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1A team of characters build something that will pull everyone's bacon out of the fire. A montage is used to show each person exercising their speciality (usually without lines) in the pursuit of this goal.
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3Named after The80s series ''Series/TheATeam'', which had such montage OncePerEpisode. The true "A-Team Montage" will often include large quantities of StockFootage. This can lead to humorous mistakes, such as an obvious set of black hands building the superweapon, even though Creator/MrT's character had been captured by bad guys.
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5The A-Team was also famous for the [[Series/MacGyver1985 apparent genius-level DIY skills they employed]] during the montage; in a matter of a few minutes, the A-Team could turn six feet of PVC piping, a golf-cart, and several kilograms of semi-volatile chemicals into a heavily-armored tank. That their captors were routinely stupid enough to [[LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard lock them in a warehouse]] ''full'' of PVC piping, golf carts and semi-volatile chemicals is not relevant to the trope, though it is an example of extreme GenreBlindness.
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7Special case of the HardWorkMontage, and similar to the LockAndLoadMontage. Commonly used in TheCaper or TheCon, especially if it's an ImpossibleMission.
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9See also CreationSequence, the SuperTrope. Compare AvengersAssemble and PlotTailoredToTheParty.
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14* This is used in a way in the animated film ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAForest'', when the three furlings come together and use teamwork to build a flying machine using BambooTechnology.
15* ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'' has a montage showing each of the six team members exercising their new skills.
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19* In ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'', the remaining protagonists (Seth Gecko and Jacob, Scott, and Kate Fuller) perform an A-Team Montage when they jury rig a number of weapons against the vampires besieging them as they are hiding in a storage room of a biker bar.
20* The remake of ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004'' features one of these as the heroes retrofit some parking shuttles, preparing to break through the [[ZombieApocalypse zombie army]] that has besieged their shopping mall.
21* Every one of the new ''Film/OceansEleven'' trilogy. Interestingly, we usually end up seeing that what they were building was merely a cover for the real con.
22* ''Film/Tremors3BackToPerfection'' features one, with characters building weapons off what they find in a junkyard.
23* ''Franchise/EvilDead'':
24** Ash has a one-man version in ''Film/EvilDead2'', single-handedly refitting a chainsaw to replace his severed appendage.
25** ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'' plays it straight, as the blacksmith and various other medieval screw-heads assist with the construction of a replacement gauntlet/hand [[spoiler: and conversion of his beat-up Oldsmobile into a crazy war machine]].
26* In ''Film/FairGame'', a montage is used to show Jessica working through the night to booby-trap the farm before the hunters arrive in the morning. We are not shown how the traps work until they are activated, however.
27* ''Film/NapoleonDynamite'' has a ShoutOut montage which uses the actual A-Team theme song while Napoleon and Pedro are putting up flyers for the student election.
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31* A contemporary of ''Series/TheATeam,'' ''Series/MacGyver1985'' featured a similar montage towards the end of each show.
32* The ''Franchise/CSIVerse'' shows employ this trope frequently, as the various forensic specialists build a case. ''Series/{{CSINY}}'s'' "[[Recap/CSINYS09E04 Unspoken]]," also does this for the first 20 minutes or so; as the title implies, there is no spoken dialogue during that time frame.
33* ''Series/MissionImpossible'' often featured sequences where characters worked on a project without dialogue, but this was never done as montage.
34* Seen often in ''Series/TopGearUK'', although the presenters being [[VitriolicBestBuds what they are to each other]], it seldom goes smoothly.
35** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the Vietnam special, where James May actually hums the theme to ''Series/TheATeam'' during the A-Team Montage of the presenters modifying their motorbikes into watercraft.
36** In the Reliant Robin review, Clarkson "cues the music", only for it to stop suddenly when he drives the front wheel straight into the inspection pit of the garage.
37** Played with when building a car for the elderly. The montage is there as usual, but it gets a much more sedate and classical version of the music to match.
38** This montage, complete with the original A-Team theme, makes a triumphant, lampshades-but-played-straight return in the episode “Sand Job” of its successor series ''Series/TheGrandTour'' as the three [[Main/ItMakesSenseInContext collect plastic bottles and make them into floats]], though it is somewhat subverted when the montage is cued a second time after their disastrous first attempt.
39* ''Series/MythBusters'' frequently has these, due to the show being only an hour long and some of the builds taking many man-hours to complete. Occasionally, the A-Team may even be referenced.
40* In the working script for the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode "Heart of Gold," the scene where Mal and his scrappy crew prepare their ''literal'' ArmyOfThievesAndWhores is described with "A-Team-style 'getting shit done' music plays under this."
41* The pilot episode of ''Series/TheITCrowd'' uses this - with the A-Team music included as a BrickJoke since Denholm had mentioned the A-Team earlier when telling the IT Department how much he loved teams.
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45* In ''VideoGame/DeponiaDoomsday'' Rufus and his pack after being locked in barn by [[LizardFolk fewlocks]] builds wehicle in this way. Even music in this scene is titled [[EgocentricTeamNaming R-Team]].
46* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' features something like this in its finale. [[spoiler: First each of the 3 main ship upgrades are shown doing their job in various ways to protect the crew getting to the enemy base, if you missed one then it won't fulfill its role. Then throughout the final mission you're given the chance to pick different people to perform different jobs and treated to a cutscene of them either performing it perfectly or messing up and letting someone die. The best ending is a picture perfect montage interspersed with gameplay, showing each of the chosen teammembers doing what they do best to keep everyone alive.]]
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50* ''WebAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsSummertimeShorts'': "Get the Show on the Road" has some aspects of this trope when the Rainbooms work on the derelict bus, notably each of them using their respective powers to fix it, and numerous close-ups on the reparation, along with SplitScreen. And they provide their own song with the montage, too.
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54* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'': "Tired and Feathered," a WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner cartoon from 1965 whose major gag – a phony bird sanctuary with a rigged pay telephone – begins with the Coyote building said structure; a montage of the Coyote at work is shown before cutting to a scene of the Coyote admiring his completed work ... until he hears the phone ring for real! You know what happens next.
55* In ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'' a group of brilliant inventors from different eras (and Mona Lisa), who were all kidnapped and imprisoned by a villain, managed to do this with what they had in their cell, turning it into mobile vehlice armed with several kinds of weapons.
56* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "One Bad Apple" features the Cutie Mark Crusaders putting together a parade float as part of a BatmanGambit to deal with a bully. The sequence even features a SuspiciouslySimilarSong to ''The A-Team'' theme.
57* ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' has two, first when they're modifying Foxxy's van for an assault ([[EpicFail then they immediately crash it into a tree]]), then when they're making a completely unnecessary ad-hoc escape vehicle to get out of their van when they're trapped in a parking lot.
58* ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'': In "Closed Door Policy", during a yard sale at Sticks' burrow, Amy [[NiceJobBreakingItHero accidentally takes a surfboard holding back the entrance to the underground lair of the Froglodytes, a race of frog-like warriors.]] Although Team Sonic attempt to hold them back, the FrogMen nonetheless kidnap Sticks, prompting the rest of the team to initiate a rescue operation, gathering up the possessions from the yard sale so they can be used as weapons. Said montage is [[ThemeMusicPowerUp complimented by generic but fitting music.]]
59* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': "Night of the Living Homeless" had one of these depicting the boys modifying a bus so they could use it to deal with the homeless epidemic. [[spoiler: By singing a song telling them that California is the best state for homeless people, just like what all the other states did.]]
60* ''WesternAnimation/{{Centaurworld}}'': In "[[Recap/CentaurworldS2E3MyTummyYourHurts My Tummy, Your Hurts]]" the herd is crushing ice to separate themselves from the coldtaurs, with each character utilizing their strengths - Durpleton is seen [[UseYourHead hammering ice with his head]], and Wammawink uses her knitting needles. The scene is even set to a tune similar to The A-Team theme.
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