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** Both games take some effort to justify such choices in crew. In ''[[Mass Effect (video game)|Mass Effect 1]]'', Shepard is a Spectre, a self-sufficient field agent flying a ship that is technically on loan from the Alliance. The situation with Saren isn't seen as that much of a threat, and Shepard simply picks anyone who offers to tag along; these six are the best Shepard could gather on such a short notice. In ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', the authorities outright ignore the problem and don't provide any help, and Shepard is forced to seek out criminals and social outcasts who are nevertheless stated to be the best at their fields.
** Basically, this trope is what you'll see just from browsing through the War Assets list of ''[[Mass Effect 3]]''. Even by the franchise's standard, there are groups that you'd never imagine to fight on the same side before ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' hit shelf.
* In ''[[Maple Story]]'', the Stellar Detectives (from the questline of the same name) is a team composed of the player, [[Gun Fu| Zen]], [[Bounty Hunter| Jett]], [[Cunning Like a Fox| Chase]], [[Samurai|Hayatu]], and [[Magic Girl|Kanna]]; the only real similarity they have is that all of them (aside from the first) are regionally exclusive characters. Even the storyline suggests they formed the team after all five being victims of circumstance.
* ''[[Disgaea]]'' certainly qualifies, even if the 'heroes' aren't very heroic. You have the orphaned son of the demon king, his sidekick of debatable loyalty, an assassin angel (don't ask), '''Captain Gordon, Defender of Earth''' and his two sidekicks, the gorgeous scientist and the funky robot, various defeated enemies, and don't forget the souls sewn into demonic penguin bodies in the Prinny Squad.
** [[Nippon Ichi]] loves this trope. Even in the shockingly [[Darker and Edgier|dark and edgy]] ''[[Soul Nomad and The World Eaters]]'' {{spoiler|which gives you two sets. The traditional version in the normal route and a completely [[Ax Crazy]] set in the Demon route}}.
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** The sequel adds a half-dead widower, a guy who ''really'' loves his [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]], the daughter of a powerful sheikh, an Aztec god in a teenage body, a British inventor with a penchant for poisonous cards, a French fencing champion, and an actor with a jetpack.
* ''[[Monster Girl Quest Paradox]]'': Just at the end of the first chapter, the party is likely to consist of: a Nephilim hero, either the Monster Lord or the goddess who created humans and angels, a club-wielding priestess, a boomerang-loving slime, a mysterious tentacled being that looks like a young scylla, an angel Mad Scientist, the leader of the human faith, a gynoid, the spirit of wind, a former princess, an alchemist with worms for arms, the spirit of earth, and a second gynoid... and that's just some of the major characters!
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