trio
• Thematic Rogues Gallery
• Themed Harem
• Three Plus Two
• The Three Faces of Adam
• The Three Faces of Eve: Three female archetypes: the maiden, the mother, and the crone.
• True Companions
• Universal-Adaptor Cast
• Villain Team-Up
• With a Friend and a Stranger

Alternative Title(s):Team Tropes,Ensemble Tropes