Basic Trope: A group of people with a collective title has a number in the name that's actually lower than the number of members on the team's current roster.
- Straight: The superhero team known as The Troping Trio actually has four members.
- Exaggerated: The Troping Trio has 42 members and 19 honorary members.
- Downplayed: The Troping Trio have a Team Pet that is considered part of the team, but not in a serious way.
- Justified:
- The Troping Trio was named before gaining a fourth member.
- "Trio" is actually the last names of the group members.
- Bilocal Bob, a member of The Troping Trio, has the power to duplicate himself into two people who don't get along, so they are often separated although still on the team.
- Inverted: The Troping Trio has two members.
- Subverted:
- The Troping Trio has four members, but one dies.
- It's Engrish for Troping III. note
- Double Subverted: The fourth member's ghost joins the team.
- Parodied: The Troping Trio is composed of two members, but it's named like that because Troping Trio sounds better than The Troping Duo. Everyone comments on this.
- Zig-Zagged: The Troping Trio's roster has a high turnover rate, with people joining and leaving the group at regular intervals, and the number of active members vary between episodes. Sometimes there's exactly three members, sometimes there's only two, sometimes there's an additional member, sometimes there's fifteen more.
- Averted:
- The Troping Trio has three members.
- The Troping Trio changes their name when a fourth member is added.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: "You guys should change your name to The Can't-Count Quartet."
- Invoked: The captured heroes intentionally tell the villain that they're known as The Troping Trio so that their extra members can come as a surprise when they do a rescue.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: The Department of Superheroic Registry refuses the four members to license themselves under The Troping Trio title.
- Discussed: "Everyone will think of us as idiots if we name ourselves The Troping Trio with five members!"
- Conversed: "Wait... The Troping Trio has eight members? I guess Writers Cannot Do Math."
Back to One Extra Member.
