Tropescilloscope: Training Montage

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

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Is Serious Business There Is No Kill Like Overkill Closed Circle Big Fancy House Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Our Zombies Are Different Bound and Gagged Took a Level in Jerkass Rule of Funny Villain Ball Drill Sergeant Nasty Dark Reprise Loophole Abuse Handicapped Badass Bolivian Army Ending Nice Guy Make It Look Like an Accident Fanservice Scenery Gorn Be Careful What You Wish For Happily Married Translation Convention Reality Is Unrealistic Trailers Always Spoil Book-Ends Lock and Load Montage Dark Is Not Evil Brainless Beauty Curse Cut Short Stylistic Suck Disproportionate Retribution Slasher Smile Death Glare Properly Paranoid Martial Arts Movie Distracted by the Sexy Race Lift Depraved Bisexual Genre Savvy Pragmatic Villainy Ghost Fiction Psychopathic Manchild As You Know timeperiod Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Badass Boast Historical Hero Upgrade Paper-Thin Disguise Those Two Bad Guys Noodle Incident The Quiet One Suspiciously Similar Substitute Sole Survivor You Have Failed Me After the End Grey and Gray Morality Gorn Frame-Up Creepy Child Break the Cutie Oh, Crap! 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Epilogue Manipulative Bastard Yandere Have a Gay Old Time Face Death with Dignity Hong Kong Films Older Than They Look Kick the Son of a Bitch Actually Pretty Funny Maybe Ever After The Faceless Rule of Symbolism Revenge Shout-Out Morality Pet Refuge in Audacity Mood Whiplash Catapult Nightmare Time Skip As Long as It Sounds Foreign Beta Couple Totally Radical Shown Their Work Man on Fire Science Fiction Films For Want of a Nail Worthy Opponent Badass Longcoat May–December Romance Woman in White Retcon Only a Flesh Wound Documentary Hero Antagonist Mugging the Monster The Hero Big-Bad Ensemble Affectionate Parody Cain and Abel Aside Glance All There in the Script Rape as Drama The Lancer Famous Last Words Gratuitous English Film Series Getting Crap Past the Radar Novelization Playing Gertrude Protagonist Title Animal Motifs Stalker with a Crush An Axe to Grind Roaring Rampage of Revenge Index of Film Westerns Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking The Big Guy Jump Scare Big Damn Heroes Body Horror Hypocritical Humor Batman Gambit Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Needs Wiki Magic Love Left the Background Music On Did Not Get the Girl Improvised Weapon Authority Equals Asskicking Mythology Gag Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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