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Oddly Small Organization

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Oddly Small Organization	comment	Occasionally, the hero(es) might meet a group of characters who make up a secret organization that either menace or help them. They are shadowy, and mysterious, known for their unique and quirky members, and the organization has a reputation for being far-reaching and prevalent... except we never see any of that â€“ it's just talk. Whenever these guys show up, it's just the same group of misfits we know and love. On the rare occasion that there are more of their number in existence, those characters never last. They simply show up and then disappear, with a few cameo appearances in the future, but still not enough for it to break our Fridge Logic. A result of having an Economy Cast. See Quirky Miniboss Squad and Suspiciously Small Army for a Sub-Trope of this in Video Games. If one person purportedly has multiple roles in the organization, there may be New Jobs As The Plot Demands. Can be justified if the few members there are is each a One-Man Army. See also The Main Characters Do Everything, which is related if there are no extras in the background, and Critical Staffing Shortage. May be a result of the characters being an Eternal Employee who is Always on Duty. Also compare Club Stub. Two-Teacher School is a special case for school-based stories where the adult staff is severely limited to keep the focus on the students. A Skeleton Government is when a seemingly large city has an oddly small number of officials working for it.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_1869a077	comment	Samurai Jack: Depending on the episode, Aku seems to function as his own empire's entire bureaucracy and secret police (since he seems to spend a lot of time watching people on his view screens, and personally meets with even the lowliest informant, mercenary or dignitary). He also frequently goes to fight Jack one-on-one or personally acts to destroy one of the many time-travel MacGuffins scattered around the setting. Other episodes, however, have emphasized he does have legions of subordinates at his disposal, and said subordinates are committed to the grunt-work of oppressing ordinary folk, rooting out dissidents, and strip-mining the planet when they're not being thrown at Jack en masse.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_191b10cd	comment	Stripperella has two: the strip club Tender Loins whose only dancers are Erotica, Giselle, Persephone and Catt and secret agency FUGG which only has Stripperella, Chief Stroganoff, Hal and Bernard and Special Agent 14.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_1aa5520f	comment	SOMOS in Supernatural Investigation Department consists of about five or six people. This is a terrorist organization that has caused trouble in multiple countries.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_1ad6e2b5	comment	The Barians, the villains of the second season of Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL, are supposedly the representatives of an entire extradimensional race that are the enemies of the Astral World. However, only seven of them (called the Seven Barian Emperors) tend to do much, and there were only five at first: Durbe, Alit, Misael, Gilag, and Vector. The remaining two, Nasch and Merag, were actually Shark and his sister Rio in their past lives; they were recruited into the group later. They did have a few allies like Mr. Heartland and the Fearsome Four, Black Mist (who double-crossed them) and were ultimately revealed to be under the sway of the true ruler of the Barian World, Don Thousand. Later on in the series, it becomes apparent that there is indeed a Barian race; it's just that being Energy Beings, they don't tend to appear often.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_1bf2b0de	comment	The Mafia. At any given time, there are fewer than 1,000 "made men" in the United States. Most cities that are not New York City or Chicago will have fewer than 20. Of course, each of them will have a small army of wannabes, thugs, and other followers (the majority of whom are not considered prospects to ever be "made"), plus employees in any legitimate businesses they run.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach: Soul Society seems to be made up of only a couple thousand Soul Reapers, with just a few dozen of them being capable of fighting the higher level Hollows and Arrancar. The numbers seem downright bizarre when one considers that they're the only known force that maintains the balance of souls throughout the entire world. Later materials, particularly Burn the Witch!, would reveal "Soul Society" as seen in the original manga was technically "just" the eastern branch stationed in Japan and there are other branches scattered around the world, but this brings into question what the hell those branches were doing while spiritual armageddon was going down with Aizen and especially Yhwach. The Royal Guards have even fewer members than Soul Society's Gotei 13. They are composed of five ex-Captains, one of whom commands a separate squad. Their job is to protect the Soul King, basically the Barrier Maiden that keeps the world intact. It's stated at one point that they do not need numbers since the combined forces of the Royal Guards are more powerful than the entirety of Gotei 13 put together. Aizen's "army" of Arrancar likely barely hits triple digits, since 100 and higher are apparently reserved for the Privaron Espada, the former members of Aizen's elite Espada group. When he shows up to fight Gotei 13 in Fake Karakura, he has only 18 combatants (not counting Gillian fodder) on his side — himself, Tosen and Gin, the top three Espadas, the 10 Fracciones directly under said Espadas' command, and Wonderweiss and his giant pet Hollow that spawns said Gillian hordes. Zigzagged in the final arc with Yhwach and the Wandenreich. His main army, the Sternritter note German for "star knights", though it should actually be Sternenritter, consists of 26 members, one for each letter of the alphabet. This may seem small, but it actually outnumbers the 13 Captains of Soul Society...and then we see that he seemingly also has countless Soldatnote German for "soldiers" at his disposal at least to match the number of rank and file Soul Reapers, though very few of said Soldat actually appear, and only in situations where the main army's members are not present. Not that this inconveniences Yhwach by much, though: not only are his Sternritter very powerful, Yhwach himself is also far stronger than any previously introduced antagonist, plus he has the excuse that the more he spreads his power around, the weaker he personally is, so having fewer fighters works for him.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_1cc8e29f	comment	Destiny/Destiny 2: It's stated a few times that there are millions of active Guardians. So how big is the Vanguard, the command structure overseeing all those millions? Two people. Used to be three. They do have subordinates, but these are mostly field agents who are only occasionally involved in command. It's said that the Vanguard doesn't so much lead the Guardians as provide incentives for Guardians to self-organize and behave in certain ways, reducing the amount of oversight required, but that's still two people handing out rewards for millions, not to mention that the two of them frequently act as your Voice with an Internet Connection, which raises the question of who's doing that for everyone else.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_1f65fe1	comment	Both the Power Rangers and the villains suffer from this in Power Rangers Take Flight. The Rangers are largely on their own until the US government begins backing them midway through (a change from Choujin Sentai Jetman, in which it was just the five Rangers and their commander after the Earth Ship's destruction in the first episode). For the villains, it's mostly just Trask and Dillik, and later Mainframe; Magda doesn't stick around long enough and Sasha becomes a Wild Card who often works with the other two but doesn't care for them at all.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_1fcdbe32	comment	From The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster: "just as Milo got to his feet the entire police force of Dictionopolis appeared â€“ loudly blowing his whistle."
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Oddly Small Organization / int_20aa8dc9	comment	In Captain Pugwash, Pugwash runs his entire pirate ship—which appears to be a three-masted galleon—with a crew consisting of himself, the mate, two sailors and the cabin boy. And, at times, the cabin boy has sailed the ship single-handed. The pirate crew of his Arch-Enemy Cut-Throat Jake does not appear to be any larger.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_23762f3e	comment	Thanks to his habit of dispensing of anything that doesn't make him happy, the castle of King Haggard in The Last Unicorn is staffed by the king, his adopted son, the court magician, and four septuagenarian men at arms. And because they're so short-handed, every one of them (including the king and prince) have to take turns doing things like cooking, cleaning (At least until Molly Grue is hired to be cook and maid), and guarding the gate.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_248a0d14	comment	In Lie to Me, the Lightman Institute always has people wandering around the background but only four characters seem to do any work; everyone else seems to be there to run the video cameras for them.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_24d953d0	comment	Metroid: The Space Pirates are hardly the fearsome force the manual makes them out to be, consisting of only Mother Brain, Kraid and Ridley. The local fauna and general geography are your most constant dangers in their so-called base. They managed to steal quite a lot of Metroids all the same. The manual claims Mother Brain gave life to the Multiviolas, but they still aren't referred to as Space Pirates, only "eerie followers" of them. The strategy manga for the game added a bit of plot, explaining Samus defeated most of the space pirates in space, but then fell off her ship (the vessel seems to be a bit of a klutz when Samus isn't piloting it or giving it orders), requiring her to find new power-ups when she landed on the planet without it. The Metroid: Zero Mission remake and the later games avert this trope by introducing the regular Space Pirate mooks and adding two more commanders in Super Metroid.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_260d57b3	comment	Excel♡Saga may count as a parody. ACROSS consists of Il Palazzo, Excel, and Hyatt, but has grandiose ambitions and a huge meeting area. The anime, however, included a higher authority (all of one guy who's apparently cloned himself six times plus a stunt double); they send a messenger to tell Il Palazzo that he's not doing his job right. In the manga, there may not be a higher power, but the organization is larger. They have a third "enforcer" type, Elgala. Excel suspects there are others working for ACROSS behind the scenes, for example, to gather the various creatures in the pit. This probably isn't true. They eventually get a large workforce of people who are unaware of the organization's long-term goals and are just working for a paycheck. They don't seem to participate in any of the organization's inner workings.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: The Springfield Mafia tends to just be Fat Tony and his two goons. The Springfield Police Department are an odd case because, when necessary, they do have a large force (even if we only know the names of three), and other times it is explicit they're just Wiggum, Ed, and Lou. In "Poppa's Got A Brand New Badge", when SpringShield took over policing duties, it consisted of just Homer, Lenny and Carl:
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Oddly Small Organization / int_2664f44a	comment	Like a Dragon: In Yakuza 3, the Ryudo family is mentioned to have soldiers out on patrol, but the only members ever shown are the patriarch Nakahara, his captain, and one of his lieutenants. Also in 3, the Hamazaki family's small size is a plot point. Kashiwagi mentions that a family with the kind of reach and wealth the Hamazaki family has should have at least a couple hundred soldiers, but the Hamazaki family only has ten "made" members. This is because Hamazaki is using the Snake Flower Triad as his muscle, and is one of the first indications that Hamazaki is less than loyal.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_28b53408	comment	The eponymous organization in the FEAR games appears to consist of four people (the Point Man, Jankowski, Jin, and Betters). It is implied the agency is somewhat larger, and that they are deployed in very small units as specialists, using conventional military as muscle. An expansion shows that the organization actually consists of seven people (Raynes, Chen, and the unnamed Sergeant), but one can take that with a grain of salt seeing as the first game's expansions were third-party and the official sequel, FEAR 2, chose to at best re-interpret some notable setpieces from them.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_2a1b28fc	comment	The titular charity in Smiling Friends has four permanent employees and a boss (known only as "The Boss"), and only Pim and Charlie are ever shown doing any actual work. Despite this, one episode claims that the company is able to lose 2.4 billion dollars and remain solvent.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	The Company in Heroes sometimes enters this territory. Sometimes they're portrayed as a large group with many teams of two agents (one super, one normal) out taking care of assignments. Other times The Company is portrayed as just Bob, his daughter, and some Indian doctor he has to coerce into being a thug because he apparently doesn't have anyone else to send on missions anymore. In the first season it is portrayed as all-powerful yet they only regularly show one character and have guest appearances by actors for the more high-ranked members. Yet in Season 2, Bob is running round doing the recruiting in Cairo as well as "kidnap missions." This makes one wonder if it is falling into disarray. This is confirmed in Season 3 where the company corridors are empty and Angela Petrelli is alone.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	Justice League: In the episode "Legends," the same two cops seem to keep coming to see the Justice Guild, and later on, Flash comments "Are they the only two cops in this town?" The answer is yes. Or, for that matter, the League itself. Just seven individuals (of whom only six are super) to protect the entire planet from any threat and to take on off-world missions? Please. It comes to bite them mightily in the ass in "Starcrossed", prompting them to go on a recruitment drive in Unlimited. Of course, that comes to bite them in the ass, too, in the Cadmus Arc.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_30940081	comment	Grand Theft Auto V: Trevor Philips Enterprisesnote AKA Trevor Philips Industries, TP Conglomerate, and numerous other names that never stay consistent is described by its membership to be a multinational corporation that specializes in producing drugs and exporting weapons across North America. It consists of Trevor the Ax-Crazy leader, Nervous Ron the assistant and planner, Chef the meth cook, and Wade. By the end of the game, it has successfully killed off all of its competitors and remains the only criminal organization in Blaine County, despite being the smallest. All Online organizations have a couple of people behind the scenes at the most. This, of course, leaves you to do all the gruntwork.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto: The Akatsuki, a sinister organization of Black Cloaks with only 10 members (actually nine, since Orochimaru absconded with their membership ring). They seem to find replacements for lost members pretty quickly, but they never send out minions to do things, instead sending out two of their number to accomplish any task. Even their accountant is a powerful fighter and formal member of the organization — apparently they don't trust weaklings with money or something. Made worse by the fact that many of their members are constantly having arguments and trying to kill each other. Sasori actually had several agents working under him, including Kabuto and the two men who were turned into duplicates of Kisame and Itachi, Pain had a small country at his disposal, and Kakuzu had numerous ties to collect the money for the organization. So while they have a limited number of full members, they certainly are able to have their own henchmen, widening their potential scope considerably. Still, they seem to handle most of their affairs personally, though it doesn't hurt that the combined power of the Tailed Beasts they're capturing would give them enough firepower to demolish entire nations. Akatsuki's status as this is fully averted in the Shinobi World War arc; Tobi fields an army of 100,000 White Zetsus, which are supplemented with an army of legendary ninjas resurrected by Kabuto. This also originally applied to most of the clans of Konoha, besides the Uchiha and HyÅ«ga, until the Invasion of Pain arc and those following it, where we saw members of the Akimichi, Nara, Yamanaka, Aburame, Sarutobi, and (maybe) Inuzaka clans who were not directly related to the main cast, some of whom have provided vital combat support to the main cast in the Fourth Shinobi World War. Also, the Konoha council that advises the Hokage currently consists of two elders, though there might be more members than what we normally see; when the village thinks it needs to appoint a new Hokage, the group assembled also included the Fire Daimyo and his advisors/nobles, plus Danzo, JÅ�nin Commander Shikaku Nara and someone from ANBU.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_30cd7bf3	comment	Scary Godmother: Well, Party at least. They make a big deal that Scary Godmother's party is the biggest talk of the Fright Side, but by the time the party starts, there are only a handful of people at most attending.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_30ddd99e	comment	The Evolian Tribe of Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger consists of their boss, Dezumozorlya; its mouthpiece: Lije, the generals Jeanne, Voffa and Mikela and the Barmia Soldiers; with Mikoto Nakadai/AbareKiller joining them for most of the series in the latter half. They lose one major member two episodes into the series and it's shown later on that they initially consisted of only two members beyond the Barmia: Dezumozorlya and Dezumovoorla, who was split into Mikela and Voffa before they were able to brainwash Mahoro, her child and her brother, Mizuho; into more generals.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_326c82c5	comment	There are other members aside from the NCIS Director in the administration, though the only other member regularly seen is Assistant Director Granger, who permanently oversees the Office of Special Projects on NCIS: Los Angeles. Vance himself was promoted to his position after spending time as the agency's Deputy Director. Vance also has his own number two, whose absence from headquarters is handwaved by saying that Deputy Director Jerome Craig is almost permanently on the road attending international conferences that Vance doesn't want to bother with and doesn't enjoy being in the office in the first place.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_32c541e6	comment	Greed from Fullmetal Alchemist is pretty vocal about wanting absolutely everything in the world for himself, yet he NEVER gets more than a handful of followers. This turns out to be for a reason: what he desires is something else.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_34d050c6	comment	Darkwing Duck: Despite being the top crime boss in St. Canard, Taurus Bulba's gang consisted of his right hand man Hammerhead Hannigan, henchmen Hoof and Mouth, secretary Clovis and pet condor Tantalus. Negaduck rules Nega-St. Canard but it's a Thriving Ghost Town so his only seen minions are Nega-Launchpad, Nega-Herb, Nega-Binkie and Nega-Honker. F.O.W.L. has plenty of Eggmen foot soldiers but few higher ranking agents: Steelbeak, Ammonia Pine, Major Synapse, Hotshot, Flygirl and Ample Grime. The only seen agents of S.H.U.S.H. were Director J. Gander Hooter, Agent Grizzlikof, Dr. Sarah Bellum and Derek Blunt.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_352c7503	comment	Airheads: Ian "The Shark" seems to be the only DJ with KPPX "Rebel Radio", whereas most real-life stations will have four to five on staff.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_35f1d3fb	comment	The G.I. Joe team once asked for the aid of a man named Spigou of the resistance in communist Borovia. When the mission goes sour, Stalker asks Spigou where the rest of the organization is. Turns out Spigou is the whole thing. Spigou is then killed.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_362874e3	comment	Similarly, in the universe of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Spectrum appear to operate on a severely stripped-back skeleton staff. A military airbase or aircraft carrier employs at least a hundred guys for every one pilot, all doing necessary background work. We see Cloudbase (essentially a flying aircraft carrier) and its complement of Angel Interceptors, yet we never see the ground crews who arm, refuel, and perform maintenance, on the aircraft. The remake was a bit better about this, with various grey-uniformed SPECTRUM personnel carrying out all the typical Red Shirt duties except getting killed off whenever the show needed some drama (that was Scarlet's job) as well as the odd filler scene showing that the aforementioned rearming and refuelling of the Angel interceptors is mostly automated.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_37a6e77b	comment	Camp Lazlo: Camp Kidney's only staff are Scoutmaster Lumpus, Slinkman, Chef McMuesli, Nurse Leslie and the lifeguards Pierre and No-Neck (who only appeared in two episodes). Still, they were better off than Acorn Flats who only had Jane Doe and Ms. Mucus.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: The Death Eaters appear as a rather... small organization. Depending on how loose your criteria is for what makes a Death Eater (and whether some of the unnamed Death Eaters are all different from one another), there's only about 3 dozen of them (and that's including the members that died after Voldemort's disappearance and those who were freshly recruited after Voldemort's return). There never seemed to be more than 20 or so Death Eaters active at any one time. It's not even clear how many of those we see are really Death Eaters; in the later books they frequently Imperius other wizards to fight on their side, and it was apparently widespread enough in the first war for several well-known members to falsely claim it. Later books establish that the Death Eaters were essentially Voldemort's elite (with an 'Inner Circle' above them) and the core of his forces, with an army of lesser dark wizards/hangers-on, other Imperiused witches and wizards, and dark creatures to call upon. Both incarnations of the Order of the Phoenix are also quite small; the original group only had 26 members (and are said to have been outnumbered by about 20 to one), and about half of them were killed before the end. The second group is not much bigger but has the advantage of facing a much smaller enemy (the core force of the Death Eaters appears to be about 50 wizards, with the rest consisting of the coerced, the manipulated and the brainwashed, as well as minor hangers-on, who hadn't been replenished when the second Order was formed). The exact size of the wizarding population is an example of this trope. But as this essay points out, assuming the vast majority of British wizard children go to Hogwarts (something outright said in the book), that means Britain's wizarding population between the age of 11 and 18 is below the 300 mark. And since that would be roughly one-tenth of the entire population, maybe one-twentieth if we allow for wizards' longer lifespans, the total wizarding population is under 10,000. Details such as the size of the Ministry and the number of Quidditch teams mentioned make such a small figure very surprising, but then, Writers Cannot Do Math. According to Word of God, there are actually 1,000 students at Hogwarts, effectively tripling the "300" figure for school-age wizarding children and therefore inflating the wizarding population to between 10,000 and 20,000. It was also mentioned that wizards would have died out if they hadn't started marrying Muggles, indicating the population has always been somewhat small and probably still is. Also note that this is just Great Britain (and maybe Ireland). There are other populations in other countries. Goblet of Fire included students and staff from two other schools. There are Quidditch teams explicitly mentioned from other countries. American witches/wizards are mentioned during the Quidditch world cup. Though the magical world would need to be small compared to the muggle population to maintain the masquerade.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_3d1dd93	comment	Space Academy: Justified in Space Academy Washouts with Dark Matter that actually just consists of Alexandra Ares as well as her immediate subordinates. This is because she's an AI and the manipulation of everything from the stock market to politics can be done instantaneously.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_3d22c14b	comment	In Mobile Suit Gundam 00, Celestial Being at first appears to be this, consisting solely of four pilots, six crew members on their space ship, a supercomputer and a man who's been dead for 200 years, whom the media report as being the group's leader. We later learn that Celestial Being is actually a surprisingly large, secret organization, with at least three separate groups working against each other within the organization!
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Oddly Small Organization / int_3e5de40b	comment	In Scrubs it often appears that the Janitor is the only maintenance worker in the entire hospital when a hospital the size of Sacred Heart should require at least a dozen. A few episodes have suggested other janitors work at Sacred Heart but are almost never seen.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_3f13a30c	comment	Spooks reduces MI:5's entire counter-terrorism operation to a team of five or six people.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_3f2ccd30	comment	The Extraordinary Gentlemen's Organization, made up of Frankie Kazarian, Bobby Roode and Christopher Daniels.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_3ff0f7dd	comment	The Order in the Breeniverse shows is supposedly a far-reaching worldwide organisation, but the same individual members appear frequently. In KateModern, these typically include Michelle Clore, the Shadow, Kate's Watcher, and Rupert van Helden. In lonelygirl15, more Order members do appear, but the gang still seem to run into Carl, Lucy, and Bree's Watcher surprisingly often.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: Zigzagged with the Knights of the Blackened Denarius. They consist of people bearing one of 30 silver coins, believed to be the Thirty Pieces of Silver Judas was paid to betray Jesus, which each contain a Fallen Angel that either enslaves the coins' owner or enters into a partnership with them if their willpower and mental fortitude are sufficient enough. Most of the Fallen don't get along though and some of the coins are unaccounted for, so their leader Nicodemus typically only ever has three to five of them working for him at any given time. However, the Denarians are also backed by a veritable army of human fanatics that are comparative to a small nation, so while the Denarians are few in number, their supporters certainly aren't.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_44127c7c	comment	Power Rangers: Power Rangers S.P.D. has the "empire" of Emperor Gruumm. Outside the three core villains, there's the Monster of the Week in the form of alien criminals who work for him by basically continuing their previously established MO but pointed in the direction he wants — always recruited onscreen (the baddie of the week was a longtime ally on two occasions) and robot grunts and pseudo-Zords sold to him by an arms dealer who will sell to anyone. (Sometimes the MOTW was using Broodwing's wares before meeting Gruumm, or even despite never meeting Gruumm.) The all-conquering Troobian Empire just doesn't seem to exist very much. This also applies to the good guys in many of the PR series. Five teenagers with attitude is a small force to send against invading armies. It's often of a necessity, though — there are only so many Transformation Trinkets to go around. This also applies to ones where there are organizations employing the Rangers staffed by Ghost Extras — in Lightspeed Rescue for instance, there's one captain and a scientist for an apparent command structure, and they seem to be the ones with the authority in the base, despite it being government-backed. A general who apparently oversaw the project showed up a grand total of one time, and only to "replace" the Rangers with robotic copies (who then went nuts after being fried by a lightning strike). It's at least somewhat justified in Time Force, where the titular time cops are largely based in the future, and could only send the Rangers back, and the Rangers' time vessel crashed and exploded after landing; they did, however, regularly send them their Zords and other equipment from the future. The Silver Guardians are also justified — Mr. Collins formed them as basically a PMC company to defend Silver Hills, so they'd be a bit low on numbers to start.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_45b21df3	comment	In Monty Python's Life of Brian, the resistance against the Romans is split into an innumerable number of tiny organizations that constantly skirmish with each other: the 'Judean People's Front', the 'Judean Popular People's Front', the 'Campaign for a Free Galilee,' and the 'Popular Front of Judea' (which has only one member remaining.) This is dangerously close to Truth in Television. It's an old, old joke that if you get two Jews in a room and propose a question you will get at least three different opinions.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_468bebb0	comment	The other Night Watch is also pretty small: when Guards! Guards! opens, they're down to three, with an option on a fourth if anybody is insane enough to volunteer. This is thanks to the fact that the Watch is pretty much a joke position anyway. As the fortunes of the Watch have risen over the series, including merging with the Day Watch under one commander, they currently number around 150 with plans to increase to over 200. Which as Vimes reflects on several occasions, is still extremely small (and amazingly effective) for a city containing a hundred thousand souls (and ten times as many people). (Though much of the actual policing in Ankh-Morpork is done by other groups than the Watch: for instance, the Thieves Guild is extremely thorough about deterring unlicensed thieves.) By way of comparison, Vimes's refounding of the Watch can be regarded as corresponding to Robert Peel's founding of the London Metropolitan Police Force, which happened in 1829, when Greater London was only slightly larger than Ankh-Morpork currently. At its foundation, Peel's force had slightly over one thousand men. During Jingo the Morporkian army consisted of possibly fewer than 1,000 hastily recruited troops, as compared to Klatch's tens of thousands of veterans. Of course, the Force that actually won was even smaller (but highly trained, and much feared). It's understandable that Lancre, a kingdom a hundred miles across with 200 inhabitants, would have a very small military and civil service. In fact, however, it consists of just one man: Shawn Ogg, who is also much of the palace staff. Technically there is also a border guard on the bridge into Lancre, but he lived there anyway and is a greeter more than anything. It's easier to just list the government jobs Shawn Ogg doesn't perform: king, queen, queen's maid, falconer, beekeeper, palace cook and butler, although he is the assistant butler and as Mr Spriggins is quite advanced in years, Shawn ends up doing most of his work anyway. Unseen University is like this as well. While we have Archchancellor Riducully and the Bursar, at least half of the jobs are done by one of the brightest and youngest wizards — Ponder Stibbons. And, in Unseen Academicals, he uses his large number of UU positions to his advantage; he's a voting majority on the University council all by himself. Not to mention that the complete staff roster for the largest, most dangerous, and most topographically complex Library in the known universe consists of one ape, who spends most of the winter months curled up under his desk wrapped in blankets. Rincewind has occasionally acted as his assistant during times when he is actually around the University. The number of Witches in and around Lancre tends to vary (down to about half-a-dozen at one point, but more numerous now), but is apparently not too many, at least compared to times past. By the time Moist is put in charge of it in Going Postal, there are only two employees left at the Ankh-Morpork Post Office, Mr. Groat and Stanley. (Three, if you count the cat.) In this case, its small size is justified by the Post Office not being a functioning organization: it hasnâ€™t delivered a single letter in decades. In Mr. Groat's youth, there had been hundreds of mail carriers, office workers, and mail coach crew members on staff. Supplemental materials attest that at least two of Ankh-Morpork's official Guilds comprise just one member: the Guild of Victims (a rather masochistic chap who's paid to get mugged by the Thieves' Guild in his clients' stead) and the Guild of C.M.O.T. Dibblers (founded as a tax dodge under rules which, immediately thereafter, Lord Vetinari revised to prohibit anyone else abusing them). It makes sense that less important gods would have a smaller number of clergy. But there are so many Small Gods around that in Ankh-Morpork there's a single jobbing priestess who is the sole ecclesiastical representation for dozens of minor gods. Including Anoia the goddess of things getting stuck in drawers, whose star is rapidly rising thanks to Moist choosing her as one of the gods to credit with a miracle he arranged (he picked her because he liked the name).
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Oddly Small Organization / int_49a87cb3	comment	The Turks from Final Fantasy VII. Implied to be quite a big covert ops department, in the original game and the movie we only see four members (Reno, Rude, Tseng, and Elena) and one former member (Vincent). The Japan-only Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII, however, puts the group in the spotlight. On the other side of the equation, Avalanche apparently consists of five people: Barrett, Tifa, Biggs, Wedge and Jesse, with Cloud not being an official member on account of him being a merc. Final Fantasy VII Remake changes it so that that's the size of the Avalanche cell that the main characters are associated with, and that the rest of the organization considers them extremists on the fringe (so they donâ€™t get a lot of support). Another, considerably larger cell shows up later. The end of that game has all the members introduced in it (including Cissnei/Shuriken Female, who was featured in Crisis Core) go into hiding for crimes they commit while members, i.e. letting Avalanche's leader escape (and some, beforehand), only coming out of it once to help stop Jade WEAPON. They were all Doomed by Canon due to their lack of appearance in other media anyways.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_49ff762	comment	Torchwood used to be a large UNIT-sized organization until the London branch (Torchwood One) was dissolved, leaving behind the Five-Man Band Cardiff Torchwood Three, and the never-seen Torchwood Two, "a very strange man" in Glasgow. There is also a Torchwood Four. It apparently got lost, but they expect to find it again one day.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_4b434423	comment	Team Yell in PokÃ©mon Sword and Shield is an even smaller organization—they consist of no more than a dozen hoodlums based in Spikemuth and as few as six or seven grunts roaming around Galar. There are also no admins whatsoever, with just the grunts and their leader Piers, who shows no signs of even being aware of what his organization is doing. Justified, though, as Team Yell's purpose is simply to let Marnie pass ahead of the other Gym Challengers by slowing the others down—they only need to locate bottlenecks where the furthest challengers are and get in their way, which doesn't require many people as long as they're good enough at what they do. Averted with the larger-scope villainous organization Macro Cosmos, which controls most of the industries in the Galar region: It DOES have an admin system and contains a seemingly endless supply of grunts.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_4b6caf38	comment	In Sands of Destruction, the World Destruction Committee consists entirely of two people and a teddy bear; Before the second half of the first episode, it was only one angry human woman. Admittedly, it was a name that her enemies made up to demonize her, but she ran with it because it's intimidating.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_4ce5263e	comment	XCOM: Enemy Unknown: The first game gave this impression, as despite being a global organisation funded by every country in the world, they only had enough resources to send four to six soldiers to a mission at any one time. If two or more events happened simultaneously, they could only respond to one, and the other regions affected were left with no defence at all, making them very angry and liable to cut off funding. The sequel justifies this a little better by making XCOM an underground resistance cell fighting against an alien-controlled earth. They only have limited options because their resources really are that low compared to their enemies.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_4d97191f	comment	Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow sees protagonist Soma Cruz opposed by a Cult called "With Light" that believes that, for God to embody Perfect Good, He must be opposed by Perfect Evil, embodied by the Dark Lord, which was Dracula, until 1999. This cult, who summons demons to attack Soma using hand-drawn seals, consists of... exactly three people: two candidates, Dario Bossi and Dmitrii Blinov, to be the new Dark Lord; and leader Celia Fortner.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_4e9f355	comment	The end of that game has all the members introduced in it (including Cissnei/Shuriken Female, who was featured in Crisis Core) go into hiding for crimes they commit while members, i.e. letting Avalanche's leader escape (and some, beforehand), only coming out of it once to help stop Jade WEAPON. They were all Doomed by Canon due to their lack of appearance in other media anyways.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_4f9a3b9f	comment	The Federal Marshal's office from In Plain Sight has four people, of which only two do fieldwork and one is a secretary.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_5047c4e3	comment	The '80s animated show C.O.P.S. had about seven to eight police officers and roughly the same number of members in the mob.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_50f0ae6f	comment	Black Rose's Los Abusadores Internacional had one executive, one secretary, and nothing else. Leon El Profesional was brought in when Jorge Estrella was banned from Valkyrie Pro but as soon as that got lifted, he fired Leon, leaving just himself and Debbie Cain again. He later introduced another secretary, Natalia Marie, as if she had always been there.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_512b4b82	comment	The eponymous Order of Ecclesia, like "With Light" above, seems to consist of only three people: protagonist Shanoa, Lancer / Rival Albus(who goes rogue at the start of the game), and founder Barlowe. This seems bizarre when the latter says things like "It is the desire of the Order of Ecclesia" or describes what the Order of Ecclesia is supposed to do. Up to Eleven and lampshaded when Shanoa laments she's all that remains of it after Albus and Barlowe's deaths.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_51b3091a	comment	The protagonists of Knight Hunters appear to work for one. There are only a handful of Kritiker agents the team don't already know about, and most of them have distressingly short life expectancies. Their opposite numbers are rather better staffed, but most of their evil plans still appear to rely on a Quirky Miniboss Squad with a nasty case of Chronic Backstabbing Disorder.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_52dd4a4c	comment	Ultimate Hawkeye refers to an early incarnation of S.H.I.E.L.D. as "You (Nick Fury), me, and a drinks tab trying to take down the Soviet Union."
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Oddly Small Organization / int_52e8fba	comment	The Oz series from L. Frank Baum uses this multiple times in regard to armies. In The Marvelous Land of Oz, it's revealed that the entire Royal Army of Oz is one person, The Man With the Green Whiskers who first appeared in the original book. By Ozma of Oz, the Tin Woodman has expanded it to... 30 people, three of whom are only mentioned. Another example in the Oz books was the army formed by Queen Ann Soforth of Oogaboo in Tick-Toc of Oz, which had only 17 members (16 of which were officers) which made sense, seeing as Oogaboo itself had a population of only 50.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_5546299b	comment	Kero Blaster: Cat & Frog, Inc. is based in a spacious 4-story office building, yet seems to consist of only 6 people: its president, the frog protagonist, his scientist co-worker, the pink Office Lady, and two shopkeepers.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_5874fe63	comment	Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: Like the managa, the Dark Kingdom consists only of Queen Beryl, the Shitennou and Queen Metaria, along with original character Mio Kuroki.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_58d80a4a	comment	During Jingo the Morporkian army consisted of possibly fewer than 1,000 hastily recruited troops, as compared to Klatch's tens of thousands of veterans. Of course, the Force that actually won was even smaller (but highly trained, and much feared).
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Oddly Small Organization / int_59151283	comment	The Patriots of the Metal Gear 'verse were originally Six Fallen Heroes plus a few hundred to several thousands of clueless mooks, who have not the slightest idea who they are really working for. Then they have a collection of artificial intelligences set up by those fallen heroes and left to run the country. The 4th game reveals the identities of those ex-heroes, and knowing who they are you see, even by the start of Metal Gear Solid (and bear in mind we don't even learn about them until Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty), two of the members were already dead (including the first hostage you fail to rescue), the leader was basically retired all along (and is a vegetable by the time Solid Snake meets him) and the other three had gone their own way and turned against the group. Of the two that were dead, one of the latter actually murdered him. The "new" Patriots avert this trope since, thanks to their enormous influence, they equate themselves with the entire country and are even compared to the prevailing global system.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_5921531c	comment	In Persona 5, if you ask the newspaper club member about the newspaper club, she'll mention on certain days that she is the only member left.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_5a81d733	comment	Timmy Failure: Total Failure, Inc, despite Timmy's claims of greatness, is only operated by himself and Total. Timmy's desire to purchase the huge tower for his agency's office is out of a desire to look good, not to actually fit workers.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_5ae0be5a	comment	While the Midwest Militia had more members, only three of them were ever present in WSU (at least until Mademoiselle Rachelle showed up). Their direct predecessor, Rain's Army, had many more members, both in total and on the WSU roster. However, there was a subversion in that three main militia members were just a small part of Flexor Industries.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_5ae0bec6	comment	If you watched WWE programming, you would get the impression that the upper management of the largest wrestling promotion on earth comprises entirely of Vince McMahon, Stephanie McMahon, Shane McMahon (when he's around), Triple H and Vince's comedic lackey du jour. Occasionally, a "Commissioner" or "President" would be appointed to handle day-to-day operations, but they did not appear to have any support staff or middle managers reporting to them. Usually, each of the major brands has a General Manager, who would run the program single-handedly, occasionally alongside an assistant or hired goon.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_5afbc0cb	comment	Undertale: Asgore's court consists only of Alphys (royal scientist), Undyne (captain of the guard), a handful of soldiers (Royal Guard 01, Royal Guard 02, and the Snowdin Canine Unit), and Papyrus (guard-in-training). Then again, there don't seem to be all that many monsters in the Underground, since the No Mercy route, which involves wiping out the monsters, has you kill several dozen monsters.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_5dbbf8fb	comment	Night Watch (Series) and Day Watch both are pretty small organizations. Although there are still enough of them to have offices in most major cities of the world. (even if with only a dozen or so Others per Watch) Justified. A.) there are only about 200 Others in Moscow, which has one of the "strongest watches" (Paris and Edinburgh Watches being the larger ones) in the world. One cop for every 20 people is actually an unreasonably high ratio. B.) As of Twilight Watch, the Watches can conscript any and all Others in the event of a crisis. The Night Watch trains all Light Others and Light Others unaffiliated with the Watch are even called 'reservists' a few times. It's noted in the first novel that, when the Moscow Night Watch moved into a new building, they built three floors' worth of classrooms for newly-initiated Others. Anton notes that someone must have been very optimistic, as there are, usually, about a dozen students at any given time. It's noted in New Watch that the Day Watch actually has a lot more members than the Night Watch, and there are generally about 16 times more Dark Others than Light Others. However, this is balanced out by the fact that a good number of Light Others are of a higher level, while most Dark Others are, basically, grunts. For example, the Moscow Day Watch only has one top-level Other, while its counterpart has three active members of the same level with one more in reserve. Much of the Day Watch is made up of vampires, werewolves, and low-level witches/warlocks. The eponymous organization in Twilight Watch is made up of three Others, although they do employ human mercenaries to do their dirty work.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_61944b1d	comment	In Little Nightmares, the Maw feels incredibly understaffed considering how mind-bogglingly huge it is. It's shown to have a prison, nursery, full-scale kitchen, large dining facilities, hotel rooms and it's essentially a large submarine. Despite this, it's shown to have a staff of Three (two cooks and janitor), not counting The Lady who presumably runs the place. It's possible there are many others working offscreen keeping the place going, tending to the guests, and keeping the prisoners in line, but none of them are ever shown or hinted at.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_6500e1de	comment	In The Day of Reckoning, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan befriend a scoundrel who takes them to Andra, the head of the POWER party, the single organization raising questions about the stewardship of Telos. They soon find that Andra is the only member; the scoundrel helps her out but isn't a member. She'd had a few other members before who had been killed while investigating, and after that happened all of her allies save the scoundrel had deserted her.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_660a8ba0	comment	Unseen University is like this as well. While we have Archchancellor Riducully and the Bursar, at least half of the jobs are done by one of the brightest and youngest wizards — Ponder Stibbons. And, in Unseen Academicals, he uses his large number of UU positions to his advantage; he's a voting majority on the University council all by himself. Not to mention that the complete staff roster for the largest, most dangerous, and most topographically complex Library in the known universe consists of one ape, who spends most of the winter months curled up under his desk wrapped in blankets. Rincewind has occasionally acted as his assistant during times when he is actually around the University.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_67ed82fa	comment	All the Families in The Godfather 2, including your own, have a very small number of Made Men. Some are justified: With yours at least, it's somewhat clear that you're just a branch of the greater Corleone Family. The Manganos are also apparently an offshoot of an established Sicilian Family. The two Rosato Families are unauthorised splinters from the Corleones. The Granados and Almeidas have no onscreen-stated excuse, though.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_691be369	comment	The X-Files consists of only two people handling the "special" cases. Good thing two cases never seem to crop up at once. Justified in the sense that they are given the "kooky" cases nobody else wants to touch.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_6a8aff51	comment	The Stormlight Archive: One of the ten Orders of Knights Radiant, the Bondsmiths, had a maximum membership of three. This is revealed to be because each Bondsmith gains their powers from a specific powerful spren, whereas the other Orders are associated with a class of spren.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_6ac55ec7	comment	The Skull Lords, of Dungeons & Dragons, consist of 12 low- to mid-level undead, each one of which usually has about four or five low-level minions to their name. There are monsters introduced in the same book that could wipe out their entire organization singlehandedly.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_6b85085e	comment	Anytime Raiden organizes a group of Earthrealm warriors in Mortal Kombat to oppose the forces of the Outworld, they tend to be small, and indeed, his efforts ended in failure in both Deadly Alliance and Armageddon. In Mortal Kombat 9, you could technically say he was successful (better than the alternative, at least; he saved the world and slew Shao Kahn — probably — despite horrible casualties for his side) but again, his group was a small one, starting with only seven (himself, Sonya, Johnny Cage, Jax, Sub-Zero, Liu Kang, and Kung Lao), the number later growing to 13 as Kitana and Jade defect to his side and Smoke, Stryker, Nightwolf, and Kabal join his cause later.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_6c1234ed	comment	Dwarf Fortress is an incredibly intricate and detailed game with head-crushing complexity, featuring damage systems detailed down to individual tissue layers and random dwarf generation that is more complex than most roleplaying games' entire player character generators. It's a text game (although it did get a version with graphics in late 2022, by which point it was 20 years old or so) whose sheer depth of processing can crush a computer that can run Far Cry 3. This game is programmed by a lone individual, known as Toady One.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_6c2c4bf3	comment	X-Men Film Series: Magneto's Brotherhood of Mutants. In the first movie, it's just him, Mystique, Toad, and Sabretooth. In the sequel, it's reduced to just him and Mystique. Averted in The Last Stand, where it expands to several dozen (or perhaps even hundred) members. Lampshaded in Deadpool (2016) when Deadpool shows up at the X-Mansion, only to find the same two X-Men he's been dealing with for the rest of the film:
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Oddly Small Organization / int_6c6852c7	comment	In Yakuza 3, the Ryudo family is mentioned to have soldiers out on patrol, but the only members ever shown are the patriarch Nakahara, his captain, and one of his lieutenants.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_6c9193a1	comment	Venture Industries, for most of the run of The Venture Brothers, appears to consist of Doctor Rusty Venture, who does pretty much all the company-involved work, Brock Samson, his bodyguard (later replaced by Sergeant Hatred), and H.E.L.P.eR, the put-upon Robot Butler, plus Hank and Dean, who aren't employees. There's also Hector and Swifty, who worked as janitors before Rusty took over the company and apparently just never stopped showing up to work; Rusty didn't even realize they were employed and promptly fired them the moment he met them. One episode implies that the company may still have some other employees, but Rusty's inability to work anything out with the superscience worker's union means that they've been on strike for years on end, and another had them taking on a bunch of college interns when they needed to get a larger project done. The small size of the company is very much intentional; Venture Industries is shown many times to be a collapsing shell of its former self, and the lack of employees is a big part of its woes.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_6cdec540	comment	Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: The Decepticon Justice Division, the most feared and despised part of the Decepticon army, capable of killing Phase Six class Decepticons, themselves each a One-Man Army, consists mainly of five people and their pet. Though they are mentioned to have agents and informants around.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_6db5698	comment	Transistor: The last of the Tap() information reveals that the Camerata are a deliberately small organization for a group that wants to enact large scale change:
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Oddly Small Organization / int_6eb4ca5c	comment	The Dark Hand in Jackie Chan Adventures was often referred to as being a superpowerful world-reaching crime net, with operatives everywhere... but the only operatives who seem to exist are the four henchmen (who aren't too bright), a black-belt temp, and their leader, no matter where Chan goes. Oh yeah... and the leader's driver. It would appear that their reputation is greatly exaggerated. Eventually the writers figured, "screw it," and the four/five characters were, by the end of their run, referred to as the Dark Hand exclusively, with no other members. Which of course raises further questions... In earlier episodes, the Dark Hand had a lot of nameless henchmen, but they probably all quit when they heard that their boss was taking orders from a statue. Not to mention that in later seasons, the organization has completely collapsed due to Valmont putting all his eggs in the Shendu basket, and now even those minions have moved on to other employment.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_6eda9bd5	comment	Space Precinct: The show never really gets into detail about how large an area or population the 88th Precinct covers, but it's got a mere six beat cops, a desk sergeant and a captain to cover the whole area. No wonder Demeter City is such a dump.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1: The US Government & Military setup Stargate Command, eventually staffing 20+ off-world teams and a significant base defence force, a large staff cadre including research scientists, a medical team, and assorted administrative sections such as a cafeteria. It is also under the command of a General. It does still follow a Ghost Extras format as we rarely see what any of the other teams are doing. The show focused on SG 1, their primary team. This is referenced in the aftermath of the episode "Heroes", where the General is accused of rashly committing almost his entire command, in an attempt to retrieve a single wounded trooper. The skirmish turns into a major firefight, both sides reinforce their troops, and it eventually becomes the largest ground battle the SGC has ever fought in. The battle ends up costing the life of an extremely important, invaluable, and irreplaceable member of the non-combatant staff. In the Season 1 finale, Bra'tac tells SG-1 that his "wing" will help them destroy Apophis's ship. When asked how large his wing was, he revealed that it consisted of him and two other guys. During the Ori arc, a big song and dance is made of Teal'c going to the Lucian Alliance (pretty much Space Mafia/Drug Dealers) in an effort to gain reinforcements for a major space battle. They show up, with three Hat'ak ships (which are practically obsolete, especially in the face of the Ori super-ships). Two of them get blown away in one shot each within seconds of warping in.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_72b5eb35	comment	Qwerpline: The Nsburg Volunteer Coast Guard consists of one person, Gordon. However, since Nsburg is landlocked the volunteer coast guard is primarily responsible for inspecting sewers and culverts so more people probably aren't needed. Officer Steve is the only member of the Nsburg Police Department ever heard in the show, although it's not clear if he's actually the only member or not. However, since the Nsburg PD does deputize the Girl Scouts to help with riot control the department is clearly quite small. Although it waxes and wanes with the episode, the whole town is clearly quite small. When a local election had 67 candidates, it was mentioned that one of the debate moderator's main qualifications was "being one of the few people not running". Nsburg has a "Search" rather than a Search and Rescue department, consisting of one guy who's very good at finding people but isn't interesting in rescuing them. They're trying to raise money to hire a second person to handle that part.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_73cee9a9	comment	This becomes a plot point in Seven Days in May, as the President's staff try to uncover evidence of a conspiracy to launch a Military Coup. As they don't know how far the conspiracy spreads, they can't rely on the FBI or the military CID. However, at one point they see a high-ranking officer carrying out a reconnaissance, and realise the conspirators have the same problem—they have to keep the conspiracy small to ensure secrecy.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_742af508	comment	Grim Fandango has the Lost Souls' Alliance (LSA), which at first literally has 2 members, and later on, has only two more that you are able to talk to, one of whom joined after you met her. But in the last part of the game, the LSA has many more members. And there's no sign of anyone working for the Department of Death other than Manny, Domino, Manny's boss Don Copal, and Manny's boss's secretary Eva. Even counting the demons summoned specifically to serve the DoD only increases the count by two, justified since the first part of the game, set on the DoD, takes place during the Dia de Los Muertos, where going to work is optional, and Manny points that the office seems empty that day.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_74365738	comment	By the time Moist is put in charge of it in Going Postal, there are only two employees left at the Ankh-Morpork Post Office, Mr. Groat and Stanley. (Three, if you count the cat.) In this case, its small size is justified by the Post Office not being a functioning organization: it hasnâ€™t delivered a single letter in decades. In Mr. Groat's youth, there had been hundreds of mail carriers, office workers, and mail coach crew members on staff.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_7460586f	comment	Archer: ISIS initially appeared to have a full support staff and a large number of field agents, but by about season 4 they seem to have dropped down to about six people. There does seem to have been a bit of transition in terms of fatalities and budget cuts; some of the later episodes even make a plot point about how they're forced to start using people like accountants and HR reps as extra agents. Following this, the fifth season premiere results in ISIS dissolving, the main cast together going off for other ventures, and the other surviving employees (if there were any) presumably going elsewhere.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_75c0d5be	comment	A similar situation happened in Choujin Sentai Jetman as well, when the Vyram destroy Skyforce's Earth Ship space station, with presumably lots of crewmembers on board, in the first episode. From thereon out, it's just the five Jetman and one commander. It gets somewhat odd later on when they're shown constructing new weapons and even one of their Humongous Mecha by themselves, when by all logic there should be other Skyforce employees or contractors to help them out. It gets even odder when the Neo-Jetmen show up led by Supreme Commander Ichijou.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_7668653a	comment	The team put together in Mass Effect 2 to wipe out the Collectors consists of Shepard, the 12 followers, Joker, EDI, and about two dozen personnel who keep the ship running. Keep in mind when they originally planned this operation they thought they'd have to basically invade a planet at the end.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_771fc130	comment	The Cowboy and Outlaw incarnations of Delta Green are divided in cells going from A to Z, each one with 3 agents (with their codenames starting their Cell's letter), this means they have 78 full-time members active all the time. Keep in mind this is the group that is supposed to protect and hide the population from the Cthulhu Mythos, however, sometimes they employ "friendlies" which are contacts that know about the unnatural and help Delta Green, most of the time they are contacted when the conspiracy needs them as they are closer or have specialized skills and some even are de facto agents members of a cell. While The Program is much bigger, more organized, and well-funded, it's still comparatively small compared to other U.S agencies or even to fictional counterparts. They do try to make themselves look like they are bigger than they are for their enemies and their own agents: The Karotechia (At least their remnants) is formed by three men, however, they managed to covertly achieve control of ODESSA (A secret organization of escaped Nazis) and to employ neo-Nazi, white supremacist, mercenary and criminal groups, collectively referred as the Bauern (Pawns), to work for them.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_77e30f15	comment	Secret Squirrel: In the 90s version, the Super Secret Service's only members are Secret Squirrel, Morocco Mole, the Chief and Penny.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe: "The Answer", a Whole Episode Flashback to the Gem Rebellion (and Garnet's role in it), shows an attack by the dreaded Crystal Gems... Rose Quartz and Pearl. Nobody else. Later episodes would introduce more Crystal Gems, such as Bismuth, so it's usually thought to be Garnet condensing it down to just the main characters for Steven's convenience (the episode being framed as a story she's telling Steven). The actual reason, as revealed in "Now We're Only Falling Apart", is that the Crystal Gems as we know them hadn't formed yet â€“ the ones Garnet saw were Pink Diamond and her Pearl faking a threat to get the Gems to leave Earth alone. The Crystal Gems as a real organization came about afterward, when Pink was inspired by Garnet's circumstances to take in misfit and outcast Gems and make Earth a haven for them.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_79dfce5	comment	The Vaglass from Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters consists of three members; Messiah, Enter, and Escape.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_7be2b17a	comment	Thundercats 1985: The Berserkers. Originally, Hammerhand had a fairly large crew but after his first appearance, the pirate band were reduced to him, Cruncher, Ram Bam and Top-Spinner.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_7c038c18	comment	Phineas and Ferb: Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated is just one mad scientist, his robot helper, and occasionally his daughter.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_7cea4fb2	comment	Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019): Monarch is now a global coalition, with a visibly far more excessive spending budget than they had in the 2014 film now that the whole world knows monsters exist, and yet their military division whom are deployed to combat the eco-terrorists and the malevolent monsters consists of... maybe a dozen, two dozen members at most?
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Oddly Small Organization / int_7cf5a07	comment	In The Flash (2014), S.T.A.R. Labs, who assists Barry Allen, only consists of Harrison Wells (the director), Cisco Ramon, and Caitlyn Snow. We later meet former employees Ronnie Raymond and Hartley Rathaway, but it's still incredibly small for a research facility with a particle accelerator. Justified in that the lab is supposed to be shut down; Cisco and Caitlyn are initially just sticking around unofficially out of loyalty to Wells, and subsequently as part of Team Flash. Wells at one point lists all the people who used to work there, and who died in the accident that got it shut down.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_7d1b5428	comment	In one episode of A Touch of Frost, after a man kidnaps a child, he sends a ransom message saying that said child has been taken by "The Task Force". It turns out that this "Task Force" is actually just the guy, but he uses the name to throw off the police.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_7d8c61a2	comment	Star Wars: The Old Republic: Havoc Squad is The Elite of The Elite, the best Republic Special Forces has to offer, known and respected by both the Republic and the Empire, and consists of just two guys (Player included) by the time everything on Ord Mantell is wrapped up. Justified as all the rest of squad pulled a Face-Heel Turn to the Empire and getting Havoc back to being a proper squad is a recurring secondary objective throughout the Republic Trooper storyline. Similarly the numbers of the Rift Alliance Military forces on Hoth can be counted one hand. Again this is a plot point with the Codex even saying most of them know they are screwed against their opponents the White Maw (an army of pirates whose numbers rival that both the Republic and Imperial personnel on the planet) with one soldier in particular even attempting to desert.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_7f069934	comment	On the other side of the equation, Avalanche apparently consists of five people: Barrett, Tifa, Biggs, Wedge and Jesse, with Cloud not being an official member on account of him being a merc. Final Fantasy VII Remake changes it so that that's the size of the Avalanche cell that the main characters are associated with, and that the rest of the organization considers them extremists on the fringe (so they donâ€™t get a lot of support). Another, considerably larger cell shows up later.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_7fc78282	comment	The Lord of the Rings makes mention of an order of wizards—of which only five exist, only three even figure into the story at all, and only two of those actually appear in person. There's a reasonable back story that the main books and movies don't detail at all: the wizards are an undercover angelic spec ops force sent by the Powers That Be. There's not more of them because (a) said Powers are still miffed, and (b) the last open attack had mountain ranges (not to mention an entire subcontinent) as collateral damage. Five is not few because Gandalf alone saves two kingdoms, spends the prequel restoring a third and expanding a fourth, and defeat his opposing number, doing more for the war effort than an ICBM would. Furthermore, it's implied in Tolkien's notes that the two "missing" wizards had been working offstage to stir up rebellion in Sauron's lands (i.e., three-quarters of the world) and prevented him from bringing his full forces to bear.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_815220e8	comment	The Transformers: Armada comic featured at most ten non-Minicon characters working for either faction.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek has a recurring plot point of the USS Enterprise being the only ship in Star Fleet available for even the most important missions. The worst-case was the first movie where it was the only ship available when an unknown object of great size approached Earth. Repeat, Star Fleet only had ONE ship to defend their base of operations. Occasionally this is subverted and we do see large groups of ships appear, but outside of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, in which there was a full-scale war going so it would ludicrous to keep using the "we're the only ship available" plot thread, it's extremely rare. They do the same thing in Star Trek: Generations, where a ship carting VIPs and press around within the solar system is the only ship in range to handle the SOS call. Note a Starfleet ship can traverse the solar system in something like 10 seconds. And again, Earth is the center of the Federation, with San Francisco as its capital. It makes sense to be the only ship in the sector when they run into a Negative Space Wedgie while exploring the vast reaches of space, but you can't be the only ship in the sector when the ships are built at a network of stations in Mars orbit. In Star Trek: The Next Generation, when the Borg are approaching Earth, the Federation sends three tiny fighters to counter it. They all get immediately vaporized. Even if that's literally all they have left after Wolf 359, you have to wonder why the Federation would send those poor pilots on a suicide mission. What did they think they'd accomplish? It's such a pointless, obviously futile attempt the only explanation is that they were automated ships probably set to try and ram the cube. In the Original Series episode "A Piece of the Action", Krako tries to call (what he thinks is) Kirk's bluff by invoking this trope: "I only saw three guys in that ship. Maybe there ain't no more!" Section 31 is the plausibly deniable black-ops wing of The Federation in Star Trek (specifically Deep Space Nine). While Section 31 shows up in three episodes, we only really see one guy (and a couple of extras). Justified (maybe) as the organization being secretive enough that they only show up when they want to, and only reveal one operative to any given group to maintain secrecy. A less extreme example, but considering the sheer size of the Dominion, it does stretch belief a little that the Female Shapeshifter is generally the only founder to be seen doing anything meaningful. This was compounded in the last season after their union with the Cardassians and the Breen, when many scenes took place at the very heart of their military operations, yet the only commanders ever seen to be giving orders were Weyoun, Damar and that Breen guy. Possible justifications, in order: Shapeshifter, Clone, Damar and environment suit. And in the first case, it may be the converse: when the single mass consciousness of the Founders splits off a part of itself to do anything meaningful (and administrative), that part assumes the Female Shapeshifter's form and personality. The species is surprisingly uninterested in variety, after all, and the character look is supposed to come off as "generic humanoid". Other than the ones on infiltration duty, she was the only Founder left in the quadrant after the wormhole was closed and recaptured by Sisko. She had mass-produced ranks of Vorta to do all the work of actually running things. Even at the height of the period when the Federation and its allies were terrified of Founder infiltration, one Founder took amusement in informing Sisko that there were only three operating in the entire Federation, pointing out that the fear of the Founders was doing more than the Founders themselves ever could. In the final episode, the Cardassian "resistance" assaulting the Founder's stronghold consists of about three Cardassians & Kira. This was down to sheer attrition; they started off with a significant rebellion, but by the moment of truth only the main characters (and some random guys who had been guarding the place minutes before) were left alive. In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Remember Me", people keep being Ret-Gone, and Dr Crusher is the only person who remembers them. No matter how small the Enterprise crew gets, nobody else seems to see any issue. Even when it's just her and the captain.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_819b8c9e	comment	The team from Warehouse 13 consists of just four people backed by an Ancient Conspiracy tasked with protecting the entire world. This was apparently not always the case as scenes in the '60s reveal a busy office with at least two active teams. However, flashbacks to the '90s always show just two guys (Young Artie and Young MacPherson). An alternate present where Pete was never born also has the Warehouse reduced to a single team with a supervisor. This is especially weird as we are shown that The Regents that is in charge of the Warehouse but never seem to do much number at least a dozen. This was justified the first time we see them in person; other than go to meetings for votes they have almost no involvement and make their living in other jobs. The idea is that they represent the population at large.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_8315ed3e	comment	The Conduit of Mega Man: Defender of the Human Race only seems to have four field agents at most and rarely sends more than one or two at a time. There's a hint or two that the group is bigger than what we see, but nothing to really back it up besides some robot mooks. Tiesel actually exploits this for more benefits when increased pressure from the FBI prevents the organization from hunting for more recruits.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_84d1021b	comment	In NEO: The World Ends with You, the Ruinbringers consist of only three people — Susukichi, Tsugumi and their unseen leader Game Master Shiba — but win the games every time, despite the fact that even the Wicked Twisters (the party) is larger than they are from the end of the game's first day.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_86061aff	comment	Neptunia: Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2: Cave mentions being a part of a group called the Leanbox Defense Force, who work to protect Leanbox from outside threats. If she quits to join the party, their membership drops to three. Lampshaded and justified in Megadimension Neptunia VII with the "secret organization" AffimaX, which per Warechu's own words consists of only five members (and technically is actually "four and one other" with that other being Ultradimension Neptune) yet has global reach across all of Gameindustri. And if you want to get technical, Arfoire and Warechu are just officially allied with the organization and a bit player respectively, with the true power being the founder Affimojas and his loyal enforcer/best friend Steamax. In this case, they just adopted the whole "secret organization" label the media spinned up about them. Their actual purpose before Kurome rewrote reality and the memories of the citizens with her power is as the largest information sharing site in the world and wielding that intelligence to their advantage, with Affimojas himself outright stating he's not interested in "war" in the form of armed conflict and much prefers the control and dispersal of (true or fake) information in order to make money.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_87c2b177	comment	In the Sci-Fi Channel's The Invisible Man, the protagonist works for a secret government agency that seems to consist of nothing more than Da Chief, his assistant, the scientist, and two (three in the second season) field agents. Lampshaded as it's apparently small enough to be passed around to become a branch of various departments of The Government. But then, The Agency is more just Darian and his handlers, and a running theme is that those in charge keep individuals in the dark to an unreasonable degree.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_89465e75	comment	Percy Jackson and the Olympians: One of the major worldbuilding lore is that how every single important conflict and person in western history is demigod or demigod-related despite the fact that Camp Half-Blood is heavily isolated community (which isn't help by the fact that demigods cannot use wireless divices or phones due to attracting monsters) who only has ~100 demigods at the best of times and only a small percentage of those achieve adulthood. In the Egyptian spinoff series that takes place in the same universe The Kan Chronicles: An interesting tidbit is that the House of Life, a mage organization that existed since the heyday of Ancient Egypt, is actually horrifically small for a global organization. At the start of the canon the entire new generation of mages — as in all the potential initiates in the world — amount to just 24, and apparently the First Nome (the biggest of all 360 Nomes) is so short-staffed they had to resort to using these new initiates to monitor the other Nomes. Jarring since unlike the Greeks, they aren't being hunted by monsters 24/7 nor are they busy fighting apocalypses
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Oddly Small Organization / int_89bf8ce	comment	Played with in 30 Rock. The GE (and later Kabletown) executive hierarchy at NBC sometimes seems to consist entirely of Jack, although this is mostly because he has a large personal interest in Tracy (who is high-maintenance and a mainstay of their income) and Liz (whom he has an interest in grooming for the elite). There have been several occasions where Kenneth acts like Jack is his direct supervisor, prompting Jack to remind him that there are numerous people in between the two of them.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_8ba4613a	comment	There are two examples in Death Note; both are probably justified. First, L's task force consists of himself, Watari, five of the main police officers and later, Light. The original organization had quite a lot more members, but they were afraid for their lives, what with the whole Kira thing, and L did not want to reveal his face to a large group of people. The second, the SPK, also started off with a lot of members, but Mello offed all but Near and three smart enough not to reveal their true names to Mello's mole, which kind of put a damper on things.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_8d81bb26	comment	NCIS, good God, yes. The entire NCIS lab consists of one person, the morgue has two, the administration has one, and so on. No other team or lab workers or anyone are ever seen. Deconstructed in that they all work 16-hour days in order to do the jobs of an entire organization themselves. There are other teams, some of which are even shown occasionally, but Gibbs' team is supposed to be the best, which explains why it's the one getting sent on most of the murder investigations. The other agents — and sometimes Gibbs' team itself — are presumably taking care of more mundane things like kidnappings. There are other members aside from the NCIS Director in the administration, though the only other member regularly seen is Assistant Director Granger, who permanently oversees the Office of Special Projects on NCIS: Los Angeles. Vance himself was promoted to his position after spending time as the agency's Deputy Director. Vance also has his own number two, whose absence from headquarters is handwaved by saying that Deputy Director Jerome Craig is almost permanently on the road attending international conferences that Vance doesn't want to bother with and doesn't enjoy being in the office in the first place. Abby is presumably assigned specifically to Gibbs' team; if she works on anything for anyone else we don't see much of it. This isn't very efficient (it would be much better to have one large lab for all teams to avoid duplication of equipment and to allow the more esoteric equipment to be run by a specialist in that particular piece of equipment, as well as allowing the lab to do analysis of multiple pieces of evidence at once instead of having a bottleneck because there's only one tech doing everything), but that would require a larger cast/set. NCIS: New Orleans seems to consist of three agents, a medical examiner, and a forensic lab tech with no indication that it has any other personnel, to the point of the main characters being called in whenever there is a crime when they are off-duty. The NCIS office in New Orleans is supposed to be the Navy's investigative centre for the entire Gulf Coast! The weirdest part? This was actually the case for the real NCIS NO for some time, which was the inspiration for the show in the first place.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_8dd8ec81	comment	Sailor Moon: The Dark Kingdom consists only of Queen Beryl, the Four Kings of Heaven and Queen Metalia. Averted in the anime where they have an army's worth of monsters. Similarly, the Dead Moon Circus consisted only of Zirconia, the Amazoness Quartet, Queen Nehellenia, the Amazon Trio and Xenotime & Zeolite. Also averted in the anime where they had an army of Lemures.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_8de0e284	comment	Snatcher: The Junker organization the protagonist belongs to is tasked with tracking down and eliminating people-snatching robots in the city of Neo Kobe. Their headquarters is in a skyscraper. There are maybe five members, and only two are on active duty at the start of the game. Shortly reduced to one. There were three other guys, but they were killed just before the start of the game.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Kim Possible: Big Bad Dr. Drakken is occasionally shown to have a few dozen Punch-Clock Villain Mooks at his disposal, but in most episodes, they're nowhere to be seen and the whole Evil Plot of the Week is just him and Dark Action Girl Shego doing their thing. At one point, they were briefly seen in an employee lounge and took no further part in the episode. Then again, Shego is pretty much all the help he needs (especially considering that the rank-and-file mooks are generally useless and serve as little more than speed bumps in Kim's way). Several things have been mentioned in episodes that might explain the on-again-off-again presence of Drakken's rank-and-file mooks. Drakken's Villain Cred is notoriously weak, and he's sometimes short on money (and, at least according to Shego, he's tight-fisted with money when he does have it). That would make it hard to recruit and keep people. Kim Possible's group itself. It consists of herself, Ron, Rufus, Wade, and that's it. If it wasn't for all of the people who owe her favors, she wouldn't get much done. Justified in that she never passes herself off as anything other than a teenager doing odd jobs on the side. Almost every class we see at Middleton High School is taught by Mr. Barkin. He occasionally explains that he is substituting for another teacher who was sidelined by some random mishap.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_90b916ba	comment	Batman: The Animated Series: The episode "Pretty Poison" makes it appear the GCPD is comprised solely of Commissioner Gordon, Harvey Bullock, Renee Montoya and six other nameless guys.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_92ac8bc0	comment	The Xenonauts are supposed to be the last line of defense against the alien threat. However, the force commands 20-30 troops at best (not counting fighter pilots, engineers, scientists, and such). There are various explanations of this situation, mostly revolving around some sort of political plot.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_93985d2b	comment	Plan 9 from Outer Space: The entire alien fleet? Three aliens ships with, seemingly, three or four aliens inside. And the eponymous plan only succeeds in creating a mere three zombies.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_959dd815	comment	Most of the organizations qualify. The megacorp Momcorp and all its subsidiaries seem to be staffed entirely by Mom and her three sons (though Dr. Farnsworth worked there before). During the film "Into Wild Green Yonder," the Wongs, who are building a mini-golf course the size of an entire arm of the galaxy, have four construction workers on staff, and one security guy — Fry. The New New York Police seems to have two cops on staff, with the chief introduced in one of the movies. Similarly, the League of Robots is composed of four robots (and Bender) who all happen to be particularly affluent 'bots (Hedonism bot, that Rich banker, a soap opera star, and an Ultimate Robot Fighter)
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Oddly Small Organization / int_960062b7	comment	In My Hero Academia, Sir Nighteye's hero agency consists of himself, two sidekicks — Centipeder and Bubble Girl — and his intern and protege Mirio. Despite taking on Midoriya as an intern during the Internship arc, Nighteye has no desire to increase the size of his organization. By the end of the arc, Nighteye is dead, Mirio has lost his quirk and Midoriya returns to school, leaving the agency down to two people.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_98c961e2	comment	In Helluva Boss, the Immediate Murder Professionals (I.M.P) consists of its owner BlitzÃ¸, his two employees Moxxie and Millie, and his receptionist/adopted daughter Loona. Could be justified given that it's an independent business (and the fact that BlitzÃ¸ isn't that competent of a boss).
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Oddly Small Organization / int_9a67b688	comment	Case Closed: The Syndicate that serves as the overarching Big Bad of the series only ever seems to have a half-dozen agents in circulation at any given time, even when they're making direct assaults on the FBI. To add insult to injury, almost all the agents outside Gin and Vodka (and later, Chianti and Korn) are Moles for various law-enforcement agencies. Even Vermouth will sabotage their plans whenever she feels like it.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_9a7088bc	comment	In the Original Series episode "A Piece of the Action", Krako tries to call (what he thinks is) Kirk's bluff by invoking this trope: "I only saw three guys in that ship. Maybe there ain't no more!"
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Oddly Small Organization / int_9ab064e6	comment	Watchers of Les MisÃ©rables could be forgiven for thinking that Inspector Javert is the only policeman in all of France. We first see him as Valjean's parole officer. When Fantine attacks a sea captain in Montreuil-sur-Mer, Javert is the officer who comes to arrest her (coincidentally running across Valjean in the process). In Paris, when Thenardier tries to mug Valjean, who should show up but Javert (who had already been established as the primary police presence in their neighborhood)? Who tries to infiltrate the barricades? Javert (it's already been established that they know him by sight; the infiltration plan would have worked if it had been literally any other policeman). Who catches Valjean and Marius on their way home? Javert. Aside from the two men who bring Valjean to the Bishop in the first act, no other law enforcement officers show up at all.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_9af804ae	comment	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: For a N.G.O. Superpower capable of helping the Cretan Insurrection, destroy The Empire ships and with his own language, the Nautilus crew is small: We only see Captain Nemo, his Number Two, and two unfortunate crewmen that die in the novel. And because they have severed all contact with inhabited continents, there will be no more crewmen. Aronnax made a calculation about fewer than 60 people:
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Oddly Small Organization / int_9b530c26	comment	Archie Comics. In the Bronze and Silver Ages, Riverdale High seemed to only have two full-time teachers on staff, despite the school being depicted as large enough to have 2 or 3 floors. The instructors are Miss Grundy for the likes of English and history, and Professor Flutesnoot for math and science classes. Less often they also had the older Miss Haggly. The school does have a principal (Mr. Weatherbee), a cafeteria cook (Miss Beazly), a custodian (Svensen), and two coaches (Kleats and Clayton). Other one-shot faculty and staff appear when part of a storyline.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_9b7e31d	comment	Thunderbirds: International Rescue appears to operate on severely stripped-back skeleton staffs. It takes thousands of people to make NASA's space-launches a reality, for instance. Yet Tracy Island seems to manage more atmospheric and space flights with just one guy doing all the support work and maintaining the craft and the launch pads — Brains. Also, the poor guy on the Thunderbirds space station seems to be a prisoner for life — he never gets relieved or gets a shore leave.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_9bb5aad4	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: Kagemaru and the Seven Stars Assassins (Seven Shadow Riders in the Dub). It doesn't help that they have two incompetent and harmless members and another member who isn't that strong.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_9c657880	comment	Mission: Impossible â€“ Ghost Protocol: Hendricks/Cobalt has an organization that seemingly consists solely of himself and his Dragon (and as it turns out, half the time The Dragon is simply Hendricks himself wearing a latex mask). He also hires an assassin and her men for one job and kidnaps a scientist whose family he's holding hostage for another. Even counting the extended group, that's less than half a dozen people. Which makes sense, because it can be hard to find professional employees when your organization's stated goal is literally to destroy most of the world.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_9d47a2a2	comment	Varys of A Song of Ice and Fire is a highly knowledgeable and untrustworthy "master of whisperers," but these whisperers are nowhere to be seen. Even when questioned about his sources by a direct superior, he gives evasive answers. He almost certainly has an entire army of informers, and it's theorized that the "little birds" always telling him things are mute, literate children creeping in the secret passages of King's Landing.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_9e2dbb4d	comment	Regular Show has seven people (if one can call them people) staffing a city park roughly the size of Central Park.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_9e2f90f4	comment	At the start of One Piece, Zoro is a bit incredulous that the pirate crew he is joining consists of himself and Luffy. Luffy expresses a goal of getting a crew with ten members, which is quite small considering that most major crews number in the thousands. That being said, after the Dressrosa arc, the Straw Hats recruit many of those who helped them in that arc into the Straw Hat Grand Fleet, gaining thousands of allies who will help them when they need it.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_9e32f21b	comment	While some franchise entries like The Castle of Cagliostro show Zenigata leading a squad of police, more often he's working the Lupin case alone or with whatever cooperation he's able to wrangle out of local law enforcement. One wonders if the real reason he can't catch Lupin is that it's one against four.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_9e876c22	comment	The Good Omens witchfinders. They've dwindled down to Witchfinder-Sergeant Shadwell and Witchfinder-Private Newton Pulsifer, but apparently in their heyday, there was a whole Witchfinder Army. It is implied (If not outright stated) that Shadwell is paid by Crowley and Aziraphale, both of whom think that Witchfinders are on their side â€“ Azriphale because he's a witchfinder, and witches are evil, Crowley because of what witchfinders do to witches once they're found. Of course, this later proves to be true of most of the organizations they consider to be on their side.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_9f6c32a9	comment	The Fraternity in Wanted. For an organization tasked with keeping the world in balance, they are a pretty small group of people. Explained in the sequel video game, where the Fraternity featured in the movie is only a local branch.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: Played with and justified in PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon with Team Skull. They are a constant threat to the populace and PokÃ©mon of Alola, but are much smaller compared to the "Team" organizations from the previous generations, to the point of having exactly one admin note (there is also Gladion, but even then he is a hired hand and the other members don't consider him one of them) and the first few battles with them being the same two grunts. This makes sense, since Alola is composed of a few islands and Team Skull is a street gang, so they are enough to pose a threat. Also, evil groups in the series are usually referred to as "Gangs" in the Japanese releases. Finally, they're secretly backed by the much bigger Aether Foundation. Team Yell in PokÃ©mon Sword and Shield is an even smaller organization—they consist of no more than a dozen hoodlums based in Spikemuth and as few as six or seven grunts roaming around Galar. There are also no admins whatsoever, with just the grunts and their leader Piers, who shows no signs of even being aware of what his organization is doing. Justified, though, as Team Yell's purpose is simply to let Marnie pass ahead of the other Gym Challengers by slowing the others down—they only need to locate bottlenecks where the furthest challengers are and get in their way, which doesn't require many people as long as they're good enough at what they do. Averted with the larger-scope villainous organization Macro Cosmos, which controls most of the industries in the Galar region: It DOES have an admin system and contains a seemingly endless supply of grunts.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_9f997b2b	comment	Subverted in Quantum of Solace, when Mr. White's secret interrogation triggers the attack of an unknown associate. M responds: "When someone says that they have people everywhere, you expect it to be hyperbole. Lots of people say that. Florists use that expression. It doesn't mean that they have people in the bloody room."
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Oddly Small Organization / int_a0465376	comment	Buddy Thunderstruck: Sheriff Cannonball and Deputy Hoisenberry are the only cops in Greasepit.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: Parodied with the Robot Mafia, which consists of only two minions and a "Don Bot," and, temporarily, Bender. Most of the organizations qualify. The megacorp Momcorp and all its subsidiaries seem to be staffed entirely by Mom and her three sons (though Dr. Farnsworth worked there before). During the film "Into Wild Green Yonder," the Wongs, who are building a mini-golf course the size of an entire arm of the galaxy, have four construction workers on staff, and one security guy — Fry. The New New York Police seems to have two cops on staff, with the chief introduced in one of the movies. Similarly, the League of Robots is composed of four robots (and Bender) who all happen to be particularly affluent 'bots (Hedonism bot, that Rich banker, a soap opera star, and an Ultimate Robot Fighter)
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Oddly Small Organization / int_a2174d23	comment	In 'Allo 'Allo!, we only ever see two or three members of the French Resistance and two members of the Gestapo. Both groups are actually very much over-represented, the Gestapo very much so. The large Wehrmacht presence is harder to explain though — in one episode an outing is announced "to be attended by all officers below the rank of General" — and sure enough, that turns out to be just the three regular officers. And one of them is Italian.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_a2f8a60e	comment	The version of Akatsuki as seen in Kitsune no Ken: Fist of the Fox consists of seven members (Yahiko, Kyusuke, Konan, Kakuzu, Hidan, Monjin and Deidara) whose goal is to kill the members of the Nine Terrors for having either caused them personal harm or having caused them to lose a loved one during the 365 days of violence when the Terrors were in operation, and they are backed by a mysterious figure who provides them with financial support. Despite being small in number, their reputation is so widespread that the government actually tasks Nii Yugito, one of the Terrors who's now in their employ, to warn Naruto that they are around and will likely come after him.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_a34863aa	comment	The comic book studio Mirage Studios, responsible for the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic that spawned a multimedia franchise, was run solely by its creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird at the time of its creation, so the very name is practically a Lampshade Hanging on their part. This applied less when they hired more people and assistant artists.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_a49a890c	comment	The Grail in Preacher is an Ancient Conspiracy that practically runs the world, but once Starr takes control of it he seems to run it with only the help of two operatives. Justified in that those are the only two people he trusts, and he doesn't want a lot of powerful lieutenants who can oppose his claim to power. We also see the consequences of this style of leadership, as without any organised command structure holding the various Grail cells together they start drifting away and stop taking orders from Starr.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Code Geass subverts this. From the beginning, the group that turns into the Black Knights is shown as a small terrorist cell. When the Black Knights grow, you see how much they've grown (as they get a submarine as well as many more members). They end up as the official military force of most of the world.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_a4ff8e01	comment	The Chaldea Security Organization in Fate/Grand Order had exactly four consistent members for all of Part 1: the protagonist, Da Vinci, Doctor Romani Archaman, and Mash Kyrielight, plus the Servants the protagonist summoned, which come and go depending on the needs of the plot. And Fou. In some fairness, their numbers were apparently badly decimated in the Incineration of Humanity, but we still see a lot of mentions of technicians, janitors, or other support staff that never appear (which isn't helped by the Visual Novel presentation). Part 2 adds a couple Mauve Shirt staff that were apparently always in the background, who get retroactively added into anime adaptations of the first storyline's last few arcs.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_a606596a	comment	In Chrono Cross, in mild contrast to its base (where it was comprised of three people), the band of thieves called the Radical Dreamers is... really just Kid.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_a6543322	comment	Team Shanghai Alice, a one-man operation.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_a69ea70d	comment	The Trust from 100 Bullets seems to have the number of members you'd expect a large crime syndicate to have. The problem is that the Trust isn't just supposed to be a large crime syndicate, it's supposed to be an ungodly powerful Ancient Conspiracy that pervades every aspect of government and crime in the North American continent. The reader never sees how they manage to pull off stunts like gathering all the "irrefutable evidence" Graves is always giving people, or shutting down the investigation of any crime where their bullets were used.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_a92c264a	comment	The Inquisition in Exterminatus Now seemed to consist of only the four main characters plus a few recurring characters. However, the truth is that while the Inquisition is much bigger, the reasons main characters are so rarely seen with other Inquisitors is because A: they are blackmailing the chief to have a large, well-furnished building to themselves, and B: everyone else in the Inquisition hates them and hope that they die, so they rarely send backup. They even have a betting pool. However, the reason they don't just murder them themselves is that they are useful due to their absurd amounts of luck. This gets averted in one arc where they take command of a small Badass Army.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_a96a7ada	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! The Doma organization in Season 4 of Yu-Gi-Oh! apparently consists at the beginning of the season of Dartz, Rafael, Amelda/Alister, Varon/Valon, Grimo/Grerimo, and, at one point, Mai, and no one else. Haga/Weevil and Ryuzaki/Rex were briefly members, but they didn't last long. And its members lose their souls one at a time over the course of the season. Before, we have Noah and his (actually Gozaburo's) group, the Big Five. Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: Kagemaru and the Seven Stars Assassins (Seven Shadow Riders in the Dub). It doesn't help that they have two incompetent and harmless members and another member who isn't that strong. The Dark Signers from Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds are five duelists. Then Bommer/Greiger joins them after Devack lost to the two Tagalong Twins, but he loses to Crow who wasn't even a Signer at that time. When all six Dark Signers are defeated, Rex Godwin became the last Dark Signer. Yliaster has only three members: Placido/Primo, Lucciano/Lester, and Jose/Jakob. Then they fuse into one being. The Barians, the villains of the second season of Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL, are supposedly the representatives of an entire extradimensional race that are the enemies of the Astral World. However, only seven of them (called the Seven Barian Emperors) tend to do much, and there were only five at first: Durbe, Alit, Misael, Gilag, and Vector. The remaining two, Nasch and Merag, were actually Shark and his sister Rio in their past lives; they were recruited into the group later. They did have a few allies like Mr. Heartland and the Fearsome Four, Black Mist (who double-crossed them) and were ultimately revealed to be under the sway of the true ruler of the Barian World, Don Thousand. Later on in the series, it becomes apparent that there is indeed a Barian race; it's just that being Energy Beings, they don't tend to appear often.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_aaa65d7e	comment	In the third Rebuild of Evangelion film, NERV seems to consist entirely of Gendo, Fuyutsuki, Rei, and Kaworu, with the majority of the operation being automated. To be fair, the only people in the world at this point either work for NERV or work on the AAA Wunder and try to destroy NERV.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_ab42c63a	comment	In later episodes of Get Smart, Control seems to consist of the Chief, Max, 99, and Larrabee, with the Chief constantly involved in fieldwork.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_ac5f19b0	comment	King of Kings: GaoGaiGar vs. Betterman: After Guy's return, it's revealed that while all of the Gutsy Galaxy Guard's duties and staff (apart from those left in the Trinary Solar System) had been folded into the Gutsy Global Guard, Chief Yaginuma hadn't retired as was commonly believed, but had stayed on as Chief of the Galaxy Guard. And since all the other members (apart from Mamoru and Ikumi) were officially MIA, he was technically the only remaining member of the Gutsy Galaxy Guard until Guy came back. To a slightly lesser extent, this trope still applies after Guy's return, as while Kotaro Taiga is reappointed as the Galaxy Guard's Chief, with the rest of the group incommunicado, the UN hands over the reins to Guy as "Gutsy Galaxy Guardâ€™s Acting Chief-slash-Mobile Corps Captain-slash-only member."
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Oddly Small Organization / int_aee68dc5	comment	In Charlie Wilson's War the CIA is supplying the Afghans to fight against the Soviets but without any sort of real plan. When asked what the United States' strategy was, we get this trope:
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Oddly Small Organization / int_b2dbb105	comment	Only the Brave Can Rescue the Kidnapped Princess: Longsword is the King's only knight, though the reason for that is the King fired the rest as he felt they were unnecessary for 'today's civilized society'. However, Jonathan the page and Muggins the magician are the only other castle staff seen in the game and the Queen is said to be the one who cooks for the King.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_b30ae4db	comment	In Game of Thrones, the warlock Pyat Pree is the leader of a coven called "the undying", who are spoken of as a multitude. However, no other warlocks are seen in the House of the Undying, only Pree's many, many clones. The Night's Watch, responsible for defending the realm from the wildlings and treated as Serious Business by the show (if not necessarily by all of the characters), is at one point implied to consist of 50 men. Contrast the books, where the Watch is considered dangerously understaffed with a thousand members, and even after taking horrendous losses is still an army of several hundreds. The Watch in the show starts at about the same level but takes more casualties over time. The writers also apparently completely forgot about the men in the other two castles after Season 4, making the population of Castle Black the entire Night's Watch. As of the end of Season 6, there are at most 30 men left. The Faceless Men are master assassins from Braavos who are so renowned and feared that Westerosi nobles discuss them. All we ever see of them in the show is one man and one petite woman, and their new recruit Arya Stark. It's unclear if there are actually many more Faceless Men who all simply wear the same faces, if other members remain unseen, or if these two are really just that good. Appears to have taken full effect in Season 7, with Cersei's Queenly court only having a few members, the lords of the Reach being of a number that can be counted on one hand, and no Dornish lords being seen since Season 4. Made especially apparent when a great meeting is called to discuss a truce and only Daenerys' own small court, Jon Snow, and Cersei's guard show up, despite there being seven kingdoms.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_b507f2d1	comment	Scooby-Doo has the mystery-solving group known as Mystery Inc., which is made of four teenagers (or young adults) and a talking dog. In most cases they don't use any extra people, and those are honorary members at best.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_b8c8f573	comment	In PVP, at the end of the arc in which Skull runs away after Brent's abuse gets to be too much for him, the rat Skull befriended tries to invite him into the "Rat Family," a criminal organization he hopes will rise and become powerful. Skull asks how many people there are in it, and the rat says that if Skull joins, there will be two members.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_b8e7bb8	comment	Super Sentai: Most commonly it's the villainous organizations that tend to have so little members outside of the generals that you have to wonder how they keep control of all the territories they conquer, though even the heroic side can have its short-staffing issues. The Secret Society Egos from Battle Fever J consist of the Big Bad, Satan Egos; his Dragon Heller; their Mooks and whichever Monster of the Week they cook up for the episode. They get temporarily a staff upgrade with the strongwoman Salome but that's about it. Unusually for a Sentai team, who usually have a huge Mission Control backing them up, Choujuu Sentai Liveman, for a time, only consisted of the Power Trio and their Robot Buddy; two extra members joined mid-series. Justified as they were basically college students whose former colleagues turned bad and in the first episode proceeded to lay waste to the college (which was on an island). A similar situation happened in Choujin Sentai Jetman as well, when the Vyram destroy Skyforce's Earth Ship space station, with presumably lots of crewmembers on board, in the first episode. From thereon out, it's just the five Jetman and one commander. It gets somewhat odd later on when they're shown constructing new weapons and even one of their Humongous Mecha by themselves, when by all logic there should be other Skyforce employees or contractors to help them out. It gets even odder when the Neo-Jetmen show up led by Supreme Commander Ichijou. The Evolian Tribe of Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger consists of their boss, Dezumozorlya; its mouthpiece: Lije, the generals Jeanne, Voffa and Mikela and the Barmia Soldiers; with Mikoto Nakadai/AbareKiller joining them for most of the series in the latter half. They lose one major member two episodes into the series and it's shown later on that they initially consisted of only two members beyond the Barmia: Dezumozorlya and Dezumovoorla, who was split into Mikela and Voffa before they were able to brainwash Mahoro, her child and her brother, Mizuho; into more generals. The Vaglass from Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters consists of three members; Messiah, Enter, and Escape. The Druidon Tribe generals from Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger operate at the absolute bare minimum numbers for a villain faction at almost all times. It is seldom for all three generals to appear at once, and it is not until two-thirds of the way through the show that there are four at once.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_b96564e6	comment	Fawlty Towers is an interesting case. The entire hotel seems to be run by Mr and Mrs Fawlty (Managers), Polly (Waitress) and Manuel (Porter/Waiter). The second series introduces us to Terry (Chef), although dialogue in the final episode of Series 1 implied they did have a chef back then, he was just The Ghost. The first episode of Series 2 also mentions another girl who's being employed but can't start until Monday.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_bad6ce79	comment	Magneto's Brotherhood of Mutants. In the first movie, it's just him, Mystique, Toad, and Sabretooth. In the sequel, it's reduced to just him and Mystique. Averted in The Last Stand, where it expands to several dozen (or perhaps even hundred) members.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_bc848d30	comment	SpongeBob SquarePants has the Krusty Krab. This would be fine, all and all, given that Mr. Krabs is a cheapskate that uses as few people as possible for a single restaurant. But the only other people besides him are SpongeBob and Squidward, so the staff is even smaller when either of the three are not there and the place keeps going well somehow. Squidward is the cashier, SpongeBob does all the cooking and cleaning, and Krabs does everything else, including accounting, management, budgeting...
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Oddly Small Organization / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Space Marine chapters in Warhammer 40,000 famously number about 1,000 each due to structural regulations put in place after the Horus Heresy. Some stories attempt to justify this by having them operate as strike teams while the Guard handles the stuff that needs more people, while others have 1,000 guys casually conquering a whole planet. This is especially prevalent with popular chapters like the Space Wolves or the Ultramarines, who show up to engagements across the galaxy far more often than you'd expect for a group that could fit onto a football fieldnote Though in the Space Wolves defense, they not-so-secretly operate beyond Codex parameters so their actual numbers might be a few hundred or thousand more. Still fairly small when taken on a planetary or galactic scale.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_bd1137ca	comment	Many of the factions in The Illuminatus! Trilogy consists of few (often, five) members, while others are more widespread conspiracies. Most importantly, the true, benevolent Illuminati, aka Aâˆ´Aâˆ´, has some five members.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_bdc321e2	comment	In War of the Worlds (1988), the US government's response to a planetary invasion by aliens who had previously almost devastated the Earth was... to put three scientists and one soldier to work on the problem. The project was later assigned a military squad as well, but still.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_bdf6d43e	comment	Oros Phlox, the main villains in Project Ã— Zone, only consists of three members. Due Frabellum is the leader, but it later turns out that Due as well as the Belanos brothers answer to Meden Traore, the fourth member and true leader of Oros Phlox.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_be03a5ee	comment	The Tribulation Force in the Left Behind series, despite its grand name, is just four people. Worse, the world-conquering conspiracy they're rebelling against is also... four people (as the Slacktivist pointed out). It's actually six if you count the two who are in both groups.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_be462008	comment	Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins: a former cop is forcibly recruited by a secret government organization called the CURE, founded by President Kennedy to safeguard the country from all threats by any means necessary. The entire organization consists of only three people (including the new recruit) and a powerful computer (for its time). There is also an Old Master who trains Remo, but he's not officially a member. The book series this is adapted from explains it better; CURE has several thousand street-level operatives and informants, most of whom believe they work for an organized crime syndicate or in corporate espionage and none of whom do more than gather information — or more commonly, copy off what they're already collecting for somebody else. CURE also maintains executive-backed authority to tap law enforcement, intelligence, and military communications and issue (forged, ostensibly from known superiors) orders to same. The very small administration and enforcement arm is meant both to expedite the one order the President retains authority to give it ("disband, commit suicide and make sure nobody will ever find any trace you existed") and make it possible to quickly but fully brief the President on just what it's been up to so an informed decision about that order can be made.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_bfb483af	comment	From Splatoon, the New Squidbeak Splatoon is a militia dedicated to taking down the unscrupulous attacks of the Inklings' sworn enemies, the Octarians. It consists of one old guy, his two granddaughters, one weapon shop owner and, by Splatoon 3, three blokes who stumbled upon them out of curiosity and one who took a wrong turn when defecting from the enemy side. Word of God has outright confirmed that most Inklings are simply too hedonistic to even bother remembering that the Octarians exist, to the point where the general populace mostly sees as Octoling defectors as Inklings with funky tentacles.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_c0aa8ea9	comment	Stargate Universe in the first episode shows two Ha'taks being enhanced to go toe-to-toe with the newest Daedalus-class battlecruiser, so Tau'ri humans aren't the only ones who upgrade their tech. It's possible that the Ha'taks that Netan gave Teal'c were similarly enhanced. They just weren't enough.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_c19c6efa	comment	Mojang ABnote Formerly Mojang Specifications, which is known for developing Minecraftnote which is, itself, currently being developed by 4.5 people and Caller's Bane (formerly Scrolls), currently consists of 40 peoplenote the majority of which just work on the business end of things, until recently when Microsoft purchased the whole company from Notch for $2.5 billion, but was, initially, run by just one person: Markus "Notch" Persson.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_c1dd4c20	comment	Section 20 in Strike Back barely seems to go above 20 people at most (counting silent extras), which is unusual when you consider that it's doing the jobs of the SAS, SRR, Special Forces Support Group... basically almost every intelligence and SF-related job available. And more often than not, when they actually got into the field, it's usually just Stonebridge and Scott. Series 4 was slightly better about this, in that Richmond and Martinez would regularly go in the field, along with Locke, but for much of the series, it did seem that Section 20 was just five people.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_c2297a9c	comment	Judge Dredd: The Judges of Mega City One are huge compared to modern police forces, but they have to patrol a city that literally covers the entire East coast of the United States. The exact numbers vary over the course of the series but there are thousands of citizens for each judge at any given time. It isn't helped by the fact that nine out of every ten recruits fail the Training from Hell and the casualty rate exceeds that of the average war. It is a running theme in the series just how outnumbered and outgunned the Judges are.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_c2d34f7f	comment	The World Annihilation Front from Sands of Destruction is the most notorious group of bomb-throwing terrorists known to the ferals. We only meet two official members: Morte and the leader Lacertus Rex (the rest of your Player Party is "drafted" but is more guilty-by-association than true believers). Morte implies there may be more, but we never see or hear of them. Aquilla Rex laughs when Naja implores him to send for more troops when there are only five of them to fight; naturally, those five wipe the floor with his whole unit.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_c35714d6	comment	Blackadder: The first series was an expensive production for a sitcom, showing the Plantagenet royal court in all its glory. The BBC slashed the show's budget for subsequent series, resulting in casts that consisted of little more than a handful of main characters and guest stars. In Blackadder II, Queen Elizabeth I appears to have only three courtiers, and no royal guards (even when she calls for them). In Blackadder the Third, the Prince Regent has a staff of two. He does have guards, but only two of them, in one scene in one episode (when they would've come in handy several other times). And in Blackadder Goes Forth, Capt. Blackadder has only two men under his command. However, he does mention several other officers, such as Corporal Cartwright (who looks like an orangutan) and several are there in the final push. It's still a rather small number, although possibly they're all that's left after years in the trenches.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: In the classic series, alien races were typically limited by how many costumes were available (although clever filming could suggest an army of Daleks or Cybermen, just with no more than three of them in shot at the same time). This gets lampshaded in "Terror of the Zygons"; the Zygons declare their intent to Take Over the World, and the Doctor snarks "Isn't it a bit large for about six of you?" Similarly, UNIT basically consisted of the Brigadier, Captain Yates and Sergeant Benton. Occasionally there'd be another speaking character in there, and there'd usually be plenty of lower ranks who got shot but the command structure was basically a high-ranking field officer, followed by a junior officer, followed by an NCO. The Preachers from Pete's World were the only group actively investigating the efforts of Lumic and his Cyber-Men, Pete Tyler having served as The Mole initially thought that The Preachers were a branch of The Secret Service when he broadcasted to them as Gemini: only after meeting them to realize that The Preachers consisted of three people working out the back of an electricians truck: Jake Simmonds, Ex-Cybus Industries employee Angela Price, and their leader Ricky Smith: London's Most Wanted... for Parking Tickets. The Shadow Proclamation is supposed to be an intergalactic authority imposing rules and regulations on the whole Universe, yet when they are finally seen in "The Stolen Earth", they consist of a handful of people milling around a lobby plus a few Judoon thugs as security. They don't even get their own planet, just a couple of connected asteroids with buildings on them. (According to Word of God, they had originally planned to show the Shadow Proclamation as a huge senate with hundreds of different aliens ala Star Wars, but the rest of the episode blew the effects budget.)
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Oddly Small Organization / int_c475d952	comment	The Phoenix Corporation. It consists of the author and 11 "minions." Supposedly, everyone else that might have been in it, or at least connected to it, is dead.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_c58c1b01	comment	A Most Wanted Man (2014). Gunther Bachmann heads a small organisation tasked with recruiting informers inside the Islamic community. It's stated that his group is so small because the job he's doing is illegal under German law, so it's easier to pretend a small unit don't exist.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_c59ec4c1	comment	The controversial Westboro Baptist Church, which has been notorious in recent years for its picketing of funerals and anti-gay propaganda, has only 39 members as of last count, mostly members of the extended family of its founder, Fred Phelps. His death and defections by members have shrunk the original group. They have no real affiliation with any Baptist denomination, and both the Baptist World Alliance and the Southern Baptist Convention (the two largest Baptist denominations) have denounced them and condemned their actions.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_c75d67d	comment	In Person of Interest the team initially only consists of Finch and Reese. Reese quickly recruits Fusco, a Dirty Cop, as an informant and general helper. Their small number proves to be a serious problem when they have to follow three different people at the same time and Finch has to go out into the field rather than perform his usual Voice with an Internet Connection role. In the pilot, Finch has a bunch of bodyguards and a lawyer working for him so it is possible that he employs a large number of people behind the scenes to support his operation but he deliberately keeps all that secret from Reese (and the audience). The largest Team Machine has ever gotten was during Season 3, when they had five full members (Six if you count the dog), two specialists called in on a highly infrequent as-needed basis and one independent operator who turned up whenever she needed their help. It's a pretty small team for trying to prevent every premeditated murder in NYC and its surrounding suburbs.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_c7ed4870	comment	In Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, The Order of the Web is supposed to be a Bangkok-wide anti-Shadaloo organization. Yet we only see three members: Gen (the "leader"), Chun-Li, and a dead vagrant Chun-Li literally stumbles across at an airport. Further enforcing the trope is the fact that the "dead" guy turned out to be a not-so-dead Gen, who set himself up as a clue to put Chun-Li on his trail.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_c9633211	comment	No More Heroes features the United Assassins Association. Aside from the ranked assassins (of which there are 10 by the time the game starts), Sylvia and her two cleaners are the only personnel we ever see. Justified, as it turns out that the entire thing was a money scam by Sylvia, with the even lesser-known ulterior motive of training Travis to face off against Jeane, his ex-girlfriend and murderer of his parents.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_ca08598f	comment	Major Crimes Unit in The Wire. Justified in that instance because the higher-ups only created it when a judge twisted their arm. So they naturally get the worst office space and cops to fill it out; the unit has to keep fighting for their very existence on account of their habit (led by Lester Freamon and Jimmy McNulty) of following the case where it leads, even if—strike that, especially if—it bothers people in high places, including the same higher-ups who were so reluctant to create it in the first place.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_cac20f89	comment	JAG: The Office of the Judge Advocate General of the Navy appears to be much smaller in the series than in real life, so small that Harm, Mac, and Sturgis on occasions are temporarily assigned as Acting Judge Advocate General; despite the fact that in real life there is a flag officer serving as Deputy Judge Advocate General, not to mention all the Captains/Colonels (Assistant Judge Advocate General for X) serving as heads of the various departments; although itâ€™s supposed to be the same size as in real life, as Chegwidden in the NCIS backdoor pilot stating he has 1200 people under his command, which was the actual real-world case in 2003. Plus all the Ghost Extras.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_cb6abea3	type	Oddly Small Organization
Oddly Small Organization / int_cb6abea3	comment	The Doma organization in Season 4 of Yu-Gi-Oh! apparently consists at the beginning of the season of Dartz, Rafael, Amelda/Alister, Varon/Valon, Grimo/Grerimo, and, at one point, Mai, and no one else. Haga/Weevil and Ryuzaki/Rex were briefly members, but they didn't last long. And its members lose their souls one at a time over the course of the season.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_d0c31ab	comment	They do the same thing in Star Trek: Generations, where a ship carting VIPs and press around within the solar system is the only ship in range to handle the SOS call. Note a Starfleet ship can traverse the solar system in something like 10 seconds. And again, Earth is the center of the Federation, with San Francisco as its capital. It makes sense to be the only ship in the sector when they run into a Negative Space Wedgie while exploring the vast reaches of space, but you can't be the only ship in the sector when the ships are built at a network of stations in Mars orbit.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_d0d00d31	type	Oddly Small Organization
Oddly Small Organization / int_d0d00d31	comment	Following Secret Invasion, S.H.I.E.L.D. was decommissioned and replaced by HAMMER. Following Siege, HAMMER was decommissioned and Steve Rogers, former Captain America, was appointed as the new Director of National Security. He seems to have no actual agency to direct. He seems to rely on the services of Sharon Carter, Maria Hill, and Victoria Hand to liaise with the various Avengers teams. Given that he's Steve Rogers, does he really need an organization?
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Oddly Small Organization / int_d109f322	type	Oddly Small Organization
Oddly Small Organization / int_d109f322	comment	The crew of the Andromeda Ascendant. Originally supposed to be four thousand, but Hercules Captain Dylan Hunt makes do with six for several years. When the Systems Commonwealth had been sufficiently restored, extras started wandering about in the background but they were rarely important to the plot and it remained the main cast's job to fix any and all problems.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_d120122a	type	Oddly Small Organization
Oddly Small Organization / int_d120122a	comment	Kamen Rider Kiva has the Wonderful Blue Sky Organization, a dedicated Fangire-hunting organization that seems to consist only of an Eccentric Millionaire, a token girl, and The Rival—at most. Then again, outside of The Rival, they're usually too useless to warrant more members...
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Oddly Small Organization / int_d211d624	type	Oddly Small Organization
Oddly Small Organization / int_d211d624	comment	Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!: A.C.R.O.S.T.I.C. had only five members (Brother Hood, Armordillo, Frogzilla, Jailhouse Roc and Kongaroo) and crime boss Fatkat had only two henchmen.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_d3e3e38a	comment	The Horde in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power has an arbitrarily large number of Mecha-Mooks and Faceless Goons, but the visible command structure above those goons could fit in a Volkswagen Microbus even before manipulation and infighting begins to thin the ranks. "Signal" implies that Shadow Weaver, before Catra took her position as The Dragon, ran the Horde's entire bureaucratic and logistical apparatus by herself, and if anyone from the Horde is doing something that merits actual characterisation and more than one line, it's generally going to be Catra or Scorpia (if it's a command position) or fresh boot camp graduates Lonnie, Kyle and/or Rogelio (if it's grunt work).
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Oddly Small Organization / int_d502170c	type	Oddly Small Organization
Oddly Small Organization / int_d502170c	comment	Played with and justified in PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon with Team Skull. They are a constant threat to the populace and PokÃ©mon of Alola, but are much smaller compared to the "Team" organizations from the previous generations, to the point of having exactly one admin note (there is also Gladion, but even then he is a hired hand and the other members don't consider him one of them) and the first few battles with them being the same two grunts. This makes sense, since Alola is composed of a few islands and Team Skull is a street gang, so they are enough to pose a threat. Also, evil groups in the series are usually referred to as "Gangs" in the Japanese releases. Finally, they're secretly backed by the much bigger Aether Foundation.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_d56cb367	comment	Power Rangers S.P.D. has the "empire" of Emperor Gruumm. Outside the three core villains, there's the Monster of the Week in the form of alien criminals who work for him by basically continuing their previously established MO but pointed in the direction he wants — always recruited onscreen (the baddie of the week was a longtime ally on two occasions) and robot grunts and pseudo-Zords sold to him by an arms dealer who will sell to anyone. (Sometimes the MOTW was using Broodwing's wares before meeting Gruumm, or even despite never meeting Gruumm.) The all-conquering Troobian Empire just doesn't seem to exist very much.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_d5ddd6c1	type	Oddly Small Organization
Oddly Small Organization / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	Team Rocket in PokÃ©mon: The Series (less so in the games), of which we only see the two human idiots and Meowth, the beleaguered boss, and the rival group of agents. This gets subverted in the movies and some more dramatic episodes when Team Rocket show themselves to actually be the large, well-equipped criminal organization that Jessie and James are ruining the reputation of. Wild Mass Guessing goes that the main reason they keep the trio around is to provide Obfuscating Stupidity. In the games, it's a genuinely threatening and large organization. Later seasons of the show have them become more competent, at one point working directly under Giovanni or his scientist Dr. Zager, but eventually theyâ€™re back on their own.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_d5e9cf36	comment	The sequel justifies this a little better by making XCOM an underground resistance cell fighting against an alien-controlled earth. They only have limited options because their resources really are that low compared to their enemies.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_d6778009	type	Oddly Small Organization
Oddly Small Organization / int_d6778009	comment	In Cabin Pressure, MJN Air has only four employees. In "Ipswich", they are forced to reduce that number to three by making Arthur a passenger.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_d78af2ac	comment	In Kingsman: The Secret Service, from all available evidence, the Kingsmen only have a dozen field agents at most, replaced as necessary. It's indicated there's a fairly large support staff, however. Harry justifies this by explaining that the Kingsmen exist to influence world events behind the scenes rather than to try and enact sweeping change on their own.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_d9c602eb	type	Oddly Small Organization
Oddly Small Organization / int_d9c602eb	comment	The entire police force in South Park in the early seasons seemed to consist of just Officer Barbrady, who makes Chief Wiggum look like Joe Friday. (At least Wiggum had at least two other cops under him.) Whenever other policemen appear, it's usually county or state police. By the seventh season, the county/state police were the South Park Police Department, and Barbrady was apparently Put on a Bus. In "Naughty Ninjas", he references the fact that he used to protect the town by himself.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_da52a723	comment	In the first Rivers of London novel, when PC Peter Grant discovers magic is real and is therefore transferred to the section of the London Metropolitan Police that deals with such things (the Folly), this doubles its numbers. Justified in that the Met likes to pretend the Folly doesn't exist as much as possible, and DI Nightingale had spend the last few decades not pushing this, partly because he thought the magic went away, and partly because this would involve making an effort to understand modern policing infrastructure, which he refuses to do. With evidence the magic hasn't gone away, and Peter enthusuastically integrating the Folly into the Met's systems properly, it expands in later books.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_daff6a21	comment	The Dark Signers from Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds are five duelists. Then Bommer/Greiger joins them after Devack lost to the two Tagalong Twins, but he loses to Crow who wasn't even a Signer at that time. When all six Dark Signers are defeated, Rex Godwin became the last Dark Signer. Yliaster has only three members: Placido/Primo, Lucciano/Lester, and Jose/Jakob. Then they fuse into one being.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_db88afd0	type	Oddly Small Organization
Oddly Small Organization / int_db88afd0	comment	NCIS: New Orleans seems to consist of three agents, a medical examiner, and a forensic lab tech with no indication that it has any other personnel, to the point of the main characters being called in whenever there is a crime when they are off-duty. The NCIS office in New Orleans is supposed to be the Navy's investigative centre for the entire Gulf Coast! The weirdest part? This was actually the case for the real NCIS NO for some time, which was the inspiration for the show in the first place.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_db96ded4	comment	In Book 3 of The Legend of Korra we have the Red Lotus, a group of Bomb-Throwing Anarchists who attempted to kidnap Korra as a child and, after breaking out of prison, try to do so again. While they are established as extremely powerful, and it is stated that they are part of a larger faction of Red Lotus members, Zaheer's group consists of four people (himself included). And while we do see them working with other members a couple of times, that number only goes up to an additional five people (Aiwei and four nameless mooks), meaning that the main villains chasing down Team Avatar consists of four, albeit extremely powerful, people.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_dc4363c5	type	Oddly Small Organization
Oddly Small Organization / int_dc4363c5	comment	The Vampire Authority in True Blood has shades of this; they do have a seemingly endless stream of field operatives and commandos but once we get to see inside their HQ it seems that the entire government of the international vampire community can fit around one rather small conference table and apparently run the whole thing without any admin staff. May be partially justified as most executive duties would fall on the shoulders of their feudal vassals.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_e00d7ae0	type	Oddly Small Organization
Oddly Small Organization / int_e00d7ae0	comment	In MegaMan NT Warrior (2002), the bane of Dentech City bent on causing the collapse of society, World Three, has precisely four members. However, this is Truth in Television for terrorist organizations (see below) albeit not to that extent.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_e0401cf2	comment	In the episode "Legends," the same two cops seem to keep coming to see the Justice Guild, and later on, Flash comments "Are they the only two cops in this town?" The answer is yes.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_e081af79	type	Oddly Small Organization
Oddly Small Organization / int_e081af79	comment	In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!, when Earth is attacked by the Pirates of Ipecac, their ship turns out to contain only two pirates.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_e17193c9	type	Oddly Small Organization
Oddly Small Organization / int_e17193c9	comment	Lampshaded and justified in Megadimension Neptunia VII with the "secret organization" AffimaX, which per Warechu's own words consists of only five members (and technically is actually "four and one other" with that other being Ultradimension Neptune) yet has global reach across all of Gameindustri. And if you want to get technical, Arfoire and Warechu are just officially allied with the organization and a bit player respectively, with the true power being the founder Affimojas and his loyal enforcer/best friend Steamax. In this case, they just adopted the whole "secret organization" label the media spinned up about them. Their actual purpose before Kurome rewrote reality and the memories of the citizens with her power is as the largest information sharing site in the world and wielding that intelligence to their advantage, with Affimojas himself outright stating he's not interested in "war" in the form of armed conflict and much prefers the control and dispersal of (true or fake) information in order to make money.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_e25322af	type	Oddly Small Organization
Oddly Small Organization / int_e25322af	comment	Homestar Runner plays this for humor fairly often, as most any organization will be comprised of the standard cast. "more armies" is a good showcase of this — the On Point Kings are just Strong Bad, the Cheat, and Strong Mad, the Homestarmy is Homestar, formerly Homsar and Strong Sad, and a handful of inanimate objects (one of which "perished" in battle), and the Municipality under the King of Town seems to consist entirely of the Poopsmith. All three still consider themselves big enough to get booths at the Vaguely Military Career Fair, though given the vagueness of how many people live or work in Free Country, USA, it's hard to imagine what this means.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer has the Watchers Council, an incredibly powerful and worldwide organization in charge of managing Slayers and fighting supernatural forces that has been in existence for thousands of years. We meet about six or seven of them over the course of the series, and a few more in Angel. By the end of Season 7, Giles is the only remaining loyal member (having been reinstated during Season 5) and there are only two other former Watchersnote Wesley Wyndam-Pryce and Rutherford Sirk known to be alive.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_e4732abc	type	Oddly Small Organization
Oddly Small Organization / int_e4732abc	comment	Stargate Atlantis has only a handful of officers and a very small military contingent compared to the civilian science & research teams.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_e66eb3c5	comment	The Secret Society Egos from Battle Fever J consist of the Big Bad, Satan Egos; his Dragon Heller; their Mooks and whichever Monster of the Week they cook up for the episode. They get temporarily a staff upgrade with the strongwoman Salome but that's about it.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_e81fd044	comment	The titular Middlemost Post postal service just consists of an ex-sea captain, a cloud person, and a semi-sapient walrus, even if it only operates for one town. Fortunately, they're competent enough at their jobs that they don't really need anyone else.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_e863cc41	type	Oddly Small Organization
Oddly Small Organization / int_e863cc41	comment	This is beaten to death in the Mega Man Battle Network series. The amount of villains you face in each game while fighting against the various rebirths of the same organization is already quite small, but they sound less threatening and even laughable as the series goes on. In the sixth game, the public is not concerned until the Sealed Evil in a Can is released, although the public is more scared of that than the actual organization since its influence is almost non-existent. The members at this time include a Court Jester, a Pirate that takes over an aquarium, and a not-so Treacherous Mentor, none of which are even remotely evil (possibly except the Jester who operates the Monster Clown, as the pair cause a lot of grief for Lan and MegaMan) compared to the members in the first three games. A very significant amount of members in the earlier games even become your allies in the later games!
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Oddly Small Organization / int_ec298ad8	type	Oddly Small Organization
Oddly Small Organization / int_ec298ad8	comment	In M.A.S.K., ruthless terrorist organisation VENOM, the greatest threat to world security, initially consisted of... three people. As more toys were released, they eventually expanded to... eight people.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_ec5cf89a	comment	The Legion Ex Machina in Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot. Not only are they a prominent and credible threat with vast technological resources, (having an abandoned factory as a base certainly helps) but they are nebulous, as well. Despite being made of only six members.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_ec9cdc92	comment	The Druidon Tribe generals from Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger operate at the absolute bare minimum numbers for a villain faction at almost all times. It is seldom for all three generals to appear at once, and it is not until two-thirds of the way through the show that there are four at once.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_ef1a245d	comment	The Sanctuary apparently has a total of five staff members for the entire planet. Fortunately they're five hyper-competent people. It is later revealed that this is just the head branch. Other sanctuaries are shown and mentioned, although many of them are destroyed by the Cabal. Since Helen's father was the founder of the sanctuary, and Helen herself probably established a fair number of them, hers is considered the de facto head office.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_ef661e97	comment	Shadaloo in Street Fighter. As far as we know, there are only five or six members: The leader M. Bison, his Co-Dragons Barlog, Vega, and Sagat (who got replaced in the fifth game by F.A.N.G.), Seth, the leader of the subordinate S.I.N. group that went rogue in the game it got introduced, and the financial advisor JP, who was only introduced in the sixth game after Shadaloo was dissolved. Even if you count the brainwashed Doll Squad, they are still quite small. This is subverted in Bison's intro movie to Street Fighter IV where we see him with a fairly large amount of henchmen.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_ef7b3325	comment	Fantastic Four. It's all in the name: four. And despite the fact that there have been members other than the original Four over the years, they never last long, and the original roster always returns. Given that they are supposed to be as much a family as they are a team, most writers wouldn't have it any other way. Of the original roster, two of them are literally family: Sue Storm and her brother Johnny. Sue later marries Reed Richards, leaving Ben Grimm as the only one who isn't related to the others by either blood or marriage. In Grimm's case, he has been depicted as Reed's closest friend since they were in college together, and as having an unrequited affection for Sue. The Richards kids treat him as an Honorary Uncle.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_f0c816fb	comment	Breaking Bad: The show is guilty of this with The Cartel. While never named, its geographic reach and status as a dominant force in the Mexican-American narco economy (several episodes state that its revenues are in the billions) heavily imply that it's supposed to be the Juarez Cartel, which has tens of thousands of members in total and at least hundreds in every major branch. Yet in this series you seldom see more than half a dozen members in one place. For a specific example: Tuco is stated to be the leader of the Albuquerque branch. It consists of Tuco, No-Doze, Gonzo, and a handful of mostly off-screen street-level dealers that he collects fees from (of which we only ever see two former members, Krazy-8 and Emilio). Other members of his group are only implied to exist by a single line from Hank where he says "our raid netted a bunch of [Tuco]'s lieutenants." Better Call Saul shows that his cell used to have more manpower that got attrited in that series, but it was still always pretty small.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_f3ef0f86	comment	Artemis Fowl's multimillion-dollar criminal organization consists pretty much entirely of himself and his Battle Butler. Apparently, Artemis occupies himself primarily with grand theft and fraud, having greatly scaled down the family's usual enterprises in order to ensure that he can personally tend to all of his crimes (although he still makes use of his butler's and family's vast network of contacts). He also heavily invests his criminal earnings.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_f52434ed	comment	The first episode of Pole Position indicates that Dan, Tess, and Uncle Zack work for a fairly large crime-busting organization, and we meet another one of their agents. For the rest of the series, there isn't much to indicate that there's anybody else in the organization but the three of them.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_f6a54e75	comment	Kingdom Hearts: Organization XIII could very well be an aversion, as the number of members are explicitly stated (not counting Xion, who is not an official member). What makes the Organization unusual is that they count as an example of this trope despite having an army of Nobodies at their beck and call. This gets egregious in 358/2 Days in which the other Nobodies don't even appear except as enemies and some members worry about a loss of manpower from losing just five guys. What's more, it's made clear in Dream Drop Distance that the number of members was quite deliberate, and not just in a 13 Is Unlucky sort of way. The Chinese army in Mulan's world appears to consist of about five people. While not an organization, all Keyblade wielders technically form an alliance, since they have a common purpose: to protect and maintain balance within the universe. For most of the series, there are about a dozen Keyblade wielders and even fewer are active during the same time. Mind you, this is actually an improvement (or Uniqueness Decay, if you are cynical) from the situation in the first game, which only features three wielders, one of whom is a villain. Eventually, it is revealed in Ï‡ that the situation is unnatural: many years ago, Keyblade wielders numbered hundreds, if not thousands, and they were a common sight in the universe. The Keyblade War decimated most of them, leaving only memories of past glory and the worn Keyblades you see in the Keyblade Graveyard.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_f6c5733b	comment	Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2: Cave mentions being a part of a group called the Leanbox Defense Force, who work to protect Leanbox from outside threats. If she quits to join the party, their membership drops to three.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_f74b5f80	comment	None of the delegations sent to Babylon 5 appear to have more than two people in them: an ambassador and an aide. Real embassies to major diplomatic postings would also have attaches, security personnel, some career foreign service officials, at least one spy (masquerading as one of the above), and the dependents of all of the above (Londo has some dependents, but they only show up in one episode; Londo and his wives hate each other, which is why they spend most of their time 75 lightyears away). They might even bring their own cooks and cleaning staff in order to make it harder for outsiders to spy on them. Either justified or made worse by the fact that they don't seem to have actual embassies, just two sets of personal quarters. In the Centauri's case, it's explicitly because the first four Babylon stations were destroyed and they fully expect the fifth to be as well, so they sent someone expendable as an Ambassador and waited almost a full year to even send him one aide.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_f7558a18	comment	In an episode of Men in Black: The Series, MIB become this when an unknown Time Traveling assassin starts picking off the founders in the past. When only Kay is left, the entire operation consists of a dozen or so people (all human) at the back of a nail salon with an antique computer taking up another room. Jay (who has Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory in this episode) points out the ridiculousness of it all, but they have a hard time seeing the problem.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_f84c42c0	comment	The Lupin III franchise seems to play this straight. In the Manga, there was implied to be a large number of additional people working for the Lupin family, and the film even says that they're an extremely large organization. Mooks were featured in a few Green Jacket episodes, but from Red Jacket onwards, the "Lupin Empire" seems to contain only three or four people, depending upon Fujiko's interests, with the occasional hired help. The perpetual crew always outnumbers the "empire" characters, even when it would make sense to gather more help. While some franchise entries like The Castle of Cagliostro show Zenigata leading a squad of police, more often he's working the Lupin case alone or with whatever cooperation he's able to wrangle out of local law enforcement. One wonders if the real reason he can't catch Lupin is that it's one against four.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_f8705c18	comment	The Hellsing organization's combatants are pretty much just Alucard, Seras, and Walter (Seras is basically still in training, and Walter is for the most part retired). Other than them, there's only their leader Integra, a dozen or so people in the round table conference, and a small squad of hired French mercenaries. This was not always the case. Though small, Hellsing employed over a hundred people, all of whom were killed in about a single chapter of the manga and one episode (episode II) of the OVA by the Valentine brothers. The French "Wild Geese" mercenaries were hired specifically to replace the losses from that attack. Not that they actually need more than one combatant if the one is Alucard.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_f8956ef3	comment	In YuYu Hakusho, the Spirit Worlds's cleanup squad for when things go wrong consists of one detective and any friends he might make along the way. Though this is rendered a bit moot by the manga's ending, where it was revealed that Yusuke might not have been needed as badly as we originally thought.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_f90f1b9f	comment	Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers: The pilot movie "To the Rescue" featured the Pound Underground, an organization devoted to freeing dogs from the pound. Its leader Frenchie explains that it includes himself, his colleague K. Sera, and, uhm... did he mention himself? They do have a handy network of tunnels beneath the pound, though, and what else do you need to be a Pound Underground?
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Oddly Small Organization / int_f9b600b3	comment	The Dalmatians: In both of Castor and Pollux's workplaces (the cannery in Dalmatians 1, and the pound in Dalmatians 2), they seem to be the only employees. It's unknown why they didn't just hire more employees for the cannery, instead of snatching puppies off the street to be child laborers.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_fb9c177d	comment	Transformers: This is true of the Autobots and Decepticons in many continuities, where both factions tend to be represented by rather small teams, with a couple of new characters trickling in as new toys come out. It's usually given the justification that the franchise's Forever War and shortages of energon mean that both sides' forces are stretched far and thin by necessity. Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: The Decepticon Justice Division, the most feared and despised part of the Decepticon army, capable of killing Phase Six class Decepticons, themselves each a One-Man Army, consists mainly of five people and their pet. Though they are mentioned to have agents and informants around. In the G1 cartoon, Shockwave seemed to be the sole Decepticon on Cybertron bar a couple Mecha-Mooks. The Transformers: Armada comic featured at most ten non-Minicon characters working for either faction. In an odd example of this, the Japan-original Decepticon Black Shadow had his function translated as "Space Mafia" rather than the more accurate "Space Gangster." This led to him picking up a cult fanbase by virtue of the fanon idea that there was apparently an entire unseen Space Mafia out there, of which Black Shadow was the only member ever seen. The common interpretation of this (that Black Shadow was a One-Man Army sufficient to act as the entire Space Mafia) even influenced his later official portrayals, where he was written as a rogue Super-Soldier who wiped out entire fleets for the right price.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_fc439a61	comment	Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth has a variation with the Berry Big Circus in the second game. The Circus has various divisions specializing in performances, but almost all of them have only one person each, and the only exception, the Animal Tamer division, has Regina and her apprentice Simon Keyes, the latter of whom is a new character in the second Investigations game.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_fd8221d2	comment	Some of the most popular websites in the world, like Wikipedia, are staffed by fewer than 100 people.note Although, for wikis like Wikipedia, that's because almost all of the work is done by the (vastly-larger) community of volunteer editors, with the paid staff just keeping the servers up and running and providing a point of contact for legal purposes.
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Oddly Small Organization / int_ff9ab17f	comment	In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Remember Me", people keep being Ret-Gone, and Dr Crusher is the only person who remembers them. No matter how small the Enterprise crew gets, nobody else seems to see any issue. Even when it's just her and the captain.
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Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands (Video Game) / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Project Ã— Zone (Video Game) / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (Video Game) / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Sol Cresta (Video Game) / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Tales of Xillia 2 (Video Game) / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
The Godfather (Video Game) / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
The Messenger (2018) (Video Game) / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
The Mystery of the Druids (Video Game) / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Tropico (Video Game) / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
UFO: Alien Invasion (Video Game) / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Unavowed (Video Game) / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Vendetta (1991) (Video Game) / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Very Little Nightmares (Video Game) / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Video Game) / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Yakuza 3 (Video Game) / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Gyakuten Kenji 2 (Visual Novel) / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Snatcher (Visual Novel) / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Jenny Nicholson (Web Video) / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
lonelygirl15 (Web Video) / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Desu Nyan Fucking Shit (Webcomic) / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Irregular Webcomic! (Webcomic) / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Skin Horse (Webcomic) / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Ted (Website) / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Adrian / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Camp Lazlo / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Code Monkeys / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Jackie Chan Adventures / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Jason And The Heroes Of Mount Olympus / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Little Princess School / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Middlemost Post / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Monsuno / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Pantheon / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Plan Bee / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Ratatoing / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Scary Godmother / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Secret Squirrel / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Sonic SatAM / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
The Adventures of Puss in Boots / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
The Dalmatians / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
The Lorax / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
The Lorax (2012) / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Trouble Indemnity / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
YooHoo & Friends / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Black Rose (Wrestling) / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Bray Wyatt (Wrestling) / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Frankie Kazarian (Wrestling) / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
The Wyatt Family (Wrestling) / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Lupin III (Franchise) / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
Torchwood / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization

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