A 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.

Named after the 80's series ''TheATeam'', which had one such montage in every episode. 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 Mr. T had been captured by bad guys.

The A-Team was also famous for the apparent genius-level 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 a bit of a WallBanger.

Special case of the HardWorkMontage, and similar to the LockAndLoadMontage. Commonly used in TheCaper or TheCon, especially if it's an ImpossibleMission.

Compare AvengersAssemble and EigenPlot.
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Examples:
* A contemporary of ''TheATeam,'' ''{{MacGyver}}'' also featured a similar montage towards the end of each show.
* The ''{{CSI}}'' shows employ this idiom frequently, as the various forensic specialists build a case.
* ''MissionImpossible'' often featured sequences where characters worked on a project without dialogue, but this was never done as montage.
* Film example: in the RobertRodriguez[=/=]QuentinTarantino bandits-on-the-lam-take-hostages-and-then-fight-Mexican-vampires cult classic ''FromDuskTillDawn'' the remaining protagonists (Seth Gecko and Jacob, Scott, and Kate Fuller) perform an ATeamMontage as they jury rig a number of weapons against the vampires besieging them as they are hiding in a storage room of a biker bar.
** The remake of ''DawnOfTheDead'' 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.
* Seen occasionally in ''TopGear'', although the presenters being [[VitriolicBestBuds what they are to each other]], it seldom goes smoothly.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the Vietnam special, where James May actually hums the theme to ''TheATeam'' during the ATeamMontage of the presenters modifying their motorbikes into watercraft.
* This is used in a way in the animated film ''OnceUponAForest'', when the three furlings come together and use teamwork to build a flying machine using BambooTechnology.
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