Pair up
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- Kyoryuger: Ian/Yayoi is a common ship mate to the canon ships in order to pair up two of the left-over team members.
Source: Ship Mates -
Lampshaded in the Climax Heroes fighting games; if you pair up V3 and Accel in tag-team mode, they get a special team title ("Father, Mother, Little Sister", a line from V3's theme song).
Source: Series / Kamen Rider Double -
In Fire Emblem Awakening The player can command certain units to pair up and work as a team such as Chrom and Gangrel, even though in the story those two clearly hate each other.
Source: Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
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