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== Literature ==
* This was a recurring theme in [[Oz|Oz Books]]. While the idea of a Kansas farm girl, a Scarecrow, a Tin Woodsman, and a [[Cowardly Lion]] is familiar now, the group was cetainly regarded as odd when the book was first written. The sequels even more so:
** ''The Marvelous Land of Oz'' starts with a young slave named Tip who builds a pumpkin-headed man in order to pull a prank on his mistress - a witch - who decides to use her Magical Powder of Life - stolen from a wizard - to breathe life into it, turning it into Jack Pumpkinhead. Tip and Jack steal the Powder and run away, building a wooden sawhorse and using the powder on it, so Jack can travel easier. They are then joined by Mr. H. M. Woggle-Bug, T.E. (a walking, talking bug in a suit who's ''really'' smart) the Scarecrow from the first book (now King of Oz, but doesn't like his job) and they eventually use the last of the Powder - along with two couches, two palm leaf fronds, a broom, and a trophy moose head - to create a living flying machine called the Gump. Oh, and it later is revealed that Tip is actually Princess Ozma, the true ruler of Oz, [[Gender Bender| under a curse]] and [[Amnesiac Hero| with amnesia.]]
** The third book brings back Dorothy, Ozma, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodsman, adding a few more, including the [[Big Eater| Hungry Tiger]], [[Robot Buddy| Tick-Tock]], and Billina, a hen from Dorothy's farm who eventually {{spoiler| becomes the true hero of the story.}} The fourth book starts with Dorothy again, brings the Wizard himself back, adds [[Cats Are Mean| Eureka the cat]], and well, suffice to say this trend continues for several volumes.
* ''[[Skulduggery Pleasant]]'' has a well-dressed living skeleton [[Deadpan Snarker]] (who is a detective), a teenage girl with odd heritage who owns a mansion, a beautiful blonde woman with a sword who kills things for a living, and a heavily-scarred tailor who is also a boxer. They are later joined by the last teleporter, a vainglorious teenage boy with excessively stupid hair. All of them are mages. None of them are remotely normal.
** And in the fourth book, Billy Ray Sanguine actually refers to the protagonists as a "Motley Bunch of Misfits" or something along those lines, but of course, the writer is [[One of Us]].
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** The Kamijou Faction, centred around the main character Touma Kamijou. It includes: a self-proclaimed normal high school student with an [[Anti-Magic]] right hand, a living library with knowledge of almost all magic, the third-most powerful esper with [[Shock and Awe|power over electricity]], nearly ten thousand clones of the third-most powerful esper, an esper-magician hybrid who's [[Wild Card|playing all sides]], at least one [[Kung Fu Jesus|Saint]], the most powerful esper period, a construct made from the combined energy of all espers {{spoiler|who can become an artificial angel}}, a [[Badass Normal]] who defeated the fourth-most powerful esper twice, a different flavor of [[Badass Normal]] whose people skills are compared to [[Mind Control]], the leader of a magical cabal, the second-strongest member of a terrorist organisation who once threatened the whole world, {{spoiler|a goddess-turned-fairy who used to be the leader of said organisation}}, the fifth-most powerful esper with [[Telepathy|power over the mind.]].. and that's far from an exhaustive list. Notable for being even more ragtag than many other examples on this list - the faction never gathers together in its entirety, and most members have no idea that the rest even exist.
** Much later in the series, the Kamisato Faction appears, centered around Kakeru Kamisato. It includes: another self-proclaimed normal high school student with a different special right hand, a forensic specialist, a coin-using magician, a natural-born esper whose body is like a plant's, a mass-murderer cyborg magician, another natural-born esper who claims to have been abducted by aliens {{spoiler|and is actually a magician spying on the group}}, a girl who was literally [[Raised by Wolves]], a pirate-themed magician who can change her apparent age, a [[Playful Hacker]] ghost, a [[Magical Girl]] cosplayer, and two fortune-teller sisters. Unlike the Kamijou Faction, it's far more organised and actually acts as one cohesive group.
== Live-Action TV ==
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