History RagtagBunchOfMisfits / ComicBooks

* The second team of ComicBook/XMen, especially in comparison to the original team. The first group were five white, American teenagers, recruited by Professor X as students for his school, given matching uniforms, and trained to work as a group before their first mission. The second team [[note]]even going just by what was known at the time, and ignoring things that wouldn't be revealed or even {{RetCon}}ned in until later, like ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} being Really700YearsOld or ComicBook/{{Storm}} having been born in America[[/note]] each came from a different country, including no members who were both white and American (and one that was ''blue''); varied from their teens to middle age; came from backgrounds ranging from law-enforcement to former supervillain (including one that was both); ranged in education level from college graduate to "raised on the streets"; were all given unique uniforms (or just wore what they showed up in); and barely had time to learn each others' names before being sent off to risk their lives.

* The Champions were a team consisting of Iceman, Angel, ComicBook/BlackWidow, ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules, ComicBook/GhostRider, and [[ComicBook/AgentsOfAtlas Venus]]. They originally worked together because they all happened to be on the Berkley campus at the same time. The [[ComicBook/{{Champions 2016}} second team]] was similar, comprised of [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Kamala Khan]], ComicBook/MilesMorales, [[ComicBook/{{Nova}} Sam Alexander]], the ComicBook/TotallyAwesomeHulk, and [[ComicBook/TheVision2015 Viv Vision]], who were brought together because Kamala got fed up with the LetsYouAndHimFight mentality, and grabbed her old teammates Miles and Sam, who grabbed Amadeus, who grabbed Viv. The [[ComicBook/XMenBlue time-displaced Cyclops]] would join in after wandering into their campout.

* The ComicBook/NewAvengers are a team more or less thrown together by circumstance (they were on the "losing" side of ''ComicBook/CivilWar''). 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.

* Comicbook/{{Asterix}}, Obelix, Hemispheric, Selectivemploymentax, Gastronomix, Neveratalos and Ptenisnet in ''Asterix the Legionary''.
* Most comic books about SuperHero Teams follow this trope; as an example, Comicbook/TheAvengers's original incarnation included a [[Comicbook/IronMan rich playboy]] MadScientist in PoweredArmor, a ''[[Comicbook/TheMightyThor God of Thunder]]'', a second MadScientist [[SizeShifter able to shrink size]] [[Comicbook/AntMan and command ants]], [[Comicbook/TheWasp his shrinking flying wife]], and a [[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk giant green monster]] with a JekyllAndHyde problem. And a OneManArmy [[Comicbook/CaptainAmerica super-soldier from World War II]] later joined them as the SixthRanger. The only real common thread then was that they were all super-heroes (and in the Hulk's case, some would argue on that point).

* In both ''Comicbook/{{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 Champions were a team consisting of Iceman, Angel, Comicbook/BlackWidow, Comicbook/TheIncredibleHercules, Comicbook/GhostRider, and [[ComicBook/AgentsOfAtlas Venus]]. They originally worked together because they all happened to be on the Berkley campus at the same time. The [[ComicBook/{{Champions 2016}} second team]] was similar, comprised of [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Kamala Khan]], ComicBook/MilesMorales, [[ComicBook/{{Nova}} Sam Alexander]], the ComicBook/TotallyAwesomeHulk, and [[ComicBook/TheVision2015 Viv Vision]], who were brought together because Kamala got fed up with the LetsYouAndHimFight mentality, and grabbed her old teammates Miles and Sam, who grabbed Amadeus, who grabbed Viv. The [[ComicBook/XMenBlue time-displaced Cyclops]] would join in after wandering into their campout.

* Comicbook/TheDefenders, comprised of heroes who don't work well with others, and who often get into fights in the middle of their missions, still manage to be successful because they are comprised of some of the most powerful heroes in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse. They're even famously known as a "non-team", because the concept of teamwork is completely alien to them. This is all in spite of the fact that the founding Defenders (Comicbook/DoctorStrange, the ComicBook/SilverSurfer, [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk the Hulk]], and [[Comicbook/SubMariner Namor the Sub-Mariner]]) are among the most powerful Marvel heroes of all.
* You don't get much more "ragtag" or "misfit" than the ''Comicbook/DoomPatrol.'' They're the superheroes that even ''other superheroes'' consider too weird. When ''[[Comicbook/TeenTitans Beast Boy]]'' is considered one of the most mentally healthy and scary-competent members of the team, you know it's bad. Turned out to be an InvokedTrope by their MagnificentBastard of their financial backer/leadership/MissionControl Niles "The Chief" Calder.

* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica2013'': The JLA is a government-owned SuperTeam created to protect America and fight the Franchise/{{Justice League|OfAmerica}} if necessary. The team is comprised of ComicBook/SteveTrevor, Comicbook/MartianManhunter, Comicbook/GreenArrow, Franchise/GreenLantern Simon Baz, ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}, ComicBook/{{Vibe}}, Stargirl, and ComicBook/{{Katana}}. Not long after the JLA is formed and the members meet each other, they are sent on their first mission without any training.
* ''Comicbook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', naturally. Mina's initially insulted that she should be put in charge of such a motley crew but she's just as weird as the others.

* Yet another DCU one, Comicbook/TheLosers, several military men who for one reason or another are off official duty and now serve covertly; they're called the Losers because they have nothing left to lose (try understanding the idea behind ''that''), and include Captain Storm, a one-eyed, one-legged salty sea dog if'n thar ever were one, and Johnny Cloud, who was genuinely heroic and uber-competent but insisted on being a Loser because, well, he felt like a loser. He usually flew alone, but one day took a brash new pilot with him. They were attacked and forced to crash. The new pilot lost his life; Cloud joined the Losers after that.

* The Comicbook/SuicideSquad in Franchise/TheDCU. 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 ''Film/TheDirtyDozen'' with superpowers (some of them, anyway). While literally every incarnation fits, the Injustice League version is the most apt, with [[GeneralFailure Major Disaster]], [[DumbMuscle Big Sir]], [[InsufferableGenius Clock King]], [[DeadpanSnarker Cluemaster]], and [[TheChewToy Multi-Man]]. The subversion happens when [[spoiler: all of them die in the first issue except for Major Disaster]].

* The second team of Comicbook/XMen, especially in comparison to the original team. The first group were five white, American teenagers, recruited by Professor X as students for his school, given matching uniforms, and trained to work as a group before their first mission. The second team [[note]]even going just by what was known at the time, and ignoring things that wouldn't be revealed or even {{RetCon}}ned in until later, like Comicbook/{{Wolverine}} being Really700YearsOld or Comicbook/{{Storm}} having been born in America[[/note]] each came from a different country, including no members who were both white and American (and one that was ''blue''); varied from their teens to middle age; came from backgrounds ranging from law-enforcement to former supervillain (including one that was both); ranged in education level from college graduate to "raised on the streets"; were all given unique uniforms (or just wore what they showed up in); and barely had time to learn each others' names before being sent off to risk their lives.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': The core group of revolutionaries Diana puts together to fight the Sangtee Empire have only their gender and the fact they'd been enslaved by the kreel in common. Many of them want to quit the revolution as soon as they have the cash and ships to make it elsewhere. The group includes defectors from the [[ComicBook/{{Invasion}} Alien Alliance]], at least one [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Khund]] who definitely did ''not'' defect from the aforementioned alliance, a clever eccentric little old woman, and most notably ComicBook/WonderWoman herself who has them adopt a (flexible) ''no kill policy'' they all chafe against while fighting a ''war''. [[note]]That no-kill policy ends up key to their success as many kreel captains quickly surrender to them due to their reputation for leniency to those that don't force them to use lethal force. It is also very heavily implied to be a large part of the reason the Emperor doesn't put up a bigger fight.[[/note]]

** This ends up being [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] in ''ComicBook/{{Avengers 2016}}''[='s=] .1 story, set during the "ComicBook/CapsKookyQuartet" era. The public isn't keen on Captain America leading a team of former super villains, Captain America himself isn't keen on leading a team of super villains (especially since Iron Man, Giant Man and the Wasp dumped them on his lap and said "We're quitting!"), the former super villains aren't keen on being with each other and, when they're thrashed by the Frightful Four, the Wasp is horrified and realized they made a terrible mistake.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': The core group of revolutionaries Diana puts together to fight the Sangtee Empire have only their gender and the fact they'd been enslaved by the kreel in common. Many of them want to quit the revolution as soon as they have the cash and ships to make it elsewhere. The group includes defectors from the [[ComicBook/{{Invasion}} Alien Alliance]], at least one [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Khund]] who definitely did ''not'' defect from the aforementioned alliance, a clever eccentric little old woman, and most notably ComicBook/WonderWoman herself who has them adopt a (flexible) ''no kill policy'' they all chafe against while fighting a ''war''. [[note]]That no-kill policy ends up key to their success as many kreel captains quickly surrender to them due to their reputation for leniency to those that don't force them to use lethal force. It is also very heavily implied to be a large part of the reason the Emperor doesn't put up a bigger fight.
* The second team of Comicbook/XMen, especially in comparison to the original team. The first group were five white, American teenagers, recruited by Professor X as students for his school, given matching uniforms, and trained to work as a group before their first mission. The second team[[note]]even going just by what was known at the time, and ignoring things that wouldn't be revealed or even {{RetCon}}ned in until later, like Comicbook/{{Wolverine}} being Really700YearsOld or Comicbook/{{Storm}} having been born in America[[/note]] each came from a different country, including no members who were both white and American (and one that was ''blue''); varied from their teens to middle age; came from backgrounds ranging from law-enforcement to former supervillain (including one that was both); ranged in education level from college graduate to "raised on the streets"; were all given unique uniforms (or just wore what they showed up in); and barely had time to learn each others' names before being sent off to risk their lives.

* [[ComicBook/AllStarSectionEight Section Eight]] is a team of mentally-unbalanced weirdos put together by an [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] superhero-wannabe named Six-Pac, whose members include a TerminatorImpersonator who [[DestinationDefenestration throws people through a window]] he carries around, the human embodiment of FrenchJerk, and a guy who welds dead dogs to people.

* [[ComicBook/AllStarSectionEight Section Eight]] is a team of mentally-unbalanced weirdos put together by an [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] superhero-wannabe named Six-Pac, whose members include a date rapist, the human embodiment of FrenchJerk, and a guy who welds dead dogs to people.

* Justified in ComicBook/LesLegendaires, since the titular Protagonist's FiveManBand 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 results in the group including a former Elite Knight from the King's personal army, a WarriorPrincess MagicalGirl, a formerly enslaved BeastMan, a BarbarianHero [[TheAtoner who used to work for the series']] BigBad and an [[OurElvesAreBetter Elf]] granted ElementalPowers.

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* The Comicbook/SuicideSquad in Franchise/TheDCU. 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 ''Film/TheDirtyDozen'' with superpowers (some of them, anyway). While literally every incarnation fits, the Injustice League version is the most apt, with [[GeneralFailure Major Disaster]], [[DumbMuscle Big Sir]], [[InsufferableGenius Clock King]], [[DeadpanSnarker Cluemaster]], and [[TheChewToy 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.
* Subverted in Kyle Baker's Iraq war satire ''Special Forces'', where an army recruiter desperate to make quota so he doesn't get sent back to Iraq recruits a ragtag bunch of misfits, falsifying records to recruit criminals, drug addicts, those mentally or physically unfit for service, and others who by all rights shouldn't be in the army, but ends up having to serve alongside them when one of them goes off his meds and gets himself killed before boot camp. By the end of the first issue, he and all but two of his recruits have been slaughtered.
** For the record, the surviving members are Zone, a severely autistic young man who doesn't talk and follows orders with machine precision, and Felony, a nineteen year old girl with an extremely colorful criminal record. Yes, they were both in a front line infantry unit.
* Also from Franchise/TheDCU, Creator/GailSimone's ComicBook/SecretSix, a team of mercenaries who are ''spectacularly'' messed up, and know it. Their enemies are even ''worse''.
* Yet another DCU one, Comicbook/TheLosers, several military men who for one reason or another are off official duty and now serve covertly; they're called the Losers because they have nothing left to lose (try understanding the idea behind ''that''), and include Captain Storm, a one-eyed, one-legged salty sea dog if'n thar ever were one, and Johnny Cloud, who was genuinely heroic and uber-competent but insisted on being a Loser because, well, he felt like a loser. He usually flew alone, but one day took a brash new pilot with him. They were attacked and forced to crash. The new pilot lost his life; Cloud joined the Losers after that.
* ''Comicbook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', naturally. Mina's initially insulted that she should be put in charge of such a motley crew but she's just as weird as the others.
* The original ''ComicBook/ABCWarriors''; Hammerstein is a warhorse famous for his strength and leadership skills but rumored to have murdered a human superior, Joe Pineapples is an ace marksman who once killed a target from orbit but is perhaps the most unsavory being in the universe, Happy Shrapnel is simply dumped onto them because as an older model he's not very user friendly, Mongrol is a monster of metal who is constantly full of only rage and confusion, Mek-Quake is stupid, violent, and crude, Deadlock is an extreme KnightTemplar, Blackblood is known for murder at the slightest provocation, Steelhorn is the original veteran of the Volgan War turned into a horrific mess of molten slag, and so on and so forth. They're the most capable combat unit fighting the Volgs, but goddamn.
** Later additions only enhance this image; Mad Ronn the bomb disposal expert (whose skill at his profession is uncertain because he kind of dies the first and only time he actually tries to defuse a bomb), Hitaki the warrior with samurai programming, Morrigun the waitress whose combat skills come from secondary bouncer software, and Ro-Jaws, who is honestly more of a mascot than anything else. Morrigun was the result of a TerribleIntervieweesMontage; you should see the guys they turned down.
* The second version of the ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy, in the beginning, consist of:
** A HalfHumanHybrid and fallen hero, with a major guilt complex (Star-Lord).
** A golden-skinned super-human with some split-personality issues, and a genocidal church that worships him (Adam Warlock).
** A slightly space-y cosmic messiah, who's the team's mission control (Mantis).
** A sociopathic former assassin who was previously employed by the [[BigBad Big Bads]] of Marvel (Gamora).
** A formerly human brute who killed his arch-nemesis and had to find something else to do with his life afterward (Drax the Destroyer).
** A cosmic defender with self-esteem issues, and a dead girlfriend (Phyla-Vell).
** A slightly egotistical tree-person whose language is only understood by most non-tree-people as "I am Groot"
** and said tree-person's best friend, a [[MoreDakka trigger-happy]] [[FunnyAnimal raccoon]]. He's TheLancer.
** They get a lot of flack for this, and their most major enemy makes fun of them for it, noting that they don't really have ''any'' A-list level people on-board. It also makes trying to get people to listen to them when they say there's trouble all but outright impossible.
* Comicbook/TheDefenders, comprised of heroes who don't work well with others, and who often get into fights in the middle of their missions, still manage to be successful because they are comprised of some of the most powerful heroes in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse. They're even famously known as a "non-team", because the concept of teamwork is completely alien to them. This is all in spite of the fact that the founding Defenders (Comicbook/DoctorStrange, the ComicBook/SilverSurfer, [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk the Hulk]], and [[Comicbook/SubMariner Namor the Sub-Mariner]]) are among the most powerful Marvel heroes of all.

* The second team of Comicbook/XMen, especially in comparison to the original team. The first group were five white, American teenagers, recruited by Professor X as students for his school, given matching uniforms, and trained to work as a group before their first mission. The second team[[note]]even going just by what was known at the time, and ignoring things that wouldn't be revealed or even {{RetCon}}ned in until later, like Comicbook/{{Wolverine}} being Really700YearsOld or Comicbook/{{Storm}} having been born in America[[/note]] each came from a different country, including no members who were both white and American (and one that was ''blue''); varied from their teens to middle age; came from backgrounds ranging from law-enforcement to former supervillain (including one that was both); ranged in education level from college graduate to "raised on the streets"; were all given unique uniforms (or just wore what they showed up in); and barely had time to learn each others' names before being sent off to risk their lives.
* The ComicBook/GreatLakesAvengers is a team comprised of some of the weirdest superheroes in Marvel's catalog, including Flatman, Big Bertha, and most popularly, ComicBook/SquirrelGirl (whose superpower is . . . squirrels). It doesn't hurt that ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' is considered one of their reserve members.
* In both ''Comicbook/{{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 ComicBook/NewAvengers are a team more or less thrown together by circumstance (they were on the "losing" side of ''ComicBook/CivilWar''). 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 ComicBook/LesLegendaires, since the titular Protagonist's FiveManBand 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 results in the group including a former Elite Knight from the King's personal army, a WarriorPrincess MagicalGirl, a formerly enslaved BeastMan, a BarbarianHero [[TheAtoner who used to work for the series']] BigBad and an [[OurElvesAreBetter Elf]] granted ElementalPowers.

* Comicbook/{{Asterix}}, Obelix, Hemispheric, Selectivemploymentax, Gastronomix, Neveratalos and Ptenisnet in ''Asterix the Legionary''.
* ''ComicBook/RedHoodAndTheOutlaws'': So far, 3 former Titans, 2 of whom are failed ex-sidekicks. The resurrected, violent, mildly crazy Red Hood, who managed to get kicked out of the Batfamily after coming back from the dead, is TheLeader. Former alcoholic and Arrow family dropout Arsenal (even with the most traumatic bits retconned out) and Princess Koriand'r... who as a young child was sold into slavery by her sister, to save her home world, spent much of her life in death camps, and doesn't really remember a lot of things concerning Earth clearly. Which is good, because Red Hood tried to kill someone she deeply cares for. Several times. And nearly killed their mutual brother, whom she was a teammate of.
** The title's relaunch as part of ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' takes this one step further by replacing Arsenal and Starfire with Bizarro and ComicBook/{{Artemis}}, turning the group into a fusion of this trope and the EvilKnockoff (specifically of the Trinity of Franchise/{{Superman}}, Franchise/{{Batman}} and Franchise/WonderWoman.)

* ''ComicBook/{{Superlopez}}'': The Supergroup, most of the time.
* The crew of the prototype starship ''ComicBook/SwitchbladeHoney'' is a bunch of screw-ups facing execution (for disobeying immoral, criminal, or just stupid orders from their former superiors) - or, if you prefer, the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane People]] in a [[CrapsackWorld Crapsack Future]]. And they're humanity's last hope.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Tomahawk}}'', Tomahawk's Rangers could be viewed as a Revolutionary War version of ComicBook/SgtRock's Easy Company. The members included the immensely strong Big Anvil; the dandy Brass Buttons; Cannonball, who was Tomahawk's [=2IC=]; acrobatic French sailor Frenchie; black CombatMedic Healer Randolph; sniper Long Rifle; Stovepipe who was the son of a general and carried a small arsenal in his stovepipe hat; and Wildcat, a Quaker pacifist who turned into a berserker in combat.

* The founding members of the ''ComicBook/AgentsOfAtlas'' are Jimmy Woo, a Chinese-American secret agent, Venus, Goddess of Love ([[spoiler:and a siren]]), M-11, the Human Robot, Namora, Namor's cousin, Gorilla Man, a soldier of fortune turned into an immortal gorilla, and the Uranian, formerly Marvel Boy, a human who was modified so he could live among aliens, requiring him to wear a spacesuit on Earth as he can no longer breathe the atmosphere.

* ''ComicBook/{{Crossed}}'': A common theme.
** The first cast is led by a gun-toting waitress and included her young son, a blind woman, a couple of working stiffs, a drunk paramedic and [[spoiler:a former SerialKiller]].
** ‘’Crossed 3D’’ features a SWAT team leader, a science teacher, a mentally ill shut-in, and a prison inmate, among others, working to save people.
** The first Badlands arc included a group that includes a Cold Sniper who may be a royal, an oil rig employee, a paramedic, a bookstore owner and a pregnant woman.
** The Cavaites include a former comic book writer, a University lecturer, a crusty fisherman (and part-time gun runner according to the first annual) an Australian parasailing tour guide and his wife and son, a London petty criminal and his daughter, a Cold Sniper with several facial piercings who'd formerly been a caregiver, a deaf Spanish woman, a pair of old ladies form the countryside, a gay Goth, a paratrooper, a hippie art teacher, an American tourist, a Pakistani family and eventually a rugby player, a cheesemaker, and a Kenyan scholarship student.
** The group in ‘’Homo Tortor’’ is led by a college student and includes two soldiers, a competitive archer and a CrazySurvivalist.
* ''ComicBook/GenerationX2017'': The mutant students of the Xavier Institute are split into three streams: those training to be future X-Men, those training to be future ambassadors for mutantkind... and the main characters, who are suited to neither role and are training to master their powers simply so they can lead normal lives. Of course, they end up getting caught up in all sorts of adventures anyway.
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** And they get even worse in the second "season", when [[spoiler:MEGATRON takes over as captain.]]

* The Comicbook/GreatLakesAvengers is a team comprised of some of the weirdest superheroes in Marvel's catalog, including Flatman, Big Bertha, and most popularly, Comicbook/SquirrelGirl (whose superpower is . . . squirrels). It doesn't hurt that ''SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}}'' is considered one of their reserve members.

** The first cast is led by a gun-toting waitress and included her young son, a blind woman, a couple of working stiffs, and a drunk paramedic.

** The group in ‘’Homo Tortor’’ is led by a college student and includes a soldier, a competitive archer and a CrazySurvivalist.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': The core group of revolutionaries Diana puts together to fight the Sangtee Empire have only their gender and the fact they'd been enslaved by the kreel in common. Many of them want to quit the revolution as soon as they have the cash and ships to make it elsewhere. The group includes defectors from the [[ComicBook/{{Invasion}} Alien Alliance]], at least one [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Khund]] who definitely did ''not'' defect from the aforementioned alliance, a clever eccentric little old woman, and most notably ComicBook/WonderWoman herself who has them adopt a (flexible) ''no kill policy'' they all chafe against while fighting a ''war''. [[note]]That no-kill policy ends up key to their success as many kreel captains quickly surrender to them due to their reputation for leniency to those that don't force them to use lethal force. It is also very heavily implied to be a large part of the reason the Emperor doesn't put up a bigger fight.[[/note]]