Tropescilloscope: Training Montage

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

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