Tropescilloscope: Training Montage

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

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