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For identification purposes, the [[Misfit Mobilization Moment]] is the point when the protagonists stop hindering each other and begin working as a cohesive unit.
 
[[Miracle Rally]] and [[Down to Thethe Last Play]] are similar tropes for sports-based works.
 
Contrast with [[Let's Get Dangerous]], where characters who were ''already'' skilled finally get to demonstrate their expertise. Also see [[Gondor Calls for Aid]], [[Improvised Training]] and [[Teeth-Clenched Teamwork]].
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** More specifically, in the next few chapters, Chaplin and Minatsuki get their own, {{spoiler|where they work seamlessly together to beat up a forgery.}}. [[Crazy Awesome]] indeed.
* In ''[[Black Lagoon]]'', in both the Greenback Jane arc, and the Baille de la meurte. Let's face it, the fact that you can get a group of [[Ax Crazy]] [[Blood Knight|Blood Knights]] and [[Psycho for Hire|Psychos For Hire]] in the same room and have them trying to kill the same opponent counts for this trope. The fact that so many of them live in the same city and have not turned the entire city into a battlefield is a tribute to the presiding criminal orders.
* Occurs in ''[[Hetalia Blood BathBloodbath 2010]]'' with Iceland, Turkey, Germany, Hungary, England, Cuba, and Canada. In the end, the ''entire world'' gets motivated to work together in order to solve the mystery.
* Seen in ''[[Kaiketsu Zorori]]''. When {{spoiler|the world's about to end}}, Zorori is quickly surrounded by several of his allies and [[Enemy Mine|a few of his enemies]] to assist in his plan for {{spoiler|saving Earth}}. Among the assembled: [[The Rival|Gaon]], [[All-Ghouls School|Youkai-sensei and every monster that's appeared thus far]], [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Duke Bururu]], [[Functional Magic|Nelly, Milly, and Roger]], [[Idol Singer|the Moo Moo Girls]], [[And Zoidberg|and Tiger with his band of fake magicians]].
 
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** In ''[[Toy Story]]'', it's when {{spoiler|Woody and Buzz work together to escape Syd's yard and chase the moving van.}}
*** Alternatively, {{spoiler|Woody rallying Syd's misfit toys to rebel and freak him out.}}
** In ''[[A Bug's Life (Animation)|A Bugs Life]]'', Flick's defiance of Hopper's beating emboldens the ant colony to fight off the grasshopper gang.
*** Which, incidentally, Hopper predicted would happen.
** In ''[[Toy Story]] 2'', it begins when {{spoiler|the toys hijack the Pizza Planet truck to chase Al and Woody.}}
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* Happens in ''[[Mulan]]'' when Mulan and her squad infiltrate the Imperial Palace... in ''drag.''
** Earlier, a smaller version of this happens as part of the [[Training Montage]] set to "I'll Make a Man Out of You".
* [[Dream WorksDreamWorks]] also loves this trope, it turns out.
** In ''[[Shrek]] 2'', it's when the fairy tale characters work together to rescue Shrek, Donkey, and Puss-In-Boots, who then charge the castle to rescue Fiona from Prince Charming.
** In Shrek 3, it's when the [[Everything's Better Withwith Princesses|Fairy Tale Princesses]] band together. While princesses aren't generally misfits, they definitely aren't badass either, until Snow White [[The Power of Rock|starts singing]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Led Zeppelin]]...
** The monsters of ''[[Monsters vs. Aliens]]'' have this when they infiltrate Gallaxhar's ship to rescue Susan {{spoiler|who then rescues them soon afterward}}.
** ''[[How to Train Your Dragon (Filmanimation)|How to Train Your Dragon]]'' has Hiccup and his classmates mount their dragons and swoop in {{spoiler|to [[Big Damn Heroes|save Stoick and Gobber from the Red Death.]] The [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] between Hiccup and his dad when they do should pretty much speak for itself.}}
{{quote| '''Hiccup:''' [[Ironic Echo|We're Vikings. It's an occupational hazard.]]<br />
'''Stoick:''' [["Well Done, Son" Guy|I am proud... to call you my son.]] }}
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* In the movie ''[[Major League]]'', it happens when the players discover that the team owner is counting on them losing so that she can move the ball club from Cleveland to Miami.
* Happens in ''[[Rush Hour]]'' when Carter goes to the airport and convinces Lee to return to the kidnapping case.
* In ''[[Galaxy Quest (Film)|Galaxy Quest]]'', this occurs when the actors of the [[Show Within a Show|show-within-a-show]] escape from Sarris' guards and then stop his effort to destroy the Thermians, even recruiting [[Ascended Fanboy|Brandon and his friends]] in the process.
* ''[[Dodgeball|Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story]]'': Patch's [[Training From Hell]] sequence.
* Happens in ''[[Sky High]]'' when Will, Layla, Warren, and the sidekicks fight Royal Pain's invasion during Homecoming.
* ''The Fish That Saved Pittsburg''. Which is an astrology basketball movie, believe it or not
* ''[[Stripes]]'' has Bill Murray give a rousing speech to his platoon that drags them out of their depression to the point where, out-of-uniform, dirty, and unshaven, they still impress the brass enough to get a plum assignment.
* In ''[[Serenity (Film)|Serenity]]'' it's the "No more running. I aim to misbehave" speech. Simon and Jayne even share a drink during it. Doubles as a ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]''
* ''[[Red Cliff]]'' pulls off a spectacular moment when Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang are convinced they're hopelessly outnumbered. Sun Quan reveals {{spoiler|their allies from Shu had only pretended to defect to lull the enemy into a false sense of security. Cue the [[Big Damn Heroes]] reappearance of Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, Guan Yu and Zhao Yun fully prepared to kick ass and take names}}. From there, ''every'' major character proceeds to contribute a necessary element of the staggeringly epic battle that follows, including [[Yamato Nadeshiko|Zhou Yu's wife]] and [[Action Girl|Sun Quan's sister]]. It's worth noting that while most of these characters are traditionally seen as heroes, the movie has up until this point presented them as either too old and feeble, too young and inexperienced, and/or too suspicious of each other's motives to succeed (in comparison to the well-oiled machine of the opposing force), so "misfit" mobilization would apply to this particular interpretation of the story.
* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' had an awesome moment in At World's End, after Elizabeth's [[Rousing Speech]], drives all the pirate crews to truly fight for their way of life. They raise their banners and prepare for the fight.
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* The climax of ''[[Mystery Team]]'', to an extent.
* At the climax of [[Attack of the Killer Tomatoes]], Wilbur gathers a mob, [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits|made up of the only people too crazy to evacuate when the tomatoes attacked,]] to fight the tomatoes. The credits actually list them as "Every screwball in San Diego County."
* In ''[[The Avengers (Filmfilm)|The Avengers]]'', {{spoiler|Coulson's death}} was what finally brought the team together. Thor saw {{spoiler|Coulson being stabbed}} as he watched helplessly. Tony knew {{spoiler|Coulson the longest.}} Cap gets motivated from {{spoiler|the blood-stained trading cards Coulson eagerly wanted him to sign.}} Black Widow and Hawkeye were {{spoiler|longtime comrades with Coulson}}.
 
 
== [[Literature]] ==
* Happens in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Men At Arms|Men-At-Arms]]'' during the attack on Lord Vetinari, as the ethnically-diverse-by-decree Watch put aside their differences to catch the assassin.
** Similarly, this happens in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Night Watch|Night Watch]]'' after John Keel {{spoiler|who's actually Sam Vimes}} mobilizes the Watch against the growing riots in the city.
*** And yet again in ''Discworld/Thud'' with the marshalling of the specials, who in this case include Vimes' own butler, the head of the thieves guild (and two body-guards), the Unseen University librarian and a (to Vimes' mind) slightly-too-keen clacks operator. This is on top of the virtually all-inclusive Watch.
** And twice in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Reaper Man|Reaper Man]]'', once when Windle Poons organises the the undead to investigate the "shop", and once when Ridcully organises the Wizards to rescue Windle Poons, although any time the wizards work together couple be seen as an example.
* In Robert Asprin's ''[[Phules Company|Phule's Company]]'', it's the first time the company beats the "confidence course" (read that "obstacle course").
* In ''[[Harry Potter|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'', Kreacher leads the house-elves employed at Hogwarts into battle against the Death Eaters.
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** Also averted with Nathan's ultimate [[Patrick Stewart Speech]], which - while being an undisputed [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] from the audience's perspective - has no effect whatsoever.
** Finally put into action in season 3 episode 4 when {{spoiler|the timeline had been changed so that the Nazis won. They were forcing Seth, the power dealer to take powers from other people and put them into soldiers from their ranks. Curtis, Kelly, and the two Rudys save Seth by ambushing the jeep that was transporting Seth by wearing Hitler masks and shooting while unseen from the trees. When Seth gets recaptured and Curtis and Rudy captured along with him, Kelly goes to save them by herself. She takes Shaun, a Nazi officer hostage and runs into Alisha and Simon. Their reaction? "You need a hand?"}} Granted, it didn't go as smoothly as planned, but hey... they still did pretty well considering who they were up against and technically they still managed to save the day.
* In one episode of ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'', the crew of Moya rob a bank to buy Dargo's son out of slavery. The main villain Scorpius has beaten them to it and is holding D'Argo's son hostage and will only release him if they give him Crichton. What do they do? They take the money from the depository and hire all the mercenaries, bounty-hunters and pirates which had been the villains of previous episodes to help them rescue him. Unfortunately, the mercenaries are either under new management, suffering debilitating health problems, on the run, or have found religion in the intervening months; even after clearing these difficulties up, it's discovered that the stolen money has been booby-trapped, leaving Moya badly burned and her crew poor all over again. At that point, Crichton gives up and surrenders to Scorpius, leaving the his friends with D'Argo's son but not much else. The mercenaries are on the point of leaving when Aeryn finally performs the [[Misfit Mobilization Moment]] by pointing out that Scorpius is using the bank as a base of operations, and offering them whatever they can find there as payment. Unfortunately, though the crew manages to escape relatively unharmed, all but one of the mercenaries are killed in the attack.
* ''[[Glee]]'' in the pilot as they sing "Don't Stop Believing."
** However as the club expands and the group becomes more detatched through their cliques, a major moment happens in the penultimate season 1 episode. Rachel is devastated and humiliated by being egged by their rivals, particularly as they're led by her ex-boyfriend. [[Jerk Jock]] Puck of all people rallies to her aid and gathers all the strong men in the group to help him. To add to the awesome, [[Camp Gay]] Kurt and the disabled Artie also try to help. Later the whole club bands together to do the one thing their rivals can't: perform a funk dancer number (it makes sense in context). It really signified them as [[True Companions]].
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** "Chuck Versus the Subway/Chuck Versus the Ring, Part II" has {{spoiler|Ellie, shaken from witnessing her father's murder and Chuck's abduction, getting Awesome and Morgan to help her run a Pincer movement on the van holding Team Bartowski captive ''and succeeding''.}}
* ''[[Dream High]]'' does this with the fake showcase.
* In the ''[[Community (TV)|Community]]'' episode [[Community (TV)/Recap/S2 E24 For a Few Paintballs More|"For a Few Paintballs More"]] (part two of the [[Paintball Episode|paintball]] [[Season Finale|finale]]), the study group and the rest of the Greendale students mobilise into a badass paintball army in order to beat City College
 
 
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== Video Games ==
* The goal of [[Mass Effect]] 2 is for Shepard to organize a group consisting of a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] [[Deadly Doctor]], a [[Dark Action Girl]]/borderline [[Person of Mass Destruction]], a [[Super Prototype]] [[The Berserker|Berserker]], a dying [[Hitman Withwith a Heart]], an [[Ill Girl]] [[Wrench Wench]], a [[Knight Templar]], and several others with the help of a pro-human terrorist organization for a suicide mission in order to save humanity. In this case, there's no single Moment. You do specific missions helping each member of your team to earn their loyalty. Once they're all loyal, then you've got Mobilized Misfits, but no specific Moment.
** There are also several instances where Shepard has to get two people to resolve their differences.
** Possibly a minor one in the first game, while listening to Shepard's speech upon taking command of the Normandy Garrus, Wrex, and Ashley are standing together. Keep in mind that those three have the most reasons to hate each other out of your entire team.
*** Wrex and Garrus don't have any real problem, it's more the general existence of enmity between most other krogan and turians, [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much|which Wrex never seems particularly affected by anyway]]. It's more Ashley being there.
* For the final mission of [[Ace Combat]] 5, Wardog squadron prepares to attack the stronghold of the true enemy - alone. Hundreds of fighters from both warring countries converge on them, and they prepare to go down fighting. The fighters weren't there to attack them, but to join them.
* Performed offscreen in ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]''. If you assist the Misfits in their sidequest, the effects of them banding together are summarized in the ending montage. Of course, the effects vary depending on how you helped them (giving them all a good pep talk/training session will make them successful. Giving them all [[Psycho Serum|Psycho]]/helping them cheat on their test... Not so much).
 
 
== Webcomics ==
* [[Problem Sleuth|"POSE AS A TEAM, 'CAUSE SHIT JUST GOT REAL"]]
* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', in "Residential", when the Queslett students band together to find out where their classmates have been disappearing to--and to get some payback on the ones kidnapping them--following a plan devised by the normally-asocial Antimony.
* ''[[Electric Wonderland (Webcomic)|Electric Wonderland]]'' has one in "Inevitable Christmas Adventure," as NJ, Shroomy, Aerynn, and Beatrice all head to the Cyber Middle East to rescue Trawn, and two in "LuLo," as the entire NFP staff rushes to investigate the bombing of the mall and later reports on the discovered suspect.
 
 
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The final battle against the Brotherhood of Evil in ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]''. With everyone else captured, Beast Boy leads a bunch of D-listers to rescue them.
** Prior to that, after the Titans East suffered a rocky start in their very first fight together (as they spent more time fighting ''each other''), Cyborg took charge and helped them stop quarreling and start gelling as a team.
* In the ''[[Futurama]]'' OVA, this happens in the climactic battle against the scammers when Hermes' head is plugged directly into the battlegrid. Cue [[Theme Music Power-Up]] and much ass-kicking.
* In The Substitute Autobots in ''[[Transformers Animated]]'', consisting of {{spoiler|Scrapper, Snarl, Wreck-Gar, and Sari.}} They're not hugely effective and none of them are technically Autobots, but dangit they try.
* ''[[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]]'' - ''Band Geeks'': Spongebob rallies Squidward's marching band. He does so by getting the band to ''pretend'' that Squidward has helped each of them individually.
* The plot of the TDA special of ''[[Total Drama Island]]''. It's oddly satisfying to see all of the show's contestants overcome their differences and come together... To bring down ''another'' show's contestants.
* All of the non-powered Leaguers against the unstoppable, invulnerable, General Eiling in "Patriot Act" (the "Seven Soldiers of Victory" episode) on ''[[Justice League Unlimited]].''
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