My ragtag bunch/Five Man Band is like this:

I am the Jewish and Nerdy Smart Guy Otaku who hates Minecraft, with some Cloudcuckoolander and Only Sane Man. Also Younger Than I Look.

My friends:

The Hero: An off the wall type V Anti-Hero who Took a Level in Jerkass recently. Now not as close a friend to me as a while ago. His mind is best described as screwed up beyond all reason.

The Chick: A Pokemon-loving horseback rider of a Beserker. She's really cool when not punching me in the *insert body part here).

The Big Guy: An Abridged Series lover with a penchant for Minecraft. His parakeet is heavily implied to be evil

The Lancer: A total Minecraft addict that Fiddles while Rome (or in our case, my sanity) Burns.

The Sixth Ranger: My best friend. A really nice guy and outgoing too.

Ours is not an ordinary Nakama.

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In all honesty, we could rule the world if we were not so distracted

There were only five girls in This Troper's Secondary School class, so we simply had to stick together. There was {{The Libby}}, the extrovertic artsy girl, The Only Sane Girl, the sweet depressed {{Emo Teen}} and me - a wannabe musician chonicler.

For the game this troper's currently running, the plot hook was that a disgruntled captain in the City Watch (who'd just been KickedUpstairs) had decided to get revenge by recruiting the most inappropriate people possible for his nonexistent department. So she asked the players for a ragtag bunch, and boy did she ever get it-- an elven barbarian who was raised by humans and has a magic helmet she can't control, a ditzy shapeshifter, a drow mage with a miniature bear familiar that he insists doesn't exist, a Nac Mac Feegle, a recently ex-con bard, and the one girl who joined up to uphold justice. They were arguing, fighting, and stealing from each other before the recruiting interview was over.

Me and my group of friends. We got a popular girl, a sane Mexican, a jock (not of the jerk variety.), a dog lover, a surprisingly quiet girl, and of course, their scheming planner, me.

This troper is in a Pokemorph RP group that currently consists of: A musician-turned-arcanine, a human pokemon trainer, a thief duo consisting of a half-scyther and a half-sneasel, a human-hating pikachu-turned-half-human, and a natural-born half-charizard. There are others in our little group as well, those are just the ones who show up most frequently.

This troper's group of friends includes a football player (like the above, not the douchy type), identical twins, a South Korean immigrant, a meme-obsessed Steampunk, the real life version of Osaka, a Trekkie, a crossdresser, a goth-loli, a gay furry, four guys obsessed with killing zombies, and a [=LARPer=] serving as the one keeping all us nuts in line.

This Troper's nakama works like this and in addition, is troperiffic:

TheMario / TeamDad who uses ObfuscatingStupidity. HeterosexualLifePartners with our Otaku, is VitriolicBestBuds with AKFG

an ArrogantKungFuGuy / InsufferableGenius complete with StoicSpectacles. Likes to troll everyone.

an Otaku who is an IdiotHero / ChivalrousPervert, and plays up the HoYay with TeamDad

a drama-obsessed GenkiGirl with GagBoobs, has LesYay with DarkActionGirl

a {{Pettanko}} CloudCuckoolander whom even the girls want,

a HotBlooded / DarkActionGirl /BiTheWay (one could consider the nakama her MoralityChain ).

AndZoidberg , our local ButtMonkey. He usually doesn't do anything to deserve the crap we throw at him, except for being lazy.

My friends say I'm like TeamMom / CoolBigSis (they even call me mom/sis and ask me to intervene in arguments) with a side helping of {{Kuudere}} / KnightInSourArmor. Me and DarkActionGirl are another set of HeterosexualLifePartners

This troper's high school nakama consisted of the following: himself (an Unfunny), his drama club CloudCuckooLander best friend, a couple of nerds who were ThoseTwoGuys, a {{Pettanko}} PerkyGoth, a CampGay guy, a {{Cosplay Otaku Girl}} with the MostCommonSuperpower, and her boyfriend, who was the {{Butt Monkey}}.

This troper's Nakama consists of: a CampGay guy who doubles as resident {{Buttmonkey}}, a CloudCuckooLander actor, an Insufferable Artist, an Only Sane Woman, and me, a ShrinkingViolet.

This troper's group has a {{Camp Gay}} friend as well along with {{The Quiet One}} from Korea, a person who acts like a TomboyPrincess, an insanely smart girl, a bohemian girl that works all the time, and me a {{Nightmare Fetishist}}/{{Deadpan Snarker}} who dresses like she's a man in the 1920's-40's. And the bus we went to Grad Night on was called the "Misfit Bus" due to the fact that all the kids who at an ART SCHOOL were into anime/slightly annoying/a furry/a little goth/or just plain crazy were on said bus. We embraced the name wholeheartedly and bred/traded Pokemon the entire way there.

This troper's {{nakama}} includes a stoic DeadpanSnarker, a TomboyPrincess, a Boy Scout (literally), one guy who inexplicably tends to have ALadyOnEachArm, and a GenkiGirl with HyperactiveMetabolism, with Troper and her husband acting as TeamMom and TeamDad. There are others, but it's difficult to apply tropes to them all.

This troper is in so many different friendship groups (popular people like me, nerds like me, people of the opposite gender like me) that his Facebook page looks a bit like this. It's kinda funny to think about.

For a campaign he is thinking of running, the players are a student, a soldier and a apprentice wizard. They have to defeat a vampire with the help of a female hobbit vampire hunter, who has slain many vampires. It was designed to be a faint joke at hobbit's low strength, low height and the general viewpoint that men are stronger than women, thus making everyone wonder how on earth a female hobbit became such a good vampire hunter. ItMakesSenseInContext, trust me.

This Troper has a few, including:

A study group composed of a tall, effeminate guy who used 'W's instead of 'R's, and a lively, sweet ButchLesbian, and himself.

Several male friends who are all in his drama club, including a rude, women chaser, a large, intellectually gifted, lazy otaku, and a guy who is constantly picked on but always optimistic.

My friends are a PintsizedPowerhouse GenkiGirl with bright red hair, a CloudCuckooLander AdultChild who is obsessed with ghosts, a very sweet and kind girl with a DarkAndTroubledPast , a ChivalrousPervert who is a big anime fan, a stoner, a christian who is secretly TooKinkyToTorture and then theres me-an OlderThanTheyLook PerkyGoth who is actually quite shy when her friends arent around.

This Troper is part of a ragtag team of nerds, which is also a FiveManBand:

TheHero: My OneOfTheBoys BFF. I don't even bother denying it. SheCleansUpNicely, by the way.

TheLancer: Me. The resident DeadpanSnarker. Also LittleMissConArtist.

TheSmartGuy: My GranolaGirl friend. I'm a subversion of this. She also doubles as TheHeart and TeamMom.

TheBigGuy: My other GranolaGirl friend. Very intelligent, actually.

TheChick: My second-BFF. She is also a lesser DeadpanSnarker.

TheSixthRanger: My "archenemy." (who I have a crush on...) For someone who hates me so much, we sure do joke around a lot. He's also a DeadpanSnarker.

This troper {{theshadowchild}} and his group of friends that include my best friend who is the sane, normal guy, my other best friend who is the embodiment of keet, my little brother who is a lovable jerk, my sister a genki girl,cute bruiser, best friend's little brother who's a cry baby, tagalong kid and of course me the perky goth,smart guy

This Troper's current "clique" consists of himself (a BrilliantButLazy GeniusDitz), an AmbiguouslyGay CloudCuckoolander, a seldom-speaking Stoic, a GeniusBruiser, a BunnyEarsLawyer, a StrangeGirl, a DeadpanSnarker, a JerkAss, a CovertPervert ButtMonkey, a {{Tsundere}}, and an OnlySaneWoman.

Hmm...let me see how well me and my friends fit the cliches:

Me - The Heart and the Hero: Magnetic nice guy played straight, big brother mentor, emotional bruiser (if I ever had the desire to bruise anyone), genre savvy, deadpan snarker, brilliant but lazy, and an always save the girl minded chivalrous pervert. Also, I like to be the Mario and I prefer swords, natch.

The Big Guy: My closest friend since sixth grade who is a lot like me in beliefs and personality, but is definitely more of a boisterous, gentle bruiser, and a pretty smart one at that; interestingly, he's not very big whereas I am, and would actually be more of a ranged stealth kind of guy, whereas my Lancer would be more prone to tanking with heavy weaponry even though he's smaller and skinnier.

The Lancer: My other best friend who I've only known a few years but is my right-hand man and fellow magnetic schemer; he's definitely the Kirk, and he's definitely a contrast to me.

The Chick: My closest female friend, tomboy and girly girl, and certainly team mom to a lot of our friends; she's in love with fairy tales and is kind and emotional with her loved ones, though also an action girl who's usually prepared to slap sense into someone (occasionally in the literal sense), and can be snarkywhen she so chooses; she likes to get and use attention and can easily get it without actually being promiscuous or revealing; interestingly, she's both close to earth and manages to be the excited, active work-aholic to my laid-back attitude, and she's made me wonder what a relationship with her would be like.

The Smart Girl: My genius ditz friend with a troubled past who because of her let's just be friends attitude towards my past advances has turned her and I into something like brother and sister now - as such, we're pretty similar in our line of thinking as well as our romantic pursuits; she's an talented dancer and very pretty, and honestly, she's only in the Smart Guy category because she's smart and she's my fourth best friend...go figure.

So...basically we're all interestingly subverted/inverted/averted cliches and snarky. And that's how I like it.

NOW you're catching on!

Well unfortunatly this troper's crew is subverted from most of this page... seeing that we are villains or Antiheroes at best.

Me, A Brutally Honest college dropout with no respect for the law.

A Bi-sexual college dropout (not from the same school mind you), who also happens to be an ex-con.

A TriggerHappy wannabe rapper and

An online college dropout who fucks with people because he finds it funny.

All of us are {{jerkass}}es, which is probably the only reason why we can get along...

In high school, I mostly described my group of friends as "the people who didn't fit into the other cliques." We had a mix of theater geeks, speechies, bandies, football players, gamers, stoners, overachievers, track kids, computer builders/programmers, otaku, straight-edge scene kids and wild partying drinkers, just off the top of my head. Somehow, it managed to work, partially because we all had overlapping interests and extracurriculars.

Not a personal example but this troper is a fan of the St. Louis Blues. Pretty much every year (since the strike, previously they had a reputation are being competitve but never winning the big one) features one of these (due to cheap ownership that claims they are losing money despite selling out nearly every game).

My friends and I definitely count. We've got the far too tall DeadpanSnarker, the red-headed ShrinkingViolet, the short short ButtMonkey, the BadassBookworm, double Genki Girls, and of course, me. I don't mean to brag, but we could make a damn good series.

One more thing: We all love each other and hate each others guts at the same time.

This troper was in a bowling league about six years ago, when he was ten. Along with two other kids, he was one of the only people who couldn't find a team, so he was grouped with the other two. How were they at bowling? Not so good at first. One of the three had never bowled before. Still, they were determined (and, this troper will admit, quite lucky at times) and in the end, the team ended up winning the league after one team had dominated for back-to-back years.

Most of my group suffer from some sort of mental illness, my best friend is schizoid, and we are the only one he trusts, a guy who works for me is paranoid of the FBI (Never mind we're British), there's the guy who's seen too much and never talks, and me? Autism and mild insanity (Try it sometime.). Others I talk to, however are mostly sound of mind

This Tropette, after the disbandment of the old clique, is now part of one of these. We have:

Allison, who is the head of the clique. She's not by any means TheHero, as we all kind of dislike her. She hates the people who pick on us, but the truth is, she's NotSoDifferent.

Tabitha, the resident {{Tsundere}}. She is also the CloudCuckoolander.

Olivia, who is TheCutie, but also a bit AxeCrazy.

Alisea, the OnlySaneMan, who also has the LizLemonJob of sorts.

Brianna, who is very... erm... grouchy.

Me, the WeirdnessMagnet and DeadpanSnarker.

My group of friends that sits together at lunch calls itself The Dysfunctional Lunch Table. We are truly very dysfunctional. Words don't even begin to describe......

This troper was the King of Losers for a few years.

Only position of royalty worth having if you ask me.

This Troper's large {{Nakama}} definitely fits this:

This troper, the resident {{TallDarkAndBishoujo}} {{Cloudcuckoolander}}.

The best friend, {{TheShortGuyWithGlasses}} who smokes weed and worships the devil.

Best friends girl friend, a {{ShrinkingViolet}} who is not quite an albino, but still counts as a {{WhiteHairedPrettyGirl}}.

A {{GeniusBruiser}} Transman who wears a blue wig so much this Troper doesn't even remember their real hair colour. Because they're still pre-op, and have a very shy personality, This troper also counts them as being a {{ShyBlueHairedGirl}}.

A Bossy Russian Bandgeek who's also one of those {{SensualSlavs}}.

A girl who looks normal, but wears freakishly realistic red and gold contact lenses to scare off assholes. She's also a {{BadassBookworm}}, so her eyes count as {{RedEyesTakeWarning}} because she WILL hurt you if hassle us.

And finally a non-racist skinhead, a generic artsy girl, a Cat Lady, {{CreepyTwins}}, and many more which may be added later. This troper is popular and a loser at the same time, so she has a lot of friends...

Oh yes, and this entire group is a dysfunctional Wiccan coven(except for the Satanist). We're also all {{BiTheWay}}, so things tend to get very ''interesting'' if we drink a little too munch "ceremonial ale" celebrating the Solstices.

The group of people I sit with at lunch has so many unique/weird people. There are others who sit with us once in a while, but these are the main ones.

An extremely quiet girl who brings her sketchbook everywhere and constantly wears sweatshirts. I'm closest to her, and therefore know that she's a CovertPervert with a great sense of humor and interesting home life. I've tried to convince her that she looks great ad should try new things, but she doesn't really budge.

A 5'4", 300+ lbs girl who is no fun on the surface but truly kind and fun when she's in a good mood.

One of the most rail-thin girls in the school who loves drawing wolves and curses uncontrollably. She has a beautiful singing voice.

A quiet girl with a knee condition who is quite funny and a great friend.

A plain girl who never says anything bad to/about anyone and is, once again, a great friend.

One of my worst enemies, but I think it's one-sided. A scene/punk-ish girl.

A fairly popular girl who always brings cookies and chocolate to us on special occasions. She's fun and is VERY kind. She doesn't ALWAYS sit with us, but often does.

Me, self-proclaimed ugliest at the table. I am often paranoid. However, I make my friends laugh with my impulsive reactions and outbursts. I am a pervert and a CloudCuckooLander (according to my friends. I don't really think I'm a CloudCuckooLander, but I am quite a perv).

This troper's nakama (and borderline BreakfastClub) consists of the following (among others who I do not know so well):

Me, a snarky CloudCuckooLander who speaks in GratuitousGerman and has a large collection and knowledge of weird and occult things and writes fanfiction as a hobby.

A manic-depressive JerkWithAHeartOfGold TeenGenius metalhead with a weird disease I can never recall the name of.

A wannabe-sociopath furry, who is so deep in the TransparantCloset he can see narnia.

A HollywoodNerd YaoiFangirl who is obbsessed with {{Glee}} and HarryPotter.

A trans-masculine genderqueer punk dandy who plays accoustic guitar.

A ShrinkingViolet CloudCuckooLander with RapuzelHair who is the only sane-ish woman.

A pokemon-obbsessed GenkiGirl cosplayer.

A CampStraight ChivalrousPervert who occaisionally burst into song for no real reason.

Here is one of me and my close friends.

First off, me. A CloudCuckooLander wheelchair guy who is ProudToBeAGeek.

Pretty much sums up my group of friends when we get all of us together:

TheHero: My friend,A WideEyedIdealist,{{Keet}},and CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass.Who is a bit of a ConspiracyTheorist.Likes the color black.

TheLancer: Me.An AntiHero CloudCuckooLander,IneffectualLoner,TheUnfettered,prone to ObfuscatingStupidity and ParanoiaFuel.Likes the color white.Has a slight bit of HoYay with TheHero and TheSixthRanger.Seems nice,but is actually more or less AffablyEvil.

TheSmartGuy: My friend who's ThePaladin,BrilliantButLazy,DeadpanSnarker,OnlySaneMan

TheBigGuy: My friend who is a BoisterousBruiser,master of YouFightLikeACow,HotBlooded,{{Keet}},who is FunPersonified.

TheSixthRanger: The friend who's a JerkWithAHeartOfGold,ItsAllAboutMe,JerkassWoobie,known for DisproportionateRetribution,and believes he is a NiceGuy,but only because TheDulcineaEffect.Also calls this troper all the time and wants to spend alot of time with him.

And thats not even everyone.We're Deadpan Snarkers,and Knights In Sour Armor to some extent.

Oh, dear God, I want to make stories about ''all'' of you!