
End result? A massive Curb-Stomp Battle leading to Cologne's death and her temporary depowerment. She was so confident in her abilities as Cure Moonlight, that she ignored her partner, Cologne, in finding allies.
This was actually the Fatal Flaw of Heart Catch Pretty Cure's Yuri Tsukikage. When Soma faces him again, he rightfully calls him out on jumping ship so quickly, pointing out that he and the others would have gladly come to his aid had he just asked them. While he's legitimately talented and can work pretty well on his own, his pride prevented him from asking for help when Azami Nakiri took over the academy and threatened to shut down the Shiomi Seminar, even using Jun's lifelong research as a bargaining chip to get him to join Central. Food Wars!: Akira Hayama has this as his Fatal Flaw. Perhaps justified given that the only potential sparring partner who'd be able to keep up with him is the guy he desperately wants to surpass Vegeta wants training that he alone will benefit from. In the Dragon Ball series, Vegeta always wants to train alone, even though he could potentially become stronger if he trained with a sparring buddy. When she let other people get closer to her, it did not end well at all: one of them let the other be brutally murdered, copied Cassandra's technique, and had her executed, as well. Cassandra from Claymore always preferred to work alone during her lifetime, secretly self-conscious about the "ugliness" of the Dust Eater technique that propelled her to the top rank of the Organization's warriors. Not to be confused with Leave Me Alone!, a Stock Phrase for when you reject others' attempts at companionship, although someone who works alone may occasionally say it. Contrast with I Just Want to Have Friends, True Companions, or You Are Not Alone. See also Informed Loner, who claims to always be alone but is actually surrounded by people, and Ineffectual Loner, whose attempts to work alone are not effective those guys usually end up embracing The Power of Friendship. However, this type of character can function as an independent ally who cooperates from the get-go and befriends the others, but chooses to work by themselves if given the chance.Ĭan overlap with Aloof Ally, who has teammates and allies but is distant from them. Someone who espouses I Work Alone could turn out to be an Ineffectual Loner (their attempts at working alone just end up with them getting beat, and they learn The Power of Friendship and join the team). Alternatively, this can be due to their cultural beliefs that stems from values of self-sufficiency, self-reliance, and personal growth, these individualists view working solo as being more efficient than working with a group (whom they view as collectivists).