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Standard Evil Organization Squad
aka: Generic Evil Organization Squad

Line up for roll call, everybody! ^note

This is a generally villainous organization with mysterious goals and many distinct characters, usually wearing theme outfits. May start out as an Omniscient Council Of Vagueness before getting more time in the spotlight. Unlike a Legion of Doom, they're generally introduced as a bunch of new characters, rather than being a new alliance of old foes. Larger than a Quirky Miniboss Squad, and treated much more seriously (less quirk, more Boss). While they may have access to or be associated with a Nebulous Evil Organization, they are generally not nebulous, but rather have a set number of members, though they may qualify if their influence is nebulous or if they have numerous underlings who do not qualify as full members. They also tend to become a Spotlight-Stealing Squad.

The Standard Evil Organization Squad generally serves as either the Big Bad or Co-Dragons on a large scale (or both, since the leader is often the true Big Bad), and thus are generally a major threat.

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Anime & Manga

The Espada from Bleach (though they are technically a rank within an evil army, not a group in their own right). The Gotei 13 qualify as a version that pulled a Heel Face Turn, though they technically weren't evil in the first place.
The Homunculi from Fullmetal Alchemist.
The Innovators are portrayed this way in Gundam 00.
The One Shadow Nine Fists from History's Mightiest Disciple Kenichi.
The Akatsuki from Naruto.
The Devils of Kimon from Ninja Scroll.
One Piece: Baroque Works is missing only standardized outfits. Like Akatsuki, they work in pairs, in each case, a guy and a girl, with the guys numbered a la the Espada.
- The Cipher Pol 9 two sagas later also qualify.
The Juppongatana from Rurouni Kenshin
The Numbers in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS.
The Dark Signers of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds.
The Noah family from D.Gray-Man.

Comic Books

The Seven Evil Exes from Scott Pilgrim. Though they lack standardized uniforms or any sort of theme among them, they are introduced one-by-one, except for the Katayanagi twins. They even fall under The Smurfette Principle!
The Hellfire Club from the famous Dark Phoenix Saga of X-Men, all with fabulous clothing.

Fan Fic

Dungeon Keeper Ami: Ami's minions start out as just another Keeper's band of thugs to the surface world. This changes following Ami's defeat of The Avatar of All Light. It is clear from the Spymaster's subplot that after this the surface world is scrambleing to discover the source of this incredibly powerful new keeper, uncover her motives and prepare countermeasures for her continued menace. Of course, they meet with limited success due to her origions. Of course, this is Sailor Mercury we're talking about. So it's an inversion.

Literature

Scorpia from Alex Rider. They may qualify as a Nebulous Evil Organization, but they don't seem to have too many members.
- They have hundreds if not thousands of members, but the leadership is a council of the worlds most notorious spies, assassins, criminals and terrorists who play this straight.
Though framed as a Nebulous Evil Organization in-story, the Death Eaters (basically the Ku Klux Klan with magic powers) from Harry Potter arguably qualify.
The Forsaken from The Wheel of Time fit this to a T.

Newspaper Comics

The Hateocracy from The Boondocks.

Video Games

The pictured Organization XIII from Kingdom Hearts. They were an Omniscient Council Of Vagueness in their debut game, Chain of Memories (where not much was known about them aside from sharing the same coat), but in Kingdom Hearts II and 358/2 Days, they became this (particularly in the latter game, as they were featured as the protagonists there and thus got much more screentime.)
Those from the Past from The King of Fighters.
Pok�mon has almost one per game, usually based off of a real-life organization. To name a few: Team Rocket, Team Aqua/Magma, Team Galactic, Team Plasma...

Webcomics

Homestuck has two. The first is the canonical Trolls, a group of twelve aliens (or so they claim) whose T-shirts follow an Astrological theme (each bears the symbol of one of the Astrological signs). Following the format of Homestuck, they are introduced one-by-one. Subverted in that most of them aren't really evil. They aren't particularly organized either.
- The second group is from the Show Within a Show The Midnight Crew. The primary antagonists of the series are The Felt, who are a group of 15 time-travelers with a billiard-ball theme (each character corresponds to a ball). They have recently been revealed, in a form of in-universe Defictionalization, to actually exist in continuity with the main story.
  - The Midnight Crew itself could count, if not for the fact that the group consists only of four people.

Western Animation

The Legion Ex Machina from Big Guy And Rusty The Boy Robot.
The Pack from Generator Rex straddle the line between this and a serious Quirky Miniboss Squad.
While the membership of Young Justice's The Light would form a Legion of Doom in most other continuities, they way the overarching plot is structured makes them this trope, after half a season as an Omniscient Council Of Vagueness.