Time Compression Montage: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'' has a particularly memorable one in episode 26, complete with that series' rendition of [[Ominous Latin Chanting|Dies Irae]] in the background.

* In ''[[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|Azumanga Daioh]]'', when Sakaki first pets Mr. Tadakachi, she does so for forty-five seconds real-time. As she does, however, we can see the background steadily go from afternoon to dusk, until finally Chiyo asks if she can go.

* ''[[Rocky (Filmfilm)|Rocky]]'' movies are famous for training montages, including the meat-punching run-up-the-stairs bit in the original and in ''Rocky Balboa'', and a ''Rocky IV'' montage showing Rocky and Ivan Drago.

* Used in [[The Muppets (Filmfilm)|The Muppets]], in order to speed up the search for the rest of [[The Muppet Show]] cast. And by 'used', we mean it's intentionally invoked by the characters in-universe.

* A [[Blipvert]] montage that depicts ''the beginning of time as we know it'' through present day serves as the title sequence of ''[[The Big Bang Theory (TV)|The Big Bang Theory]]''.

* The {{spoiler|fifty years}} that pass while the team are trapped on their spaceship during the series finale of ''[[Stargate SG-1 (TV)|Stargate SG-1]]'' are shown in [[Time Compression Montage]]. (They get undone [[Heroic Sacrifice|for every one but one person]].)

* ''[[The Iron Giant (Animation)|The Iron Giant]]''. While Hogarth is in the forest trying to get a picture of the title creature, he is seen hiding behind a log waiting for the Giant to appear, goofing off, and finally falling asleep.

* ''[[Robot Chicken (Animation)|Robot Chicken]]'' played this for laughs with the superhero Montage. He has the power to create these by touching his fists together twice and saying "boop boop". Among the things he uses this power for is to build a shed, teach a guy Spanish, travel several miles, and age a guy to near-senility in a matter of a few seconds. Then his arch-nemesis End-Credits Mon comes in and ends the program.

* Spoofed in the film ''[[Team America: World Police]]'', with a song entitled "We Need A Montage", which explains away the technique as it plays over a montage. "And with every shot show a little improvement; to show it raw would take too long! It's gonna take a ''montage''!"

** The same song originally appeared in a ''[[South Park (Animation)|South Park]]'' episode

** Various montages are also spoofed by [[Homestar Runner (Web Animation)|Strong Bad]] in one of his [http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail117.html emails].