Gender Equal Ensemble/Playing With

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:
  • Timothy was actually Tina who was pretending to be a boy.
  • Four Plus One with Fred the Team Pet.
• 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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