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* In ''WebComic/DevilsDust'', the band of misfits include an impatient KidHero and TheBigGuy who has to work more than he would like to. It seems clear that these characters aren't of best of terms with each other, but they have to work together for survival.

* Music/TheRamones. The singer (Joey Ramone) was a neurotic Jewish liberal with a crippling case of SuperOCD. The guitarist (Johnny Ramone) was an uptight conservative MilitaryBrat. The bassist (Dee Dee Ramone) was a manic bipolar drug addict. The drummers tended to be the OnlySaneMan.

* Say, does WebAnimation/HomestarRunner count?

** Commander Farsight's personal retinue, The Eight. Listing them off, there's [[TheBigGuy Commander Brightsword]] [[note]]some lunatic who took up a battlesuit and named himself after a famous Tau general who was assassinated by the [[Literature/TheLastChancers 13th Penal Legion]][[/note]], [[HandicappedBadass Commander Bravestorm]] [[note]]a Tau who suffers from severe burn injuries and so requires his battlesuit to stay alive[[/note]], [[TheLancer Commander Arra'kon]] [[note]]Farsight's second in command and successor should he fall[[/note]], [[PhlebotinumBreakdown Commander Sha'vastos]] [[note]]a poor schmuck who had a Puretide Engram chip forcibly inserted into his brain, where it malfunctioned and caused him to go a bit off his rocker, but he's better now[[/note]], [[TheChick Sub-commander Torchstar]] [[note]]a young female Tau whose body is covered in flame tattoos, she pilots a battlesuit with dual flamers[[/note]], [[CoolOldGuy Broadside Shas'vre Ob'lotai 9-0]] [[note]]a Broadside artillery battlesuit piloted by an AI that's based on Farsight's dead old mentor, [[MacrossMissileMassacre loves missiles]][[/note]], and [[TheSmartGuy Honour-Shas'vre O'vesa]] [[note]]an Earth caste scientist defector who pilots a custom Riptide battlesuit[[/note]].

* '''Every''' ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' party ever, with few exceptions. See also the RagtagBunchOfMisfits/VideoGames section and how they talk about the various {{R|olePlayingGame}}PGs; this is where they got the idea. It's possible to coordinate a non-ragtag adventuring party with some pre-game work, but a Ragtag Bunch of Level 1 Misfits spontaneously joining up for mutual adventure and profit is the default assumption.

* ''Creator/RoosterTeeth'' seem to really like this trope. The entire cast of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', though their CharacterDevelopment has helped them shape up a bit in recent volumes:
** Team RWBY is made up of a scythe-wielding, [[CompanionCube weapon-loving]] GenkiGirl, a [[GentlemanSnarker stuck-upper-class]] {{Jerkass}} MagicKnight, a cute {{Ninja}} girl who is a loner as well as [[spoiler:a catgirl and a former terrorist]], and the GenkiGirl's sexy CoolBigSis who [[BerserkButton really doesn't like people touching her hair]].
** Team JNPR is made up of a [[ButtMonkey loveable loser]], a [[BloodKnight fight-happy]] [[CuteButPsycho batshit insane cutie]] with a giant grenade launcher/warhammer hybrid, a badass Greek Hoplite, and a [[DudeLooksLikeALady really effeminate]] Chinese guy who's pretty much [[CloudcuckoolandersMinder there to make sure the cute crazy girl doesn't get into too much trouble]].
** By the end of Volume 5, the two teams have more or less melded into one unit, and they've picked up a few more misfits along the way, including an alcoholic with a [[WindsOfDestinyChange power]] [[PowerIncontinence just as harmful]] to his allies as his enemies, a former thief who doesn't take much seriously, with a crush on the ninja girl, an untrained farm boy who [[spoiler: [[SharingABody shares a body]] with the team's dead mentor]] and [[spoiler: an [[TheAtoner atoning ex-terrorist]]]].
* And ''again'' from ''Creator/RoosterTeeth'' (starting to notice a pattern?) we have ''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

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "Mystery Dungeon" we have Lemongrab, Shelby the worm, Treetrunks, NEPTR, and Ice King. They were all brought together by Ice King to help him traverse the dungeon due to the traps and puzzles requiring their skills.

** Team JNPR is made up of a [[ButtMonkey loveable loser]], a [[BloodKnight fight-happy]] [[CuteButPsycho batshit insane cutie]] with a giant grenade launcher/warhammer hybrid, a badass Greek Hoplite AmazonianBeauty, and a [[DudeLooksLikeALady really effeminate]] Chinese guy who's pretty much [[CloudcuckoolandersMinder there to make sure the cute crazy girl doesn't get into too much trouble]].

* The protagonists in ''Fanfic/WarriorsOfTheWorldSoldiersOfFortune'': a KnightInSourArmor with a DarkAndTroubledPast reluctantly teams up with a ChickMagnet SquishyWizard, an InsufferableGenius SexyPriest, a NiceGuy, a quiet [[TheBigGuy Big Guy]], an InnocentlyInsensitive WideEyedIdealist and his HotScientist half-sister and an [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]] ChurchMilitant. They start getting on well with each other once they determine exactly what they're meant to be doing.

* The main cast of ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' consists of a [[IdiotHero kinda dim]] freelance web designer, a MadScientist obsessed with [[MoreDakka guns and explosives]], a witch who's occasionally [[DemonicPossession possessed]] by her TomeOfEldritchLore, an [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting occasional camel]], a {{shapeshifting}} alien, a [[GenkiGirl hyperactive]] [[TalkingAnimal ferret]], and [[KillerRabbit the most dangerous and evil rabbit on the face of the Earth]]. Despite not [[TheyFightCrime making it a mission to fight evil]], they've actually saved the world a number of times, mostly because apocalyptic matters seem to [[WeirdnessMagnet turn up wherever they go]].

* The ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' sketch parodying ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'', where the leader was chosen by call-in votes. The winner was Creator/HarrisonFord, who protests "I'm just an actor! I'm 62-years-old!" but everyone expects him to act like a movie hero. Music/{{Aerosmith}} fill the remaining slots on the team because the mission needs a cool theme song. They die trying to land.

* The main group from ''Fanfic/TheCalvinverse'': a BookDumb GadgeteerGenius, a CowardlyLion, a [[ThePrankster prankster]] {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, a {{Jerkass}} BunglingInventor, and finally a {{nerd}} who's also the OnlySaneMan.

** [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony The Gifted Academy students]] consists of a detective [[HurtingHero 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 [[GrumpyBear 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?]]

* The main characters of ''Machinima/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.

** The Darrington Brigade, a group of adventurers founded by former Vox Machina member Taryon Darrington in the Epilogue, consists of a CampGay GadgeteerGenius artificer, a [[YouAreNumberSix series of]] [[RobotBuddy constructs]] of his own design, the artificer's [[HotForTeacher former tutor turned boyfriend]], a [[TheDitz ditzy]] half-orc barbarian who [[AmbiguousSituation may or may not be]] [[BalefulPolymorph a True Polymorphed duck]], and a [[DarkIsNotEvil drow]] bounty hunter. The brigade members ten years later are possibly ''worse''.

* Christian singer/songwriter Rich Mullins recorded with a group known as the "Ragamuffin Band", who continued to perform together after his death. The opening track of ''A Liturgy, a Legacy, and a Ragamuffin Band'' features a bit of StudioChatter in which one of the band members admits he's barely ready to do this, which gets a laugh out of Rich and gives the listener the impression that the recording sessions were impromptu and fairly laid-back.

* The protagonists in ''Fanfic/WarriorsOfTheWorldSoldiersOfFortune'': a KnightInSourArmor with a DarkAndTroubledPast reluctantly teams up with a ChickMagnet SquishyWizard, an InsufferableGenius SexyPriest, a KnifeNut NiceGuy, a quiet [[TheBigGuy Big Guy]], an InnocentlyInsensitive WideEyedIdealist and his HotScientist half-sister and an [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]] ChurchMilitant. They start getting on well with each other once they determine exactly what they're meant to be doing.

* In one of the 2008 Toys/{{Bionicle}} web serials, Federation of Fear, the Order of Mata Nui send out a BoxedCrook [[WeHaveReserves suicide team]] to bring back a SealedEvilInACan with a grudge to fight the [[BigBad Makuta]]. The team consists of two mutated ex-warlords/ex-prisoners, a disgraced scientist/ruler whose name has become a byword for "failure," a {{Manipulative B|astard}}itch whose name has become a byword of "treachery," a KnifeNut BountyHunter, a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who is actually half of another being, and led by an Order member stuck in a HeelFaceRevolvingDoor who makes it clear at multiple points [[YouHaveFailedMe he won't hesitate to kill all of them if they cross him]].

** Three attempts were made by various characters to have actual armed forces involved, but the first two times were stopped before they started (the second when a 14-year-old princess and her two handmaidens, a [[EmotionlessGirl dour]] KnifeNut, and a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} [[SheFu acrobat]], [[spoiler: managed to pull off a coup in a hostile city) and the third time resulted in a crushing, ruinous defeat]].

* ''Fanfic/AvengersOfTheMultiverse'' has a team of teen heroes from various parallel universes coming together, with their members including WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom, WesternAnimation/KimPossible, [[Franchise/Ben10 Ben Tennyson]], [[WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex Rex Salazar]], [[WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong Jake Long]], [[WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays Zak Saturday]], Ron Stoppable, [[WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan Illana, Lance, and Octus]]; they get along well enough, but it takes them until the end of the second story in the series to nominate Danny as the leader.

* Then there's The Deviant Universere's premeir SuperTeam The Thunder Force. The first incarnation consists of a government agent with a dark past and robotic enhancements to his body, an invisible gun toting ex-news anchor, a rich treasure hunter with a magic bone necklace and a tiger striped costume, a female super speeder, a strange girl in a school girl outfit, Canada's only hero who is powered by the internet, a living beat'em up video game chick, a symbiote who is similar to both [[Characters/XMen70sMembers Nightcrawler]] and Comicbook/{{Venom}} only with no angst about his situation, and a chibi computer program who is programmed to destroy the world himself. The second incarnation consists of a {{jerkass}} archer secret agent, an animal shapeshifter teen boy, a male Comicbook/CaptainAmerica {{expy}} who uses guns and is kept alive through cloning, a female Captain America and Franchise/WonderWoman combined expy, a hero with thunder powers combined with FlyingBrick abilities, and a mermaid heroine with legs joined up with the aforementioned treasure hunter in tiger print and the symbiote guy.

* Comedy musical ''Theatre/{{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 [[ActionGirl violent]] and [[NoSympathy unsympathetic]] second-in-command, a NonActionGuy [[HollywoodNerd nerd]], a hyperactive [[ButtMonkey idiotic]] recruit, a recruit from {{Farm|Boy}} [[SouthernFriedPrivate Planet]], a science officer whose [[TheDitz relevant skills]] don't even extend to the [[DumbBlonde ability to pronounce 'science']], and the bratty son of the company boss. At first it seems to just be PlayedForLaughs 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 wouldn't notice his evil plan]].

* The second season of ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'' features the team Sweet and Sour. It is comprised of the BoisterousWeakling Ja Wangnan, who wants to become King of the Tower, TheProudElite [[PlayingWithFire Yeon Ehwa]] who has insecurities because of her PowerIncontinence, a young school girl, a slightly older school girl, a PapaWolf who has a rather strained relationship with his charge, the son of a LoanShark and mob boss who just realized that he was relatively useless, a GentleGiant whose power is so deadly that he has to always hold back, and finally, a PersonOfMassDestruction and GodSlayer in training who's being forced to work for the Tower's most feared criminal and rebellious organisation and whose bosses kind of want to kill everyone else in the team to get him a better one. [[SarcasmMode This is going to be one smooth ride.]]