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* [[Raymond E. Feist]]'s Shadow of a Dark Queen book of [[The Riftwar Cycle|The Serpentwar Saga]] has a bunch of convicts sentenced to death by hanging, given express (but effective) military training and sent on a suicide mission across the ocean, on the condition, that they may be given pardon, if they succeed and come back alive.
* In ''[[The Dresden Files]]'', any time Harry brings along more than one or two people to help take on the book's bad guy, it's this. The biggest so far {{spoiler|involves his assult on the Red Court at the Chichen Itza}}. Aside from a snarky wizard, his attack force consisted of {{spoiler|his teenage neuroamncer apprentice}}, an agnostic paladin wielding a holy sword, a Chicago PD lieutenant {{spoiler|also using a holy sword}}, a spirit of intellect locked away in a skull, a half-vampire journalist, a White Court vampire, a fairy noble, a vampire hunter, and a temple dog.
* [[A Certain Magical Index]]:
** 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.
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