A group of funny yet smart experienced men who know how to always stick together.
Examples of True Companions in Comic Books.
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Other Comics
- The village of indomitable Gauls in Asterix are all True Companions. In many comics, it seems that all of Gaul is that way.
- BIONICLE: Various teams of Toa in the saga, but usually only after long phases of Character Development.
- The long-running Italian series "Comandante Mark" (1965-1999) by Giovanni Sinchetto, Dario Guzzon and Pietro Sartoris, featured a basic unit. The series takes place during the American Revolutionary War. Comantante Mark is a French-American captain of a revolutionary group. His group includes main love interest Elizabeth "Betty" Gray, his right-hand men Mister Bluff and Gufo Triste (Sad Owl), and the hound Flok. Mark and Betty are in their 20s, the other two are middle-aged. Mark and Betty often argue, particularly due to his tendency to be overly affectionate with other women. Mister Bluff is a lifelong adventurer, former pirate, womanizer and eternal optimist. Gufo Triste is a Native American warrior, proud of his cunning and a couple of rarely used magical skills. He tends to be pessimistic, cynical and openly disdainful of women (with a soft spot for African-American women). They are best friends but constantly argue on their belief systems. Flok is extremely loyal to Bluf and loathes Gufo Triste. Yet throughout the series and despite their near-constant arguments, the characters consistently risk life and limb for each other.
- The Anti-Megalosaurus Force in Godzilla: The Half-Century War, especially Ota, Kentaro, and Colonel Schooler, who are all present from the first issue. By issue three, they've been through nearly 20 years of life-threatening combat together and are practically family to each other. Kentaro in particular makes the choice to stay in the AMF instead of pursuing a safer line of work just so he can have Ota's back.
- In Gold Digger, Julia Diggers and her students are like this. Do not harm them and let her find out about it, or you're in for a world of pain. Also, the three wererats in Throne Of Shadows were specifically raised to be able to trust each other completely, an advantage that wererats almost never have in life.
- Hercules: The Thracian Wars: Hercules's crew may only stay together because of Hercules, but they always look out for each other.
- The Holo Brothers are members of three different alien races. They were all orphaned too young to remember their birth parents, and grew up together in an orphanage. Now adults, they still consider each other brothers and act as if they were actually members of a single family.
- Hit-Girl with Kick-Ass, after her dad died. He's pretty much the only person she opens up to at all, and cares dearly for his well-being. He's also her go-to sidekick in the second volume.
- In one Knights of the Dinner Table storyline, Sara temporarily joins her boyfriend's gaming group, only to get constantly sidelined and then overhear that they only wanted her for a mixed-gender bonus at an upcoming tournament and planned to get rid of her afterwards. Later, the guys show her pictures of the Humiliation Conga they inflicted on the other group in retaliation — behavior that would normally appall Sara, but which she instead finds touching because it's a sign that she's fully "one of the guys" (and because she's understandably ticked off at her ex-boyfriend).
- Frank's gang from Mini Monsters is a good example: Sure, they don't like each other at times, but it's clear that they love each other deeply and stay together regardless. Victor's relationship with them is a case of Fire-Forged Friends (Piruja too, but in a much lower manner).
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The turtles in are indeed brothers in every sense of the word; this trope also applies to April O'Neil and Casey Jones, who regard the Turtles as their family.
- Tintin, Haddock, Calculus, Thompson, and Thomson would all qualify — as well as the various side characters they meet in stories, such as Chan.
- Transformers:
- The Transformers (Marvel) has the Autobot special forces team known as the Wreckers, particularly concerning its seven core members (Springer, Broadside, Sandstorm, Twin Twist, Topspin, Roadbuster and Whirl). Possibly the Insecticons as well, in that they're a trio of freaks despised by both Autobot and Decepticon and are really only loyal to each other.
- The Transformers: Robots in Disguise: Soundwave and most of his cassettes are close. Soundwave was found, a lone mentally ill derelict out on the street, by Buzzsaw Laserbeak and Ravage. They taught him to control his super senses which were causing Sensory Overload, and he treated them as equals, even though they, both as data discs and animalistic bots, should be lower than him. When Rumble and Frenzy were refitted to work with him, they joined the fold, sticking with him in the present, and even displaying the nobody get's left behind mindset back in The Transformers: Autocracy.
- In Warhammer 40,000 comic Bloodquest, members of Captain Leonatos' Exiles considered themselves as this even Lysandar and Cloten refused to give up by going back and find him again.
- The Guardians of Kandrakar in W.I.T.C.H., both in the comic and the animated adaptation. Takes them a while, but by the time of the third saga they're practically family.
- Y: The Last Man: Yorick, Dr. Mann and 355 (despite their conflicting personalities) and later Rose; plus the all-girl group of Hero, Beth II, Natalya and Ciba.
