Talk:The More the Merrier/@comment-29684190-20190616124532/@comment-29684190-20190616193326

True, the Red Lotus might not be great for comparing, but it is a great example of how you can elevate your villain team to be really memorable and be great characters.

A much better example IMO would be the already mentioned Akatsuki from Naruto. They also typically went on missions in teams of two and they all had different motives for why they did things, but all were unified by a single goal.

The Akatsuki had 10ish members, but since they were paired up and weren't all active at the same time they were memorable. And since each character had an interesting personality, each duo had their own dynamic they played off of each other fleshing them out as characters.

Tyrian and Hazel were paired off to get rid of the huntsemn while Cinder and Watts were tasked to go get Raven. While I don't really feel any interesting dynamic between the last two, I could totally see Watts commenting on Mercury's crude legs and Emerald kissing up to Cinder on the airship from the Land of Darkness to Raven's camp.