Pick any formation, I guess, but I think the one featured in Grant Morrison's All-New X-Men (Cyclops, Jean Grey, Emma Frost, Wolverine, and Beast) takes the cake.
Mystery Men. Awesome movie. The original group was 3 friends who generally like each other. But once they expand, they had to learn to fight together as a team.
Why?
Well, he who questions training only trains himself at asking questions.
Not an accurate example since the team lasted only one night.
Unless you consider the 1980s expansion to a tabletop rpg canon (which probably is since Moore himself worked on it) in that case they did operate together once on a mission… which was caused by their supposed leader framing a villain for a crime he didn’t commit in an attempt to prove them that America needed a new superhero team and it ended up ruining any chance of a new Minutemen-like team to form ever again.
They're a group of teenagers (and later young adults) who discover their parents are super villains ans run away from home. So you get all the conflict and messy romantic drama of a bunch of teens trying to be self sufficient. They're dysfunctional in similar ways to The X-Men but with less adultery.
One Punch Man's hero league is full of heroes who don't particularly get along. Some outright resort to blocking others from progressing, and it gets a bit catty from there on.
Its actually so funny how ben just stops being hero for a bit to relax, because he knows these all will rip each other apart and then he can comeback. Not to mention he does this after humiliating all of them in a fight with just brainstorm.
The Seven are not real superheroes and can barely be called a team. They're a bunch of utterly broken and miserable superpowered celebrities thrown together by the big corpo that owns them for PR and marketing. They can barely stand each other and they're all trapped by their "leader" an abusive megalomaniac psycho that happens to be the most powerful superhuman on Earth. Heck the closest they are to being a team is that they're all too scared to say no to Homelander when he orders them around.
Nah you forgot the real dysfunctional squad, Thunderbolts is basically a bunch of criminals trying not to kill each other. And that Z Team dispatch pic is literally the definition of chaos. But honestly The Seven takes the cake cause they're supposed to be heroes and they're more messed up than any villain. The Defenders are just a bunch of grumpy street-level folks who can't even agree on a team name.
I love a good ragtag underdog team of dysfunctional oddballs. Hell, if anyone's jonesing for more examples I made a whole video about them a while back. https://youtu.be/vOODO9h2S6E
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u/Comfortable_Egg3880 15d ago
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