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* ''Series/TheDefenders2017'' (pictured): The titular group is comprised of [[Series/Daredevil2015 a blind ninja]] ([[Creator/CharlieCox Matt Murdock]]), [[Series/JessicaJones2015 a smartass private investigator]] ([[Creator/KrystenRitter Jessica Jones]]), [[Series/LukeCage2016 a bulletproof ex-con]] ([[Creator/MikeColter Luke Cage]]), and [[Series/IronFist2017 a kid with a glowing fist]] ([[Creator/FinnJones Danny Rand]]). This unlikely group are to protect UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity against the Hand.
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* ''Series/TheDefenders2017'' (pictured): The titular group is comprised of [[Series/Daredevil2015 a blind ninja]] defense attorney]] ([[Creator/CharlieCox Matt Murdock]]), [[Series/JessicaJones2015 a smartass private investigator]] ([[Creator/KrystenRitter Jessica Jones]]), [[Series/LukeCage2016 a bulletproof ex-con]] ([[Creator/MikeColter Luke Cage]]), and [[Series/IronFist2017 a kid with a glowing fist]] ([[Creator/FinnJones Danny Rand]]). This unlikely group are to protect UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity against the Hand.
**Their support network of allies is even more impressive: a social worker and recovered addict (Malcolm Ducasse), a freelance nurse (Claire Temple), two senseis (Stick and Colleen Wing), two more lawyers (Foggy Nelson and Jeri Hogarth), [[HotScoop two reporters]] (Karen Page and Trish Walker), and an NYPD detective (Misty Knight).
**Their support network of allies is even more impressive: a social worker and recovered addict (Malcolm Ducasse), a freelance nurse (Claire Temple), two senseis (Stick and Colleen Wing), two more lawyers (Foggy Nelson and Jeri Hogarth), [[HotScoop two reporters]] (Karen Page and Trish Walker), and an NYPD detective (Misty Knight).
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[[caption-width-right:350:"The only thing keeping Manhattan safe from crumbling to a pile of dust is [[Series/Daredevil2015 the]] [[Series/JessicaJones2015 four]] [[Series/LukeCage2016 of]] [[Series/IronFist2017 you]]."]]
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* ''Series/TheDefenders2017'': ''Series/TheDefenders2017'' (pictured): The protagonists are titular group is comprised of, in Stick's words, "the Devil of Hell's Kitchen (Matt Murdock), the [[Series/Daredevil2015 a blind ninja]] ([[Creator/CharlieCox Matt Murdock]]), [[Series/JessicaJones2015 a smartass detective (Jessica Jones), the righteous ex-con (Luke Cage), private investigator]] ([[Creator/KrystenRitter Jessica Jones]]), [[Series/LukeCage2016 a bulletproof ex-con]] ([[Creator/MikeColter Luke Cage]]), and the [[Series/IronFist2017 a kid with a glowing fist (Danny Rand)." All four have a long list of character flaws and tend fist]] ([[Creator/FinnJones Danny Rand]]). This unlikely group are to be {{failure hero}}es.protect UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity against the Hand.
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* ''Series/TheDefenders2017'': [[Series/Daredevil2015 Each]] [[Series/JessicaJones2015 of]] [[Series/LukeCage2016 the]] [[Series/IronFist2017 Defenders]] The protagonists are comprised of, in Stick's words, "the Devil of Hell's Kitchen (Matt Murdock), the smartass detective (Jessica Jones), the righteous ex-con (Luke Cage), and the kid with a glowing fist (Danny Rand)." All four have a long list of character flaws and tend to be {{failure hero}}es.
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** Stick at one point does a role-call where he calls them "the Devil of Hell's Kitchen (Matt Murdock), the smartass detective (Jessica Jones), the righteous ex-con (Luke Cage), and the kid with a glowing fist (Danny Rand)."
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** Stick even {{lampshade|Hanging}}s this telling the group that, not only will they be unable to save New York, they can't even save themselves. It says something when the project's working title is ''Group Therapy''.
** Stick at one point does a role-call where he calls them "the Devil of Hell's Kitchen (Matt Murdock), the smartass detective (Jessica Jones), the righteous ex-con (Luke Cage), and the kid with a glowing fist (Danny Rand)."
** Stick even {{lampshade|Hanging}}s this telling the group that, not only will they be unable to save New York, they can't even save themselves. It says something when the project's working title is ''Group Therapy''.
** Stick at one point does a role-call where he calls them "the Devil of Hell's Kitchen (Matt Murdock), the smartass detective (Jessica Jones), the righteous ex-con (Luke Cage), and the kid with a glowing fist (Danny Rand)."
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* ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' features: A girl with wings and a past lives complex, a deceased (and resurrected) assassin, a pair of criminals, a billionaire with more tech than he clearly knows what to do with, and (a powerless) half a hero along with a time traveler. Season 2 removes the time traveler ([[spoiler:temporarily]]) and [[spoiler:one of the criminals]], while adding a historian ([[spoiler:who gains superpowers in short order]]) and a WorldWarTwo-era superheroine with animal powers (WesternAnimation/{{Vixen}}'s grandma).
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* ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' features: A girl with wings and a past lives complex, a deceased (and resurrected) assassin, a pair of criminals, a billionaire with more tech than he clearly knows what to do with, and (a powerless) half a hero along with a time traveler. Season 2 removes the time traveler ([[spoiler:temporarily]]) and [[spoiler:one of the criminals]], while adding a historian ([[spoiler:who gains superpowers in short order]]) and a WorldWarTwo-era UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-era superheroine with animal powers (WesternAnimation/{{Vixen}}'s grandma).
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** House Stark, as of Season 6, with their leadership consisting of one of the last Starks (Sansa), a former Lord Commander of the Night's Watch (Jon Snow), a knight from a noble house in the Stormlands (Davos), a Red Priestess (Melisandre), and a Wildling chieftain (Tormund). The bulk of their army consists of two thousand Wildlings and several hundred bannermen from the few Northern houses still loyal to them. Suffice to say, the resurgent forces of House Stark are a diverse bunch. As of the finale, this is taken further with the addition of the surviving Northern Lords, Littlefinger and the Vale Lords as their bannermen.
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* ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' features: A girl with wings and a past lives complex, a deceased (and resurrected) assassin, a pair of criminals, a billionaire with more tech than he clearly knows what to do with, and (a powerless) half a hero along with a time traveler. Season 2 removes the time traveler ([[spoiler:temporarily]]) and [[spoiler:one of the criminals]], while adding a historian ([[spoiler:who gains superpowers in short order]]) and a WorldWarTwo-era superheroine with animal powers (WesternAnimation/{{Vixen}}'s grandma).
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* During the Neverland arc of ''OnceUponATime'', Emma rallies Regina, Snow, Charming, and Hook into an impromptu FiveManBand so they can go rescue Henry. This means the rescue team is composed of TheChosenOne, a manipulative EvilSorceress, an idealisitic BadassPrincess, a KnightInShiningArmor, and an unscrupulous pirate. Emma even invokes this, saying that it doesn't matter if not all of them like each other--their different histories and professions give the whole group access to many different skills, all of which will be needed to survive in a place where [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everything is trying to kill them]].
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* During the Neverland arc of ''OnceUponATime'', ''Series/OnceUponATime'', Emma rallies Regina, Snow, Charming, and Hook into an impromptu FiveManBand so they can go rescue Henry. This means the rescue team is composed of TheChosenOne, a manipulative EvilSorceress, an idealisitic BadassPrincess, a KnightInShiningArmor, and an unscrupulous pirate. Emma even invokes this, saying that it doesn't matter if not all of them like each other--their different histories and professions give the whole group access to many different skills, all of which will be needed to survive in a place where [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everything is trying to kill them]].
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** In ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar A Good Man Goes to War]]'', the Doctor assembles a team from across time and space to [[spoiler:rescue Amy and her baby.]] Said team consists of the Doctor himself, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld a 900 year old]] {{time travel}}er, the Doctor's companion Rory Williams, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld a 2000 year old]] [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire Roman Centurion,]] Commander Strax, a [[BloodKnight Sontaran]] [[CombatMedic nurse]], Madame Vastra and Jenny Flint, [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Victorian crime-fighting katana-wielding interspecies lesbians]] and Dorium Maldovar, a big fat blue guy. {{Space Pirates}} are also involved. If that's not ragtag......
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** In ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar A Good Man Goes to War]]'', the Doctor assembles a team from across time and space to [[spoiler:rescue Amy and her baby.]] Said team consists of the Doctor himself, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld a 900 year old]] {{time travel}}er, travel}}ler; the Doctor's companion Rory Williams, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld a 2000 year old]] [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire Roman Centurion,]] Centurion]]; Commander Strax, a [[BloodKnight Sontaran]] [[CombatMedic nurse]], nurse]]; Madame Vastra and Jenny Flint, [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Victorian crime-fighting katana-wielding interspecies lesbians]] lesbians]]; and Dorium Maldovar, a big fat blue guy. {{Space Pirates}} are also involved. If that's not ragtag......
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* The East Dillon Lions in Season 4 of FridayNightLights start out this way. Coach meets his quarterback when a local detective brings him in the back of a squad car even and the rest of the team doesn't know how to huddle.
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* The East Dillon Lions in Season 4 of FridayNightLights ''Series/FridayNightLights'' start out this way. Coach meets his quarterback when a local detective brings him in the back of a squad car even and the rest of the team doesn't know how to huddle.
*LegendsOfTomorrow ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' features: A girl with wings and a past lives complex, a deceased (and resurrected) assassin, a pair of criminals, a billionaire with more tech than he clearly knows what to do with, and (a powerless) half a hero along with a time traveler.
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* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' starts out like this, especially before the gang warms up to each other. While these people are all the best at what they do, they all are adamant about always working alone, and they don't like one another at first: lead by an alcoholic [[AFatherToHisMen Team Dad]] who used to be a good guy, a nerdy hacker, a temperamental hitter, an elegant (but deluded) grifter, and Parker, who has a reputation for being literally insane.
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** The Night's Watch. Even many of the members who don't have a criminal past are fleeing from a life wherein they were considered unsuitable by their own kin.
** The Brotherhood Without Banners. They're competent enough to get by and become a pain in the arse for the Lannisters, but at the end of the day they aren't the decisive force fighting against them, and they lack the funding necessary.
** The Night's Watch. Even many of the members who don't have a criminal past are fleeing from a life wherein they were considered unsuitable by their own kin.
** The Brotherhood Without Banners. They're competent enough to get by and become a pain in the arse for the Lannisters, but at the end of the day they aren't the decisive force fighting against them, and they lack the funding necessary.
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* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': The entire subculture of [[TheHunter hunters]]. They're all just a bunch of emotionally scarred people who make it their (non-paying) job to hunt and kill supernatural beings, most likely because someone they were close to was killed by one. Considering how rampant these paranormal attacks seem to be, you'd think the government would set up a [[TheMenInBlack secret agency]] to fight them. But no, it's left entirely up to these people, who will break as many laws and [[WalkingTheEarth wander the earth]] as much as they have to in order to get the job done, with no thanks or pay to show for it?
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* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': The entire subculture of [[TheHunter [[HunterOfMonsters hunters]]. They're all just a bunch of emotionally scarred people who make it their (non-paying) job to hunt and kill supernatural beings, most likely because someone they were close to was killed by one. Considering how rampant these paranormal attacks seem to be, you'd think the government would set up a [[TheMenInBlack secret agency]] to fight them. But no, it's left entirely up to these people, who will break as many laws and [[WalkingTheEarth wander the earth]] as much as they have to in order to get the job done, with no thanks or pay to show for it?
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* Similarly ''{{Friends}}'': A gang that started when a guy who married a lesbian introduced his little sister, a neurotic, 11-towel-categories ControlFreak, and college roommate, an equally neurotic StepfordSnarker with a drag-queen father. She cuts off his toe, the pair become neighbours and the snarker gets a ditzy roommate who, among other things, throws a girl's wooden leg in the fire. The control freak gets two roommates, first a former StreetUrchin who was conceived in a threesome with her adopted mother and real parents, and later a woman who abandoned a man at the altar and isn't even equipped enough to make coffee. And this is apparently your ordinary, fully-qualified group of grown ups.
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* Similarly ''{{Friends}}'': ''Series/{{Friends}}'': A gang that started when a guy who married a lesbian introduced his little sister, a neurotic, 11-towel-categories ControlFreak, and college roommate, an equally neurotic StepfordSnarker with a drag-queen father. She cuts off his toe, the pair become neighbours and the snarker gets a ditzy roommate who, among other things, throws a girl's wooden leg in the fire. The control freak gets two roommates, first a former StreetUrchin who was conceived in a threesome with her adopted mother and real parents, and later a woman who abandoned a man at the altar and isn't even equipped enough to make coffee. And this is apparently your ordinary, fully-qualified group of grown ups.
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* The core premise of ''Series/{{The 100}}'' is that a bunch of juvenile delinquents have to figure out how to keep humanity alive on [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic Earth]], because they were the only people deemed expendable enough to send down to a DeathWorld. Even after other, better trained people are sent down later, the delinquents still prove essential due to becoming {{Action Survivor}}s on the ground.
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* ''[[Series/TheLibrarians2014 The Librarians]]'' 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.
-->'''Lamia:''' How are you going to stop us? Hmm? With your little knock-off Librarians? One doomed by her gift, one who fled his gift, one who abuses it!
-->'''Lamia:''' How are you going to stop us? Hmm? With your little knock-off Librarians? One doomed by her gift, one who fled his gift, one who abuses it!
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** 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 (eventually SpoiledSweet) heiress.
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** The ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth The Stolen Earth]]''/''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd Journey's End]]'' multi-parter brought together the Doctor, a [[TookALevelInBadass shopgirl turned universe-hopping badass]], an [[CameBackWrong immortal]] [[ExtremeOmnisexual outrageously flirtatious]] captain, a military medical officer, his current companion who was a temp, a mechanic-turned-Cyberman-resistance fighter, a journalist and former companion, and one companion's mother. Plus [[BewareTheQuietOnes an archivist-turned-agent]] and [[ActionGirl trained policewoman]], a companion's son, and a [[TeamPet robot dog]].
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** ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' isn't much better. John is the only [[{{TheHero}} official soldier]] in the team, who was kicked to the curb by the by his commanders for not obeying the rules and never had anyone until Elizabeth pulled him out of his slump, Elizabeth herself is MarriedToTheJob and isolated with the responsibility of keeping an alien city running, Rodney is an [[TheSmartGuy abrasive, arrogant scientist]] with a penchant for last-minute solutions, Teyla is a down-to-earth action-girl who's the [[TheChick closest they have to a guide]], and Ronon is a TheStoic, who also happens to be the [[TheBigGuy real muscle]].
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** ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' isn't much better. John is the only [[{{TheHero}} official soldier]] soldier in the team, who was kicked to the curb by the by his commanders [[{{MilitaryMaverick}} for not obeying the rules and rules]], never had anyone until Elizabeth pulled dragged him out of his slump, 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, 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 guide]], young age and Ronon is a TheStoic, who also happens to be lived under the [[TheBigGuy real muscle]].Wraith her whole life.
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* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}''. 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.
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* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}''.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.
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* Similarly ''{{Friends}}'': A gang that started when a guy who married a lesbian introduced his little sister, a neurotic, 11-towel-categories ControlFreak, and college roommate, an equally neurotic StepfordSnarker with a drag-queen father. She cuts off his toe, the pair become neighbours and the snarker gets a ditzy roommate who, among other things, throws a girls wooden leg in the fire. The control freak gets two roommates, first a former StreetUrchin who was conceived in a threesome with her adopted mother and real parents, and later a woman who abandoned a man at the altar and isn't even equipped enough to make coffee. And this is apparently your ordinary, fully-qualified group of grown ups.
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* Similarly ''{{Friends}}'': A gang that started when a guy who married a lesbian introduced his little sister, a neurotic, 11-towel-categories ControlFreak, and college roommate, an equally neurotic StepfordSnarker with a drag-queen father. She cuts off his toe, the pair become neighbours and the snarker gets a ditzy roommate who, among other things, throws a girls girl's wooden leg in the fire. The control freak gets two roommates, first a former StreetUrchin who was conceived in a threesome with her adopted mother and real parents, and later a woman who abandoned a man at the altar and isn't even equipped enough to make coffee. And this is apparently your ordinary, fully-qualified group of grown ups.
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** The show plays this to almost RunningGag levels. The Doctor himself ''defines'' ragtag, a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who stole a clapped-out ship and ran away from his people, for the sole purpose of....sightseeing the multiverse. He then makes a habit of picking up cavewomen, warriors from the Scottish Highlands, murses, kissogramers, schoolteachers, constantly put-upon soldiers, reporters, and on one occasion, a 19-year-old working in a department store. Predictably, they save the multiverse; ''repeatedly''.
** The ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth The Stolen Earth]]''/''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd Journey's End]]'' multi-parter brought together the Doctor, a [[TookALevelInBadass shopgirl turned universe-hopping badass]], an [[CameBackWrong immortal]] [[ExtremeOmnisexual outrageously flirtatious]] captain, a military medical officer, his current companion who was a temp, a mechanic-turned-Cyberman-resistance fighter, a journalist and former companion, and one companion's mother. Plus a [[BewareTheQuietOnes an archivist-turned-agent]] and [[ActionGirl trained policewoman]], a companion's son, and a [[TeamPet robot dog]].
** The ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth The Stolen Earth]]''/''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd Journey's End]]'' multi-parter brought together the Doctor, a [[TookALevelInBadass shopgirl turned universe-hopping badass]], an [[CameBackWrong immortal]] [[ExtremeOmnisexual outrageously flirtatious]] captain, a military medical officer, his current companion who was a temp, a mechanic-turned-Cyberman-resistance fighter, a journalist and former companion, and one companion's mother. Plus a [[BewareTheQuietOnes an archivist-turned-agent]] and [[ActionGirl trained policewoman]], a companion's son, and a [[TeamPet robot dog]].
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** The show plays this to almost RunningGag levels. The Doctor himself ''defines'' ragtag, a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who stole a clapped-out ship and ran away from his people, for the sole purpose of....sightseeing the multiverse. He then makes a habit of picking up cavewomen, warriors from the Scottish Highlands, murses, nurses, kissogramers, schoolteachers, constantly put-upon soldiers, reporters, and on one occasion, a 19-year-old working in a department store. Predictably, they save the multiverse; multiverse ''repeatedly''.
** The ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth The Stolen Earth]]''/''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd Journey's End]]'' multi-parter brought together the Doctor, a [[TookALevelInBadass shopgirl turned universe-hopping badass]], an [[CameBackWrong immortal]] [[ExtremeOmnisexual outrageously flirtatious]] captain, a military medical officer, his current companion who was a temp, a mechanic-turned-Cyberman-resistance fighter, a journalist and former companion, and one companion's mother. Plusa [[BewareTheQuietOnes an archivist-turned-agent]] and [[ActionGirl trained policewoman]], a companion's son, and a [[TeamPet robot dog]].
** The ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth The Stolen Earth]]''/''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd Journey's End]]'' multi-parter brought together the Doctor, a [[TookALevelInBadass shopgirl turned universe-hopping badass]], an [[CameBackWrong immortal]] [[ExtremeOmnisexual outrageously flirtatious]] captain, a military medical officer, his current companion who was a temp, a mechanic-turned-Cyberman-resistance fighter, a journalist and former companion, and one companion's mother. Plus
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** The East Dillon Lions in Season 4 of FridayNightLights start out this way. Coach meets his quarterback when a local detective brings him in the back of a squad car even.
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* During the Neverland arc of ''OnceUponATime'', Emma rallies Regina, Snow, Charming, and Hook into an impromptu FiveManBand so they can go rescue Henry. This means the rescue team is composed of TheChosenOne, a manipulative EvilSorceress, an idealisitic BadassPrincess, a KnightInShiningArmor, and an unscrupulous pirate. Emma even invokes this, saying that it doesn't matter if not all of them like each other--their different histories and professions give the whole group access to many different skills, all of which will be needed to survive in a place where [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everything is trying to kill them]].
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* The Five in ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'' were this, including an immortal scientist specializing in strange creatures, a genius keeping himself alive with a machine, an invisible thief, an electrical vampire/InsufferableGenius, and teleporting JackTheRipper. The Sanctuary team itself could be considered this with the above-mentioned immortal scientist, her daughter (and [[spoiler:JackTheRipper's]]) with anger-management issues, a quirky forensic psychiatrist disliked by his own colleagues, a Neanderthal, and a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent HAP]]. After the death of [[spoiler:Helen's daughter]], the team "acquires" a professional thief and smuggler.
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* The Five in ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'' were this, including an immortal scientist specializing in strange creatures, a genius keeping himself alive with a machine, an invisible thief, an electrical vampire/InsufferableGenius, and teleporting JackTheRipper. UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. The Sanctuary team itself could be considered this with the above-mentioned immortal scientist, her daughter (and [[spoiler:JackTheRipper's]]) [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper's]]) with anger-management issues, a quirky forensic psychiatrist disliked by his own colleagues, a Neanderthal, and a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent HAP]]. After the death of [[spoiler:Helen's daughter]], the team "acquires" a professional thief and smuggler.
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'' plays this to almost RunningGag levels. The Doctor himself ''defines'' ragtag, a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who stole a clapped-out ship and ran away from his people, for the sole purpose of....sightseeing the multiverse. He then makes a habit of picking up cavewomen, warriors from the Scottish Highlands, murses, kissogramers, schoolteachers, constantly put-upon soldiers, reporters, and on one occasion, a 19-year-old working in a department store. Predictably, they save the multiverse; ''repeatedly''.
** The "Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End" multi-parter brought together the Doctor, a [[TookALevelInBadass shopgirl turned universe-hopping badass]], an [[CameBackWrong immortal]] [[ExtremeOmnisexual outrageously flirtatious]] captain, a military medical officer, his current companion who was a temp, a mechanic-turned-Cyberman-resistance fighter, a journalist and former companion, and one companion's mother. Plus a [[BewareTheQuietOnes an archivist-turned-agent]] and [[ActionGirl trained policewoman]], a companion's son, and a [[TeamPet robot dog]].
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes to War"]], the Doctor assembles a team from across time and space to [[spoiler:rescue Amy and her baby.]] Said team consists of the Doctor himself, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld a 900 year old]] {{time travel}}er, the Doctor's companion Rory Williams, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld a 2000 year old]] [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire Roman Centurion,]] Commander Strax, a [[BloodKnight Sontaran]] [[CombatMedic nurse]], Madame Vastra and Jenny Flint, [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Victorian crime-fighting katana-wielding interspecies lesbians]] and Dorium Maldovar, a big fat blue guy. {{Space Pirates}} are also involved. If that's not ragtag......
** {{Invoked|Trope}} in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E2DinosaursOnASpaceship "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship"]]. The Doctor recruits Egyptian Queen Nefertiti, Victorian-Era big-game hunter John Riddell, Amy Pond, Rory Williams the Last Centurion, and (by accident) Rory's very confused dad to help complete his mission.
** The "Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End" multi-parter brought together the Doctor, a [[TookALevelInBadass shopgirl turned universe-hopping badass]], an [[CameBackWrong immortal]] [[ExtremeOmnisexual outrageously flirtatious]] captain, a military medical officer, his current companion who was a temp, a mechanic-turned-Cyberman-resistance fighter, a journalist and former companion, and one companion's mother. Plus a [[BewareTheQuietOnes an archivist-turned-agent]] and [[ActionGirl trained policewoman]], a companion's son, and a [[TeamPet robot dog]].
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes to War"]], the Doctor assembles a team from across time and space to [[spoiler:rescue Amy and her baby.]] Said team consists of the Doctor himself, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld a 900 year old]] {{time travel}}er, the Doctor's companion Rory Williams, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld a 2000 year old]] [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire Roman Centurion,]] Commander Strax, a [[BloodKnight Sontaran]] [[CombatMedic nurse]], Madame Vastra and Jenny Flint, [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Victorian crime-fighting katana-wielding interspecies lesbians]] and Dorium Maldovar, a big fat blue guy. {{Space Pirates}} are also involved. If that's not ragtag......
** {{Invoked|Trope}} in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E2DinosaursOnASpaceship "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship"]]. The Doctor recruits Egyptian Queen Nefertiti, Victorian-Era big-game hunter John Riddell, Amy Pond, Rory Williams the Last Centurion, and (by accident) Rory's very confused dad to help complete his mission.
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'' ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** The show plays this to almost RunningGag levels. The Doctor himself ''defines'' ragtag, a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who stole a clapped-out ship and ran away from his people, for the sole purpose of....sightseeing the multiverse. He then makes a habit of picking up cavewomen, warriors from the Scottish Highlands, murses, kissogramers, schoolteachers, constantly put-upon soldiers, reporters, and on one occasion, a 19-year-old working in a department store. Predictably, they save the multiverse; ''repeatedly''.
** The"Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End" ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth The Stolen Earth]]''/''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd Journey's End]]'' multi-parter brought together the Doctor, a [[TookALevelInBadass shopgirl turned universe-hopping badass]], an [[CameBackWrong immortal]] [[ExtremeOmnisexual outrageously flirtatious]] captain, a military medical officer, his current companion who was a temp, a mechanic-turned-Cyberman-resistance fighter, a journalist and former companion, and one companion's mother. Plus a [[BewareTheQuietOnes an archivist-turned-agent]] and [[ActionGirl trained policewoman]], a companion's son, and a [[TeamPet robot dog]].
** In[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar A Good Man Goes to War"]], War]]'', the Doctor assembles a team from across time and space to [[spoiler:rescue Amy and her baby.]] Said team consists of the Doctor himself, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld a 900 year old]] {{time travel}}er, the Doctor's companion Rory Williams, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld a 2000 year old]] [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire Roman Centurion,]] Commander Strax, a [[BloodKnight Sontaran]] [[CombatMedic nurse]], Madame Vastra and Jenny Flint, [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Victorian crime-fighting katana-wielding interspecies lesbians]] and Dorium Maldovar, a big fat blue guy. {{Space Pirates}} are also involved. If that's not ragtag......
** {{Invoked|Trope}} in[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E2DinosaursOnASpaceship "Dinosaurs ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E2DinosaursOnASpaceship Dinosaurs on a Spaceship"]].Spaceship]]''. The Doctor recruits Egyptian Queen Nefertiti, Victorian-Era big-game hunter John Riddell, Amy Pond, Rory Williams the Last Centurion, and (by accident) Rory's very confused dad to help complete his mission.
** In ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E10InTheForestOfTheNight In The Forest Of The Night]]'', the Gifted and Talented kids seem to be made up mostly of the weird kids that Clara and Danny thought had something special.
** The show plays this to almost RunningGag levels. The Doctor himself ''defines'' ragtag, a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who stole a clapped-out ship and ran away from his people, for the sole purpose of....sightseeing the multiverse. He then makes a habit of picking up cavewomen, warriors from the Scottish Highlands, murses, kissogramers, schoolteachers, constantly put-upon soldiers, reporters, and on one occasion, a 19-year-old working in a department store. Predictably, they save the multiverse; ''repeatedly''.
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** In ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E10InTheForestOfTheNight In The Forest Of The Night]]'', the Gifted and Talented kids seem to be made up mostly of the weird kids that Clara and Danny thought had something special.
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** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar A Good Man Goes to War,]]" the Doctor assembles a team from across time and space to [[spoiler: rescue Amy and her baby.]] Said team consists of the Doctor himself, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld a 900 year old]] {{time travel}}er, the Doctor's companion Rory Williams, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld a 2000 year old]] [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire Roman Centurion,]] Commander Strax, a [[BloodKnight Sontaran]] [[CombatMedic nurse]], Madame Vastra and Jenny Flint, [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Victorian crime-fighting katana-wielding interspecies lesbians]] and Dorium Maldovar, a big fat blue guy. {{Space Pirates}} are also involved. If that's not ragtag......
** {{Invoked|Trope}} in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E02DinosaursOnASpaceship Dinosaurs on a Spaceship]]". The Doctor recruits Egyptian Queen Nefertiti, Victorian Era big game hunter John Riddell, Amy Pond, Rory Williams the Last Centurion, and (by accident) Rory's very confused dad to help complete his mission.
** {{Invoked|Trope}} in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E02DinosaursOnASpaceship Dinosaurs on a Spaceship]]". The Doctor recruits Egyptian Queen Nefertiti, Victorian Era big game hunter John Riddell, Amy Pond, Rory Williams the Last Centurion, and (by accident) Rory's very confused dad to help complete his mission.
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** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar A [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes to War,]]" War"]], the Doctor assembles a team from across time and space to [[spoiler: rescue [[spoiler:rescue Amy and her baby.]] Said team consists of the Doctor himself, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld a 900 year old]] {{time travel}}er, the Doctor's companion Rory Williams, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld a 2000 year old]] [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire Roman Centurion,]] Commander Strax, a [[BloodKnight Sontaran]] [[CombatMedic nurse]], Madame Vastra and Jenny Flint, [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Victorian crime-fighting katana-wielding interspecies lesbians]] and Dorium Maldovar, a big fat blue guy. {{Space Pirates}} are also involved. If that's not ragtag......
** {{Invoked|Trope}} in"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E02DinosaursOnASpaceship Dinosaurs [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E2DinosaursOnASpaceship "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship]]". Spaceship"]]. The Doctor recruits Egyptian Queen Nefertiti, Victorian Era big game Victorian-Era big-game hunter John Riddell, Amy Pond, Rory Williams the Last Centurion, and (by accident) Rory's very confused dad to help complete his mission.mission.
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** ''Series/StargateSG1'': Fitting the BunnyEarsLawyer mold. Teal'c is an alien defector, Jack breaks protocol every chance he can, and Daniel's going native on Abydos didn't endear him to the military and his general obsession with non-standard archaeological ideas makes him more than a bit quirky. Even Sam is presented as not seeming to relate to a lot of people outside the band and rather obsessive when it comes to Gate technology and physics. She's in two male-dominated fields, the military and science, and seems to have a psychological need to prove herself because of it ("Me? Tense? I'm not tense!"). Of the later additions, Jonas Quinn was responsible for his predecessor's death, Vala [=MalDoran=] is a criminal, and Cam Mitchell gets a lot of flack for being a newbie 'commander' who can't actually give any of his team orders. Probably not quite the sanest group you could send through a Stargate, but they do save the world every other week, so they keep their jobs.
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** ''Series/StargateSG1'': Fitting the BunnyEarsLawyer mold. Teal'c is an alien defector, Jack breaks protocol every chance he can, is the MilitaryMaverick, and Daniel's going native on Abydos didn't endear him to Daniel is the military and his general obsession with non-standard archaeological ideas makes him more than a bit quirky.quirky academic. Even Sam is presented as not seeming to relate to a lot of people outside the band and rather obsessive when it comes to Gate technology and physics. She's in two male-dominated fields, the military and science, and seems to have a psychological need to prove herself because of it ("Me? Tense? I'm not tense!"). Of the later additions, Jonas Quinn was responsible for his predecessor's death, Vala [=MalDoran=] is a criminal, and Cam Mitchell gets a lot of flack for being a newbie 'commander' who can't actually give any of his team orders. Probably not quite the sanest group you could send through a Stargate, but they do save the world every other week, so they keep their jobs.
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** The "Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End" multi-parter brought together the Doctor, a [[TookALevelInBadass shopgirl turned universe-hopping badass]], an [[CameBackWrong immortal]] [[ExtremeOmnisexual outrageously flirtatious]] captain, a military medical officer, his current companion who was a temp, a [[RomanticRunnerUp former romantic rival]], a journalist and former companion, and one companion's mother. Plus a [[BewareTheQuietOnes an archivist-turned-agent]] and [[ActionGirl trained policewoman]], a companion's son, and a [[TeamPet robot dog]].
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** The "Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End" multi-parter brought together the Doctor, a [[TookALevelInBadass shopgirl turned universe-hopping badass]], an [[CameBackWrong immortal]] [[ExtremeOmnisexual outrageously flirtatious]] captain, a military medical officer, his current companion who was a temp, a [[RomanticRunnerUp former romantic rival]], mechanic-turned-Cyberman-resistance fighter, a journalist and former companion, and one companion's mother. Plus a [[BewareTheQuietOnes an archivist-turned-agent]] and [[ActionGirl trained policewoman]], a companion's son, and a [[TeamPet robot dog]].
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* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' details the exploits of a band of misfits who seem to have nothing in common save the fact they are [[EveryoneIsBi all inexplicably bisexual]] (or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqFFFgdo1Zc Welsh]]) and somehow lonely. In fact, almost as many episodes (including the apocalyptic season finales) deal with the team members fighting each other as with the supposed premise of protecting Earth (or, at least, [[AliensInCardiff Cardiff]]) from aliens. But they ultimately are [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther quite protective of each other]] and complement one another.
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* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' details the exploits of a band of misfits who seem to have nothing in common save the fact they are [[EveryoneIsBi all inexplicably bisexual]] (or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqFFFgdo1Zc Welsh]]) and somehow lonely. In fact, almost as many episodes (including the apocalyptic season finales) deal with the team members fighting each other as with the supposed premise of protecting Earth (or, at least, [[AliensInCardiff Cardiff]]) from aliens. But they ultimately are [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther quite protective of each other]] and complement one another.
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* ''Series/LazyCompany'' is comprised of a spectacularly unlucky sergeant, a LovableSexManiac corporal, a BlindWithoutEm [[TheIngenue ingénue]] and an escapee from an asylum who is probably the OnlySaneMan of the bunch. They're fighting Nazis in 1944 France and are surprisingly good at it.
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* ''Series/HappyEndings:'' The main gang is this whenever they all work together on something, which doesn't happen too often (usually they're split into smaller groups of two or three). In Kickball 2: The Kickening, they rally together for a kickball match, and Max describes tham as 'The loveable but gruff player manager (himself), a third baseman with priorities all out of whack (Dave, trying to decide which eyeblack to use), a right fielder in six inch heels on (Penny insists her kickball shoes make look like a lesbian), and Brad (who likes to bunt)-who Max can't tell if he's practicing kicking or gently nudging it to see if its still alive. Paired with the "child-sized" woman Alex, and the crazy Scotty. Even though they eventually get the aid of their friend/team traitor Jane, and NFL player Lance Briggs, this trope is ultimately subverted as they lose in the championship.
** In Season 3, trying to save the kid playcenter where he now works, Brad says he's gonna round up the rag-taggiest band of misfits. His boss excitedly asks "Traveling Wilburys?!" and Brad says "How am I gonna get the Traveling Wilburys? Two of them are dead! Its my friends, dammit! I'm talking about my friend!"
* ''Series/TeenWolf''. Every member of Derek's pack was a confirmed misfit before being turned into a werewolf. Scott and Stiles both consider themselves to be misfits as well.
* ''Series/TheATeam''. So very much. As Face once put it, "On our own, we're just a bunch of misfits, [[CrowningMomentofHeartwarming but when we're together...now that's something special."]] The leader of the outfit is addicted to his own adrenaline. The mechanic and [[TheBigGuy Big Guy]] is in desperate need of anger management classes and has to be knocked out every time they need to travel by airplane. The con-man is, you might say, very easily distracted by the presence of pretty women. As soon as he breaks the team pilot and in-house medical advisor out of the psychiatric ward, they're on their way. Aren't you glad you just hired ''Series/TheATeam''?
* 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'ellana 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.
* ''Series/BlackSheepSquadron'' (originally titled ''Baa Baa Black Sheep'') is about the exploits of a squadron of misfit pilots fighting the Japanese in the South Pacific during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. One pilot has crashed so many times he's technically a Japanese ace. Others are drunks, insubordinate brawlers, Japanese-American pacifist mystics, or just plain crazy. Their commander is a drunk, insubordinate, over-the-hill ex-Flying Tiger who whips them into shape and turns them into the terrors of the South Pacific. It's based on a true story, and while the misfit tendencies of the squadron members themselves are highly exaggerated, Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, the squadron commander, was if anything MORE of a drunken misfit MagnificentBastard than the one in the TV series.
** And, just in case any viewer missed the point, each first-season episode opened with a title card that described the squadron as "a collection of misfits and screwballs who became the terrors of the South Pacific."
* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' details the exploits of a band of misfits who seem to have nothing in common save the fact they are [[EveryoneIsBi all inexplicably bisexual]] (or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqFFFgdo1Zc Welsh]]) and somehow lonely. In fact, almost as many episodes (including the apocalyptic season finales) deal with the team members fighting each other as with the supposed premise of protecting Earth (or, at least, [[AliensInCardiff Cardiff]]) from aliens. But they ultimately are [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther quite protective of each other]] and complement one another.
* ''Series/BlakesSeven'' makes ''Torchwood'' look like a haven of unity and competence.
* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' is essentially the ragtag bunch of misfits [[RecycledINSPACE IN SPACE!]].
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' is basically this [[RecycledINSPACE IN SPACE]] too. Of course, they're pretty awesome anyway, since the misfits are comprised of kick-ass ex-soldiers and convicts.
** And muppets!
* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}''. 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 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.
** "A ragtag, fugitive fleet...".
* ''Series/HogansHeroes'' are a ragtag bunch of multinational soldiers who are probably one of the most powerful Allied sabotage and espionage forces in all of Germany. Even the oblivious and childish Carter is a GeniusDitz when it comes to explosives.
* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' dips into this quite often; even when the team as a whole are trained professionals [[RookieRedRanger their leader is often a rookie]]. Still, some teams are more ragtag than others:
** ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'' is a stowaway, a security officer, a mechanic, a scientist, and a JunglePrincess. Later joined by the stowaway's older brother (also a security officer) and a [[HeelFaceTurn former]] [[TheAtoner villain]] from [[Series/PowerRangersInSpace last season]].
** ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'' is a jock, a nerd, a rocker girl, an artist, and their MemeticBadass teacher.
** But the king is probably ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'', which is a RaisedByNatives NatureHero, a KidHero semi-pro bowler, a GentleGiant florist, a college student, and an Air Force vet. At least the other teams came off as roughly the same age/maturity level (barring when a {{mentor|s}} joins the group).
** 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 [[{{Kuudere}} 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/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'' has a smug professional thief (Will, Black Ranger), a comical stuntman (Dax, Blue Ranger), a bold racecar driver (Ronny, Yellow Ranger), a snarky genius (Rose, Pink Ranger), and a [[spoiler: robotic teenager]] (Mack, Red Ranger). They are later joined by a troubled HumanAlien searching for revenge (Tyzonn, Mercury Ranger).
* 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''.
* ''Series/BabylonFive'' makes this (or as Creator/JMichaelStraczynski puts it, being "community-builders") [[HumansAreSpecial our]] collective [[PlanetOfHats Hat]].
** Mostly averted in the ''Series/{{Crusade}}'' spin-off, where the only "misfits" are Dureena, a professional thief, and [[BaldOfAwesome Galen]], a rogue [[MagicFromTechnology technomage]].
* ''Series/{{Glee}}'' gets its entire premise from this. A CoolTeacher takes on the worst Glee club in the state consisting of an obnoxious diva, the school's star quarterback, a CampGay who also plays football, a pregnant cheerleader, a JerkJock, a SassyBlackWoman, a stuttering Asian PerkyGoth, a nerd in a wheelchair, and two more cheerleaders and two more football players.
** Lampshaded in Journey to Regionals, with Olivia Newton John saying that the whole trope is overused and that everyone expects the underdogs to win. [[spoiler:Not this time.]]
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': The entire subculture of [[TheHunter hunters]]. They're all just a bunch of emotionally scarred people who make it their (non-paying) job to hunt and kill supernatural beings, most likely because someone they were close to was killed by one. Considering how rampant these paranormal attacks seem to be, you'd think the government would set up a [[TheMenInBlack secret agency]] to fight them. But no, it's left entirely up to these people, who will break as many laws and [[WalkingTheEarth wander the earth]] as much as they have to in order to get the job done, with no thanks or pay to show for it?
** From ''The Song Remains The Same'', with Heaven and Hell both threatening to destroy the earth and the apocalypse underway:
--->'''Dean:''' This is it.
--->'''Sam:''' This is what?
--->'''Dean:''' Team Free Will. One ex-blood junkie, one dropout with six bucks to his name, and Mr. Comatose over there.
* ''Franchise/StargateVerse'':
** ''Series/StargateSG1'': Fitting the BunnyEarsLawyer mold. Teal'c is an alien defector, Jack breaks protocol every chance he can, and Daniel's going native on Abydos didn't endear him to the military and his general obsession with non-standard archaeological ideas makes him more than a bit quirky. Even Sam is presented as not seeming to relate to a lot of people outside the band and rather obsessive when it comes to Gate technology and physics. She's in two male-dominated fields, the military and science, and seems to have a psychological need to prove herself because of it ("Me? Tense? I'm not tense!"). Of the later additions, Jonas Quinn was responsible for his predecessor's death, Vala [=MalDoran=] is a criminal, and Cam Mitchell gets a lot of flack for being a newbie 'commander' who can't actually give any of his team orders. Probably not quite the sanest group you could send through a Stargate, but they do save the world every other week, so they keep their jobs.
** ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' isn't much better. John is the only [[{{TheHero}} official soldier]] in the team, who was kicked to the curb by the by his commanders for not obeying the rules and never had anyone until Elizabeth pulled him out of his slump, Elizabeth herself is MarriedToTheJob and isolated with the responsibility of keeping an alien city running, Rodney is an [[TheSmartGuy abrasive, arrogant scientist]] with a penchant for last-minute solutions, Teyla is a down-to-earth action-girl who's the [[TheChick closest they have to a guide]], and Ronon is a TheStoic, who also happens to be the [[TheBigGuy real muscle]].
** ''Series/StargateUniverse'' takes this trope and turns it UpToEleven. Introducing
*** InsufferableGenius ManipulativeBastard widower Dr. Rush who is more fit to be a supervillain than a hero
*** A commander who isn't really fit to command anyone, has problems making hard decisions and was about to retire
*** BrilliantButLazy Eli who has a mother infected with HIV, an absent father, a former love interest turning into something alien and hostile and [[spoiler: a dead girlfriend]].
*** Said former love interest Chloe who is [[TheLoad utterly useless]] and knows it (and is turning into something different). Oh, and her father died in the first episode.
*** Lt. Scott, newbie but became second in command, has a son at home whom he doesn't know and his current girlfriend is the aforementioned Chloe.
*** Greer, who had an abusive war veteran father and has anger management issues.
*** And this was only the main cast...
* As the title of the show may suggest, this is pretty much the whole premise of 2009 sci-fi drama ''Series/{{Misfits}}'', which chronicles the escapades of five slightly disturbed and anti-social young offenders doing community service, who develop superpowers after being caught in a freak [[LightningCanDoAnything electrical storm]].
* And ~15 years earlier, the ''Series/MisfitsOfScience''.
* ''Series/{{Lost}}'''s cast includes a spinal surgeon, a fugitive, a con man, a OneHitWonder rock star, a former member of the Republican Guard, a cursed millionaire, a DeadpanSnarker psychic who can hear a dead person's last thoughts, a memory-impaired physicist, and an UnstuckInTime Scottish man. As seasons passed, you could add an immortal, a DeadpanSnarker pilot, a MagnificentBastard, a HandicappedBadass who has always been an UnwittingPawn, [[spoiler: a puff of smoke transformed into the previous UnwittingPawn and another immortal who had the job to keep this puff of smoke on the island and who might be a God]]. LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters indeed.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Much was made of the Scooby Gang's misfit characteristics, both as individuals and as a group. Particularly during the high school years. Or in Season 4 in comparison to the Initiative.
* Ditto for Team Series/{{Angel}}, minus the high school part.
* The outlaws from ''Series/RobinHood'' included a disinherited nobleman, his manservant, a con-artist/pick-pocket/thief, a carpenter, a woodsman, and an Arabic female doctor. The third season added a monk and a potter, who were admittedly, pretty useless.
* ''Series/{{Eureka}}'' is basically an entire town of misfits, albeit not necessarily ragtag.
* The Major Crimes Unit in '' Series/TheWire'' plays this trope straight.
* Each season of ''Series/PrisonBreak'' has a new band of criminals. Michael {{lampshade|Hanging}}d it in season four:
-->Let me guess. He had a ragtag band of criminals ready to pick up the slack.
* The Rottaran in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine ''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.
** As for the main cast, most of them were ReassignedToAntarctica in one form or another. Sisko was hoping to phone it in until retirement, Kira was shoved there because she was no fan of the provisional government, Odo and Quark frankly had nowhere else to go (and Quark was blackmailed into staying put), Garak was exiled, and Bashir talked a good game about "frontier medicine," but he had a lot to hide and a backwater station was a good place to hide it. Only O'Brien and Dax appear to have volunteered for it.
** 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.]]
* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' uses this. At the end of season 1 a group containing a cheerleader, a male nurse, a cop, an Internet stripper, a boy genius, a politician, a Japanese Otaku, his sidekick, an escaped con and the professor are all present
* The Five in ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'' were this, including an immortal scientist specializing in strange creatures, a genius keeping himself alive with a machine, an invisible thief, an electrical vampire/InsufferableGenius, and teleporting JackTheRipper. The Sanctuary team itself could be considered this with the above-mentioned immortal scientist, her daughter (and [[spoiler:JackTheRipper's]]) with anger-management issues, a quirky forensic psychiatrist disliked by his own colleagues, a Neanderthal, and a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent HAP]]. After the death of [[spoiler:Helen's daughter]], the team "acquires" a professional thief and smuggler.
* ''Series/{{Primeval}}''. Lester is well aware that he's in charge of a Ragtag Bunch Of Misfits and would gladly fire the lot of them and bring in professionals instead, were he not such a fundamentally decent chap.
--> '''James Lester''': Repeat that disgraceful slander, and you'll be hearing from my laywers.
* 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.
** The Regents are this. None of them have high positions, and most have menial jobs (one is a diner waitress and another is a housewife who is also [[spoiler:Pete's mom]]). This is deliberate, though, as people in power can't be trusted with the Artifacts in the Warehouse.
* The central study group characters of ''Series/{{Community}}'' are a JerkWithAHeartOfGold disbarred lawyer; an ex-anarchist high school dropout; a MetaGuy who sees everything as tropes; a high school jock-turned-goofball nerd; a recovering alcoholic Evangelical Christian housewife; a unpopular girl-turned-hottie who had a mental breakdown; a conniving, somewhat racist old man with ObfuscatingStupidity; and a crazed Chinese ex-professor who lied about knowing his subject. It's hard to find a group this crazy and yet a coherent whole.
* Similarly ''{{Friends}}'': A gang that started when a guy who married a lesbian introduced his little sister, a neurotic, 11-towel-categories ControlFreak, and college roommate, an equally neurotic StepfordSnarker with a drag-queen father. She cuts off his toe, the pair become neighbours and the snarker gets a ditzy roommate who, among other things, throws a girls wooden leg in the fire. The control freak gets two roommates, first a former StreetUrchin who was conceived in a threesome with her adopted mother and real parents, and later a woman who abandoned a man at the altar and isn't even equipped enough to make coffee. And this is apparently your ordinary, fully-qualified group of grown ups.
* The ''Series/{{Danger 5}}'' team, particularly in the online prequel. In fact, the reason the team exists is because when Tucker, Jackson, and Pierre were sent on a mission to Hitler, their total failure was met with such scorn that two women - the abrasive, alcoholic Russian Isla, and the calm but uptight Claire - were added to the team. Thus, in the midst of a satire of old-fashioned sexism, the Danger 5 team was born.
* Casaya from ''Series/{{Survivor}}: Panama'' was one of the most dysfunctional tribes the show has ever seen, with the yoga instructor who tried to start fire with his mind alone and the couch potato who was scared of leaves on her first day being the ''[[OnlySaneMan sanest]]'' members of the bunch. The other members? A ManChild with a HairTriggerTemper and SanitySlippage made ten thousand times worse by severe nicotine withdrawal, a fire dancer who annoyed everyone on her tribe with her TalkativeLoon and {{Cloudcuckoolander}} ways, an easily irritated woman with the world's heaviest Boston accent, who was just a cut below said fire dancer on the Most Annoying scale, a lawyer who spent an entire night drinking wine in the camp's new outhouse, and a ridiculously Asian guy who made his own Zen garden and practiced martial arts on the beach. In spite of all this and their alliance almost coming apart at the seams multiple times, the [[FanNickname Casaya Crazy]] were still able to stick together to pick off the more harmonious and peaceful La Mina tribe and turned on each other only when the LastOfHisKind continued his immunity run.
* Parodied and called out by name in ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' when Justin has to teach a class of magical delinquents to be a wand drill team of sorts. Everyone is too {{Genre Blind|ness}} to see that there's actually very little irony in the ragtag much of misfits pulling it off [[spoiler: (well pull it off until Alex's attempt to help the one truly hopeless member causes them to actually lose out in the end)]].
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' plays this to almost RunningGag levels. The Doctor himself ''defines'' ragtag, a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who stole a clapped-out ship and ran away from his people, for the sole purpose of....sightseeing the multiverse. He then makes a habit of picking up cavewomen, warriors from the Scottish Highlands, murses, kissogramers, schoolteachers, constantly put-upon soldiers, reporters, and on one occasion, a 19-year-old working in a department store. Predictably, they save the multiverse; ''repeatedly''.
** The "Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End" multi-parter brought together the Doctor, a [[TookALevelInBadass shopgirl turned universe-hopping badass]], an [[CameBackWrong immortal]] [[ExtremeOmnisexual outrageously flirtatious]] captain, a military medical officer, his current companion who was a temp, a [[RomanticRunnerUp former romantic rival]], a journalist and former companion, and one companion's mother. Plus a [[BewareTheQuietOnes an archivist-turned-agent]] and [[ActionGirl trained policewoman]], a companion's son, and a [[TeamPet robot dog]].
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar A Good Man Goes to War,]]" the Doctor assembles a team from across time and space to [[spoiler: rescue Amy and her baby.]] Said team consists of the Doctor himself, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld a 900 year old]] {{time travel}}er, the Doctor's companion Rory Williams, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld a 2000 year old]] [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire Roman Centurion,]] Commander Strax, a [[BloodKnight Sontaran]] [[CombatMedic nurse]], Madame Vastra and Jenny Flint, [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Victorian crime-fighting katana-wielding interspecies lesbians]] and Dorium Maldovar, a big fat blue guy. {{Space Pirates}} are also involved. If that's not ragtag......
** {{Invoked|Trope}} in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E02DinosaursOnASpaceship Dinosaurs on a Spaceship]]". The Doctor recruits Egyptian Queen Nefertiti, Victorian Era big game hunter John Riddell, Amy Pond, Rory Williams the Last Centurion, and (by accident) Rory's very confused dad to help complete his mission.
** In Season 3, trying to save the kid playcenter where he now works, Brad says he's gonna round up the rag-taggiest band of misfits. His boss excitedly asks "Traveling Wilburys?!" and Brad says "How am I gonna get the Traveling Wilburys? Two of them are dead! Its my friends, dammit! I'm talking about my friend!"
* ''Series/TeenWolf''. Every member of Derek's pack was a confirmed misfit before being turned into a werewolf. Scott and Stiles both consider themselves to be misfits as well.
* ''Series/TheATeam''. So very much. As Face once put it, "On our own, we're just a bunch of misfits, [[CrowningMomentofHeartwarming but when we're together...now that's something special."]] The leader of the outfit is addicted to his own adrenaline. The mechanic and [[TheBigGuy Big Guy]] is in desperate need of anger management classes and has to be knocked out every time they need to travel by airplane. The con-man is, you might say, very easily distracted by the presence of pretty women. As soon as he breaks the team pilot and in-house medical advisor out of the psychiatric ward, they're on their way. Aren't you glad you just hired ''Series/TheATeam''?
* 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'ellana 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.
* ''Series/BlackSheepSquadron'' (originally titled ''Baa Baa Black Sheep'') is about the exploits of a squadron of misfit pilots fighting the Japanese in the South Pacific during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. One pilot has crashed so many times he's technically a Japanese ace. Others are drunks, insubordinate brawlers, Japanese-American pacifist mystics, or just plain crazy. Their commander is a drunk, insubordinate, over-the-hill ex-Flying Tiger who whips them into shape and turns them into the terrors of the South Pacific. It's based on a true story, and while the misfit tendencies of the squadron members themselves are highly exaggerated, Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, the squadron commander, was if anything MORE of a drunken misfit MagnificentBastard than the one in the TV series.
** And, just in case any viewer missed the point, each first-season episode opened with a title card that described the squadron as "a collection of misfits and screwballs who became the terrors of the South Pacific."
* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' details the exploits of a band of misfits who seem to have nothing in common save the fact they are [[EveryoneIsBi all inexplicably bisexual]] (or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqFFFgdo1Zc Welsh]]) and somehow lonely. In fact, almost as many episodes (including the apocalyptic season finales) deal with the team members fighting each other as with the supposed premise of protecting Earth (or, at least, [[AliensInCardiff Cardiff]]) from aliens. But they ultimately are [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther quite protective of each other]] and complement one another.
* ''Series/BlakesSeven'' makes ''Torchwood'' look like a haven of unity and competence.
* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' is essentially the ragtag bunch of misfits [[RecycledINSPACE IN SPACE!]].
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' is basically this [[RecycledINSPACE IN SPACE]] too. Of course, they're pretty awesome anyway, since the misfits are comprised of kick-ass ex-soldiers and convicts.
** And muppets!
* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}''. 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 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.
** "A ragtag, fugitive fleet...".
* ''Series/HogansHeroes'' are a ragtag bunch of multinational soldiers who are probably one of the most powerful Allied sabotage and espionage forces in all of Germany. Even the oblivious and childish Carter is a GeniusDitz when it comes to explosives.
* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' dips into this quite often; even when the team as a whole are trained professionals [[RookieRedRanger their leader is often a rookie]]. Still, some teams are more ragtag than others:
** ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'' is a stowaway, a security officer, a mechanic, a scientist, and a JunglePrincess. Later joined by the stowaway's older brother (also a security officer) and a [[HeelFaceTurn former]] [[TheAtoner villain]] from [[Series/PowerRangersInSpace last season]].
** ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'' is a jock, a nerd, a rocker girl, an artist, and their MemeticBadass teacher.
** But the king is probably ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'', which is a RaisedByNatives NatureHero, a KidHero semi-pro bowler, a GentleGiant florist, a college student, and an Air Force vet. At least the other teams came off as roughly the same age/maturity level (barring when a {{mentor|s}} joins the group).
** 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 [[{{Kuudere}} 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/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'' has a smug professional thief (Will, Black Ranger), a comical stuntman (Dax, Blue Ranger), a bold racecar driver (Ronny, Yellow Ranger), a snarky genius (Rose, Pink Ranger), and a [[spoiler: robotic teenager]] (Mack, Red Ranger). They are later joined by a troubled HumanAlien searching for revenge (Tyzonn, Mercury Ranger).
* 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''.
* ''Series/BabylonFive'' makes this (or as Creator/JMichaelStraczynski puts it, being "community-builders") [[HumansAreSpecial our]] collective [[PlanetOfHats Hat]].
** Mostly averted in the ''Series/{{Crusade}}'' spin-off, where the only "misfits" are Dureena, a professional thief, and [[BaldOfAwesome Galen]], a rogue [[MagicFromTechnology technomage]].
* ''Series/{{Glee}}'' gets its entire premise from this. A CoolTeacher takes on the worst Glee club in the state consisting of an obnoxious diva, the school's star quarterback, a CampGay who also plays football, a pregnant cheerleader, a JerkJock, a SassyBlackWoman, a stuttering Asian PerkyGoth, a nerd in a wheelchair, and two more cheerleaders and two more football players.
** Lampshaded in Journey to Regionals, with Olivia Newton John saying that the whole trope is overused and that everyone expects the underdogs to win. [[spoiler:Not this time.]]
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': The entire subculture of [[TheHunter hunters]]. They're all just a bunch of emotionally scarred people who make it their (non-paying) job to hunt and kill supernatural beings, most likely because someone they were close to was killed by one. Considering how rampant these paranormal attacks seem to be, you'd think the government would set up a [[TheMenInBlack secret agency]] to fight them. But no, it's left entirely up to these people, who will break as many laws and [[WalkingTheEarth wander the earth]] as much as they have to in order to get the job done, with no thanks or pay to show for it?
** From ''The Song Remains The Same'', with Heaven and Hell both threatening to destroy the earth and the apocalypse underway:
--->'''Dean:''' This is it.
--->'''Sam:''' This is what?
--->'''Dean:''' Team Free Will. One ex-blood junkie, one dropout with six bucks to his name, and Mr. Comatose over there.
* ''Franchise/StargateVerse'':
** ''Series/StargateSG1'': Fitting the BunnyEarsLawyer mold. Teal'c is an alien defector, Jack breaks protocol every chance he can, and Daniel's going native on Abydos didn't endear him to the military and his general obsession with non-standard archaeological ideas makes him more than a bit quirky. Even Sam is presented as not seeming to relate to a lot of people outside the band and rather obsessive when it comes to Gate technology and physics. She's in two male-dominated fields, the military and science, and seems to have a psychological need to prove herself because of it ("Me? Tense? I'm not tense!"). Of the later additions, Jonas Quinn was responsible for his predecessor's death, Vala [=MalDoran=] is a criminal, and Cam Mitchell gets a lot of flack for being a newbie 'commander' who can't actually give any of his team orders. Probably not quite the sanest group you could send through a Stargate, but they do save the world every other week, so they keep their jobs.
** ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' isn't much better. John is the only [[{{TheHero}} official soldier]] in the team, who was kicked to the curb by the by his commanders for not obeying the rules and never had anyone until Elizabeth pulled him out of his slump, Elizabeth herself is MarriedToTheJob and isolated with the responsibility of keeping an alien city running, Rodney is an [[TheSmartGuy abrasive, arrogant scientist]] with a penchant for last-minute solutions, Teyla is a down-to-earth action-girl who's the [[TheChick closest they have to a guide]], and Ronon is a TheStoic, who also happens to be the [[TheBigGuy real muscle]].
** ''Series/StargateUniverse'' takes this trope and turns it UpToEleven. Introducing
*** InsufferableGenius ManipulativeBastard widower Dr. Rush who is more fit to be a supervillain than a hero
*** A commander who isn't really fit to command anyone, has problems making hard decisions and was about to retire
*** BrilliantButLazy Eli who has a mother infected with HIV, an absent father, a former love interest turning into something alien and hostile and [[spoiler: a dead girlfriend]].
*** Said former love interest Chloe who is [[TheLoad utterly useless]] and knows it (and is turning into something different). Oh, and her father died in the first episode.
*** Lt. Scott, newbie but became second in command, has a son at home whom he doesn't know and his current girlfriend is the aforementioned Chloe.
*** Greer, who had an abusive war veteran father and has anger management issues.
*** And this was only the main cast...
* As the title of the show may suggest, this is pretty much the whole premise of 2009 sci-fi drama ''Series/{{Misfits}}'', which chronicles the escapades of five slightly disturbed and anti-social young offenders doing community service, who develop superpowers after being caught in a freak [[LightningCanDoAnything electrical storm]].
* And ~15 years earlier, the ''Series/MisfitsOfScience''.
* ''Series/{{Lost}}'''s cast includes a spinal surgeon, a fugitive, a con man, a OneHitWonder rock star, a former member of the Republican Guard, a cursed millionaire, a DeadpanSnarker psychic who can hear a dead person's last thoughts, a memory-impaired physicist, and an UnstuckInTime Scottish man. As seasons passed, you could add an immortal, a DeadpanSnarker pilot, a MagnificentBastard, a HandicappedBadass who has always been an UnwittingPawn, [[spoiler: a puff of smoke transformed into the previous UnwittingPawn and another immortal who had the job to keep this puff of smoke on the island and who might be a God]]. LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters indeed.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Much was made of the Scooby Gang's misfit characteristics, both as individuals and as a group. Particularly during the high school years. Or in Season 4 in comparison to the Initiative.
* Ditto for Team Series/{{Angel}}, minus the high school part.
* The outlaws from ''Series/RobinHood'' included a disinherited nobleman, his manservant, a con-artist/pick-pocket/thief, a carpenter, a woodsman, and an Arabic female doctor. The third season added a monk and a potter, who were admittedly, pretty useless.
* ''Series/{{Eureka}}'' is basically an entire town of misfits, albeit not necessarily ragtag.
* The Major Crimes Unit in '' Series/TheWire'' plays this trope straight.
* Each season of ''Series/PrisonBreak'' has a new band of criminals. Michael {{lampshade|Hanging}}d it in season four:
-->Let me guess. He had a ragtag band of criminals ready to pick up the slack.
* The Rottaran in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine ''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.
** As for the main cast, most of them were ReassignedToAntarctica in one form or another. Sisko was hoping to phone it in until retirement, Kira was shoved there because she was no fan of the provisional government, Odo and Quark frankly had nowhere else to go (and Quark was blackmailed into staying put), Garak was exiled, and Bashir talked a good game about "frontier medicine," but he had a lot to hide and a backwater station was a good place to hide it. Only O'Brien and Dax appear to have volunteered for it.
** 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.]]
* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' uses this. At the end of season 1 a group containing a cheerleader, a male nurse, a cop, an Internet stripper, a boy genius, a politician, a Japanese Otaku, his sidekick, an escaped con and the professor are all present
* The Five in ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'' were this, including an immortal scientist specializing in strange creatures, a genius keeping himself alive with a machine, an invisible thief, an electrical vampire/InsufferableGenius, and teleporting JackTheRipper. The Sanctuary team itself could be considered this with the above-mentioned immortal scientist, her daughter (and [[spoiler:JackTheRipper's]]) with anger-management issues, a quirky forensic psychiatrist disliked by his own colleagues, a Neanderthal, and a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent HAP]]. After the death of [[spoiler:Helen's daughter]], the team "acquires" a professional thief and smuggler.
* ''Series/{{Primeval}}''. Lester is well aware that he's in charge of a Ragtag Bunch Of Misfits and would gladly fire the lot of them and bring in professionals instead, were he not such a fundamentally decent chap.
--> '''James Lester''': Repeat that disgraceful slander, and you'll be hearing from my laywers.
* 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.
** The Regents are this. None of them have high positions, and most have menial jobs (one is a diner waitress and another is a housewife who is also [[spoiler:Pete's mom]]). This is deliberate, though, as people in power can't be trusted with the Artifacts in the Warehouse.
* The central study group characters of ''Series/{{Community}}'' are a JerkWithAHeartOfGold disbarred lawyer; an ex-anarchist high school dropout; a MetaGuy who sees everything as tropes; a high school jock-turned-goofball nerd; a recovering alcoholic Evangelical Christian housewife; a unpopular girl-turned-hottie who had a mental breakdown; a conniving, somewhat racist old man with ObfuscatingStupidity; and a crazed Chinese ex-professor who lied about knowing his subject. It's hard to find a group this crazy and yet a coherent whole.
* Similarly ''{{Friends}}'': A gang that started when a guy who married a lesbian introduced his little sister, a neurotic, 11-towel-categories ControlFreak, and college roommate, an equally neurotic StepfordSnarker with a drag-queen father. She cuts off his toe, the pair become neighbours and the snarker gets a ditzy roommate who, among other things, throws a girls wooden leg in the fire. The control freak gets two roommates, first a former StreetUrchin who was conceived in a threesome with her adopted mother and real parents, and later a woman who abandoned a man at the altar and isn't even equipped enough to make coffee. And this is apparently your ordinary, fully-qualified group of grown ups.
* The ''Series/{{Danger 5}}'' team, particularly in the online prequel. In fact, the reason the team exists is because when Tucker, Jackson, and Pierre were sent on a mission to Hitler, their total failure was met with such scorn that two women - the abrasive, alcoholic Russian Isla, and the calm but uptight Claire - were added to the team. Thus, in the midst of a satire of old-fashioned sexism, the Danger 5 team was born.
* Casaya from ''Series/{{Survivor}}: Panama'' was one of the most dysfunctional tribes the show has ever seen, with the yoga instructor who tried to start fire with his mind alone and the couch potato who was scared of leaves on her first day being the ''[[OnlySaneMan sanest]]'' members of the bunch. The other members? A ManChild with a HairTriggerTemper and SanitySlippage made ten thousand times worse by severe nicotine withdrawal, a fire dancer who annoyed everyone on her tribe with her TalkativeLoon and {{Cloudcuckoolander}} ways, an easily irritated woman with the world's heaviest Boston accent, who was just a cut below said fire dancer on the Most Annoying scale, a lawyer who spent an entire night drinking wine in the camp's new outhouse, and a ridiculously Asian guy who made his own Zen garden and practiced martial arts on the beach. In spite of all this and their alliance almost coming apart at the seams multiple times, the [[FanNickname Casaya Crazy]] were still able to stick together to pick off the more harmonious and peaceful La Mina tribe and turned on each other only when the LastOfHisKind continued his immunity run.
* Parodied and called out by name in ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' when Justin has to teach a class of magical delinquents to be a wand drill team of sorts. Everyone is too {{Genre Blind|ness}} to see that there's actually very little irony in the ragtag much of misfits pulling it off [[spoiler: (well pull it off until Alex's attempt to help the one truly hopeless member causes them to actually lose out in the end)]].
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' plays this to almost RunningGag levels. The Doctor himself ''defines'' ragtag, a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who stole a clapped-out ship and ran away from his people, for the sole purpose of....sightseeing the multiverse. He then makes a habit of picking up cavewomen, warriors from the Scottish Highlands, murses, kissogramers, schoolteachers, constantly put-upon soldiers, reporters, and on one occasion, a 19-year-old working in a department store. Predictably, they save the multiverse; ''repeatedly''.
** The "Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End" multi-parter brought together the Doctor, a [[TookALevelInBadass shopgirl turned universe-hopping badass]], an [[CameBackWrong immortal]] [[ExtremeOmnisexual outrageously flirtatious]] captain, a military medical officer, his current companion who was a temp, a [[RomanticRunnerUp former romantic rival]], a journalist and former companion, and one companion's mother. Plus a [[BewareTheQuietOnes an archivist-turned-agent]] and [[ActionGirl trained policewoman]], a companion's son, and a [[TeamPet robot dog]].
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar A Good Man Goes to War,]]" the Doctor assembles a team from across time and space to [[spoiler: rescue Amy and her baby.]] Said team consists of the Doctor himself, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld a 900 year old]] {{time travel}}er, the Doctor's companion Rory Williams, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld a 2000 year old]] [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire Roman Centurion,]] Commander Strax, a [[BloodKnight Sontaran]] [[CombatMedic nurse]], Madame Vastra and Jenny Flint, [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Victorian crime-fighting katana-wielding interspecies lesbians]] and Dorium Maldovar, a big fat blue guy. {{Space Pirates}} are also involved. If that's not ragtag......
** {{Invoked|Trope}} in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E02DinosaursOnASpaceship Dinosaurs on a Spaceship]]". The Doctor recruits Egyptian Queen Nefertiti, Victorian Era big game hunter John Riddell, Amy Pond, Rory Williams the Last Centurion, and (by accident) Rory's very confused dad to help complete his mission.
