Training Montage: Difference between revisions

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* ''[[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.

* 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.

* ''[[The Idolmaster (anime)|THE iDOLM@STER]]'' - Several throughout the showing, the first one being along the ending sequence on the first episode.

 

* ''[[Rocky (film)|Rocky]]'', obviously, although it's a bit different in every movie:

** In the first, it's ''Gonna Fly Now''

* ''[[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."

 

* 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.

* 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.''

 

* [[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!

 

* 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.

 

* 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.

* [[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]]

 

* ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged]]'' has a montage in the year before ''[[Dragon Ball]]'''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:

* ''[[Bowser'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.

 

* [[Subverted]], parodied and [[Invoked]] in [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0391.html this] ''[[The 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]]''. Note the image's [[Alt Text]].

* Subverted in [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/080324 this] [[Sluggy Freelance]] strip

 

* ''[[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]].

* [[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.}}

 

* 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.