Basic Trope: A ramshackle group of characters has to save the day. * Straight: An ill-suited group of characters are sent on the mission. * Exaggerated: The king empties out his dungeon and sends them all under his captain of the guard's authority. Plus a few courtiers with useful skills. Or useless skills. * Downplayed: The characters aren't entirely ill-suited, about one-third of them have had trainings to deal with the matters at hand. * Justified: They're what's available -- either for lack of authority, or because the location is isolated. * They're expendable. * The Big Bad poisoned the king, his knights and their squires, and his wizards; the princess, the pages, the stable boys, and the apprentice wizards are what's left. * The Hero gathers his team in his