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{{trope}}
It is well known that the second act of any story is one of the most important parts and one of the hardest to get down right. So to keep everyone enthralled during this period you come up with
Now, there can often be a downside to this. It isn't a bad thing to make the centerpiece the high point of the story, but if the climax doesn't even come close to approaching it then it can end up being a let down. And if the running time of the story has too great a distance between the centerpiece and the climax, you can run into [[Ending Fatigue]].
The placing of
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== Animation ==
* ''[[Monsters vs. Aliens]]'' has the fight with the giant robot at the Golden Gate bridge.
* The Tournament sequence in ''[[Robin Hood (Disney film)|Robin Hood]]''.
* The escape from Sunnyside Day Care in ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 3''.
* ''[[The Incredibles]]'' has the "Hundred Mile Dash" scene.
* "Be our Guest" in Disney's ''[[Beauty and
* Similarly, "Under the Sea" in ''[[
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]'' has the opening amphibious landing battle. A solid half-hour of relentless combat and no other combat sequence in the film, up to and including the climactic fight, can match it for intensity.
* All of the ''[[
** ''[[
** ''[[Indiana Jones and
** ''[[Indiana Jones and
** ''[[Indiana Jones and
* ''[[The Dark Knight]]'' has the police escort being attacked by the Joker and Batman rushing into the fight. In fact the sequence was so good many people expected it to be the climax.
* ''[[Iron Man (
* ''[[The Incredible Hulk (
* The pod race in ''[[
* The first ''[[Transformers (
** ''Revenge of the Fallen'' has the forest battle with Optimus versus Megatron, Starscream and Grindor.
* The original ''[[Planet of the Apes]]'' had the [[Reveal]] of the apes. They felt they had to do it again (and top themselves) for ''Beneath the Planet of the Apes'' so they wrote the part with the reveal of the mutated humans.
* The [[Chase Fight]] on the freeway in ''[[The Matrix Reloaded]]''.
* Zero hour hits in ''[[
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings (
** ''The Return of the King'' had the Battle of Pelennor Fields, which comes about three-quarters of the way through the film and is easily the biggest and longest fight of the whole trilogy.
* ''[[Captain America: The First Avenger
== Theatre ==
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