Happy, Sad, Angry

All three of them shed tears.

An oddly recurrent role where there are three entities, typically similar to each other, that have the Eternal Emotions happiness, sadness, and anger. They all stick side-by-side despite clearly not being able to coexist well. In most franchises they appear in, the happy one ignores the problems the sad and angry ones have, the sad one does nothing but talk about how sad they are, and the angry one tells the sad one to shut up about their stupid problems. This group is similar in structure to Badass, Goofy, Smart, a similar group role where three characters — the Badass, the Comic Relief, and the Smart One — hang around each other.