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16->''"Wait, wait. You ARE a rag-tag group of adventurers with unclear goals and good hearts, right? ...yeah, you people are my LARGEST threat."''
17-->-- '''Galgarion''', ''Webcomic/RPGWorld''
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19This mission is important. The fate of the battle, nay, the war, nay, the ''entire world'' rests on the outcome. Who has the capability to stick it out, to give the good guys the victory they desperately need? This calls for a special team. The group of experienced, highly-skilled, professional, team-oriented experts? Not them. The assorted group of ex-con lowlife inexperienced {{cloudcuckoolander}}s or {{jerkass}}es who are trying to off their [[OfficerAndAGentleman commander]] [[TeethClenchedTeamwork when they aren't going at each other?]] Yeah, them.
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21'''This is usually {{justified|Trope}} in one of several ways:'''
22* Despite their flaws, they're still the best at what they do. See BunnyEarsLawyer.
23** They have talent but not much tolerance for traditional procedure, and/or they're the only ones who can stand to work with each other.
24** Or, they are really good and not that flawed, but really want everyone else to see them that way: making sure that the BigBad does not realize that the MildlyMilitary goofballs are a BadassCrew is [[ObfuscatingStupidity part of the plan]].
25* They're the best team [[ClosestThingWeGot that could be put together at short notice and/or budget]].
26** There simply ''isn't'' [[ItsUpToYou anyone]] [[TheOnlyOne else]].
27** If trouble blew up at a remote outpost, and there isn't time to get help, those characters who were ReassignedToAntarctica have to deal with it. Since they all did something to get themselves ReassignedToAntarctica, they tend to be a miscellaneous bunch.
28** The villains, no fools, took out everyone that looked like they could stop their EvilPlan; this is what's left.
29** The only ''essential'' trait is that they are not suspected of being TheMole or otherwise treacherous, and all the rest are under a cloud.
30** They were the support staff for TheWorldsExpertOnGettingKilled.
31* In case the mission fails, they're [[WeHaveReserves expendable]].
32** Alternately, they are ''[[SpringtimeForHitler expected]]'' to fail, so their commander will be free to NukeEm like he wanted to in the first place.
33** A mix of all the above, they may be sent in [[SurprisinglyEliteCannonFodder with people knowing they are the best, but not caring if they get killed either due to jealousy or just not liking them too much.]]
34* Sending in more experienced/skilled/powerful teams would have drawn too much attention. Indeed, the better-suited teams may be deliberately deployed elsewhere to distract from them.
35* More powerful teams would not [[DividedWeFall put up with the person ordering them about]].
36** This can be because the OnlySaneMan [[DividedWeFall does not have authority to get the best]].
37** Conversely, the man in the know can be such an annoying bully that no one would work with him, and such a control freak that he [[DividedWeFall can not give his knowledge]] to a ReasonableAuthorityFigure.
38* The authorities haven't actually noticed (or ''[[MoleInCharge are]]'') the problem, and the heroes have to gather whoever they can.
39** Alternatively, the authorities were informed about the problem but [[CassandraTruth refuse to believe it's real]], leaving the heroes on their own.
40* There was a better first choice that ''did'' get sent, but [[TheWorldsExpertOnGettingKilled they screwed up badly]]. These guys were the backup plan nobody wanted to be forced to use.
41* They need them to do something untoward or outright illegal, and they know these folks will keep quiet about it.
42* They're the only ones [[CrazyEnoughToWork crazy enough to even try]].
43** [[BoxedCrook The authorities offered them pardon for some offense.]]
44* They're random survivors of some apocalyptic event who more or less stumble across each other.
45* The MagneticHero tends to pick up whoever is willing to join him, regardless of their quirks. In fact it's often implied the MagneticHero is the only one that can keep the team's assorted oddities under control and them all working towards a goal.
46* [[YouCantFightFate Fate]] has determined that these misfits are {{The Chosen One}}s, and saving the world is their ultimate destiny.
47* In works set at a school, the school system may be responsible for [[SchoolForcedUsTogether bringing them together]] in some way.
48** An odd friend group forms because they are all [[BefriendingTheBullied victims of bullying who decided to find friendship/support in each other]].
49
50Of course, the Ragtag Bunch of Misfits will eventually have a MisfitMobilizationMoment to get their act together and win the day. Most often it produces casualties: typically, the guy forced to go on the mission despite being the [[ClearMyName Convicted Innocent]], or the OfficerAndAGentleman who's been stodgy and uptight just before making a HeroicSacrifice.
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52If the characters were not forced on the team--CondemnedContestant, BoxedCrook--they often join to be LonelyTogether. [[{{Foil}} To contrast]] their diversity, their enemies will likely be [[AlikeAndAntitheticalAdversaries all homogenous in one way,]] typically by being highly collaborative professionals.
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54Compare with CharacterMagneticTeam and HitchhikerHeroes.
55
56In the world of sports, this trope counts double. Last year's Super Bowl champions don't stand a chance against a random group of ex-cons, couch potatoes, and [[AnimalAthleteLoophole farm animals]], with ImprovisedTraining, who are almost guaranteed to pull out [[DownToTheLastPlay a last-minute win]].
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58Also where the trope is shown in the context of sports (or dance teams), you will typically find a three-game arc of progress. In the first game, it's Murphy's Law. The game is a comedy of errors for our ragtag gang of misfits, and they lose. Bad. Ridiculously bad. In the second game, the team sees notable improvement; usually they'll play well enough, only to lose at the last minute. Occasionally, they might even win on a freak play. By the third game, however, everyone has clicked and is playing at the top of their game. From that point on, it's all smooth sailing until The Big Game. (Often times, their opponent in The Big Game will be the same team that blew them out in the first game, just as a ways to show how far they've come.)
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60Subtrope to TheTeam. Similarly, Ragtag Bunches Of Misfits come in any size, the PowerTrio, FiveManBand, MagnificentSevenSamurai and even ArmyOfThievesAndWhores for when this trope is magnified to the size of an army. RecruitTeenagersWithAttitude is a frequent subtrope.
61
62Heavily overlaps with CriminalFoundFamily. Compare and contrast CarnivalOfKillers for the villainous equivalent.
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65!!Examples:
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69[[index]]
70* RagtagBunchOfMisfits/AnimeAndManga
71* RagtagBunchOfMisfits/ComicBooks
72* RagtagBunchOfMisfits/{{Film}}
73* RagtagBunchOfMisfits/{{Literature}}
74* RagtagBunchOfMisfits/LiveActionTV
75* RagtagBunchOfMisfits/VideoGames
76* RagtagBunchOfMisfits/RealLife
77[[/index]]
78
79[[folder:Advertising]]
80* The Charlestown Cougars, a fake women's high school basketball team assembled for the purpose of Nike commercials.
81[[/folder]]
82
83[[folder:Eastern Animation]]
84* ''Animation/{{Dreamkix}}'' is about a group of {{Funny Animal}}s working to overcome their physical disadvantages and personality clashes in order to become a champion soccer team. Pretty notable when your team members include an adorkably determined Dachshund, a surly Scottish sheep, and a chicken who often forgets he's playing soccer in the first place.
85[[/folder]]
86
87[[folder:Fairy Tales]]
88* ''Creator/TheBrothersGrimm'':
89** In "Literature/HowTheSixMadeTheirWayInTheWorld", an out-of-work soldier gets back at a greedy king with the help of a band of peasants who [[PlotTailoredToTheParty just happen to have supernatural abilities that help him in his quest]]. These include a strong-man who [[SuperStrength carries uprooted trees like they were kindling]], a hunter with ImprobableAimingSkills, a runner with such SuperSpeed he has to tie a weight to one of his legs to keep himself from going TooFastToStop, a man who [[BlowYouAway can blow powerful winds out his nose]], and a man who can [[AnIcePerson general a field of bitter cold just by straightening his hat]].
90** "Literature/TheBremenTownMusicians": A band of elderly farm animals escape being put to death and try to become travelling musicians; on their way to Bremen, [[AccidentalHero they accidentally scare off a gang of bandits]].
91* "Literature/TheFoolOfTheWorldAndTheFlyingShip": There is the titular character, who is known as the fool of the world, and his companions: a man who can see across the world, a man who can eat tons of bread, a man who can run fast around the world and a man who can create an army out of wooden sticks.
92[[/folder]]
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94[[folder:Fan Works]]
95* ''Fanfic/AYoungGirlsGuerrillaWar'': The Kozuki Organization recruits partisans wherever they can from the civilian population. The fact that they manage any sort of successes compared to much larger groups tends to surprise some. Also deconstructed, as their initial low hiring standards mean a number of psychopaths in their ranks end up causing disciplinary issues and nearly causes disaster [[spoiler:when one member takes advantage of the group's resources to launch a personal murder campaign.]]
96* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' fic "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4353281/1/ Across the Worlds]]" sees Susan (from approximately the same time as ''Film/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'') leading a group of four strangers- Zaru, a talking Leopard, Inara, a teenage girl from 2008 forced to deal with her abusive or neglectful parents, Jason, a bounty hunter from a post-apocalyptic world, and Professor Elias Denton, a scientist from the far future- on a quest across various alternate worlds using Andrew Kirke's old rings (''Literature/TheMagiciansNephew''), after an unknown force attacks Narnia and abducts Susan's siblings, King Caspian, Professor Kirke, Polly Plummer, [[spoiler:Jill Poole, Eustace Scrubb]] and even Aslan himself. While Zaru's loyalty helps Susan establish her authority of this group given her comparatively greater experience of such unconventional events, the journey is still a challenge as these five have to learn how to work together. [[spoiler:Things become more complicated as they have to adapt their strategies as they rescue Susan's siblings, such as having to prevent Peter taking charge as Jason, Inara and Elias all have faith in Susan and resent a relative newcomer taking over their quest]].
97* When the Alicorn Amulet is stolen in [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/451065/the-amulet-job The Amulet Job]], the group that comes together to get it back consists of an [[TheAtoner atoning]] magic-happy unicorn (Starlight), a [[DitzyGenius scatterbrained scientist]] (Dr. Whooves), a clumsy muffin-loving mailmare (Derpy), an egotistical speedster (Rainbow Dash), a lyrist who doesn't fully comprehend what they're getting into (Lyra Heartstrings) and a candy shop owner (Bon Bon, [[NoSuchAgency formerly known as]] Sweetie Drops). They are joined later by a sour and rude [[ReformedBully ex-bully]] (Gilda), an [[IneptMage inept yet studious mage]] (Sunburst) and a changeling [[DarkIsNotEvil who is struggling to do right by others]] (Thorax). Despite all of the obstacles in play, the entire group is still able to escape with the Amulet.
98* The main group from ''Fanfic/TheCalvinverse'': a BookDumb GadgeteerGenius, a CowardlyLion, a [[ThePrankster prankster]] {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, a {{Jerkass}} BunglingInventor and finally a nerd who's also the OnlySaneMan.
99* ''Fanfic/CodeGeassPaladinsOfVoltron'': More pronounced than in canon, since half of them were essentially [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent high school students with no combat training at all]].
100* [[Creator/BrendanBlaber JelloApocalpyse]]'s playthroughs of ''VideoGame/PokemonColosseum''/''VideoGame/PokemonXDGaleOfDarkness'', dubbed ''"Dogs in Love"'', increasingly characterised all the cast as they were playing through and turned the games' Pokemon parties into these. The ''Colosseum'' party consists of the titular dogs in love, one of whom is keen on being a DestructiveSavior and one of whom ''isn't'', a dopey GentleGiant, a Punch-Clock Hero who doesn't really like any of the others, a bird-dragon who fawns desperately over one of the aforementioned dogs and a guy mistaken for a world-famous celebrity who feels he now has to keep up the act or the others will turn on him. The ''XD Gale of Darkness'' party consists of the AntiAntiChrist, an emotionally-squishy insect lawyer, a mutant with the musical proficiency to play ''all'' the background music, a friendly capitalist, a guy trying to be a cool vampire [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex so people will actually like him]] and a lounge singer.
101* ''Fanfic/{{The End of the World|FernWithy}}'':
102** Charlie Flynn (TheSocialExpert from District Five) wins the 1st Quarter Quell while allied with his blind district partner, a terminally ill girl from District Nine, a one-handed boy from District Seven, two merchant kids from Twelve, two kids from Eight whose district held a reaping of their own to decide who to vote for and a nondescript pair from Eleven.
103** Annie's allies in the 70th Hunger Games are her district partner (the two of them were kicked out of the regular Career pack), the girls from Twelve and Five, and the two kids from Ten.
104* The heroes in ''FanFic/{{Horseshoes and Hand Grenades}}'' (or rather, one of it's side-stories ''A Month of Sundays''): A sweet CameraFiend who loves people's smiles, a Glee Club (with one being a {{Ninja}} and the other a {{Samurai}}), a HugeSchoolgirl who wields [[ImprobableWeapon a vaulting pole]], a cheerleader with a huge SweetTooth and a {{Japanese Delinquent|s}} who was once a former monster called a Zodiarts.
105* The protagonists in ''Fanfic/WarriorsOfTheWorldSoldiersOfFortune'': a KnightInSourArmor with a DarkAndTroubledPast reluctantly teams up with a ChickMagnet SquishyWizard, an InsufferableGenius SexyPriest, a NiceGuy, a quiet [[TheBigGuy Big Guy]], an InnocentlyInsensitive WideEyedIdealist and his scientist half-sister, and an [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]] ChurchMilitant. They start getting on well with each other once they determine exactly what they're meant to be doing.
106* In the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' story ''Fanfic/PrisonIslandBreak'', this is what [[TheLancer Sonic]] ends up with by having a psychopath for his cellmate.
107* Invoked and parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/SolarOpposites'' season 2 finale "The Solar Opposites Almost Get an Xbox." Desperate to be fulfilled before they die, the Solar Opposites travel to Brazil to coach a ragtag underdog team in a champonship game of water polo. However, all the teams are hunks, so they use the Rag Tag Ray to transform one team into a group of children, old people, disabled people, and a WellDoneSonGuy so their [[UnderdogsNeverLose victory]] holds more weight.
108* The protagonists in ''Fanfic/{{Ronman the Barbarian}}'' (a Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian-esque ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' fanfic) are called the Breeches Bandit Gang (BBG for short). They include Ronman (a young barbarian), Ruthless (his former pet Saber Tooth Naked Mole Rat), Wadelin (a young alchemist), Moniquity (the Queen of Thieves and Royal Best Friend of Kimila), and Kimila (the warrior princess, also known as the "[[Comicbook/RedSonja Red Kim]]").
109* The ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' story ''Fearless'' is basically a group of a soccer players, a cheerleader/former federal agent and 12-year-old versus the Company. Made worse by the fact that only one of them has a power that could be considered offensive.
110* Any time a fanfic in the ''FanFic/ShadowchasersSeries'' is set around a team, they fit. The ''most'' ragtag group is in ''Fanfic/ShadowchasersBackwater''; Tsubasa and Rave are the only ones that are truly human and all of them are unusual even when compared to Shadowkind either races that are incredibly rare on Earth (at least in this sort of situation) or unique beings entirely. [[note]]We have a vampire, a reformed succubus, a martial artist golem, a fox spirit, an odd spirit generated from an old NES and a practitioner of the dark arts who comes from a race of wizards.[[/note]]
111* In ''FanFic/SonicXDarkChaos'', Eric and the crew of the Dreadnought take this [[ExaggeratedTrope Up to Eleven]] - featuring Alice the Cat (a rescued orphan girl), Sonya the Hedgehog (a [[SirSwearsALot foul-mouthed]] Japanese Delinquent WrenchWench [[spoiler: who happens to be a former princess]]), Shadow the Hedgehog, Fang the Sniper, Mighty the Armadillo and of course [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Eric]] [[IdiotSavant the]] [[GeniusDitz Hedgehog]] himself. They end up holding their own against demon forces many times their size and [[HeroOfAnotherStory indirectly]] help Sonic and friends save the galaxy.
112* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/11590578/1/Mortal-Kombat-Desperation Mortal Kombat: Desperation]]'', Kotal Kahn and his team of champions (an outlaw, a humanoid reptile, an eccentric trainer of martial arts, a duo consisting of a big guy and a little girl AND a collection of souls) [[EnemyMine reluctantly team up]] with several revenants from the Netherrealm (including two demonesses, two former Shaolin monks, a former Lin Kuei, a police officer, a shaman, an Edenian princess and her mother) and with Earthrealmers (another physical god, a former actor and his wife, an ex-military specialist and his daughter, a telepathic blind swordsman and his son, and a Shaolin archer) in order to stop a [[AxCrazy power-hungry]] [[BigBad Raiden's]] desire to [[OmnicidalManiac unleash Armageddon on all realms]].
113* In ''Fanfic/MortalKombatVsMarvelUniverse'', you have the Exiled Kombatants, consisting of a former actor-turned-billionare industrialist (Johnny Cage), his military wife (Sonya Blade), their two daughters (Cassie and Ravenna Cage) and the former rulers of the Netherrealm-turned-assassins (Liu Kang and Kitana) joining forces against their former boss (Raiden), corrupted from purifying the Jinsei, now seeking to kill the former champions and bring both Cassie and Ravenna back to Earthrealm by force. And that's not taking into consideration the Avengers and the X-Men.
114* In ''Fanfic/RagnarokRagnaGuardian'', TheChosenMany are Shiro, an IdiotHero and TheSlacker, Saya, a ShrinkingViolet {{Tsundere}}, Roku, an InsufferableGenius with a HairTriggerTemper, and Reiko, a KnowNothingKnowItAll with NoIndoorVoice. Naturally, they are hyper competent fighters.
115* ''FanFic/TheDifferentverse'': This series' Mane Six consists of:
116** Twilight Sparkle, the personal student of a {{Physical God}}dess.
117** Moondancer, her roommate who's just as good at research but has a tendency to be rather [[BrutalHonesty blunt]].
118** Derpy Hooves, the faithful mailmare of Ponyville with lazy eye syndrome, who is raising a daughter and niece effectively on her own.
119** Scootaloo, Derpy's goofy little niece with a talent for speed on her scooter and who loves keeping her friends and family happy.
120** Marble Pie, a [[ShrinkingViolet shy]] little Earth Pony who does nice things for others even when they don't realize it was her.
121** Coco Pommel Apple, who was adopted into the Apple family as a child and is willing to risk her life to save their livelihood.
122* The ''FanFic/FalloutEquestria'', an apocalyptic mix of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' and ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'', it makes sense to have a group of ponies who are a bit on the weird side, trying to survive in the wasteland that is Equestria. Our line up of heroes includes a naive unicorn named Littlepip fresh out of a war bunker, guided by an insatiable curiosity and ChronicHeroSyndrome, a kindly unicorn who escaped aforementioned bunker to become a CombatMedic and is obsessed with Fluttershy, a DefectorFromDecadence pegasus who really likes hoarding things, a gruff undead soldier bound to his PoweredArmor and an enslaved zebra who hates being touched.
123** The spinoff ''FanFic/FalloutEquestriaProjectHorizons'' ups the ante, based in the hellhole of Hoofington, and has an even more broken bag of heroes. Our hero Blackjack is a bisexual, trigger happy security guard who has an even bigger need to help others than Littlepip, emotionally and mentally unstable, an alcoholic, gambler and a LovableSexManiac. And that's even before she [[spoiler: becomes a {{Cyborg}}.]] Not to mention the amount of times she has boats dropped on her head. Her companions include an escapee gay sex slave addicted to painkillers, and later joined by his estranged daughter who aims to become a plumber, a pegasus medic who becomes the victim of forced exile, a particularly violent mercenary who is both immortal and a SoulJar, and an [[WingedUnicorn alicorn]] who is part of a larger HiveMind, serving as a physical dumping ground for any and all unwanted emotions and thoughts.
124* The Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse AU series "[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/2829439 Ronin and the Spy]]" basically acknowledges this as one of the problems the surviving heroes will face attempting the Time Heist. In this reality, the original Avengers (barring Thor and Clint) were all victims of the Snap, so while the survivors (Sam, Bucky, Scott, Okoye, Nebula, Carol, Peter and Yelena) all share their desire to undo the Snap they haven't actually worked together as a team.
125* The [[Creator/DCComics DC]]/[[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel]] crossover fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12214631/1/Hope-and-Responsibility Hope and Responsibility]]'' features Spider-Man becoming the unofficial leader of a group of teen heroes dealing with various threats in New York; himself, Supergirl (his current girlfriend), Static, a reformed Bombshell, and Cloak & Dagger.
126* In the ''Fanfic/DoctorInTheUnderworld'' series, vampire historian Tanis observes that Selene's new 'team' of herself, servant vampire Erika (really an amnesic Madame de Pompadour), vampire-lycan hybrid Michael Corvin and the alien Doctor is basically this, explicitly asking when Selene started to work with a 'freak squad'; Michael responds with the observation that all they need is a theme song.
127* ''Fanfic/AvengersOfTheMultiverse'' has a team of teen heroes from various parallel universes coming together, with their members including WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom, [[WesternAnimation/KimPossible Kim Possible, Ron Stoppable]], [[Franchise/Ben10 Ben Tennyson]], [[WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex Rex Salazar]], [[WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong Jake Long]], [[WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays Zak Saturday]], [[WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan Illana, Lance and Octus]]; they get along well enough, but it takes them until the end of the second story in the series to nominate Danny as the leader.
128* ''Fanfic/MyFathersSon'' plays around with this developing in Rhaegar Tagaeryen's court. While he is the rightful king who had to overthrow his father for the sake of the kingdom, he's gathering an increasingly unconventional group around him: [[spoiler: His mother]] served as Hand of the King for a few years as a proponent for the return of old Valryian culture, before political compromise instead brought in a GrumpyOldMan (Lord Tywin) in a sort of BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork incentive to strengthen their hand. There's Rhaegar's 2 queens, one an IronLady building her confidence back up (Elia), the other a free-spirited ActionGirl (Lyanna). He invited an illiterate but kind priest (Meribald) and a HotWitch (Melisandre) to act as spiritual advisors, along with a MadDoctor as the new Grand Maester despite him coming from a minor keep in Dorne (Qyburn). The current Master of Ships is a RagsToRiches story (Davos), a eunuch mummer is a holdover from the last monarch as TheSpymaster (Varys), the Masters of Law and War are relatively minor lords who decided to join Rhaegar early in the war (Lord Peake and Lord Lonmouth) and the Master of Coin was either a jolly fat man from The North (Lord Manderly) or as revealed in the appendix, an old friend from the Riverlands (Lord Blackwood).
129* "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10131594/1/Sharper-Points Sharper Points]]"- an ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'' fic where Felicity Smoak has become a vampire- sees Felicity recruited to a supernatural-focused version of Task Force X, whose members include John Constantine, Papa Midnite, werewolf Faye Chamberlain, Alvin Desmond (Doctor Alchemy), Felix Faust and Dean and Sam Winchester (''Series/{{Supernatural}}''). [[spoiler:It turns out that the situation was manipulated by Faust in an attempt to get out of his DealWithTheDevil (specifically Crowley), but although Desmond is killed, Crowley ultimately takes Faust off to Hell in advance for trying to cheat the deal]].
130* In ''Fanfic/TaarokosBuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Oz returns to the Scoobies, but his new band (Illogical Stop Sign) has a lead singer who comes from another dimension and is basically a winged demon and their drummer becomes a Slayer after the collapse of Sunnydale, which prompts the bass player (also her boyfriend) to start training to become an official Watcher so that he can keep an eye on her in the field.
131* ''FanFic/ThePiecesLieWhereTheyFell'': The new generation of Element-Bearers, which consists of a female Ahuizotl (the same species as the Daring Do villain), a batpony noble, a unicorn and librarian with a handful of secrets [[spoiler:(including the fact that she's actually a unicorn-changeling hybrid)]], a griffon with a massive debt and a drinking problem, a jovial female minotaur and a Diamond Dog with a talent for alchemy.
132* The main characters of ''Fanfic/AnonymoosesMonsterGirlSaga'' are an amnesiac guy from modern-day Earth, a roaming BloodKnight mercenary, a priestess of the setting's {{Expy}} of Ancient Egypt, a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who thinks she's a sentai hero (despite being in a fantasy medieval setting), a former assassin for the Order who was originally sent to kill the previous three and a centuries-old demon who acts like a little girl.
133* In the ''Natalie Jones'' Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse AU, "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12853088/1/Natalie-Jones-and-the-Stone-Knight Stone Knight]]" features the creation of the Committee for the Appraisal of Archaeological Peril, which consists of Russian spy-turned-archaeologist Natalie Jones, medical examiner Sam Wilson, Detective Inspector Sharon Carter, Sir Stephen of Rogesy, Allen Jones, and Clinton Francis; due to the influence of the reality-warping Holy Grail, Clint briefly believed himself to be Robin Hood, and Sir Stephen and Allen Jones were created based on an old legend and the fake father Natasha created for her false identity respectively.
134* The series ''[[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Series-1183 The Coven of Reformed Supernaturals]]'' initially seems to be this, as the Elders of ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' assemble Angel, Spike, Illyria (''Series/{{Angel}}''), Leo Wyatt, Cole Turner-as-Belthazor (''Charmed''), Blade (''Film/BladeTrilogy''), Hellboy (''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}''), John Constantine (''Film/{{Constantine|2005}}'') and the [[ComicBook/BatmanVampire vampire Batman]] to face a threat that has captured the Charmed Ones, [[spoiler:although they eventually learn that they were actually brought together to keep Leo occupied elsewhere while Gideon tried to kill Wyatt to prevent his fears of Wyatt's future]].
135** The sequel takes it one step further, as not only do the Coven gain Film/{{Spawn|1997}} as a new member ([[spoiler:replacing the deceased Batman]]), but it also puts the Coven against their 'evil twin' in the form of the Gathering of Supernatural Psychopaths, a team of supernatural killers brought together [[spoiler:for the sole purpose of keeping the Coven occupied while the Devil himself prepares for the apocalypse]].
136* ''Fanfic/YoungJusticeDarknessFalls'': As pointed out by Beast Boy, the team's not exactly the most normal and well adjusted of groups, but they're brought together by their common desire for justice.
137* The Red Lotus Trio in ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'' contains a girl from a world of superpowered monsters who wields a steel pipe that she insists be called a donut holer and invokes ''Alice in Wonderland'' whenever she has the chance, a talking dog who is the current king of his land and a living book whose papers are in the shape of a teenage boy dressed as a [[Anime/YuGiOhVRAINS "Specter"]] and has a fondness for gryphons.
138* The ''SugarWiki/MysteryKids'' consist of [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls a self-proclaimed paranormal investigator, his quirky twin sister]], [[WesternAnimation/ParaNorman a boy who can see ghosts]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}} a girl who escaped a demon with her wits alone, her nerdy friend]] and [[VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}} two psychic children, one of which is a former circus acrobat]].
139* Bruno, Anná and Mirabel end up becoming the "BlackSheep" Madrigal family branch in ''Fanfic/LaPolillaYLaMariposa''. Bruno being the {{Misunderstood Loner|with a Heart of Gold}} whom everyone hates for having inconvenient/scary powers (and being the unfavorite by Alma), Anná being the daughter of the town drunk (being the only in-law Alma never approved of having) and Mirabel being the only by-blood Madrigal without a gift.
140* In ''[[Fanfic/PatternsOfThePast Patterns of the Past]]'', the only ten agents who know about Old Missie getting kidnapped are forced to become an impromptu rescue team, which consists of:
141** Olesya, TheLeader of the group. An Investigation agent who first finds out about the kidnapping along with her partner Ogden.
142** Ogden, Olesya's partner. An Investigation agent with SituationalSociability who ends up leaving the group on the belief that Old Missie cannot be saved and that Precinct 13579 will fall to shambles without her.
143** O'Sullivan, the sole Maintenance agent of the group who is working on renovations to Headquarters.
144** Obfusco, an Investigation agent who speaks in painfully slow WordSaladPhilosophy.
145** Olmstead, the head of the Security department.
146** Orscheln, the sole scientist of the group who is rather quirky.
147** Osage, an Investigation agent and one of Old Missie's best agents. She would be in the running for being promoted to the Management department and becoming Old Missie's successor if not for her planning on retirement in a couple years.
148** Oxley, Ocelot's partner. An Investigation agent and TheBabyOfTheBunch at just five years old.
149** Ocelot, Oxley's partner. An Investigation agent with striking red albino eyes.
150** Obed, Osage's partner. An Investigation agent who appears to have a dislike of Ogden, especially after he leaves the group.
151* ''Fanfic/GodHelpTheOutcasts'': The group consists of a fifty-foot-tall woman, a mad scientist with a cockroach's head (and diet), a prehistoric fish-ape, a sentient gelatinous cyclops and an insectoid kaiju.
152* In ''RolePlay/DoofQuest'' Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated expands its aegis to include a ''very'' varied bunch. From toons, to cartoonish supervillains, resurrected Mongolian warlords, ninjas, magical creatures, failed teenage heroes and strangest of all, normal businesspeople, DEI has it all.
153* In ''Fanfic/ThisBites'', the Straw Hat Pirates are naturally still this, but has been expanded beyond its canon misfits to include a multi-dimensional travelling SelfInsert, a loudmouth Devil Fruit-empowered Transponder Snail, a pair of former villainous Zoan weapons, a ditzy princess and her duck bodyguard, a quintet of martial arts fighting amphibians, a gun-toting sky-island inhabitant and her snarky cloud fox, the crew's original ship now human, and a cowardly but lovable electricity-generating duck-peacock hybrid.
154* The heroes of the ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' fic ''[[https://www.deviantart.com/famguy3/art/Kids-Next-Door-Operation-Q-U-E-S-T-964611118 Operation Q.U.E.S.T.]]'' consists of Henrietta Von Marzipan, a candy hunter who is now seeking to redeem herself for the crimes she committed, Laura Limpin, a little girl with the power to turn into a monstrous teenager named the Big Badolescent, Mushi Sanban, Numbuh 3's little sister who had previously turned her sister's dead stuffed animal into a monster, King Sandy, Mushi's boyfriend who gets way too into his games of pretend, Ace, an AcePilot who prefers to [[IWorkAlone work alone]] and, as revealed at the end, [[spoiler:Cree Lincoln, who plays MysteriousProtector to the group and is trying to make up for becoming a Teen Ninja.]]
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158* Music/MotleyCrue got its name from this trope. Mick Mars recalled playing in another band in which a fellow member had described the group as "[[AGoodNameForARockBand a motley looking crew]]".
159* Christian singer/songwriter Rich Mullins recorded with a group known as the "Ragamuffin Band", who continued to perform together after his death. The opening track of ''A Liturgy, a Legacy, and a Ragamuffin Band'' features a bit of StudioChatter in which one of the band members admits he's barely ready to do this, which gets a laugh out of Rich and gives the listener the impression that the recording sessions were impromptu and fairly laid-back. Rich himself was known for performing concerts barefoot and dressed in faded jeans and a white undershirt.
160* The Savoyard march "Gironfla", where the Duke of Savoy musters an army of eighty peasants armed with halberds and [[WoodenKatanasAreEvenBetter wooden swords]], gives them four cast iron cannons for artillery and twenty donkeys laden with turnips as baggage train, and nominates a 21-year old EnsignNewbie to lead the "army" to conquer France. Miraculously, they succeed. [[spoiler:The song is based on historical events.]]
161* [[HeavyMetalUmlaut Hölderlins]] was a heavy-metal Japanese GirlGroup that at one point had a line-up with an ex-pro wrestler, an up and coming porn star, a drummer who's earlier band went nowhere and a music student who also had a side gig of making her own clothing line. With such a group of rascals, almost all the members of that line left to go elsewhere and while Hölderlins still exists they're no longer an all-female metal band.
162* ''Lonesome_Blue'' is another Japanese GirlGroup that included one of the ace guitarists from [[VisualKei Destrose]], two voice actresses and ex-bandol members from Queen of Purple with one of them (the bassist) being a former idol pop member, and a drummer who's a well-regarded session musician. Lonesome_Blue is also strongly tied in with power metal band Lovebites and had their music composed by Lovebites's lead singer. Such a disparate group came about when a producer wanted a new band and the Queen of Purple exes wanted to be part of a real band.
163* KPop idol group Music/SuperJunior started out as this. Originally a group made up of all the "reject" trainees who weren't selected for labelmate group Music/DongBangShinKi, even their company didn't expect them to do well. Now they're one of the top idol groups in all of Asia with a huge base of loyal fans.
164* Music/TheClash consisted of a schoolboy turned pub rocker, (Joe Strummer) a young man whose ambition in life is to be a rock star, (Mick Jones) a handsome art student who had never picked up any instrument until he joined the band, (Paul Simonon) and a prodigal jazz, funk and soul drummer (Topper Headon). Surprisingly, it works ''perfectly''.
165* Music/TheRamones. The singer (Joey Ramone) was a neurotic Jewish liberal with a crippling case of OCD. The guitarist (Johnny Ramone) was an uptight conservative MilitaryBrat. The bassist (Dee Dee Ramone) was a manic bipolar drug addict. The drummers tended to be the OnlySaneMan.
166** The band are a {{deconstruction}}. They were a mess for most of their existence, and despised each other and were profoundly miserable at times.
167* MAD TRIGGER CREW from ''Music/HypnosisMic''. The Yokohama division representative rap group is led by a yakuza leader and his members consist of a corrupt police officer and a former sergeant-ranked navy. When banded together, they are just as strong as they are intimidating. Their music also tends to lean to gangsta rap subgenre.
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171* ''Wrestling/{{WWE}} Wrestling/SurvivorSeries '99'' featured [[WrestlingDoesntPay wrestling porn star]] Wrestling/ValVenis leading his team of [[Wrestling/MarkHenry "Sexual Chocolate" Mark Henry]], wrestling [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]] [[Wrestling/DavidHeath Gangrel]] and, in the role of OnlySaneMan, wrestling [[IKnowKarate martial artist]] [[Wrestling/SteveBlackman "The Lethal Weapon" Steve Blackman]] to victory over [[Wrestling/DaveyBoySmith The British Bulldog]] and [[Characters/WWETagTeams The Mean Street Posse (Rodney, Pete Gas and Joey Abs)]], the latter three being two of Wrestling/{{Shane McMahon}}'s talentless friends and Abs, the "worker" of the team.
172* Misfits in Action in Wrestling/{{WCW}} in 2000. It was a military-themed group thematically made up of the tenured midcarders who didn't fit in either with the Millionaire's Club (tenured main eventers) or the New Blood (younger, newer wrestlers). It was made up of an {{Acrofatic}} heavyweight ([[Wrestling/BillDeMott General Rection [Bill "Hugh Morrus " [=DeMott=], changed from "Hugh G. Rection"]]), two up-and-coming Cruiserweights (Lt. Loco [Wrestling/ChavoGuerreroJr] and Corporal Cajun [Lash [=LeRoux=]]), a [[TheStoner Stoner]] character who had previously been a heavy metal guitarist, a member of Wrestling/{{Raven}}'s Flock, and a hippie (Major Stash [Van Hammer]), a MsFanservice (Major Gunns [Tylene Buck]) and a big guy who had previously been the bodyguard for Berlyn (Wrestling/AlexWright) (Sgt. [=A-WOL=] [The Wall]). Wrestling/BookerT was in the group for about a month, May-June 2000, as "G.I. Bro," which was his original gimmick in his GWF days, before he went back to himself.
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176* You get these every so often in ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'', but for the longest time the premier group of quirky but remarkably influential mercenaries was Snord's Irregulars. As the name suggests, Cranston Snord picked some rather strange warriors to form his unit in the early 3000s, with a shared common quirk of collecting--Snord himself collected valuable antiques of the Star League era. Other collections belonging to members of his unit include antique art, weapons, sports memorabilia, the records of Music/ElvisPresley, butterflies, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick harvested/preserved human body parts]]. There's also a bit of a joke that Snord collects weirdos as well. Snord likes to claim he collects skilled Mechwarriors, and while his troops are indeed quite skilled, Snord somehow managed to gather together serious {{Bunny Ears Lawyer}}s in the process.
177* ''TabletopGame/BloodBowl'' gives us the Motley Horde, a Blood Bowl team that fits this description to a tee. Not even the coach knows what kind of lineup he will see each game.
178* The main playable character options in the Glass-Maker's Dragon campaign for ''TabletopGame/ChuubosMarvelousWishGrantingEngine'' are an AmnesiacGod, his best friend who was wished into existence, an angsty mad scientist who may be an unwilling enemy of existence, a near-emotionless teenage Russian super-soldier, the daughter of the goddess of the Sun, the well-intentioned successor to the king of evil, the amnesiac remnants of a witch who sought to end reality, and [[TheTrickster Rinley]], who defies rational explanation. Major characters in planned future campaigns include the spirit of the AmnesiacGod's marvelous wish-granting engine (who manifests as either a steampunk [[Literature/TheMagicSchoolBus Miss Frizzle]] or a huge luchador who is the best friend's AmbiguouslyGay older brother), a nine-year-old elf and would-be noir detective with a magical cloak, a LargeHam who wishes to unmake reality for its own good, and the most popular kid in School, who has serious trouble with the concept of not being the most important person in the world.
179* A lot of Solar, Abyssal and Infernal circles in ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' would qualify. For Solars, if you're a reborn god-king with about half the world gunning for you, you tend to associate with others who can help you punch that half the world in the face. Infernals and Abyssals tend to end up in these through a mix of that desperation and the details of the assignments they receive from their bosses.
180** ''Exalted Essence'', by virtue of having the ten primary Exalted types available to play out of the box, lends itself to this more easily than the main ruleset, given that the various Exalted include reborn god-kings who are supreme in their chosen fields (Solars), elemental warriors who dominate the world (Dragon-Blooded), shapeshifting insurgents (Lunars), fate-manipulating agents of the CelestialBureaucracy (Sidereals), champions of death created using the corrupted power of the Solar god-kings (Abyssals), victims of injustice and oppression wielding {{Lovecraftian Superpower}}s to tear the whole mess down (Infernals), artificial humans empowered with magitech (Alchemicals), ghost-hunting undead created using other people's bodies (Liminals), [[GlitchEntity living glitches in fate]] (Getimians), and a further ragtag collection of individuals with diverse themes and powers who don't fit into any of the above categories (Exigents), and many of them have long-standing grudges against each other. The ''Essence'' companion adds two [[LooseCanon optional]] Exalted types: reality-warping illusionist visionaries (Dream-Souled) and shadow manipulators who gain power by trading control to [[ShadowArchetype their own inner darkness]] (Umbrals).
181* While familias in ''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'' are rarely ''ragtag'' -- it would absolutely ''ruin'' their social standing -- they can be a pretty weird bunch, because their bosses, the Imperators, are driven by stranger drives than "making teamwork easy" (these are, after all, people who find the purpose of sneezing incredibly confusing). Various editions have included or strongly hinted at characters who are living strains of music, dragons, sea captains, ten-year-old girls who can beat up the US Marine Corps, descendants of TheFairFolk and animated suits of clothes without human occupants, all of them effectively [[RealityWarper reality-warping demigods]], and there's nothing that prevents all of these from being on the same team. That's ''without'' counting the possible inclusion of [[HumanoidAbomination un-people]] from the void outside the universe who have turned their back on destroying everything, who, in third edition, are ''also'' playable.
182* ''TabletopGame/TheOneRing'': Player characters can be drawn to adventure for many and varied reasons, from {{Revenge}} to wanderlust, but start the game with no [[AllianceMeter Standing]] in their home culture and often attract suspicion for not leading a more respectable life. This can be zig-zagged if they gain renown, lands, and titles in their adventures.
183* What any player group in ''TabletopGame/Twilight2000'' is. By the year 2000 US Army units included lots and lots of personnel who were hardly regular army: other NATO military personnel from defunct units, deserters from the other side, and even local recruits. The 1st edition rulebook recommends that at least half of the group be American, but anything else goes.
184* Taken to an extreme, as is everything in the ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' universe with entire penal legions, where the worst of the worst of the Imperium's convicted felons are sent on literal suicide missions in return for a general pardon in the unlikely event they survive. Think Dirty Dozen in battalion size. This trope is best exemplified in the novel ''Kill Team''.
185** Hell, the entire 597th could be considered a ragtag bunch of misfits. Of course, given the 40k universe's casually lethal nature, it's a good thing that they get constant reinforcements from Valhalla...
186** Colonel Schaeffer's Last Chancers. Recruited from penal planets and given the opportunity to redeem themselves by dying for the Emperor.
187** The 40k fan film ''Film/{{Damnatus}}'' follows the same idea, centering around a squad of mercenaries conscripted by the Inquisition to root out a suspected Chaos cult. There's the leader [[BadassNormal von Remus]], sidekick [[KnightInSourArmor Corris]], big guy [[HotBlooded Wodan]] and their resident [[MachineWorship tech-priest Oktavian]], all kept under close watch by more straight-laced PDF sergeant [[TheFundamentalist Adeodatus]] and ''his'' sidekick [[PsychicPowers Nira]].
188** A lot of Inquisitors' retinues tend to end up as this as well since Inquisitors frequently recruit people that they meet during their work with the only criteria being competence and loyalty.
189*** It should also be noted that the people they recruit can be of any social status or have any kind of occupation, too. For instance, one member of Amberley Vail's retinue used to be a fast food seller.
190*** Mordechai Horst ends up temporarily recruiting a prostitute desperate to escape from the societal role she was forced into as a guide. And his boss inducted a pair of Guardsmen simply because they were eyewitnesses to a major breach of security, and the pilot whose shuttle they were shot down in just because.
191** Commander Farsight's personal retinue, The Eight. Listing them off, there's [[TheBigGuy Commander Brightsword]] [[note]]some lunatic who took up a battlesuit and named himself after a famous Tau general who was assassinated by the [[Literature/TheLastChancers 13th Penal Legion]][[/note]], [[HandicappedBadass Commander Bravestorm]] [[note]]a Tau who suffers from severe burn injuries and so requires his battlesuit to stay alive[[/note]], [[TheLancer Commander Arra'kon]] [[note]]Farsight's second in command and successor should he fall[[/note]], [[PhlebotinumBreakdown Commander Sha'vastos]] [[note]]a poor schmuck who had a Puretide Engram chip forcibly inserted into his brain, where it malfunctioned and caused him to go a bit off his rocker, but he's better now[[/note]], Sub-commander Torchstar[[note]]a young female Tau whose body is covered in flame tattoos, she pilots a battlesuit with dual flamers[[/note]], [[CoolOldGuy Broadside Shas'vre Ob'lotai 9-0]] [[note]]a Broadside artillery battlesuit piloted by an AI that's based on Farsight's dead old mentor, [[MacrossMissileMassacre loves missiles]][[/note]], and [[TheSmartGuy Honour-Shas'vre O'vesa]] [[note]]an Earth caste scientist defector who pilots a custom Riptide battlesuit[[/note]].
192** For a while, Warsmith Honsou - an oddity himself, because his gene-seed is a mixture of the Iron Warriors and their worst enemies - went around with a personal retinue consisting of a thuggish BloodKnight, a CombatSadomasochist who Honsou recruited by driving bone shards through his lungs, a renegade Raven Guard, and a horrific abomination produced from welding science and black magic together (up until he got all of them bar himself killed, anyway). That was just his immediate circle of what probably passes for friends among the Iron Warriors; his army consisted of basically everyone he could either convince or force to come with him, ranging from SpacePirates to cyborg war engines.
193** The last faction of the 40k setting you'd suspect to have these kinds of teams would be the Space Marines, but even they have them, in the form of the Deathwatch and their kill teams. Officially an elite fighting force of the Inquisition dedicated to combatting xenos in all their forms, the Deathwatch recruits experienced Marines from loyal chapters. In reality, many Marines forwarded to the Deathwatch are misfits and relatively undisciplined for Space Marines, and so are sent away from the Chapter. When a Kill Team of Deathwatch Marines is formed, the team often grow a longlasting brotherhood of misfits, who learn how to deal with their differences to perform a single goal.
194* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay'': Many of the starting careers are undistinguished social roles like servants, peasants, and dung collectors, so many {{Player Part|y}}ies are motley groups of questionable provenance, brought together by the story's crisis. This goes double if they follow the game's recommendation to draw their starting careers at random.
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198* The musical ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix'' portrays the signers of the Declaration this way: a mismatched and forever-squabbling bunch of ordinary people [[WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants inventing a new country by the seat of their pants]]. The approach was lambasted by Creator/RogerEbert and others, who didn't realize [[RealityIsUnrealistic how close to the truth it actually was]].
199* One of the lyrics in the musical ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'' describes the American soldiers fighting in the American Revolutionary War as a "ragtag volunteer army in need of a shower."
200* Comedy musical ''Theatre/{{Starship}}'' features a crew including a robot that wants to kill all humans but can't, a battle-scarred emotionally unstable Commander with a mortal fear of robots, his [[ActionGirl violent]] and [[NoSympathy unsympathetic]] second-in-command, a NonActionGuy nerd, a hyperactive [[ButtMonkey idiotic]] recruit, a recruit from {{Farm|Boy}} [[SouthernFriedPrivate Planet]], a science officer whose [[TheDitz relevant skills]] don't even extend to the [[DumbBlonde ability to pronounce 'science']], and the bratty son of the company boss. At first it seems to just be PlayedForLaughs in a parody of the sci-fi genre, but it is revealed later that [[spoiler: Junior is evil and he needed the crew to be dysfunctional enough that they wouldn't notice his evil plan]].
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204* In one of the 2008 Toys/{{Bionicle}} web serials, Federation of Fear, the Order of Mata Nui send out a BoxedCrook [[WeHaveReserves suicide team]] to bring back a SealedEvilInACan with a grudge to fight the [[BigBad Makuta]]. The team consists of two mutated ex-warlords/ex-prisoners, a disgraced scientist/ruler whose name has become a byword for "failure," a {{Manipulative B|astard}}itch whose name has become a byword of "treachery," a BountyHunter, a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who is actually half of another being, and led by an Order member stuck in a HeelFaceRevolvingDoor who makes it clear at multiple points [[YouHaveFailedMe he won't hesitate to kill all of them if they cross him]].
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208* All of the ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' classes count. To wit:
209** [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc Class 78th]] consists of an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent who happens to be somewhat luckier than most, as well as a HopeBringer, a [[TheStoic stoic]] [[spoiler:GreatDetective with DaddyIssues]], a {{Jerkass}} BlueBlood, a donut loving swimmer, a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} clairvoyant, an abraisve romance writer [[spoiler:with a SerialKiller SplitPersonality]], a BrokenBird idol singer, a CasanovaWannabe baseball player who hates the sport, an ElegantGothicLolita gambler [[spoiler:who is lying about her entire past]], a BrawnHilda who also happens to be [[NiceGirl one of the nicest students]], an [[LargeHam extremely loud]] moral commitee member, a biker with a serious HairTriggerTemper, a [[spoiler:WholesomeCrossdresser]] progammer who looks like a child, a perverted fanfiction creator, [[spoiler:an ExtremeDoormat soldier and her fashionista sister who ends the world out of boredom.]]
210** [[VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair Class 77-B]] consists of a constantly [[SelfDeprecation self deprecating]] guy driven insane by his luck cycle, a GamerChick with problems staying awake, a baby faced {{Yakuza}} member, his MasterSwordswoman bodyguard/[[spoiler:ImpliedLoveInterest]], a perverted SupremeChef, a {{Chuunibyou}} animal breeder, a princess with [[NightmareFetishist several strange interests]], a ShrinkingViolet nurse, a traditonal dancer [[TheFakeCutie who is nowhere near as sweet as she looks]], a gymnast who [[BigEater loves eating]], a TeamMom photographer, an InnocentlyInsensitive mechanic with the FaceOfAThug, a GenkiGirl rockstar, a team manager [[ToiletHumor who loves talking about his bowel movements]], [[spoiler:a MasterOfDisguise pretending to be the {{Jerkass}} BlueBlood from the above class]] and, as the [[Anime/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool anime]] revealed, a [[{{Hikikomori}} shut in]] animator [[spoiler:who the MasterOfDisguise also pretended to be]].
211** [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony The Gifted Academy students]] consist of a detective doubting his talent due to arresting an SympatheticMurderer, an AllLovingHeroine pianist, a magician who seems to actually believe she has magical powers, a [[DoesNotLikeMen man hating]] neo aikido master, an underaged astronaut trainee [[spoiler:who is SecretlyDying]], a GentleGiant entomologist, a robot who is somehow one of the [[TheGenericGuy more normal members of the class]], an [[BrainsAndBondage extremely horny inventor]], a ConsummateLiar who claims to be the leader of a shadowy organization, a grumpy child care giver [[spoiler:who is actually an assassin]], a [[AlmightyJanitor Almighty Maid]] who [[spoiler:is revealed to be the leader of a nation]], a baby faced, jaded tennis player [[BadassAdorable who took out the Mafia by himself]], an anthropologist [[spoiler:who is revealed to be [[BrotherSisterIncest in love with his sister]]]], a [[TheFundamentalist highly religious]] artist, a guy who can't remember his talent and an {{Otaku}} [[spoiler:who is revealed to be behind everything]]. Interestingly enough, this trope is heavily implied to have been ''invoked'' [[spoiler:by the people behind the TV show. After all, what's better TV then a bunch of weirdos all forced to live together and solve each other's murders?]]
212* In ''VisualNovel/DoubleHomework'', the girls, Henry, and the protagonist break into Dennis’s apartment, steal his hard drive, and sneak out without him or the building security being any the wiser.
213* ''VisualNovel/KindredSpiritsOnTheRoof'' has the broadcasting club trio. Umi Ichiki is cheerful and friendly, but is obsessed with friendship and has a stuttering problem. Sasa Futano is a gloomy loner who enjoys telling those who annoy her to "Die." Nena Miyama is incredibly smart, but also rather lethargic and fond of sleeping. Sasa lampshades this in an extra chapter, noting that they all stayed together because they were flawed. Despite their flaws, the three are rather competent in their work for the broadcasting club considering they're amateurs and high school students.
214* ''VisualNovel/TheLabyrinthOfGrisaia'': Yuuji's platoon can be called this, considering that those who ended up in their military training camp were petty criminals and other social outcasts to begin with, it's little wonder. They called themselves "bush dog platoon" and they specialised in warfare where they are constantly on the retreat.
215* The team in ''VisualNovel/{{SC2VN}}'' starts off with an amateur foreigner, a high school kid who may or may not be a dropout, and a shut-in who only plays in online cups.
216* The main cast of ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'' consists of a teenage delinquent, his friend the Yakuza heir, an occult idol, a corrupt investigative journalist, a criminal magician, and a shady cop. When riding with Seiji and Kaoru on his motorcycle, Akira realizes that it's their outcast nature that has drawn them together so easily.
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220* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d and subverted in ''WebComic/EightBitTheater'', especially with the second party of worthy warriors always arriving too late to do any good or be hired for the quest.
221** And again in Episode 1163 'Semantics' when they face Sarda. Red Mage confronts him and The Wizard Who Did It says "You and what ragtag band of adventurers with humorously conflicting personalities who learn the true meaning of friendship?" RM points behind him. They ran off.
222* ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'': [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/050916 Lampshaded]]. The heroic lineup outside that scenario is impressively odd. The core team has Mega Man (who is an idiot), Proto Man (who is the resident MetaGuy and has a bit of a weapon obsession), Roll (who has some fairly impressive anger issues), George (a superhero from another dimension), Bass (who is technically supposed to be a bad guy, but is too stupid to remember this), Nate (a reprogrammed Yellow Demon goo-bot enemy who communicates through signs), Chadling (another Demon, this time from another dimension, who bonded with the main characters over a shared ice cream addiction), Mike (a former villainous minion and very incompetent cyborg ninja), Rush (a sarcastic robot dog with self-esteem issues), Dr Light (a scientific genius and a short-tempered, arrogant drunk), the author of the comic (when he can be bothered to show up), and Ran (a Communist robot who, after his introduction, dies at least a dozen times in nearly every storyline). The list of temporary members is even weirder and includes several villains (reformed and otherwise), more than a few characters from other dimensions, time travellers, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs at least one version of a villain from another dimension, multiple sets of time-travellers from alternate dimensions]], and Bob, the eventual BigBad, who for the trifecta is a time-travelling villain from another dimension.
223* CK's crew from ''Webcomic/CommanderKitty'' includes Fluffy, a CuteKitten and {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Mittens, CK's BumblingSidekick who's also a [[TheSlacker total slacker]], and Socks, a [[BunnyEarsLawyer genius ferret engineer]] with a serious [[TheUnintelligible language barrier]].
224--> "[[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2010/05/09/freaky-things/ That's not a crew roster, it's a laundry list!]]"
225* ''Webcomic/ContraFarce'' features one competent mercenary and three incompetent goofballs. They were the best Deputy Mayor Simmons could afford.
226* ''Webcomic/CrimsonDark'' also has the Ragtag Bunch Of Misfits IN SPACE!
227* ''Webcomic/CurseQuest'': Not much is known for how the main group met, but it is clear that their goals are quite different. Walrus clearly just wants to get his curse removed, and Avalon seems to have ulterior motives selecting his curse quest for unclear reasons. Mogarth seemingly joins the group because he was looking for a job and his personality is drastically different from Walrus and Avalon. The original version of the comic had all six of the adventurers constantly bickering as they progressed in the dungeon. One can only assume what it will be like in the reboot.
228* In ''Webcomic/DICETheCubeThatChangesEverything'', the band of misfits include an impatient KidHero and TheBigGuy who has to work more than he would like to. It seems clear that these characters aren't of best of terms with each other, but they have to work together for survival.
229* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: [[spoiler:Mio creates her]] faction out of Dicers of different backgrounds who can't stand for themselves, and promises to make sure they can reach a rebirth for themselves so they can be happy. In turn, this creates UndyingLoyalty to her even though she carries a huge bounty on her.
230* In ''Webcomic/ElectricWonderland'', a FieryRedhead IntrepidReporter decides to end corruption through a hard-hitting, independently published newspaper. Who does she hire to help write? An unemployed HighlyVisibleNinja, a StepfordSmiler with a mushroom costume, an outcasted MagicalGirl, a talking bull who's TooDumbToLive, and a BrattyHalfPint mermaid. At the inquiry of the ninja, the redhead reporter admitted at the end of the first issue that she doesn't have any hiring standards.
231* ''Webcomic/AGirlAndHerFed'' has a main cast consisting of a hyperactive martial artist (the Girl) a 6'5 cyborg secret agent (her Fed), the ghost of Benjamin Franklin, and a talking koala.
232* Master Payne's Circus of Adventure from ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' is made up of an eclectic group of performers traveling the dangerous Wastelands from town to town. Many of the circus folk are actually [[spoiler:Sparks]] who are hiding in plain sight from the Baron and people who might try to kill or capture them otherwise and the rest seem to be various runaways and oddballs.
233* In ''[[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} Hivebent]]'', who gets to play Sgrub and create a new universe (BecauseDestinySaysSo)? A matchmaking huntress obsessed with cats, a ghost obsessed with death, a bipolar oracle obsessed with computers, a serial killer obsessed with imitating her distant ancestor, a budding lawmaker obsessed with tasting things, a fish princess raised by an EldritchAbomination, a bloodthirsty nobleman mourning his recent breakup, a perpetually angry mutant who's the descendant of Troll Jesus, a [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furry]] bigot who builds robots, a drug addict clown...and Kanaya and Tavros, though the last two are actually kind of normal. It should come as no surprise that [[HeroOfAnotherStory their section]] of the plot goes to hell.
234* ''WebComic/KillSixBillionDemons'': Allison is a college girl with terrible self-esteem who suddenly gets handed great supernatural power and thrown from the normal world into the middle of supernatural adventures. White Chain is an angel with gender identity issues (in spite of being sexless) who's practically a rebel among her kind for actually [[ToBeLawfulOrGood considering being good and not just lawful]], but still comes across as totally rigid to the others a lot of the time. Cio is a devil with a dark past that haunts her who actually wants to be good, well, not evil anyway, and writes FanFiction about reality, {{shipping}} herself with Allison. Princess is a powerful devil whom Allison accidentally bound to her service by giving it a ridiculous name. Nyave is actually pretty stable and competent, for a random person saved by the group, but she isn't a real main character.
235* ''Webcomic/TheLastDaysOfFoxhound'' portrays FOXHOUND (the QuirkyMinibossSquad of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'') this way. It ''is'' played with a bit, as everyone, including the misfits themselves, readily acknowledge how unstable and insane the team is, but also recognize that they are able to accomplish feats that would be impossible for any other group.
236* ''Webcomic/LastRes0rt'' sees this and raises you a RealityShow. Of course, they don't really DO anything of worldly importance (yet), but still, there they are.
237* ''Mindflayed'' even [[http://mindflayed.0nyx.com/comic037.jpg had it discussed]]:
238-->'''Mindflayer''': Adventurers? I thought we were a bunch of outcasts banded together in hopes of increasing our odds of surviving to the next day.\
239''' Lomylith''': That would be the definition of the word "adventurers", flayer.
240* In ''Webcomic/NamiWarriors'', the main characters are definitively this, to the point that at least one of them directly acknowledges that this is the case.
241* In ''Webcomic/{{Nebula}}'', because it takes place in a SmallSecludedWorld, the cast is stuck with working with each other despite their oddities. They are:
242** Earth, a planet who is almost physically unable to keep her nose out of everyone else's business
243** Venus, her more mature younger sister
244** Mercury, an office worker who can barely start a conversation without insulting everyone else in the room
245** Jupiter, a melodramatic LeaderWannabe with more ambition than brains
246** Uranus, a moon-thief[[note]]as in, they steal moons[[/note]] and borderline con-artist
247** Saturn, a recluse who would really just rather not interact with people in general
248** Mars, a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who speaks CassandraTruth like a second language
249** Neptune, an often spoken-over voice of reason
250** And Sun, a member of a completely different species who's barely suppressing the urge to murder all of them.
251* In ''Webcomic/NoRestForTheWicked'', November acquires anthropomorphic cat Perrault (intentionally), the AxCrazy Red by accident, and Claire after they happen to rescue her from being burnt at the stake.
252* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
253** The eponymous crew certainly qualifies. Roy is pretty competent in his own right, but his band consists of an ambitious and greedy rogue, a completely psychopathic halfling ranger, a trigger-happy elf wizard that never stops talking, a dwarven cleric that is stuck in his role as a healer instead of being the nightmare that ''D&D'' clerics are known for and a bard that's as dumb as a box of moldy carrots. Roy at one point refers to his team as trained professionals before adding "Well, semi-trained, quasi-professionals." Also:
254---> '''Minrah''': Does everyone in your group have weird emotional issues?\
255'''Durkon''': Eh, tha cat's probably fine.
256** And for that matter, pretty much all of the comics in the fan comic section of the forum do this too.
257** At one point [[GenreSavvy General Tarquin]], despite being initially unaware of the composition or existence of the Order of the Stick, deduces that it is a team almost immediately upon meeting all the individual members, largely because he recognizes that when a bunch of weirdly competent but oddly diverse individuals show up out of nowhere, he can assume they're a team until it's proven otherwise.
258** [[BigBad Xykon]] never directly addresses the Order as such, but when he's off buying some new magic items he asks if he can get insurance that will cover the loss if his lair is destroyed by a ragtag team of heroes.
259--->'''Clerk:''' How ragtag are we talking, here?
260** This is also Xykon's justification for having a 'back-up lair'; "You never know, you could be just relaxing in your den on a lazy Sunday afternoon, reading the paper, when suddenly BAM! A band of unlikely heroes put aside their personal differences and evicts you from your own house."
261** And eventually Elan [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1230.html directly refers to them]] as "a ragtag band of {{Unlikely Hero}}es with [[DarkAndTroubledPast unresolved issues]] [[TeethClenchedTeamwork who didn't see eye-to-eye]]". He thinks he should have known they would end up SavingTheWorld because of that.
262* ''Webcomic/{{Pibgorn}}'': [[http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2008/04/16/ A love-struck idiot, a homicidal digital maiden, and a omnipotent clueless succubus]]
263* ''Webcomic/{{Rebirth}}'': Noah's band of survivors is a colorful bunch, including [[BattleButler his bodyguard maid,]] [[CreepyChild his creepy children,]] and an assortment of eccentric [[ActionSurvivor action survivors.]] Special mentions to the UnfazedEveryman Wyn, CombatPragmatist Alix, and NiceGuy Theo.
264* The team in ''Webcomic/RezzAndCoBountyHunters''. The two founders are an eccentric human with power armor and a lay-back attitude, and an AI tryinc to bring in logic and be the voice of reason. Joining them is an alien mercenary with a big gun and an alien biology that allows him to [[HealingFactor regenerate]] his [[TheyKilledKennyAgain many mortal wounds.]] Then there's a wannabe musician who mistook the team for a band and a lizard janitor recruited at the last minute because they needed to fill a medic quota.
265* The Main Party in ''Webcomic/RPGWorld'' consists of an IdiotHero, a thief chick who's the sarcastic OnlySaneMan, two "[[FunnyAnimal cute fuzzy things]]", a [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold prostitute mage]], an extremely perverted WhiteHairBlackHeart, an [[WrenchWench engineer pirate]] with two (not so helpful) robot assistants, and a [[TagalongKid punk breakdancer]]. However, Galgarion is GenreSavvy enough to know [[UnderestimatingBadassery not to underestimate them]].
266* The main cast of ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' consists of a [[IdiotHero kinda dim]] freelance web designer, a MadScientist obsessed with [[MoreDakka guns and explosives]], a witch who's occasionally [[DemonicPossession possessed]] by her TomeOfEldritchLore, an [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting occasional camel]], a {{shapeshifting}} alien, a [[GenkiGirl hyperactive]] [[TalkingAnimal ferret]], and [[KillerRabbit the most dangerous and evil rabbit on the face of the Earth]]. Despite not making it a mission to fight evil, they've actually saved the world a number of times, mostly because apocalyptic matters seem to [[WeirdnessMagnet turn up wherever they go]].
267** And if something doesn't turn up to endanger the world, one of them will usually end up endangering it themselves.
268* ''Webcomic/TehGladiators'' features as its protagonists not the seasoned ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' veterans that one might expect, but the most improbable and possibly the least competent Arena team ever formed. Gorrok, the orc warrior, is the only actual veteran present and the OnlySaneMan; his companions include Vallant, the human (sort of) hunter who's a [[TheDitz ditz]] with AccidentalAimingSkills; and Spin, a Tauren [[NewAgeRetroHippie hippie]] who has no combat skills whatsoever. They are joined at various times by a pair of lecherous murloc {{Mad Scientist}}s and LeeroyJenkins, the {{Trope Namer|s}} of ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' fame. Yet somehow they manage to win.
269* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': The protagonists part of an underfunded research mission into the monster-infested Silent world, so the group hiring them specifically picks people who are [[TooDumbToLive stupid]], [[OnlyInItForTheMoney desperate]], [[JumpedAtTheCall incredibly bored with their lives]] or hate their current employers or co-workers with a burning passion. To wit, we have:
270** Sigrun, a BloodKnight and GenkiGirl who considers this expedition as a nice vacation.
271** Mikkel, an omni-competent and stoic Danish farmer, who also is unemployable, mostly due to his tendency to troll his surroundings mercilessly.
272** Tuuri, a sheltered mechanic who desperately wants to see the world outside the fort where she grew up.
273** Lalli, Tuuri's possibly autistic, strangely cat-like and mostly weird cousin. Who also happens to be a skilled night scout and a mage of frightening power.
274** Emil, an arrogant PrettyBoy who is looking for a quick path to the fame and glory he considers rightfully his.
275** Reynir, an Icelandic sheep farmer who ran away from home to find adventure, and got a ''little'' more than he bargained for.
276* The second season of ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'' features the team Sweet and Sour. It is comprised of the BoisterousWeakling Ja Wangnan, who wants to become King of the Tower, TheProudElite [[PlayingWithFire Yeon Ehwa]] who has insecurities because of her PowerIncontinence, a young school girl, a slightly older school girl, a PapaWolf who has a rather strained relationship with his charge, the son of a LoanShark and mob boss who just realized that he was relatively useless, a GentleGiant whose power is so deadly that he has to always hold back, and finally, a PersonOfMassDestruction and training to KillTheGod who's being forced to work for the Tower's most feared criminal and rebellious organisation and whose bosses kind of want to kill everyone else in the team to get him a better one. [[SarcasmMode This is going to be one smooth ride.]]
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280* The adventuring party of ''WebVideo/OneForAll'' is a trio of miscreants who get themselves into trouble as often as they get themselves out of it. They consist of a [[BloodKnight murderhobo fighter]] that is [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction blasé toward having severed limbs]], a PyroManiac [[OurDemonsAreDifferent tiefling]] useless in any situation that [[CripplingOverspecialization doesn’t involve fire]], and a self-obsessed HornyBard who can’t keep it in his pants. Recurring [[GuestStarPartyMember Guest-Star Party Members]] that get roped into their antics include a put-upon [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent Triton]] cleric healer [[BewaretheNiceOnes you don’t want to piss off]], a half-orc WarriorPoet barbarian with [[TerribleArtist shoddy art skills]], a tree-hugging CloudCuckoolander of a druid, and a frisky [[CatFolk Tabaxi]] [[LovableRogue rogue]].
281* The Tres Horny Boys from ''Podcast/TheAdventureZoneBalance'' are an [[LeeroyJenkins impulsive]] human carpenter-turned-fighter who really loves [[HeroesLoveDogs dogs and other animals of all sorts]], a middle-aged hippie dwarf cleric with a plant fetish trying to spread the good word of the nature god Pan to teens, and a vain LovableCoward elf wizard who's arguably more famous for his [[AnachronismStew cooking show on TV]] than his magic.
282** Their compatriots in the Bureau of Balance aren't much better, including among their number a stoner potion expert who loves [[TrademarkFavoriteFood Pringles]] to the point that everyone calls him that instead of his real name, an InsufferableGenius MadScientist that even the AllLovingHero can't stand, a KidDetective, a [[TheEeyore depressed bard]], a gnome [[spoiler:illusionist]] who [[PokemonSpeak mostly only says his own name]], and a giant jellyfish that can cause LaserGuidedAmnesia.
283** [[spoiler: The IPRE-crew is just as bad. We've got a pair of elven wizard twins who insist on wreaking havoc everywhere they go, a human necromancer who looks like Tom Arnold and whose name is ''Barry Bluejeans'', a human fighter who's obsessed with getting stronger and seems to be enabling the twins' shenanigans at every turn, a dwarven cleric looking to spread the word of Pan wherever he goes, a human artificer who's the very definition of a wallflower and spends most of her time logging every moment of their travels, and their captain, a deadly serious gnome with a surprisingly goofy side.]]
284* ''Podcast/CriticalHit'' is an actual play ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 4 edition campaign that follows the adventuring party which consists of some rather unusual individuals, as per proud TabletopGames tradition. A [[DumbMuscle big]] and fierce-looking 3/4 orc with a giant axe who is [[HiddenDepths more cunning]] than his obsession with [[BigEater funnelcakes]] would lead one to believe. A socially awkward GadgeteerGenius with a robotic arm who, due to his player's [[BornUnlucky abysmal luck]] with dice rolls, tend to be disaster-prone. A haughty and [[NobleBigot respectfully racist]] young [[CantArgueWithElves Eladrin]] [[SquishyWizard wizard]] [[AgentPeacock obsessed over his hair]]. An [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan unassuming young man]] prone to the bursts of wild magic and [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent growing hair and claws]] during combat who has [[MysteriousPast no idea]] what you are talking about. And that's before some even more odd characters joined in the later seasons. The party is regarded as a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits InUniverse as well, with various people the party meets commenting on such an "eclectic group".
285* ''[[WebVideo/CriticalRole Critical Role]]'':
286** Vox Machina. Their self-styled group of intrepid adventurers contains an exiled [[BloodKnight goliath barbarian]] and his [[HugeGuyTinyGirl best friend]], a dorkily cute gnomish war-cleric; a [[DarkAndTroubledPast vengeful noble gunslinger]] in a medieval setting; a socially awkward druid princess; a gnomish CasanovaWannabe; and a half-elven brother-sister duo consisting of a FearlessFool rogue and a flirtatious gold-hungry ranger with a [[TeamPet pet bear]]. [[AntiHeroTeam Somehow]], [[FamilyOfChoice they]] [[TrueCompanions make]] [[BadassCrew it]] [[HopeBringer work]].
287** The Darrington Brigade, a group of adventurers founded by former Vox Machina member Taryon Darrington in the Epilogue, consists of a CampGay GadgeteerGenius artificer, a [[YouAreNumberSix series of]] [[RobotBuddy constructs]] of his own design, the artificer's [[HotForTeacher former tutor turned boyfriend]], a [[TheDitz ditzy]] half-orc barbarian who [[AmbiguousSituation may or may not be]] [[ForcedTransformation a True Polymorphed duck]], and a [[DarkIsNotEvil drow]] bounty hunter. The brigade members ten years later are possibly ''worse''.
288** Campaign 2's party, the Mighty Nein, isn't much better. They have a [[PlayingWithFire pyromancer]] with [[TraumaButton PTSD]], a kleptomaniac goblin with a dark past, a fallen Demi-angel, the GenkiGirl daughter of a famous courtesan and prophet of a god few have heard of, a monk from a rich family, a former sailor who made a [[DealWithTheDevil bargain with a dark power]], and an AgentPeacock AmnesiacHero with blood magic. Later additions are a GentleGiant hippie priest, and [[HeelFaceTurn a former antagonist]] trying to atone for his horrific war crimes.
289* Then there's The Deviant Universere's premeir SuperTeam The Thunder Force. The first incarnation consists of a government agent with a dark past and robotic enhancements to his body, an invisible gun toting ex-news anchor, a rich treasure hunter with a magic bone necklace and a tiger striped costume, a female super speeder, a strange girl in a school girl outfit, Canada's only hero who is powered by the internet, a living beat'em up video game chick, a symbiote who is similar to both [[Characters/MarvelComicsNightcrawler Nightcrawler]] and Comicbook/{{Venom}} only with no angst about his situation, and a chibi computer program who is programmed to destroy the world himself. The second incarnation consists of a {{jerkass}} archer secret agent, an animal shapeshifter teen boy, a male Comicbook/CaptainAmerica {{expy}} who uses guns and is kept alive through cloning, a female Captain America and Franchise/WonderWoman combined expy, a hero with thunder powers combined with FlyingBrick abilities, and a mermaid heroine with legs joined up with the aforementioned treasure hunter in tiger print and the symbiote guy.
290* The five protagonists from the web fiction serial ''Literature/DimensionHeroes'', despite their increase in power and skill over the course of the series, have yet to fully separate themselves from this trope.
291* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Oh so much. The craziness and interactions between the members of the cast is what gives it the [='InsaniT'=] label after all.
292* The whole bunch of convicts living in the Paracelsus' Sword in the world of Roleplay/EinsteinianRoulette count as this, ranging from mercenaries, petty criminals and discarded experience subjects to farm boys, spoiled brats and crazy doctors.
293* The Dragon Maulers Incorporated from ''Podcast/FalloutIsDragons'' certainly qualify, blundering their way through situations that would daunt most skilled adventurers.
294* The vast majority of ''Roleplay/FireEmblemOnForums'' have their casts comprised of this, given the [[Franchise/FireEmblem origin series']] heavy use of this trope. The number of games that ''don't'' can be counted on one hand.
295* The characters in ''Roleplay/AGameOfGods'' come off as this. Justified in that they were taking from their home worlds by [[PowersThatBe the Nomads]].
296* The ''Blog/HamstersParadise'' art one-shot [[https://tribbetherium.tumblr.com/post/701238070992928768/there-was-twist-with-the-misshapen-forelimb "Odd Ones Out"]] is about a mixen named Sundown who adopted four pups who were abandoned due to their disabilities; Twist has a twisted paw, Snowcloud is albino, Shortsnout is brachycephalic, and Bigpup has some kind of brain damage.
297* The entire cast of WebVideo/HitlerRants. Hitler's staff includes an AxCrazy alcoholic, [[ItMakesSenseInContext a professional map pointer]], a bald man who specializes in objecting to his plans, and a guy who specializes in providing useless information. His enemies include ruthless dictators, U-Boat sailors, a [[Film/DuckYouSucker psychotic demolitions expert who is determined to blow him up]], [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and]] [[Literature/AmericanGirlsCollection a number of little girls]].
298%% * Say, does WebAnimation/HomestarRunner count?
299* The heroes of [[Podcast/NerdyShow The Nerdy Show's]] pen and paper adventure podcast, ''Dungeons & Doritos'', hurt each other and their allies or employers about as much as they hurt their enemies. However, over the course of the adventure, they learn to care for their teammates and become increasingly competent at working together. Except when they aren't, and then HilarityEnsues.
300* The titular guild in ''Franchise/{{Noob}}''. OnlySaneMan leader with a fear of Game Masters? Check. Self-centered [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero misogynist]]? Check. A ManipulativeBastard and DirtyCoward package deal? Check. StupidGood ManChild? Got that too. May I suggest adding a [[SleepyHead narcoleptic]] MadBomber or a LeeroyJenkins PsychoForHire to your order?
301* The eponymous TimePolice team in Podcast/PastDivision consists of a fire-throwing dwarven cleric who loves to [[GroinAttack go for the family jewels]], an anthropomorphic panda bear with elite ninja skills and [[CarryABigStick a very big hammer]], a diminutive TeamPrimadonna PlantPerson who fights with CardsOfPower, and a [[TheBabyOfTheBunch teenage]] HornedHumanoid whose [[TimeMaster abilities]] clash a bit with her job.
302* ''WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum'': The PPC is an ''entire organization'' comprised of individuals with a wide variety of backgrounds and dysfunctions attempting to protect the multiverse from the results of bad fanfiction.
303* The main cast of [[http://www.fictionpress.com/s/3083396/1/Psychronicles Psychronicles]] takes this pretty far. For one we have the GenkiGirl who's also an otaku and constantly ShoutOut to other works. Next up is the overly playful {{Cloudcuckoolander}} then the LawfulStupid LeeroyJenkins. Finally there's the [[TheSmartGuy ridiculously brilliant]] TeenGenius StrawNihilist. Clara and Ian even lampshades it in [[http://www.fictionpress.com/s/3083396/14/Psychronicles chapter 14.]]
304** Hell the Occult Society can pretty much be a Ragtag Organization of Misfits. The latest arc had just introduced an overly conceited [[TheFightingNarcissist Fighting Narcissist]] and an Anthromorph with multiple personalities of the WesternZodiac in the secondary cast.
305* The Fellowship of ''Literature/TheQuestportChronicles'' starts out as this: one amnesiac WingedHumanoid, two elves (one of whom is an assassin), a VegetarianVampire, a fairy, a human trapped in a dragon's body, a VoluntaryShapeshifting demon, and an easily-confused pixie.
306* The main characters of ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue''. They are all fully armed soldiers who were hand-picked for being the lowest-scoring grunts in the military, they are also the least qualified people for handling the various {{omnicidal maniac}}s that cross their path.
307** With the exception of Tex, who is pretty much confirmed to be the single best fighter in the series.
308*** Not that she's without her own very special issues, however, as season 8 reveals. [[spoiler:She's essentially cursed to ultimately fail at everything she tries to do.]] The most normal person they meet (Wash) ''still'' has issues, what with [[spoiler:Epsilon's memories being beamed directly into his mind]] and all.
309*** Though in later seasons they start to [[TookALevelInBadass pick up several levels in BadAss]], and have managed to pull off some pretty impressive feats in recent years. As of season 11, [[spoiler: they're rumored considered to some of the greatest warriors in the galaxy]]... Yeah, [[SelfDeprecation they couldn't believe it either]].
310*** Turns out they aren't the only ones. In season 12, episode 10, it's revealed that [[spoiler: Felix was lying about that]].
311* ''AudioPlay/RefletsDAcide'' starts with Wrandrall, a {{Half|HumanHybrid}}-[[OurDemonsAreDifferent Demon]] warrior, trying to assemble comrades for a quest. He ends up with a group including a [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Dwarf]], an [[OurElvesAreDifferent Elven]] [[MagicMusic Bard]], a [[PlayingWithFire Fire Elemental]] and a female BarbarianHero (the latter being soon replaced by a DirtyOldMonk).
312* The Final Hazard from ''Podcast/RollToBreathe'' is a superhero team consisting of a walking superhero database, an overworked intern, an unintentionally destructive rich kid, a girl with no powers or training, a bullied Japanese delinquent, and a sweet eldritch boy. Also, they're all teenagers. Together, they defeat villains several times their size with many years more experience.
313* ''WebAnimation/GenLock'', though it's somewhat {{justified|Trope}} in this case: the technology that sets the system in motion, the titular gen:LOCK system, [[PhlebotinumHandlingRequirements is only compatible with]] ''[[PhlebotinumHandlingRequirements very]]'' [[PhlebotinumHandlingRequirements specific nervous systems]]; and with [[TheEmpire The Union]] bearing down on them, the good guys are desperate enough to take whatever compatible pilots they can find, regardless of whether they're... ideal soldiers or not. The FiveManBand consists of
314** Kasu, a japanese soldier demoted to ''cooking duty'' for insubordination.
315** Valentina, a ColdSniper who grew up fighting in LaResistance and wants to ''avoid'' anymore fighting.
316** Cammie, a [[TheBabyOfTheBunch seventeen year old]] PlayfulHacker.
317** Yasamin, a Union [[DefectorFromDecadence defector]] recruited out of ''prison''.
318** [[TheHero Chase]] would seem to be the exception, as he's actually a [[TheAce model soldier and crack pilot]], but [[spoiler: his body was horribly damaged in the first battle of the war, leaving him totally dependent on life-support systems to stay alive; when he's not in gen:LOCK, he can only interact with people through a holographic avatar]].
319* In the story of [=RedScotGaming=]'s VideoGame/DragonBallXenoverse and VideoGame/DragonBallXenoverse2 series [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrRs05WSeuOcAljPfr58yKkSruD4DKwEs The Tony Saga]], we have titular character [[SmallNameBigEgo Tony Cold]], the estranged cousin of Frieza and Cooler kidnapped by Trunks with the Dragon Balls to do ''his'' job in the Time Patrol, his best friend [[OnlySaneMan Iced Kovacs]], a Frost Demon that originally served under Cooler and was for a time a [[TheAlcoholic crippling alcoholic]], [[{{Manchild}} Max Stone]], a usually dimwitted Earthling with an unhealthy obsession with stones and the like (Watch yer stones, lad.) who gave Tony his signature shades, [[TheChewToy Trunks]], who due to Xenoverse 1 and 2's ArtificialStupidity is an incompetent member of the Patrol that [[ButtMonkey frequently gets abuse of the verbal kind from Tony]] to the point that ''he'' now has a drinking problem instead of Iced, Chronoa, the head of the Time Patrol, and as such the boss of the prior mentioned, with many weapons of mass destruction in her collection and hidden anger issues, and Elder "Creepy" Kai, Chronoa's snarky second-in-command who may or may not run a secret sex trafficking ring. And during the Xenoverse 2 portion of the series two more members of the team are added; [[TokenHeroicOrc Papi Cell]], an alternate version of Cell that became perfect ''and'' had a HeelFaceTurn due to absorbing a lot of Max's biomass and ultimately becoming Max's adoptive father, and Tristina, a Saiyan woman who was one of the [[SoleSurvivor few survivors]] of the Code Green incident that ends up taking the role of OnlySaneWoman alongside Iced.
320* Falling Rain's retinue in ''Literature/{{SavageDivinity}}'' is made up of crippled soldiers, former bandits, slaves, and an elite turtle guard. Said giant turtle also refuses to leave his side so can be considered a member as well.
321* The members of "Team Templar" from ''Literature/ShadowOfTheTemplar'' are the first type of this, all the way. Extremely talented [[BunnyEarsLawyer but mostly crazy]], their general rule of thumb seems to be that "standard procedure" is a good Plan B. All the same, they have a reputation for getting things done.
322* Roleplay/RollToDodgePrincessCelestia may have The Party count as this.
323* The web series ''WebVideo/StarTrekRenegades'', per its title, centers on a pirate crew captained by the outcast daughter of Khan Noonien Singh and including a disgraced scientist, a rogue former drone, a genetically-defective Betazoid, a Pah-wraith-worshipping Bajoran, and more.
324* ''WebVideo/TFSAtTheTable'': The Natural One-ders crew is lead by a rogue whose real ambition is to create a performance troupe. Other members are a merman monk, a donkey-centaur who is dumb as a nail and doesn't believe in his own magic (at first), the world's angriest goblin, a kobold of faith [[spoiler: who's working on becoming a god]], an AmbiguouslyHuman naval officer, a basically-insane sea hag ([[CordonBleughChef who does all the cooking]]), a spy, a dwarf with a tendency to cheat at card games, a ''very'' fat alligator-man who hunts things with a huge blunderbuss, a naga warlock and a nine-foot-tall barbarian who isn't interested in anything she can't fight with. They get up to shenanigans together.
325* All of the Website/ChannelAwesome anniversary specials where they team up against an enemy have them out of their depth, and even their themed costumes hardly unify them, such as when Brad Jones roleplays as Indiana Jones because "it's quest based, it counts". Lampshaded in WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee, where one of the villains brags that only a ragtag group of Z-List internet reviewers[[note]]and 8-bit Mickey[[/note]] could stop them now.
326* In ''WebVideo/TrappedInTheBirdCage'' this is by design of the DM, Holly Conrad. She had each player create their character with no knowledge of what the others were making. As a result you have a CampGay bard, two rogues, one of whom is a kleptomaniac even by rogue standards, the other of whom robot and the TokenGoodTeammate who keeps a record of all the crimes the others comit and a pyromaniac wizard. They may not even be from the same universe and the first time they meet is when they're summoned into a dark closet.
327* ''Roleplay/WeAreAllPiratesRevenge'': The crew of the ''Zenpance'' currently includes the likes of a giant bipedal rat, one normal-sized rat, a stone woman, two kids, [[OurDragonsAreDifferent a shape-shifting dragon]], a raccoon privateer, [[AmnesiacHero a witch with amnesia]], and a [[AnimateInanimateObject talking treasure chest]].
328* Team Kimba of the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse''. A former rich kid who is now the FallenPrincess. An Army brat chased out of his own home by anti-mutant fireteams. A nerd turned into a PersonOfMassDestruction. A loner who turned into TheChosenOne. A motherless victim of child abuse who has spent time as a foster child. A UsefulNotes/{{transgender}} black kid from Baltimore. A loner turned into one of TheFairFolk. And they're not the weirdest kids at [[SuperheroSchool Whateley Academy]].
329* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'':
330** The Undersiders were created when a handful of isolated no-name teenage supervillains were recruited via a blend of bribery and coercion by a MysteriousEmployer to act as professional thieves. At various times, the members include a [[TheSociopath textbook sociopath]], a {{Manipulative B|astard}}itch, a JustifiedCriminal doing it for the sake of his kid sister, said DramaQueen kid sister, TheMole, and [[NoSocialSkills Bitch]]. They manage to get the job done well enough most of the time, though, and that's all their employer asks of them.
331** The Slaughterhouse 9 is a villainous example of this trope. A group of up to nine {{Serial Killer}}s, their methods, motivations, and appearances all vary drastically. They're only able to function as a group due to Jack Slash constantly manipulating the members and their lack of teamwork results in them crumbling the moment they face actual opposition.
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335* The Trio from ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTeddyRuxpin'' consists of an adventurous FarmBoy with ChronicHeroSyndrome, a [[BrutalHonesty brutally-honest]] CowardlyLion BigEater and an AbsentMindedProfessor inventor with a SpeechImpediment.
336* In the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "Mystery Dungeon" Ice King brings four members of the show's secondary cast to help him traverse the dungeon due to the traps and puzzles requiring their skills. The team consists of a demented princess-kidnapping wizard (Ice King), a senile old elephant who loves baking apple pies (Tree Trunks), a pie-making ButtMonkey robot thrown together from scraps (NEPTR), a [[{{Jerkass}} sour]] and manic artificial lemon man (Lemongrab) and finally a sarcastic talking worm (Shelby).
337* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' tells the story of a human teenager who gets TrappedInAnotherWorld on her [[ABirthdayNotABreak 13th birthday]]. Along her stay, she befriends a family consisting of an [[{{Keet}} energetic]] 10 year-old pink frog, a HotBlooded tadpole, and the latter two's grandfather who has a love of [[GoodOldWays tradition]].
338* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
339** The responsibility of defeating the Fire Nation and saving the world rests entirely with a 12-year-old goofball of a [[MessianicArchetype Messiah]] and the various other children he picks up along the way. These include a 14-year-old untrained [[MakingASplash water-bender]], a 15-year-old wannabe warrior, a spoiled runaway [[DishingOutDirt earth-bender]], [[spoiler: the angsty banished prince who defected from the opposing side]], and teenage face-painted [[ChildSoldiers Kyoshi Warrior]].
340** Three attempts were made by various characters to have actual armed forces involved, but the first two times were stopped before they started (the second when a 14-year-old princess and her two handmaidens, a [[EmotionlessGirl dour]] knife user, and a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} [[SheFu acrobat]], [[spoiler: managed to pull off a coup in a hostile city) and the third time resulted in a crushing, ruinous defeat]].
341*** The group leading the aforementioned third attempt is referred to as a "ragtag team" by Sokka, due to it being made up of various allies that Team Avatar had met previously rather than a proper army.
342** Jet and his [[JustLikeRobinHood band of Merry Men]] also qualify.
343** ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' gets in on the action too. The core team starts with a hyper-aggressive teenager who happens to be [[MessianicArchetype the next Messiah]], an extremely beautiful BadassNormal, a pair of dirt-poor orphans who are involved in professional bending, [[MixAndMatchCritters an enormous]] [[BearsAreBadNews polar bear dog]], and [[TeamPet an adorable red panda ferret creature]]. Counting their more reliable allies (who vary from potent authority figures, to street thieves), you get something of a mess, which only gets messier as the stakes get higher in the later seasons and even former enemies start putting their weight behind the Avatar.
344* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'':
345** The episode "Team Penguin" featured Penguin gathering up a team consisting of Killer Croc, Ragdoll, and Firefly, with [[spoiler: Killer Moth]] as their gofer [[spoiler: until he became mutated later in the episode]].
346** A later episode titled "The End of the Batman" featured two new characters, Wrath and Scorn, bringing together a group consisting of Joker, Penguin, Killer Croc and Ventriloquist (Scarface).
347* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'' focused (or was supposed to be focused at least) on Ben assembling a team from various [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Human Hybrids]] to stop an AlienInvasion. In the finale, he assembles said team, which ends up made of himself, his MagicalGirl cousin Gwen, [[TheAtoner his former Nemesis Kevin Levin]], {{Time Travel}}ling scientist Paradox, his {{Love Interest|s}} Julie and her alien pet [[BigDamnGunship Ship]], Half-[[MagmaMan Pyronite]] Alan Albright, [[TheSmartGuy Technopath Cooper]] and [[TokenEvilTeammate temporary allied supervillain Darkstar]]. And that's just those who are in the battle from the beginning.
348-->'''Gwen Tennyson:''' We're too late!\
349'''Ben Tennyson:''' It's never too late. New plan!... Working on it.\
350'''Kevin Levin:''' That's reassuring.\
351'''Ben Tennyson:''' Got it! We break into the Highbreed Control Room and force the captain to make his ships retreat.\
352'''Darkstar:''' That's your big plan?\
353'''Ben Tennyson:''' Hey, how many times have I beaten you?\
354'''Darkstar:''' Twice. But just at this moment, I don't see how.
355* The main group in ''WesternAnimation/BooBoomTheLongWayHome'' consists of; a CuteMute [[TagalongKid young boy]], a [[CatsAreSnarkers snarky cat]], a LovableCoward [[TheKlutz klutzy]] talkative rooster, a SapientSteed, a military dog, and a bee who serves as said dog’s partner and scout.
356* ''WesternAnimation/CarmenSandiego'': In this reimagining of the classic thief, Carmen ends up with one. She starts off as an orphaned child raised at the headquarters of V.I.L.E., and while she knew they were thieves, didn't know the depths to which the students learning there and the five main faculty would go to secure their targets. When she discovered her friends from class would be more than willing to leave no witnesses during a heist, she rebels. She is first aided by a youthful hacker who is only known as "Player." Later on, during her first mission against V.I.L.E. as Carmen, she encounters Zack and Ivy, two Boston locals who were trying to rob a donut shop, which is a front for a V.I.L.E. operation. Zack is a race car driver and Ivy a WrenchWench who built her younger brother's car. Together these four work to systematically stop and destroy V.I.L.E.'s plots. [[spoiler:Even the Faculty of V.I.L.E. doesn't realize Carmen's crew consists of just Carmen and three people. When Shadow-san, one of the Faculty, defects to join Carmen he is openly shocked by the smallness of the crew and their lack of discipline at times, but does admit they are very capable in their missions]].
357* Sector V from ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' consists of a British ProperlyParanoid ConspiracyTheorist, an American pilot who tells bad puns that only he thinks are funny, a Japanese [[TheDitz airhead]] GenkiGirl, a BookDumb [[AwesomeAussie Australian]] BloodKnight, and an African-American/French OnlySaneWoman.
358* The main Trio of ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' comprise of a CasanovaWannabe Techno Geek who only eats meat, a hyper vegan goth girl and a fairly normal boy whose parents are ghost hunters and later gains super powers.
359* Scrooge refers to his closest allies as a "ragtag gang of underdogs" in the second season finale of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017''. Indeed, it consists of [[MadScientist Gyro]], [[CaptainCrash Launchpad]], [[SmallNameBigEgo Darkwing Duck]], [[SwissArmyWeapon Gizmoduck]], [[BadassNormal Officer Cabrera]], [[ApronMatron Mrs. Beakley]], [[ScaryLibrarian Miss Quackfaster]], [[GhostButler Duckworth]], [[CoolHorse Manny the Headless Man-Horse]], [[SiblingTeam Lena, Violet Sabrewing]] and [[DarkActionGirl Gabby McStabberson]], as well as [[ThoseTwoGuys Johnny and Randy]] from "[[ShowWithinAShow Ottoman Empire]]".
360* The Vulture Squadron from ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'' could fall into this although they never get their act together. It consists of mustachioed villain who reacts before thinking, a medal-coveting dog, a card-carrying coward, and an imperfect inventor, all of whom are tasked with thwarting a carrier pigeon from delivering messages only to fail time and again.
361* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Spies Reminiscent of Us" UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin notes the reactivation of a Cold War sleeper spy would be an embarrassment equal to, "[[Film/{{Stripes}} our 1981 failed Czechoslovakian occupation outpost which was penetrated by]] Creator/BillMurray, Creator/HaroldRamis, and [[Film/{{Stripes}} their ragtag band of misfit soldiers who didn't even graduate.]]"
362* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
363** The Planet Express crew in general; the main delivery crew is a good hearted yet goofball kid from the 20th century, a selfish robot who spends his time drinking booze and making wisecracks, and a social outcast cyclops who tries to be professional, maybe a little too much. The rest of the company is a nutjob century-and-a-half-old mad scientist, a Jamaican paper-pusher who likes to limbo and fill out forms, a ditzy clumsy Chinese girl from Mars, and a lobster alien who has neither social graces nor an accurate idea of human anatomy, despite being the company doctor for humans.
364** Referenced and Parodied when Fry attempts to destroy a giant brain with a [[AppliedPhlebotinum Quantum Interface Bomb]]. He's found by a squad of smaller brains that try to destroy him. When their brain rays fail, one of the brains say, "But we're an ambitious young squad, with everything to prove!"
365* ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeRenegades'' invokes this hard in the first episodes, with the team only ''tolerating'' each-other for the mission, and getting much worse for a bit until the end of the second episode when they're able to come together to stop a threat. They're still at odds for the next few episodes, but gradually seem to come together as everyone gets to know each other.
366* ''WesternAnimation/TheHead'': Madelyne and Dr. Axel aside, Jim's friends are an alien, a guy with a propeller blade stuck in his face, a guy with a fishbowl stuck in his mouth, a guy with a extra mouth on his stomach, a guy with [[NoodlePeople long arms and legs]], a lady with a large nose and a lady with shiny hair [[spoiler:(and a tail)]].
367* The Local Heroes of ''WesternAnimation/KidCosmic'' consist of a child who desperately wants to be like the heroes in his comics, a teenager who works at the local diner, an old geezer who likes to tinker, an energetic toddler and a [[CatsAreLazy fat, lazy cat]]. Hardly the people you'd expect to be utilizing the powers of 5 cosmic stones. In the second and third seasons, the team gets expanded to include the rest of the Local Heroes' social group, which includes the teenager's mother and her two employees, the toddler's parents, a ditzy trucker, an elderly biker and a bisected alien who defected from his former invasion unit.
368* The team of heroes in Season 2 of ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' consists of a CuteClumsyGirl, a sweet model, a GenreSavvy redhead, a DJ extreme, and an AlphaBitch.
369* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
370** The [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicTheManeCast "Mane Six"]]. They're a graduate student taught by a {{Physical God}}dess, a stubborn apple farmer, a hyperactive baker, a brash sound barrier-breaking flyer, a prim and proper fashion designer, and an overly shy animal caretaker. Princess Celestia, said Physical Goddess, seems to consider them to be the best team to deal with powerful threats to Equestria like [[VileVillainSaccharineShow Nightmare Moon and Discord]] (due to the [[OnlyTheChosenMayWield Elements of Harmony]]) and a stubborn dragon whose smoke threatens the well-being of their country (which they must deal with without the Elements of Harmony). Nightmare Moon was defeated by the Mane Six after they had known each other for less than a day.
371** The team Starlight leads to save the day in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E25ToWhereAndBackAgainPart1 To Where and Back Again]]": an amoral RealityWarper and reformed tyrant only helping out to save a personal friend, an itinerant illusionist and former EvilOverlord with an ego problem, and a former {{mook|s}} and deserter from the BigBad's forces who's terrified at the thought of meeting his old boss again, all led by a former cult leader terrified at the idea of being in charge of anything again.
372** This even happens in the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017 2017 movie]], where the friends the Mane 6 make on their journey to retake Equestria include a fast-talking conman, a group of formerly RetiredBadass pirates and a bubbly hippogriff princess who knows she's [[YouAreGrounded going to get grounded after this]]. Despite all their differences, the one thing they have in common is they were all helped by the Mane 6 in some way and want to help them too, and they managed to fight back against The Storm King's army.
373* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse''
374** The main characters living in the titular Owl House are a plucky young human girl who ran away from her restrictive home life in order to fulfill her dreams of becoming a witch; a [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] older woman with a bounty of a trillion on her head and a curse that turns her into a massive beast; an adorable little demon creature [[TheNapoleon with megalomaniacal tendencies]] [[spoiler:who later turns out to be a baby-PhysicalGod]], and a owl-tube thing [[GeniusLoci who technically]] ''[[GeniusLoci is]]'' [[GeniusLoci the house]], with a voice that sounds like Mickey Mouse on helium. They are briefly joined by [[spoiler:the criminal lady's sister, who used to lead the cult trying to arrest her until she defected and started reconnecting with her family.]]
375** [[spoiler:The final group who take down the BigBad Belos in the season 2 finale are the above-mentioned human after aquiring an ''enormous'' GuiltComplex; a former AlphaBitch who slowly breaks out of that mindset and starts dating aforementioned human; a ChildProdigy of Illusion-magic with a love for anything related to humans and the ability to pull your worst nightmares out of your head and use them to fight you; a formerly shy and bullied plant witch who slowly grows into [[TheBigGuy the powerhouse of the team]]; a ChildSoldier in the midst of an ''enormous'' identity crisis after discovering he's the latest in a long line of clones; and the above-mentioned adorable PhysicalGod, who ends up freeing a much more powerful and ''much'' more dangerous PhysicalGod with the promise to play with them in exchange for them saving the world.]]
376* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
377** At the beginning of the second Meap episode, the animators who made the trailers to it were described as a "ragtag group".
378** Technically the titular characters' core group counts too. There's a miniature [[TheWonka Wonka]], his InexplicablyAwesome stepbrother, the local bully, the nerd said bully picks on, a bunch of InexplicablyAwesome Girl Scouts, a weirdo who stalks TheWonka and his stepbrother and a bunch of random people who walk in and out.
379* One scene in the trailer for ''WesternAnimation/{{Pibby}}'' highlights that the protagonists are hardly the first choices for defeating an EldritchAbomination that threatens the entire universe. While Pibby (a small little girl from a preschool cartoon) explains the situation to her companions, they protest that they're just a sidekick and a villain, respectively.
380-->'''Pibby:''' I know we're not heroes. But maybe... we can learn.
381* Stated outright in the OpeningNarration of ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesOfDarkWater'': "At his side is an unlikely but loyal crew of misfits."
382* ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'': A quirky, hyperactive alien kid and his parents, a strange alien pet who can do anything and everything, a computer with a face, a comic-book geek, an uptight science nerd, and a little girl. And yet somehow they all came together and have a strong, family-like bond, and when it's called for, they more often than not save the day. Yep, they definitely fit the bill. Whichever side character(s) joins them for their adventures can easily fit into the group as well.
383* The ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' sketch parodying ''Film/Armageddon1998'', where the leader was chosen by call-in votes. The winner was Creator/HarrisonFord, who protests "I'm just an actor! I'm 62-years-old!" but everyone expects him to act like a movie hero. Music/{{Aerosmith}} fill the remaining slots on the team because the mission needs a cool theme song. They die trying to land.
384-->'''Reporter:''' Don't we have highly trained astronauts?\
385'''Senator:''' Oh, that's something of a myth.
386* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
387** In the episode "Homer at the Bat", Mr Burns calls his remaining players this after all but one of the professionals are made unavailable in ridiculous ways.
388** In "Moneybart", Lisa tries to apply this trope to Bart's baseball team, ala the Oakland A's, but it doesn't quite work.
389--->'''Bart:''' We're not losers! Last year we finished six and five.\
390'''Nelson:''' And we're not lovable. We had a tall freckle-faced kid on the team that we picked on 'til he quit. Hey, Splatterface, how's the weather up there? It's too bad, cause he's a great hitter, but it's worth it.
391* ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'': The Freedom Fighters consist of a super fast hedgehog, an innocent two-tailed fox, a tomboyish princess squirrel/chipmunk hybrid, a sweet half robotized rabbit, a cowardly coyote, a walrus who's good with tools, and are later joined by a clumsy but good natured dragon and the fast hedgehog's robotized uncle. They band together to fight the evil Dr. Robotnik and free the Kingdom of Acorn from his control.
392* Parodied with the elementary school dodgeball team in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Conjoined Fetus Lady", who make it all the way to the finals much to their own shock and dismay.
393* The crew of the Ghost in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' is a rebel pilot with family issues, an ex-padawan whose Master died before she could finish his training, a former bounty hunter, a Lasat with a bad case of survivor's guilt, an orphaned 15-year-old they picked up when he tried stealing from them and a droid which likes to electrocute friend and foe all the same.
394* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
395** The Crystal Gems consist of a HalfHumanHybrid teenager living with three aliens: a love-based {{Fusion|Dance}} of an elite Gem and her bodyguard, a CoolBigSis with self-esteem issues who should have been twice her size, and an anxious TeamMom who broke free from slavery and was in love with Steven's MissingMom. Later additions are a snarky, skeptical terraformer who's got some serious baggage about being trapped in a mirror for millenia, and a nerdy technician who pulled a dramatic HeelFaceTurn as she started to develop affection for Earth. These two live in a barn and enjoy watching crappy TV and making art (or "[[CallARabbitASmeerp meep-morps]]") together, and are later joined by a small, animate pumpkin dog Steven created.
396*** The original Crystal Gems were a much bigger bunch, but they consisted of every kind of Gem that Homeworld considered inferior: Fusions, defective Gems, Gems who wouldn't carry out their assigned tasks, ect., led by a Gem that had come to love Earth so much, she was willing to sacrifice everything for it.
397** The Off Colors are another bunch of misfits, hiding from Homeworld's judgement. They consist of a {{Seer|s}} who can only "predict" events that have literally just happened, an [[NervousWreck anxious]] Fusion of two, a serene Fusion of [[{{Polyamory}} six]], a pair of ConjoinedTwins, and [[spoiler:an undead human teenager with self-esteem and anxiety issues]].
398* The WesternAnimation/{{Teen Titans|2003}} were specifically stated to have been formed because they don't fit in anywhere else. They include the former sidekick of a [[AntiHero violent vigilante]], a [[{{Cyborg}} half-man/half-machine hybrid]], a [[HalfHumanHybrid half-demon]] LadyOfBlackMagic, a green skinned {{anim|orphism}}al {{shapeshift|ing}}er, and an alien princess.
399-->'''Raven''': I don't exactly fit in.\
400'''Cyborg''': He's green, half of me is metal, and she's from space. You fit in just fine.
401* The [=ThunderCats=], both [[WesternAnimation/ThunderCats1985 the original series]] and [[WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011 the 2011 reboot]], were survivors of a great catastrophe (in the original series, it was the destruction of their home planet Thundera while in the reboot, it was the destruction of the kingdom Thundera). The original group consists of a young inexperienced prince with a great destiny, an old soldier, an ActionGirl, a scientist (original series)/arrogant prince (reboot), two {{Tagalong Kid}}s, and the TeamPet.
402* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
403** Played with in ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars''. The oft-bickering good-guy Maximals are somewhat of a ragtag group, the crew of an exploration vessel forced into battle and joined by a DefectorFromDecadence, but the Predacon antagonists fit the trope even better, [[EnemyCivilWar backstabbing, scheming, and jockeying for position constantly]].
404** Similarly invoked in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', in which the job of saving the day lands on a repair crew with barely any real weapons who've mostly never been in combat before, while the Decepticons also spend a large time disorganized and spread apart. Of course, when the team of experts does show up, they're not a lot of help...
405* ''WesternAnimation/{{Vikingskool}}'': None of the main trio fit in quite right with Viking society - Erik is the descendant of a disgraced hero, Arni would much rather be a bard than a warrior, and Ylva is a WildChild RaisedByWolves. It's implied that this inability to fit in formed the basis of their friendship, and their collective traits in turn let them achieve far more than any of them or an ordinary Viking could do alone, up to and including defeating the trickster god Loki.
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