* ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'' had the [[FiveBadBand Five Evil Legendary Warriors]], henchmen of [[spoiler: [[DiscOneFinalBoss the first]]]] [[BigBad Cherubimon]]. Oh, what a distraction they were, until the [[spoiler: [[InvincibleVillain Royal Knights]]]] show up.
* ''Manga/SailorMoon'' had a set of these guys every season (in order of appearance: Shitennou, Ayakashi Sisters, Witches 5, Amazon Trio, Amazones Quartet, and Sailor Animamates). Many of these groups were made up of colour-coded [[ThePsychoRangers evil counterparts]] of the Four Guardians (Ami, Rei, Makoto, and Minako). In the manga, the Witches 5 were even resurrected JUST to kill the senshi they copied!
* ''FutariWaPrettyCure'' (including spinoffs ''[[FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash* Star]]'' and ''YesPrecure5'') has a cadre of mid-level badguys every plot line, one of which usually ends up becoming TheDragon.
* ''KannazukiNoMiko'' had the "Necks of Orochi", whose appearances parodied stock characters in anime. (As an aside, there were faceless mooks in the manga, but they never made an appearance in the anime.)
* The "Dreaded" Ginyu Force from ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', as seen in the page image. To be fair, before Goku comes along and shows them that MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours, they don't have much trouble trouncing the rest of the group.
** Their ImageSong from ''Anime/DragonBallKai'' makes them even quirkier, since between BraggingThemeTune lyrics, Captain Ginyu croons "We're gonna have parfaits with lunch/And you can't have one!"
** The Spice Boys from the Garlic Junior Saga. Though, they might be considered Mooks.
** The Ginyu Force get [[UpToEleven even quirkier]] in ''WebVideo/DragonBallAbridged''.
*** [[NoIndoorVoice "And they're all INCREDIBLY FLAMBOYANT!"]]
*** Lampshaded and parodied in the ''Lord Slug Abridged'' movie; when Piccolo comes face-to-face with Slug's three top henchmen, he casually asks them what their gimmick is, noting that the last bunch he fought (in ''Christmas Tree of Might'') were all misfit minions. His bored reaction as they list their gimmicks makes it plain he's seen it ''all'' before. Then again in Cooler Abridged.
* ''SandLand'': One of AkiraToriyama's more obscure works. It featured The Swimmers as a sort of nicer Ginyu Expy squad.
* ''OutlawStar'' had the Anten Seven, who were played almost exactly the same as the Gung-Ho Guns.
* Speaking of the Gung-Ho Guns, They're enemies of Vash the Stampede in {{Trigun}} led by [[TheDragon Legato]], though in a twist in the original manga, some actually have humanizing connections with him.
* ''BoboboboBobobo'' features the various blocks and divisions of the Hair Hunters, which included in their ranks everything from robots to martial artists to {{Talking Animal}}s to animated objects. Sometimes the objects aren't animated at all. There was an ordinary stick of gum in their ranks at some point. Ironicaly the gum actually ''won'' its fight. (By getting eaten, but it still counts.)
* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', almost all Gotei 13 squads introduced in the Soul Society arc fall under this trope, but essentially, in terms of pure, utter quirkiness, the 11th squad stands on top.
** Another example pops up later on with the former Espada, Nel Tu and her Fraccion. Extenuating circumstances involving another Espada transformed Nel into a little girl and she fled along with her Fraccion to live in the desert outside Aizen's keep, where they formed a little miniboss squad with a Hollow worm thing that they adopted as a pet, complete with [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1103/lionheart/Miniboss1.jpg a team pose]] and a quirky name, though they can't [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1103/lionheart/Miniboss2.jpg actually]] [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1103/lionheart/Miniboss3.jpg decide]] on a name between them.
** ''Bleach'' also has Ichigo's sisters' {{Sentai}} squad, the "Karakura Superheroes" (who similarly can't seem to decide on the colors), and it appears that Kon and the three new modsouls from the Bount arc have formed yet another. That makes 16 quirky miniboss squads; ''Bleach,'' after all, has LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters..
** A few of the Espada each have their own Quirky Miniboss Squad, particularly Grimmjow, Harribel, and Baraggan.
* The Stern Ritter is looking to be this to the Vandenreich emperor.
* The Goth Loli sisters from ''TheWallflower''.
* The Hyper-Zoanoid Five in ''{{Guyver}}''. Of course, [[spoiler:they barely fought the Guyver himself, and instead were targets for Aptom, who took down four out of five and even was able to get a sample of Zxtole's genetics.]]
* The Homunculi in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' beneath "Father" (in the manga) or [[spoiler:Dante]] (in [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the anime]]). Going a step below that, one of the Homunculi, Greed, has his very own ''mini''-miniboss squad with his chimera henchmen (and henchwoman).
* The Dark Lovers and Michel's winged servants in ''MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch''.
* The Fearsome Four in ''Anime/CorrectorYui''.
* The Juppongatana in ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'', almost all of whom have some underlying motive for helping Shishio and tragic back stories. The Six Comrades from later in the manga, however, are just [[PsychoForHire Psychos For Hire]].
* The Genei Ryodan in ''HunterXHunter''.
* Ashram's followers (Groder, Gaberra, Smeddy, Gilram, and Astar) from ''RecordOfLodossWar''. They were also {{Evil Counterpart}}s to the heroes: Ashram for Parn, Groder for Slayn, Gaberra for Leylia, Smeddy and Gilram for Shiris and Orson, and Astar for Deedlit.
* The Numbers [[SuperSoldier Combat Cyborgs]] of [[MadScientist Jail Scaglietti]] in ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS''.
** The Wolkenritter before them, in ''[[MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs A's]]''.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' is ''full'' of these. The Sound Four, belonging to Orochimaru. Also, the various filler arcs and films have at least one squad.
** Akatsuki tries to be this, giving each of its members a quirky personality, but few of them are considered expendable. Really they're more several pairs of ThoseTwoBadGuys (Deidara/Sasori, Kisame/Itachi and Kakuzu/Hidan) a BigBad and his [[TheDragon Dragon]].
** In a way, the [[spoiler: resurrected Jinchuuriki and their Bijuus are this - the Bijuus have their own quirky personalities, their Jinchuurikis followed the BigBad into the battlefield, and they perform a group HeelFaceTurn once released from the Edo Tensei.]]
* The Four Divine Beast Kings (Thymilph, Adiane, Guame, Cytomander) from ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''.
* Pasder's Four Machine Kings (Polonaise, Primada, Pizza, Penchinon) from ''GaoGaiGar''.
** The members of the 31 Primevals who possess human bodies become one for a short time. ''Final'' has the [[PSychoRangers 11 Masters]] [[StandardEvilOrganizationSquad of Sol]], though half of them are arguably a subversion. While set up with the fanfare of a quirky miniboss squad, they never reveal a [[EmptyShell personality]], [[TheVoiceless voice]], or even [[TheFaceless a face]]. They are a [[spoiler:[[FightingAShadow shadow]] shaped like a [[ShapedLikeItself miniboss squad]].]]
* Diva's [[OurVampiresAreDifferent chevaliers]] from ''BloodPlus'' with Amshel as TheDragon.
* In ''OnePiece'', almost every villain's named henchmen qualify as a quirky miniboss squad, with some Psycho Rangers thrown in. At first, they're always one miniboss to fight every crew member. As the crew has grown, this has been abandoned, and instead the minibosses have become so powerful than it may take two or three Strawhats just to beat one of them.
** In fact, One Piece villains as a whole rely on quirky miniboss squads more than mooks.
* Gon Jem and his Shitennou in ''MetalArmorDragonar''. You don't get any quirkier in a Real Robot anime. [[spoiler:Their weirdness does not keep them from being more than a match to the heroes in more than one occasion]].
* ''SamuraiDeeperKyo'' has several such groups. Perhaps most stunning is the fact that the protagonist and title character, Kyo himself has his own QuirkyMinibossSquad, the Shiseiten (translated as the Four Emperors in the american release). Also present are Sanada Yukimura's Sanada Ten and Nobunaga's Twelve God Shoguns. The primary villains of the series, the Mibu clan have several of squads of their own, the primary two being the Five Stars and the Four Elders. It gets even more complicated, however, when it is revealed that each of the four elders has his/her own QuirkyMinibossSquad, referred to as the Imperial Guards.
* In a similar case to Kyo Dark Schneider of ''Manga/{{Bastard}}'' is also a protagonist with his own QuirkyMinibossSquad (The Four Riders of Havoc). In addition said minibosses have their own minibosses (Especially Kal Su, who commands 13 Generals with their own quirks).And there's also the various high ranking Angels and Demons.
* ''Manga/InuYasha'' arguably has a number of these, including The Band of Seven and Kanna and Kagura, sometimes with Kohaku, Hakudōshi, and / or Akago.
* ''{{Berserk}}'' has two: The Bakiraka from the Golden Age arc, [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Proud Warrior Race Guys]] who are ordered to stop the FiveManBand and the group of deformed torturers from the Albion arc, who are [[ImprobableWeaponUser Improbable Weapon Users]] who receive demonic powers and are completely devoted to Mozgus, the BigBad of that arc. The Bakiraka are killed by Guts and co while Guts completely defeats the torturers [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome by himself.]]
* ''KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'' has the Eight Fists of Ragnarok. Or at least six of them, since the BigBad and TheDragon (Odin & Berserker) were the First and Second Fists respectively. Somewhat inverted, as each of the Fists were individually more developed overall than [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Berserker]] was. Also, five of the eight (excluding the BigBad, TheDragon, and TheStarscream) eventually pulled a HeelFaceTurn down the line.
** Actually around chapter 340 or so, it's revealed that [[spoiler: Nijima somehow got Loki to gather info for him, so it's currently 6 out of 8 fists now. And the jury's still out on whether Odin is still entirely loyal to his master]].
** Then, after the Ragnarok arc, we have Yami and YOMI, which both have Quirky Miniboss Squads. Yami has a leading group called "One Shadow Nine Fists", where "Shadow One" is TheFaceless BigBad and the "nine fists" are his QuirkyMinibossSquad. The organization of Yami's disciples, YOMI, also has its own QuirkyMinibossSquad which consists of those who are the disciples of "One Shadow Nine Fists".
* ''RaveMaster'' was chock full of these. Odds are if a main baddie is introduced, his squad wasn't too far behind.
* ''Manga/FairyTail'' often has Quirky Minibos Squads. The Paradise Tower arc pulls a bait and switch which introduces one squad of baddies who are easily trounced -- but then brings out a much more serious bunch.
** Later we're given the Raijinshu ([[spoiler: Laxus]]'s team) and the Seven Kin of Purgatory from Grimmore Heart. Element Four of Phantom Lord would also qualify.
** More correctly, every arc from the Lullaby arc and forward actually has a QuirkyMinibossSquad.
*** Karacke, Rayule, Byard and Kageyama from Eisenwald in the Lullaby arc.
*** Yuuka, Toby and Sherry from Lamia Scale in the Galuna Island arc.
*** Element Four (Juvia, Totomaru, Sol and Aria) in the Phantom Lord arc.
*** Firstly Erza's childhood friends (Wally, Millianna, Simon and Shou), then Trinity Raven (Fukurou, Ikaruga and Vivaldus) in the Tower of Paradise arc.
*** Raijinshu (Evergreen, Bickslow and Fried) in the Fighting Festival arc.
*** Oracion Seis except for their leader (Angel, Racer, Hoteye, Midnight and Cobra) in the Nirvana arc.
*** The Royal Army (Pantherlily, Knightwalker, Hughes, Sugarboy and Byro) in the Edolas arc.
*** The Seven Kin of Purgatory (Ultear, Zancrow, Kain, Azuma, Rustyrose, Meredy and Zoldeo) in the S-Class Trial arc.
* Bat, Buruge and Kite from ''GingaDensetsuWeed''.
* ''ShamanKing'''s Lily Five team. There were also Hao's minions. Despite having such members as a mariachi and a football player, they were all legitimately dangerous. It ends up being quite surprising when members who were closer to mook status turn out to have been [[HeroKiller Hero Killers]] who had been holding back. ''Especially'' the mariachi.
* ''InnocentVenus'' has the Phantom unit, complete with a [[KnifeNut knife-]][[LickingTheBlade licker]] and a Chinese man who kills people with rather sharp tarot cards.
* ''MirumoDePon!'': The Warumo Dan become one of these to [[SealedEvilInACan Dark]] and [[TheDragon Akumi]].
* The Four Chief Vassals of the King organization in ''FistOfTheNorthStar'', which consist of Spade, Diamond, Club, and Heart. Heart serves as TheDragon, being the only member of the group who provides a seemingly genuine threat to Kenshiro's martial art skills.
* ''MahouSenseiNegima'' has Fate's group of partners, who start popping up in the Magic World. Unfortunately for them, they have a rather nasty habit of running into [[GameBreaker Jack Rakan]].
* In ''Manga/DGrayMan'', the Noah Family.
* The Barbarois in ''VampireHunterD: Bloodlust''.
* Athrun, Yzak, Dearka and Nicol in ''GundamSeed''. Although if they are on the good or bad side is a matter of perception. [[spoiler: One ends up dying, and two join up with the 'good guys'.]]
* ''Anime/YuGiOh'' has the Big Five in the Virtual World arc.
** And also the three Swordsmen from the Doma arc.
* ''{{Eyeshield 21}}'' had this in the form of the Cyborgs and the Scorpions. Shinryuuji also had its own within their team who were shout outs to Journey of the West.
** This trope was also deconstructed with the Chameleons and the Guts, as both quirky teams trained incredibly hard only to be {{curb stomp| battle}}ed early in the tournament.
* Ayumi Mizuchi's Four Devas from ''SukebanDeka''.
* The bounty hunters in the "Greenback Jane" arc in ''Manga/BlackLagoon''.
* The officers of Millenium ''{{Hellsing}}'' are this. Argubly, the Captain is the Final Boss.
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