History RagtagBunchOfMisfits / LiveActionTv

* ''Series/TheInbetweeners'' are a group of four lads consisting of a posh {{Nerd}} with NoSocialSkills and a tendency to either [[DeadpanSnarker snark at everything]] or [[InnocentlyInsensitive put his foot in it]], a hopeless romantic with such a [[SingleTargetSexuality single-minded crush on one girl]] that he [[CluelessChickMagnet utterly fails to pick up on when other women are into him]], a KnowNothingKnowItAll with a penchant for BlatantLies, with particular attention paid to [[CasanovaWannabe exaggerating his experience with women]], and an [[TheDitz idiot]] with [[ThePigPen poor personal hygiene]].

** ''Series/StargateUniverse'' takes this trope and turns it UpToEleven. Introducing

** In ''Series/StarTrekPicard'', (retired) Admiral Picard puts together a small crew for an off-book mission. This crew consists of himself, his drug-addicted former XO, a gruff former XO of a ship that (officially) no longer exists, an overly-anxious cyberneticist [[spoiler: who was manipulated to be TheMole]], and a naïve boy raised by warrior nuns. He even describes them as "decidedly motley."

* ''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/{{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.
* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' is essentially the ragtag bunch of misfits [[RecycledINSPACE IN SPACE!]].

** 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/KikaiZenkaiZenkaiger''.

what happens when you pair a good-hearted boy with no experience with an old robot, a robot with fantastic racism, a robot shirink violet, 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-derormed twins that look like mechas and an 11th hour ranger who was a villain because of father issues the answer is kikai zenkai zenkaiger

what happens when you pair a good-hearted boy with no experience with an old robot, a robot with fantastic racism, a robot shirink violet, a robot cleaning man hungry for knowledge who can't hold back his churlishness, add a pirate brother whose morals are at stake between gray and robin hood an engineer pirate a pair of super-derormed twins that look like mechas and an 11th hour ranger who was a villain because of father issues the answer is kikai zenkai zenkaiger

* 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.

** Mostly averted in the ''Series/{{Crusade}}'' spin-off, where the only "misfits" are Dureena, a professional thief, and [[BaldOfAwesome Galen]], a rogue [[MagicFromTechnology technomage]].

** 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, 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 ''repeatedly''.

** {{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 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/{{Firestorm}} a physicist and mechanic who can combine into one person]], and [[ComicBook/RipHunter the time traveler who recruited them all]].

** Later seasons add: [[ComicBook/{{Steel}} 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.

*** 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.

* ''Series/RedDwarf'': The main cast consists of a self professed lazy bum, a hologram of his overzealous dead bunk mate, a senile computer, a creature who evolved from the ship's cat, and an android with an overactive guilt chip, all of whom are trying to survive deep space whilst trying to avoid hostile threats.

** The Midnight Society in the 2021 mini-series consists of Conner, TheLeader, confident and outgoing, [[spoiler: and kidnapped by the monstrous Shadowman in the opening scene]]; Luke, Conner's level-headed best friend who's a big fan of old horror movies in black and white; Jai, the PluckyComicRelief and all-around geek; Gabby, a very smart girl who is an overachiever in everything except doing well at her job in a local fast food joint; and Hanna, an outspoken SoapboxSadie. Alongside them is Seth, [[TagalongKid Hanna's little brother]] who is obsessed with magic and wishes to join the Midnight Society.

** The Midnight Society in the 2021 mini-series consists of Conner, TheLeader, confident and outgoing, [[spoiler: and kidnapped by the monstrous Shadowman in the opening scene]]; Luke, Conner's level-headed best friend who's a big fan of old horror movies in black and white; Jai, the PluckyComicRelief and all-around geek; Gabby, a very smart girl who is an overachiever in everything except doing well at her job in a local fast food joint; and Hanna, an outspoken SoapboxSadie. Alongside them is Seth, [[TagalongKid Hanna's little brother]] whois obsessed with magic and wishes to join the Midnight Society.

** In the 2019 mini-series, the Society is composed by Gavin, TheLeader of the group who is charming and confident; former loser turned popular girl Louise; Akiko, a tomboy and aspiring filmmaker; chubby PluckyComicRelief Graham; and Rachel, the newcomer girly girl who finds herself pursued by a supernatural threat that the rest in the Society get caught up in.

* ''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 UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-era superheroine with animal powers (WesternAnimation/{{Vixen}}'s grandma).

* ''[[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.

* 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.

** Westerosi exiles and rejects, scorned nobles, fugitives, tarnished knights, mercenaries, eunuch warriors, Dothraki, and former slaves are all part of Daenerys' retinue - and there are her three dragons as well.
** Stannis' army is composed of this, by Westerosi standards. It includes former smugglers, Lyseni pirates, religious fanatics worshipping a strange new religion and of course a Red Witch.
** In the final season, the last stand against the armies of the dead is led by a recently-revived bastard (Jon), his little sister a face-stealing assassin (Arya), a teenage reformer with dragons for children (Daenerys), social outcast (Brienne), redeemed former-attempted child murderer (Jaime), an alcoholic dwarf (Tyrion), ex-smuggler (Davos), foreign priestess (Melisandre) and crippled seer (Bran).

* ''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.

* ''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

* During the Neverland arc of ''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 princess, 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]].

** 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?