History Main / RagtagBunchOfMisfits

* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Oh so much. The craziness and interactions between the members of the cast is what gives it the [='InsaniT'=] label after all.

* The main characters of ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue''. They are all fully armed soldiers who were hand-picked for being the lowest-scoring grunts in the military, they are also the least qualified people for handling the various {{omnicidal maniac}}s that cross their path.
** With the exception of Tex, who is pretty much confirmed to be the single best fighter in the series.
*** Not that she's without her own very special issues, however, as season 8 reveals. [[spoiler:She's essentially cursed to ultimately fail at everything she tries to do.]] The most normal person they meet (Wash) ''still'' has issues, what with [[spoiler:Epsilon's memories being beamed directly into his mind]] and all.
*** Though in later seasons they start to [[TookALevelInBadass pick up several levels in BadAss]], and have managed to pull off some pretty impressive feats in recent years. As of season 11, [[spoiler: they're rumored considered to some of the greatest warriors in the galaxy]]... Yeah, [[SelfDeprecation they couldn't believe it either]].
*** Turns out they aren't the only ones. In season 12, episode 10, it's revealed that [[spoiler: Felix was lying about that]].

* ''WebAnimation/GenLock'', though it's somewhat {{justified|Trope}} in this case: the technology that sets the system in motion, the titular gen:LOCK system, [[PhlebotinumHandlingRequirements is only compatible with]] ''[[PhlebotinumHandlingRequirements very]]'' [[PhlebotinumHandlingRequirements specific nervous systems]]; and with [[TheEmpire The Union]] bearing down on them, the good guys are desperate enough to take whatever compatible pilots they can find, regardless of whether they're... ideal soldiers or not. The FiveManBand consists of
** Kasu, a japanese soldier demoted to ''cooking duty'' for insubordination.
** Valentina, a ColdSniper who grew up fighting in LaResistance and wants to ''avoid'' anymore fighting.
** Cammie, a [[TheBabyOfTheBunch seventeen year old]] PlayfulHacker.
** Yasamin, a Union [[DefectorFromDecadence defector]] recruited out of ''prison''.
** [[TheHero Chase]] would seem to be the exception, as he's actually a [[TheAce model soldier and crack pilot]], but [[spoiler: his body was horribly damaged in the first battle of the war, leaving him totally dependent on life-support systems to stay alive; when he's not in gen:LOCK, he can only interact with people through a holographic avatar]].

* WebAnimation/WolfSongTheMovie: sure the cast are all wolves, but Damien's pack is basically this. Besides him, we have a brother and sister team who were formerly dogs, a temperamental hothead with a hidden heart of gold, a womaniser, his more sane best friend who he considers his brother, a she wolf that insults much of the pack, an energetic young female, a tempered recluse with a troubled past, his injured yet optimistic sister, a mute healer, four defectors from the enemy pack and [[spoiler: a secretly evil shapeshifter cosplaying as a loving matriarch]]. They may be misfits, but they are Damien's misfits.

Subtrope to TheTeam. Similarly, Ragtag Bunches Of Misfits come in any size, the PowerTrio, FiveManBand, MagnificentSevenSamurai and even ArmyOfThievesAndWhores for when this trope is magnified to the size of an army. RecruitTeenagersWithAttitude is a frequent subtrope.

** [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc Class 78th]] consists of an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent who happens to be somewhat luckier than most, as well as a HopeBringer, a [[TheStoic stoic]] [[spoiler:GreatDetective with DaddyIssues]], a {{Jerkass}} BlueBlood, a donut loving swimmer, a CloudCuckooLander clairvoyant, an abraisve romance writer [[spoiler:with a SerialKiller SplitPersonality]], a BrokenBird idol singer, a CasanovaWannabe baseball player who hates the sport, an ElegantGothicLolita gambler [[spoiler:who is lying about her entire past]], a BrawnHilda who also happens to be [[NiceGirl one of the nicest students]], an [[LargeHam extremely loud]] moral commitee member, a biker with a serious HairTriggerTemper, a [[spoiler:WholesomeCrossdresser]] progammer who looks like a child, a perverted fanfiction creator, [[spoiler:an ExtremeDoormat soldier and her fashionista sister who ends the world out of boredom.]]

** [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc Class 78]] consists of an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent who happens to be somewhat luckier than most, as well as a HopeBringer, a [[TheStoic stoic]] [[spoiler:GreatDetective with DaddyIssues]], a {{Jerkass}} BlueBlood, a donut loving swimmer, a CloudCuckooLander clairvoyant, an abraisve romance writer [[spoiler:with a SerialKiller SplitPersonality]], a BrokenBird idol singer, a CasanovaWannabe baseball player who hates the sport, an ElegantGothicLolita gambler [[spoiler:who is lying about her entire past]], a BrawnHilda who also happens to be [[NiceGirl one of the nicest students]], an [[LargeHam extremely loud]] moral commitee member, a biker with a serious HairTriggerTemper, a [[spoiler:WholesomeCrossdresser]] progammer who looks like a child, a perverted fanfiction creator, [[spoiler:an ExtremeDoormat soldier and her fashionista sister who ends the world out of boredom.]]

** [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony The Gifted Academy students]] consists of a detective doubting his talent due to arresting an SympatheticMurderer, an AllLovingHeroine pianist, a magician who seems to actually believe she has magical powers, a [[DoesNotLikeMen man hating]] neo aikido master, an underaged astronaut trainee [[spoiler:who is SecretlyDying]], a GentleGiant entomologist, a robot who is somehow one of the [[TheGenericGuy more normal members of the class]], an [[BrainsAndBondage extremely horny inventor]], a ConsummateLiar who claims to be the leader of a shadowy organization, a grumpy child care giver [[spoiler:who is actually an assassin]], a [[AlmightyJanitor Almighty Maid]] who [[spoiler:is revealed to be the leader of a nation]], a baby faced, jaded tennis player [[BadassAdorable who took out the Mafia by himself]], an anthropologist [[spoiler:who is revealed to be [[BrotherSisterIncest in love with his sister]]]], a [[TheFundamentalist highly religious]] artist, a guy who can't remember his talent and an {{Otaku}} [[spoiler:who is revealed to be behind everything]]. Interestingly enough, this trope is heavily implied to have been ''invoked'' [[spoiler:by the people behind the TV show. After all, what's better TV then a bunch of weirdos all forced to live together and solve each other's murders?]]

** [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc Class 78]] consists of an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent who happens to be somewhat luckier than most, as well as a HopeBringer, a [[TheStoic stoic]] [[spoiler:GreatDetective with DaddyIssues]], a {{Jerkass}} BlueBlood, a donut loving swimmer, a CloudCuckooLander clairvoyant, an abraisve romance writer [[spoiler:with a SerialKiller SplitPersonality]], a BrokenBird idol singer, a CasanovaWannabe baseball player who hates the sport, an ElegantGothicLolita gambler [[spoiler:who is lying about her entire past]], a BrawnHilda who also happens to be [[NiceGirl one of the nicest students]], an [[LargeHam extremely loud]] moral commitee member, a biker with a serious HairTriggerTemper, a [[spoiler:WholesomeCrossdresser]] progammer who looks like a child, a perverted fanfiction creator, [[spoiler:an ExtremeDoormat solider and her fashionista sister who ends the world out of boredom.]]

* The Local Heroes of ''WesternAnimation/KidCosmic'' are this. The team consists of a flying ([[spoiler:actually telekinetic]]) child who desperately wants to be like the heroes in his comics, a teenager who works at the local diner and can use teleportation, a multiplying old geezer who likes to tinker, an energetic toddler who can grow to giant size and a FatCat who can see the future. Hardly the people you'd expect to be utilizing the powers of 5 cosmic stones.

* The web series ''WebVideo/StarTrekRenegades'', per its title, centers on a pirate crew captained by the outcast daughter of Khan Noonien Singh and including a disgraced scientist, a rogue former drone, a genetically-defective Betazoid, a Pah-Wraith-worshipping Bajoran, and more.

* The eponymous TimePolice team in Podcast/PastDivision consists of a fire-throwing dwarven cleric who loves to [[GroinAttack go for the family jewels]], an anthropomorphic panda bear with elite ninja skills and [[DropTheHammer a very big hammer]], a diminutive TeamPrimadonna PlantPerson who fights with CardsOfPower, and a [[TheBabyOfTheBunch teenage]] HornedHumanoid whose [[TimeMaster abilities]] clash a bit with her job.

* [[Creator/BrendanBlaber JelloApocalpyse]]'s playthroughs of ''VideoGame/PokemonColosseum''/''VideoGame/PokemonXDGaleOfDarkness'', dubbed ''"Dogs in Love"'', increasingly characterised all the cast as they were playing through and turned the games' Pokemon parties into these. The ''Colosseum'' party consists of the titular dogs in love, one of whom is keen on being a DestructiveSavior and one of whom ''isn't'', a dopey GentleGiant, a Punch-Clock Hero who doesn't really like any of the others, a bird-dragon who fawns desperately over one of the aforementioned dogs and a guy mistaken for a world-famous celebrity who feels he now has to keep up the act or the others will turn on him. The ''XD Gale of Darkness'' party consists of the AntiAntiChrist, an emotionally-squishy insect, a mutant with the musical proficiency to play ''all'' the background music, a friendly capitalist, a guy trying to be a cool vampire [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex so people will actually like him]] and a lounge singer.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse''
** The main characters living in the titular Owl House are a plucky young human girl who ran away from her restrictive home life in order to fulfill her dreams of becoming a witch; a [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] older woman with a bounty of a trillion on her head and a curse that turns her into a massive beast; an adorable little demon creature [[TheNapoleon with megalomaniacal tendencies]] [[spoiler:who later turns out to be a baby-PhysicalGod]], and a owl-tube thing [[GeniusLoci who technically]] ''[[GeniusLoci is]]'' [[GeniusLoci the house]], with a voice that sounds like Mickey Mouse on helium. They are briefly joined by [[spoiler:the criminal lady's sister, who used to lead the cult trying to arrest her until she defected and started reconnecting with her family.]]
** [[spoiler:The final group who take down the BigBad Belos in the season 2 finale are the above-mentioned human after aquiring an ''enormous'' GuiltComplex; a former AlphaBitch who slowly breaks out of that mindset and starts dating aforementioned human; a ChildProdigy of Illusion-magic with a love for anything related to humans and the ability to pull your worst nightmares out of your head and use them to fight you; a formerly shy and bullied plant witch who slowly grows into [[TheBigGuy the powerhouse of the team]]; a ChildSoldier in the midst of an ''enormous'' identity crisis after discovering he's the latest in a long line of clones; and the above-mentioned adorable PhysicalGod, who ends up freeing a much more powerful and ''much'' more dangerous PhysicalGod with the promise to play with them in exchange for them saving the world.]]

This mission is important. The fate of the battle, nay, the war, nay, the ''entire world'' [[ForWantOfANail rests on the outcome]]. Who has the capability to stick it out, to give the good guys the victory they desperately need? This calls for a special team. The group of experienced, highly-skilled, professional, team-oriented experts? Not them. The assorted group of ex-con lowlife inexperienced {{cloudcuckoolander}}s or {{jerkass}}es who are trying to off their [[OfficerAndAGentleman commander]] [[TeethClenchedTeamwork when they aren't going at each other?]] Yeah, them.

* All of the Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses anniversary specials where they team up against an enemy have them out of their depth, and even their themed costumes hardly unify them, such as when Brad Jones roleplays as Indiana Jones because "it's quest based, it counts". Lampshaded in WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee, where one of the villains brags that only a ragtag group of Z-List internet reviewers[[note]]and 8-bit Mickey[[/note]] could stop them now.

* ''[[WebVideo/CriticalRole Critical Role's]]'' Vox Machina. Their self-styled group of intrepid adventurers contains an exiled [[BloodKnight goliath barbarian]] and his [[HugeGuyTinyGirl best friend]], a dorkily cute gnomish war-cleric; a [[DarkAndTroubledPast vengeful noble gunslinger]] in a medieval setting; a socially awkward druid princess; a gnomish CasanovaWannabe; and a half-elven brother-sister duo consisting of a FearlessFool rogue and a flirtatious gold-hungry ranger with a [[TeamPet pet bear]]. [[AntiHeroTeam Somehow]], [[FamilyOfChoice they]] [[TrueCompanions make]] [[BadassCrew it]] [[HopeBringer work]].

** The next party, the Mighty Nein, isn't much better. They have a [[PlayingWithFire pyromancer]] with [[TraumaButton PTSD]], a kleptomaniac goblin with a dark past, a fallen Demi-angel, the GenkiGirl daughter of a famous courtesan and prophet of a god few have heard of, a monk from a rich family, a former sailor who made a [[DealWithTheDevil bargain with a dark power]], an AgentPeacock AmnesiacHero with blood magic, and later a GentleGiant hippie priest.

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* In the story of [=RedScotGaming=]'s VideoGame/DragonBallXenoverse and VideoGame/DragonBallXenoverse2 series [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrRs05WSeuOcAljPfr58yKkSruD4DKwEs The Tony Saga]], we have titular character [[SmallNameBigEgo Tony Cold]], the estranged cousin of Frieza and Cooler kidnapped by Trunks with the Dragon Balls to do ''his'' job in the Time Patrol, his best friend [[OnlySaneMan Iced Kovacs]], a Frost Demon that originally served under Cooler and was for a time a [[TheAlcoholic crippling alcoholic]], [[{{Manchild}} Max Stone]], a usually dimwitted Earthling with an unhealthy obsession with stones and the like ([[{{Catchphrase}} Watch yer stones, lad.]]) who gave Tony his signature shades, [[TheChewToy Trunks]], who due to Xenoverse 1 and 2's ArtificialStupidity is an incompetent member of the Patrol that [[ButtMonkey frequently gets abuse of the verbal kind from Tony]] to the point that ''he'' now has a drinking problem instead of Iced, Chronoa, the head of the Time Patrol, and as such the boss of the prior mentioned, with many weapons of mass destruction in her collection and hidden anger issues, and Elder "Creepy" Kai, Chronoa's snarky second-in-command who may or may not run a secret sex trafficking ring. And during the Xenoverse 2 portion of the series two more members of the team are added; [[TokenHeroicOrc Papi Cell]], an alternate version of Cell that became perfect ''and'' had a HeelFaceTurn due to absorbing a lot of Max's biomass and ultimately becoming Max's adoptive father, and Tristina, a Saiyan woman who was one of the [[SoleSurvivor few survivors]] of the Code Green incident that ends up taking the role of OnlySaneWoman alongside Iced.

* The eponymous TimePolice team in Podcast/PastDivision consists of a fire-throwing dwarven cleric who loves to [[GroinAttack go for the family jewels]], an [[PandaingToTheAudience anthropomorphic panda bear]] with elite ninja skills and [[DropTheHammer a very big hammer]], a diminutive TeamPrimadonna PlantPerson who fights with CardsOfPower, and a [[TheBabyOfTheBunch teenage]] HornedHumanoid whose [[TimeMaster abilities]] clash a bit with her job.

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