History Main / MontageOut

* ''Series/{{Fringe}}': {{Subverted}} in the episode "Northwest Passage." After catching a serial killer, Peter lies back on his bed to listen to the mix CD the victim had burned him right before she died. As the song plays "...[[BandOfHorses is there a ghost in my house]]...," [[spoiler:Peter's eyes pop open, and he discovers Newton standing over him]].

%% * The ending of every episode of ''Series/ColdCase'' uses this, with a song from the year the episode's murder took place.

%% * ''Series/ThirdWatch'' used a lot of these in the later seasons.

%% * ''Series/DesperateHousewives'' does this with added FauxlosophicNarration.
%% * Most episodes in the first season of ''Series/{{Lost}}'' did this, as well as a handful of season two and three episodes.
%% * ''Series/UglyBetty'' does this on a few episodes. They pulled it off especially well with the season finale of Justin performing in ''Theatre/WestSideStory''.
%% * Expect a TearJerker when ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' does this.
%% ** Subverted gloriously in one instance, where the final shot of the montage is of Spike driving off while rocking out to the Music/SexPistols.
%% * The ending of Part 1 of ''The 60's'' did this with Music/BobDylan's "Like A Rolling Stone".

%% * ''Series/TheWire'' does this at the end of each season finale. The final season's is particularly heartbreaking as you see the younger generation taking the places of the adults who have taken the whole series to break out of them.
%% * ''Series/TheSopranos'' does this a few times.
* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' had a prototypical version of this in the early seasons, focusing almost exclusively on Dexter. Once the WhamEpisode happened at the end of Season 6, these montages became more industry-standard -- always including Dexter and Deb, with reminders of who else from Dexter's office had significant development that episode.

%% * It would be easier to list all the episodes of ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', ''Series/TheFlash2014'', or ''Series/Supergirl2015'' that ''don't'' play such a montage, give us a {{cliffhanger}}, and roll the credits. Averted in ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'', as it lacks the fairly domestic setting of the other three.

* Subverted in ''Series/{{Fringe}}'', in the episode "Northwest Passage." After catching a serial killer, Peter lies back on his bed to listen to the mix CD the victim had burned him right before she died. As the song plays "...[[BandOfHorses is there a ghost in my house]]...," [[spoiler:Peter's eyes pop open, and he discovers Newton standing over him]].
%% * Every episode of ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' does this, accompanied by Meredith's (or occasionally another character's) voiceover.
%% * ''Series/HolbyCity'' has started doing this in recent years, as part of an ongoing series of ideas borrowed from ''Series/{{House}}''.
* Subverted in ''Series/{{Spaced}}'', in the final episode of the second series - an upbeat Lemon Jelly tune called 'The Staunton Lick' plays over closing scenes of each character moving on from their life in the series thus far.

%% * ''Series/{{Community}}'' has this to an Irish band and Somewhere Out There in the episode ''Environmental Science''

%% * This is how the players are advised to narrate each character's Epilogue in the final phase of ''TabletopGame/{{Fiasco}}'', after determining their ultimate fate based on what colour-combination of dice they ended up with. One suggestion is that for each white die, you describe a positive scene, and a negative one for each black die.

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* The [[https://youtu.be/4tPwPWmDvSo?t=6770 first]] [[https://youtu.be/jvikTXGrC9Y?t=7951 two]] episodes of ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'' end with a montage of major characters going about their daily work while indie folk music is playing in the background.

* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': The Credits Sequence, which comes after the end of the comic proper, is a collection of panels (formatted as Snapchat snaps) showing what happened to the characters after the ending of the story. Highlights include [[spoiler: [[WeddingFinale Rose and Kanaya's wedding]]]].

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* All nine ''Franchise/StarWars'' movies end with a scene like this, showing the protagonists wherever they may be, with John Williams' music playing.
* The ending of ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' is like this with showing the aftermath of everything that happened at the Triskellion. [[spoiler: Agent 13 is now in the CIA. Brock Rumlow, aka Crossbones, managed to survive the Triskellion falling on top of him. Many political allies of HYDRA are also picked up and arrested.]]
* ''Film/DonnieDarko'' ends with a montage of all major characters lying awake at night while Gary Jules' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHtcliIvnHI "Mad World"]] is playing.
%% * ''Film/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy'' ends this way, climaxing with [[spoiler: Smiley taking over as the new head of the Circus.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' ends with a montage of Lilo and her new family, including photos on a scrapbook, all set to a cover of "[[Music/ElvisPresley Hunka Hunka Burning Love]]".

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* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''

* All nine ''StarWars'' movies end with a scene like this, showing the protagonists wherever they may be, with John Williams' music playing.