Specialized [[{{Montages}} montage]] mostly limited to [[AwardShow award shows]], which strings together film clips featuring everyone from the show's specific field of endeavor who died during the previous year. Typically synchronized with a medley of stirring and/or sad music, with theme songs thrown in for good measure when the deceased worked in television or film.

Too often it degrades into a weird sort of popularity contest for the people at home, as the actors and actresses featured inevitably get more applause than the costume designers and writers. You have to wonder why they just don't go for the moment of silence.

Also seen on news/sports shows, usually at the end of a telecast.

Compare ReallyDeadMontage, because a character has not been KilledOffForReal until they get a flashback ClipShow, and InMemoriam, which are dedications to those who have died and had a direct connection to the work.
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[[folder: Films -- Live Action ]]

* ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' after the Marvel logo opens with a StylisticSuck-laden example for [[spoiler:the characters who died in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' and ''Film/AvengersEndgame''.]] It's accompanied by Music/WhitneyHouston's cover of [[Music/DollyParton "I Will Always Love You"]].

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[[folder: Live-Action TV ]]

* ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'': In [[Recap/ArrestedDevelopmentS1E4KeyDecisions "Key Decisions"]], Michael Bluth attends the Desi Awards ceremony with his brother's girlfriend, Marta. He sits through a Spanish-language montage of dead people in uncomfortable silence.
* Award shows:
** Every broadcast of the MediaNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, the Grammys, and the Emmys includes one. It's a case of NewerThanTheyThink, since it was only in 1994 when the Oscars started doing it annually, with the others quickly following suit.
** The 2000 UsefulNotes/MTVVideoMusicAward show parodied this with montage of performers considered to be CondemnedByHistory (i.e., Vanilla Ice) set to [[Music/MichaelJackson Michael Jackson's]] "Gone Too Soon".
** Smaller shows such as the [[UsefulNotes/UnionsInHollywood Screen Actors Guild]] do this too. A video of their 2022 montage can be viewed on This Very Wiki.
* ''Series/LookAroundYou'': In "Casserole", Peter announces Clive Pounds' decease due to complications from a wasp sitting on his anus. He then proceeds to observe a minute of silence in which some recycled images featuring Pounds are passed. Immediately after, he declares that he thinks the audience will be pleased to know that Pounds has undergone an UnexplainedRecovery and is alive again now.
* ''Series/NevermindTheBuzzcocks'': One episode features a montage of people "we wish had died in the past year", including, among others, Music/EltonJohn, Music/RobbieWilliams, [[Music/SpiceGirls Emma Bunton]], and Elton John (again).
* NBC's coverage of the 2006 Winter Olympics ends with one of these, honoring sportscaster Curt Gowdy.
* ''Series/{{Night of 100 Stars}}'': The 1990 edition has one for people who were part of the filming crew in the 1982 and 1985 specials but had died since then.
* ''Series/RealTimeWithBillMaher'': {{Parodied}} with the recurring segment "A Farewell To Douchebags", a montage of political leaders and pundits who fell from grace after a given election cycle.
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'':
** [[Recap/SaturdayNightLiveS37E16 "Lindsay Lohan/Jack White"]] has a sketch about an award show for psychics with a montage of people who are ''going'' to die that year. Needless to say, this comes as a bit of a shock to the people seen in the video. Ultimately including the entire audience of the show, it predicts them to die when the theater catches fire.
** The [[Recap/SaturdayNightLiveS40Special04 "40th Anniversary Special"]] shows a genuine montage, introduced by Creator/BillMurray, featuring the cast and crew members who had passed on. To lighten things back up, the final tribute was for Creator/JonLovitz, with the camera cutting to a very alive and confused Lovitz sitting in the audience. Additionally, it ends with an update coming from Spain: "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead."
* ''Series/{{Survivor}}'': In "Heroes vs. Villains", there's a reunion that features a brief GoodTimesMontage for the late Jenn Lyon, with warm and respectful words from Jeff Probst (who met up with her after she left her season).
* Creator/TurnerClassicMovies airs a "TCM Remembers" tribute each December, showing the various film personalities (from both sides of the camera) who have died in the preceding year. The tributes are noted for their strong production and execution, along with unconventional but fitting music choices from the likes of Music/LordHuron and Music/{{M83}}.

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[[folder: Magazines ]]

* The major news magazines, ''Time'', ''People'' and so forth, have weekly sections under such headings as "Milestones" or some similar name, and one of the listings will include brief biographies of notable people who passed away during the week covered, with major figures getting their own stories.
* At the end of the year, the magazines will devote an entire section to people who died during the past year. Some, like ''People'', will publish special issues, offering feature-length stories of the most notable people and full-page tributes to those not quite as prominent. ''People'' also takes it a step further, including not just pop culture personalities but servicemen and women who died in the line of duty (usually, the Middle East) from the end of December of the previous year to the week of deadline for the year-end issue (usually, the middle of the current December).

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[[folder: Music ]]

* Music/LaOrejaDeVanGogh inverted this with the music video of "Jueves", which features various Spaniards simply interacting with the camera (saying hi or making gestures) as a remembrance of those who died in the March 11th bombings. It's a testimony of the life spark every human being harbors and that violence snuffles away.

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[[folder: Theatre ]]

* ''Theatre/MagicGoesWrong'': PlayedForLaughs. The second half kicks off with a montage of those who have died in magic-related incidents, including characters mentioned in the first half, characters shown dying in the first half, an audience member who was [[ItMakesSenseInContext pecked to death by escaped doves]] and one of the still living performers, whose date of death is “Hopefully very soon”, much to his annoyance.

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[[folder: Web Videos ]]

* WebVideo/ScottTheWoz: "Game of the Year Throughout the Years" has a FramingDevice of him presenting the "Year of the Year" award show. He starts off with one of these for the years previous to the episode's upload, which according to him would go on for six hours.

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[[folder: Western Animation ]]

* ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' [[ParodiedTrope spoofed]] the trope in [[Recap/DrawnTogetherS03E14 "American Idol Parody Clip Show"]]. It's not that the previously never-seen Munchkin Mouse has died, it's that he's been evicted from the house, so the same still image of him is inserted in various clips from the show and passed as a "Munchkin Mouse's Greatest Moments" montage.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' spoofed these kinds of montages as well. In [[Recap/FamilyGuyS2E3DaBoom "Da Boom"]], a New Year's Eve 2000 news broadcast plays a montage of noted people who passed away in the last millennium, including UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc, Creator/LeonardoDaVinci, [[RuleOfThree and]]... Creator/NormanFell.
* ''WesternAnimation/InsideJob2021'': In [[Recap/InsideJobS1E3BlueBloods "Blue Bloods"]], during the reptoid annual gala, an In Memoriam 2021 of the [[LizardFolk Reptoids]] which were lost over the last year is shown. The hosts announce it in a heart-felt manner and some guests are sobbing. Given the Reptoids' several-century lifespans, it makes sense that they are hit especially hard by the loss of a guy called Zurlock the Merciless, circa 500 BCE.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'' parodies this in [[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E23TheStarryAwardsBlorpsgiving "The Starry Awards"]]. At his awards show, Patrick gives an In Memoriam montage, mostly consisting of characters on the show who are already ghosts or zombies. The last one is a slide of a random background character, who is in the audience and [[TemptingFate points out he's still alive]]. He then gets hit in the head with a falling spotlight and dies.
* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'': One such montage cycles past two cast members who apparently died improbable deaths. Seth Green is disappointed in how lame and short the montage was and starts murdering other cast members to improve it.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS20E6HomerAndLisaExchangeCrossWords "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words"]]: One of the three musical montages honors words that were taken out of the dictionary, with "Fanfare for the Common Man" playing in the background.
** [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E9IAnnoyedGruntBot "I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot"]]: Homer daydreams about making an acceptance speech at the Oscars and a robot killing him for going over the time limit. The robot then segues into this trope, of which the first photo is Homer himself.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': The characters spoof this trope during one MediaNotes/EmmyAward telecast. The montage is presented by the boys and brings Kenny (who dies OnceAnEpisode) up again and again. Apparently, God has died too. And then Kenny dies ''again'' when a setpiece crushes him.

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[[folder: Real Life ]]

* The US Sunday morning news programs, like ''This Week'', have montages of notable deaths during the past seven days.
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