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The no groups rule for The Scrappy states groups are allowed if they are small enough that each individual member can be judged individually (a whole species or culture is too big to do so so disqualified). But a whole group has so much more story relevance it's likely too major a "character" to count as a darkhorse.
Tropes Are Flexible enough for me to say it's not a hard no. Still, you better have a good reason. (Smaller groups are more likely to get a pass.)

A few months ago, I deleted a couple of Ensemble Dark Horse entries in the The Powerpuff Girls page because they listed teams of characters as examples of the trope. My understanding is that this trope, as the name would suggest, only applies to specific, individual characters within each group, not to multiple members at once.
A troper has re-added the deleted entries, reasoning that "nothing on the Ensemble Dark Horse states that it has to be individual character". However, the page actually states the exact opposite: "Although this applies to individual characters, as a YMMV item, it should not be listed on character pages."
I also took a look at the cleanup thread and found a couple
of posts
that confirm that groups should not be listed as examples. However, the messages are kind of old, and the thread itself seems to not be active, so I don't know whether the rule still stands.
So, tropers, are those valid entries? And if not, should I cut them again?