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* ''Film/GalaxyQuest'' has Alexander Dane talking to himself about getting three curtain calls as Theatre/RichardIII.

Has nothing to do with a spacecraft with the same name from [[VideoGame/RType R-Type Final]].

See also CreditsMedley, another way of summing up a show with elements throughout. In fact, they're commonly played during Curtain Calls. EveryoneComesBackFantasyPartyEnding is a subtrope.

* The final chapter of ''Manga/FrankenFran'' has Fran fall asleep and dream that every single significant character she encountered throughout the manga attends a party in her honour. She eventually starts worrying that there are going to be too many guests for the room to contain, but Okita reassures her that she doesn't need to worry since [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments her heart is so big that everyone she has ever met have plenty of room within it.]]

* The Shakespearean romantic comedy "As You Like It" incorporates this as part of the story, where all good characters make an appearance for their marriage and subsequent end of the play.

* ''VideoGame/{{Doom}} II: Hell on Earth'' had a version of this after the final text sequence when you defeat the FinalBoss, individually displaying and naming each enemy in the game, normally undergoing their walking animation and occasionally firing, until you press a button, at which point that enemy dies and the sequence moves on to the next enemy. It also includes the player character himself in this sequence, after which it goes back to the starting Zombieman until you quit the game or start over.

* ''VideoGame/{{DynamiteHeaddy}}'', [[JustifiedTrope being set as a]] [[ShowWithinAShow puppet show/stage play]], has a sequence where all the enemies and characters in the game come out with their names displayed near them before the credits.

* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', in the vein of ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER}}'', ends with a cast roll depicting every enemy in the game.

* The final chapter of ''Manga/FrankenFran'' has Fran fall asleep and dream that every single significant character she encountered throughout the manga attends a party in her honour. She eventually starts worrying that there are going to be too many guests for the room to contain, but Okita reassures her that she doesn't need to worry since [[HeartwarmingMoments her heart is so big that everyone she has ever met have plenty of room within it.]]

** There's also one for the troupe's farewell show, ''Film/MontyPythonMostlyLiveOneDownFiveToGo''. It consists of EricIdle leading everyone in the O2 Arena in one final performance of [[spoiler:-- what else? -- "[[Main/SignatureSong Always Look on the Bright Side of Life]]"]].

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* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. In the episode about the Golden Age of Ballooning, at the end of the title sketch there's a curtain call of all of the actors in the sketch, featuring the butler.
** There's also one for the troupe's farewell show, MontyPythonMostlyLiveOneDownFiveToGo. It consists of EricIdle leading everyone in the O2 Arena in one final performance of[[spoiler:--what else?--"[[Main/SignatureSong Always Look on the Bright Side of Life]]"]].

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* The closing bumper for Creator/CartoonNetwork's ''The Looney Tunes Show'' (not to be confused with [[WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow the 2011 series) features a curtain call with Bugs Bunny and other members of the main ensemble (except [[ButtMonkey Daffy]], of course).

* Nearly every single theatre show, as mentioned above, as it's common courtesy for a theatre troupe to do this so as to allow the audience to applause and for the cast to show their appreciation. Except for actors who play characters who are only on stage before the intermission, they are allowed to go home early if they choose.

* At the end of Turner Feature Animation's ''Film/CatsDontDance'', studio mogul L.B. Mammoth commands the photographers, "Get a picture, boys. These kids are going to be big." All the significant animal characters from Farley Wink's Animal Agency are in the shot. Missing, of course, are the villainous Darla Dimple and her lackey, Max.

* While ''most'' theatrical productions have this, occasionally the director will decide to [[AvertedTrope skip it]] for emphasis. The first Broadway production of [[SeventeenSeventySix 1776]] had no curtain call, likely because it would have been too jarring after the solemn reverence of the ending. The 2006 Broadway revival of ''Theatre/TheThreepennyOpera'' also nixed the curtain call.

* ''Film/TilliesPuncturedRomance'' (1914) has a curtain call ending in which Marie Dressler, Film/MabelNormand, and Creator/CharlieChaplin come out in front of a curtain and bow for the camera.

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* ''Film/TilliesPuncturedRomance'' (1914) has a curtain call ending in which Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, and Creator/CharlieChaplin come out in front of a curtain and bow for the camera.

* In the "Christams in Heaven" scene from ''Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife'', most (if not all) of the characters we've seen in the film appear in the Heaven nightclub.

* This happens at the end of the music video for Music/{{Madonna}}'s [[spoiler:"Like a Prayer"]]. Significant in that you don't realize until this point that the tense (and controversial!) video was all just a play, and the curtain call can actually serve as Nightmare Retardant.

This procedure originated as common theatre courtesy from the cast, so that the audience may show their appreciation for the cast, and the cast to the audience for taking their time to watch them. This practice later migrated to other forms of media, with live-action TV series and films (being evolutions of the theatre medium) being the most common. Animated media and video games can also do it, but this is less common.

* ''[[Film/{{Hairspray}} Hairspray: Live]]'' also ends with its cast members taking a bow for the studio audience, while Jennifer Hudson and Music/ArianaGrande sing "Come So Far (Got So Far to Go)" (the end credits song of the musical's 2007 movie adaptation).

* ''[[Film/{{Grease}} Grease: Live!]]'' ends with all of its cast members taking a bow for the studio audience.

** ''[[VideoGame/CognitiveDissonance MOTHER: Cognitive Dissonance]]'', ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' and ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER 3}}'' both have curtain calls played out in cast rolls when the game ends and before the credits. ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER|1}}'' has a different variation, the cast running underneath a screen of Ninten sleeping and looking at the player before running off the screen.

* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry1'', ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest'', and ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry3DixeKongsDoubleTrouble'' all feature a parade of enemies and [=NPCs=] in their respective games, with the latter game presented as a photo album. This tradition has not been revived in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryReturns'' or ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryTropicalFreeze'', however.