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The Four Temperaments (also called the "four humors") was a theory that behavior was caused by concentrations of body fluids — the "humors" of classical medicine: blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm. A temporary imbalance would create an illness: too much blood caused a fever, too much yellow bile caused a cough, too much black bile ...
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A Five-Man Band specializes by role to the team. Someone leads, someone disagrees, someone is smart, someone is tough, and someone ensures that none of the above kill each other.
Unfortunately, when writing within context of a certain profession, goal, or genre, some of these roles are useless, and especially when characters are in groups that are supposed to be specialized, it doesn't make sense to have some of these roles; in a group of scientific researchers, wouldn't all of them be smart? In a group of politicians, wouldn't all of them lead and disagree? Don't astronauts have to be well-rounded and exceptional in many ways?
But there is a way to make a group of people diverse without giving them specialized roles in a form of a group that would probably best be specialized for questing. One way is through personality, in this case based off of a long-since discredited wacky ancient pseudoscience (though it is still used for profiling).
The four temperaments (also called the "four humors") was a theory that behavior was caused by concentrations of body fluids — the "humours" of Classical medicine: namely blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm. Each of these would affect a person's personality differently, and the way these fluids were thought to affect behavior eventually became a part of personality theory, eventually separated completely from the idea that fluids actually controlled behavior. However, the names still remain. An ensemble based on these four humors can make the ensemble diverse without actually changing the roles of the characters in the show's continuity.
The four temperaments (humors) are:
•Sanguine (blood): Extroverted and people-oriented; tends to both lead and follow. Exhibits optimism, good cheer, a sense of humor, enthusiasm, a youthful demeanor and just plain fun personality. On the flip side, may be teasing, impulsive, self-absorbed, self-indulgent, easily angered or upset, wear the heart on the sleeve, or even be a space case. If female, will be a Genki Girl, a Kawaiiko, or a more plucky/out-going Proper Lady.
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•In the Death Note fic The End Is Near:
While FATAL does have a humors system, there is no rule forcing your party to be a Four-Temperament Ensemble. Indeed, this would actively contradict the obsessive randomisation inherent to the FATAL system.
has this with the five Praetors of New Phyrexia:
Intentionally invoked in Promethean: The Created. The five Lineages of Prometheans are Frankensteins (choleric), Golems (Melancholic), Galateids (Sanguine), Osirans (phlegmatic), and Ulgan (associated with the "humor" of ectoplasm.) The character's balance of humors is actually an important gameplay point.
Also invoked in Tribe8 with the monstrous Z'Bri, whose 4 types are named after the four humors: Koleris, Flemis, Sangis, and Melanis.
The final Hasse Och Tage revue Fröken Fleggmans mustasch is constructed around this trope, to the extent that the characters of the four person ensemble (if one excludes the pianist) are named accordingly. The quartet consists of:
•Count Niklas von Sanguin (played by Hans Alfredson).
•The banker Kurt S. Wresig, alternatingly his impostor son Kolerik Wresig (both played by Gösta Ekman).
•The maid Frida Fleggman (played by Lena Nyman).
•The 4 aspects of a person's DISC assessment each have a direct parallel with one of the 4 temperaments:
•Dominance = Choleric
•Influence = Sanguine
•Steadiness = Phlegmatic
•Conscientiousness = Melancholic
•Jeff Dunham and his puppet characters:
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Dec 5, 2021 · An ensemble based on these four humors can make the ensemble diverse without actually changing the roles of the characters in the show's continuity. The four temperaments (humors) are: Template:Textcolor: Extroverted and people-oriented. Exhibits optimism, good cheer, a love of fun, enthusiasm.
Nov 11, 2023 · Five-temperament ensemble in Tokyo Mew Mew: Bu-ling is a sanguine Genki Girl, Ichigo is phlegmatic II (although she's not happy about leading at first, she accepts her responsibility later on), Minto is choleric, Retasu is melancholic and supine and Zakuro is phlegmatic. Magical Pokaan's four girls match. Yuuma is sanguine, Pachira is choleric ...
The Four-Temperament Ensemble is a group of characters who each individually embody a different one of the four humours. In a nut shell: Choleric Personality: Extrovert. Ambitious or Aggressive. Melancholic Personality: Introvert. Troubled or Curmudgeonly. Phlegmatic Personality: Introvert. Rational. Sanguine Personality: Extrovert.
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