History Main / OddlySmallOrganization

* There are five members of the [[IrishMob Boston mob]] in TheDeparted. Twenty to Forty Percent of which are undercover cops.

* [[UltimateUniverse Ultimate]] [[TheArcher Hawkeye]] refers to an early incarnation of SHIELD as "You (Nick Fury), me, and a drinks tab trying to take down the Soviet Union."
* Following SecretInvasion SHIELD was decomissioned and replaced by HAMMER. Following Siege, HAMMER was decomissioned and Steve Rogers, former Captain America, was appointed as the new Nick Fury, but no mention is made of recomissioned SHIELD or the formation of any new agency. He seems to rely on the services of Sharon Carter, Maria Hill and Victoria Hand to liaise with the various avengers teams, on of which is his own Black Ops unit.

* Even though there are many (well, up to 26 going by the naming scheme, thought the animated series also uses non-English letters as well) MenInBlack, it seems it falls to two agents to take care of most serious potential Apocali.

*** They ''do'' send out minions. Sasori and Pain sent out those Shoten clones of Kisame and Itachi to slow two ninja teams, Yuura was used to massacre an entire battilion of Sand ninja, and Kabuto was supposed to be spying for them. Most of their appearances are focused on capturing Bijuu, which is just something they don't leave to {{mooks}}

* ''{{Naruto}}'' has the Akatsuki, a sinister organization of {{Black Cloak}}s with only 10 members (actually 9, since Oro absconded with their membership ring). To be fair, they seem to find replacements for lost members pretty quickly, but they ''never'' send out minions to do things, instead sending out [[EvilDuo two of their number]] to accomplish any task. Even their ''accountant'' is a powerful fighter and formal member of the organization - apparently they don't trust weaklings with money or something. Made worse by the fact that many of their members are constantly having arguments and trying to kill each other.
** Sasori actually had several agents working under him ([[spoiler:Yuura, Kabuto, and the man who was turned into a duplicate of Kisame]]), Tobi was a "junior," and Pain has [[spoiler:a small ''country'']] at his disposal, and Kakuzu had numerous ties to collect the money for the organization. [[spoiler:Sasuke's teammates in Hawk are either considered his subordinates, or the whole team is subordinate to Madara]]. Oro also seemed to have some place to conduct experiments while he was with the team, and of course the Bijuu increase their actual military muscle by a large margin. So while they have a limited number of full members, it appears as if they are able to have their own henchmen, widening their potential scope connsiderably. Still, they handle most of their affairs personally.

* Likewise, despite being very well financed in the original ''{{Gatekeepers}}'', AEGIS was supposedly a worldwide organization; with Japan being just the Eastern outpost. By the DarkerAndEdgier sequel, there was about 5 members left.

* [[spoiler:The Patriots]] of the ''MetalGearSolid'' 'verse are Six {{Fallen Hero}}es.

* ''{{Castlevania}}: Order of Ecclesia'': The titular Order of Ecclesia consists of.... 3 people. This seems bizarre when the leader says things like "It is the desire of the Order of Ecclesia" or describes what the Order of Ecclesia is supposed to do.

** Well they have a lot of help from the guilds, especially the Thieves Guild. ItMakesSenseInContext

* ''YuYuHakusho''. You're an immortal and son of another immortal Devil-God of Hell, and the only agents you can send to do anything are four guys you've only recently recruited? And two of them are humans not even old enough to drink!

*** There are "franchise" AQ groups (Al-Qaeda in [[strike:Iraq]] Mesopotamia, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb being the ones you're most likely to hear about), but they're independent guys who started using the name, after which OsamaBinLadin "let" them use it (I mean, how will he stop them? Sue them for copyright infringement?).

** AlQaida has less than 1,000 members, and only around forty guys were involved in 9/11.

** Sasori actually had several agents working under him ([[spoiler:Yuura, Kabuto, and the man who was turned into a duplicate of Kisame]]), Tobi was a "junior," and Pain has [[spoiler:a small ''country'']] at his disposal, and Kakuzu had numerous ties to collect the money for the organization. [[spoiler:Sasuke's teammates in Hawk are either considered his subordinates, or the whole team is subordinate to Madara]]. Oro also seemed to have some place to conduct experiments while he was with the team, and of course teh Bijuu increase their actual military muscle by a large margin. So while they have a limited number of full members, it appears as if they are able to have their own henchmen, widening their potential scope connsiderably. Still, they handle most of their affairs personally.

* ''{{Naruto}}'' has the Akatsuki, a sinister organization of {{Black Cloak}}s with only 10 members. To be fair, they seem to find replacements for lost members pretty quickly, but they ''never'' send out minions to do things, instead sending out [[EvilDuo two of their number]] to accomplish any task. Even their ''accountant'' is a powerful fighter and formal member of the organization - apparently they don't trust weaklings with money or something. Made worse by the fact that many of their members are constantly having arguments and trying to kill each other.

A result of having an EconomyCast. See QuirkyMinibossSquad for a SubTrope of this in VideoGames.

** Sasori actually had several agents working under him ([[spoiler:Yuura, Kabuto, and the man who was turned into a duplicate of Kisame]]), Tobi was a "junior," and Pain has [[spoiler:a small ''country'']] at his disposal, either [[spoiler:Sasuke's teammates in Hawk are considered his subordinates or the whole team are to Madara]] as they probably aren't considered full members, and Kakuzu had numerous ties to collect the money for the organization. So while they have a limited number of full members, it appears as if they are able to have their own henchmen. Still, they handle most of their affairs personally.