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* FiveManBand: The rebels in the town form one:
** TheHero: Ivan Kralich[=/=]\\\"Boycho Ognyanov\\\", the main planner of the uprising.
** TheLancer: Dr. Sokolov, a local young intellectual, more of a hothead than Ognyanov.
** TheBigGuy: Ivan \\\'Borimechkata\\\' (\\\'\\\'The Bear-Fighter\\\'\\\'), from a nearby village.
** TheSmartGuy: Several people fill in this role in different ways, notably Kandov, a law student recently returned from Russia and an ardent socialist, and Father Vicentii, who believes in a more liberal form of revolution.
** TheChick: Rada, the school teacher and Ognyanov\\\'s lover, who supports the uprising in any way she can as a woman.

FiveManBand is often misused and/or shoehorned. The trope requires exactly FIVE people, and they need to fit specific roles. If two or more people fit the same role, then it is NOT a FiveManBand. The example claims that multiple people fill in the role of TheSmartGuy, therefor it is not an example.

Also, wrong ExampleIndentation. Tropes should not be listed as second bullets of other tropes (no, just because other people do it wrong doesn\\\'t mean it\\\'s fine).

TheBigGuy needs context. Borimechkata IS big, but the example does not explain that at all, so a reading who is not familiar with the book will not be able to tell if he really is an example of the trope.
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