Lock and Load Montage: Difference between revisions

 

{{noreallife|Real Life does not have montages.}}

 

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* Parodied in the Parazone sponsorship thingies for ''[[The Bill]]''. The cop-show obsessed character does this—with cleaning products.

 

 

* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' devotes an inordinate proportion of its [[Transformation Sequence]]s to shots of the characters' magical armaments, which include a surprisingly large number of moving parts. These evolved into Lock And Load Montages by the second season, when the characters began literally loading their weapons with "cartridges" for extra oomph.

** One of these scenes replicates a similar scene in ''[[Triangle Heart 3 ～sweet songs forever～]]'', replacing kunais with technomagic cartridges.

* [[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 ''[[The Iliad]]''. Several heroes get one and each one reveals something about them: while Menelaus has the "standard" scene, Paris is seen donning borrowed armour (which marks him as not a real warrior), and Patroclus puts on Achilles' but is unable to lift his great spear, a foreshadowing of him being ultimately unable to fill Achilles' shoes and dying because of it. Later, when ''Achilles'' has his own Lock and Load Montage and is seen grabbing said spear, you know [[He's Back]] and arse is going to be kicked.

* ''[[Beowulf]]'' also includes a scene in which the character donning his armor is described as an almost religious ritual.

{{quote|[The pins] slid on one by one, as unstoppable as the wrath of God. No samurai, no questing knight, was ever dressed with as much ceremony. Finally she surveyed herself in the mirror, gave a thin little smile of satisfaction, and left via the back door. The air of menace was only slightly dispelled by the sound of her running up and down outside, trying to get her broomstick started.}}

 

 

* 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.

 

 

* ''[[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.

 

 

 

 

 

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