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.
Compare Extraversion Tropes. Contrast Solitary 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: When The 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 a Mecha 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
