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** The Fleet itself qualifies. It carries the last survivors of humanity and consists of; cargo ships, one or two science vessels, factory/refinery ships where workers toil endlessly in terrible conditions, a freighter which essentially becomes a slavery and black market hub, passenger liners (airplanes in space) and a massive luxury liner (complete with artificial gardens) that travel together with an old battleship that was supposed to be retiring, its brand-new cousin commanded by GeneralRipper and, much later, a Cylon Baseship. And the best bit is, there are plenty of episodes showing just how much they can't stand each other and only do because it is the next best option.

** The ''Series/OhsamaSentaiKingOhger'' are a group mostly made up of rulers that run kingdoms, being comprised of an orphaned wannabe tyrant king turned actual king who is the long lost brother of the actual EvilOverlord who rules his kingdom, a temperamental delinquent-looking tech genius, an incredibly self-centered doctor who takes pride in her selfishness and encourages others to do the same, an borderline emotionless and stern judge who can only properly communicate their true feelings through a mascot plushie, and an incredibly theatrical liar who is absolutely shameless about using people for his own ends. Then there's the very long-lived "old-fashioned storyteller" who's using both the Ohsama Sentai and Bognaarok to rule as the "King of All".

** The ''Series/OhsamaSentaiKingOhger'' are a group mostly made up of rulers that run kingdoms, being comprised of an orphaned wannabe tyrant king who is the long lost brother of the EvilOverlord who rules his kingdom, a temperamental delinquent-looking tech genius, an incredibly self-centered doctor who takes pride in her selfishness and encourages others to do the same, an borderline emotionless and stern judge who can only properly communicate their true feelings through a mascot plushie, and an incredibly theatrical liar who is absolutely shameless about using people for his own ends. Then there's the very long-lived "old-fashioned storyteller" who's using both the Ohsama Sentai and Bognaarok to rule as the "King of All".

* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}''. A commander who's brilliant but can't play politics and as such is about to be quietly retired; an alcoholic, caustic, foul-mouthed tyrant of an XO; a stratospherically gifted but undisciplined and half-crazy pilot; the commander's highly competent and idealistic yet resentful son; a genius scientist who can't keep it in his pants; and a schoolteacher are the people exemplified as the best that is left of all of humanity. And their ship is an aging, battered, about-to-be-decommissioned bucket which (due to being ancient and obsolete) is actually the perfect weapon against masters of electronic warfare.

** The Season 1 regular cast includes: [[ComicBook/{{Hawkgirl}} a girl with wings and a past lives complex]], [[ComicBook/BlackCanary a deceased (and resurrected) assassin]], a pair of criminals, [[ComicBook/TheAtom a billionaire with more tech than he clearly knows what to do with]], [[ComicBook/FirestormDCComics a physicist and mechanic who can combine into one person]], and [[ComicBook/RipHunter the time traveler who recruited them all]].
** Later seasons add: [[ComicBook/CommanderSteel a historian who was injected with a Nazi super serum]], [[ComicBook/{{Vixen}} an African woman whose totem gives her animal powers]], a fugitive hacker from the 2040s, [[ComicBook/TheFlash a speedster]], a shapeshifter stuck in the aforementioned African woman's form... the list goes on.

* ''Series/{{The Librarians|2014}}'' follows the adventures of three Librarians-in-training and their guardian, all of whom were recruited in the first episode and generally have no idea what they're doing. Colonel Baird is a pretty capable Guardian, but the other three are only there because they were the last Librarian candidates that the Serpent Brotherhood hadn't killed, since they didn't see Stone, Cassandra, or Ezekiel as much of a threat. Regardless, things tend to work out pretty well for the team anyways.

* The Series/{{Warehouse 13}} team could certainly apply: two former Secret Service agents (one of whom gets psychic hunches), a disgraced former NSA analyst who was convicted of treason, an aura-reading B&B operator, a former mental patient and TeenGenius, an AntiVillain female HG Wells, and a gay ATF agent who's a living lie detector. Not to mention their boss, who is a mysterious teleporting and apparently immortal woman.

* ''Series/TheFullMonty'': After music teacher Hetty is laid off due to budget cuts, she has [[TroubledTeen Destiny]] gather any other student who doesn't have anything better to do. Hetty ends up as the director of the "Revenge Choir", which specializes in singing songs with profane lyrics. Loudly. On school grounds. As Hetty gloats, she is a volunteer so she cannot be terminated.

** What do you get when you put together a team comprised of a [[StandardizedLeader former Air Force pilot]]; a WideEyedIdealist "simple mechanic" (who is [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} SCOTTISH!]]); a former RichBitch who TookALevelInBadass; an incompetent ex-cartel member who is [[GivingTheSwordToANoob completely unqualified to handle advanced weaponry]] (but [[MetaGuy often points out]] [[OnlySaneMan the ridiculousness of the situation they're all in]] to comedic effect); a HalfHumanHybrid with [[LaserGuidedAmnesia no memories of either his past or his identity]]; and twin hyperactive [[PsychopathicManchild psychotic adult children]] who, despite being geniuses, are obsessed with [[StuffBlowingUp things that go BOOM!]] -- all led by an [[SugarAndIcePersonality emotionally closed off]] TeenGenius scientist with NoSocialSkills and [[TearJerker one depressing backstory]]? The team from ''Series/PowerRangersRPM''. Aren't you glad they're the ones who must protect the last remaining city on earth against a renegade computer virus?

** ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'': The group followed in this series is actually the 18th iteration of this team, with the mantle of each Shinkenger(except for the SixthRanger) being passed down from generation to generation. This have a badass stoic [[TheLeader lord]] [[spoiler: who's revealed to be a kagemusha for the real Shinken Red]], a LargeHam kabuki actor who's YesMan tendencies initially ran ''very'' deep, a elementary school teacher with major ParentalAbandonment issues and ''really'' cannot cook, a rebellious slacker whose [[TheSmartGuy cleverness]] makes up for his lack of training, an adorable CountryMouse who's HeroicSelfDeprecation runs a mile wide due to replacing her older sister, and a sushi chef who's the BunnyEarsLawyer childhood friend of said lord.

** ''Series/ChoujinSentaiJetman'': Thanks to a mishap in firing the AppliedPhlebotinum for the Jetman powers, you get a soldier having to make do with a [[SourSupporter cynical]] [[TheCasanova womanising]] hedonist, a FarmBoy, an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent (initially) OnlyInItForTheMoney and a SpoiledBrat (who eventually got better) heiress.

** The ''Series/OhsamaSentaiKingOhger'' are a group mostly made upof rulers, being comprised of an orphaned wannabe tyrant king who is the long lost brother of the EvilOverlord who rules his kingdom, a temperamental delinquent-looking tech genius, an incredibly self-centered doctor who takes pride in her selfishness and encourages others to do the same, an borderline emotionless and stern judge who can only properly communicate their true feelings through a mascot plushie, and an incredibly theatrical liar who is absolutely shameless about using people for his own ends. Then there's the very long-lived "old-fashioned storyteller" who's using both the Ohsama Sentai and Bognaarok to rule as the "King of All".

** ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'': The group followed in this series is actually the 18th iteration of this team, with the mantle of each Shinkenger(except for the SixthRanger) being passed down from generation to generation. This have a badass stoic [[TheLeader lord]] [[spoiler: who's revealed to be a kagemusha for the real Shinken Red]], a LargeHam kabuki actor who's YesMan tendencies initially ran ''very'' deep, a elementary school teacher with major ParentalAbandonment issues and ''really'' cannot cook, a rebellious slacker whose [[TheSmartGuy cleverness]] makes up for his lack of training, an adorable CountryMouse who's HeroicSelfDeprecation runs a mile wide due to replacing her older sister, and a sushi chef who's the BunnyEarsLawyer of said lord.

** The ''Series/OhsamaSentaiKingOhger'' are a group mostly comprised of rulers, being comprised of an orphaned wannabe tyrant king who is the long lost brother of the EvilOverlord who rules his kingdom, a temperamental delinquent-looking tech genius, an incredibly self-centered doctor who takes pride in her selfishness and encourages others to do the same, an borderline emotionless and stern judge who can only properly communicate their true feelings through a mascot plushie, and an incredibly theatrical liar who is absolutely shameless about using people for his own ends. Then there's the very long-lived "old-fashioned storyteller" who's using both the Ohsama Sentai and Bognaarok to rule as the "King of All".

** Take a HotBlooded JerkWithAHeartOfGold and add a DefectorFromDecadence MasterSwordsman, then bring along a {{Tsundere}} AloofDarkHairedGirl, a CombatPragmatist GadgeteerGenius, ThePollyanna and add a [[{{Determinator}} Determinator]] AscendedFanboy of Franchise/SuperSentai and what do you get? The ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger''.

** What happens when you pair a good-hearted guy with no experience with an old robot, a robot with FantasticRacism, a robot ShrinkingViolet, a robot cleaning man hungry for knowledge who can't hold back his churlishness, add a pirate brother whose morals are on a scale between gray and robin hood an engineer pirate a pair of super-deformed twins that look like mechas and an EleventhHourRanger who was a villain because of father issues? The answer is: ''Series/KikaiSentaiZenkaiger''.

* Take a HotBlooded JerkWithAHeartOfGold and add a DefectorFromDecadence MasterSwordsman, then bring along a {{Tsundere}} AloofDarkHairedGirl, a CombatPragmatist GadgeteerGenius, ThePollyanna and add a [[{{Determinator}} Determinator]] AscendedFanboy of Franchise/SuperSentai and what do you get? The ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger''.
** Go back exactly twenty years ago in ''Series/ChoujinSentaiJetman'' and thanks to a mishap in firing the AppliedPhlebotinum for the Jetman powers, you get a soldier having to make do with a [[SourSupporter cynical]] [[TheCasanova womanising]] hedonist, a FarmBoy, an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent (initially) OnlyInItForTheMoney and a SpoiledBrat (who eventually got better) heiress.

** ''MashinSentaiKiramager'': After the planet Crystalia gets taken over by the Yodon Empire, the five Kiramai Stones are taken to Earth by Princess Mabushina and must choose people with strong ''Kiramental'' as their users. The group ending up being formed is: a highschool amateur artist, a esports gamer, a track and field star, an actor very dedicated to his craft, a doctor who is very good at hiding her more zealous traits, and a half human treasure hunter with SuperStrength.

** After the planet Crystalia gets taken over by the Yodon Empire, the five Kiramai Stones are taken to Earth by Princess Mabushina and must choose people with strong ''Kiramental'' as their users. The group ending up being formed is: a highschool amateur artist, a esports gamer, a track and field star, an actor very dedicated to his craft, a doctor who is very good at hiding her more zealous traits, and a half human treasure hunter with SuperStrength.

** The ''Series/OhsamaSentaiKingOhger'' are a group mostly comprised of rulers, being comprised of an orphaned wannabe tyrant king who is the long lost brother of the Evil Overlord who rules his kingdom, a temperamental delinquent-looking tech genius, an incredibly self-centered doctor who takes pride in her selfishness and encourages others to do the same, an borderline emotionless and stern judge who can only properly communicate their true feelings through a mascot plushie, and an incredibly theatrical liar who is absolutely shameless about using people for his own ends. Then there's the very long-lived "old-fashioned storyteller" who's using both the Ohsama Sentai and Bognaarok to rule as the "King of All".

** Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger: The group followed in this series is actually the 18th iteration of this team, with the mantle of each Shinkenger(except for the SixthRanger) being passed down from generation to generation. This have a badass stoic [[TheLeader lord]] [[spoiler: who's revealed to be a kagemusha for the real Shinken Red]], a LargeHam kabuki actor who's YesMan tendencies initially ran ''very'' deep, a elementary school teacher with major ParentalAbandonment issues and ''really'' cannot cook, a rebellious slacker whose [[TheSmartGuy cleverness]] makes up for his lack of training, an adorable CountryMouse who's HeroicSelfDeprecation runs a mile wide due to replacing her older sister, and a sushi chef who's the BunnyEarsLawyer of said lord.

** The Series/AvataroSentaiDonbrothers are the group known for having perhaps the biggest DysfunctionJunction in the history of the franchise yet. Said group being made up of a too talented and too honest for his own good delivery man that came from a peach-shaped capsule that arrived from seemingly out of no where, a haiku-obsessed life drifter, a high school manga artist who is dealing with being accused of plagiarism, a salaryman who can get downright ''murderous'' when it comes to anything regarding his wife, a theatre-kid turned falsely accused criminal, and a wannabe superhero who also came from an out of nowhere capsule with an extremely violent split personality.

** In Super Sentai fashion, the ''Series/OhsamaSentaiKingOhger'' are a group of rulers made up of an orphaned wannabe tyrant king who is the long lost brother of the Evil Overlord who rules his kingdom, a temperamental delinquent-looking tech genius, an incredibly self-centered doctor who takes pride in her selfishness and encourages others to do the same, an borderline emotionless and stern judge who can only properly communicate their true feelings through a mascot plushie, and an incredibly theatrical liar who is absolutely shameless about using people for his own ends. Then there's the very long-lived "old-fashioned storyteller" who's using both the Ohsama Sentai and Bognaarok to rule as the "King of All".

** In Super Sentai fashion, the, ''Series/OhsamaSentaiKingOhger'' are a group of rulers made up of an orphaned wannabe tyrant king who is the long lost brother of the Evil Overlord who rules his kingdom, a temperamental delinquent-looking tech genius, an incredibly self-centered doctor who takes pride in her selfishness and encourages others to do the same, an borderline emotionless and stern judge who can only properly communicate their true feelings through a mascot plushie, and an incredibly theatrical liar who is absolutely shameless about using people for his own ends. Then there's the very long-lived "old-fashioned storyteller" who's using both the Ohsama Sentai and Bognaarok to rule as the "King of All".

* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'':

** In Super Sentai fashion, the, [[''Series/OhsamaSentaiKingOhger''Ohsama Sentai]] are a group of rulers made up of an orphaned wannabe tyrant king who is the long lost brother of the Evil Overlord who rules his kingdom, a temperamental delinquent-looking tech genius, an incredibly self-centered doctor who takes pride in her selfishness and encourages others to do the same, an borderline emotionless and stern judge who can only properly communicate their true feelings through a mascot plushie, and an incredibly theatrical liar who is absolutely shameless about using people for his own ends. Then there's the very long-lived "old-fashioned storyteller" who's using both the Ohsama Sentai and Bognaarok to rule as the "King of All".

** In Super Sentai fashion, the, ''''Series/OhsamaSentaiKingOhger''Ohsama Sentai'' are a group of rulers made up of an orphaned wannabe tyrant king who is the long lost brother of the Evil Overlord who rules his kingdom, a temperamental delinquent-looking tech genius, an incredibly self-centered doctor who takes pride in her selfishness and encourages others to do the same, an borderline emotionless and stern judge who can only properly communicate their true feelings through a mascot plushie, and an incredibly theatrical liar who is absolutely shameless about using people for his own ends. Then there's the very long-lived "old-fashioned storyteller" who's using both the Ohsama Sentai and Bognaarok to rule as the "King of All".

** In Super Sentai fashion, the, ''[[''Series/OhsamaSentaiKingOhger'' Ohsama Sentai]]'' are a group of rulers made up of an orphaned wannabe tyrant king who is the long lost brother of the Evil Overlord who rules his kingdom, a temperamental delinquent-looking tech genius, an incredibly self-centered doctor who takes pride in her selfishness and encourages others to do the same, an borderline emotionless and stern judge who can only properly communicate their true feelings through a mascot plushie, and an incredibly theatrical liar who is absolutely shameless about using people for his own ends. Then there's the very long-lived "old-fashioned storyteller" who's using both the Ohsama Sentai and Bognaarok to rule as the "King of All".

* The first Season of ''Series/Titans2018'' deals with the assembly of 4 total strangers who couldn't be more different from each other to fight Trigon, a SatanExpy: A bird-themed BadassNormal, an amnesiac alien princess who has no idea she is an alien, a human-demon hybrid with magical powers and a shapeshifter.

** One could certainly expect the crew of the Federation Starship ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' to be this after half the crew gets killed and replaced by necessity with the outlaws they were sent to capture. But the Maquis quickly blend in and in the later seasons, you couldn't tell any difference between them and the Starfleet crew.
** B'Elanna Torres and Tom Paris, still manage to appear somewhat out of the norm. Torres has a temper that could power the ships engines, and Tom Paris is an ex-con. Given that he actually runs cons during the shows run, the 'ex' part is exaggerated (in fact, he was originally put on Voyager as part of his sentence, so technically the 'ex' part doesn't apply at all).

*** The ''Rotarran'' in "Soldiers of the Empire." A Klingon Bird of Prey that is down on it's luck, plagued by a series of defeats is led by Martok, Worf, and Dax to a victory.

*** Utterly {{defied|Trope}} in the episode ''[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E22Valiant Valiant]]''. Red Squad, an elite training team for the Federation, ended up with a cadet in charge of their ship after a skirmish killed their real captain. The now "Captain" Watters does a decent job of staying alive behind enemy lines, and manages to complete their original mission to recon info on a new Dominion battleship. Then he tries to enforce this trope by [[TooDumbToLive disobeying orders and taking their damaged cruiser to fight a brand-new battleship ten times their size.]] For what it's worth, their {{Technobabble}} attack makes a good light show...[[spoiler:[[NoSell and nothing else.]] Red Squad is mercilessly slaughtered, leaving only [[PlotArmor the two main characters]] and one Red Squad cadet alive.]]
*** When Quark needs to rescue his mother from the Dominion, he assembles a team of Ferengi to prove that Ferengi can be just as tough as any ProudWarriorRaceGuy species. When Brunt arrives he describes Quark's recruits as "a child, a moron, a failure, and a psychopath."

** ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' isn't much better. John is the only official soldier in the team, who was kicked to the curb by the by his commanders [[{{MilitaryMaverick}} for not obeying the rules]], never had anyone until Elizabeth dragged him out of his slump to join the expedition his self-loathing issues still intact but he's still [[{{TheHero}} the best pilot]] in 2 galaxies, Elizabeth herself is MarriedToTheJob and isolated with the responsibility of keeping an alien city running and [[{{TheLancer}} everyone under control]], Rodney is an [[TheSmartGuy abrasive, arrogant scientist]] with a penchant for last-minute solutions, Ronon is TheStoic who spent 7 years alone on the run from aliens which left serious emotional damage but also [[{{TheBigGuy}} real muscle]], Teyla is a down-to-earth action-girl who's the [[TheChick closest they have to someone normal]] but was still orphaned from a young age and lived under the Wraith her whole life.

** B'Elanna Torres and Tom Paris, still manage to appear somewhat out of the norm. Torres has a temper that could power the ships engines, and Tom Paris is an ex-con. Given that he actually runs cons during the shows run, the 'ex' part is exaggerated.