Gender Equal Ensemble/Playing With

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    Basic Trope: When the main group of characters is an even number so that there is an equal number of females to males.

    • Straight: Jane, Bobby, Timothy and Allison are four friends who go on adventures.
    • Exaggerated:
      • The group refuses to invite other kids to go on adventures with them lest the gender ratio becomes unbalanced.
      • Jane, Bobby, Timothy, Allison and Alex are four friends who go on adventures. Alex was only allowed to join because s/he is a hermaphrodite.
    • Downplayed: Jane, Bobby, and Timothy are three friends who go on adventures who are occasionally joined by Allison.
    • Justified:
      • The kids have always been very close friends and grew up together.
      • Alternatively, they are all siblings and play with each other constantly.
    • Inverted:
      • The group is made up of three boys and a girl or three girls and a boy.
      • Everyone in the group is the same gender.
    • Subverted:
    • Double Subverted:
      • But, Allison turns out to be Allen who was cross-dressing as a girl.
      • The Team Pet brings in a girlfriend.
    • Parodied:
      • When Bobby moves away, the kids refuse to have anyone but a boy take his place in their group.
      • The team is a Five-Man Band of badass antropomorphic animals with a Token Human, and people flip between getting the genders confused and discounting several members as Team Pets.
    • Zig Zagged: Jane, Bobby, Timothy, and Allison are four friends. Timothy turns out to be a girl, Tina, but Allison turns out to be a boy, Allen. They adopt a Team Pet, Fred, but are then forced to adopt Fred's girlfriend, Violet. Bobby drops out of the group, but is later replaced by Greg.
    • Averted:
      • The group is only ever made up of one gender or has only one person of the opposite gender.
      • The group has an odd number of members.
    • Enforced: "This show has to appeal to both gender demographics, so make the main group of friends have the same number of boys and girls."
    • Lampshaded: ???
    • Invoked: The group decides not to allow any new members unless they recruit a new member of the opposite gender, so that no one gender gains dominance.
    • Exploited: ???
    • Defied: One of the members brings in a new member of their own gender, so that their gender may gain dominance over the other.
    • Discussed: ???
    • Conversed: ???

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