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{{quote|''[[Hilarious in Hindsight|"The Avengers gotta get to the assembly."]]''|'''Xander''', ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''}}
A [[Dream Team]] is needed for [[The Con]] or [[The Caper]]. [[How to Gather Characters|Each teammember is contacted]] in a short scene revealing their specialty. This sequence culminates with all the members being in the same room together. c.f. ''[[Ocean's Eleven|Oceans Eleven]]'', ''[[Mission: Impossible (TV series)||Mission Impossible]]''.
Compare [[A-Team Montage]], [[Intro Dump]], [[Lock and Load Montage]], [[Putting the Band Back Together]], [[Everyone Meets Everyone]].
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** [[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!"''
* Tweaked a bit in ''[[Star Trek III: The Search For Spock|Star Trek III the Search For Spock]]''. The crew needs no introduction; nevertheless, following the scene in which Kirk decides he's going to disobey Starfleet and steal the Enterprise, we get a ''[[Mission: Impossible (TV series)||Mission Impossible]]''-esque montage of each crew member doing their part to execute the heist. Each person's part is related to their skill. Kirk breaks out McCoy, Scotty sabotages the Excelsior's engines, Sulu kicks a guard's butt, and Uhura famously shows a cadet "some adventure".
* ''[[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.
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* 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.
* ''[[The Guns of Navarone]]'': The officers planning the operation have a ''[[Mission: Impossible (TV series)||Mission Impossible]]''-style set of photographs of the soldiers who will be taking part, and list their specialties (lucky, genius with explosives, mechanical expert, born killer etc.)
* 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]]'':
{{quote|"[[Large Ham|NEEEEEEEWWWWWWWSSSSSSSSS TEEEEEAAAAAAAMMMM! ASSEMBLE!]]"
"[[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.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Mission: Impossible (TV series)||Mission Impossible]]'' had an interesting take on this, at least in the earlier seasons: [[The Captain]] would take out a dossier full of potential team members, many of them shown engaging in activities relevant to their particular skills, and we would watch him picking out the team he wanted—usually the same core members, but with an occasional addition.
* 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.
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* 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 failed pilot for a parody of ''[[Mission: Impossible (TV series)||Mission Impossible]]'', ''Inside O.U.T.'' had a such a sequence for members of the [[Fun with Acronyms|Office of Unusual Tasks]]. The most memorable was the agent whose cover was as a civilian flying instructor. When he got the call, he told his student something along the lines of, "You're going to solo a bit ahead of schedule," and bailed out of the plane.
* 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.
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== Western Animation ==
* The [[Animated Series]] ''[[
* 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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[[Category:Montages]]
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