As a Stock Aesop, believing in the Power of Friendship over isolationist self-reliance is pretty standard and true. There's a lot a group can accomplish that the individual(s) acting on their own can't. In fiction, Friendship even brings tangible benefits like a Five-Man Band developing an Attack Pattern Alpha which uses All Your Colors Combined. Some shows may even go the extra length to crush the message into a viewer by having a Sixth Ranger fail miserably and join the team. Once the Season Finale rolls around however, The Hero can't depend on his weak friends to keep up, and will have to fight the Big Bad Final Boss on their own.
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| - As a Stock Aesop, believing in the Power of Friendship over isolationist self-reliance is pretty standard and true. There's a lot a group can accomplish that the individual(s) acting on their own can't. In fiction, Friendship even brings tangible benefits like a Five-Man Band developing an Attack Pattern Alpha which uses All Your Colors Combined. Some shows may even go the extra length to crush the message into a viewer by having a Sixth Ranger fail miserably and join the team. Once the Season Finale rolls around however, The Hero can't depend on his weak friends to keep up, and will have to fight the Big Bad Final Boss on their own.
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| - As a Stock Aesop, believing in the Power of Friendship over isolationist self-reliance is pretty standard and true. There's a lot a group can accomplish that the individual(s) acting on their own can't. In fiction, Friendship even brings tangible benefits like a Five-Man Band developing an Attack Pattern Alpha which uses All Your Colors Combined. Some shows may even go the extra length to crush the message into a viewer by having a Sixth Ranger fail miserably and join the team. Once the Season Finale rolls around however, The Hero can't depend on his weak friends to keep up, and will have to fight the Big Bad Final Boss on their own. While The Hero is usually the strongest out of the group, many shows will switch gears abruptly to have them fight the last battle on their own. Be it due to a Battle Royale With Cheese waylaying all their allies (or worse, In the worst case, killing them all), or because the enemy is so strong anyone else trying to help the hero would just become a meat shield at best and a dangerous distraction at worst. This limits the rest of the cast to cheering from the bleachers (maybe verbally slapping some sense into a hero woozy from a Hannibal Lecture) and perhaps acting as fuel a Combined Energy Attack or Super Mode. And that's it. They will spend the rest of the battle just standing there and commenting. Some stories work this into a narrative more organically. The Big Bad may cleverly isolate the hero from his friends via framing him or capturing them (and force them to watch him kill their leader). Then again there really are some challenges a hero Has Got To Do Himself, and being helped beat this enemy will cheapen their storyline. In these cases the value of friends isn't in their tangible help fighting but by placing their trust in the hero's success, motivating them to do their best. Trust is a powerful force like that. Compare Duel Boss (who is not necessarily the Final Boss, as per this trope). See also What You Are in the Dark. Not to be confused with Dying Alone. Sub-Trope of Solo Sequence. Examples of In the End You Are on Your Own include:
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