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The process of creating a creature or an object, be it mechanically or magically.
 
[[Forging Scene]], for when it is the creation of a weapon or tool (usually at a forge), and [[A -Team Montage]] are [[Sub -Trope|Sub Tropes]].
 
See also [[Transformation Sequence]], [[Technology Porn]], [[Robotic Assembly Lines]].
 
{{noreallife|Real Life does not have montages.}}
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Ghost in Thethe Shell]]'' starts with the sequence of Kusanagi's cyborg body being assembled and covered with synthetic skin.
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Usagi Yojimbo (Comic Book)|Usagi Yojimbo]]'' had a kite festival story that began with a description of traditional Japanese kite-making. Another story began with a detailed description of the steps needed to hammer and forge a katana.
 
== [[Film]] - Animation ==
* The Coraline doll in the opening of ''[[Coraline (Filmanimation)|Coraline]]'' is more of a destruction and re-creation sequence.
* The creation of Rodney Copperbottom at the start of ''[[Robots]]'', which kinda borders into [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]].
 
== [[Film]] - Live Action ==
* ''[[The Man Who Knew Too Little (Film)|The Man Who Knew Too Little]]'' begins with a sequence showing the bomb being created and planted inside the Russian nesting doll.
* The movie ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Filmfilm)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' opens with the forging of the One Ring. Also the scene where the Narsil is being reforged.
* The ''[[Iron Man (Filmfilm)|Iron Man]]'' films have countless forging and manufacturing scenes.
* ''[[Small Soldiers]]'' opens with the making of the military AI chips due to be installed in the toys.
* The chocolate bars in the opening sequence of ''[[Charlie and Thethe Chocolate Factory]]''.
* ''[[Lord of War]]'' comes to mind - it starts out following the construction and packaging of a bullet, and then moves on to follow the bullet as it's bought and sold, loaded and readied, and finally fired into the head of some poor African kid.
* ''[[Short Circuit (Film)|Short Circuit]]'': The Opening credits show the creation of one of the SAINT model robots. The music gets also more elaborate while more and more parts of the robot come together.
* The second ''[[Bill and Ted (Filmfilm)|Bill and Ted]]'' movie has Station assembling the Good Robot Usses in the back of a moving van.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Religion]] ==
* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: The creation of Earth in ''[[The Bible (Literature)|The Bible]]''.
 
== [[Toys]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Most [[RTS]] games show [[Construct Additional Pylons|your buildings being created]] with [[Ridiculously -Fast Construction]].
* ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver (Video Game)|Pokémon Heart Gold]]'' and ''Soul Silver'': Arceus performs one in creating [[Olympus Mons|Palkia, Dialga, or Giratina]], showing real-world photos in the process. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4QEdOgE3ak Link].
* The ''[[Starcraft II (Video Game)|StarcraftStarCraft II]]'' preview released by [[Blizzard Entertainment|Blizzard]] managed to make the creation of one of the weakest units in the game almost [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|unbearably epic]]. Can be found [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnUaxo70I8U here] if you haven't seen it.
* The trailers for ''[[Portal 2 (Video Game)|Portal 2]]'''s co-operative mode show the player characters, Atlas and P-body, being assembled.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Samurai Jack]]'': in "Jack's Sandals", after going through many different types of shoes, Jack finds a Japanese mechanic who makes him new wooden sandals, starting with some measurements, a block of wood, and such.
** The episode that focuses on his dad's battle with Aku has the creation of the sword by the gods.
* ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'' have done this many times. Playing it straight and [[Played for Laughs|for laughs]] simultaneously, whether Homer is helping Bart build a soapbox racer or making Lisa's costume for a school function.
* The construction of the Dinobots in ''[[The Transformers (Animationanimation)|The Transformers]]''.
* Happens on almost every episode of ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]''.
* The opening theme to ''[[Word World]]'' actually involved Dog creating all the characters in the show! Spell Dog backwards [[God|and you get...]]
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