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Similar to the [[Training Montage]], it consists of the hero gearing up for the big fight, preparing a multitude of weapons in anticipation of the need for [[More Dakka]], usually taken from a [[Wall of Weapons]]. Usually features close-up shots of guns being loaded, knives being sheathed, headbands being tied, etc. ''Never'' complete without a [[Noisy Guns|veritable symphony of metallic clicking noises.]]
Whether or not
Frequently there will be one "special" weapon, a small and somewhat unusual one normally, which will play a critical role in the upcoming battle.
As the use of firearms is a modern contrivance, works such as ''[[
The [[A
For the [[Distaff Counterpart]], see [[Lipstick and Load Montage]].
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== Advertising ==
* Parodied in the Parazone sponsorship thingies for ''[[The Bill]]''. The cop-show obsessed character does
* [[
== Anime
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' devotes an inordinate proportion of its [[Transformation Sequence
** One of these scenes replicates a similar scene in ''[[Triangle Heart 3
* Misato in [[End of Evangelion]], when preparing her pistol to go rescue Shinji from his [[Heroic BSOD]]. Misato's H&K USP makes some pretty satisfying metallic clicks.
* The ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' episode "Toys In The Attic" parodies Ripley's Lock and Load Montage in ''Aliens'', with Spike equipping himself with a blowtorch, among other things. The whole episode, as a matter of fact, was one big [[Shout
* Yoko does this in ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', though she ends up removing her clothes in favor of her flame-patterned bikini. [[Ms. Fanservice|Did we mention that she's the show's go-to girl for fanservice]]?
** ''Go-to'' girl? I think you mean poster girl. She's the frikkin' page image!
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== Comic Books ==
* Present in [[Once an Episode|most]] [[The Punisher|Punisher]] stories.
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== Films ==
* The ''[[Rambo]]'' movie series features a number of iconic example, especially the one from ''Rambo: First Blood Part II'', the most frequently parodied.
* ''[[Commando (
* The 2004 ''[[The Punisher|Punisher]]'' movie has a great one as Frank gets ready to [[Storming the Castle|storm the]] [[Just for Pun|castle]], complete with Thomas Jane's broody narration.
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* One of the ''[[Hot Shots]]'' movies has a prime parody.
** Another famous parody is in ''[[Loaded Weapon 1|Loaded Weapon I]] when Colt puts on so many weapons that he can't stand up.
* Another parody appears in ''[[I'm Gonna Git You Sucka]]'', where Isaac Hayes' character preps for the final battle by holstering more than a dozen guns under his long coat. He then trips and falls while leaving the building, causing all the guns inside his coat to [[Shur Fine Guns|go off]].
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', Aragorn does this as he prepares for the battle at Helm's Deep.
* ''[[Star Trek II:
** A callback to this scene appears in ''[[Star Trek (
* ''[[Star Trek
* The ''Batman'' movies often have a sequence where Bruce dons the batsuit, punctuated with dramatic angles, closeups, and movements. This convention has since trickled down into some of the animated series.
* This is '''heavily''' subverted in ''Batman Returns'', as while Bruce breaks off [[Dating Catwoman|a date with Selina Kyle]] to suit up as Batman, it's intercut with Selina frantically trying to get into her catsuit while still ''driving''.
* The final story in the film ''[[Heavy Metal (
* ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'' features a seriously amped-up version of this montage, as Nicholas Angel straps several gun racks' worth of pistols, shotguns and rifles to his body, then stomps out with thudding footsteps from the extra weight, and walks ''[[Brick Joke|right past]]'' the main villain, who is too busy [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|eating ice cream]] to notice...
* Appears in Disney's ''[[Mulan]]'' as she puts on her father's armor and leaves home to join the army in disguise.
* Both ''[[Evil Dead|Evil Dead II]]'' and ''[[Evil Dead|Army of Darkness]]'' feature [[Bruce Campbell|Ash]] tooling up in a
* Every single montage in ''[[Shaun of the Dead]]''. Hell, Edgar Wright even does Lock and Load Montages for "getting ready for work" or "going down the pub". [[Rule of Cool|Take that, banality!]]
* In ''[[Scott Pilgrim vs. the World]]'', Scott gets one of these. Which pauses for several seconds while he ties his shoes. The original purpose of the scene was to get Scott into a new T-shirt for the final battle; the whole sequence, complete with shoelace gag, was worked out in only a few minutes on the set.
* Ripley locks, loads and duct tapes near the end of ''[[Alien (
* Yet another parody of these occurred in ''National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1'', and once again the character doing the montage equips and straps so many weapons to himself he falls over. When we immediately cut to the next scene, he's decided to just storm the villain's hideout with one gun.
* ''[[
* ''[[A Nightmare On Elm Street 4 The Dream Master]]''. Alice suits herself up with articles of clothing that belonged to her dead friends before going off to fight Freddy.
* ''[[Phantasm Oblivion]]'', when Reggie loads his guns and straightens his bow tie before going off to guard the hearse.
* ''[[
** In ''[[
** In ''[[Predator 2]]'', Harrigan strapping on and preparing his weapons before confronting the Predator in the slaughterhouse.
* 'Film/'[[The Matrix]]'': "So what do you need? Besides a miracle." "Guns. Lots of guns." Actually a slight subversion, since we do not see the actual tooling up, just the [[Wall of Weapons|racks of virtual weapons]] and Neo [[Noisy Guns|slapping down the cocking lever]] on an MP5K-PDW.
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* Though the protagonist hitman in ''[[Ghost Dog: The Way of The Samurai]]'' does not decorate himself with tons of metal; he always meticulously checks his guns (but then, there are "meditative" scenes when he cleans barrels and even assembles a silencer).
* Parodied in ''[[Spy Hard]]''. When the protagonists are finally finished with gearing up, they are surrounded by mooks and get captured.
* ''[[Iron Man (
* ''[[The Hebrew Hammer]]'': The Kwanzaa Liberation Front has one of these every time they show
* The Sylvester Stallone movie ''[[
* The Kevin Bacon film, ''Death Sentence'', features such a montage where Kevin Bacon is in his shed [[Important Haircut|shaving his head]] à la ''[[Taxi Driver]]'' and fooling around with his newly bought weapons (up until this point of the film, Kevin Bacon plays a family man who has most likely never used a gun before in his life so he is most likely trying to figure out how the guns operate) before embarking on his [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]].
* The action flick ''Supreme Sanction'' subverts it (technically): during the opening, we see someone prepare a sniper rifle, but when the actual shooting occurs, the protagonist uses completely different weapon: an Austrian Steyr AUG assault rifle (and she uses it like a sniper rifle).
* Parodied in ''[[Raising Arizona]]''. H.I. is going back and forth speechifying, putting another handgun in his pants every time he reappears on screen. Finally, he appears with a shotgun.
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* Used in ''[[Malcolm X (
* ''At the Opera Tonight'' of ''[[Repo!
* In the [[Spy Kids]] films, this is seen quite a bit with the gadgets and such.
* In ''[[Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels]]'', this trope is seen when Dog's crew and Rory Breaker's crew are on their way to ambush the main characters.
* ''Split Second'' (the 1992 movie) had one of those near the end.
* In ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: At World's End'', there is a montage of the pirate fleet hoisting their colours just before battle, after a [[Rousing Speech]] by the Pirate King {{spoiler|Elizabeth Swann}}.
* ''[[Sin City]]'' has one when Marv goes in for a rematch against Kevin.
* In ''[[
* ''[[Gladiator (
* ''[[Eraser]]''. Arnie has a brief one when he's with a group of federal agents gearing up to raid a house. It serves as a [[Chekhov's Gun]] by showing the belt knife Arnie uses to escape [[The Mole]] later on.
* In ''[[Captain America:
* In [[The Wild Hunt (
* In ''[[Black Hawk Down]]'', there's a montage of the Rangers gearing up for their mission, complete with rock music blaring in the background.
* In ''[[The Avengers (
== Literature ==
* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: The gearing up scene is one of the most frequent formulae (that is, groups of lines periodically repeated almost identically with a few significant variations) of ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** The
** Also done in ''[[Wyrd Sisters]]'' when Granny Weatherwax puts on her black cloak and secures her pointy witch hat with hairpins.
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== Live
* Captain Janeway, in the ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' episode "Macrocosm," got to do her own Ripley impression as she girded for battle with giant flying one-celled organisms.
* A mild spoof in ''[[Chuck]]'': as Chuck and Sarah prepare for their first date, we see a montage of Sarah strapping on body armor, prepping poisoned darts, checking throwing knives, and loading her gun, intercut with Chuck combing his hair, choosing a shirt, tying his shoes, etc.
** The entire series starts with one of these. It turns out to be a subversion, as it's actually Morgan trying to sneak Chuck out of the house. Even funnier is that Morgan has a grappling hook to "climb down" from Chuck's window... Chuck lives on the first floor.
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* ''[[Supernatural]]'' liked using these in the first season, though they're common enough to be understated when they happen now.
* Parodied in ''[[Misfits]]'', where several of the characters are shown "gearing-up" for their confrontation with the Virtue organisation. Their "gear" consists of ipods and rubber gloves (it ''sort of'' [[It Makes Sense in Context|makes sense in context]], but still looks really silly).
* The ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'' episode "War Stories" featured one of these.
** Hilariously subverted in "Objects in Space" when Jayne hears something moving around upstairs, pulls a blanket off the wall to reveal a rack full of weapons... wraps the blanket around himself, and rolls over in bed.
* Appears in ''[[Kamen Rider Agito]]'', while Agito, Gills, and Another Agito get the usual [[Transformation Sequence]], G3/G3-X has to manually don his armor and weapons in a dramatic fashion.
* Spoofed in the ''[[
* Parodied in ''[[Spaced]]'' - Mike pulls a ''[[Commando (
== [[Music]] ==
* "Jerusalem", of all things.
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Bring me my [[Insubstantial Ingredients|arrows of desire!]]
Bring me my spear, o clouds, unfold!
Bring me my [[Incendiary Exponent|chariot of fire!]]'' }}
== Video Games ==
* ''[[
** There's also a brief montage during Kasumi's Loyalty mission where she [[Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You|points a gun at the camera]].
* ''Body Harvest'' for the N64 features an opening cinematic where the protagonist suits up while the aliens invade his space station. It looks bad ass up until the part where he gets shot.
* Similarly, the first ''[[
* In the Xbox remake of ''[[Ninja Gaiden]]'', Ryu Hayabusa is shown tightening the straps on his outfit and putting three kunai into holders.
* Although the player starts with only one weapon, the demo for the video game ''[[Star Wars: Dark Forces
* Done every time you make a major kill in ''[[Assassin's Creed]]'', but with the most notable being Altair's preparation for the final assassination target, in which he does the most well-recognized form of the montage (swinging his swords to test the balance, tightening straps etc.).
* The 1987 arcade shooting gallery game ''Operation Wolf'' began with a Lock and Load montage sequence based loosely on a similar sequence from the 1985 action film ''Rambo: First Blood Part II''.
* The ''[[Trauma Center]]'' games always show a quick sequence of the main surgeon dramatically donning surgical gear and striking a pose just before each operation.
* The beginning of the first ''[[Splinter Cell]]'' game features Sam Fisher gearing up en route to his first mission to The Crystal Method's "Name of the Game".
* ''[[The Witcher]]'''s opening sequence features a prolonged
* Happens to Barry in episode 4 of ''[[Alan Wake]]''. It's off-screen, but we learn about it via a manuscript page, which also [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] it.
* ''[[
* Some games instead have an entire army gearing up, like the opening introductions for ''[[
* ''[[
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* ''[[Cry Havoc]]'' features a page of the mercenaries loading machine guns and swords before setting off across the jungle.
* The "Let's kick fang!" sequence in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', when Riff, Aylee, Kiki and Bun-bun prepare to rescue Torg and Zoë from vampires. Featured weapons include sharpened stakes, a stake-launcher, a Star of David, high-power lamps, a whoopee cushion filled with holy water, a ferret flying device, Bun-bun's switchblade (now with silver-plating) and Aylee's claws (which really don't need any improving).
* Spoofed in [http://samandfuzzy.com/archive.php?comicID=1246 this] ''[[Sam and Fuzzy]]'' strip, adding in (for no apparent reason) pouring a fizzy solution into a test tube and building a snowman to the more standard montage fare.
* ''[[
* [[The Senkari]] Has one near the
== Web Original ==
* The Street Fighters have this in ''[[Street Fighter the Later Years]]'' complete with [[The Jimmy Hart Version|a cheap imitation]] of the song [[Kill Bill|Battle Without Honor Or Humanity]] and ending with Zangief [[Squick|wearing a too short speedo]].
* Parodied in the first part of ''[[Kickassia]]''. The Nostalgia Critic's team is loading up for battle, with characters like Eight-Bit Mickey having [[
== Western Animation ==
* The ''[[Rambo]]'' animated series had a stock version of this montage, ending with Rambo tying his headband, that appeared in every episode.
* ''[[The Venture Bros]]'' heavily parodies the scene from the ''Batman'' movie, as Monarch henchman [[Ascended Fanboy|Number 21]] puts on his minion uniform while singing "Mars, Bringer Of War".
* ''[[
* ''[[
* When [[The Tick (animation)]] and Arthur are in the lair of the otherwise unassuming Sewer Urchin, they watch as the underground superhero undergoes one of these, strapping up with such objects as lemons, guns that shoot melted butter, large claw-crackers, and soap. All of these items prove indispensable.
* ''[[Star Wars: Clone Wars]]'' "Chapter 21" has a montage of the ARC Troopers arming themselves just before they swoop in to [[Big Damn Heroes|rescue the Jedi]].
* Spoofed in an episode of ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'', also of the [[Old Superhero]] variety. Captain Righteous and his sidekick suit-up, but as they're already quite old, the montage takes [[Overly Long Gag|around ten times as long as it would have if they were younger.]]
* ''[[
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' recently had Lois do this in order to kill {{spoiler|her son Stewie}} for the sake of the whole world. Luckily, {{spoiler|the whole episode turned out to be a computer simulation being seen by Stewie himself, to the dismay and relief of fans.}}
* A ''[[
* Just before the end of the series, [[Kim Possible]] does this, looking like she's preparing to stop Drakken once and for all. The battle suit and [[Cool Car]] is needed however for a [[Cat Up a Tree]], which turns out to be a puma.
* ''[[
* ''[[My Little Pony:
* Gnomeo gets one before his first raid into the Red yard in ''[[Gnomeo and Juliet]]''.
* Invoked [[Weapon for Intimidation|for intimidation purposes]], lampshaded and parodied all at once on ''[[Archer]]'';
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'''Pharmacist:''' Yeah I get it, I get it! You have a lot of guns!
'''Archer:''' And a knife! }}
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