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-->'''Scotty''': You're part of something bigger now, lassie. Right? Dinnae give up on that. 'Cause we'll sure as hell never give up on you. That is what being part of a crew is all about.

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!!Straight Examples:

* As every player on both ends of a versus match in Left4Dead will tell you; teamwork is very essential. Survivors must share supplies, stick together, and rescue their downed teammates from the Infected monstrosities that pinned them down. The Special Infected, consisting of multiple special zombies with their own kind of BodyHorror mutation that grants them unique abilities, must communicate and coordinate their attacks on the survivors to pin them all down at once.

* While many of ''{{LazyTown}}'s'' episodes revolve around the values of working together, there is one in particular that focuses on teamwork, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmlW277w3-A complete with a song]]:

* As every player on both ends of a versus match in Left4Dead will tell you; teamwork is very essential. Survivors must share supplies, stick together, and rescue their downed teammates from the Infected monstrosities that pinned them down. The Special Infected, consisting of multiple special zombies with their own kind of BodyHorror mutation that grants them unique abilities, must communicate adn coordinate their attacks on the survivors to pin them all down at once.

%%* ''Manga/SailorMoon'', especially the first season.

* ''WesternAnimation/AvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' has so many episodes where the Avengers save the day through teamwork, Loki caught the heroes in traps by forcing each to fight a Master of Evil ''alone''.

* Notably ''Anime/{{Slayers}}'', although Lina always seems to be the only useful member in the end.
%%* ''Anime/SailorMoon'', especially the first season.

* The Space Squadron in ''Anime/SoukouNoStrain'' 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.

* ''RocketPower''

* ''TeamoSupremo''

* ''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.

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

* ''MuchaLucha''
* ''GalactikFootball''

* This is a common theme on ''[[WesternAnimation/PBAndJOtter PB&J Otter]]'', and there's even a song about it in one episode.
* ''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]].
* ''HeyArnold'', "World Records": After several attempts by Arnold and Gerald to break a world record prove failures, Arnold comes up with the bright idea of getting all the neighborhood kids involved in making a giant pizza puff, using everyone's own special talent (Stinky's ability to wrap sleeping bags helps him fold the crust, Phoebe makes sauce, Gerald cuts vegetables). In the end they failed only because Sid misinterpreted TSP--teaspoon--as Ten Square Pounds. In the end they succeed with "Most Attempts at Trying To Get a World Record" which was without a doubt a team effort.

* In 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.

* A running theme in ALL sport mangas to one or another degree. Be {{Eyeshield 21}} or {{Kuroko no Basuke}} or {{Attacker You}} or {{Prince of Tennis}} or others... there will ''always'' be the message that the team is '''everything'''. It's specially anvilicious in 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.]].

->"''I can tell you from experience that when they get along, it sucks muchly."''\\
--'''Carl''', the [[CardCarryingVillain Evil Cockroach Wizard]], ''WesternAnimation/YinYangYo''

* ''HeyArnold'', "World Records": After several attempts by Arnold and Gerald to break a world record prove failures, Arnold comes up with the bright idea of getting all the neighborhood kids involved in making a giant pizza puff, using everyone's own special talent (Stinky's ability to wrap sleeping bags helps him fold the crust, Phoebe makes sauce, Gerald cuts vegetables). In the end they failed only because one of the kids (forgot who) misinterpreted TSP--teaspoon--as Ten Square Pounds. In the end they succeed with "Most Attempts at Trying To Get a World Record" which was without a doubt a team effort.

* ''Manga/SailorMoon'', especially the first season.

* A running theme in ALL sport mangas to one or another degree. It's specially anvilicious in 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.]] {{Eyeshield 21}} and {{Kuroko no Basket}} also run on it a LOT. (Ironically, the three mangas ran in the ''Shonen jump'' magazine)

* ''Manga/{{Eyeshield 21}}''.

* A running theme in the manga ''Manga/KurokoNoBasuke''.
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''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]].

!!Subversions:

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* 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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* ''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. Instead, Blossom and Buttercup continue to bicker while Bubbles gets the monster to leave town [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath by asking nicely]].
* ''HeyArnold'', "World Records": Might not have been an ''intentional'' subversion, but a subversion nonetheless. After several attempts by Arnold and Gerald to break a world record prove failures, Arnold comes up with the bright idea of getting all the neighborhood kids involved in making a giant pizza puff, using everyone's own special talent (Stinky's ability to wrap sleeping bags helps him fold the crust, Phoebe makes sauce, Gerald cuts vegetables). In the end however, that attempt is also unsuccessful, and their actual record comes from out of left field.[[note]]Most Attempts at Trying To Get a World Record".[[/note]]
** They failed because one of the kids (forgot who) misinterpreted TSP--teaspoon--as Ten Square Pounds.
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* ''HeyArnold'', "World Records": Might not have been an ''intentional'' subversion, but a subversion nonetheless. After several attempts by Arnold and Gerald to break a world record prove failures, Arnold comes up with the bright idea of getting all the neighborhood kids involved in making a giant pizza puff, using everyone's own special talent (Stinky's ability to wrap sleeping bags helps him fold the crust, Phoebe makes sauce, Gerald cuts vegetables). In the end however, that attempt is also unsuccessful, and their actual record comes from out of left field.[[hottip:*:"Most Attempts at Trying To Get a World Record".]]

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* ''[[WesternAnimation/AvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes]]'' has so many episodes where the Avengers save the day through teamwork, Loki caught the heroes in traps by forcing each to fight a Master of Evil ''alone''.