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Important characters are serially visited without dialogue. Music is played over the sequence, usually a slow, indie/folk/alt-rock song. The intention is for the actors to show where the preceding action has left them emotionally. A more theatrical than cinematic variation is done with dialogue, replaying clips of each major character saying a meaningful line.
Those dramatic
See also [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]], when this is set in the distant future. Not to be confused with [[Really Dead Montage]].
{{noreallife|Real Life does not have montages.}}
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* All six ''[[Star Wars]]'' movies end with a scene like this, showing the protagonists wherever they may be, with John Williams' music playing.
* ''[[Donnie Darko]]''.
* ''[[Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy]]'' ends this way, climaxing with
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* The ending of every episode of ''[[Cold Case]]'' uses this, with a song from the year the episode's murder took place.
* ''[[CSI]]'' has been known to do this on occasion.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* When ''[[Futurama]]'' does this, [[Tear Jerker|expect to cry.]]
** ''Jurassic Bark'' is the quintessential [[Tear Jerker]] moment for ''[[Futurama]]'', where the ending is set to the tune of "I Will Wait for You". In the episode, Fry's dog Seymour, from the 20th century, was discovered fossilized at a museum. After spending the entire episode trying to get him back so he can be de-fossilized, an age check reveals he died at fifteen, well at the end of his life. Fry decides Seymour must have lived a full, happy life after him, and chooses not to resurrect him. Cut to the past, and the music starts playing, with Seymour waiting patiently at the spot Fry told him to stay at... for fifteen years.
** In ''Leela's Homeworld'', Leela starts hunting two mutants who have some connection to her past. When she finally traces them to the sewers, where the sewer mutants live, she sees a collection of some of the things she's thrown away, and a wall of pictures and newspaper articles about her accomplishments. She confronts the mutants, demanding to know why they killed her parents, and about to kill them for it, when Fry interrupts. He tells her that the note left with her as a baby in an alien language was gibberish... but printed on a special toilet paper found only in the sewers. The mutants reveal they ''are'' her parents, and took her to the surface so she could live a normal life, writing the note so she could pass as an alien. Instead of being disgusted, Leela is overjoyed, and embraces them. The song "Baby Love Child" plays, and shows a montage of moments in her life when her parents were there for her, even when she didn't know they were.
** From the new{{when}} season, ''Lethal Inspections'' has Bender finding out he has no back-up drive, and is mortal if he dies. Normally this would make him a defective robot, but for some reason Inspector #5, who he considers somewhat like a father, let him pass. Feeling betrayed, he resolves to seek out Inspector #5 at the Central Bureaucracy with the help of Hermes, and kill him. Although they don't find the Inspector, they become friends, and eventually give up and return to Planet Express. At the end, to the tune of "Little Bird, Little Bird", it's revealed to the viewer that Hermes was the Inspector, and spared the defective baby robot Bender from termination at the cost of his job.
* ''[[South Park]]'' had one of these at the end of the 15th mid-season finale, "You're Getting Old". As [[Fleetwood Mac|"Landslide"]] plays, {{spoiler|Sharon and Randy separate and sell their house, with Stan, Sharon and Shelly moving into a new home. The police arrest the farmers and recover Randy's underwear. A new friendship appears to develop between Kyle and Cartman. And Stan, now completely alienated from his friends, shows no signs of his cynicism ending.}}
** And in the following episode "Ass Burgers", {{spoiler|all of the changes are reverted, and [[It Makes Sense in Context|Obama replaces a duck as president]]}}. All to the same song as the previous episode.
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