History Main / ClubStub

* ''{{Clannad}}'' has Nagisa trying to restart the Drama Club by herself until Tomoya joins up. From there [[PowerOfFriendship everyone Tomoya comes in contact with joins pretty readily]].

* In ''AhMyGoddess'', the Nekomi Institute of Technology Motor Club consists of Tamiya and Otaki, until Keiichi shows up. These two skirt the edges of the HeterosexualLifePartners trope, until one of them starts going after the daughter of the university president.

* ''{{Nichijou}'' has the infamous Go-Soccer club, with just two members that are stuck doing nothing since the club 'president' made up the WordSaladTitle for the club. Amazingly, this draws ''actual Go-Soccer practitioners'' down the line.

* In ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightwalker:_The_Midnight_Detective Nightwalker]]'', the film club appears to consist of just Shunichi, Riho, and Mikako.
* The club in ''[[{{ptitlei5gydjrz}} K-On!]]'' starts out with NO members, since all the previous members graduated. Ritsu joins to be president of a club, so she drags in Mio, Mugi wanders by after a day, and Yui manages to show up at the end the first episode, fulfilling the membership quota to save the club.

* In the ''{{Arthur}}'' episode, "My Club Rules" six start out in the Parade Float Club, but due to WackyHijinks everyone ends up in a club of one. They reband at the end showing the PowerOfFriendship.

* ''BambooBlade'': Kirino Chiba, as the only active and participating member, was KendoTeamCaptain by default. Aside from her, the only members were Toyama and Iwasa, who only showed up to bully the newbies and girls, and Saya, who had recently stormed out of the dojo in a huff ... again ... and had yet to return. Everyone else had either graduated, were about to graduate and were too busy studying for final exams, or were driven off by Toyama and Iwasa's bullying.

School clubs play a big part in the life of any student. However, for some reason, the OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent or UnluckyEverydude does not have the social skills to get in with the popular crowd, and so must settle for the smallest club on campus: the Club Stub. These students are the hero's only friends and usually a sterling example of ThoseTwoGuys... possibly until the further addition of the MagicalGirlfriend, UnwantedHarem, AnnoyingYoungerSibling or a combination of the three catapults the club to the heights of success via strategic use of PitGirls or HoodOrnamentHottie routines. This is also generally accompanied by the inexplicable reappearance of former members, who may be added to the Unwanted Harem, if present. Generally, the association doesn't approach the level of a {{Nakama}}, since the club members are often supporting cast and not central to the plot; in fact, the original members may vanish entirely as the plot thickens. However, it serves to indicate how comically inept the lead character is at securing a social position.

A common plot point is that the Club Stub is ''just about to be disbanded'' when our hero(ine) appears because it does not have the required minimal number of members. The remaining membership will thus be very eager to recruit new people (which can range from extremely welcoming to outright forceful) and it goes without saying that the protagonist, if not this person, will be the prime target. Since most members are new to the club, plenty of AsYouKnow exposition gets justified. It is also a good way to explain why new characters line up in a DebutQueue rather than being introduced all at the same time, and why the club ends up with a RagtagBunchOfMisfits.

American media can also use the Club Stub on offense: A foil or villain will start a club specifically to exclude the hero or another positive, optimistic character. The club stays comically small, however, since so few people find the victim unlikable.

* The club in ''[[{{ptitlei5gydjrz}} K-On!]]'' starts out with NO members, since all the previous members graduated. Ritsu joins to be president of a club, so she drags in Mio, Mugi wanders by after a day, and Yui manages to show up at the end the first episode. This was a plot point, since the Light Music Club would've been forced to disband if they didn't have at least four members.

* In the ''X-Change'' H-Games, the chemistry club only ever consists of two or three people depending on the game.

Related to AHalfDozenGuysInABasement, OddlySmallOrganization.

* In ''CampLazlo'', Edward forms an anti-Lazlo club, and tells Lazlo that he belongs in "the Nothing Club". So Lazlo goes and forms the Nothing Club, and little by little all the others start joining him, while Edward's club dwindles down to just himself, since he's the only one who actually hates Lazlo.

* The Get Rid Of Slimy girlS ([[FunWithAcronyms GROSS]]) club in ''CalvinAndHobbes'', which involves only the titular characters. So one of its two members ''is imaginary.'' In the commentary for the 10th anniversary book, Bill Waterson notes that he and a childhood friend used to form these in real life all the time.

* In the ''X-Change'' H-Games, the chemistry club only ever consists of two or three people depending on the game.

A common plot point is that the Club Stub is ''just about to be disbanded'' when our hero(ine) appears because it does not have the required minimal number of members. The remaining membership will thus be very eager to recruit new people (which can range from extremely welcoming to outright forceful) and it goes without saying that the protagonist, if not this person, will be the prime target. Since most members are new to the club, plenty of AsYouKnow exposition gets justified. It is also a good way to explain why new characters line up in a DebutQueue rather then being introduced all at the same time, and why the club ends up with a RagtagBunchOfMisfits.

* KenichiTheMightiestDisciple has the Gardening Club, the only members of which are Kenichi, and one other girl from his class.

* ''Go! Tenba Cheerleaders'' begins with the Rooting Club having a ''single'' member (the protagonist).

->''"This confirmed what I had thought before but had never been able to confirm definitively: Shizune and Misha are the student council. The ''[[OddlySmallOrganization whole]]'' student council."''

* In the ''X-Change'' H-Games, the chemistry club only ever consists of two or three people depending on the game. OrSoIHeard.

* ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Buffy & Giles were a club of two until they were joined by Xander and Willow. FWIW Xander and Willow were a club of three with Xander's best friend Jesse, [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready who was killed off in the pilot]].

->''"This confirmed what I had thought before but had never been able to confirm definitively: Shizune and Misha are the student council. The ''whole'' student council."''

A common plot point is that the Club Stub is ''just about to be disbanded'' when our hero(ine) appears because it does not have the required minimal number of members. The remaining membership will thus be very eager to recruit new people (which can range from extremely welcoming to outright forceful) and it goes without saying that the protagonist, if not this person, will be the prime target. Since most members are new to the club, plenty of AsYouKnow exposition gets justified. It is also a good way to explain why new characters are added like DucksInARow rather then being introduced at the same time, and why the club ends up with a RagtagBunchOfMisfits.

* In ''TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya'', the literature club has only one member, Yuki, who gets absorbed into Haruhi's SOS Brigade, which itself was composed of two members. Haruhi quickly recruits two more people to make the core of the show.

* In ''{{Ever17}}'', You (nickname, not pronoun) and Sara met due to You's pushiness to get members into her disbanding "computer club."

* [[{{Persona 3}} Gekkoukan High]]'s Home Economics (read: sewing) club appears to be made up of only the MC and Bebe.