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Compare [[A-Team Montage]], [[Intro Dump]], [[Lock and Load Montage]], [[Putting the Band Back Together]], [[Everyone Meets Everyone]].

 

[[I Thought It Meant|Not to be confused]] with a [[Web Original]] parody video series [http://avengersassembletheseries.com/ of the same name], or the UK title of [[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]].

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* The manga based on the ''[[Galaxy Angel (video game)|Galaxy Angel]]'' gameverse begins with one of these, but (since there are almost no battles) the montage is more about the girls' individual quirks.

* In the ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' manga, Roy's group has a scene where each of them is shown displaying what their specialty is, culminating in everyone being on board with the long hard slog that is being the rebel group in a corrupt military.

* ''[[Voltron]]'', (and, obviously, its original incarnation, ''[[GoLion]]'') both Lions and Vehicle Force versions, practically defines this trope, particularly Lion which showed each Lion emerging from its specific hiding place to enter battle. The hiding places reflected the powers and abilities of their respective Lions (Red emerging from a Volcano, Blue from a lake etc.) While it is true that the Voltron team members themselves are usually in the same place when this happens, they must immediately separate to get to their Lion or Vehicle before coming together again. It's a little different in Vehicle Voltron as the main team is separated into smaller teams that are always together in getting to their vehicles.

 

== Comic Books ==

* Appeared in Issue #28 of ''[[The Brave and the Bold]]'', the debut of the [[Justice League of America]], where [[Aquaman]] learns of a monster called Starro and uses his belt to signal the rest of the League for an emergency meeting. Most of the remaining Big Seven responds, as is typical of the trope ([[Wonder Woman]] breaks a date with Steve Trevor, [[Green Lantern]] sets his test plane on autopilot, [[The Flash]] takes care of a tornado, and the [[Martian Manhunter]] had just received vacation time for his human guise when he got the call), though [[Superman]] and [[Batman]] had commitments too important for them to abandon (Superman is fighting off a meteor storm about to enter the planet's atmosphere, and Batman is overwhelmed by a crime wave in Gotham City).

* [[The Defenders]] in most incarnations are loners, so many a Defenders story begins with someone, often [[Doctor Strange]], visiting each potential member in his or her home turf and issuing the [[Call to Adventure]].

 

== Film ==

** [[The Lancer|Ben Affleck]] is running his own oil field somewhere on the [[Middle of Nowhere Street]].

*** Just about everyone looks up from whatever they're doing to see soldiers and resigns themselves to the inevitable. Affleck is so smug at Willis swallowing his pride to come see him personally that he comes without(much) complaint. ''Michael Clarke Duncan starts up a [[Chase Scene]], yelling "COME AND GET PAPA BEAR!"''

* ''[[Seven Samurai]]'' may be the [[Trope Maker]]. The leader of the eponymous warriors is recruited by some villagers to protect a village from bandits, and he goes about convincing six others to join him.

** Its American adaptation, ''[[The Magnificent Seven]]'', has Steve McQueen's character Vin hold up fingers to count the members of their group when each new man joins.

* In ''[[The Usual Suspects]]'', it's done through the team's ''arrests''.

* In ''[[The Bourne Series (film)|The Bourne Identity]]'', Treadstone headquarters orders all their field agents to go active. Cue the montage of each agent in the middle of some civilian activity, and dropping it upon receiving instructions from HQ.

* This happens in ''Eddie and the Cruisers 2: Eddie Lives!'', while Eddie is assembling a new band; We get to see each prospective member play to get a feel for their, you know, style. But, like everything else in the movie, it's retarded; Among other things, Eddie picks a repressed concert pianist to play keyboard in his blues rock band, and also gives a spot to a guy he absolutely hates for no real reason.

* ''[[Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy]]'':

"[[Failed a Spot Check|Ron, we were here literally the entire time you were.]]" }}

* The original script for ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'' had this as a sequence, but it was shortened greatly in the final film, probably due to budget constraints. Arthur finds Galahad building a chicken coop for an elderly couple; there were (would have been?) similar scenes for each of the knights.

* The 1971 version of ''[[The Andromeda Strain]]'' uses this trope for the scientists near the beginning, although it takes a while to get them in the same room because two of the scientists take a detour to investigate the plagued town.

* ''Extreme Prejudice'' (1987) begins with the special forces team arriving at an airport in civilian clothes, interspaced with shots of each man's military photo ID and a statement of [[Faking the Death|how they 'died' in action or from training accidents]].

 

== Literature ==

* Played with in ''[[The Three Musketeers (novel)|The Three Musketeers]]''. Losing his companions en route of a dangerous mission, D'Artagnan must spend three chapters collecting them back up and extricating them from the situations their particular personality quirks have gotten them into.

* In William Gibson's ''[[Neuromancer]]'', Armitage gathers a team of specialists for his mission: to unite the artificial-intelligence entities Wintermute and Neuromancer.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* The premiere of ''[[Hustle]]'' spent about ten minutes doing this for the four team members, and was narrated by a policeman explaining their enemy to a colleague. The footage from this sequence was used in quite a few TV spots.

* ''[[Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue]]'', ''[[Power Rangers Operation Overdrive]]'', and ''[[Power Rangers Samurai]]'' open this way.

* A great example begins the second episode of Hoolywood East TV's ''New Kids on the Rock.''

* ''[[Leverage]]'' does this twice. Once, in the second episode, it showed the team members in the midst of various solo jobs, dropping what they were doing ([[Badass|Eliot]] had a gun pointed at him and took the guy out, [[Classy Cat Burglar|Parker]] was hanging from a ceiling during a heist, [[Bad Bad Acting|Sophie]] is [[Large Ham|attempting]] to get a job on a soap commerical) to answer their phones.

* The ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' episode "The Magnificent Ferengi", complete with holding up fingers as each new member joins the team (referencing ''[[The Magnificent Seven]]'').

* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode [[Doctor Who/Recap/S32/E07 A Good Man Goes to War|"A Good Man Goes to War"]] has a sequence of the Doctor rounding up his allies for a mission. There are quick scenes of them all going about their business (nursing soldiers on a battlefield, {{spoiler|KILLING JACK THE RIPPER}}, etc.), only to come home and discover a big blue box on their doorstep. [[Recap/Doctor Who S 32 E 3 Day Of The Moon|"The second episode of the same season"]] begins with 3 of the main characters being killed one-by-one by another character. Only afterwards do we find out this was all an elaborate plan to gather the team together.

* ''[[The West Wing]]'' does this in the very first episode. Toby, C.J., Josh and Sam each appears in a short character-establishing scene, receiving a text message at the end that says, "POTUS in a bicycle accident." The final scene reveals that POTUS stands for "President of the United States," and that the characters we've just seen all work for him.

* Parodied in ''[[Scrubs]]'' with [[The Eeyore|Ted]]'s band the Worthless Peons. Whenever he yells "Peons assemble!" the other members of the band sprint in from all directions and stand with him. Ted notes that they have to perpetually be within earshot so that they can assemble at the drop of a hat.

 

== Video Games ==

* A heroic, galactic-scale [[Big Damn Heroes]] version of this trope provides much of the plot for ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', with [[The Con]] or [[The Caper]] in this case being a [[Suicide Mission]] through a relay from whom no-one has returned against an unknown alien threat. Lovely.

** Most of the game is actually an extended Avengers Assemble sequence, with each of ten (or twelve with DLC) characters getting a recruitment mission and a loyalty mission [[Plot Tailored to the Party|that play to their specialties]] (e.g. Garrus the [[Friendly Sniper]] has a recruitment mission involving holding a fortified position and a loyalty mission that involves lots of foes that are particularly vulnerable to his tech powers, Tali's recruitment and loyalty missions both involve fighting Geth that are particularly vulnerable to her epic hacking skills, Mordin's recruitment and loyalty missions involve fighting Vorcha and Krogan that fall easily to massed Incinerate powers, etc.).

 

== Western Animation ==

* In the ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' episode "Calling All Titans," Robin contacts every single member—and there are about thirty! -- to let them know to stand by for further instructions.

* The first episode of ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'' has the Autobots issue a battle protocol, and Optimus Prime requests that the Autobot Brothers be sent in to stop the Predacons. T-AI goes over the Autobot Brothers' abilities and personalities.

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