Tropescilloscope: Training Montage

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

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