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{{quote|''[[Hilarious in Hindsight|"The Avengers gotta get to the assembly."]]''|'''Xander''', ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''}}
A [[Dream Team]] is needed for [[The Con]] or [[The Caper]]. [[How to Gather Characters|Each teammember is contacted]] in a short scene revealing their specialty. This sequence culminates with all the members being in the same room together. c.f. ''[[Ocean's Eleven
Compare [[A-Team Montage]], [[Intro Dump]], [[Lock and Load Montage]], [[Putting the Band Back Together]], [[Everyone Meets Everyone]].
[[I Thought It Meant|Not to be confused]] with a [[Web Original]] parody video series [http://avengersassembletheseries.com/ of the same name], or the UK title of [[The Avengers (
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=== '''Examples''': ===
== Anime and Manga ==
* The manga based on the ''[[Galaxy Angel (
* Spoofed in the final episode of ''[[
* In the ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (
* ''[[
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* Marvel: Contest of Champions does this with pretty much every living hero who existed at the time in the Marvel Universe, plus a few new ones they spotted on the way. Though instead of a call, they were teleported (without choice) by a weird red light.
* Showed up in a few issues of [[G.I. Joe]], notably issue #2.
* Appeared in Issue #28 of ''[[The Brave and
* [[The Defenders]] in most incarnations are loners, so many a Defenders story begins with someone, often [[Doctor Strange]], visiting each potential member in his or her home turf and issuing the [[Call to Adventure]].
== Film ==
* ''[[
** [[The Big Guy|Michael Clarke Duncan]] is on a motorcycle in South Dakota.
** [[Comic Relief|Ken Hudson Campbell]] is in a tattoo parlor with his mama.
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** [[The Lancer|Ben Affleck]] is running his own oil field somewhere on the [[Middle of Nowhere Street]].
*** Just about everyone looks up from whatever they're doing to see soldiers and resigns themselves to the inevitable. Affleck is so smug at Willis swallowing his pride to come see him personally that he comes without(much) complaint. ''Michael Clarke Duncan starts up a [[Chase Scene]], yelling "COME AND GET PAPA BEAR!"''
* Tweaked a bit in ''[[Star Trek III:
* ''[[Seven Samurai]]'' may be the [[Trope Maker]]. The leader of the eponymous warriors is recruited by some villagers to protect a village from bandits, and he goes about convincing six others to join him.
** Its American adaptation, ''[[The Magnificent Seven]]'', has Steve McQueen's character Vin hold up fingers to count the members of their group when each new man joins.
** This was spoofed in the first season of [[
* Spoofed in the film ''Return Of The Killer Tomatoes''; each new team member is revealed to have a stranger special skill than the last.
** This was a rehash of the sequence in the first film, ''[[Attack of the Killer Tomatoes]]''. It was explained there that the team was being set up to fail.
* Most of the cast of the film version of ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'' are introduced in this fashion in one scene. Extra scenes are needed to introduce Jekyll/Hyde, Sawyer, and Gray.
* In ''[[The Usual Suspects]]'', it's done through the team's ''arrests''.
* In ''[[The Bourne Series (
* ''[[The Guns of Navarone]]'': The officers planning the operation have a ''[[Mission Impossible (TV series)|Mission Impossible]]''-style set of photographs of the soldiers who will be taking part, and list their specialties (lucky, genius with explosives, mechanical expert, born killer etc.)
* This happens in ''Eddie and the Cruisers 2: Eddie Lives!'', while Eddie is assembling a new band; We get to see each prospective member play to get a feel for their, you know, style. But, like everything else in the movie, it's retarded; Among other things, Eddie picks a repressed concert pianist to play keyboard in his blues rock band, and also gives a spot to a guy he absolutely hates for no real reason.
* ''[[Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy]]'':
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* The original script for ''[[Monty Python and The Holy Grail]]'' had this as a sequence, but it was shortened greatly in the final film, probably due to budget constraints. Arthur finds Galahad building a chicken coop for an elderly couple; there were (would have been?) similar scenes for each of the knights.
* [[Stanley Kubrick]]'s ''[[The Killing (
* ''[[The Sting]]'' showed Paul Newman reassemble his old gang of cons in a wordless montage set to Scott Joplin's "Pineapple Rag" where he finds and signals to each by flicking the side of his nose.
* The 1971 version of ''[[The Andromeda Strain]]'' uses this trope for the scientists near the beginning, although it takes a while to get them in the same room because two of the scientists take a detour to investigate the plagued town.
* ''Extreme Prejudice'' (1987) begins with the special forces team arriving at an airport in civilian clothes, interspaced with shots of each man's military photo ID and a statement of [[Faking the Death|how they 'died' in action or from training accidents]].
* The [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]] -- the '''''entire''''' [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]] -- has been a giant one of these, introducing every character in their own film ([[Iron Man (
== Literature ==
* Played with in ''[[The Three Musketeers (
* In William Gibson's ''[[Neuromancer]]'', Armitage gathers a team of specialists for his mission: to unite the artificial-intelligence entities Wintermute and Neuromancer.
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Mission Impossible (TV series)|Mission Impossible]]'' had an interesting take on this, at least in the earlier seasons: [[The Captain]] would take out a dossier full of potential team members, many of them shown engaging in activities relevant to their particular skills, and we would watch him picking out the team he wanted -- usually the same core members, but with an occasional addition.
* The premiere of ''[[Hustle]]'' spent about ten minutes doing this for the four team members, and was narrated by a policeman explaining their enemy to a colleague. The footage from this sequence was used in quite a few TV spots.
* ''[[Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue]]'', ''[[Power Rangers Operation Overdrive]]'', and ''[[Power Rangers Samurai]]'' open this way.
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* A great example begins the second episode of Hoolywood East TV's ''New Kids on the Rock.''
* ''[[Leverage]]'' does this twice. Once, in the second episode, it showed the team members in the midst of various solo jobs, dropping what they were doing ([[Badass|Eliot]] had a gun pointed at him and took the guy out, [[Classy Cat Burglar|Parker]] was hanging from a ceiling during a heist, [[Bad Bad Acting|Sophie]] is [[Large Ham|attempting]] to get a job on a soap commerical) to answer their phones.
* The failed pilot for a parody of ''[[Mission Impossible (TV series)|Mission Impossible]]'', ''Inside O.U.T.'' had a such a sequence for members of the [[Fun
* The ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' episode "The Magnificent Ferengi", complete with holding up fingers as each new member joins the team (referencing ''[[The Magnificent Seven]]'').
* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode [[Doctor Who/Recap/S32 E7 A Good Man Goes to War|"A Good Man Goes to War"]] has a sequence of the Doctor rounding up his allies for a mission. There are quick scenes of them all going about their business (nursing soldiers on a battlefield, {{spoiler|KILLING JACK THE RIPPER}}, etc.), only to come home and discover a big blue box on their doorstep. [[Recap/Doctor Who S 32 E 3 Day Of The Moon|"The second episode of the same season"]] begins with 3 of the main characters being killed one-by-one by another character. Only afterwards do we find out this was all an elaborate plan to gather the team together.
* ''[[
* ''[[The West Wing]]'' does this in the very first episode. Toby, C.J., Josh and Sam each appears in a short character-establishing scene, receiving a text message at the end that says, "POTUS in a bicycle accident." The final scene reveals that POTUS stands for "President of the United States," and that the characters we've just seen all work for him.
* Parodied in ''[[Scrubs]]'' with [[The Eeyore|Ted]]'s band the Worthless Peons. Whenever he yells "Peons assemble!" the other members of the band sprint in from all directions and stand with him. Ted notes that they have to perpetually be within earshot so that they can assemble at the drop of a hat.
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* An ad for ''[[Spyro]]: A Hero's Tail'' does this.
* A heroic, galactic-scale [[Big Damn Heroes]] version of this trope provides much of the plot for ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', with [[The Con]] or [[The Caper]] in this case being a [[Suicide Mission]] through a relay from whom no-one has returned against an unknown alien threat. Lovely.
** Most of the game is actually an extended [[Avengers Assemble]] sequence, with each of ten (or twelve with DLC) characters getting a recruitment mission and a loyalty mission [[Plot Tailored to
== Western Animation ==
* The [[Animated Series]] ''[[MASK]]'' did this. [[Once an Episode]], a computer would review the specifics of the upcoming mission and select the appropriate operatives for the job based on their helmets (Masks) which gave them their powers, their natural skill sets, and their vehicles.
* In the ''[[Teen Titans (
* The first episode of ''[[Transformers Robots in Disguise]]'' has the Autobots issue a battle protocol, and Optimus Prime requests that the Autobot Brothers be sent in to stop the Predacons. T-AI goes over the Autobot Brothers' abilities and personalities.
* The teaser for ''[[The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
** In the eighth episode of the show, we learn that the Avengers order each other to gather with communicators that double as ID cards.
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in "Living Legend".
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** And Inverted in "This Hostage Earth" when they split up to investigate the different anomalies.
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* "THUNDERCATS, HO!" and a beacon in the sky would bring all of the [[
* A villainous example appears in the first episode of ''[[He
* The short ''The Justice Friends'' in ''[[
* ''[[
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