Tropescilloscope: Training Montage

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

More Tropes Undying Loyalty Lock and Load Montage Moment Killer Television Movie Index Toplessness from the Back Creative Closing Credits And I Must Scream It's All About Me Badass Grandpa The X of Y Agony of the Feet Does Not Like Shoes Unresolved Sexual Tension Novelization Redemption Equals Death Death Seeker Groin Attack Offscreen Moment of Awesome Wretched Hive Funny Background Event Suspiciously Similar Substitute I Need a Freaking Drink timeperiod Karma Houdini Character Development Badass in a Nice Suit Took a Level in Jerkass Rated M for Manly Country Matters Gorn You Killed My Father Not So Stoic Dwindling Party Stock Footage Danny Peary Cult Movies List Race Lift Coming-of-Age Story Fate Worse than Death Laser-Guided Karma Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Rule of Funny No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Kubrick Stare Good Is Not Nice As the Good Book Says... Exactly What It Says on the Tin Madness Mantra Daylight Horror Actually Pretty Funny Grievous Bottley Harm Facial Horror Naïve Newcomer Disappeared Dad Say My Name Missing Mom It's Personal Not So Above It All Alpha Bitch Our Zombies Are Different Easily Forgiven As Long as It Sounds Foreign Intergenerational Friendship Implacable Man Alliterative Name Red Shirt Dramedy Pragmatic Adaptation Everyone Has Standards Retcon Storming the Castle Determinator Composite Character Authority Equals Asskicking Dark Reprise Affectionate Parody Suddenly SHOUTING! Heroes Want Redheads Sequel Hook Famous Last Words The '60s Wicked Cultured The Musical Fantastic Racism Darker and Edgier The Mole Shoot the Shaggy Dog More Dakka Meaningful Name Ambiguously Gay Left the Background Music On The Big Guy Abusive Parents Blood Knight What You Are in the Dark Leitmotif Logo Joke Dropped a Bridge on Him In Name Only Deus ex Machina Evil vs. Evil Not Using the "Z" Word Beard of Evil Jump Scare Scary Black Man Historical Villain Upgrade Anachronic Order Bilingual Bonus Bond One-Liner Big Bad Duumvirate An Aesop Vampire Fiction The Cavalry Pyrrhic Victory Defiant to the End "Shaggy Dog" Story The Dog Bites Back Artistic License – Gun Safety Crazy Jealous Guy Non-Indicative Name She Cleans Up Nicely Black Best Friend Blackmail Monumental Damage Those Two Bad Guys Calling the Old Man Out An Arm and a Leg Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Spanner in the Works Film Series Does This Remind You of Anything? Demoted to Extra Broken Pedestal The Alleged Car She's Got Legs What Happened to the Mouse? Knight Templar Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Exact Words Nice Guy Only Sane Man All There in the Manual Conspicuous CG Be Careful What You Wish For Determinator aka: The Determinator For Want of a Nail Instant Death Bullet Stepford Smiler Not Even Bothering with the Accent No-Sell Fat Bastard Only a Flesh Wound Made of Iron Deliberate Values Dissonance Papa Wolf Reasonable Authority Figure Improbable Weapon User Crucified Hero Shot Wounded Gazelle Gambit Central Theme Bland-Name Product Developing Doomed Characters Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Sanity Slippage Arranged Marriage Only in It for the Money Face–Heel Turn Belligerent Sexual Tension French Films Unreliable Narrator A Minor Kidroduction Friend to All Children Manic Pixie Dream Girl Driven to Suicide Man on Fire Twist Ending The Cameo The Ghost The Ace Sexy Discretion Shot Gilligan Cut Author Avatar No Name Given Japanese Films Obfuscating Stupidity Spiritual Successor Defrosting Ice Queen Leaning on the Fourth Wall Wham Line Big Eater How We Got Here Genre Savvy Sacrificial Lion Dramatic Gun Cock Every Car Is a Pinto Military and Warfare Films Earn Your Happy Ending Apocalypse How Morality Pet Death by Sex Beauty Is Never Tarnished Maybe Ever After Big Bad Off with His Head! Gratuitous English Take a Third Option Sealed Evil in a Can Big "NO!" One-Man Army Straight Gay Ambiguous Ending Ship Tease Sci-Fi Horror Stealth Hi/Bye Hypocrite Trailers Always Spoil Four-Temperament Ensemble Dirty Coward O.O.C. Is Serious Business Eyepatch of Power Re-Cut Demonic Possession Deadpan Snarker Children Are Innocent Sinister Minister Evil-Detecting Dog He Knows Too Much You Have Failed Me Based on a True Story Diabolus ex Machina Make It Look Like an Accident Death by Irony Evil Is Hammy Spared by the Adaptation Happily Married Manchild It Can Think Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Reality Ensues Gender Flip Adaptation Dye-Job Fun with Acronyms Eye Scream Genre Shift What the Hell, Hero? Imagine Spot Pimped-Out Dress Gone Horribly Right Disproportionate Retribution Bare Your Midriff Rewatch Bonus Big Brother Instinct Stalker with a Crush Comically Missing the Point I'm a Humanitarian Scare Chord Accidental Misnaming Frame-Up Peek-a-Boo Corpse Bloody Hilarious The Brute Pre-Mortem One-Liner Love at First Sight The Reveal Let's Get Dangerous! Artistic License – Military Humiliation Conga Meet Cute Advertised Extra Enemy Mine Light Is Not Good Mooks Hollywood Darkness Yandere Mystery and Detective Films Shower Scene Outrun the Fireball Bad "Bad Acting" Totally Radical Drives Like Crazy Karmic Death Adults Are Useless As Himself He Who Fights Monsters Science Fiction Films Room Full of Crazy Bait-and-Switch Unspoken Plan Guarantee Hypocritical Humor Psychological Thriller Insane Troll Logic Ascended Extra Artistic License – Law Corpsing Villain Protagonist Mad Scientist Serial Killer Kick the Dog Interrupted Suicide Big Damn Heroes Stylistic Suck Villain with Good Publicity Truth in Television Even Evil Has Loved Ones Race Against the Clock Freeze-Frame Bonus Chiaroscuro Faking the Dead Hidden Depths The Dragon Fanservice Double-Meaning Title Bar Brawl Cain and Abel Handicapped Badass Sports Stories Very Loosely Based on a True Story Paper-Thin Disguise Revenge Plot Hole Auto Erotica Dressing as the Enemy A God Am I Action Survivor In the Back Only Known by Their Nickname Fan Disservice Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Henpecked Husband Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Real Life Animal Title Index Awesome, but Impractical Bloodless Carnage Decoy Protagonist Unwitting Instigator of Doom Taking the Bullet Here We Go Again! Half the Man He Used to Be Funny Foreigner Casting Gag Works Set in World War II Smoking Is Cool Didn't Think This Through Break the Haughty The Hero Foregone Conclusion Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Body Horror Almost Kiss Antagonist Title Adaptation Expansion Nothing Is Scarier Dirty Old Man Historical-Domain Character Whole Plot Reference The Hero Dies Combat Pragmatist Setting Update Pay Evil unto Evil Five-Man Band The Quiet One The Stoic Fainting The Remake Betty and Veronica Cassandra Truth Intrepid Reporter Put on a Bus Kill It with Fire Corrupt Corporate Executive Broken Bird Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Dual Wielding Show Within a Show Bury Your Gays Big-Bad Ensemble Small Name, Big Ego Naked People Are Funny Stuff Blowing Up Captain Obvious Ax-Crazy Gainax Ending Canadian Movies Creepy Child Shut Up, Hannibal! Cool Shades Babies Ever After Thriller Made of Explodium Gold Digger Age Lift Fanservice Extra Anyone Can Die Not Quite Dead Deliberately Monochrome Brainless Beauty British Films Adaptational Attractiveness Vitriolic Best Buds Politically Incorrect Villain Chewing the Scenery Foil Beta Couple NO INDOOR VOICE And Starring Brother–Sister Incest "The Reason You Suck" Speech Evil Laugh Artistic License – History Dying Moment of Awesome Those Wacky Nazis Protagonist Title Italian Films From Bad to Worse Red Eyes, Take Warning Tempting Fate Getting Crap Past the Radar Manly Tears Large Ham Roaring Rampage of Revenge Not So Different Heroic BSoD Call-Back Fourth Date Marriage Music Stories Continuity Nod Smug Snake Romantic False Lead Cluster F-Bomb No Celebrities Were Harmed Male Gaze This Is Gonna Suck The Chick Shout-Out From Nobody to Nightmare Horror Comedy Fingore Psychopathic Manchild Chase Scene Product Placement Rule of Cool The Lost Lenore Drill Sergeant Nasty Hooker with a Heart of Gold True Companions Aluminum Christmas Trees Self-Deprecation Jerk Jock Red Herring I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Framing Device Contrived Coincidence Affably Evil Not What It Looks Like Cool Old Guy Needs Wiki Magic Love All for Nothing Bound and Gagged All Girls Want Bad Boys Attempted Rape Overprotective Dad Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Bowdlerise Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Star-Crossed Lovers Cool Car Artistic License – Physics The Un-Reveal Green-Eyed Monster Animated Credits Opening Police Brutality Once More, with Clarity! Catch-Phrase Retired Badass Humans Are Bastards "Awesome McCool" Name Flipping the Bird Grey and Gray Morality Guns Akimbo Face Death with Dignity Extreme Doormat Dull Surprise Dumb Blonde La Résistance Berserk Button Accidental Murder Celebrity Paradox Dies Wide Open Armor-Piercing Question Jerkass Has a Point Cowboy Cop Curse Cut Short Serious Business Important Haircut Ironic Echo Oh, Crap! Would Hurt a Child I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Black Comedy Reality Has No Subtitles BFG As You Know Horror Films Ripped from the Headlines The Casanova Artistic License – Biology Russian Films Offscreen Teleportation Victoria's Secret Compartment Mugging the Monster Never Found the Body Curb-Stomp Battle Married to the Job Parental Abandonment Names to Run Away from Really Fast Broken Aesop Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Adaptational Villainy Reality Is Unrealistic Fiery Redhead Playing Gertrude Brick Joke Adapted Out The Great Depression Unusual Euphemism Riddle for the Ages World of Ham Mr. Fanservice Meaningful Echo Plucky Comic Relief Extremely Short Timespan Psycho for Hire Mistaken for Gay Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Men Are the Expendable Gender Spiteful Spit Anti-Hero My Greatest Failure Bullying a Dragon Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Super Strength Match Cut Sequel Escalation Black and Gray Morality N-Word Privileges Anti-Villain Closed Circle Early-Bird Cameo Distracted by the Sexy Depraved Bisexual Only One Name Jerkass Motor Mouth Homage Big Applesauce Black Comedy Rape Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds The '80s Too Dumb to Live Villain Ball Shirtless Scene Adaptation Name Change Big Fancy House My Beloved Smother Foreshadowing Red Oni, Blue Oni The Faceless Anguished Declaration of Love Informed Ability Expository Hairstyle Change Due to the Dead Would Hit a Girl Spell My Name with an "S" Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Deal with the Devil After the End Ominous Latin Chanting Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" The Dreaded Cruel and Unusual Death Eldritch Abomination The End... Or Is It? Femme Fatale Department of Redundancy Department Tap on the Head Same Language Dub Bloodier and Gorier Poor Communication Kills Scenery Gorn Sadistic Choice Mythology Gag Retirony Ambiguous Disorder Downer Ending Zombie Stories Boom, Headshot! Chekhov's Gun The Smurfette Principle Documentary Off-into-the-Distance Ending There Is No Kill Like Overkill Together in Death Our Vampires Are Different Air-Vent Passageway Police are Useless Laughing Mad Darkest Hour Death Glare The Stoner Rousing Speech The '70s Never My Fault Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Rule of Symbolism Wrong Genre Savvy The '90s '80s Hair Worthy Opponent Fantasy Films B-Movie Rasputinian Death Neck Snap Heterosexual Life-Partners Superhero Faux Affably Evil Those Two Guys Aside Glance Ghost Fiction For the Evulz The Atoner Death of a Child Slashed Throat Throwing Your Sword Always Works Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Parental Neglect Drowning My Sorrows Narrator Dramatic Irony Arch-Enemy Pragmatic Villainy Loophole Abuse Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Abhorrent Admirer Bond Villain Stupidity Punch-Clock Villain Catapult Nightmare Slasher Movie Daddy's Girl The Smart Guy Ms. Fanservice Mr. Exposition Dissonant Serenity Your Head A-Splode The Film of the Book Blatant Lies Mexican Standoff Bad Boss Costume Porn No OSHA Compliance Screw the Money, I Have Rules! All Just a Dream Index of Film Westerns Your Cheating Heart Hong Kong Films Better to Die than Be Killed Butt-Monkey Fatal Flaw Public Domain Feature Films Vomit Discretion Shot Becoming the Mask Never Trust a Trailer You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Mind Screw Hate Sink Historical In-Joke Suspiciously Specific Denial Greater-Scope Villain Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Damsel in Distress Have a Gay Old Time Soft Glass Heel–Face Turn The Mafia Last-Name Basis Well-Intentioned Extremist A Father to His Men Christmas Movies Index Training Montage Vomit Indiscretion Shot Drugs Are Bad Slasher Smile Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Eiffel Tower Effect Leave the Camera Running Jerk with a Heart of Gold Anachronism Stew Badass Boast All Men Are Perverts The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Love Triangle Pretty in Mink Running Gag Artistic License – Geography Evil Is Petty Irony A Date with Rosie Palms A.I. Is a Crapshoot Male Frontal Nudity Pre-Asskicking One-Liner The Bad Guy Wins Bolivian Army Ending Epic Movie Scenery Porn Up to Eleven Mood Whiplash Translation Convention Older Than They Look The Place Insult Backfire The Lancer Ass Shove Epic Fail The Stinger Cool Old Lady Freudian Excuse Genre Throwback Improvised Weapon "Well Done, Son!" Guy Lampshade Hanging The Ditz Parental Incest Villain Song Action Girl Pretty Little Headshots German Films Heel Realization Taking You with Me Batman Gambit Cloudcuckoolander Rule of Three Pet the Dog Annoying Younger Sibling Badass Normal Parental Substitute Flashback Film Noir Index Cool Guns Knife Nut Film Noir Disguised in Drag "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Woman in White Card-Carrying Villain Rape as Drama Villain Opening Scene Gory Discretion Shot Canon Foreigner Slap-Slap-Kiss Dogged Nice Guy Disney Death Improbable Aiming Skills Cat Fight Arc Words Beware the Nice Ones Amoral Attorney Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Call-Forward Skewed Priorities Unusually Uninteresting Sight Loads and Loads of Characters Idiot Ball Mighty Whitey Bavarian Fire Drill Fire-Forged Friends Posthumous Character Bald of Evil Hair-Trigger Temper Red Right Hand One Steve Limit Mama Bear Random Events Plot Did Not Get the Girl Adult Fear Dark and Troubled Past Get Out! Eagleland The Bully Recycled IN SPACE! Token Minority Mundane Made Awesome Heroic Sacrifice Punny Name Chekhov's Skill It Will Never Catch On Villainous Breakdown Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Sir Swears-a-Lot The Power of Love Mercy Kill The Vamp Bring My Brown Pants Obstructive Bureaucrat Nice Hat Kids Are Cruel Disney Villain Death Alas, Poor Villain Final Girl Brutal Honesty Silent Movie Immune to Bullets Despair Event Horizon Hope Spot Eureka Moment Asshole Victim Break the Cutie Cold-Blooded Torture Black Dude Dies First Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! The Alcoholic Bittersweet Ending Animal Motifs Covers Always Lie Breaking the Fourth Wall Captain Ersatz Sole Survivor The Chessmaster Girl-on-Girl Is Hot The Oner Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Book-Ends Even Evil Has Standards Crazy-Prepared Award-Bait Song Visual Pun Overly Long Gag Woman Scorned Martial Arts Movie Bi the Way Word of God Wham Shot Back from the Dead Time Skip Line-of-Sight Name Double Entendre Domestic Abuse Car Fu Action Genre Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Adaptation Distillation Real Life Writes the Plot 20 Minutes into the Future Rich Bitch Dark Action Girl Evil Sounds Deep Killed Mid-Sentence Evil Counterpart Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Insistent Terminology Actor Allusion Hero Antagonist Guile Hero An Axe to Grind Reckless Gun Usage Sassy Black Woman Fake Shemp Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Blonde, Brunette, Redhead No Antagonist You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Cat Scare Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Bunny-Ears Lawyer No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Evil Plan Hero of Another Story Empathic Environment Lighter and Softer Vacation Films Adaptational Heroism Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Shown Their Work Romantic Comedy Crapsack World Dutch Angle Hollywood Law Adaptational Badass The Starscream Destination Defenestration Tranquil Fury Death by Adaptation Redshirt Army Market-Based Title Take That! MacGuffin Failed a Spot Check Blood from the Mouth Fish out of Water The '50s Malevolent Masked Men Major Injury Underreaction All There in the Script Meaningful Background Event Chekhov's Gunman Really Gets Around Bottomless Magazines Honor Before Reason Properly Paranoid The Load Biopic Establishing Character Moment Expy Australian Movies Badass Longcoat Took a Level in Badass I Have Your Wife May–December Romance Adorkable Dirty Cop Evil Brit Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Precision F-Strike Early Installment Weirdness Camp Gay Ungrateful Bastard Soundtrack Dissonance One-Word Title Credits Gag Hoist by His Own Petard folderlabel Author Appeal War Is Hell Creator Cameo Silence Is Golden Amusing Injuries Badass Bookworm And the Adventure Continues I Did What I Had to Do Manipulative Bastard Kick the Son of a Bitch Stealth Pun My God, What Have I Done? No Ending Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Action Prologue The Voiceless Historical Hero Upgrade Refuge in Audacity Noodle Incident Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Neck Lift Jitter Cam Video Credits Fatal Family Photo The Sociopath Shipper on Deck Kill 'em All Shell-Shocked Veteran Title Drop Deconstruction Tagline Dark Is Not Evil Camera Abuse Obviously Evil Hell Is That Noise Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene In Medias Res