Perpetual Poverty/Playing With

Basic Trope: Characters always seem to be hungry but don't run out of food. They always need supplies too. They get by without actually having anything.

Straight: The Five-Man Band lives poorly without much for supplies or food.
Exaggerated: Each member of the Five-Man Band rarely eat well and live in a place that is falling apart.
Justified: The Five-Man Band doesn't earn very much money when their real job is Saving the World.
- The Five-Man Band earns plenty of money - but they have to spend a lot of it on necessities.
- They're really bad with finances and spend foolishly.
Inverted: The Five-Man Band has Infinite Supplies.
Subverted: The leader of them actually has quite a lot of money, but are saving it for important matters.
Double Subverted: The leader only claims to be squirreling the money away from them. They actually have close to nothing as they first thought.
Parodied: The crew lives on one frozen waffle a day and their living space is duct taped together.
Deconstructed: The stress trying to survive and of being close to completely broke all the time is too much on the heroes and they end up homeless.
Reconstructed: Once they are homeless, they work all the harder to earn money. Their hard work pays off and each of them find work and get more money little by little.
Zig Zagged: Sometimes the band has Infinite Supplies, but other times the supplies just disappear and they're trying to scrape together bit by bit to survive.
Averted: The characters have sufficient supplies and money at all times.
Enforced: The audience can relate better to characters barely scraping by, some of the audience itself is probably barely scraping by.
Lampshaded: "We're trying to save the world but we live like college students!"
Invoked: The leader of the band thinks that the band of heroes should get used to living with little, so they ration their supplies.
Defied: The Five-Man Band starts charging for Saving the World.
Discussed: "Those guys are always broke!"
Conversed: "Maybe we should stop looking for handouts and get real jobs?"

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