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{{quote|''The hour's approaching, to give it your best<br />
''You've got to reach your prime.<br />
''That's when you need to put yourself to the test<br />
''And show us a passage of time<br />
''We're going to need a montage (montage!)<br />
''Ooh it takes a montage (montage!)''|"Montage", from ''[[South Park]]''<ref> and later, ''[[Team America World Police]]''</ref>}}
|"Montage", from ''[[South Park]]''<ref>and later, ''[[Team America: World Police]]''</ref>}}
 
A variant of the [[Hard Work Montage]] in which a character builds themselves up over time in preparation for a battle. Usually accompanied by uplifting music (if "Gonna Fly Now" from ''[[Rocky (Filmfilm)|Rocky]]'' can't be used, then [[Music/Joe Esposito|Joe Esposito]]'s "You're the Best" or [[Survivor (Musicband)|Survivor]]'s immortal "Eye Of The Tiger" makes for a good substitute).
 
Closely related to the [[Lock and Load Montage]].
 
{{noreallife|Real Life does not have montages.}}
{{examples|Examples}}
 
== Advertising ==
* In the Hotels.com ad, "Wait Training" ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=741sTZgGInM see here]), the trope is [[Played for Laughs]].
{{quote| "I'm not very good at waiting."<br />
"Then we must teach you... to wait." }}
 
== [[Anime]] &and [[Manga]] ==▼
 
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS]]'''s Teana and Subaru had one of these set to Subaru's [[Image Song]] when they were training for their [[Melee a Trois|two-on-one battle]] against Nanoha. It, ahh... didn't turn out too well.▼
▲== Anime & Manga ==
▲* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'''s Teana and Subaru had one of these set to Subaru's [[Image Song]] when they were training for their [[Melee a Trois|two-on-one battle]] against Nanoha. It, ahh... didn't turn out too well.
* Episode 2 of ''[[Kaleido Star]]'' uses this when Sora preps herself to duplicate the "Golden Phoenix", a favorite trick of Layla Hamilton, one of her idols. She comes oh-so-close to pulling it off, perfecting the spin technique but missing the opposite trapeze bar by ''thatmuch''. Layla, who normally [[Suffers Newbies Poorly]], is impressed enough to allow Sora to stay with the Kaleido Stage crew.
* Chapter 239 of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' has one, complete with [[Exploding Calendar]].
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** Notable because the episode was produced about four years before the original ''[[Dance Dance Revolution]]'' was introduced. Watch it today and you're liable to think that the bit was inspired by DDR.
*** In fact, considering how monumentally popular Eva was in Japan, the reverse may be true...
* Completely subverted in ''[[Excel Saga (Animeanime)|Excel Saga]]'', when Excel has to win a bowling competition and runs into Nabeshin in a restroom, who reveals he is a legendary bowling coach and offers to train her. The show then skips directly to the END of the training montage with the two of them watching the sunset on a beach Karate-Kid style and Nabeshin saying "I've taught you all I know." Excel then reveals that the reason we didn't see any training is because there wasn't any; all they did was go look at a sunset.
** Pedro, however, plays it straight ([[Rocky (Filmfilm)|Rocky]] parodies aside), when he is training to fight Gomez.
* ''[[Blue Gender]]'' (an atrociously foreshortened compilation of the series) contains the world's bare minimum elements for a training montage: a total zero at the start-->someone correcting how he holds a gun-->some guy going "hey kid, you've got a knack for this!"-->and suddenly, Yuji being ready to go into battle.
* Used in ''[[AyanesAyane's High Kick (Anime)|Ayanes High Kick]]'' when the eponymous hero is training for (what she believes to be) her first Pro-wrestling/Kickboxing mixed martial arts match. The montage includes her practicing punches and kicks near the road by car-light, getting in the stomach by her trainer with a medicine ball while doing sit-ups, doing pull-ups while wearing a weight-suit, and of course jogging up stairs. All set to an upbeat rock tune, as one would expect.
* ''[[Love Hina]]'' has one ticking down the days till the Tokyo U Entrance Exam. Naru is doing well--Keitarowell—Keitaro, [[You Can Panic Now|on the other hand...]]
* ''[[The Idolmaster (Animeanime)|THE iDOLM@STER]]'' - Several throughout the showing, the first one being along the ending sequence on the first episode.
 
== [[Film]] ==▼
 
* ''[[Rocky (Filmfilm)|Rocky]]'', obviously, although it's a bit different in every movie:▼
▲== Film ==
▲* ''[[Rocky (Film)|Rocky]]'', obviously, although it's a bit different in every movie:
** In the first, it's ''Gonna Fly Now''
** In the second, it's a remixed ''Gonna Fly Now'', only with kids added in to show how much everybody loves Rocky.
** Prior to that there is a training montage set to the "Going the Distance" music from the first movie.
** In the third, ''Eye of the Tiger'' comes into play.
** In the fourth, we have both a regular training music montage and ''Hearts on Fire''.
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** The final movie saw a rousing return of ''Gonna Fly Now''.
* Any given John G. Avildsen film, really. Aside from ''Rocky'', you have ''[[The Karate Kid]]'' and ''[[Lean On Me]]''.
** Though in the case of ''The Karate Kid,'' there's a slight variation: the montage is not of Daniel's training, but the karate competition itself.
* Spoofed in Adam Carolla's ''[[The Hammer]]''. Jerry shuts off his alarm at 6:00 AM to the opening strains of Survivor's ''Eye of the Tiger.'' And again at 6:09. And again at 6:18, and again and again until he finally gets up around 11:00 to actually start training.
* ''[[The Blind Side]]'': SJ training Michael for football. (This film also has a [[Hard Work Montage]], with Miss Sue tutoring Michael in academics.)
* Bruce Wayne's training with the League of Shadows in ''[[Batman Begins]]'' is mostly shown via montage. The accompanying music is more brooding than uplifting, as befits the idea that it's a Batman movie and {{spoiler|they're planning to use him to destroy Gotham}}.
* In Disney's ''[[Mulan]]'', the [[Training Montage]] depicts the entire platoon of trainees progressing from pathetic failures to a capable team, to the strains of the (intentionally) [[Sweet Polly Oliver|ironically-entitled tune, "I'll Make A Man Out Of You".]]
** ''[[Rocky Horror Picture Show|In just seven days...]]''
* A [[Training Montage]] also appears in Disney's previous film, ''[[Hercules (Disney1997 film)||Hercules]]'', with the titular/clumsy demigod doing hero-training while the coach sings "One Last Hope".
* Played relatively straight in ''[[Bring It On]]'' with the cheerleader training montage after the Toros bought routine is disqualified.
* [[Troperiffic|Inevitably used]] in ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]''. A great many of Po's training exercises became deliberately hilarious due to either his weight or the way in which Shifu used food to motivate him. Thankfully, and perhaps surprisingly due to Master Crane being in the film, there is no [[Homage Shot]] of the Crane Stance from ''The Karate Kid.'' Even though it's to be expected, like so many other cliches and predictable elements in this movie, Po's training still works, managing to be uplifting and awesome, probably due to Hans Zimmer's<ref>[[Aren't You Forgetting Someone?|and John Powell's]]</ref> excellent music. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Of course it gets trumped by the dumpling fight a few minutes later]]...
* A good example is [http://youtube.com/watch?v=cufQD5Y31ZA this] [[So Bad ItsIt's Good|So Bad It's Hilarious]] training montage from ''[[The Man Who Saves the World]]''. Watch the clip and know that this is meant to be serious.
** Also note that ''that'' particular clip is actually spliced together from two different scenes in the film. And that song isn't the same one used in the original film--thefilm—the original is even cheesier.
* In ''[[Mr Mom]]'' an Homage Montage aimed no doubt at ''[[Rocky (Filmfilm)|Rocky]]'' has Jack Butler and his housewife neighbors losing weight and fixing up his house to this same tune.
* [[Wet Hot American Summer]]: "Show me the fever, into the fire. Taking it higher and higher!]]"
* The film [[Best Of The Best]] has a training montage showing all the hard work of the U.S. National Karate Team, set to a song with the same title as the movie.
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* ''[[Highlander III the Sorcerer]]'' used this, as the main character trained on a mountain top to defeat his foe.
* ''[[Spy Game]]'' used this to demonstrate Boy Scout's transformation to naive army grunt to spy.
* ''[[Team America: World Police]]'': [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in the music.
* Parodied in ''[[Robin Hood: Men in Tights]]'', where the villagers Robin Hood is training routinely fail at basic training, and at one point lose in jousting training to inanimate dummies.
* In ''[[Shooter]]'' FBI Rookie Nick Memphis is trained by ex-marine sniper Bobby Lee Swagger over the course of few days on effective sharpshooting, military tactics and advanced camouflage.
* From ''[[Ratatouille]]'': "Let me make this easy to remember: keep your station clean, or [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|I WILL KILL YOU!]]"
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* ''No Retreat, No Surrender''
* ''Chuck E Cheese In The Galaxy 5000'' has this when Chuckie crashes into a Hermit's house (who may or may not be Pasqualli). This moment is probably the only decent musical number in the film.
* As [[Phelous]] points out, it happens in ''[[A Serbian Film]]'' of all movies.
* There's one in ''[[X Men First Class (Film)|X -Men: First Class]]'' when the mutants learn how to use their powers.
* ''[[Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ...and Spring]]'' has one, which is strange since it's an acclaimed art film about a Buddhist monk rather than a sports film.
* Soul Surfer. "I don't need easy...I just need possible."
* ''[[Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire]]'' features the song "Practice Practice Practice" while Maxwell and The Kid both practise ahead of their big match.
 
== [[Live -Action TV]] ==▼
 
▲== Live Action TV ==
* The ''[[Buffy]]'' episode "Once More, With Feeling" parodied the trope by [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshading it]] then shoving it aside to make way for "Standing in the Way".
** Though ''[[Angel]]'' played it perfectly straight when Angel gets ready to hunt down Darla and Drusilla.
** It's also played straight in the Buffy movie.
** Subverted in "When She Was Bad", where Buffy's [[Percussive Therapy|relentless pounding]] is used to show she's [[Not Herself]].
* Spoofed in an episode of ''[[Little Mosque On the Prairie (TV)|Little Mosque Onon the Prairie]]''. Babar is walking down the street reading a book of Curling rules and regulations. He proceeds to walk past people playing various other sports and up a flight of stairs, then turns around and holds the book in the air. Oh yea, and an oddly played version of ''Gonna Fly Now'' is indeed playing.
* ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' featured a spooferific training montage in the first episode of the revamped web-animated cartoon ''Tek Jansen''. The background music was clearly a parody of "You're the Best" by Joe Esposito.
** The 4/11/12 episode has Stephen giving a Marine civilian job training... as a television pundit, with a training montage of practicing which camera to talk at, jumping for the microphone, [[The War On Straw|beating strawmen]], and wearing a suit, accompanied by a trumpet version of the theme.
* [[The Daily Show]] had their version - During their coverage of the 2010 World Cup, British correspondent John Oliver trained to Gonna Fly Now, drinking Heineken and running up the steps - in order to be a more obnoxious soccer fan.
* Previews for ''[[The Tonight Show]] with Conan O'Brien'' showed Conan [[Beach Episode|running down the beach]] in [[Fan Disservice|a suit jacket and tie]] to the tune of ''Eye of The Tiger'' to indicate him loosening up for the move to [[Hollywood California|LA]].
* ''[[ItsIt's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]]'' had a double montage of Dee and Charlie both training for their fights and taking copious amounts of steroids.
** And one when Charlie tries to teach Mac to play hockey.
* ''[[Lazy TownLazyTown]] '' had one of these. Sportacus was training Ziggy to be a hero like him. The music even vaguely sounded like the Rocky music.
* Lampshaded and subverted in [[The Mighty Boosh]] episode 'Killaroo', where Howard's boxing training montage fails to yield any improvement at all.
* Used with ''the villain'' in [[Power Rangers Lost Galaxy]], as she [[Took a Level Inin Badass]]. [[History of Power Rangers|Linkara]]'s review points out, and solves, the surprising lack of an '80s power ballad in the background (he went with "You're the Best").
* Parodied in ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' when Sheldon and Raj intently study a whiteboard...complete with fast cuts and "Eye of the Tiger" playing in the background. ''Twice.''
 
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==▼
* [[Vince McMahon]] had a hilarious training montage in 1999 when he was preparing to enter the Royal Rumble, being coached by his son Shane and being made to chase a chicken and [[Raw Eggs Make You Stronger|drink raw eggs]], among other things.▼
** And another one in the summer of 2009, when he and D-Generation X teamed up to battle The Legacy. [[Triple H]] was holding a paddle up for Vince to punch when Carlito came into Vince's office and started complaining about something trivial. Hilariously, Triple H held the paddle in front of Carlito's face and then yanked it away at the last second, causing Carlito to get punched out!▼
 
== [[Radio]] ==
* Parodied in ''[[Adventures in Odyssey]]'''s "Fifteen Minutes", where Alex trains to perfect his mini-golf skills under the ex-champion, Bart Rathbone. Somehow, despite the appropriate music (and a spot where he waxes Bart's car for no discernible purpose), this causes him to do much worse the second time around.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
 
▲== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Leisure Suit Larry]] 3: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals'', Larry attempts to get in shape on a series of exercise machines while a pastiche of "Gonna Fly Now" plays in the background.
* ''Mike Tyson's [[Punch -Out!!]]!!'' features a memorable training sequence between circuits where Little Mac dons a pink tracksuit and runs behind Doc Louis riding a bike. This is expanded upon in the Wii version to create a full-on training montage.
* ''[[No More Heroes]]'' has a remix of "Eye of the Tiger" playing in the background in the gym.
* In ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'', the series of clips demonstrating your Jedi training might count (though there isn't any music, just Master Zhar narrating).0
* [[Dragon Fable|Drakonan]], a [[Whatevermancy|Pyromancer]] gets this, it consists of [[Rule of Funny|Bench pressing and runnning up a hill, neither of which really helps someone chuck fireballs at you]]
 
== [[Web Animation]] ==▼
 
* ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged]]'' has a montage in the year before ''[[DragonballDragon Ball]]'''s fight with Vegeta and Nappa set and parodied to a ''[[Mulan]]'' song...▼
▲== Professional Wrestling ==
▲* [[Vince McMahon]] had a hilarious training montage in 1999 when he was preparing to enter the Royal Rumble, being coached by his son Shane and being made to chase a chicken and [[Raw Eggs Make You Stronger|drink raw eggs]], among other things.
▲** And another one in the summer of 2009, when he and D-Generation X teamed up to battle The Legacy. [[Triple H]] was holding a paddle up for Vince to punch when Carlito came into Vince's office and started complaining about something trivial. Hilariously, Triple H held the paddle in front of Carlito's face and then yanked it away at the last second, causing Carlito to get punched out!
 
 
▲== Web Animation ==
▲* ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged]]'' has a montage in the year before ''[[Dragonball]]'''s fight with Vegeta and Nappa set and parodied to a ''[[Mulan]]'' song...
* In ''[[Homestar Runner]]'', Strong Bad is asked to "creat a montage" in sbemail 117. He creates not one, but ''three'' montages, all involving a Wagon Fulla Pancakes:
** The Cheat and the Wagon Fulla Pancakes being down-on-their-luck travelling salesmen.
{{quote| ''You can't do it''<br />
''So give up now''<br />
''What you gonna do when your dough runs out?''<br />
''Ain't it a drag?'' }}
** Strong Bad [["Falling in Love" Montage|falling in love with the]] Wagon Fulla Pancakes.
{{quote| ''Let's make this moment be a symbol of our love''<br />
''We'll pawn your Dad's computer and we'll sale to paradise''<br />
''You're a girl''<br />
''Or maybe a wagon''<br />
''Filled up with pancakes...'' }}
** And finally, the Wagon Fulla Pancakes [[Training Montage|training for the championship.]]
{{quote| ''Guts, guts and might''<br />
''Liftin' weights and feelin' alright''<br />
''It's a showdown, goin' downtown you're gonna mess around''<br />
''Showdown, put your nose down, showdown!'' }}
* ''[[BowsersBowser's Kingdom]]'' Episode 7 had one of these, but it was cut out because of lazy animators. Hal and Jeff have an [[Oh Crap]] reaction when they find out and come to the conclusion that they didn't train at all.
 
 
== Webcomics[[Web Comics]] ==
* [[Subverted]], parodied and [[Invoked]] in [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0391.html this] ''[[OrderThe of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]'' strip.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090901195148/http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=39&issue=10 This strip] of ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (Webcomic)|The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]''. Note the image's [[Alt Text]].
* ''[[Collar 6]]'' used this for a time skip to the spanking contest.
* Invoked in ''[[Ansem Retort]]'', when Axel is about to begin training for a Murder-off.
{{quote| '''Aerith:''' So you've got a week to train for this. Montage?<br />
'''Axel:''' Montage. }}
** The next strip is a montage of Axel training, complete with The Eye of the Tiger in the background.
{{quote| '''Riku:''' Oh thank God, that song lasted all week.<br />
'''Namine:''' Yeah, sorry about that, I downloaded the 'Super Montage' edition. }}
* ''[[Castlevania RPG]]'' parodies it [https://web.archive.org/web/20080430084718/http://www.cvrpg.com/comics/comic.php?arch=comic&page=720 here].
* Gently [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in [http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20110107/ this] [[Ctrl Alt Del|Ctrl+Alt+Del]] strip.
* ''[[Five5 Color Control (Webcomic)|Five Color Control]]'' uses it in a direct [[Shout -Out]] to ''[[Rocky (Filmfilm)|Rocky]]'' in [https://web.archive.org/web/20110811033913/http://www.5colorcontrol.com/comic.php?comic=132 this strip], where Gideon Jura trains in preparation for his upcoming appearance in the ''[[Magic: theThe Gathering|Magic 2012 Core Set]]''.
* Subverted in [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/080324 this] [[Sluggy Freelance]] strip
 
== [[Web Original]] == ▼
 
▲== Web Original ==
* ''[[Street Fighter the Later Years]]'' has one in episode 5, where the fighters are training their powers before the tournament.
* The ''[[Wiiviewer]]'' likes to do these with some of his favorite [[The Eighties|80s songs]].
* [[Atop the Fourth Wall (Web Video)|Linkara]] attempted one in preparation for reading [[Amazons Attack]]! It didn't work.
* The last video of [[Batman]] vs. [[Iron Man]] in ''[[I'm a Marvel And ImI'm ADCa DC]]''.
* [http://www.cracked.com/article_18544_how-the-karate-kid-ruined-modern-world.html This Cracked article] is a big fat [[Take That]] at the trope.
* [[The Angry Video Game Nerd (Web Video)|The Angry Video Game Nerd]] was determined to finally beat ''[[Ninja Gaiden]]'' after [[Nintendo Hard|twenty years of trying]]. After seeking the help of a real ninja and going through a training montage, he ended up {{spoiler|getting close, but still failing.}}
 
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Spoofed in ''[[Drawn Together]]'' in the episode "Spelling Applebee's", when Foxxy was training for a [[Spelling Bee]]. After asking if they could use the "Rocky song", the reply she received was "only... if we can afford it." The scene then cut to Foxxy punching a punching bag to the beat of a [[The Jimmy Hart Version|barely-audible, poorly-rendered version]] of "Gonna Fly Now". The training sequence was then abandoned altogether as "it doesn't work without the real song."
* Parodied, steps and all, in ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' in the episode "Old Iron Man", where Arnold's grandpa competes against an old rival in a senior athletic competition.
* Inverted in the [[Looney Tunes|Daffy Duck]] cartoon, "Holiday for Drumsticks". To "save" Tom, a turkey destined for Thanksgiving dinner, Daffy coaches him through an exercise regimen to help him lose weight -- whileweight—while packing away all the food (and the pounds) the farmers have set out to fatten him up. The [[Training Montage]] is on a split screen, with Tom working himself rail-thin in one half, and Daffy stuffing his beak in the other, with the opposite effect on his physique. In the end, Daffy is the one thrown inside the oven. (As Garfield once said about getting in shape, "I AM in shape! Round is a shape!")
* Spoofed in the ''[[South Park]]'' ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' episode, when the boys are training their characters up to defeat the Internet [[Troll]] who has been [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys|ruining the game for everyone]]; whilst the in-game shots shows their characters gradually improving, as they are are spending all their time eating junk food in front of computers the out-game shots of the montage show the boys gradually getting fatter, spottier and further out of shape over time.
** The song that plays in the background during this scene is "Live to Win" by Paul Stanley, one of the members of [[Kiss]]. Funnily enough, the episode with the song was [[Early -Bird Cameo|released before Paul's album]].
** Also brilliantly spoofed/lampshaded in "Asspen", and then in an identical fashion in the movie ''[[Team America]]'': textbook-perfect training montages are accompanied by the song 'Montage,' which helpfully notes that ''"In anything, if you want to go / From just a beginner to a pro / You need a montage."'' This is also something of a subversion because Stan still skis like a beginner after the montage.
** And then there is the episode "The Losing Edge" where Randy goes through a [[Training Montage]] training to beat the other fathers at Stan's baseball games set to the song ''You're The Best Around''. He even ''sings it'' in a high-pitched voice when he's fighting the father he's been training the hardest against. Sort of. ''"You're the best...Around! Yamma-damma-damma-damma-hey!"''
** Yet another [[South Park]] training montage: in "Up the Down Steroid", Cartman trains himself to fake mental retardation so he can get into the Special Olympics (he figures he can easily beat the others since they are mentally handicapped and he is not; he's wrong) to the tune of Paul Engemann's "Push It to the Limit" from Scarface.
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' did this in an episode, showing Brian getting ready for college finals by training on top of a mountain (explicitly spoofing the ''Hearts On Fire'' sequence from Rocky IV). Which did nothing to help him study, as he and Stewie note a few seconds later.
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* Used several times in ''[[The Simpsons]]''. In "Simpsons Bible Stories", Bart (King David) trains with a flock of sheep in preparation for his battle with Nelson (Goliath II). "Bart the General" features a [[Training the Peaceful Villagers]] montage as Bart's army prepares to fight the bullies.
** In the parody vignette "Bartman Begins," Bart Simpson trains to become Bartman after his parents are murdered by Snake (who appears first as a common hood in the Joe Chill mold and later as a reptile-themed supervillain), and he does so in an "old-timey montage" on grainy film that looks like something from between the 1890s and the 1940s. (Apparently, [[Shallow Parody|someone forgot to tell the animators]] that ''[[Batman Begins]]'', despite being set during a "depression," is supposed to be taking place in the modern day.)
* One occurs in the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode "Call of the Cutie'', when Rainbow Dash coaches Apple Bloom in a number of different activities, all in the hopes of helping her find the thing that will become her life calling and cause her cutie mark to appear.
** Fluttershy gets on in "Hurricane Fluttershy" where her animal friends help her learn to be a stronger flier. Making it a '''literal''' example of [[Gonna Fly Now Montage]]'''
* Doom gets one in ''[[The Super HeroSuperhero Squad Show]]'' after a fractal-powered MODOK takes over the Legion. Complete with running up a lot of steps.
* Angelica Pickles of ''[[Rugrats]]'' goes through one in order to prove that she is the best in the summer camp she got shanghaied into.
* ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'' did this when Stan helped Roger to graduate police academy.
* ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' introduces Mon-tage, who has this as his superpower, solving problems by invoking these to learn skills or accomplish tasks instantly. He even weaponizes it directly near the end, invoking a montage to rapidly age an escaping thief into infirmity.
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' spoofed this twice, first in "Raging Bully" and then again in "Doof Dynasty".
{{quote| ''You're gonna run up a ramp with two buckets of water,<br />
Swing over mud for some reason!<br />
At some point you'll drop to your knees while its raining, and look up into the skkkyyy!<br />
You'll stand on a post with your arms out!<br />
....these flowers are way out of season!<br />
[[Star Wars|You'll fly to a swamp planet, meet a little green man]],<br />
And move things with your miiiinnndd!'' }}
* ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' has this in spades. The pilot has is the [[Boot Camp Episode]],with Jack living with a buttload of characters. The "Jack learns to Jump Good" episode has him training with a tribe of apes who weigh him down with stones and have him run an obstacle course. The scene works on [[Many Levels]]
 
 
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{{quote| ''Always fade out in a montage...<br />
If you fade out it feels like more time has passed in a montage...''
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