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** Or, they are really good and not at all flawed, but really want everyone else to see them that way: making sure that the [[Big Bad]] does not realize that the [[Mildly Military]] goofballs are a [[Badass Crew]] is [[Obfuscating Stupidity|part of the plan]].

* They're the best team [[Closest Thing We Got|that could be put together at short notice and/or budget]].

** There simply ''isn't'' [[~~Its~~ Up to You|anyone else]].

** There simply ''isn't'' [[It's Up to You|anyone else]].

** If trouble blew up at a remote outpost, and there isn't time to get help, those characters who were [[Reassigned to Antarctica]] have to deal with it. Since they all did something to get themselves [[Reassigned to Antarctica]], they tend to be a miscellaneous bunch.

** The villains, no fools, took out everyone that looked like they could stop their [[Evil Plan]]; this is what's left.

* In case the mission fails, they're [[We Have Reserves|expendable]].

** Alternately, they are ''[[Springtime for Hitler|expected]]'' to fail, so their commander will be free to take [[Nuke Em]] like he wanted to in the first place.

** Alternately, they are ''[[Springtime for Hitler|expected]]'' to fail, so their commander will be free to take [[Nuke'Em]] like he wanted to in the first place.

** A mix of all the above, they may be sent in [[Surprisingly Elite Cannon Fodder|with people knowing they are the best, but not caring if they get killed either due to jealousy or just not liking them that much.]]

* Sending in more experienced/skilled/powerful teams would have drawn too much attention. Indeed, the better-suited teams may be deliberately deployed elsewhere to distract from them.

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** Conversely, the man in the know can be such an annoying bully that no one would work with him, and such a control freak that he [[Divided We Fall|can not give his knowledge]] to a [[Reasonable Authority Figure]].

* The authorities haven't actually noticed (or ''[[Mole in Charge|are]]'') the problem, and the heroes have to gather whoever they can.

* There was a better first choice that DID get sent, but [[The ~~Worlds~~ Expert On Getting Killed|they screwed up badly.]] These guys were the backup plan nobody wanted to be forced to use.

* There was a better first choice that DID get sent, but [[The World's Expert On Getting Killed|they screwed up badly.]] These guys were the backup plan nobody wanted to be forced to use.

* They need them to do something untoward or outright illegal, and they know these folks will keep quiet about it.

* They're the only ones [[Crazy Enough to Work|crazy enough to even try]].

* They're random survivors of some apocalyptic event who more or less stumble across each other.

Of course, the Ragtag Bunch of Misfits will eventually have a [[Misfit Mobilization Moment]] to get their act together and win the day. Most often it produces casualties: typically, the guy forced to go on the mission despite being the [[Clear My Name|Convicted Innocent]], or the [[Officer and A Gentleman]] who's been stodgy and uptight just before making a [[Heroic Sacrifice]].

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See also [[Army of Thieves and Whores]] for when this trope is magnified to the size of an army.

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* The crew of ''White Base'' in the original ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam (Anime)|Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' was comprised mostly of civilian refugees and a handful of junior officers who survived the attack on Side 7 in the first episode. They still manage to score a number of improbable victories against the elite forces of the Principality of Zeon, thanks to the [[Super Prototype]] principle and some of the cast developing into [[Psychic Powers|Newtypes]]. And more importantly to Federation command, they made ''really'' good decoys.

** Ditto to [[Mobile Suit Gundam The 08th MS Team (Anime)|The08thMSTeam.]]

* ''[[Slayers (Light Novel)|Slayers]]'' has a team of regulars that involves an [[Well Intentioned Extremist|overzealous justice freak]] who often does [[Sailor Moon]] style poses and failed acrobatics, an [[The Napoleon|overly short]] [[Pettanko]] motivated primarily by greed/gluttony/revenge, a [[Big Eater]] [[Dumb Blonde]] [[Badass Normal]], and a [[Cursed With Awesome]] [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|golem-demon-human hybrid]]. The extra characters in the party include an ex-princess who worships a monster she made up, a demon with a penchant for secret-keeping (who is also willing to sell out the entire party), and a shrine maiden with an absurd lack of skill in black magic (to the point where she casts carrot-sized fire spells that tickle people) who somehow learned the ''strongest black magic spell.''

* ''[[Slayers (Light Novel)|Slayers]]'' has a team of regulars that involves an [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|overzealous justice freak]] who often does [[Sailor Moon]] style poses and failed acrobatics, an [[The Napoleon|overly short]] [[Pettanko]] motivated primarily by greed/gluttony/revenge, a [[Big Eater]] [[Dumb Blonde]] [[Badass Normal]], and a [[Cursed With Awesome]] [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|golem-demon-human hybrid]]. The extra characters in the party include an ex-princess who worships a monster she made up, a demon with a penchant for secret-keeping (who is also willing to sell out the entire party), and a shrine maiden with an absurd lack of skill in black magic (to the point where she casts carrot-sized fire spells that tickle people) who somehow learned the ''strongest black magic spell.''

* Both [[Justified Trope]] and [[Subverted Trope]] in ''[[Twentieth Century Boys (Manga)|Twentieth Century Boys]]''. When Kenji starts up [[La Résistance]], it's made up of guys he knew back in middle school, as they would be the only ones who were remotely familiar with who they're fighting against. After all, it's not very easy to recruit somebody off the street to fight against a cult based on your own twenty-year-old fanfiction. This ends up blowing up in his face for several reasons, {{spoiler|the first of which would be that one of those Ragtag Misfits ''is'' the cult-leading [[Big Bad]]...}}

* ''[[Eyeshield 21 (Manga)|Eyeshield 21]]'''s Deimon Devil Bats. Other teams have full rosters, deep benches and long traditions. The Devil Bats only have 11 full-time team members (eight of whom were only just scraped up for this year, three by blackmail), and they all are weird in their own way.

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* Division 2, the main cast of ''[[Patlabor (Anime)|Patlabor]]'', is made up mostly of police officers who were either [[Kicked Upstairs]] by their superiors or deemed too wimpy or too wild for the rest of the force.

* The Yang Fleet from ''[[Legend of Galactic Heroes (Anime)|Legend of Galactic Heroes]]'' certainly gave this impression. It was first formed as the 13th Alliance Fleet, composed of new recruits and the remnant survivors of another fleet. Their first mission was occupying an invincible space fortress, which they succeeded at with ease. Ultimately, the Yang Fleet gathers up a colorful array of characters: an elite combat division of expatriate Imperials, {{spoiler|a venerable, old Imperial officer in exile}}, a womanizing fighter jock, a bureaucratic family man, an ingenious orphan, rogue merchants from Phezzan - all of them led by a [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]] who would much rather read history books than wage war, but who just happens to be one of the most brilliant tacticians in centuries. Dusty Attenborough and Poplan coin the phrase "foppery and whim" to describe the Yang Fleet's motivations in the face of incredible odds stacked against them.

* In ''[[Fushigi Yuugi (Manga)|Fushigi Yuugi]]'', the antagonist Seiryuu warriors are mostly battle-hardened, ruthless killing machines, a few of whom could conceivably take over [[Big Bad]] duties in their own right. The good guys? An [[Ordinary High School Student]], a peasant farmer, a [[Wholesome Crossdresser]], a [[Stepford Smiler|permanently smiling]] monk, a [[Hair Trigger Temper|rageaholic]] bandit, a burned-out country doctor, and a young boy who initially [[Refusal of the Call|refused the call]] because he was afraid. Oh, and the Emperor. Subverted in that {{spoiler|five out of seven of them get killed, and they actually ''fail'' to prevent the god Seiryuu from being summoned. Good only triumphs at the end because of a [[Heel Face Turn]] by the Seiryuu priestess.}}

* In ''[[Fushigi Yuugi (Manga)|Fushigi Yuugi]]'', the antagonist Seiryuu warriors are mostly battle-hardened, ruthless killing machines, a few of whom could conceivably take over [[Big Bad]] duties in their own right. The good guys? An [[Ordinary High School Student]], a peasant farmer, a [[Wholesome Crossdresser]], a [[Stepford Smiler|permanently smiling]] monk, a [[Hair-Trigger Temper|rageaholic]] bandit, a burned-out country doctor, and a young boy who initially [[Refusal of the Call|refused the call]] because he was afraid. Oh, and the Emperor. Subverted in that {{spoiler|five out of seven of them get killed, and they actually ''fail'' to prevent the god Seiryuu from being summoned. Good only triumphs at the end because of a [[Heel Face Turn]] by the Seiryuu priestess.}}

* ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]''. Just ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]''. Though they ''are'' [[Pirate|pirates]] ([[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything|more or less]]), it's pretty much par for the course.

** To be more specific: the protagonist crew consists of members who are noted as being the best at their respective roles, but who otherwise don't really mesh in a uniform way like most other crews in the series. The crew currently consists of a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] [[Rubber Man]], a [[Blood Knight]], a [[Classy Cat Burglar]], a [[Blatant Lies|blatant liar]], a [[Good Smoking Evil Smoking|chain-smoking]] [[Chivalrous Pervert]], a [[Voluntary Shapeshifter|form-changing]] [[Talking Animal|talking reindeer]], a [[All of the Other Reindeer|global pariah]], an eccentric [[Cyborg]], and [[Dem Bones|an undead skeleton]].

** To be more specific: the protagonist crew consists of members who are noted as being the best at their respective roles, but who otherwise don't really mesh in a uniform way like most other crews in the series. The crew currently consists of a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] [[Rubber Man]], a [[Blood Knight]], a [[Classy Cat Burglar]], a [[Blatant Lies|blatant liar]], a [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking|chain-smoking]] [[Chivalrous Pervert]], a [[Voluntary Shapeshifter|form-changing]] [[Talking Animal|talking reindeer]], a [[All of the Other Reindeer|global pariah]], an eccentric [[Cyborg]], and [[Dem Bones|an undead skeleton]].

* ''[[Gintama (Manga)|Gintama]]'' has two: The Yorozuya and the Shinsengumi. Although frequently in opposition, when they are...pointed in the same direction, they can do a lot of damage.

* ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho (Manga)|Yu Yu Hakusho]]''. Somewhat justified in that three of the four are forcibly recruited--the main character has to work for the [[Celestial Bureaucracy]] since they [[First Episode Resurrection|resurrected him]], and the [[Estrogen Brigade Bait|other two]] are working for it to [[Gentleman Thief|avoid]] [[Token Evil Teammate|imprisonment]]. They're more or less thrust together with no choice.

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== Comic Books ==

* Most comic books about [[Superhero]] Teams follow that trope; as an example, [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]]'s original incarnation included a [[Iron Man (Comic Book)|Rich playboy]] [[Mad Scientist]] in a [[Powered Armor]], a ''[[The Mighty Thor|God of Thunder]]'', a second [[Mad Scientist]] [[Size Shifting|able to shrink size]] [[Ant-Man|and command ants]], [[The Wasp|his shrinking flying wife]], and a [[Incredible Hulk (Comic Book)|giant green monster]] with a [[Jekyll and Hyde]] problem. And a [[One Man Army]] [[Captain America|super-soldier from World War II]] later joined them as the [[Sixth Ranger]].

* Most comic books about [[Superhero]] Teams follow that trope; as an example, [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]]'s original incarnation included a [[Iron Man (Comic Book)|Rich playboy]] [[Mad Scientist]] in a [[Powered Armor]], a ''[[The Mighty Thor|God of Thunder]]'', a second [[Mad Scientist]] [[Size Shifting|able to shrink size]] [[Ant-Man|and command ants]], [[The Wasp|his shrinking flying wife]], and a [[Incredible Hulk (Comic Book)|giant green monster]] with a [[Jekyll and Hyde]] problem. And a [[One-Man Army]] [[Captain America|super-soldier from World War II]] later joined them as the [[Sixth Ranger]].

* British war-oriented comic ''Battle Action'' included a British Empire ''Dirty Dozen'' clone called ''The Rat Pack'' complete with cockney thug/knifeman/marksman, sneaky little pickpocket and gigantic musclebound Turk. For some reason these "Convict Commandos" wore blue battledress rather than Khaki or green.

** Mercilessly parodied in ''The Rifle Brigade'' where fearless Captain "Khyber" D'Arcy leads [[Ambiguously Gay]] Lieutenant "Doubtful" Milk, monstrous Yorkshireman Sergeant Crumb ("'ey oop"), Cockney thug Corporal Geezer ("Yer aht of ordah!"), Private Hank the Yank ("Gawd Dammit!") and The Piper (who isn't an actual soldier but is still probably the most brutal of the lot) on missions against.... well you really just have to read these for yourself! But to give you an idea on the type of operations entrusted to the Rifle Brigade, one of their most important assignments involved recovering a powerful arcane artifact before the Axis could get their hands on it. The artifact was Hitler's missing testicle.

** Captain D'Arcy would eventually lampshade the squad's existence by saying that there's always been a place for a Rifle Brigade in the British forces, and that there was a Rifle Brigade-type collection of misfits before there were ''rifles'', because "when you get down to it there's some things ordinary chaps just can't ''do''!"

** The Rifle Brigade was also likely a parody of Sergeant Fury's Howling Commandos, the Leatherneck Riders, and the Deadly Dozen. Notable, Doubtful takes the place of [[Ambiguously Gay]] Percival Pinkerton, while Hank the Yank is the token foreigner (again, Pinkerton), Crumb the gigantic Bruiser (Dum Dum Dugan), etc.

*** Basically, pick a war comic. Even the stark realism of [[Sergeant Rock]]'s Easy Company leans this way, featuring the mild-mannered Wildman (whose name comes from his secretly having a [[Hair Trigger Temper]]), one armed bazooka expert Zack, nebbish bespectacled sniper Four-Eyes, clinically anxious Worrywart, etc.

*** Basically, pick a war comic. Even the stark realism of [[Sergeant Rock]]'s Easy Company leans this way, featuring the mild-mannered Wildman (whose name comes from his secretly having a [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]), one armed bazooka expert Zack, nebbish bespectacled sniper Four-Eyes, clinically anxious Worrywart, etc.

* The [[Suicide Squad]] in [[The DCU]]. A covert program of the U.S. government that keeps sending villains (and a few heroes) on suicide missions until they've earned release from prison... or they die. Think [[The Dirty Dozen]] with superpowers (some of them, anyway). While literally every incarnation fits, the Injustice League version is the most apt, with [[General Failure]] Major Disaster, [[Dumb Muscle]] Big Sir, [[Insufferable Genius]] Clock King, [[Deadpan Snarker]] Cluemaster, and [[The Chew Toy]] Multi-Man. The subversion happens when {{spoiler|all of them die in the first issue except for Major Disaster}}.

** The original Suicide Squad was a WWII unit simply composed of notable or exceptional soldiers. However, apparently the top brass and the recruiting officers didn't collaborate very closely on this one, because the resultant team was composed entirely of antisocial hotheads who hate ''each other'' more than they do the enemy, hence the name.

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* In both ''[[BPRD (Comic Book)|BPRD]] 1946'' and ''1947'', the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense finds itself working with one of these. In the first, it's a squadron of problem soldiers who've been together since D-Day -- and have been causing trouble since the end of the war out of frustration for not being allowed to go home. In the second, it's shell-shocked paratrooper Jacob Stegner; Simon Anders, a merchant marine who survived 24 days lost at sea in a lifeboat; Gabriel Ruiz, a Latino jungle warfare specialist who tried to sue the USMC for discrimination; and Frank Russel, a bomb and mine disposal expert who served with distinction in Africa - and chose the BPRD when offered an officer position in an intelligence org of his choice. The first group was assigned to aid Professor Bruttenholm during his time in Berlin - because all the army had to spare was soldiers. The second was a collection of agents available for ''immediate'' deployment.

* The [[New Avengers (Comic Book)|New Avengers]] are a team more or less thrown together by circumstance (they were on the "losing" side of ''[[Civil War (Comic Book)|Civil War]]''). Even now that they can work openly, they remain a group without a great deal in common except that the team is a sort of refuge where they can get themselves back together and get on with their lives.

* Justified in [[Les Legendaires (Comic Book)|Les Legendaires]], since the titular Protaginist's [[Five Man Band]] wasn't exactly assembled by the government or anything; the two founding members merely decided to create a group of independent heroes of their own by recruiting anyone who would be interested. This result in the group including a former [[The Knight|Elite Knight]] from the King's personal army, a [[Badass Princess]] [[Magical Girl]], a formerly enslaved [[Beast Man]], a [[Barbarian Hero]] [[The Atoner|who used to work for the series']] [[Big Bad]] and an [[Our Elves Are Better|Elf]] granted with [[Elemental Powers]].

* Justified in [[Les Legendaires (Comic Book)|Les Legendaires]], since the titular Protaginist's [[Five-Man Band]] wasn't exactly assembled by the government or anything; the two founding members merely decided to create a group of independent heroes of their own by recruiting anyone who would be interested. This result in the group including a former [[The Knight|Elite Knight]] from the King's personal army, a [[Badass Princess]] [[Magical Girl]], a formerly enslaved [[Beast Man]], a [[Barbarian Hero]] [[The Atoner|who used to work for the series']] [[Big Bad]] and an [[Our Elves Are Better|Elf]] granted with [[Elemental Powers]].

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== Film ==

* The film ''Boarding School Wars'' has Jake Winters invoke this ''by name'' in his [[Shut UP Hannibal]] moment during a paint ball battle that decides which school's boys get to go to the dance with the girls. "Yeah, you're right, you're right. We're messed up. We've got problems. And you nailed me in the back of the head. Good one. Guess our ragtag bunch of misfits haven't got a chance against your obvious superiority. But hey - shouldn't you be guarding your flag?" George's eyes widen as he realizes the bulk of the opposing team deliberately lost to separate the team from its flag. Using the walkie talkies he smuggled in, George tries to tell his fellow team members what's happening, but it's too late. They arrive after the battle's been decided in a one on one shootout between their leaders.

* The film ''Boarding School Wars'' has Jake Winters invoke this ''by name'' in his [[Shut UP, Hannibal]] moment during a paint ball battle that decides which school's boys get to go to the dance with the girls. "Yeah, you're right, you're right. We're messed up. We've got problems. And you nailed me in the back of the head. Good one. Guess our ragtag bunch of misfits haven't got a chance against your obvious superiority. But hey - shouldn't you be guarding your flag?" George's eyes widen as he realizes the bulk of the opposing team deliberately lost to separate the team from its flag. Using the walkie talkies he smuggled in, George tries to tell his fellow team members what's happening, but it's too late. They arrive after the battle's been decided in a one on one shootout between their leaders.

* ''[[The Dirty Dozen]]''. The team sent in to blow up the Nazi R&R chateau is made up entirely of men facing either execution or life sentences in military prisons. Except for Magot <ref>who is an out-and-out psycho, serial killer</ref>, though, most of them are implied to be not-such-bad guys who simply were pushed too far, or never should have been allowed in the military at all.

* In ''The Devil's Brigade'', the Americans are an example, while the Canadians are more serious about it. The real First Special Service Force recruited its American members by asking for volunteers, not forcing the dregs of the Army into it, though plenty of troublemakers got "volunteered" by their commanding officers to get rid of them. The SSF weeded out a lot of the worst, but it was still a pretty motley bunch.

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* The replacement Washington Sentinels in ''[[The Replacements (Film)|The Replacements]]'', featuring a notoriously easy-to-neutralize quarterback, a convict, an ex-soccer player, a sumo wrestler, two gargantuan gun-toting brothers, an Evangelical Christian who waves a bible at all his problems, a deaf man, and a former policeman with serious anger management problems. Even the Sentinels' ''cheerleaders'' are a collection of bizarre performers who would never work on any other squad but pull it together for awesomeness.

* Colette from ''[[Ratatouille (Animation)|Ratatouille]]'' describes her fellow chefs as such.

* You'll be hard pressed to find a bunch more rag-tag or misfit than the one being asked to save the Earth in ''[[Monsters vs. Aliens]]'': a bug-headed [[Mad Scientist]]; an over-the-hill [[Fish Person]]; a brainless, sentient glob of [[Future Food Is Artificial|Soylent Soy]]; a fuzzy baby [[Kaiju]]; and leading them all, a [[White Haired Pretty Girl]] (albeit a [[Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever|very tall one]].)

* You'll be hard pressed to find a bunch more rag-tag or misfit than the one being asked to save the Earth in ''[[Monsters vs. Aliens]]'': a bug-headed [[Mad Scientist]]; an over-the-hill [[Fish Person]]; a brainless, sentient glob of [[Future Food Is Artificial|Soylent Soy]]; a fuzzy baby [[Kaiju]]; and leading them all, a [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]] (albeit a [[Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever|very tall one]].)

* The Diggers who join up with Dr. Noah after one of them is killed by Ecoban soldiers in ''[[Sky Blue (Animation)|Sky Blue]]''.

* ''[[Red Dawn (Film)|Red Dawn]]'' has this with a group of teens fighting the [[Dirty Communists|evil]] [[Useful Notes/Reds With Rockets|Soviets]].

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* The kids relegated to being just "Hero Support"(sidekicks) in the titular high school for superheroes, ''[[Skyhigh (Film)|Skyhigh]]''. They end up saving the day when a supervillain attacks the prom.

* The Cutters in ''Breaking Away''.

* The cheap ''[[~~Charlies~~ Angels (TV)|Charlies Angels]]'' rip-off ''[[Angels Revenge]]''. It features a teacher, a Vegas lounge singer, a [[Sassy Black Woman]], an [[Dragon Lady|Asian martial artist]], a [[Fiery Redhead]], and a [[Tagalong Kid|pigtail-wearing teenager]] waging war against a drug cartel. [[Mystery Science Theater 3000 (TV)|MST3K]] had fun with this one.

* The cheap ''[[Charlie's Angels (TV)|Charlies Angels]]'' rip-off ''[[Angels Revenge]]''. It features a teacher, a Vegas lounge singer, a [[Sassy Black Woman]], an [[Dragon Lady|Asian martial artist]], a [[Fiery Redhead]], and a [[Tagalong Kid|pigtail-wearing teenager]] waging war against a drug cartel. [[Mystery Science Theater 3000 (TV)|MST3K]] had fun with this one.

* The 2009 ''[[Star Trek (Film)|Star Trek]]'''s reimagining of the characters verges on this: Kirk's under disciplinary review and not even supposed to be on board ''any'' ship, let alone commanding one; Scotty's been [[Reassigned to Antarctica]]; Sulu's a last-minute rookie replacement for the ''real'' pilot, who got sick. And after {{spoiler|Nero wipes out the entire rest of the fleet}}, [[~~Its~~ Up to You|It's All Up To Them.]]

* The 2009 ''[[Star Trek (Film)|Star Trek]]'''s reimagining of the characters verges on this: Kirk's under disciplinary review and not even supposed to be on board ''any'' ship, let alone commanding one; Scotty's been [[Reassigned to Antarctica]]; Sulu's a last-minute rookie replacement for the ''real'' pilot, who got sick. And after {{spoiler|Nero wipes out the entire rest of the fleet}}, [[It's Up to You|It's All Up To Them.]]

* [[Wes Anderson]]'s ''[[The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou]]'': At one point Steve Zissou proudly declares "We're a pack of strays!"

* ''[[Caveman (Film)|Caveman]]'', the protagonist Atouk along his friend Lar, after being banished from their tribe they found their own when encountering other misfits wondering the wilds, including the old blind man Gog, the comely Tala, a gay caveman couple, the Asiatic caveman Nook (who inexplicably, speaks only in English), and a caveman midget.

* The American team in [[Broken Lizard]]'s ''[[Beerfest]]''. To give you an idea, one of their members is a homeless male prostitute.

* The five 'main' pirates from ''[[The Pirates in An Adventure With Scientists (Animation)|The Pirates in An Adventure With Scientists]]''. [[Large Ham]] Pirate Captain, [[Only Sane Man]] Pirate With A Scarf, chunky Pirate With Gout, [[Sweet Polly Oliver]] Surprisingly Curvaceous Pirate and finally [[Cloudcuckoolander]] Albino Pirate.

** Appropriately, the film's [[Market Based Title]] is ''The Pirates: Band of Misfits''.

** Appropriately, the film's [[Market-Based Title]] is ''The Pirates: Band of Misfits''.

* The Charlestown Chiefs in ''[[Slap Shot]]''.

* Lampshaded in ''[[Mortal Kombat (Film)|Mortal Kombat]]'' where Sonya all but rolls her eyes at Raiden. "A handful of people on a leaky boat are gonna save the world?"

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* ''[[Black Sheep Squadron]]'' (originally titled ''Baa Baa Black Sheep'') is about the exploits of a squadron of misfit pilots fighting the Japanese in the South Pacific during [[World War II]]. One pilot has crashed so many times he's technically a Japanese ace. Others are drunks, insubordinate brawlers, Japanese-American pacifist mystics, or just plain crazy. Their commander is a drunk, insubordinate, over-the-hill ex-Flying Tiger who whips them into shape and turns them into the terrors of the South Pacific. It's based on a true story, and while the misfit tendencies of the squadron members themselves are highly exaggerated, Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, the squadron commander, was if anything MORE of a drunken misfit [[Magnificent Bastard]] than the one in the TV series.

* ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]'' details the exploits of a band of misfits who seem to have nothing in common save the fact they are [[Everyone Is Bi|all inexplicably bisexual]]. In fact, almost as many episodes (including the apocalyptic season finales) deal with the team members fighting each other as with the supposed premise of protecting Earth (or, at least, [[Aliens in Cardiff|Cardiff]]) from aliens.

* ''[[~~Blakes~~ Seven (TV)|Blakes Seven]]'' makes ''Torchwood'' look like a haven of unity and competence.

* ''[[Blake's Seven (TV)|Blakes Seven]]'' makes ''Torchwood'' look like a haven of unity and competence.

* ''[[Firefly (TV)|Firefly]]'' is essentially the ragtag bunch of misfits [[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE!]].

* ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'' is basically this [[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE]] too. Of course, they're pretty awesome anyway, since the misfits are comprised of kick-ass ex-soldiers and convicts.

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** ''[[Power Rangers Dino Thunder]]'' is a jock, a nerd, a rocker girl, an artist, and their [[Memetic Badass]] teacher.

** But the king is probably ''[[Power Rangers Wild Force]]'', which is a [[Raised By Natives]] [[Nature Hero]], a [[Kid Hero]] semi-pro bowler, a [[Gentle Giant]] florist, a college student, and an Air Force vet. At least the other teams came off as roughly the same age/maturity level (barring when a [[Mentor]] joins the group).

** What do you get when you put together a team comprised of a [[Standardized Leader|former Air Force pilot]]; a [[Wide Eyed Idealist]] "simple mechanic" (who is [[Bonnie Scotland|SCOTTISH!]]); a former [[Rich Bitch]] who [[Took a Level In Badass]]; an incompetent ex-cartel member who is [[Giving the Sword To A Noob|completely unqualified to handle advanced weaponry]] (but [[Meta Guy|often points out]] [[Only Sane Man|the ridiculousness of the situation they're all in]] to comedic effect); a [[Half Human Hybrid|half-human hybrid]] with [[Laser Guided Amnesia|no memories of either his past or his identity]]; and twin hyperactive [[Psychopathic Manchild|psychotic adult children]] who, despite being geniuses, are obsessed with [[Stuff Blowing Up|things that go BOOM!]]--all led by an [[Kuudere|emotionally closed off]] [[Teen Genius]] scientist with [[No Social Skills]] and [[Tear Jerker|one depressing backstory]]? The team from ''[[Power Rangers RPM (TV)|Power Rangers RPM]]''. Aren't you glad they're the ones who must protect the last remaining city on earth against a renegade computer virus?

** What do you get when you put together a team comprised of a [[Standardized Leader|former Air Force pilot]]; a [[Wide Eyed Idealist]] "simple mechanic" (who is [[Bonnie Scotland|SCOTTISH!]]); a former [[Rich Bitch]] who [[Took a Level In Badass]]; an incompetent ex-cartel member who is [[Giving the Sword To A Noob|completely unqualified to handle advanced weaponry]] (but [[Meta Guy|often points out]] [[Only Sane Man|the ridiculousness of the situation they're all in]] to comedic effect); a [[Half-Human Hybrid|half-human hybrid]] with [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|no memories of either his past or his identity]]; and twin hyperactive [[Psychopathic Manchild|psychotic adult children]] who, despite being geniuses, are obsessed with [[Stuff Blowing Up|things that go BOOM!]]--all led by an [[Kuudere|emotionally closed off]] [[Teen Genius]] scientist with [[No Social Skills]] and [[Tear Jerker|one depressing backstory]]? The team from ''[[Power Rangers RPM (TV)|Power Rangers RPM]]''. Aren't you glad they're the ones who must protect the last remaining city on earth against a renegade computer virus?

* ''[[Babylon 5 (TV)|Babylon 5]]'' makes being a [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]] (or as [[J Michael Straczynski (Creator)|J Michael Straczynski]] puts it, being "community-builders") [[Humans Are Special|our]] collective [[Planet of Hats|Hat]].

** Mostly averted in the ''[[Crusade (TV)|Crusade]]'' spin-off, where the only "misfits" are Dureena, a professional thief, and [[Bald of Awesome|Galen]], a rogue [[Magic From Technology|technomage]].

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* ''[[Primeval]]''. Lester is well aware that he's in charge of a Ragtag Bunch Of Misfits and would gladly fire the lot of them and bring in professionals instead, were he not such a fundamentally decent chap.

{{quote| '''James Lester''': Repeat that disgraceful slander, and you'll be hearing from my laywers.}}

* The [[Warehouse 13]] team could certainly apply: two former Secret Service agents (one of whom gets psychic hunches), a disgraced former NSA analyst who was convicted of treason, an aura-reading B&B operator, a former mental patient and [[Teen Genius]], an [[Anti Villain]] female HG Wells, and a gay ATF agent who's a living lie detector. Not to mention their boss, who is a mysterious teleporting and apparently immortal woman.

* The [[Warehouse 13]] team could certainly apply: two former Secret Service agents (one of whom gets psychic hunches), a disgraced former NSA analyst who was convicted of treason, an aura-reading B&B operator, a former mental patient and [[Teen Genius]], an [[Anti-Villain]] female HG Wells, and a gay ATF agent who's a living lie detector. Not to mention their boss, who is a mysterious teleporting and apparently immortal woman.

* The central study group characters of ''[[Community (TV)|Community]]'' are a [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]] disbarred lawyer; an ex-anarchist high school dropout; a [[Meta Guy]] who sees everything as tropes; a high school jock-turned-goofball nerd; a recovering alcoholic Evangelical Christian housewife; a unpopular girl-turned-hottie who had a mental breakdown; a conniving, somewhat racist old man with [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]; and a crazed Chinese ex-professor who lied about knowing his subject. It's hard to find a group this crazy and yet a coherent whole.

* The ''[[Danger 5 (TV)|Danger 5]]'' team, particularly in the online prequel. In fact, the reason the team exists is because when Tucker, Jackson, and Pierre were sent on a mission to Hitler, their total failure was met with such scorn that two women - the abrasive, alcoholic Russian Isla, and the calm but uptight [[English Rose]] Claire - were added to the team. Thus, in the midst of a satire of old-fashioned sexism, the Danger 5 team was born.

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* The employees at Maraczek's Parfumerie in ''She Loves Me'' could qualify.

* Comedy musical ''[[Starship]]'' features a crew including a robot that wants to kill all humans but can't, a battle-scarred emotionally unstable Commander with a mortal fear of robots, his [[Action Girl|violent]] and [[No Sympathy|unsympathetic]] second-in-command, a [[Non Action Guy]] [[Hollywood Nerd|nerd]], a hyperactive [[Butt Monkey|idiotic]] recruit, a recruit from [[Farm Boy]] [[Southern Fried Private|Planet]], a science officer whose [[The Ditz|relevant skills]] don't even extend to the [[Dumb Blonde|ability to pronounce 'science']], and the bratty son of the company boss. At first it seems to just be [[Played for Laughs]] in a parody of the sci-fi genre, but it is revealed later that {{spoiler|Junior is evil and he needed the crew to be dysfunctional enough that they would notice his evil plan}}.

* Comedy musical ''[[Starship]]'' features a crew including a robot that wants to kill all humans but can't, a battle-scarred emotionally unstable Commander with a mortal fear of robots, his [[Action Girl|violent]] and [[No Sympathy|unsympathetic]] second-in-command, a [[Non-Action Guy]] [[Hollywood Nerd|nerd]], a hyperactive [[Butt Monkey|idiotic]] recruit, a recruit from [[Farm Boy]] [[Southern-Fried Private|Planet]], a science officer whose [[The Ditz|relevant skills]] don't even extend to the [[Dumb Blonde|ability to pronounce 'science']], and the bratty son of the company boss. At first it seems to just be [[Played for Laughs]] in a parody of the sci-fi genre, but it is revealed later that {{spoiler|Junior is evil and he needed the crew to be dysfunctional enough that they would notice his evil plan}}.

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== Video Games ==

* [[Because Destiny Says So]], the hero of the various ''[[Suikoden (Video Game)|Suikoden]]'' games must battle [[The Empire]] and [[Gotta Catch Them All|optimally ]]gather together a force led by [[~~One Hundred and Eight~~]] very, very diverse individuals. A minority of them are seasoned troops. Most are crossdressing tea fanciers, elevator operators, cape-wearing squirrels... it just gets weirder after that.

* [[Because Destiny Says So]], the hero of the various ''[[Suikoden (Video Game)|Suikoden]]'' games must battle [[The Empire]] and [[Gotta Catch Them All|optimally ]]gather together a force led by [[108]] very, very diverse individuals. A minority of them are seasoned troops. Most are crossdressing tea fanciers, elevator operators, cape-wearing squirrels... it just gets weirder after that.

** Lampshaded in the [[Gaiden Game]] ''[[Suikoden Tierkreis (Video Game)|Suikoden Tierkreis]]''. After recruiting a certain character, [[Hello Insert Name Here|Sieg]] comments on how people he meets from time to time gets weirder.

** Lampshaded in the [[Gaiden Game]] ''[[Suikoden Tierkreis (Video Game)|Suikoden Tierkreis]]''. After recruiting a certain character, [[Hello, Insert Name Here|Sieg]] comments on how people he meets from time to time gets weirder.

* ''[[Neverwinter Nights (Video Game)|Neverwinter Nights]]: Hordes of the Underdark'' qualifies, as your possible companions include a gentleman tiefling with a frenzied demon side; a reformed drow assassin; an either vengeful or reformed ghost of a fallen paladin; and a kobold bard turned Red Dragon Disciple. And all of you are Epic-level. Even the kobold.

** ''Especially'' the kobold. The [[Big Bad]] tries to persuade your allies to turn on you. Most of them wil stay if you're nice to them at various points, or discovered certain things about them. Deekin will stay [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|no matter what]].

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** Lampshaded early in ''[[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VII]]'' when, upon hearing the party introduce itself one member at a time, [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Rufus Shinra]] shrugs and replies, "What a crew."

** Also invoked in ''[[Final Fantasy XIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XIII]]'' according to [[Word of God]], who wanted to invoke a feeling similar to ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'': Your party consists of a soldier, an airline pilot trying to save his son, a leader of a group of anarchist do-nothings turned freedom-fighters, some kid on vacation, and two girls whose reasons for being in the party are too spoilerific and complicated to post here. In fact, ''FFXIII'' can be regarded as a [[Deconstruction]] of this trope, seeing how the party members quite naturally spend over a half of the game hating each other's guts and blatantly violating the [[Never Split the Party]] principle because of that.

** ''[[Final Fantasy X 2 (Video Game)|Final Fantasy X 2]]'' takes the cake with this one. The group who set out to stop the [[Woobie Destroyer of Worlds]] and his big machina are a [[Stripperiffic]] sphere huntress, her two goons, a [[Death Seeker]] with a fake arm and leg, a wiz kid in a gas mask, a [[Large Ham]] with a crush on his cousin, his buddy, an Al Bhed with a [[BFG]] and their go-to girls are Spira's answer to the Charmed Ones.

** ''[[Final Fantasy X 2 (Video Game)|Final Fantasy X 2]]'' takes the cake with this one. The group who set out to stop the [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]] and his big machina are a [[Stripperiffic]] sphere huntress, her two goons, a [[Death Seeker]] with a fake arm and leg, a wiz kid in a gas mask, a [[Large Ham]] with a crush on his cousin, his buddy, an Al Bhed with a [[BFG]] and their go-to girls are Spira's answer to the Charmed Ones.

** ''[[Final Fantasy VI (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VI]]'' has one of the biggest ragtag bunch of misfits. It consists of the [[Easy Amnesia]], {{spoiler|[[Half Human Hybrid]]}}, [[Magic Knight]] and [[Action Girl]] Terra Branford, the [[Loveable Rogue]] Locke Cole, the [[Chivalrous Pervert]] King Edgar Roni Figaro, the [[Bare Fisted Monk]] and [[Boisterous Bruiser]] Sabin Rene Figaro, [[The Atoner]], [[Hot Chick With a Sword]] and [[Action Girl]] Celes Chere, the Badass Ninja, [[Blood Knight]] and {{spoiler|[[Disappeared Dad]]}} Shadow, the [[Badass Grandpa]], [[Failure Knight]] and Samurai Cyan Garamonde, the [[Raised By Wolves]], [[Wild Child]], [[Cloudcuckoolander]] and [[Badass Adorable]] Gau, the [[White Haired Pretty Boy]] [[Badass Longcoat]] Setzer Gabbiani, the [[Squishy Wizard]] [[Badass Grandpa]] [[Mega Manning|Mega Manner]] Strago Magus, [[Squishy Wizard|the other Squishy Wizard]], [[Glass Cannon]] (she's got the highest magic stat), [[Art Attacker]], [[Kid Appeal Character]], [[Tagalong Kid]], [[Genki Girl]] Relm Arrowny, the [[Badass Adorable]], [[Cute Bruiser]], [[Dance Battler]], [[Pint Sized Powerhouse]] and [[Killer Rabbit]] (he's got the highest defenses in the game and has enough attack to make him the best tank, being both resistant and strong as a dragoon) Mog, the Berserker, [[Bigfoot Sasquatch and Yeti]], [[Dumb Muscle]] and [[Team Pet]] Umaro and, last but not least, the [[Secret Character]], literal [[Heroic Mime]], [[Jack of All Stats]] and [[Ambiguous Gender]] Gogo. There you go, 12 people and 2 animals, most of which had absolutely nothing to do with each other before the beginning of the game and only half are actually trained fighters.

** ''[[Final Fantasy VI (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VI]]'' has one of the biggest ragtag bunch of misfits. It consists of the [[Easy Amnesia]], {{spoiler|[[Half-Human Hybrid]]}}, [[Magic Knight]] and [[Action Girl]] Terra Branford, the [[Loveable Rogue]] Locke Cole, the [[Chivalrous Pervert]] King Edgar Roni Figaro, the [[Bare-Fisted Monk]] and [[Boisterous Bruiser]] Sabin Rene Figaro, [[The Atoner]], [[Hot Chick With a Sword]] and [[Action Girl]] Celes Chere, the Badass Ninja, [[Blood Knight]] and {{spoiler|[[Disappeared Dad]]}} Shadow, the [[Badass Grandpa]], [[Failure Knight]] and Samurai Cyan Garamonde, the [[Raised By Wolves]], [[Wild Child]], [[Cloudcuckoolander]] and [[Badass Adorable]] Gau, the [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]] [[Badass Longcoat]] Setzer Gabbiani, the [[Squishy Wizard]] [[Badass Grandpa]] [[Mega Manning|Mega Manner]] Strago Magus, [[Squishy Wizard|the other Squishy Wizard]], [[Glass Cannon]] (she's got the highest magic stat), [[Art Attacker]], [[Kid Appeal Character]], [[Tagalong Kid]], [[Genki Girl]] Relm Arrowny, the [[Badass Adorable]], [[Cute Bruiser]], [[Dance Battler]], [[Pint-Sized Powerhouse]] and [[Killer Rabbit]] (he's got the highest defenses in the game and has enough attack to make him the best tank, being both resistant and strong as a dragoon) Mog, the Berserker, [[Bigfoot Sasquatch and Yeti]], [[Dumb Muscle]] and [[Team Pet]] Umaro and, last but not least, the [[Secret Character]], literal [[Heroic Mime]], [[Jack of All Stats]] and [[Ambiguous Gender]] Gogo. There you go, 12 people and 2 animals, most of which had absolutely nothing to do with each other before the beginning of the game and only half are actually trained fighters.

* The crew who ends up saving the world from being Porky's oyster in ''[[Mother 3 (Video Game)|Mother 3]]'' is a cowardly preteenage boy who can't quite get over his troubled past, his loyal but useless in battle dog, a teen girl raised by freaky cross-dressing fairy things who has been locked away in a castle all her life, and a smelly, ridiculed thief in his 20s with a crippled leg. Yet somehow, we're not doomed.

* In ''[[Super Mario RPG (Video Game)|Super Mario RPG]]: Legend of the Seven Stars'', your party consists of a [[Heroic Mime|mute]] [[The Everyman|everyman]] [[Almighty Janitor|plumber]] with [[In a Single Bound|superhuman jumping ability]], the monster king who is [[Enemy Mine|typically his worst enemy]], the princess he has to [[Distressed Damsel|save just about every other week]], a talking cloud that can control the weather, and a possessed doll.

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* In ''[[Mass Effect (Franchise)|Mass Effect]]'', the fate of the entire galaxy rests in the hands of a war hero/ruthless commander/ShellShockedVeteran, who is backed up by a telekinetic tech with control issues, an angry Marine with trust issues, an [[Cowboy Cop|angry cop]] with authority issues, a [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]] [[Hired Guns|mercenary]] with <s>parental</s> [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much|species]] issues, an alien [[Wrench Wench|mechanic]] with ''more'' parental issues, and a blue-skinned [[Hot Scientist]] with ''even more'' parental issues. [[Dysfunction Junction|Big, happy family, right?]]

** ''[[Mass Effect 2 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 2]]'' brings this trope to even [[Darker and Edgier]] territory. Shepard's suicide mission team appears to consist of nothing but thugs, sociopaths, and ne'er-do-wells.

*** Specifically, the party includes : a quaint scientist with ethical issues, a psychotic test subject with psychic powers and childhood issues, {{spoiler|the [[Cowboy Cop|angry cop]] from the first game who has become}} [[The Punisher (Comic Book)|a vigilante who takes the war on crime to the heart of darkness]] and [[Survivor Guilt]]/revenge issues, a berserk alien supersoldier with daddy/existential issues, a cynical ex-Marine with daddy issues (who is the [[Only Sane Man]], mind you), a human-supremacist femme fatale with daddy issues, a quasi-hive minded robot motivated by religious zeal (with no issues!), a guilt-ridden holy warrior with family issues, {{spoiler|the same}} an alien mechanic with strained relations with her own race, a [[Death Seeker]] alien assassin with familial issues, and, in downloadable content, a sociopathic mercenary with revenge issues and a galactic-class thief with love issues. In a subversion, you can get a total party kill - yes, ''[[The Hero Dies|including Shepard]]'' - if you don't do any of these characters' side missions, [[Playing With Syringes|all]] [[Playing With Syringes|of]] [[Deceptive Disciple|which]] [[Coming of Age Story|solve]] [[Well Done Son Guy|at]] [[Well Done Son Guy|least]] [[Enemy Civil War|some]] [[Well Done Son Guy|of]] [[Well Done Son Guy|their]] [[Well Done Son Guy|many]] personal issues. (And yes, '''''that''' [[Dysfunction Junction|many characters have father/mother/child issues]]'' in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''.)

*** Specifically, the party includes : a quaint scientist with ethical issues, a psychotic test subject with psychic powers and childhood issues, {{spoiler|the [[Cowboy Cop|angry cop]] from the first game who has become}} [[The Punisher (Comic Book)|a vigilante who takes the war on crime to the heart of darkness]] and [[Survivor Guilt]]/revenge issues, a berserk alien supersoldier with daddy/existential issues, a cynical ex-Marine with daddy issues (who is the [[Only Sane Man]], mind you), a human-supremacist femme fatale with daddy issues, a quasi-hive minded robot motivated by religious zeal (with no issues!), a guilt-ridden holy warrior with family issues, {{spoiler|the same}} an alien mechanic with strained relations with her own race, a [[Death Seeker]] alien assassin with familial issues, and, in downloadable content, a sociopathic mercenary with revenge issues and a galactic-class thief with love issues. In a subversion, you can get a total party kill - yes, ''[[The Hero Dies|including Shepard]]'' - if you don't do any of these characters' side missions, [[Playing With Syringes|all]] [[Playing With Syringes|of]] [[Deceptive Disciple|which]] [[Coming of Age Story|solve]] [["Well Done, Son" Guy|at]] [["Well Done, Son" Guy|least]] [[Enemy Civil War|some]] [["Well Done, Son" Guy|of]] [["Well Done, Son" Guy|their]] [["Well Done, Son" Guy|many]] personal issues. (And yes, '''''that''' [[Dysfunction Junction|many characters have father/mother/child issues]]'' in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''.)

** And Shepard is not immune: depending on which past you choose, s/he either grew up without a family and was raised by gangs and violence (Earthborn) or is the sole survivor of a pirate raid on his/her home planet (Colonist) and either watched his/her whole platoon except for him/her being annihilated by an alien monster (Sole Survivor) or send the 3/4 of hi/hers platoon to death to capture a bunker (Ruthless).

** Both games take some effort to justify such choices in crew. In ''[[Mass Effect 1 (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 (Video Game)|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.

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* ''[[Disgaea (Video Game)|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 (Creator)|Nippon Ichi]] loves this trope. Even in the shockingly [[Darker and Edgier|dark and edgy]] ''[[Soul Nomad and The World Eaters (Video Game)|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}}.

* [[~~Bio Ware~~ (Creator)|Bio Ware]] seems to love these. ''[[Jade Empire (Video Game)|Jade Empire]]'' features, as the last hope for a fantasty world based on East Asian mythology, a martial artist who is secretly [[Last of His Kind|the last of a group of monks]] who served the goddess of rebirth; his/her childhood friend who is troubled by vague prophetic visions; a [[Defector From Decadence|former assassin]]; a hobo seeking revenge for his dead daughter; a [[Boisterous Bruiser|loud, outgoing,]] [[Sociopathic Hero]] mercenary; a [[Mad Scientist]] with a fondness for explosives and flying machines who happens to be {{spoiler|[[God Was My Co Pilot|an amnesiac god]]}}; a little girl [[Sharing a Body|possessed by a benevolent demon and his]] [[Evil Twin]]; a henpecked [[Drunken Master]]; and a [[Rebellious Princess]] who dresses like a cross between a ninja and a belly dancer.

* [[BioWare (Creator)|Bio Ware]] seems to love these. ''[[Jade Empire (Video Game)|Jade Empire]]'' features, as the last hope for a fantasty world based on East Asian mythology, a martial artist who is secretly [[Last of His Kind|the last of a group of monks]] who served the goddess of rebirth; his/her childhood friend who is troubled by vague prophetic visions; a [[Defector From Decadence|former assassin]]; a hobo seeking revenge for his dead daughter; a [[Boisterous Bruiser|loud, outgoing,]] [[Sociopathic Hero]] mercenary; a [[Mad Scientist]] with a fondness for explosives and flying machines who happens to be {{spoiler|[[God Was My Co-Pilot|an amnesiac god]]}}; a little girl [[Sharing a Body|possessed by a benevolent demon and his]] [[Evil Twin]]; a henpecked [[Drunken Master]]; and a [[Rebellious Princess]] who dresses like a cross between a ninja and a belly dancer.

* How about ''[[Knights of the Old Republic (Video Game)|Knights of the Old Republic]]''? In the first game you have an ex-pilot with major trust issues, a Jedi trying too hard to be perfect and scared to death of failing, a Mandalorian [[Blood Knight]], an exiled Wookee, a smartmouthed teenaged Twi'lek, a redeemed Jedi with an immense temper, a Jedi verging on senility, a mechanic droid with no personality (so far), and a psychotic insane assassin droid; and leading them all is {{spoiler|an amnesiac Sith Lord}}. In the second, the [[Blood Knight]] and the two droids carry over, and you get to add a psychotic old woman out to destroy the Force, a maniacally depressed former Sith, a former [[Deadpan Snarker|wisecracking]] Jedi-killer, another psychotic droid (but this one is out to rule the galaxy), a Zabarak mechanic trying to make up for all the deaths caused by the superweapon he designed, depending on your choices either an insane evil Wookee bounty hunter or an overconfident and very honorable female human bounty hunter, and depending on your gender either a [[Badass Bookworm]] or a soldier whose culture interprets dueling as flirting; and all of these are led by {{spoiler|a hole in the Force that feeds off their life force}}.

* ''[[Valkyria Chronicles (Video Game)|Valkyria Chronicles]]'':

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* ''[[Skies of Arcadia (Video Game)|Skies of Arcadia]]'' fits this trope to a tee. You've got a [[Lovable Rogue]], a [[Fiery Redhead]], and a mysterious [[Woman in White]] as your main party members. You pick up lots more along the way to join your crew. Not to mention all the 3rd party characters that come when [[Gondor Calls for Aid]] near the end.

* ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'': A drawling [[More Dakka]] engineer. A big, somewhat dimwitted Russian. A psychotic delusional soldier. A mouthy, trash-talking speedster. A German [[Mad Doctor]]. A smooth-talking French spy. A laid back Australian professional killer. A drunk, one-eyed, black, manic-depressive Scottish nutcase. A pyromaniac of ambiguous sex and/or gender. They Fight Their Other-Coloured Clones!

* ''[[Dragon Age (Video Game)|Dragon Age]]'', of course. It's a [[~~Bio Ware~~ (Creator)|Bio Ware]] RPG, so you've got: Two Grey Wardens (They're pretty much a whole order of [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]. One is a prince and a former [[The Knights Templar|Templar apprentice]]. The other is you, of course), a [[Deadpan Snarker|deadpan-snarking]] shape-shifting witch from the forest, a [[Heroes Want Redheads|redheaded]] french bard who was a priest, but joined you after a vision, a [[The Stoic|stoic]] [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Qunari]] warrior, a (female) golem with an intense hatred of pigeons, an alcoholic dwarven berzerker, an elven assassin, an elderly {{spoiler|[[Dead All Along]]}} mage, {{spoiler|a villainous noble champion}}. Oh and their [[Team Pet|pet dog]].

* ''[[Dragon Age (Video Game)|Dragon Age]]'', of course. It's a [[BioWare (Creator)|Bio Ware]] RPG, so you've got: Two Grey Wardens (They're pretty much a whole order of [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]. One is a prince and a former [[The Knights Templar|Templar apprentice]]. The other is you, of course), a [[Deadpan Snarker|deadpan-snarking]] shape-shifting witch from the forest, a [[Heroes Want Redheads|redheaded]] french bard who was a priest, but joined you after a vision, a [[The Stoic|stoic]] [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Qunari]] warrior, a (female) golem with an intense hatred of pigeons, an alcoholic dwarven berzerker, an elven assassin, an elderly {{spoiler|[[Dead All Along]]}} mage, {{spoiler|a villainous noble champion}}. Oh and their [[Team Pet|pet dog]].

** To elaborate, said prince was actually a bastard shipped off to a convent to keep him away from the throne, the witch had a rough and isolated childhood and so has [[No Social Skills]], bard in this context means spy and assassin who sings, the you free the qunari from prison after he murdered eight innocent people, the dwarf joins you after you help him find his {{spoiler|[[Complete Monster]] wife who abandoned him searching for an [[Artifact of Doom]]}}, and the elven assassin was hired to kill ''you''.

** ''Dragon Age: Awakening'' continues this. The alcoholic dwarven berzerker returns, and the new members are an [[Deadpan Snarker|snarky]] rogue mage with an obsessive Templar out for his blood, a murderous elven hippie, a rogue whose father is the noble who killed the Human Noble's family in the first game, [[Perky Goth|a member of the Dwarven Legion of the Dead]], a Fade spirit of justice trapped in the body of a dead man, and a very nice Grey Warden recruit who {{spoiler|dies the second she takes her Joining}}.

** ''[[Dragon Age II (Video Game)|Dragon Age II]]'' continues the tradition with your younger sibling who is either a warrior jealous of you or a rogue mage who [[I Just Want to Be Normal|wants a normal life]], the widowed daughter of an exiled chevalier, a dwarven merchant from an exiled noble family with a fondness for storytelling and [[I Call Her Vera|a crossbow named Bianca]], a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] elf exiled from her clan for practicing [[Blood Magic]], the snarky rogue mage from Awakening who is [[Not As You Know Them|now much less snarky]] and [[Demonic Possession|possessed the spirit of Justice who has become a demon of Vengeance]], a promiscuous pirate captain with a very large number of enemies, an escaped elven slave with [[Identity Amnesia]] and [[Power Tattoo|Power Tattoos]], a [[Royals Who Actually Do Something|prince]]/[[Badass Preacher|priest]] whose entire family has been murdered, and your pet dog.

** ''[[Dragon Age II (Video Game)|Dragon Age II]]'' continues the tradition with your younger sibling who is either a warrior jealous of you or a rogue mage who [[I Just Want to Be Normal|wants a normal life]], the widowed daughter of an exiled chevalier, a dwarven merchant from an exiled noble family with a fondness for storytelling and [[I Call Her "Vera"|a crossbow named Bianca]], a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] elf exiled from her clan for practicing [[Blood Magic]], the snarky rogue mage from Awakening who is [[Not As You Know Them|now much less snarky]] and [[Demonic Possession|possessed the spirit of Justice who has become a demon of Vengeance]], a promiscuous pirate captain with a very large number of enemies, an escaped elven slave with [[Identity Amnesia]] and [[Power Tattoo|Power Tattoos]], a [[Royals Who Actually Do Something|prince]]/[[Badass Preacher|priest]] whose entire family has been murdered, and your pet dog.

** A DLC gives you a temporary companion who isn't much better than the others - a female Qunari elf with a penchant to either kill or flirt with any man (especially human) that she sees.

* The survivors from either ''Left 4 Dead'' game count. In [[Left 4 Dead (Video Game)|the first]], a [[Shell Shocked Senior|Vietnam vet]], a [[Badass Biker]] who hates [[Running Gag|everything]], an [[Action Survivor|office worker]] who had no clue what's going on, and a [[Gamer Chick]] who's [[Book Dumb|flunking out of college.]] In [[Left 4 Dead 2 (Video Game)|the second]], an overweight, middle-aged [[Team Dad]], a [[Genius Ditz|ditzy]] [[Butt Monkey]] with an accent thicker than pea soup, a [[Loveable Rogue|snarky conman]] in a white suit, and an [[Intrepid Reporter]] and [[The Smurfette Principle|token chick.]]

* Your group in ''[[Drakengard]]'' is led by an [[Ax Crazy]] "[[Sociopathic Hero|hero]]", a useless bard friend deeply in the friend zone with the hero's sister, a conflicted pedophile, a batshit crazy [[Eats Babies|child eating]] [[Our Elves Are Better|elf]], and an old man [[Mad Oracle|making ominous prophecies]]. Not to mention most have [[Bond Creatures|pact partners]], which include a [[Deadpan Snarker|snarky]] [[Our Dragons Are Different|dragon]] and a [[The Fair Folk|hilariously sociopathic fairy]].

** ...but it has been noted that since this party contains a child killer, a child eater and a child molester, they are ''the perfect team'' for taking on {{spoiler|[[Humanoid Abomination|the Watchers]].}}

* ''[[Infinite Space]]'' starts out rather normally: a boy who seeks to unravel the mystery of the [[MacGuffin|Epitaphs]], his little sister, a "launcher", and an ex-thug. As the game progresses, you can hire mercenaries and have some normal citizens on board, which don't seem too bad, but later on, you can also have military officers (who join you for various reasons), ex-[[Space Pirates|pirates]], and even ''[[~~Everythings~~ Better With Princesses|princesses]]''.

* ''[[Infinite Space]]'' starts out rather normally: a boy who seeks to unravel the mystery of the [[MacGuffin|Epitaphs]], his little sister, a "launcher", and an ex-thug. As the game progresses, you can hire mercenaries and have some normal citizens on board, which don't seem too bad, but later on, you can also have military officers (who join you for various reasons), ex-[[Space Pirates|pirates]], and even ''[[Everything's Better With Princesses|princesses]]''.

* The ''[[Fallout 3 (Video Game)|Fallout 3]]'' DLC ''Mothership Zeta'' plays this trope straight. You have to take over the alien mothership with the help of the somewhat unprincipled mechanic Somah, the pre-War combat medic Lt. Elliot Tercorien, the cowboy Paulson whose family was killed by {{spoiler|the aliens}} and the little girl Sally whose repeated escape attempts net her solitary confinement and fairly good knowledge of the ship's systems. Oh, and Toshiro Kago, a Japanese samurai (in full armor complete with a katana) who can't understand a thing the others say (and vice versa).

** Perhaps even more so in ''[[Fallout New Vegas (Video Game)|Fallout New Vegas]]'', where your followers include a [[Cold Sniper]], a scientist with a mysterious past, an Eyebot and a Super Mutant formerly in the employ of The Master from ''[[Fallout 1 (Video Game)|Fallout 1]]'', among others.

** The quest "Flags of our Foul-Ups" consists of the player trying to make such a squad (called The Misfits!) actually combat effective. They consist of a small team of NCR troops with a severe attitude and discipline problems; an ambitious young woman who washed out of the Rangers but is still desperate for glory, a bloodthirsty former raider who'll recommend the squad dose up with the in-universe equivalent of PCP, a lazy and immoral snob, and a huge but soft-spoken and pacifistic hick. They can be properly mobilised with the right choices and skills, demonstrated during {{spoiler|the final attack by the Legion on the Dam, when your Misfits ''defeat a Legion assault.''}}

** The First Recon Sniper Team also qualifies. Professional leader, [[Shell Shocked Veteran]], [[Naive Newcomer]], [[Butch Lesbian]] and a traumatized tribal. They are also the best snipers and scouts in the whole NCR army.

** The First Recon Sniper Team also qualifies. Professional leader, [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]], [[Naive Newcomer]], [[Butch Lesbian]] and a traumatized tribal. They are also the best snipers and scouts in the whole NCR army.

** ''[[Fallout 2 (Video Game)|Fallout 2]]'' demonstrates the ensemble dynamic more clearly by letting the player travel with many of them at once (instead of leaving them on display in a hotel, never to interact with each other). ''These'' include a one-eyed old man with a metal plate in his head, the son of a slaughterhouse operator who is your potential husband (regardless of your gender), his sister who is your potential wife (again, regardless of your gender), four [[Team Pet|dogs]] (two of which are cyborgs), a super-intelligent deathclaw, a ghoul former doctor, a super mutant, an obnoxious racist sexist teen drug genius, a military AI called [[Terminator (Film)|SkyNet]] traveling in a robot body of the "[[Lost in Space (TV)|Danger, Will Robinson]]" variety, a tribal warrior with a Jamaican accent and multiple body piercings who talks to the bone in his nose, and a trader of dubiously valuable goods with a missing daughter and a habit of calling you "Boss".

* And what about the [[Starcraft II (Video Game)|Raynor's Raiders]]? [[The Hero|An ex-marshall turned into a freedom fighter]], [[The Lancer|an idealist]], [[The Big Guy|an ex-lifetime convict]], ({{spoiler|Who's actually a mole}}) [[The Smart Guy|a mechanic with a modified arm, a nerd]], [[The Chick|a colony doctor]] ({{spoiler|Who doesn't hang around at some point}}) [[Sixth Ranger|and a psychotic assassin with mystic tendencies]]. Phew...

** Raynor actually refers to them as a ragtag bunch of misfits at one point.

* Subverted in ''[[Pathologic]]''. The first scene in the game shows the three healers meeting up, arguing with each other, then deciding to strike out separately to fight the plague. Throughout the game, they never really team up, and occasionally work against each other.

* No love for the ''[[Breath of Fire (Video Game)|Breath of Fire]]'' games? In the first we have [[The Hero]] destined to [[Save the World]], a [[Badass Princess]] [[Winged Humanoid|with wings]], a [[Half Human Hybrid|half-wolf]] hunter, the world's best thief who can somehow [[Fusion Dance|fuse with other people]], a greedy fish-man, a literally bull-headed [[The Big Guy|strong man]], the world's most powerful sorceress and a mole-man. The other games have similar line-ups. Did I mention that in the first two games, they are all [[Petting Zoo People]] of different species?

* No love for the ''[[Breath of Fire (Video Game)|Breath of Fire]]'' games? In the first we have [[The Hero]] destined to [[Save the World]], a [[Badass Princess]] [[Winged Humanoid|with wings]], a [[Half-Human Hybrid|half-wolf]] hunter, the world's best thief who can somehow [[Fusion Dance|fuse with other people]], a greedy fish-man, a literally bull-headed [[The Big Guy|strong man]], the world's most powerful sorceress and a mole-man. The other games have similar line-ups. Did I mention that in the first two games, they are all [[Petting Zoo People]] of different species?

* Somewhat subverted in ''[[~~Baldurs~~ Gate (Video Game)|Baldurs Gate]]'' and its sequel; Yes, you can include deranged rangers, badass paladins, angsty or depressed elves, psychotic dwarves, insane necromancers and even {{spoiler|a former [[Big Bad]]}} in your party. But they do all have their own goals and agendas, and if you violate their beliefs or make them work with people they detest, they will eventually leave your party or worse.

* Somewhat subverted in ''[[Baldur's Gate (Video Game)|Baldurs Gate]]'' and its sequel; Yes, you can include deranged rangers, badass paladins, angsty or depressed elves, psychotic dwarves, insane necromancers and even {{spoiler|a former [[Big Bad]]}} in your party. But they do all have their own goals and agendas, and if you violate their beliefs or make them work with people they detest, they will eventually leave your party or worse.

* ''[[Airforce Delta (Video Game)|Airforce Delta]] Strike'': Delta Squadron is where all the EDAF losers are assigned.

* Pretty much describes everyone part of S.E.E.S. in ''[[Persona 3 (Video Game)|Persona 3]]'' or the Investigation Team in ''[[Persona 4 (Video Game)|Persona 4]]'', but it's what allows them to summon Personas.

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* [[A Girl and Her Fed (Webcomic)|A Girl and Her Fed]] has a main cast consisting of a hyperactive martial artist (the Girl) a 6'5 cyborg secret agent (her Fed), the ghost of Benjamin Franklin, and a talking koala.

* ''[http://www.davidcsimon.com/crimsondark/ Crimson Dark]'' also has the Ragtag Bunch Of Misfits IN SPACE!

* ''[[Last ~~Res 0 rt~~ (Webcomic)|Last Res 0 rt]]'' sees this and raises you a [[Reality Show]]. Of course, they don't really DO anything of worldly importance (yet), but still, there they are.

* ''[[Last Res0rt (Webcomic)|Last Res 0 rt]]'' sees this and raises you a [[Reality Show]]. Of course, they don't really DO anything of worldly importance (yet), but still, there they are.

* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] and subverted in ''[[~~Eight~~ Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'', especially with the second party of worthy warriors always arriving too late to do any good or be hired for the quest.

* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] and subverted in ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'', especially with the second party of worthy warriors always arriving too late to do any good or be hired for the quest.

** And again in Episode 1163 'Semantics' when they face Sarda. Red Mage confronts him and The Wizard Who Did It says "You and what ragtag band of adventurers with humorously conflicting personalities who learn the true meaning of friendship?" RM points behind him. They ran off.

* The Main Party in ''[[RPG World (Webcomic)|RPG World]]'' consists of an [[Idiot Hero]], a thief chick who's the sarcastic [[Only Sane Man]], two "[[Funny Animal|cute fuzzy things]]", a [[Hooker With a Heart of Gold|prostitute mage]], an extremely perverted [[White Haired Pretty Boy]], an [[Wrench Wench|engineer pirate]] with two (not so helpful) robot assisants, and a [[Tagalong Kid|punk breakdancer]].

* The Main Party in ''[[RPG World (Webcomic)|RPG World]]'' consists of an [[Idiot Hero]], a thief chick who's the sarcastic [[Only Sane Man]], two "[[Funny Animal|cute fuzzy things]]", a [[Hooker With a Heart of Gold|prostitute mage]], an extremely perverted [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]], an [[Wrench Wench|engineer pirate]] with two (not so helpful) robot assisants, and a [[Tagalong Kid|punk breakdancer]].

* ''[[The Last Days of Foxhound (Webcomic)|The Last Days of Foxhound]]'' portrays FOXHOUND (the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] of ''[[Metal Gear Solid (Video Game)|Metal Gear Solid]]'') this way. It ''is'' played with a bit, as everyone, including the misfits themselves, readily acknowledge how unstable and insane the team is, but also recognize that they are able to accomplish feats that would be impossible for any other group.

* ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|The Order of the Stick]]'' crew certainly qualifies. Roy is pretty competent in his own right, but his band consists of a dwarf who is convinced that trees are evil, a childish bard who is completely useless in battle until he [[Took a Level In Badass|takes a prestige class]] that depends on ''puns'' to be effective, a greedy rogue who constantly steals from the rest of the party, a megalomaniac elf wizard with an [[Ambiguous Gender|unknown gender]], and a bloodthirsty halfling who defines [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath]]. Their [[Evil Counterpart|evil counterparts]] aren't any better, either...

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** And if something doesn't turn up to endanger the world, one of them will usually end up endangering it themselves.

* ''[[Teh Gladiators (Webcomic)|Teh Gladiators]]'' features as its protagonists not the seasoned ''[[World of Warcraft (Video Game)|World of Warcraft]]'' veterans that one might expect, but the most improbable and possibly the least competent Arena team ever formed. Gorrok, the orc warrior, is the only actual veteran present and the [[Only Sane Man]]; his companions include Vallant, the human (sort of) hunter who's a [[The Ditz|ditz]] with [[Accidental Aiming Skills]]; and Spin, a Tauren [[New Age Retro Hippie|hippie]] who has no combat skills whatsoever. They are joined at various times by a pair of lecherous murloc [[Mad Scientist|Mad Scientists]] and [[Leeroy Jenkins]], the [[Trope Namer]] of ''[[World of Warcraft (Video Game)|World of Warcraft]]'' fame. Yet somehow they manage to win.

* In ''[[Electric Wonderland (Webcomic)|Electric Wonderland]]'', a [[Fiery Redhead]] [[Intrepid Reporter]] decides to end corruption through a hard-hitting, independently published newspaper. Who does she hire to help write? An unemployed [[Highly Visible Ninja]], a [[Stepford Smiler]] with a mushroom costume, an outcasted [[Magical Girl]], a talking bull who's [[Too Dumb to Live]], and a [[Bratty Half Pint]] mermaid. At the inquiry of the ninja, the redhead reporter admitted at the end of the first issue that she doesn't have any hiring standards.

* In ''[[Electric Wonderland (Webcomic)|Electric Wonderland]]'', a [[Fiery Redhead]] [[Intrepid Reporter]] decides to end corruption through a hard-hitting, independently published newspaper. Who does she hire to help write? An unemployed [[Highly-Visible Ninja]], a [[Stepford Smiler]] with a mushroom costume, an outcasted [[Magical Girl]], a talking bull who's [[Too Dumb to Live]], and a [[Bratty Half Pint]] mermaid. At the inquiry of the ninja, the redhead reporter admitted at the end of the first issue that she doesn't have any hiring standards.

* In ''[[Nami Warriors (Webcomic)|Nami Warriors]]'', the main characters are definitively this, to the point that at least one of them directly acknowledges that this is the case.

* ''[[Bob and George (Webcomic)|Bob and George]]'' [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/050916 Lampshaded]

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* The Fellowship of ''[[The Questport Chronicles (Literature)|The Questport Chronicles]]'' starts out as this: one amnesiac [[Winged Humanoid]], two elves (one of whom is an assassin), a [[Vegetarian Vampire]], a fairy, a human trapped in a dragon's body, a [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]] demon, and an easily-confused pixie.

* The heroes of [[Nerdy Show (Podcast)|The Nerdy Show]]'s pen and paper adventure podcast, ''Dungeons & Doritos'', hurt each other and their allies or employers about as much as they hurt their enemies. However, over the course of the adventure, they learn to care for their teammates and become increasingly competent at working together. Except when they aren't, and then [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarity ensues]].

* ''[[Reflets D Acide]]'' starts with Wrandrall, a [[Half Human Hybrid|Half-]][[Our Demons Are Different|Demon]] warrior, trying to assemble comrades for a quest. He ends up with a group including a [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|Dwarf]], an [[Our Elves Are Different|Elven]] [[Magic Music|Barb]], a [[Playing With Fire|Fire Elemental]] and a female [[Barbarian Hero]] (the latter being soon replaced by a [[Dirty Old Monk]]).

* ''[[Reflets D Acide]]'' starts with Wrandrall, a [[Half-Human Hybrid|Half-]][[Our Demons Are Different|Demon]] warrior, trying to assemble comrades for a quest. He ends up with a group including a [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|Dwarf]], an [[Our Elves Are Different|Elven]] [[Magic Music|Barb]], a [[Playing With Fire|Fire Elemental]] and a female [[Barbarian Hero]] (the latter being soon replaced by a [[Dirty Old Monk]]).

* The members of "Team Templar" from ''[[Shadow of the Templar]]'' are the first type of this, all the way. Extremely talented [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|but mostly crazy]], their general rule of thumb seems to be that "standard procedure" is a good Plan B. All the same, they have a reputation for getting things done.

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* In the ''[[Family Guy (Animation)|Family Guy]]'' episode "Spies Reminiscent of Us" [[Vladimir Putin]] notes the reactivation of a Cold War sleeper spy would be an embarrassment equal to, "[[Stripes (Film)|our 1981 failed Czechoslovakian occupation outpost which was penetrated by]] [[Bill Murray]], [[Stripes (Film)|Harold Ramis, and their ragtag band of misfit soldiers who didn't even graduate.]]"

* The quirky [[Main/Friendship Is Magic/The Mane Cast/Characters|"Mane Cast"]] of ''[[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' can be considered one of these. They're a graduate student taught by a [[Physical Goddess]], a stubborn apple farmer, a hyperactive baker, a brash sound barrier-breaking flyer, a prim and proper fashion designer, and an overly shy animal caretaker. Princess Celestia, said [[Physical Goddess]], seems to consider them to be the best team to deal with powerful threats to Equestria like [[Vile Villain Saccharine Show|Nightmare Moon and Discord]] (due to the [[Only the Chosen May Wield|Elements of Harmony]]) and a stubborn dragon whose smoke threatens the well-being of their country (which they must deal with without the Elements of Harmony).

* The quirky [[Main/Friendship Is Magic/The Mane Cast/Characters|"Mane Cast"]] of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' can be considered one of these. They're a graduate student taught by a [[Physical Goddess]], a stubborn apple farmer, a hyperactive baker, a brash sound barrier-breaking flyer, a prim and proper fashion designer, and an overly shy animal caretaker. Princess Celestia, said [[Physical Goddess]], seems to consider them to be the best team to deal with powerful threats to Equestria like [[Vile Villain Saccharine Show|Nightmare Moon and Discord]] (due to the [[Only the Chosen May Wield|Elements of Harmony]]) and a stubborn dragon whose smoke threatens the well-being of their country (which they must deal with without the Elements of Harmony).

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* [[Reddit]] and [[Image Boards|4chan's /v/ board]] had a competition in ''[[Starsiege Tribes|Tribes: Ascend]]''. Team Reddit was a well-coordinated, heavily practiced team with high-end computers; Team 4chan was a hastily-gathered team of /v/irgins run by a [[Furry Fandom|furry]] with a tripcode and a Brazilian sniper with 140 ping playing on toasters. 4chan won 3-2.

* The army of [[Useful Notes/Chad|Chad]] counts as this in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_War Toyota War] it fought against [[Useful Notes/Libya|Libya]] in the late 1980s. Chad's army was a cobbled-together alliance of rebel and government forces who until very recently had been at each others' throats, was outnumbered and outgunned by their Libyan opponents, and was so underequipped that it had to use Toyota transport trucks to ferry its troops. Despite this, they still managed to win against the Libyans, in no small part because [[Muammar Gaddafi]] was a cross between a [[Modern Major General]] and a [[General Failure]].

* The army of [[Useful Notes/Chad|Chad]] counts as this in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_War Toyota War] it fought against [[Useful Notes/Libya|Libya]] in the late 1980s. Chad's army was a cobbled-together alliance of rebel and government forces who until very recently had been at each others' throats, was outnumbered and outgunned by their Libyan opponents, and was so underequipped that it had to use Toyota transport trucks to ferry its troops. Despite this, they still managed to win against the Libyans, in no small part because [[Muammar Gaddafi]] was a cross between a [[Modern Major-General]] and a [[General Failure]].

* The British Army lives and dies by this trope. One of the first modern armies, the New Model Army was a complete subversion (English, but the framework for the British army was laid here), made up primarily of professional soldiers who had been fighting against the Royalists...until they were only able to fill about two thirds of places. After which, the Army lowered it's standards. From then on, to about 1914, the Army was been considered the second service to the far more prestigious and skilled Navy, taking on colossal numbers of thieves, rapists, murderers and arsonists, then moving on to those who have failed their [[GCS Es]]. This trope was so prevalent during the Napoleonic Era that the Duke of Wellington noted how wonderful it was to make so much of them. This applies less to other armies as they tended to still take Peasant Levies, meaning the men were required to serve whatever their profession, or have a very elite air and esprit de corps (the French, up until 1812).

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