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** First with the iconic trio of Percy, his best friend Grover, and his strange new friend [[and future love interest]] Annabeth
** Later repeated in Son Of Neptune, where from either Hazel or Frank's perspective, they are travelling with a friend (eachother) and a stranger in [[Percy]], the [["Graecus"]] who's just turned up.
** Done three seperate times near concurrently, though always a bit twisted, in The Red Pyramid, where twins (although they may aswell be strangers) Carter and Sadie have three seperate trios with a stranger, their uncle Amos, [[Bast, hiding as Sadie's pet cat Muffin]], and Zia Rashid

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** First with the iconic trio of Percy, his best friend Grover, and his strange new friend [[and [[spoiler:and future love interest]] Annabeth
** Later repeated in Son Of Neptune, where from either Hazel or Frank's perspective, they are travelling with a friend (eachother) and a stranger in [[Percy]], [[spoiler:Percy]], the [["Graecus"]] [[spoiler:"Graecus"]] who's just turned up.
** Done three seperate times near concurrently, though always a bit twisted, in The Red Pyramid, where twins (although they may aswell be strangers) Carter and Sadie have three seperate trios with a stranger, their uncle Amos, [[Bast, [[spoiler:Bast, hiding as Sadie's pet cat Muffin]], and Zia Rashid
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* ''Franchise/Riordanverse'': Does this a few times

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* ''Franchise/Riordanverse'': ''Creator/{{RickRiordan}}'': Does this a few times
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* ''Franchise/Riordanverse'': Does this a few times
** First with the iconic trio of Percy, his best friend Grover, and his strange new friend [[and future love interest]] Annabeth
** Later repeated in Son Of Neptune, where from either Hazel or Frank's perspective, they are travelling with a friend (eachother) and a stranger in [[Percy]], the [["Graecus"]] who's just turned up.
** Done three seperate times near concurrently, though always a bit twisted, in The Red Pyramid, where twins (although they may aswell be strangers) Carter and Sadie have three seperate trios with a stranger, their uncle Amos, [[Bast, hiding as Sadie's pet cat Muffin]], and Zia Rashid
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* ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'' has Nagisa with Karma (friend) and Kayano (stranger) form the core trio wof Class 3-E.

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* ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'' has Nagisa with Karma (friend) and Kayano (stranger) form the core trio wof of Class 3-E.

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* ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'' has Nagisa with Karma (friend) and Kayano (stranger).

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* ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'' has Nagisa with Karma (friend) and Kayano (stranger).(stranger) form the core trio wof Class 3-E.



* In ''Anime/DigimonFusion'' protagonist Taiki is sucked into the Digital World with childhood friend Akari, and Zenjiro, who [[UnknownRival insists the two are rivals]] despite Taiki not knowing who he is.

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* In ''Anime/DigimonFusion'' protagonist Taiki is sucked into the Digital World with childhood friend Akari, and Zenjiro, who [[UnknownRival insists the two are rivals]] despite Taiki not knowing who he is. The trio stick together for the first half of the first series. For the second half, Taiki goes back to the Digital World and forms an alliance with his two rival Generals, whom he first met in the first half.
** The sequel series does this as well, with Tagiru being the new lead, who is accompanied and guided by the two veterans Taiki and Yuu. Taiki and Yuu befriended each other near the end of the first series and a few years have passed since then.



* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Ranma, Ryoga and Mousse started out this way.

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* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Ranma, Ryoga and Mousse started out this way.way, as Ranma and Ryoga met each other in their previous boys-only school
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* ''Manga/FairyTail'': The first chapter and episode feature Natsu (TheHero) and his longtime sidekick Happy meeting Lucy, the SupportingProtagonist and AudienceSurrogate.

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* ''Manga/FairyTail'': The first chapter and episode feature Natsu (TheHero) and his longtime sidekick Happy meeting Lucy, the Lucy (the SupportingProtagonist and AudienceSurrogate.AudienceSurrogate), who form the core trio of the series.
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* ''Manga/EdensZero'', in contrast to its [[ThematicSeries thematic predecessor]] ''Manga/FairyTail'', has TheHero Shiki as a NaiveNewcomer who meets Rebecca and Happy, two longtime friends.


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* ''Manga/FairyTail'': The first chapter and episode feature Natsu (TheHero) and his longtime sidekick Happy meeting Lucy, the SupportingProtagonist and AudienceSurrogate.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'', Tulio and Miguel are friends from the beginning and they are later joined by Chel.
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See also TwoGuysAndAGirl, TwoGirlsAndAGuy, TomboyAndGirlyGirl. Compare to ThreeAmigos and TokenHouseguest. If the protagonist is the stranger, he's probably also a RookieRedRanger.

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See also TwoGuysAndAGirl, TwoGirlsAndAGuy, TomboyAndGirlyGirl. Compare to ThreeAmigos and TokenHouseguest. If the protagonist is the stranger, he's probably also a RookieRedRanger.
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** Doctor (main), Yaz (friend), Dan (stranger).
** Ryan (main), Graham (granddad), Yaz (acquaintance), Doctor (stranger).
** Doctor (main), Nardole (friend), Bill (stranger).
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'': Has this setup for the main trio of Hilda, David and Frida, with the twist that Hilda, the main character, is the stranger while David and Frida are the friends who have a history together dating back to at least a year before the start of season 1.

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* ''VideoGame/Persona4'': The founding members of the Investigation Team include the PlayerCharacter, who moved to Inaba recently, and Yosuke and Chie, who have known each other for a few months.

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''VideoGame/Persona4'': The founding members of the Investigation Team include the PlayerCharacter, who moved to Inaba recently, and Yosuke and Chie, who have known each other for a few months.months.
**''VideoGame/Persona5'': The founding members of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts include the PlayerCharacter, who moved to Shibuya recently, and Ryuji and Ann, who have known each other since middle school. Morgana also counts as a stranger since the player and Ryuji had met him during their first outing in the Metaverse.
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This adheres to the three dynamics in CastCalculus. They may form a PowerTrio.

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This adheres to the three three-person dynamics in CastCalculus. They may form a PowerTrio.
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On occasion, it will be the protagonist who is the stranger, also acting as a AudienceSurrogate to understanding the setting as well as fulfilling the stranger role in this trope.

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On occasion, it will be the protagonist who is the stranger, also acting as a an AudienceSurrogate to understanding the setting as well as fulfilling the stranger role in this trope.



This adheres to the 3 dynamics in CastCalculus. They may form a PowerTrio.

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This adheres to the 3 three dynamics in CastCalculus. They may form a PowerTrio.

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