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{{quote|''"If this is a war, I'll need an army. Or a ''really'' good team."''|'''Commander Shepard''', ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''}}

 

 

To get a Dream Team, sometimes the constraints of time and space are relaxed. What if [[Sherlock Holmes]], Ellery Queen, [[Nero Wolfe]], Lew Archer and [[Lord Peter Wimsey]] teamed up to solve crime? Answer: detective Dream Team. What if Superman, Batman and Spider-Man teamed up to save the world? Answer: Superhero Dream Team (See [[The Randomverse]] for a version of this).

Compare [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]], [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]], [[All-Star Cast]].

 

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[The Prince of Tennis]]'': Konomi Takeshi has stated that the soon to be published continuation of will deal with the formation of a "dream team" chosen from amont the hundred or so best junior tennis players in Japan.

** The thought of {{spoiler|[[Villainous Crossdresser|Iva-san]], [[Edward Scissorhands|Inazumi]], [[The Big Guy|Jinbei]], [[Magnificent Bastard|''Crocodile'']], and Luffy}} teaming up to {{spoiler|save Ace from execution}} is definitely squee-material.

** Also, Luffy's crew consists of people whose ambitions are largely to become the best at what they do. Though they're typically the best among their current peers when Luffy recruits them.

* The manga ''[[Karakuridouji Ultimo]]'', a joint project written by ''[[Shaman King]]'' creator Hiroyuki Takei, and frickin' [[Stan Lee]].

* Averted in ''[[Airmaster]]''. The light-headed protagonist is portraying a generic Mook on a theme park, fighting some Sentai heroes. She beats the shit out of them without a thought, just by reflex. To avoid stopping the show and making sad their public, every member of the filming crew comes to the stage wearing costumes of an army of Kamen Rider-like old heroes. The dads of the children start cheering their youth idols. Airmaster then proceeds to kick every ass that gets too close to her.

* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]''

** [[Nanoha Striker S|StrikerS]] brings us Riot Force 6, which has such a ridiculously large portion of the firepower at the disposal of the Time-Space Administrative Bureau that they have to be placed under limiters before being allowed to operate together.

** Special Service Section 6 from the Force manga takes Riot Force 6, removes the limiters, and adds a large number of the Combat Cyborgs (who managed to actually challenge Riot Force 6) to the roster.

** Kakashi and Gai during Orochimarus attack on Konoha and in the current arc definitely count. On the evil side we have the Akatsuki, who are divided into dream teams (with some lacking in teamwork for some of the pairings). Itachi and Kisame stand out among those as the most badass team.

* [[Nana Mizuki]] and [[Minami Takayama]] as Tsubasa and Kanade, respectfully, performing together in the opening of ''[[Senki Zesshou Symphogear]]''. These two are some of the ''biggest'' names in J-Pop, {{spoiler|except it was [[Too Good to Last]] since Kanade bites it at the first episode's ''prologue''. [[Posthumous Character|She still pops up here and there in Tsubasa's mind though]]}}.

 

== Comic Books ==

* ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]'': Deconstructed twice. In "Under the Hood" (a book-within-a-book written by the first Nite Owl chronicling his time as a superhero) Nite Owl said that "it takes an extreme personality to put on a costume and fight crime and the chance of eight such personalities getting along is a million to one." Later when Captain Metropolis (a member of the last dream team, "The Minutemen") tries to form another Dream Team, "The Crimebusters", Rorschach complains that "...a group this size seems more like a publicity exercise, somehow it's too big and unwieldy." True to form, the group never gets beyond the initial meeting stage, as the personality clashes cause it to implode.

* ''[[Kingdom Come]]'' features the new Justice League, Batman's army and Luthor's army. Plus Batman and Luthor team up!

 

== Film ==

* ''[[The Great Escape]]'': The Luftwaffe unintentionally creates an escaper dream team. Quoth Big X:

{{quote|'''Bartlett:''' The men are here to do it. The Germans have put every escape artist in Germany in this camp, you said so yourself.}}

* ''[[The Guns of Navarone]]''. Each member of the team is the best at what he does: killing, explosives, mountain climbing, being lucky, etc.

* ''[[Species]]''. The team created to hunt down and kill Sil.

* The "Super Posse" of famous lawmen hired by the Union Pacific Railroad to hunt down ''[[Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid]]''. In Butch and Sundance's case a "nightmare team"!

* For the [[Rolling Stones]] concert film ''[[Shine A Light]]'' director [[Martin Scorsese]] assembled seven of among the best cinematographers in the industry just to operate the cameras at the Beacon Theater in NYC where the show was held.

* ''[[The Seven Samurai]]'' and ''[[The Magnificent Seven]]'', albeit with one member being a rookie in each line-up. They're the best samurai/gunslingers to ever be assembled.

* ''[[The Expendables]]'' is an odd case, as it only fits the trope out-of-universe. In-universe, the Expendables are a very competent team, but they are not particularly noteworthy as individuals. In [[Real Life]], they are composed of nearly every action movie star of the past 30 years, with the exception of Arnold Schwarzenegger (who had other commitments, but makes a cameo).

 

== Literature ==

* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings|Lord of the Rings]]'' the council of Elrond gathers a handful of members of human, dwarf, and elvish civilizations to decide what to do with the ring. Many are [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]].

** The Fellowship is part example, part parody. There's Gandalf, Aragorn, Boromir, Gimili and Legolas, which is a pretty cool team (a wizard, two human badasses, a dwarf and an elf). Then... there's the four Hobbits they're dragging around, even though they more than prove themselves later on.

* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: In ''[[The Bible]]'' ([http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Samuel%2023 2 Samuel 23]), King David assembled an elite squad of thirty "mighty men" to be his guard. All of them had impressive achievements in battle, including one who killed 800 Philistines in one day, one who singlehandedly defended an entire field, and one who "killed a lion in a pit on a snowy day."

 

 

== Music ==

 

 

== Myth and Legend ==

* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: All surviving versions of ''[[Jason and the Argonauts]]''.

 

 

* Some of the best people from Enix hired themselves out to Square to make ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'', along with Akira Toriyama, and actually used the name "Dream Team" for themselves in the [[Developer's Room]]. Sadly, and more than a bit confusingly, nothing similar has happened since the two companies merged.

* Most any party-based RPG ever involves this at some level. Even when they're a [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]], you do end up saving the world in the company of some of the best-qualified people in it.

* Meta example: For a ''Team Fortress 2'' international cup, Team France was pieced together using the best players around, based both on team skills and individual skills. The end result was a truly magnificent dream team, composed of the cream of the French crop, which was purely unable to work as a team due to everybody having wildly different playstyles.

* [[Inazuma Eleven]] , the game more than the anime. Though the anime team is made of several of the best players defected from other teams, the game explicitly encourages you to find and recruit the strongest players from any team you battle, making the ultimate team a mish mash of the cream of the crop.

 

* ''[[Axe Cop]]'' is what happens when a supremely imaginative six-year-old boy's ideas are taken up by his brother, a supremely talented twenty-nine-year-old comic book illustrator.

* While Team Kimba ''is'' a Dream Team, most of the school believes this trope is in play because Phase is a teen billionaire who as a Goodkind would pull together a dream team as his personal backup. He just happens to have one of the best mages in the world, one of the best flying bricks available, one of the best (if not ''the'' best) flying blaster, one of the best martial artists anywhere, plus the Handmaid of the Tao and the [[Crazy Awesome]] Generator.

 

== Western Animation ==

* The entire premise of ''[[Turtles Forever]]'' is based upon this - The [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|80s Turtles]] team up with the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|00s Turtles]] {{spoiler|and later, the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage|Turtles from the Mirage comic book]] ''and'' Krang & the 80's Shredder}} to stop {{spoiler|the 00's Shredder from destroying the TMNT multiverse}}.

 

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