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** In all fairness, those were their actual orders, in a manner of speaking (i.e. "think like a pirate"). Then a lower-ranking admiral tries to override those orders in order to win at any cost.
** The crew of the USS ''Stingray'' includes a captain with a tattoo on his penis, a jittery [[Number Two]] with [[No Indoor Voice]], a female diving officer (actually, the most normal of the group), a washed-out basketball player, a compulsive gambler, a sonar technician with a ridiculously good hearing (he knows what ''eating an Oreo'' sounds like), a cook with few cooking skills and acidic flatulence, an admiral's son who wants to get kicked off the boat, an electrician who ignores simple safety instructions, and a crazy old mechanic who pours scotch into the engine to boost its power.
* The eponymous heroes in ''[[The Seven Samurai]]'' don't have ''anything'' in common except all of them being [[Samurai]], their differing and conflicting views, personalities, and backgrounds taking them from [[Teeth-Clenched Teamwork]] to [[Fire-Forged Friends]] over the course of the film.
* ''[[Shaolin Soccer]]'' provides an interesting twist with a rag-tag soccer team full of washed-up ''Shaolin monks''. Despite their shabby appearance and total lack of soccer experience, they harness martial arts superpowers to defeat the reigning champions.
* Both ''[[The Bad News Bears]]'' and ''[[The Mighty Ducks (film)|The Mighty Ducks]]'' play out this formula with kids.
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* The '70s cult comedy ''Steelyard Blues'' centers around a group of this type.
* In a rare non battle/sports example, the groomsmen from ''[[I Love You, Man|I Love You Man]]'' consist of a the groom's father, brother, a few guys he went on "man dates" with,...and Lou Ferragino
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