History Main / TeamSpirit

Contrast IWorkAlone, where they dismiss the very idea of teamwork.

%%* ''Manga/SailorMoon'', especially the first season where Usagi learnt to trust her team mates the Sailor Senshi.

* Even more so, the eponymous airships in ''Anime/{{Simoun}}'' can only be operated by two girls working as a team...and they're powered by the pilots kissing each other.
* The Space Squadron in ''Anime/StrainStrategicArmoredInfantry'' takes great pains to integrate Sara into their [[TrueCompanions group]] and work together as a team. Although Sara goes solo against the BigBad, she has the full backing and support of her team, who give her all the power they've got.
%%* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' does this several times a season.
* A running theme in ALL sport mangas to one or another degree. Be ''Manga/{{Eyeshield 21}}'' or ''Manga/KurokosBasketball'' or ''Anime/AttackerYou'' or ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'' or others... there will ''always'' be the message that the team is '''everything'''. It's specially anvilicious in ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'', where one of the biggest plot threads of the junior high arc is how [[spoiler: Hyuuga lost his position as a titular player in the powerful Toho team because he ''broke'' said team spirit by taking a temporary leave to train in Okinawa without permission]].
* In ''Anime/KanColle'', the Destroyers of the Third Torpedo Squadron form a [[TrueCompanions strong bond]] while training NaiveNewcomer Fubuki, which they call "Torpedo Girl Spirit" and becomes their rallying cry even after they're reassigned to new squads.
%%* The trope is a staple of sports animes so it's quite unsurprising to see titles such as ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'' and ''Anime/AttackerYou'' feature AnAesop about this in almost every pivotal episode.
* A central theme in ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer''. Since the protagonists are the underdogs, they need to rely on team synergy to claim any victory. In addition, each tank relies on a unified crew to work, so there are multiple layers of TeamSpirit.
* In ''Manga/HarukanaReceive'', Ayumi immediately mentions to Haruka that in beach volleyball, there are no aces, and that teamwork is what determines victory on the volleyball court.

* In ''Film/SawV'', the FiveManBand of victims [[spoiler: take the selfish options to Jigsaw's first three tests for them, leading to three of them dying. In the final room, the last two figure out that all five of them could have made it to the test if they'd all just worked together.]]

%%* Every ''Franchise/StarTrek'' series is built on this trope.
%%* ''Series/StargateSG1'' and ''Series/StargateAtlantis''.
* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' took this to {{anvilicious}} (but still enjoyable) levels in the episode, "How to Stop an Exploding Man" when [[spoiler: every character teamed up to kick Sylar's ass and stop the nuking of New York]].

* In the ''Series/{{JAG}}'' episode "Dungaree Justice", a misdirected team spirit leads a group of sailors to avenge the rape of a female sailor on an innocent man.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower''
%%* ''WesternAnimation/TeamoSupremo''
%%* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': Be it the BadassNormal or the PluckyComicRelief, if even ''one'' Titan is absent....
* ''WesternAnimation/TeachersPet'' has one episode "Team Scott".
* ''WesternAnimation/TheWeekenders'': In "Sitters", the gang are babysitting Carver's younger brother... not surprisingly, they manage to keep things under control when they're working together.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/YinYangYo'': the two usually have to re-learn the Aesop about every other episode.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wonderpets}}'': What's gonna work? Teamwork!
%%* ''WesternAnimation/MuchaLucha''

* This is a common theme on ''WesternAnimation/PBAndJOtter'', and there's even a song about it in one episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': "Three Girls and a Monster" opens with the announcement that the City of Townsville has received an award for teamwork, and an example from the regular citizens being shown involving trash. However, Blossom and Buttercup are bickering over lots of things, picking up the hotline phone included. When the three girls finally meet the monster, one would expect the girls to defeat it by teaming up. [[SubvertedTrope Instead, Blossom and Buttercup continue to bicker while Bubbles gets the monster]] to leave town [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath by asking nicely]].

* This is pretty much the central theme of ''WesternAnimation/MyFriendRabbit''. It's detailed in the show's TitleThemeTune: "''We're a team with lots to share / It's not where we're going it's how we're gonna get there! / We can do it, when we do it together! / We can do it, me and my friend Rabbit!''"
* Averted in the series finale of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill''. Bobby joins a competitive meat-grading team, but the rest of his teammates are depicted as {{Jerk Ass}}es who [[SeriousBusiness take it too seriously]], including plotting to assault another team and mocking Bobby as a failure because he made a single mistake earlier in the competition. Bobby ends up winning the championship single-handedly, partly because the team showed up late thanks to [[LaserGuidedKarma karma catching up]], and partly because when they shoved him to the sidelines and were about to give the wrong answer for the final event, he speaks up anyway and gives the correct answer, saving the day.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': “The Big Bugball Game”: Anne joins the Farmers’ team against against Mayor Toadstool and his team of ringers in the annual Harvest Day bugball game, but since she’s used to single-player sports like tennis, she’s unused to being a team player and refuses to acknowledge her teammates. After her ball-hogging leads to getting trounced in a practice game, she finally agrees to let the rest of her teammates school her in teamwork. In the rematch, the Mayor’s team focus all their attention on Anne, still expecting her to hog the ball, but are caught unprepared by her willingness to rely on her team, making this game much more competitive. Since she’s still the best player on her team, the Mayor resorts to blinding her, but thanks to her team coaching her, she still manages to set up the winning shot, and the Mayor’s team is rightly humiliated.

%%* ''Series/{{JAG}}'' and spin-offs ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' and ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'' generally plays this trope straight.
* In the ''Series/{{JAG}}'' episode "Dungaree Justice", a misdirected team spirit leads a group of sailors to avenge the rape of a female sailor on an innocent man.

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%%* Website/TeamNightSaturn: Everyone on the site doesn't seem to mind to work together... as a team.
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%%* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''. They did have a subversion of this cliche, however; see below.

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%%* Website/TeamNightSaturn: Everyone on the site doesn't seem to mind to work together... as a team.

* ''Videogame/FalloutNewVegas'': At Camp Golf, the player is tasked with training the Misfits, an under-performing squad of NCR troopers. Among their issues, as Sergeant McCredie puts it, they have "absolutely no esprit de corps". One of the [[TheHeart nicest members of the squad]], Private O'Hanrahan suggests that a little more "basic human niceness" would go a long way towards getting the squad in shape. As it turns out, he's right; with enough Speech skill, the player can convince the squad to work together, which proves as effective as actual training in making them better soldiers.

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* In UsefulNotes/WorldWarII's Pacific Theater, the American air forces learned that dogfighting against the Japanese Zero fighters alone was a losing proposition against their early model fighters. However, with the help of master aerial tacticians like John Thache, the American pilots learn they can beat the Japanese in the air by fighting as a team.

%%* Notably ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'', although Lina always seems to be the only useful member in the end.

On shows where the main characters are grouped together, goals ranging from winning games to defeating monsters are achieved only by teamwork.

* Even more so, the eponymous airships in ''Anime/{{Simoun}}'' can only be operated by two girls working as a team...and they're powered by the pilots [[SchoolgirlLesbians kissing each other]].

%%* Used in ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'', particually in the later seasons where this seems to form the plot of half the episodes.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wonderpets}}'': What's gonna work? Teamwork!

%%* This is a common theme on ''WesternAnimation/PBAndJOtter'', and there's even a song about it in one episode.

Also see ThePowerOfFriendship, SaveOurTeam.

* In ''Anime/KantaiCollection'', the Destroyers of the Third Torpedo Squadron form a [[TrueCompanions strong bond]] while training NaiveNewcomer Fubuki, which they call "Torpedo Girl Spirit" and becomes their rallying cry even after they're reassigned to new squads.

* A running theme in ALL sport mangas to one or another degree. Be ''Manga/{{Eyeshield 21}}'' or ''Manga/KurokoNoBasuke'' or ''Anime/AttackerYou'' or ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'' or others... there will ''always'' be the message that the team is '''everything'''. It's specially anvilicious in ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'', where one of the biggest plot threads of the junior high arc is how [[spoiler: Hyuuga lost his position as a titular player in the powerful Toho team because he ''broke'' said team spirit by taking a temporary leave to train in Okinawa without permission]].

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* Notably ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'', although Lina always seems to be the only useful member in the end.
* ''Manga/SailorMoon'', especially the first season where Usagi learnt to trust her team mates the Sailor Senshi.

* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' does this several times a season.

* The trope is a staple of sports animes so it's quite unsurprising to see titles such as ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'' and ''Anime/AttackerYou'' feature AnAesop about this in almost every pivotal episode.

* Every ''Franchise/StarTrek'' series is built on this trope.
* ''Series/StargateSG1'' and ''Series/StargateAtlantis''.

* ''Series/{{JAG}}'' and spin-offs ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' and ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'' generally plays this trope straight.

* Website/TeamNightSaturn: Everyone on the site doesn't seem to mind to work together... as a team.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''. They did have a subversion of this cliche, however; see below.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': Be it the BadassNormal or the PluckyComicRelief, if even ''one'' Titan is absent....

* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'': "Benchwarmer".
* ''WesternAnimation/YinYangYo'': the two usually have to re-learn the Aesop about every other episode.
* Used in ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'', particually in the later seasons where this seems to form the plot of half the episodes.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wonderpets}}'': What's gonna work? Teamwork!

* This is a common theme on ''WesternAnimation/PBAndJOtter'', and there's even a song about it in one episode.

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* A central theme in Anime/GirlsUndPanzer. Since the protagonists are the underdogs, they need to rely on team synergy to claim any victory. In addition, each tank relies on a unified crew to work, so there are multiple layers of TeamSpirit.