History Main / CastHerd

** The "main" group is [[AdventureDuo Sonic and Tails]], who are occasionally joined by Knuckles and/or Amy depending on the game.

** The Chaotix are the only group who are almost ''never'' seen apart. The only exceptions being ''VideoGame/SonicFreeRiders'' and ''VideoGame/TeamSonicRacing'' where Vector joins Team Rose along with Amy and Cream, and with Silver and Blaze respectively.

** Ever since ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'', Silver and Blaze are usually paired together

** '''Axis:''' Italy, Germany and Japan
** '''Allies:''' Russia, France, China, England and America[[note]]Oh, and Canada too![[/note]]
** '''Germanics:''' Germany, Austria, Prussia, Liechtenstein and Switzerland
** '''Nordics:''' Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway and Iceland. Sometimes extends to include [[CheerfulChild Sealand]]
** '''Baltics:''' Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia
** '''Former USSR:''' The Baltics + Ukraine, Poland, and Belarus

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' has a plot that spans across several regions and continents, and often divides groups of characters by where their story takes place (Jon and the Night's Watch in the North, Dany and her royal party in the Free Cities, etc.) Since most of the plot deals with politics and warfare between dynastic houses, characters are also divided further by their family alliance (The Starks, The Lannisters, The Baratheons, etc.)
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' does this between books--most can be classified as Witches, Wizards, City (of which the Watch is the most frequently recurring), Death or Other. There is a lot of overlap though: [[TheGrimReaper Death]] appears in all the books except ''Literature/TheWeeFreeMen''; any novel with a scene in Ankh-Morpork is likely to have either the wizards or the Watch show up; ''Literature/LordsAndLadies'' is basically a Witches/Wizards crossover; ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'' is a Wizards novel that continues the themes of the City books, and so on.

* ''Literature/{{Malevil}}'' features a few, while the cast merges together at the titular castle, they tend to stick with their original members while in the background. You have the original Malevil survivors, the "troglodytes" of L'Étang, the oppressed La Roque citizens, and the oppressing La Roque parish.
* ''Literature/UndaVosari'' actually started with a small cast of characters, then grew to over several dozen characters (both main and secondary). Some were {{Put On A Bus}} (the "Silent Vigil" ship) while others are ''still'' on a LongBusTrip (as the sequel novels are [[DevelopmentHell still being written]].
* ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'' has three separate areas of story. The part about the movie concerning Navidson and his family. Then there is the book itself, which is written by Zampano and commented on by various one-shot academics. Lastly there is Johnny's part, which contains the adventures of the author's author (Or however the hell you describe anything in the book), as he goes absolutely insane. The only interaction comes in the beginning before and just after Zampano dies, and that barely constitutes interaction.
* In ''Literature/DragonsInOurMidst'', we start with the main TrueCompanions, Billy, Bonnie, and Walter, and the professor. From there, we have each of their families, the other anthrozils, the dragons in Sheol, the dragons in Dragon's Rest, the slayers, Morgana and her henchmen, the Watchers, all of those who were at Doctor Conner's lab, and several different factions within Sheol.
** Then we have the sequel series, Oracles of Fire. Cast members added include all of the Nephlim, the characters from the Arc time period, which somewhat overlaps with the characters from the Tower of Babel time period, more anthrozils, the ten men from Sheol, characters in Heaven... the list goes on and on and on.
* ''Literature/WarriorCats'' starts off book one with [=ThunderClan=], [=WindClan=], [=ShadowClan=], [=RiverClan=], [=StarClan=] and the Twolegplace kittypets. The story has since grown to include the normal Clans at different time periods, [=SkyClan=], [=BloodClan=], The Dark Forest, The Tribe of Rushing Water, The Tribe of Endless Hunting, The Ancients, the cats that founded the Clans, and many, many side groups such as Daisy's barn, Jingo's group, the traveling rogues, the mountain rogues, Stick and Dodge's groups, and Darktail's rogues.
* ''{{Literature/Gone}}'', especially in later books. There's the Sam's group, Caine's group, the Human Crew, and the Island kids, plus whoever the Gaiaphage is using at the moment. People do occasionally switch from one group to another, though, like [[spoiler: Diana and Quinn at the end of Plague]], and [[spoiler: the Island kids have now kind of merged with Sam's group.]]
* ''Literature/SongAtDawn'': Alienor's Ladies-In-Waiting are referred to 'the Ladies' as if they were a single identity. A RunningGag is Estela and/or Dragonetz failing to tell them apart. For instance '(blah blah) from Mary or Candance'.
* As the ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' universe grew, this had to happen (not counting the assorted spin-off series). Towards the end of the war with Haven it wasn't unusual to have the Royal Manticoran Navy section of the book (usually, but not always, featuring Harrington herself), the Manticoran political section, the Havenite navy section (usually starring the honorable officers who were starting to conspire against the People's Republic), and the Havenite political section with Pierre and Saint-Just. The end of the war moved the posts: the Havenite cast joined with the Manticorans, and now the books tend to be divided between the Solarians, the Grand Alliance, and the Mesan Alignment. Note that this doesn't include the Torch and Talbott sub-series; the former follow the "Spook Duo" of Victor Cachat and Anton Zilwicki, and the latter follow events in the Talbott Quadrant near the Lynx Terminus of the Junction.[[note]]Weber has recently indicated that those two sub-series are likely to be re-folded into the "main-line" novels, which means we can add those locations and herds to the main thread of the narrative after ''Shadow of Freedom''.[[/note]]
* ''Literature/LegacyOfTheDragokin'': The goblins have their quirks but they have more identity as a group than individuals and they're always together. Likewise, Rufus calls for them in every scene he's in.

** Season 3 has four herds. The Party (Will, Mike, Lucas, Eleven, and Max) start investigating the returned Shadow Monster. Nancy and Johnathan are looking into "weird rats". Joyce and Hopper look into why her magnets stopped working and [[spoiler: stumble into a Russian base and collect Alexi and Murray]]. Steve, Robin, Dustin, and Erica look into a odd radio message and stumble into the Russian base.
* ''Series/UpstairsDownstairs'': With more than 20 recurring characters, this period drama has its two distinct Cast Herds conveniently marked in the title. Upstairs is the well-off Bellamy family; Downstairs is their staff of servants, a sort of family of its own.
* ''Series/{{Westworld}}'' has several ongoing storylines at once. In the first season, there is the herd of the people in command, Maeve's herd, Dolores, Billy, and Logan, and whoever the Man in Black is dragging around at the time (first Lawrence and later Teddy). Justified because [[spoiler:the Dolores/Billy/Logan storyline is taking place years in the past; eventually, Billy grows up to become the Man in Black]].

* ''{{Toys/Bionicle}}'' splits the cast into numerous different species and organizations. The Toa, Matoran, Turaga, Skakdi, Vortixx, Zyglak, Agori, Skrall, and Glatorian are the (named) species, and the Dark Hunters, Brotherhood of Makuta, and the Order of Mata Nui are the organizations. Some species have a tendency to join specific orders. The Matoran species in itself is split into several elemental types that act as independent subcultures.

* ''Fanfic/AIsA'' has teh cast in several teams, with each story focusing on the actions of two or three teams, through the viewpoints of several characters in said teams.