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** 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.)
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* 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 (
* 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]]...
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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|X Men First Class]]'' when the mutants learn how to use their powers.
* ''[[Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter
* Soul Surfer. "I don't need easy...I just need possible."
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* Spoofed in an episode of ''[[Little Mosque on 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]].
* ''[[It'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.
* ''[[LazyTown]] '' 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
* 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.''
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* [http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=39&issue=10 This strip] of ''[[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?
'''Axel:''' Montage. }}
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You'll stand on a post with your arms out!
....these flowers are way out of season!
[[Star Wars|You'll fly to a swamp planet, meet a little green man]],
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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