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| - A Badass Family, even if they're not related. This will turn up a lot when discussing the Superhero Team, The Squad, and the Five-Man Band. And a fair number of Sci-fi shows set aboard a ship, since normally, even the baddest hero can't run a whole Cool Ship on his own. This isn't a requirement though. Some general conventions that apply to almost all Badass Crews are: Also see Misfit Mobilization Moment, which is often an origin for the Badass Crew.
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| - A Badass Family, even if they're not related. This will turn up a lot when discussing the Superhero Team, The Squad, and the Five-Man Band. And a fair number of Sci-fi shows set aboard a ship, since normally, even the baddest hero can't run a whole Cool Ship on his own. This isn't a requirement though. Some general conventions that apply to almost all Badass Crews are:
* They must include at least three people for obvious reasons. Two badasses would be Back-to-Back Badasses.
* A Crew typically has a recurring and more-or-less permanent roster; you can reasonably expect to see the same members over and over. Which is why this Trope is a fixture of TV shows, comics, and other media which is made of recurring installments. You see this less in movie series, since they're often built around a central character who may have different supporters in each movie, i.e. Die Hard or James Bond. This is probably because it's easier to sign one actor for a film rather than three or five.
* Most heroes have some sort of support or backup, but in a Badass Crew, everyone must be capable of a Crowning Moment of Awesome. In fact a given episode may involve the least Badass character doing something so awesome the jaws of the others drop in unison.
* There's usually one person who acts as the leader of the bunch.
* Their combined badassery is indispensable on the front lines, in actual combat. In their day-to-day applications, however, it can lead to some very sticky situations. For this very reason, they often have to watch what they say around each other, particularly with regards to lower-level antagonists that don't directly affect the other crew members.
* Most important: the crew must have a certain loyalty toward one another. Like a family. If one of them is hurt/kidnapped/killed the others will bring holy hell on those responsible, even if it means violating orders. For this reason, all Badass Crews are a form of True Companions. Since, unlike a Badass Family, none of the members were born into the Crew (though some of them might be blood relatives), some writers will use the story of the Badass Crew's formation as an interesting origin story. In most Action/Adventures and Sci-Fi/Fantasy stories, the badasses came together to foil a Big Bad and/or save the world. The members of the Crew may not have even liked each other at first or even been outright enemies, but they come together and join forces because a) none of them can defeat the Big Bad and his plot without total cooperation, b) they worked out their differences, c) they see the badassness in each other and recognize a kindred spirit, or d) all the above. The Badass Crew may be or have been a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits. Amazon Brigade is an all-female variation of this. The logical extension of this is the Badass Army where they are essentially a gigantic Badass Crew. Almost invariably a Caper Crew doubles as a Badass Crew. Also see Misfit Mobilization Moment, which is often an origin for the Badass Crew.
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