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{{quote|''The hour's approaching, to give it your best<br />
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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>}}
 
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]].
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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--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:
** 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.
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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 (Disney 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 It'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--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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* ''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."
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** 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 In 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").
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== 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...
* 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.
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''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 ==
* [[Subverted]], parodied and [[Invoked]] in [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0391.html this] ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]'' strip.
* [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.
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'''Namine:''' Yeah, sorry about that, I downloaded the 'Super Montage' edition. }}
* ''[[Castlevania RPG]]'' parodies it [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 [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
 
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* ''[[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.}}
 
 
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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".
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