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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring|Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring]]''. [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Go figure]]...
** The movie cycles through the seasons in the same order as the title. The seasons cover not one year, but several, each devoted to a different time in a boy's life: boyhood, teenage years, young adulthood, adulthood, and old age. With each division, the young monk learns new life lessons, often the hard way, until he eventually finds peace in the simple life his master originally laid out for him.
* ''[[Requiem for Aa Dream]]'' uses the seasons summer, fall, and winter to represent the three act structure of the movie, as well as a parallel for the destruction that drugs are doing to the lives of the characters.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The courts of ''[[Changeling: The Lost (Tabletop Game)|Changeling: The Lost]]'' by White Wolf would count as a motif. Spring is defined by desire, healing, and getting back into something approaching normal life (themes of regrowth); Summer is defined by wrath, strength, and martial prowess (high heat and scorching sun); Autumn is defined by fear and exploration of the occult (lengthening night); and Winter is defined by sorrow and secrecy (long nights and cold).
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]] Drama Series Vol.3: Tabidachi no Uta'', this is done at the beginning of the "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEr7Fsm_zMU#t=0m47s Nijiiro no Sotsugyoushiki]" storyline, to show the passing of time between the events depicted in the 1st Drama Series game, ''Nijiiro no Seishun'', and this ''Tabidachi no Uta'' storyline (which acts as the true conclusion of ''Nijiiro no Seishun''). The only element that doesn't change throughout the seasons' montage is [[World Tree|the venerable Legendary Tree]].
* Mega Man has just defeated Dr. Wily for [[Mega Man 2 (Video Game)|the second time]]; it's time to go home. And so the player is treated to a seasons montage, with Rock's colors and the environmental conditions both matching one of his previously-acquired weapons. First, Mega turns red and gold (Atomic Fire) while leaves fall (Leaf Shield). Next, he turns white and gray (Bubble Lead) while snowflakes drift down (Metal Blade). Spring brings the blossoming of cherry trees, with petals falling (Quick Boomerang), so he turns pink (Quick Boomerang again). Finally, summer brings rain (buster shots) which turns him blue-on-white (Air Shooter).
 
== [[Web Original]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Appears in ''[[The Last Unicorn (Filmanimation)|The Last Unicorn]]'' to indicate her travel -- she runs in place while spring, summer, fall and winter imagery appears behind her.
* The [[Time Passes Montage]] variation was subverted in ''[[Rugrats]]''. After it occurs, Drew says to Stu, "Crazy weather this week, huh?"
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Animationanimation)|The Lord of the Rings]]'': "Seventeen years passed [[Unreliable Narrator|sleepily]] in the Shire..." ([[Blipvert|all of them flash by in rapid succession]])
 
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