History Main / MisfitMobilizationMoment

* Happens in ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' when [[spoiler:Maximus the stallion recruits the Pub Thugs to bust out Flynn from prison]].

* ''Manga/OnePiece'':

** In Dressrosa, with the various pirates, thugs, and other mavericks from the Colosseum banding together to take down Doflamingo- though at first, it's more of a desperate race to see who will get to Doflamingo first.

* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' has Hiccup and his classmates mount their dragons and swoop in [[spoiler:to [[BigDamnHeroes save Stoick and Gobber from the Red Death]]. The moment between Hiccup and his dad when they do should pretty much speak for itself]].

* Happens in issue #79 of Marvel's ''ComicBook/{{Transformers}}'' comic book series. Spike Witwicky, [[MentalFusion mentally fused]] with the Autobot Fortress Maximus, goes to Canada to stop a [[UnstoppableRage crazed, rampaging Galvatron]]. The Misfit Mobilization Moment occurs when the [[IJustWantToBeNormal war-weary]] Spike [[YouCantFightFate accepts his fate]] and coordinates with Fortress Maximus to win the fight.

* The protagonists of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' - a librarian/student, a fashion designer, a [[PaintingTheFrostOnWindows weather manager]] and aspiring athlete, a veterinarian, a farmer, and a baker party planner - are hardly your first choice when you want to stop a [[MadGod mad goddess of the night]] from bringing about TheNightThatNeverEnds, but they were the only ones who volunteered.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', it's when the Parrs band together against Syndrome's {{Mooks}} on the island base. Doubly impressive when you remember the kids have started being superheroes just ''ten minutes ago.''

** The Straw Hats' PowerWalk to Arlong's base of operations.
** Luffy's escape from Impel Down (with many former villains) also classifies.
** Happens again in Dressrosa, with the various pirates, thugs, and other mavericks from the Colosseum banding together to take down Doflamingo- though at first, it's more of a desperate race to see who will get to Doflamingo first.

* Subverted, parodied, and generally dismantled in ''Series/{{Misfits}}'', particularly in the season 1 finale when it looks like the three remaining members of the highly dysfunctional FiveManBand are ''finally'' putting aside their differences and doing something pro-active to save the others - the scene even features a LockAndLoadMontage, awesome music, and a slow-motion PowerWalk. Unfortunately, things start falling apart after about a minute and a half. Their plan is ''stupid'' and poorly executed and it fails miserably. Two members of the group are forced to leave the third behind, and then start squabbling amongst themselves until one storms off in a rage, leaving the other in mortal danger. [[spoiler: The last remaining group member does actually save the day, but only really through dumb luck, and at ''great'' personal cost.]]

'''Hagan:''' Wow, you made that super-easy on me; I had like this whole speech worked up and everything.\\

* In the conclusion of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue: Revelation'', the two titular teams finally come together and willingly work together as a cohesive unit to take down the BigBad. They still fight about as well as a RagtagBunchOfMisfits would but manage to make it work because [[TrueCompanions they know each other so well]].

Contrast with LetsGetDangerous, where characters who were ''already'' skilled finally get to demonstrate their expertise. Also see GondorCallsForAid, ImprovisedTraining and TeethClenchedTeamwork. When this happens with the formerly pathetic villains, expect TeamRocketWins.

* Ruthlessly averted in ''ComicBook/SavageDragon'' when a tycoon decides to recreate Freak Force in the Savage Earth after reading Dragon's memories from the Original Earth. After his attempt horribly fails due to Savage Freak Force members' utter inexperience and lack of cooperation, causing his complete financial ruin and the death of his wife, he gives a rousing speech on how the experience may still have created a bond between them and that maybe they will make Freak Force live even though he can't pay them any more (which was their original motivation for participating in the team). [[spoiler:They unanimously bail out right after his speech ends, leaving the poor man crying over the corpse of his wife]].

* In ''Fanfic/{{Origins}}'', a ''VideoGame/MassEffect''[=/=]''Franchise/StarWars''[[spoiler:[=/=]''[=Borderlands=]''[=/=]''[=Halo=]'']] MassiveMultiplayerCrossover, Aria T'Loak pulls together all of the generally unpleasent mercenary types who inhabit Omega under the auspices of keeping order in the Terminus while the Council builds its own defenses. [[AllForNothing It doesn't work.]] Later, she gathers more mercenaries, soldiers, and ex-Cerberus to mount an attack against the aliens that have taken over the galaxy. How well this turns out considering who the invaders are [[spoiler:Flood]] and how [[CurbStompBattle badly]] the last venture turned out has yet to be determined.
* This happens big time during the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'' Wedding Arc. Chrysalis is even more dangerous than in canon and manages to [[spoiler:brainwash Applejack and Twilight, as well as Spike and Sweetie]]. Who ultimately begins unraveling her plans? [[spoiler:Twinkle Shine (a hairstylist), Minuette (a dentist and a pure good regeneration of [[Series/DoctorWho the Master]] who [[SplitPersonalityTakeover managed to destroy his persona for good]]), Bon Bon (a candy maker), Lyra (a musician), and Moth (a reformed Changeling who has up until now been too terrified to act against her own kind).]] The not only manage to uncover something is wrong, but manage to [[spoiler:free Moon Dancer, one of Chrysalis' slaves,]] and ultimately act as the BigDamnHeroes later on to save the main heroes. Also of note is Prince Blueblood, who, after a load of CharacterDevelopment, is the one who [[spoiler:saved Cadence from the mines and get her to the Wedding in time to stop it, revealing Chrysalis]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', it's when the Parrs band together against Syndrome's {{Mooks}} on the island base. Doubly impressive when you remember the kids have started being super-heroes just ''ten minutes ago.''

* Subverted in ''Film/AnimalHouse'', when Bluto gives a speech with numerous historical inaccuracies, and fails to rouse his fraternity brothers, who have given up. Finally, though, they do listen to him and create an incredibly funny end sequence.

** Technically, it was the followup speech by de-facto leader, Otter, that mobilized the frat.
* ''Film/AnyGivenSunday'' has the pre-game before the playoff game in [[UsefulNotes/DFWMetroplex Dallas]]. The Miami Sharks football team up to that point, has been a bunch of egotistical, arrogant, and flat-out psychotic douchebags. But before the game, Coach D'Amato delivers a RousingSpeech (he is played by Creator/AlPacino, after all) where-in he simply reminds these players of their shared commitment to being the better team.

* ''Film/RedCliff'' pulls off a spectacular moment when Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang are convinced they're hopelessly outnumbered. Sun Quan reveals [[spoiler:their allies from Shu had only pretended to defect to lull the enemy into a false sense of security. Cue the BigDamnHeroes reappearance of Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, Guan Yu and Zhao Yun fully prepared to kick ass and take names]]. From there, ''every'' major character proceeds to contribute a necessary element of the staggeringly epic battle that follows, including Zhou Yu's wife and Sun Quan's sister. It's worth noting that while most of these characters are traditionally seen as heroes, the movie has up until this point presented them as either too old and feeble, too young and inexperienced, and/or too suspicious of each other's motives to succeed (in comparison to the well-oiled machine of the opposing force), so "misfit" mobilization would apply to this particular interpretation of the story.

** In ''Literature/{{Thud}}'' there is the marshalling of the specials, who in this case include Vimes' own butler, the head of the thieves guild (and two body-guards), the Unseen University librarian and a (to Vimes' mind) slightly-too-keen clacks operator. This is on top of the virtually all-inclusive Watch.

** The whole final battle is this for the good-guys: Order of the Phoenix, Dumbledore's Army, teachers and staff of Hogwarts, Grawp-the-giant, thestrals and hippogriffs, centaurs, house-elves, and probably others.

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* Attempted and used in a second-season episode of ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. In the "Liars Guns And Money" trilogy, the crew of Moya rob a bank to buy D'Argo's son out of slavery - only to find that [[BigBad Scorpius]] has beaten them to the slave auction and will only release Jothee if they give him Crichton. What do they do? They take the money from the depository and hire all the mercenaries, {{Bounty Hunter}}s and pirates which had been the villains of previous episodes to help rescue him. Unfortunately, the Misfit Mobilization Moment is critically delayed when it's discovered that the mercenaries are either under new management, suffering debilitating health problems, on the run, or have found religion in the intervening months; even after clearing these difficulties up, it's discovered that the stolen money has been booby-trapped, leaving Moya badly burned and her crew poor all over again. At that point, Crichton [[DespairEventHorizon gives up]] and surrenders to Scorpius, leaving his friends with D'Argo's son but not much else. The mercenaries are on the point of leaving when Aeryn ''finally'' performs the Misfit Mobilization Moment by pointing out that Scorpius is using the bank as a base of operations, and offering them whatever they can find in the vault as payment. Unfortunately, though the crew manages to escape relatively unharmed, all but one of the mercenaries are killed in the attack.

* Subverted, parodied, and generally dismantled in ''Series/{{Misfits}}'', particularly in the season 1 finale when it looks like the three remaining members of the highly dysfunctional FiveManBand are ''finally'' putting aside their differences and doing something pro-active to save the others - the scene even features a LockAndLoadMontage, awesome music, and a slow-motion PowerWalk. Unfortunately, things start falling apart after about a minute and a half. Their plan is ''stupid'' and poorly executed and it fails miserably. Two members of the group are forced to leave the third behind, and then start squabbling amongst themselves until one storms off in rage, leaving the other in mortal danger. [[spoiler: The last remaining group member does actually save the day, but only really through dumb luck, and at ''great'' personal cost.]]

* Played in ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' with Justin's delinquent class in "Everything's Rosie For Justin", when they do their wand drill. Subverted in that they all fail, because Rosie has no magic.

** A better example is the independent ending with Yes Man. The player can assemble an army made up of groups the NCR has historically been fighting (Khans, Powder Gangers, Brotherhood of Steel, Enclave, The Kings, Boomers, and so on) and use them to take on both the NCR and the Legion. Much of their contributions happen off-screen, but are extensively reviewed in the ending slides.

* In the conclusion of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue: Revelation'', the two titular teams finally come together and willingly work together as a cohesive unit to take down the BigBad. They still fight about as well as a RagtagBunchOfMisfits would, but manage to make it work because [[TrueCompanions they know each other so well]].

* The protagonists of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' - a librarian/student, a fashion designer, a [[PaintingTheFrostOnWindows weather manager]] and aspiring athlete, a veterinarian, a farmer and a baker party planner - are hardly your first choice when you want to stop a [[MadGod mad goddess of the night]] from bringing about TheNightThatNeverEnds, but they were the only ones who volunteered.