Tropescilloscope: Training Montage

A montage showing someone preparing for a fight to some epic music. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Monumental Damage Air-Vent Passageway Romantic False Lead Anyone Can Die Soundtrack Dissonance Heel Realization The Bully Genre Savvy Historical In-Joke Peek-a-Boo Corpse Neck Lift Rule of Symbolism Kids Are Cruel Driven to Suicide Take That! Intergenerational Friendship My Greatest Failure The Bad Guy Wins Light Is Not Good Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Victoria's Secret Compartment Mistaken for Gay Dirty Cop Tranquil Fury Worthy Opponent Agony of the Feet Chekhov's Gun Intrepid Reporter Male Frontal Nudity Obfuscating Stupidity Sinister Minister Fanservice Scenery Porn Refuge in Audacity Bilingual Bonus Pretty Little Headshots Epic Movie Batman Gambit The Reveal Chekhov's Gunman May–December Romance Rule of Funny Dissonant Serenity Adapted Out Earn Your Happy Ending Dying Moment of Awesome Adult Fear All Girls Want Bad Boys Failed a Spot Check Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Spiteful Spit Villain Ball Disney Villain Death Brainless Beauty Reasonable Authority Figure Race Against the Clock True Companions Cassandra Truth Last-Name Basis Blackmail Training Montage Crucified Hero Shot The Dreaded Unresolved Sexual Tension Vacation Films Pimped-Out Dress The Smurfette Principle Fatal Flaw Arc Words Be Careful What You Wish For Sole Survivor Revenge My God, What Have I Done? Race Lift As the Good Book Says... Parental Abandonment Love at First Sight Manchild Undying Loyalty Yandere Crazy-Prepared Skewed Priorities Mighty Whitey No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Take a Third Option It's All About Me Product Placement Easily Forgiven Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Our Vampires Are Different Laughing Mad Femme Fatale Bond One-Liner Did Not Get the Girl Villain Protagonist And I Must Scream Enemy Mine Ambiguously Gay Expy timeperiod Dies Wide Open Auto Erotica Adaptational Badass The Power of Love No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Cool Car Dark Reprise Epic Fail Fate Worse than Death Tap on the Head Shipper on Deck The '90s Straight Gay Meaningful Background Event Film Series Villain Opening Scene Not What It Looks Like The Atoner Reckless Gun Usage Frame-Up Obviously Evil Unwitting Instigator of Doom You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Visual Pun Boom, Headshot! The End... Or Is It? One-Man Army Put on a Bus Dramatic Irony Stalker with a Crush Rule of Cool Due to the Dead Historical Hero Upgrade Informed Ability No Celebrities Were Harmed Badass Boast Country Matters Throwing Your Sword Always Works Here We Go Again! Your Cheating Heart Same Language Dub Badass Normal Brutal Honesty Eureka Moment Not So Stoic Serious Business Shell-Shocked Veteran Stuff Blowing Up Eiffel Tower Effect The Lancer Offscreen Teleportation Dark and Troubled Past Twist Ending Even Evil Has Loved Ones Artistic License – History The Brute Leave the Camera Running Genre Throwback Film Noir Annoying Younger Sibling Cloudcuckoolander Sexy Discretion Shot Funny Background Event Adaptational Heroism Early Installment Weirdness Not Using the "Z" Word Ambiguous Disorder The Mafia The Chick Action Prologue Hero Antagonist Romantic Comedy Only Known by Their Nickname Properly Paranoid Black Comedy Manipulative Bastard Hair-Trigger Temper O.O.C. Is Serious Business Cool Old Lady Curb-Stomp Battle Fake Shemp Large Ham Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Funny Foreigner Rule of Three The Quiet One Gone Horribly Right Deal with the Devil Title Drop Almost Kiss Smug Snake 20 Minutes into the Future The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Precision F-Strike How We Got Here Fingore Red Herring Fanservice Extra Green-Eyed Monster Historical Villain Upgrade Hypocrite An Axe to Grind Screw This, I'm Outta Here! For Want of a Nail Bound and Gagged B-Movie Mood Whiplash Jerkass Danny Peary Cult Movies List Disguised in Drag Death by Adaptation Greater-Scope Villain Adaptational Villainy She Cleans Up Nicely Tempting Fate Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Gainax Ending Extreme Doormat No Ending Bald of Evil Running Gag Bury Your Gays Faking the Dead Big Fancy House Suspiciously Specific Denial Scenery Gorn Adaptation Dye-Job Cold-Blooded Torture Mr. Fanservice Artistic License – Gun Safety Sacrificial Lion Mythology Gag Bond Villain Stupidity Fiery Redhead The Alcoholic Nothing Is Scarier Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Bring My Brown Pants Homage All There in the Manual Broken Aesop Soft Glass "Well Done, Son!" Guy Psychological Thriller Suddenly SHOUTING! Freudian Excuse Unusual Euphemism Beauty Is Never Tarnished Only in It for the Money Composite Character Mad Scientist Double Entendre The Lost Lenore Animal Motifs I Need a Freaking Drink Whole Plot Reference Bi the Way A God Am I Humans Are Bastards Jitter Cam Becoming the Mask Immune to Bullets Face–Heel Turn Sports Stories Action Survivor All Just a Dream Bloodier and Gorier Only Sane Man Betty and Veronica Heterosexual Life-Partners Meet Cute Black Comedy Rape Villain with Good Publicity Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Demoted to Extra Military and Warfare Films Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun As You Know Eyepatch of Power Accidental Murder He Knows Too Much Coming-of-Age Story Children Are Innocent Shown Their Work Brother–Sister Incest Film Noir Index One-Word Title Domestic Abuse Black and Gray Morality Shower Scene Exactly What It Says on the Tin Blatant Lies An Aesop Interrupted Suicide Too Dumb to Live Those Two Guys Establishing Character Moment The Cameo Babies Ever After Blood Knight Armor-Piercing Question Real Life Writes the Plot Anguished Declaration of Love Body Horror Adaptation Name Change Spiritual Successor Black Dude Dies First Smoking Is Cool Bloody Hilarious Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" The Chessmaster Never Found the Body Aside Glance Blood from the Mouth Deadpan Snarker Bait-and-Switch The Stinger folderlabel Adults Are Useless The '70s Kubrick Stare Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Final Girl Video Credits Woman Scorned Red Eyes, Take Warning Super Strength Deus ex Machina The Mole Deliberate Values Dissonance Guile Hero Bavarian Fire Drill Artistic License – Geography Sanity Slippage Parental Substitute Science Fiction Films Advertised Extra Creepy Child The Vamp Cat Scare Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Retcon Evil-Detecting Dog Character Development She's Got Legs Plucky Comic Relief Actually Pretty Funny All for Nothing Lighter and Softer For the Evulz Mexican Standoff Extremely Short Timespan You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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They Really Do Love Each Other BFG Determinator Mr. Exposition Kick the Son of a Bitch Nice Guy Slasher Movie Mundane Made Awesome Stealth Hi/Bye Camera Abuse Beard of Evil Death of a Child Instant Death Bullet Eldritch Abomination Kick the Dog Facial Horror Improvised Weapon Madness Mantra Rewatch Bonus Translation Convention Screw the Money, I Have Rules! The Smart Guy A Date with Rosie Palms Storming the Castle Break the Cutie Eagleland Dirty Coward Biopic Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold No-Sell Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Amoral Attorney This Is Gonna Suck Wicked Cultured Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Russian Films Chekhov's Skill "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Those Two Bad Guys Bland-Name Product Daylight Horror Horror Films Wounded Gazelle Gambit There Is No Kill Like Overkill Fatal Family Photo Off with His Head! Bad "Bad Acting" Ascended Extra Chewing the Scenery The '60s Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Fantastic Racism Credits Gag Names to Run Away from Really Fast Sir Swears-a-Lot Ironic Echo Half the Man He Used to Be Punny Name Karmic Death Leaning on the Fourth Wall Decoy Protagonist Fan Disservice Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Scary Black Man Alas, Poor Villain Word of God Hypocritical Humor Berserk Button Asshole Victim Villainous Breakdown What Happened to the Mouse? Scare Chord Morality Pet Genre Shift Diabolus ex Machina Index of Film Westerns Insistent Terminology The Casanova And Starring Pyrrhic Victory Poor Communication Kills Wham Line My Beloved Smother Thriller Canon Foreigner Call-Forward Italian Films The Ditz Heel–Face Turn Taking You with Me Humiliation Conga The '80s Spanner in the Works Does This Remind You of Anything? Ms. Fanservice Death by Sex Death by Irony Darkest Hour Anti-Hero Expository Hairstyle Change One Steve Limit Deconstruction Corrupt Corporate Executive Anachronic Order Pragmatic Adaptation Improbable Aiming Skills Gratuitous English Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Shirtless Scene Ax-Crazy Jerkass Has a Point Ass Shove Artistic License – Biology Overprotective Dad Bolivian Army Ending The Faceless Playing Gertrude Darker and Edgier Artistic License – Law Love Triangle Department of Redundancy Department Oh, Crap! Ship Tease Rasputinian Death Brick Joke Heroic Sacrifice Retired Badass Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Sci-Fi Horror Jerk with a Heart of Gold It's Personal Parental Neglect Noodle Incident Bare Your Midriff A Minor Kidroduction Death Glare Shoot the Shaggy Dog Continuity Nod Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Downer Ending Male Gaze Big Bad Duumvirate Dramedy Creator Cameo And the Adventure Continues Cool Old Guy Heroes Want Redheads The Great Depression Dramatic Gun Cock Awesome, but Impractical What the Hell, Hero? Improbable Weapon User Affectionate Parody Five-Man Band Japanese Films Psychopathic Manchild The Hero Dies Parental Incest Depraved Bisexual Novelization In Medias Res Friend to All Children Accidental Misnaming Arch-Enemy Loophole Abuse Married to the Job In Name Only Maybe Ever After The Oner Book-Ends Dutch Angle Token Minority Evil Counterpart Drugs Are Bad Dark Action Girl Dumb Blonde Badass in a Nice Suit You Killed My Father Hero of Another Story Canadian Movies The Cavalry Redshirt Army Needs Wiki Magic Love Serial Killer Papa Wolf As Himself I Did What I Had to Do Taking the Bullet Make It Look Like an Accident Black Best Friend Rousing Speech Artistic License – Military Made of Iron Not Even Bothering with the Accent Vampire Fiction Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Calling the Old Man Out Protagonist Title Freeze-Frame Bonus Unreliable Narrator Henpecked Husband Comically Missing the Point Happily Married Corpsing Broken Pedestal Show Within a Show Dropped a Bridge on Him British Films Creative Closing Credits The Musical Spell My Name with an "S" Everyone Has Standards Cowboy Cop Only a Flesh Wound Disney Death Ghost Fiction Dull Surprise Mama Bear Shut Up, Hannibal! Anti-Villain Lock and Load Montage Outrun the Fireball Gorn Rich Bitch La Résistance Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Roaring Rampage of Revenge Hollywood Law Every Car Is a Pinto Unusually Uninteresting Sight From Nobody to Nightmare Nice Hat Didn't Think This Through Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Arranged Marriage Even Evil Has Standards Reality Ensues Imagine Spot French Films Alpha Bitch Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Room Full of Crazy Took a Level in Jerkass Butt-Monkey Bad Boss Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Not Quite Dead Better to Die than Be Killed Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Let's Get Dangerous! All Men Are Perverts Redemption Equals Death Bunny-Ears Lawyer Eye Scream Break the Haughty Drill Sergeant Nasty Star-Crossed Lovers Insult Backfire Say My Name Your Head A-Splode Random Events Plot Hell Is That Noise Insane Troll Logic Recycled IN SPACE! Sequel Escalation Unspoken Plan Guarantee Call-Back Older Than They Look Re-Cut Wretched Hive Hidden Depths Silent Movie Double-Meaning Title Groin Attack Evil Brit Does Not Like Shoes The Un-Reveal A.I. Is a Crapshoot Retirony The Remake Overly Long Gag Captain Ersatz Alliterative Name Drives Like Crazy Aluminum Christmas Trees Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Sassy Black Woman Action Genre Pay Evil unto Evil Never Trust a Trailer Australian Movies Reality Is Unrealistic Killed Mid-Sentence Sequel Hook Wham Shot Important Haircut Age Lift Actor Allusion The Big Guy German Films Sadistic Choice Bar Brawl Dark Is Not Evil Heroic BSoD Guns Akimbo Big Brother Instinct Big Eater Sealed Evil in a Can Dogged Nice Guy N-Word Privileges Breaking the Fourth Wall Wrong Genre Savvy Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Camp Gay Leitmotif Missing Mom I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Bittersweet Ending Naked People Are Funny Abusive Parents Crazy Jealous Guy Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Mystery and Detective Films Irony Trailers Always Spoil Captain Obvious Riddle for the Ages Card-Carrying Villain Gold Digger Works Set in World War II It Can Think Not So Different Would Hurt a Child Left the Background Music On Stealth Pun Chase Scene Made of Explodium Flashback Ungrateful Bastard Animated Credits Opening '80s Hair Closed Circle Moment Killer He Who Fights Monsters The X of Y Belligerent Sexual Tension Beware the Nice Ones Knight Templar Evil Laugh Once More, with Clarity! The Dog Bites Back Toplessness from the Back Gilligan Cut Fantasy Films Plot Hole Red Right Hand Fire-Forged Friends Grey and Gray Morality Damsel in Distress The Alleged Car War Is Hell Pet the Dog Fish out of Water Martial Arts Movie Superhero Silence Is Golden Hate Sink No OSHA Compliance Motor Mouth Meaningful Echo Only One Name Honor Before Reason Shout-Out Defrosting Ice Queen Getting Crap Past the Radar Big Damn Heroes Abhorrent Admirer You Have Failed Me Bullying a Dragon Artistic License – Physics Television Movie Index Implacable Man Handicapped Badass Reality Has No Subtitles Pre-Mortem One-Liner Knife Nut Mind Screw NO INDOOR VOICE Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Cain and Abel Historical-Domain Character Well-Intentioned Extremist Setting Update Jerk Jock Authority Equals Asskicking Pragmatic Villainy Cruel and Unusual Death Foil After the End Back from the Dead Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Combat Pragmatist No Name Given Cool Guns Disproportionate Retribution The Sociopath Woman in White Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Rape as Drama Big "NO!" Beta Couple Famous Last Words Car Fu Catapult Nightmare Mooks Police are Useless Psycho for Hire Neck Snap Men Are the Expendable Gender Author Avatar Politically Incorrect Villain Get Out! Really Gets Around The Voiceless Music Stories Market-Based Title Documentary Evil Plan Hong Kong Films I'm a Humanitarian As Long as It Sounds Foreign Based on a True Story More Dakka Naïve Newcomer Affably Evil Celebrity Paradox Chiaroscuro The Stoner Deliberately Monochrome