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If you were looking for the 2001 HBO TV series click here. A Band of Brothers (who are usually, but not Always Male) is a group of people, dedicated and loyal to each other beyond all other considerations, due to the dangerous (often combat-related) circumstances they have faced together. The spilling of their blood, mixed together with a desperate life-or-death struggle, make them a family as close as any, though most Bands of Brothers will not actually be blood-related. Beyond mere comradeship, being a Band of Brothers evokes an ideal of grim determination to face whatever comes together, and to see it through together. It is in this shared struggle that they become a Band of Brothers. Members of the Band of Brothers know that they can depend upon each other. Their relationship is often deeper than mere friendship. After one helps another in danger, gratitude is often dismissed with Think Nothing of It because "You would have done it for me." A similar concept is esprit de corps. The individual members of the group might not even actually like each other all that much, and may spend a lot of their time deriding and insulting each other... but those activities are strictly kept within the borders of the brotherhood. An outsider who insults a single member of the group will find himself opposed by all members of the group, including several who had but recently been tossing insults themselves. A Band Of Brothers is often formed after a Misfit Mobilization Moment. They are equally often a Badass Crew. See also The Power of Friendship, Sworn Brothers, A Friend in Need, Fire-Forged Friends. Sometimes explains why the Mildly Military organization manages to remain efficient despite its apparent lack of regard for discipline and normal military procedure. See True Companions for the wider, non-militaristic concept. |
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Terry and the Pirates' Terry Lee, Pat Ryan and Connie. | |
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One of the reasons that the plot of Othello works is that Iago is part of Othello's band of brothers, and thus it is assumed that he is playing the role. | |
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The Survivors of Blind Man's Bluff are this. They'll never, ever leave anyone behind and they will fight to the death to save each other. If there's one thing you know, it's that they're going to weather through the zombie apocalypse together. | |
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Ellie Linton and her friends in The Tomorrow Series are a close Band Of Brothers. Later on, they even bond with the feral children they've taken in, to the point that Ellie nearly doesn't want to let them be sent to New Zealand — and one of the ferals, Gavin, does stay with them. | |
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In Forum of Thrones, John's small group of sellswords is exceptionally close to each other. Bonus points for some of them being actually related to each other. | |
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The titular All Guardsmen Party view themselves as this. The various redshirts they're assigned to... not so much. | |
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The three Gun-swordsmen in Brigadoon: Marin and Melan are supposed to function like this, though differences of opinion get in the way. (They're based on the Three Musketeers.)''. | |
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The various teams of X-Men display this trope at times. Fantastic Four would qualify as well, if three of its four charter members weren't already directly related by blood or marriage. | |
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The main characters in Sluggy Freelance. Even after all the craziness and dysfunction in their lives, they still care about each other and will be there for each other. | |
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Farron's Undead Legion of the Abyss Watchers in Dark Souls III started out like this. They were founded by Knight Artorias himself to guard against the horrors of the Abyss, and they all use a replica of his sword in remembrance of the fallen Knight. When they were called upon to Link the First Flame and prolong the Age of Fire, they didn't just send one of their number down to do so; they went down into the Kiln as one and all burned together. Unfortunately, their time spent as fuel for the First Flame drove some of them mad, and by the events of the game these once proud warriors are busy tearing each other to pieces. | |
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Angel Investigations in Angel. | |
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More than any other Justice League lineup, the Justice League International is always portrayed as the one place this ragtag group of B-listers ever truly belonged. | |
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Team Coulson on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | |
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Another group of Titans who were closer to each other than they were to their own families were the "Core Four" of Young Justice, who joined the Titans after their previous team disbanded: Robin (Tim), Impulse (Bart), Superboy (Kon) and Wonder Girl (Cassie). | |
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Martian Manhunter feels this way about his fellow Justice League members. | |
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Team Gurren in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is La Résistance brought together by fate. | |
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The Flash: The Rogues Gallery seem to have this thing going for them, especially when Geoff Johns is writing them. They're still terrible people, and will do terrible things if you turn your back on them, but when Captain Cold leads, "There's nothing more important than family (except maybe revenge)." | |
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Tarkin's Fist: The Clones consider one another to be brothers and act as an extended family to one another. Sergeant SF-4738 forms a mentorship with Lieutenant Mahan that is akin to a father and son. The other members of 3rd platoon remain dedicated to ensuring that as many of them get through the war alive as possible. The Army Rangers Justin Mallory works with are incredibly close, regularly joking and chatting amiably when not in the thick of combat. |
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As noted in the Anime section, Roy Mustang's unit fits the trope, as shown in the Elemental Chess Trilogy. Jean Havoc even invokes the trope by name, thinking of how the unit is still "a band of brothers (and one sister, of course)" and he'd willingly die for any one of them. | |
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Modern Warfare 2 has this by the end, between Soap, Price, and Nikolai. It's implied that Roach and Ghost were well on the way toward being a part of it, but their deaths cemented it for the first three. | |
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Graveheart from Shadow Raiders gives a rousing speech before the assembled forces of The Alliance before their battle against planet Remora, the Beast Planets envoy, including the iconic 'Band of Brothers' line from Henry V. | |
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The 104th Trainee Corps in Attack on Titan just after the Battle of Trost. Most of them even follow Eren into the Survey Corps against their own wishes. Though three of their companions (Bertolt, Reiner, and Annie) happened to be the enemy while Ymir defected to their side to protect Krista, the remaining members became part of Levi's new squad. | |
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In the Starfire novels by David Weber and Steve White, the Orions have this as an ideal for their armed forces — farshatok, which roughly translates as warriors who work together like the fingers of a fist. | |
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Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, though there are more. | |
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The main cast of The 100 become this as they fight for survival on the ground. Made explicit in the episode "Nevermore" when Monty tells Octavia, "We're your people. We were sent down together. We survive together." | |
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Anti-social and people-hating Sasha Hunter grows to appreciate the bond she shares with her teammates in Greek Ninja, and it becomes obvious she would give her life for any one of them, even though she couldn't stand them to start with. | |
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The main cast of Cowboy Bebop becomes this, but only very late in the series. It's their becoming a proper Band Of Brothers, rather than just a group of people sharing a ship, that makes the ending as poignant and difficult as it is. | |
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Team Kimba of the Whateley Universe, who have had each other's backs since the first team story "Quoth the Ninja Nevermore". | |
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Moriarty the Patriot: William and his subordinates are very close due to their shared goal and have deep bonds of affection seen throughout the series. But that doesn't mean they don't bicker constantly, about chores or about the methods to achieve their goals. | |
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The Horde in World of Warcraft is an example. It's been described as a closely knit family, and an alliance of convenience, and they have had their share of betrayals and mistrust, but the different races of the Horde always have each other's backs and have never denied each other aid when they truly needed it. | |
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The Burns Gang of The Proposition are a perfect example of an evil version of this trope. Arthur considers all of them to be brothers, including the ones who aren't his genetic brothers, one of whom is even of a different race. He truly loves them all and has not a single cruel word for any of them. When told that his youngest (genetic) brother has found a girl and wants out, he is completely supportive. And if you're not his brother, you're liable to get shot, knifed, kicked to death, robbed, or possibly raped. | |
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Xena: Warrior Princess: Xena and Gabrielle, often including Eve and Joxer. | |
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Possibly the definitive Band Of Brothers in western literature is Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and D'Artagnan from The Three Musketeers. | |
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Science Ninja Team Gatchaman. One of the original Five Man Bands, the Science Ninja Team may fight, argue, and generally crawl all over each other's nerves, but when push comes to shove they'll go through hell for one another. Arguably the origin of the Super Sentai version of the trope. | |
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Flash Gordon, Dale Arden, Hans Zarkov, Thun, Barin, Aura, and Vultan. | |
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The Clone Troopers in Star Wars: The Clone Wars often refer to each other as Brothers, and more than one has been willing to die to try and protect their family. This is especially noticeable with the members of Domino Squad. | |
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Justy Tylor from Irresponsible Captain Tylor sees the crew of the Soyokaze as this. ("You're like everyone else on the Soyokaze is to me...You're my crew... and you're all important to me.") Some of the Marines might beg to differ, though. Even so, they will face against the entire UPSF to save him. Twice. | |
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Green Lantern: Overall, members of the Green Lantern Corps are very loyal to one another — and after everything they've been through together, the first four Earth Lanterns (Hal, John, Guy, and Kyle) are particularly close. The brotherhood between them is the emotional heart of Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps. | |
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The Order of the Stick: The rest of the team saves Belkar from being killed by Miko, even though they hate him. Yes, they hate Belkar, but they hate Miko more, and Belkar's still a member of their team. They also keep him in the group to lessen the amount of damage he can do. The exact words Vaarsuvius says when saving Belkar from Miko are, "Belkar is a horrible, loathsome, supremely selfish creature who behaves contemptibly, laughs at the pain of others, has no manners whatsoever, and whose mental acuity would be compared unfavorably to that of a table. And yet I find I still prefer him to you." This works as a "The Reason You Suck" Speech for both Miko and Belkar at once. Belkar hates his companions as much as they hate him. But does he even slow down when it comes to killing lots of people in order to save Haley from execution? Of course not... However, Belkar is a Heroic Comedic Sociopath, so part of it might be that he just likes killing people. When Elan gets captured, they all go to rescue him, even though his stupidity has gotten them in trouble often. Roy at first refuses to but then realizes how horrible it would be to abandon Elan. It's later mentioned that if he hadn't changed his mind, he would have gone straight from Lawful Good to True Neutral. Note that this decision wasn't so much based around the concept of a Band Of Brothers, but Roy realizing that Elan is an innocent and the kind of person he should be trying to protect, even if he is annoying. |
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Guerrillas in Hussar Ballad; it's implied that nearly every platoon in the army is like that. | |
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Stargate-verse: The Stargate Atlantis crew captures the Band of Brothers spirit perfectly with their "We don't leave our people behind" refrain. Which was a catchphrase at the SGC earlier (see the episode "Abyss" for a perfect example of how far this can be taken and understood). The members of the team become each other's best friends, confidants, and essentially nothing will cause more angst than when one is in trouble, wounded, or presumed dead. Stargate SG-1 epitomizes the Band of Brothers trope. Major Carter even says to one of the other characters, "We were a team. No one can even begin to understand what that really means." And calls Daniel's death(presumed)/ascension one of the worst things she's ever been through. And, let's face it, she's been through a lot. |
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The Last Days of Foxhound: The Foxhound unit from this Metal Gear Solid fancomic is a highly dysfunctional covert ops group that, in the earlier parts of the comic, all more or less hated each other. (Particularly with members Psycho Mantis and Revolver Ocelot, who do everything from exchanging put-downs to fighting deathmatches, and in one case Mantis only avoids being poisoned by Ocelot by sheer luck.) Of course, later on, the group (well, aside from Mantis and Ocelot) does seem to be getting closer to each other to the point that the entire group risks causing, (or at least not preventing) an international incident just to save Sniper Wolf. And when Liquid discusses the idea with the ghost of the Sorrow, the latter mentions how the Cobra unit were closer than family, with them all considering the Boss to be a mother figure, in spite of her being the youngest of them. This leaves Liquid slightly squicked out as he notes the fact that the Sorrow and the Boss were lovers. |
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Section 9 in Ghost in the Shell. Being a paramilitary special unit of the Ministry of the Interior in a mostly failed state, they regularly get into conflict with other government institutions, as well as terrorists and organized crime. Togusa and Aramaki seem to be the only ones who still maintain normal lives next to their job, while the others seem to be almost completely isolated from the rest of society. | |
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According to Alistair in Dragon Age: Origins, Grey Wardens of Ferelden were one of these. Depending on the player choices the Grey Wardens of Amaranthine can bond and become close friends as well. | |
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Rainbow Six pulls this in Vegas with Bishop, especially with Logan and Gabe where she stresses they are a team and a family. In the final mission where Bishop is defying orders to go after a traitor, Logan says the same thing back to Bishop when he shows up out of the blue to provide backup. Her reply? "Who said that horseshit?" | |
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Most adventuring parties in Dungeons & Dragons wind up like this, if they last. | |
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Farscape: The Moya crew sure qualifies. Certainly it's a very screwed-up Band Of Brothers, but it's still a Band Of Brothers. Pilot and Moya in particular are the first to feel this way, but as the series goes on, they get closer and closer until eventually their one rule is "look out for the family, at all costs." | |
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Which was a catchphrase at the SGC earlier (see the episode "Abyss" for a perfect example of how far this can be taken and understood). The members of the team become each other's best friends, confidants, and essentially nothing will cause more angst than when one is in trouble, wounded, or presumed dead. Stargate SG-1 epitomizes the Band of Brothers trope. Major Carter even says to one of the other characters, "We were a team. No one can even begin to understand what that really means." And calls Daniel's death(presumed)/ascension one of the worst things she's ever been through. And, let's face it, she's been through a lot. | |
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The eponymous mercenaries in The Expendables are this, to the point that they take the member who betrayed them back by the end of the movie. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager both feature crews of people who don't even want to be on the same ship/station with each other, but over the courses of each series have wound up going as far as disobeying orders to save one another. | |
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The core of the eponymous mercenary band in Glen Cook's The Black Company is a Band Of Brothers, and it's the only way they survive all of the crazy shit that happens to them. | |
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The Halo franchise is filled with lots of these. In the games, the most prominent examples are Noble Team (a group of SPARTAN supersoldiers who have been serving in the military since they were kids) and Alpha Nine (a group of elite Orbital Drop Shock Troopers who find themselves scattered and stranded behind enemy lines in a Covenant-occupied city). | |
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The A-Team. From the almost father-and-son-like relationship between Hannibal and Face to Vitriolic Best Buds B. A. and Murdock, to Face and Murdock's Odd Friendship (really, how can a suave con man and a crazy pilot be best friends? Just ask Face and Murdock), you can tell they're more like a family than just a team of ex-military acquaintances. For instance, in the Season 2 finale, when Murdock gets shot in the chest during a job in the middle of nowhere, they pull out all the stops and even face possible capture by the military in order to save him. They even include the "we can insult each other, but when outsiders do it we close ranks" bit. | |
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Band of Brothers. They even named the miniseries after the trope-naming quote. Fittingly, this series EPITOMISES a band of brothers. Winters, Nixon, Spiers, Bull, Lipton, Malarkey, Luz, Martin, Liebgott, and many, many more. And from what we see, the actors also lived up to this trope during the boot camp prior to filming, and still get together once a year for reunions. | |
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About half the missions in Mass Effect 2 have the purpose of taking the "Dirty Dozen" and turning them into this. The final outcome of the game is determined in large part by how well Commander Shepard succeeds. | |
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Likewise, in Monstrous Regiment, the half dozen soldiers of the eponymous regiment end up this way after saving the Duchy. | |
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The Great Nerf War: Basically the entire 59th Company but specifically the M.I.N.O.T.A.U.R.S. | |
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The Japanese soldiers of Captain Inouye's unit in The Burmese Harp, stuck in a POW camp, give away what few possessions they have in an effort to get information on their missing man, Private Mitsushima. When he finally shows up at their camp (he has avoided capture by dressing as a monk), they sing to him and beg him to come home with them. | |
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The crew of the Gekko in Eureka Seven. | |
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The Fellowship of the Ring from The Lord of the Rings ends up like this, especially the four hobbits and the three hunters. In fact, many novels that are based on small long-term groups with fixed rosters that do D&D-style adventuring result in a Band Of Brothers of sorts. This is shown when, despite Boromir's betrayal, the team goes instantly to rescue him. Also, Boromir fighting past when he should have died, to defend two of their number. |
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Each member of Star Trek's Power Trio was bound and determined to sacrifice their own life to save the other two if the situation called for it. This was shown spectacularly in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, where Kirk steals and destroys the Enterprise and McCoy risks his own life to return Spock's katra to his body. | |
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The eponymous rodents in G-Force are one hell of a Band Of Brothers. The original group is Darwin, Juarez, Blaster, Speckles, and Mooch. Later, Speckles removes himself from the group by faking his own death. It's made explicit by the big fight scene at the end when Speckles realizes that he doesn't need to avenge his family; he's already got one in the form of G-Force, Ben and Marcy, and possibly Hurley, too. Darwin actually references this during the original sneak-in to Saber's house; "We leave no rodent behind." | |
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Several of these form during the Horus Heresy novels. Most of them are torn into shreds over the course; we are talking about the backstory to Warhammer 40,000, after all. The best example is the Mournival, which starts as a Four-Temperament Ensemble and ends up as Torgaddon and Loken vs. Aximand and Abaddon in a fight to the death. | |
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The Pony POV Series has Misfit Actual, Shining Armor's command squad, whose combat skills are only matched by their status as True Companions. | |
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Arcee refers to her team as family in the first episode of Transformers: Prime. In Season 3, Optimus has to explain this to straight-laced Ultra Magnus — they're not the Elite Guard and have grown into something greater than an army. | |
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Team Sidewinder in the Cut and Run series and the titular Sidewinder spin-off series. The members of Sidewinder consider each other family and frequently call each other "brother." | |
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The staff of M*A*S*H Unit 4077 may not like each other and often bicker like children, but they can't help but bond over "meatball surgery" and the dangers of life in a war zone. | |
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In BattleTech, this is one of the defining traits of Clan Ghost Bear, Hell's Horses, and Star Adder. Whilst most Clans are very elitists and like segregating great warriors from Cannon Fodder, these Clans encourage camaraderie, and treat everyone as equals, regardless of their role. Many of the more moral Private Military Contractors like the Gray Death Legion or the Kell Hounds likewise have a spirit of camaraderie and brotherhood, in addition to getting a hefty paycheck. | |
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Dollhouse: In "Epitaph One", we see Adelle caring for Topher (who has gone insane) like a mother for a child. The end of "The Attic" seems to signal the point where all the main characters realize that they're on the same side. Laurence Dominic is probably a member too, though he's still stuck in the Attic. Boyd outright states that they're family in "The Hollow Men." Unfortunately, he's been revealed as the Big Bad by this point. Tony and Priya say the same thing, and because of Boyd's previous usage of the term, Echo/Caroline tells them to call them anything but that. |
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In fact, Nightwing and Arsenal's Outsiders were formed in a deliberate attempt to avoid creating a Band Of Brothers. Naturally, given the characters and the circumstances, they failed. | |
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The revolutionaries of Sons of Liberty grow into an intensely loyal group, willing to go to great lengths to defend each other, above and beyond their loyalty to the cause as a whole. | |
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There is a World of Tanks perk called Brothers in Arms (and its variants, the female-crew-only Sisterhood of Steel and the rock-band-themed Band of Brothers), which increases the basic competencies of all of your crewmembers. It's notable in that all crewmembers must have this perk for it to activate (per the collective nature of the trope) and that the only way to get this perk for normal crews is to take that crew through many, many battles together to gain enough XP to unlock it (reflecting their shared struggles). | |
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Ping and the others in Mulan grow on each other during the Training from Hell Training Montage — which of course is exactly what half of boot camp is about. | |
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Motherland: Fort Salem: The Bellweather unit are all friends, who became closer due to the struggles they faced together. Later, they add Scylla, Adil, and Khalida to their number. | |
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One Piece: The Straw Hats aren't just a crew. They're family. Also, Ace, Luffy, and Sabo, (before Ace and Sabo died), fought together in the forest that they grew up in. They beat up animals for food and men many times their age as well. Even until the end, they never lost their brotherly love and bond between the three of them. |
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Evan Wright's book Generation Kill, an account of the USMC's First Force Recon in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, showed a rather striking scene where a group of Marines were under heavy fire in a field, and were laughing and joking. When asked why they were in such a good mood, the answer was that the Marines were surrounded by their closest friends and combat brothers; if they died in combat, they would die right alongside their best friends. The HBO adaptation of Generation Kill has an interesting subversion. The Marines are every bit the Band Of Brothers you'd expect them to be, but they also quickly adopt their embedded reporter, Evan Wright, as one of their own instead of turning him into a Butt-Monkey. In the novel (discussed below), Wright is self-conscious of this process in a way that might pass for Casual Danger Dialogue, noting that he realized the Marines were starting to like him when they began poking him with their combat knives, among other forms of hazing. Wright credits four things with Force Recon's acceptance of him: That he had written for several of the Marines' favourite publications (Most notably Hustler), that he managed to stay cool the first time he came under fire, that he actually volunteered to stay after coming under fire instead of wimping out as the previous embedded reporters had, and that he knew he was the designated Butt-Monkey and wasn't afraid to poke fun at himself when he screwed up. | |
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The most obvious example from The DCU would be Sgt. Rock's unit, Easy Company. | |
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The Black Knights in Code Geass is La Résistance under the The Chess Master Lelouch | |
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The Foxhound unit from this Metal Gear Solid fancomic is a highly dysfunctional covert ops group that, in the earlier parts of the comic, all more or less hated each other. (Particularly with members Psycho Mantis and Revolver Ocelot, who do everything from exchanging put-downs to fighting deathmatches, and in one case Mantis only avoids being poisoned by Ocelot by sheer luck.) Of course, later on, the group (well, aside from Mantis and Ocelot) does seem to be getting closer to each other to the point that the entire group risks causing, (or at least not preventing) an international incident just to save Sniper Wolf. | |
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Raven, the loner, is the first to call the Teen Titans her family. Five teenage orphans living together is justified. Robin and Starfire complicate this somewhat, however, showing romantic feelings for each through all five seasons and ultimately becoming a couple in Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo. | |
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The Death of Lightning Lad: When Lightning Lad dies, the Legion scour the galaxy to find a way to revive him. When they find a method that requires someone sacrificing their life to give it to Garth, six Legionnaires volunteer. Several years later, during The Lightning Saga, Superman is telling the story to the Justice League and Justice Society, who are appalled at teen kids risking their lives like that. Superman replies any Legionnaire would readily give their life for any teammate. | |
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In Akame ga Kill!, Night Raid and the Jaegers are this, albeit fighting on different sides being the Rebellion's wetwork crew and the Empire's special ops team respectively. The Wild Hunt however is a notable exception, unlike the other teams they are effectively an outfit of mercenaries run by their leader. | |
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In Murder by Decree, the Prime Minister, the Home Secretary, and Sir Charles cover up the Ripper murders because they feel obliged to due to the Ripper being a fellow Freemason. | |
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In Outlaw Star, even though the crew all met under different circumstances and some at first didn't like the main character or each other, they all eventually become allies. | |
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The ending, and in some ways the entire point of Zombieland is the forging of one of these between the survivors. | |
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Game of Thrones: Jon, Sam, Pyp, and Grenn by the end of Season 1. Beric's men are called the Brotherhood Without Banners for a reason. |
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Illustrated in Left 4 Dead 2. When the game starts out, Four strangers have gathered on the roof of a Savannah hotel just as the last evac copter flies off. Five levels later, they are bound by blood, bile, and a few other unrecognizable fluids. Also in the Sacrifice Comic, when it looks like our heroes are done for, Louis announces "I love you guys". Then Bill runs off to restart the generator and shouts, "Take care of each other, you guys are the only family I've got left!" Bill's dying lines in the video game have a similar effect. |
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Saving Private Ryan: Private Ryan, asked by Captain Miller what they should tell his mother if he stayed to fight, said to tell her, "When you found me, I was here, and I was with the only brothers I have left. And that there was no way I was deserting them. I think she'd understand that." The main cast also form its own band of brothers, with Miller as a stern dad and Horvath as big brother. |
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The Leverage crew has elements of this. Note how protective everyone gets when Parker is in trouble, or how they all get together to save Nate even when they've officially split up. | |
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Any Super Sentai or Power Rangers team. (And Power Rangers Reunion Shows make it seem that all teams are like an extended family... again, if you remember that it doesn't necessarily mean you like each other.) | |
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The various teams in the Fairy Tail guild like Shadow Gear and the Raijinshuu are already True Companions and the guild is pretty much a very large set of True Companions bordering on a Band Of Brothers due to sheer size and the often dangerous nature of their jobs. The best example however is the Guild Alliance formed to combat Oracion Seis. Long after the dark guild was defeated, the members from Blue Pegasus, Lamia Scale, and Cait Shelter join or are on very good terms with Fairy Tail. When Fairy Tail was in need, they immediately came to their aid spending much time and effort to locate the missing Tenrou Island. When the core cast came back after the time skip, members of both guilds quickly pay them a visit to renew old friendships. | |
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Legion of Super-Heroes: The Founders Three — Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl, and Lightning Lad — and, separately, the Legion of Substitute Heroes. In the case of the latter, there is at least one instance of one of the Substitutes turning down an invitation to join the Legion proper out of loyalty to the other Subs. The Death of Lightning Lad: When Lightning Lad dies, the Legion scour the galaxy to find a way to revive him. When they find a method that requires someone sacrificing their life to give it to Garth, six Legionnaires volunteer. Several years later, during The Lightning Saga, Superman is telling the story to the Justice League and Justice Society, who are appalled at teen kids risking their lives like that. Superman replies any Legionnaire would readily give their life for any teammate. |
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The main crew of Transformers: Animated (plus Sari) is like this. Optimus even refers to it as "this family" in Season 3. | |
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Played for laughs at the beginning of Another Country when Rupert Everett's Russian spy character uses the quote in a conversation with a young female reporter. She does not recognize the lines, highlighting the differences in age and education between the two. Also, the trope is inverted or at least used with some irony because "band of brothers" here refers to members of the Guy Burgess traitor ring, a.k.a. the Cambridge Five. | |
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The main heroines of Ace Combat: The Equestrian War are this. | |
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The mercenaries of Team Fortress 2 are Sociopathic Heroes at best, but that doesn't stop them from working together like a well-oiled machine of death who are quick to genuinely thank and complement each other for a job well done. Meta-game wise, playing several rounds together can also transform a group of players who don't know each other (and aren't Griefers) into a (temporary) Band of Brothers. Furthermore, the game encourages players to assist one another by various methods: On most servers, you can earn points by assisting in a kill, putting out a burning teammate, and unleashing an Ubercharge in addition to killing enemies and achieving map objectives. Most of the Medic's achievements are accomplished by helping other classes. One even involves healing someone while they get an achievement. The Soldier can earn an achievement for using the Buff Banner on his Steam friends called "Banner of Brothers". (The Spy, on the other hand, gets an achievement for backstabbing his Steam friends...) A significant portion of the Engineer's achievements involve co-operating with other Engineers for the greater good of his team. |
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The Punisher (2004). | |
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Lampshaded in the Legacy of the Aldenata: "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. In years to come, men at home now in their beds will think of this day and do you know what they'll say? 'Jesus, I'm glad I wasn't with those poor doomed ACS assholes or right now I'd be dead'. But what the hell, that's why they pay us the big bucks. Board ships." | |
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This is how the Justice Society of America is set up. The four old men of the team (Hawkman, Wildcat, Flash I, and Green Lantern I) have all lost children or otherwise had problems being fathers, as elaborated upon in the "Princes of Darkness" arc. Many other characters have parental issues, such as Jesse Quick/Liberty Belle II (dead father), Hourman III (absentee father returned from the dead), Stargirl (stepfather is crimefighting partner, father is a dead criminal), and Damage (son of the original Atom, created by Vandal Savage). Ma Hunkel, the original Red Tornado, is the maternal glue keeping the team together. | |
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Blake's 7: The crew struggle to get on a lot of the time, to the point that it comes across as Teeth-Clenched Teamwork at times. But none of them ever seriously consider abandoning the others, and if one of them's in danger, the others come through for them eventually. Best summed up in the fourth season opener: | |
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Koskela's platoon in the war novel The Unknown Soldier, which tells about the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union 1941-1944. The band is the collective main character of the novel. | |
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The various Teen Titans teams are just as much a surrogate family as they are a crime-fighting team. This is especially true of the "Original Five": Robin (Dick), Wonder Girl (Donna), Kid Flash (Wally), Speedy (Roy), and Aqualad (Garth). This was carried over in the cartoon. In fact, Nightwing and Arsenal's Outsiders were formed in a deliberate attempt to avoid creating a Band Of Brothers. Naturally, given the characters and the circumstances, they failed. Another group of Titans who were closer to each other than they were to their own families were the "Core Four" of Young Justice, who joined the Titans after their previous team disbanded: Robin (Tim), Impulse (Bart), Superboy (Kon) and Wonder Girl (Cassie). |
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Act of Valor: Bandito Platoon | |
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A common thread of the CSI series-pick any of the three and watch how protective they get when one of their own is in trouble and how they look out for each other all the time. | |
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Legend of the Galactic Heroes: The Yang team. Being betrayed by their own government, facing the full might of Reinhart's armies, even losing their leader, their group is not going to break. | |
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The eponymous Able Squad in Exo Squad is basically a Band Of Brothers, especially for characters like Nara Burns, who was orphaned by the war. | |
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The Avengers: Of all the ties formed in the team's long history, none match those between Captain America, Iron Man, and The Mighty Thor. The team is always at its strongest when these three are in it, and any two of them would lay down their lives for the third without hesitation. This is what made the Cap/Iron Man conflict in Civil War so devastating stupid; one has to wonder if it might have been averted if Thor hadn't been dead at the time. | |
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The 95th Rifles (aka The Chosen Men) and South Essex regiments from the Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell. Hell, the entire British and Portuguese Combined Army seem to become this. Apart from the Cavalry. Bloody fairies. The French Corps of Marshals is often presented as this. |
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The Hunger Games: The victors in Catching Fire. | |
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In Robin Hood, after 10 years together in the army, Robin's friends choose to stick around even after Robin urges them repeatedly to go their own ways. | |
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Battlestar Galactica: If adult adoption were legal, Bill Adama would declare his entire crew as his children... though as the series wears on, his fatherly patience is repeatedly tested. | |
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The Chaw of Chaws in Guardians of Ga'Hoole — Soren, Ezylryb, Otulissa, Eglantine, Digger, Gylfie, Twilight, and Martin. Coryn also fits into it not because he's king but as Soren's nephew. | |
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The cats chosen to find Midnight in Warrior Cats, become united and willing to die for each other like one. | |
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Played very straight in the Prince Roger series with the Bronze Barbarians, a guard unit for the titular prince, to the point where it's lampshaded in the title for the book We Few. | |
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Dutch van der Linde's gang in Red Dead Redemption 2 is just that. Some members like each other more, some less, but they're always ready to help one another and look out for each other during jobs. Arthur Morgan, the protagonist and the gang's enforcer, openly admits that he sees them as his family. | |
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Roran begins seeing his various groups of fellow soldiers like this in Brisingr, although his most notable relationship is with Carn. Furthermore, Eragon and Saphira have been this since day one, and Eragon's larger Band Of Brothers not only includes Saphira and Roran, but also Arya, Orik, Nasuada, and Katrina. Granted, Roran is his cousin that may as well be his brother, and Orik is his foster brother. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Joss Whedon loves this trope. The Scoobies, with a funny shout-out in the fifth season finale: But the most glorious example is: |
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Frontier Wolf: Roman Frontier Scouts serve in their home province, but give up their tribal loyalties to join "the Family" –- though their commander is uncomfortably aware that they sometimes suffer from Sibling Rivalry. | |
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The Stargate Atlantis crew captures the Band of Brothers spirit perfectly with their "We don't leave our people behind" refrain. | |
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Burning Wheel has a standard intro/demo scenario, "The Sword", about what happens when the adventuring party gets the loot and no longer has anything holding their disparate intentions for it together. Hint: it's also often used as a combat demo, and there are no characters or monsters except the PCs. | |
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Firefly: The crew of Serenity in particular will do just about anything for each other. Even Simon Tam and Jayne Cobb, who hate each other, have saved the life of the other at least. Not to mention this exchange after Mal and crew save River from being burned at the stake in the Big Damn Heroes moment that named that trope: Even better: Mal himself proved how violently protective of his crew he could be near the end of "Ariel", when confronting Jayne and preparing to throw him out the airlock for Jayne ratting out River and Simon. In turn, the rest of the crew showed their own unblinking loyalty to Mal in "War Stories", when even Simon and Kaylee took up arms to save him. "Ariel" also has Simon going off to save a dying man, risking capture and leaving River in Jayne's care — which he probably wouldn't have done if he didn't actually trust Jayne to get River to safety should anything happen to him. One can't help but wonder how the extent of Simon's trust factored in Jayne's decision to save the Tams instead of simply making a run for it at the first opportune moment. |
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In Baten Kaitos Origins, this features heavily in a literal and figurative sense. Every time one of the monsters is defeated, Sagi gets a faint-inducing headache and wakes up in a different world. in this world, he is a sibling of the five people who group together and become Malpercio, the Big Bad of the sequel. | |
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Delta Squad from Gearsof War, especially Marcus and Dom. To some extent, this applies to the entire COG army. | |
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In C.S. Goto's Dawn of War trilogy, Gabriel confronts another Blood Raven captain with his friends in the room, because he knows he can trust them to have his back even against the other captain — that's why they were his friends. | |
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House of Anubis: Sibuna. Despite any fights the group may have, they are shown to be incredibly loyal to each other, risking lives on almost a daily basis for another member who needs it. Not exactly a band of brothers though, as it's, as Amber puts it, "Three girls and two men. Well, boys." However, now it's three boys and two girls, but the point still stands. To a lesser extent the whole of Anubis House could be seen as this. Loyalties are definitely less obvious and many times the students to turn on one another, but when things get serious you can expect everyone to work together, especially if one of their own is being threatened. |
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Black Hawk Down: "Leave no man behind." That is all. | |
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In Burn Notice Michael Westen is closer to Fiona and Sam than he is to his actual family, having placed his life in their hands more than once in their long history as spies. Over the course of the show, he has to learn to re-relate to and even trust his mother and brother Nate as well as he does his friends. And, as many episodes including season finales have shown, you do not mess with Michael's family or his friends. Lampshaded in the Season Five episode "Depth Perception", when it's spelled out that putting his life on the line for his friends is more or less encoded into his DNA: |
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Sword at Sunset: The young King Arthur forms a Brotherhood of three hundred cavalrymen without other ties to family, land, or lord to spearhead the British war effort against the invading Saxons. In his old age their unity is corrupted by his Bastard Bastard, Medraut. Later The Shining Company's eponymous Companions, formed in imitation of Artos's, and their rivals the Teulu, the King's Bodyguard. | |
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Instances in The Beast Legion: Vokan, Sundarr & his friends put up a valiant display when the shadow Nexus attacks the Lithopian Fortress General Rowling & his commanders in Issue 6. |
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The eponymous heroes from Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers. Mess with one, mess with them all. The Big Bad was smart enough to try and work that in her favor. | |
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Downton Abbey: Robert Crawley, 7th Earl of Grantham, and his valet, John Bates. Both served in the Army (specifically the Grenadier Guards) in The Second Boer War; Bates was Lord Grantham's batman (a military bodyguard-cum-valet for an officer). Lord Grantham is intensely protective of Bates, keeping him on as his valet even though his leg injury makes it harder than usual for him to do a valet's job, backing him up on the occasions that downstairs spats reached his attention, and, most vitally, allowing Bates to use the Crawley family lawyer Mr Murray after he is accused and convicted of Mrs Bates' murder. He also hires Bates back as valet when he is released without thinking twice. For his part, Bates tries his best to serve as Lord Grantham's eyes and ears downstairs. No doubt the both of them have other such friends from the Regiment,note Especially considering that the Guards units are noted for being especially close-knit but we never see them. | |
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The Punisher (2017): Frank Castle, Billy Russo, and Curtis Hoyle were best buddies when they served together in Afghanistan, although this fractures after Russo turns out to be in league with the people who killed Frank's family. In Season 2, there is a villainous example, with Billy starting a gang of fellow veterans who commit criminal, brutal acts, but are still utterly dedicated to each other. |
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The Bronze Saints in Saint Seiya. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation had a bit of this going on, particularly during the first season, before the characters had worked each other out. Riker was uneasy about their second officer, Picard had to tell people not to let him "make an ass of himself" around children (and shouted Wesley out in the very first episode, thus enraging Wesley's mother with whom Picard already had an uneasy relationship), Worf disliked everyone (but especially Data), and Troi and Riker had Uncomfortable Ex's syndrome. But within a matter of episodes (and fairly ridiculous episodes at that), it became obvious that they'd all pretty much die for each other. | |
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