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* Spoofed in the film ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice'', with a song entitled "We Need A Montage", which explains away the technique as it plays over a montage. "And with every shot show a little improvement; to show it raw would take too long! It's gonna take a ''montage''!"

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* Spoofed in the film ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice'', with a song entitled "We Need A Montage", which explains away the technique as it plays over a montage. "And with every shot show a little improvement; to show it raw would take too long! It's gonna take a ''montage''!"



* ''Film/TheChristmasThatAlmostWasnt'': When Santa finally gets to deliver his gifts, after a reprise of "I've Got A Date With Santa."



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* ''Film/TheChristmasThatAlmostWasnt'': When Santa finally gets to deliver his gifts, after a reprise of "I've Got A Date With Santa."
* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'''s third season opens with a particularly dark Time Compression montage which compresses 3 months of Cylon occupation, including the loss of Tigh's eye.

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* ''Film/TheChristmasThatAlmostWasnt'': When Santa finally gets to deliver his gifts, after a reprise of "I've Got A Date With Santa."
* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'''s
''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'''s third season opens with a particularly dark Time Compression montage which compresses 3 months of Cylon occupation, including the loss of Tigh's eye.



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* The [[spoiler:fifty years]] that pass while the team are trapped on their spaceship during the series finale of ''Series/StargateSG1'' are shown in TimeCompressionMontage. (They get undone [[HeroicSacrifice for every one but one person]].)

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* The [[spoiler:fifty years]] that pass while the team are trapped on their spaceship during the series finale of ''Series/StargateSG1'' are shown in TimeCompressionMontage.Time-Compression Montage. (They get undone [[HeroicSacrifice for every one but one person]].)
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* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0391.html this]] ''[[Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick Order of the Stick]]'' with Elan's training montage.

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* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0391.html this]] ''[[Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick Order of the Stick]]'' ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' with Elan's deliberately invoked training montage.montage, where Julio Scoundrél trains Elan in front of false backgrounds to [[BaitAndSwitchTimeskip create an illusion of time progression]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': In Episode 234, Kaeloo, Stumpy, and Pretty, encouraged by Mr. Cat, play a cruel prank on Rules which sends her into a state of depression. A montage is then shown of Rules sitting sadly on the ground and ignoring everything around her while the other characters do their own thing, ranging from mundane (such as the main four having a snowball fight) to extreme (such as a full-scale alien invasion of Smileyland).
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* Used in ''Film/TheMuppets'', in order to speed up the search for the rest of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' cast. And by 'used', we mean it's intentionally invoked by the characters in-universe.

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* Used in ''Film/TheMuppets'', ''Film/TheMuppets2011'', in order to speed up the search for the rest of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' cast. And by 'used', we mean it's intentionally invoked by the characters in-universe.



* In ''Film/TheSaddestMusicInTheWorld'', the passage of the music contest is compressed in a couple of key shots juxtaposed with music sheets as [[SpinningPaper Spinning Papers]].

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* In ''Film/TheSaddestMusicInTheWorld'', the passage of the music contest is compressed in a couple of key shots juxtaposed with music sheets as [[SpinningPaper Spinning Papers]].{{Spinning Paper}}s.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'' opens up with one, the song "This Is My Idea" where Derek and Odette are seen at various points in their childhood (typically fighting or otherwise unhappy with each other) and finally [[SlapSlapKiss realizing they're in love]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'' opens up with one, the song "This Is My Idea" where Derek and Odette are seen at various points in their childhood (typically fighting or otherwise unhappy with each other) and finally [[SlapSlapKiss realizing they're in love]].
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** ''Film/RockyIII'' starts with a montage set to the song "Eye of the Tiger" by Music/{{Survivor}} showing the first three years after Rocky wins the championship title and becoming a world famous celebrity.

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** ''Film/RockyIII'' starts with a montage set to the song "Eye of the Tiger" by Music/{{Survivor}} Music/{{Survivor|Band}} showing the first three years after Rocky wins the championship title and becoming a world famous celebrity.
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* ''Anime/FateGrandOrderAbsoluteDemonicFrontBabylonia'':
** The first six singularities are compressed in episode 0, summarizing Mash's character development as she learns about humanity.
** Episode 3 compresses several chapters of Fujimaru and Mash working together in Uruk and slowly accruing credit to make themselves worthy of Gilgamesh's time, which is established to be about a month's time in episode 4.
** Episode 12 compresses down the gate trials in the Underworld to only show the beginning of the trial before cutting right to before the final gate where the team reunites with Gilgamesh and he mocks Ishtar's tiny form.
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* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Susan [[https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/parable-016 gaining]] wealth and purity by buying and renting out properties is shown in this way.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant''. While Hogarth is in the forest trying to get a picture of the title creature, he is seen hiding behind a log waiting for the Giant to appear, goofing off, and finally falling asleep.



* ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'' opens up with one, the song "This Is My Idea" where Derek and Odette are seen at various points in their childhood (typically fighting or otherwise unhappy with each other) and finally [[SlapSlapKiss realizing they're in love]].



* ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant''. While Hogarth is in the forest trying to get a picture of the title creature, he is seen hiding behind a log waiting for the Giant to appear, goofing off, and finally falling asleep.



* ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'' opens up with one, the song "This Is My Idea" where Derek and Odette are seen at various points in their childhood (typically fighting or otherwise unhappy with each other) and finally [[SlapSlapKiss realizing they're in love]].
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See also TimePassesMontage. For the musical equivalent, see AgeProgressionSong.

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HardWorkMontage is a subtrope. See also TimePassesMontage. For the musical equivalent, see AgeProgressionSong.
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Occasionally {{subverted}} for comic effect by a reveal that the events depicted are happening, if not in RealTime, at least in a much shorter timeframe than implied.

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* In the Series/DoctorWho episode "The Power of Three", a bored Doctor needs to pass time, so he paints a fence, mows the lawn, and dribbles a football (by his count) over a million times. At the end of the montage, it's still only been an hour.

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* In the Series/DoctorWho ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "The Power of Three", a bored Doctor needs to pass time, so he paints a fence, mows the lawn, and dribbles a football (by his count) over a million times. At the end of the montage, it's still only been an hour.


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* The ''Series/LawAndOrderSVU'' episode "Manhattan Vigil" starts with a young cop helping a frantic mother put up "missing" posters. Thirteen years pass to a Creator/NorahJones song. The neighborhood decays, the posters are replaced with a mural, the mural is covered by graffiti, and still she waits, seemingly in vain. Then another child vanishes. Cue theme song.
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* After Belle wins her first boxing match in ''Film/{{Knockout}}'', one of these documents several more fights and magazine cover appearances as she makes her way up in the boxing world.
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* ''Film/JojoRabbit'' has one of these set to "Everybody's Got to Live" by Love to bridge the gap of Jojo finding his mother [[spoiler:hanged as a traitor]] in the Fall as the war enters its end stages through the Winter as the Allies get closer and finally to the Spring when they get there.
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* ''Webcomic/WildeLife:'' While looking for Clifford [[http://www.wildelifecomic.com/comic/312 here]], complete with AltText: "'I can't believe they only looked three places,' commented someone who doesn't understand montages.'"
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* ''Fanfic/EscapeFromTheMoon'': The final chapter of the sequel ''The Mare From the Moon'' shows various scenes, jumping forward in time between each one and covering [[spoiler:up to the end of her sentence on the moon]].
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->'''Jamie''': We've filled 2 pontoons, it goes about 3 minutes a fill, we've got 48 yet to go.\\
'''Narrator''': Thanks for the warning, we might go to the time lapse here.\\

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->'''Jamie''': ->'''Jamie:''' We've filled 2 pontoons, it goes about 3 minutes a fill, we've got 48 yet to go.\\
'''Narrator''': '''Narrator:''' Thanks for the warning, we might go to the time lapse here.\\
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I'm assuming this is the original UK version.


* On ''TopGear'' these are generally used to compress films involving long road trips or extensive car maintenance. Sometimes spoofed, when a series of clips is shown suggesting that we are seeing the presenters work for hours, and then a visual clue or a bit of dialogue reveals that only a few minutes have passed.

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* On ''TopGear'' ''Series/{{Top Gear|UK}}'' these are generally used to compress films involving long road trips or extensive car maintenance. Sometimes spoofed, when a series of clips is shown suggesting that we are seeing the presenters work for hours, and then a visual clue or a bit of dialogue reveals that only a few minutes have passed.
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[[IThoughtItMeant Has nothing to do with]] [[TimeCrash the literal distortion of time]] [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII plotted by Sorceress Ultimecia.]] If so, the trope would have been called "Time [[XtremeKoolLetterz Kompression]] Montage" anyways.

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[[IThoughtItMeant [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Has nothing to do with]] [[TimeCrash the literal distortion of time]] [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII plotted by Sorceress Ultimecia.]] If so, the trope would have been called "Time [[XtremeKoolLetterz Kompression]] Montage" anyways.
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* ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'' movies are famous for training montages, including the meat-punching run-up-the-stairs bit in [[Film/{{Rocky}} the original]] and in ''Film/RockyBalboa'', and a ''Film/RockyIV'' montage showing Rocky and Ivan Drago.

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* ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'' movies are famous for training montages, [[TrainingMontage Training Montages]], including the meat-punching run-up-the-stairs bit in [[Film/{{Rocky}} the original]] and in ''Film/RockyBalboa'', and a ''Film/RockyIV'' montage showing Rocky and Ivan Drago.
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* In ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'', when Sakaki first pets Mr. Tadakachi, she does so for forty-five seconds real-time. As she does, however, we can see the background steadily go from afternoon to dusk, until finally Chiyo asks if they can go to her house (where the rest of their friends are waiting).

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* In ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'', when Sakaki first pets Mr. Tadakachi, Tadakichi, she does so for forty-five seconds real-time. As she does, however, we can see the background steadily go from afternoon to dusk, until finally Chiyo asks if they can go to her house (where the rest of their friends are waiting).
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* Almost all of the body swapping between Taki and Mitsuha in ''Anime/YourName'' occurs in a couple minutes' worth of scenes with the song ''Zen Zen Zense'' by RADWIMPS in the background.

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