Crossover Five Man Bands

[kpenguin]

Perhaps we enjoy pitting characters against one another too much with these versus threads when we should think about how awesome it would be if they teamed up. What would be some awesome five man bands to put together using charactera from any piece of media, any at all?

For people who don't know what a five man band is...

Try to keep each band's power level roughly equal. A good five man band is one where every member can contribute. No far putting together Charlie Brown and Darth Revan on the same team.

[Azerian Kelimon]

Can we piece five man bands from people who never were part of one?

[kpenguin]

Can we piece five man bands from people who never were part of one?

Yes.

Though, try to make it believable that the band would actually work together.

[Solo]

Good Grief.

[Rutee]

Ooo.

The Hero: Gai Daigoji. Because he is so a Hero, and I'll bet he'd kill for a Five Man Band (Or 3 man)
The Lancer: Heero Yuy, because his outlook is so opposite. And eminently Lancer-like, at least early on.
The Smart Guy: Roger Smith, very atypical in terms of visual archetype (He's tall, and can actually throw a punch), but also very analytical of strange situations, and prone to exposition.
The Big Guy: I had to think about this, but Allenby Beardsley of G Gundam is suitably violent and smash 'em, and not feminine enough to be The Chick. Probably causes conflicts with Roger, since Roger has a very clearly defined concept of gender roles..
The Chick: Gonna go with one of the classics, Sayaka of Mazinger.
The Sixth Ranger: Ryoma Nagare, in his Shin Getter Robo incarnation. Vereh, vereh anti-hero and loner-inclined, comparatively.

...Just because I picked a Five Man Band crossover that actually happened doesn't mean it's bad...

[Azerian Kelimon]

Lemme try my luck at crafting a high powered band...

"It is a time of troubles in AdventureLand. Evil has finally put aside differences and liquidated those Always Chaotic Evil fools who broke alliances. Good has been crushed. Now, only five heroes stand against the forces of Evil and cookies. They are...

The Guns 'N Roses The Supreme Team of Assorted Asskickery! (TSToAA)

TSToAA's members are:

The Hero: Gilgamesh.

The first great adventure has Gilgamesh as the lead. It is him who defined all the heroes to come.

The Lancer: King Arthur

Armed with what is possibly the most powerful sword in all of mythology, and most certainly the most ripped off one, Arthur is the one true king.

The Smart Guy: Elminster/Solo

Wielding arcane magics powerful enough to tear the planes, Elminster joined TSToAA to supply the group with the ability to bang with anyone E. G. wanted him to.

The Big Guy: The Terminator, T-850 series.

Unstoppable is the only way to define The Terminator. He always keeps coming, and now that he has free will after having been freed from Skynet's control, he is more dangerous than ever before.

The Chick: Jean Grey

With immense psychic power and a disgusting tendency to become a Mary Sue, Jean uses her immense powers to help TSToAA achieve victory."


You may tremble now. Sure as hell, I'm doing it and asking myself what have I done.

[Evil DM Mark3]

Criminals beware!

The Hero: Sherlock Holmes. One of the greatest ever, surely Sherlock would make a fine head for this group.
The Lancer: DI William "Jack" Edward Frost. Inspector Frost is not was witty, suave and cunning as some of the others, but he is still a damn good copper and a can think like a true bastard.
The Smart Guy: Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle. Obviously the smart guy is a hard post to fill in a group like this but Foyle is really on the high end of smarts and seems to posses a level of common sense and direct thinking that some of the others lack.
The Big Guy: Captain Carrot Ironfounderson. Score one for the 6th dwarf.
The Chick: Miss Marple. Not the traditional chick but remember "when a policeman asks questions he is being a policeman, but when a little old woman asks questions she is just being a little old woman."
The Sixth Ranger. Batman. Doesn't keep in touch every well.

[Rutee]

And now, two trends have been set: Overall ass-kickingness, or theme teams? WHO WILL SURVIVE? ...Okay, everyone, as long as we're picking heroes..

Maybe a villainous Five Man Band..

[Drascin]

Maybe a villainous Five Man Band..

Well, they do have a trope too...

[Nerd-o-rama]

Rutee: Five Bad Band. And the term you're looking for for Allenby would be Cute Bruiser.

I have a few ideas, but am a bit busy...back in a bit.

[Drascin]

[starscream]Drascin hates doubleposts! [/starscream]

Seriously, is it just me or is the forum horribly wonky tonight?

[chiasaur11]

Hmm...

Well,
Mal Reynolds is a decent enough pick for a hero. Honor before reason, multiple applicable skills, and he's the Captain.
Jack Bauer makes a fun Lancer for total disagreements with the hero.
Reed Richards is the best smart guy for tech skills, and he has leadership and face breaking skills too, so there's that.
Hellboy is a decent pick for strong guy. He's completely unkillable unless he wants to die, and he's the beast of the freaking apocolypse. You want him on your side.
For the chick, Squirrel Girl.

A bad group?
Probably yes, but hey. Didn't put too much work into it.

[Nerd-o-rama]

[starscream]Drascin hates doubleposts! [/starscream]

Seriously, is it just me or is the forum horribly wonky tonight?

Pro tip: Don't just spam the Submit Reply button if the forum doesn't take you to your post . 99 times out of 100, your reply goes through on the first try. Save your post in a Notepad file (or if it's not that important, just Ctrl+C it), then manually click back to the thread to see if your post is there.

[Closet_Skeleton]

Hero: Zayne Carrick, to always do the right thing
Smart Guy: L, to sit back at HQ being smart
The big guy: Brandon Heat/Beyond the Grave, to kill anything that moves
The Lancer: Roy Fokker, I needed someone who has a mecha
The chick: Ninian, to dance and let 1 person move twice

[Evil DM Mark3]

Web comic mishmash!

The Hero: Captain Targon, Of Schlock Mercenary.
The Lancer: Antimony Carver, Of Gunnerkrigg Court.
The Smart Guy: Tyler Marlocke, Of ps238.
The Big Guy: General Goomblast, Of Girl Genius
The Chick: Elan. Seriously, Elan.
The Team Pet: Pintsize, Of Questionable Content.

(I have weird tastes in characters)

Fictional British Military Officers!

The Hero: Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart.
The Lancer: Admiral Horatio Hornblower
The Smart Guy: Captain Wilson (Dad's army's Sergent Wilson, a Captain in the Artillery in WWI)
The Big Guy: Colonel Richard Sharpe.
The Chick: ??? (although not an officer and I have a dad's army guy allready Private Godfrey will do.)

I got stuck on the chick, to be honest.

[Dhavaer]

The Hero: Lt Cmdr Shepard (Mass Effect).
The Lancer: Jack Ryan (Bioshock).
The Smart Guy: Gordon Freeman (Half-life).
The Chick: Chell (Portal).
The Big Guy: Doom Guy (Doom)

[Drascin]

Pro tip: Don't just spam the Submit Reply button if the forum doesn't take you to your post . 99 times out of 100, your reply goes through on the first try. Save your post in a Notepad file (or if it's not that important, just Ctrl+C it), then manually click back to the thread to see if your post is there.

I did. Two times. One going to the thread, and other going back to Media forums and refreshing to see if the thread had gone up due to someone posting. It hadn't. So I clicked submit again. Apparently, it decided to post both when I egged him like that.

Please concede me at least some knowledge of forum ettiquette.

[Evil DM Mark3]

I know I'm most likely regarded as a bit of an idiot around here, but please concede me at least some knowledge of forum ettiquette .

Nah, just unfortunate. This has happened to me at least twice this week, for one reason or another, I just didn't get caught.

[Nerd-o-rama]

Sorry, Dracsin. It's just that most people don't get that and it's the only logical response I could draw from the fact that a) your posts were seven minutes apart, rather than adjacent and b) not only did I post between them, I saw the page with only one of your posts there.

Seeing the lengths you went through to see whether your post went up, I can only conclude that it was

• A caching issue in your browser or
• The forum server pranking you out of spite

[Drascin]

Sorry, Dracsin. It's just that most people don't get that and it's the only logical response I could draw from the fact that a) your posts were seven minutes apart, rather than adjacent and b) not only did I post between them, I saw the page with only one of your posts there.

Seeing the lengths you went through to see whether your post went up, I can only conclude that it was

• A caching issue in your browser or
• The forum server pranking you out of spite

Yeah, I understand, and you don't have to apologize - if anything, I should, for being so confrontational over such a silly issue. It's just that betwen the forum going slow as molassess and me doubleposting already in a couple threads despite precautions, I am starting to get just a tad miffed at the server.

And the seven minute gap is most likely because of the cache problems you mention, now that you mention it. The message was sent, that much is obvious, but when I tried to refresh, it didn't refresh correctly for whatever reason. Blargh. How exactly didn't that occur to me? All this studying physics must be rotting my brain. If you'll excuse me, I'll go clear my cache now.

Still, I wouldn't really be that weirded out if your second idea was true, either. Goddamned technology

Also, I'm pretty sure we already had this conversation, Nerdo, but it's "Drascin"

Anyway, enough offtopic. Back to the Bands!

[Tengu]

Okay. I tried my best to pour as much awesome into this team as possible:

The Hero: Dr. McNinja
The Lancer: Solid Snake
The Smart Guy: Batman
The Big Guy: Kamina
The Chick Action Girl: Saber

[Fri]

League of Asskickery? bah, it's done billions of time

Let's make some League of Moderately Extraordinary Gentlemen!

A five man band composed of b list character and moderately useful sidekick :D

Lessee.... There's great detective already, so here it is the mediocre detective band!

Dr. Watson as the Hero!

Captain Hasting as the Lancer.

Inspector Lestrade as the... uh, aren't there's already someone from the holmes-verse?

Ariadne Oliver, the mystery writer as the chick... but there's also already someone from the poirot-verse.

Maybe... from the Perry Mason Series....

Add Mouri Kogoro from Case Closed/Detective Conan...

Damn, I'm stumped. It's harder than making a five man band of great detectives...

[Drascin]

League of Asskickery? bah, it's done billions of time

Let's make some League of Moderately Extraordinary Gentlemen!

A five man band composed of b list character and moderately useful sidekick :D

Lessee.... There's great detective already, so here it is the mediocre detective band!

Dr. Watson as the Hero!

Captain Hasting as the Lancer.

Inspector Lestrade as the... uh, aren't there's already someone from the holmes-verse?

Ariadne Oliver, the mystery writer as the chick... but there's also already someone from the poirot-verse.

Maybe... from the Perry Mason Series....

Add Mouri Kogoro from Case Closed/Detective Conan...

Damn, I'm stumped. It's harder than making a five man band of great detectives...

If you accept sugerences, try Gumshoe from Phoenix Wright for The Big Guy .

[Evil DM Mark3]

Or maybe Sargent Colon as the big guy...

[Artemician]

Okay. I tried my best to pour as much awesome into this team as possible:

The Hero: Dr. McNinja
The Lancer: Solid Snake
The Smart Guy: Batman
The Big Guy: Kamina
The Chick Action Girl: Saber

Kamina: "Who the hell do you think we are?
Batman: "We're the Godamn Batman."
Snake: "Is that even grammatical?"
Dr McNinja: "Who cares?"
Saber: "You have to follow rules, otherwise -
Snake: "What?"
Saber: "Well..."
Kamina: "Real men don't need to obey the laws of Grammar. They're more like guidelines.
*
Dr McNinja: Not really.
Batman: Hush. This is getting interesting
Dr McNinja: As you say.
*
Kamina: If you were a man you'd know what I mean
Saber: I'm a woman, dammit!
Snake: That's debatable
Kamina: ?
Snake: I've been around.
Kamina: What's that supposed to mean?
Snake: Nevermind. *starts smoking*
*
Dr McNinja: That's not good for you.
Snake: So?
Dr McNinja: In your best interests, I'm going to ask you to stop.
Snake: Or?
Dr McNinja: I'll open up a can of ninja whup-ass on your face.
Snake: Bring it on.
Kamina: Spoken like a true man, brother!
*
Saber: Cut it out you fools!
Kamina: Don't interfere! They have to settle this like men!
Saber: *Glares at Kamina*
Batman: Hush, all of you. Let's have a tea party

All: Oh, okay.

[Azerian Kelimon]

Kamina: "Who the hell do you think we are?
Batman: "We're the Godamn Batman."
Snake: "Is that even grammatical?"
Dr McNinja: "Who cares?"
Saber: "You have to follow rules, otherwise -
Snake: "What?"
Saber: "Well..."
Kamina: "Real men don't need to obey the laws of Grammar. They're more like guidelines.
*
Dr McNinja: Not really.
Batman: Hush. This is getting interesting
Dr McNinja: As you say.
*
Kamina: If you were a man you'd know what I mean
Saber: I'm a woman, dammit!
Snake: That's debatable
Kamina: ?
Snake: I've been around.
Kamina: What's that supposed to mean?
Snake: Nevermind. *starts smoking*
*
Dr McNinja: That's not good for you.
Snake: So?
Dr McNinja: In your best interests, I'm going to ask you to stop.
Snake: Or?
Dr McNinja: I'll open up a can of ninja whup-ass on your face.
Snake: Bring it on.
Kamina: Spoken like a true man, brother!
*
Saber: Cut it out you fools!
Kamina: Don't interfere! They have to settle this like men!
Saber: *Glares at Kamina*
Batman: Hush, all of you. Let's have a tea party

All: Oh, okay.

For some reason, I have an urge to repeat the Zero Wing script verbatim and make Monty Python jokes.

Oh, and I need some DYNAMITE!

[Rutee]

Okay. I tried my best to pour as much awesome into this team as possible:

The Hero: Dr. McNinja
The Lancer: Solid Snake
The Smart Guy: Batman
The Big Guy: Kamina
The Chick Action Girl: Saber

I notice that htis team makes the question "What would Batman do?" sensible.. I'm not sure if that's good or bad...

[Fri]

Dang, the electricity went kaput just before I pushed the send button.

To summarize my previous post, what a coincidence since I had this team inside my head.

Sam "Serious" Stone as the Hero. In this line of badass, he just had to be the main hero :D

Max "I have permanent constipation" Payne as the Lancer. He's a perfect lancer material. Dark, brooding, contemplating, cold antihero. And stand in contrast with Sam.

Duke Nukem as the Tough Guy. Just because he remind me on Arnold Swarchznegger.

JC Denton would be the smart guy. Let's just say he picked the hacking skill tree.

Where should we put the Doom Marine and the Wolfenstein Guy? They actually got the Hero vibe, but I've already put Sam as the main hero.


And I can't remember any non-power-armored classic FPS chick. Should it be That suave secret agent from No One Lives Forever? (I forgot her name).

I notice that htis team makes the question "What would Batman do?" sensible.. I'm not sure if that's good or bad...

But.. but Dr McNinja IDOLIZE Batman. It'd be like... well, if you put Elvis' poster everywhere in your room, and you're a starting rock and roll artist. Then suddenly someone put Elvis and you in the same band... Well, not really a good comparison, but adequate

[SITB]

The JUSTICE! team.

The Hero:
Warning contains major SMT 2 spoilers:

Spoiler

Show

Zain/"ז"/Satan, chosen by God/YHVH as the messiah to create The Thousand Year Kingdom (where all the just and righteous people will live and the rest will be left to fend for themselves and die); he leads this unholy union rag tag bunch of misfits by the Power Of God Power Of Friendship.

The Lancer:
The Operative from Firefly. He is the perfect foil for this merry bend by being the only one to doubt if what they are doing is evil (though not necessarily wrong).

The Smart Guy:
Light from Death Note. In addition to being mission control he also never showed his face to the opposition, thus allowing him to walk freely and convert the muggles from within.

Had a bit of a shock when finding who their employer is.

The Big Guy:
Vhailor from Planescape Torment. Is effectively the Juggernaut and the main bruiser due to his ability to gain enough power to right any injustice he perceives.

The Chick:
Lilith de Tempscire from Discworld, is usually somewhat derided due to not being dedicated with the concept of justice as much as the other members; but still a valuable member due to being a master manipulator of Theory Of Narrative Causality. After all, a happy ending is a just one, right?

[Artemician]

But.. but Dr McNinja IDOLIZE Batman. It'd be like... well, if you put Elvis' poster everywhere in your room, and you're a starting rock and roll artist. Then suddenly someone put Elvis and you in the same band... Well, not really a good comparison, but adequate

Indeed he does. *Inspiration strikes*

A Day with the Five-Man Band, part Two

*Everyone sits down to a sumptious six course meal. A squad of ninja waiters materializes and serves the Band a delicious dish of Freeze-Dried Snakes*

Kamina: "Why did it have to be snakes?
Snake: You have something against snakes?
Kamina: Not really, but...
Saber: Enough of that, where did the ninjas come from?
Dr McNinja: Madam, we're always there. We didn't come from anywhere
Saber: We are not amused.
Snake: Of course you're not, that's like your job or something.
Saber: You ignorant cab-driver!
Snake:*jumping onto Table* Now that's rich. Listen to this you British goon, just because you-
Batman: Sit down Snake!
Snake: *continueing* -have some ridiculous fancy dress you-
Batman: Snake, get down-
Snake: think you can give yourself airs-
Batman: Snake! I've had it with your motherf***ing behaviour at my mothrf***ing tea party!
Dr McNinja: Dude!
Batman: Yes?
Dr McNinja: You expect us to talk with all these swearwords flying around?
Batman: No Dr McNinja, I expect you to dine!
Dr McNinja: You can't be serious. On this?
Saber: Bring out the tea and crumpets!
Kamina: Oh father...

[Well, that's it for today, i'm bored. If anyone wants to continue he's free to do so]