History Main / SummonBackupDancers

** Later, when Cesare sings about Botticelli's Art/{{Primavera}}, three dancers styled like the painting dance around him, and the painting is projected onto the scenery. This is a more solemn song, as it alludes to what Italy, and the world, stand to lose with the death of Lorenzo de'Medici, who is very ill.

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* ''VideoGame/SpaceChannel5'' has any hostages you rescue join you in dance.

[[caption-width-right:227:TheDeadCanDance + MookMaker^''[[Music/MichaelJackson Thriller]]'' = [[JustForFun/{{Troperithmetic}} You're]] [[ThisIsGonnaSuck boned]].]]

* ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'' has a move with this exact name. It’s used by a hidden [[DanceBattler Dance Battling]] miniboss called the Funky Infoshade, and summons a quartet of regular Infoshades to fight by his side.

* Often invoked in adverts where the lead character will break into a song and dance over the virtues and unbelievably exciting nature of the product being advertised. Back-up dancers will appear from nowhere, or else otherwise sane and rational looking people in the street will abruptly cease doing normal things and join in. Seen in very cheesey adverts on daytime TV in Britain for products ranging from online gambling to - unbelievably - lawyers offering to take up your case for being injured at work. ''Website/AdTurds'' skewers these as especially execrable to right-thinking folk.

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* Happens during [[Creator/MadhuriDixit Janki's]] [[TheItemNumber Item Number]] "Badi Mushkil" in ''Bollywood/{{Lajja}}''.

[[caption-width-right:227:TheDeadCanDance + MookMaker = [[JustForFun/{{Troperithmetic}} You're boned]].]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek 2}}'', the Fairy Godmother enchanted Fiona's furniture to sing along with her about giving Fiona a makeover.

* When Edgeworth is introduced in the first {{Takarazuka}} musical adaptation of the ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' series he immediately summons a group of backup dancer clones for his intro song.

* {{Averted|Trope}} in the 1993 Broadway version of ''Music/{{Tommy}}'', in accordance with composer Pete Townshend's strict instructions to collaborator Des [=McAnuff=] that there be "no fucking dancing."

* Just like in the series, Matthew Patel summons his demon hipster chicks in ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld''. Given that Patel is inspired by {{Bollywood}}, it is quite appropriate.

* In ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'', when Creator/RayCharles plays "Shake a Tail Feather", passersby in the street start dancing, and the crowd quickly grows as people rush in from all sides. They proceed to demonstrate the different 1960s dance styles that are mentioned in the lyrics. You see those people on the elevated train station way in the back? They weren't involved in the shoot. They were waiting for a train, saw what was going on, and joined in.

* While she can't do it during the game proper, the titular witch of ''{{Bayonnetta}}'' pulls this off repeatedly during the post-credit DancePartyEnding - summoning a succession of different backup-dancers as the tune goes on, starting with a full row of generic Shadow Witches.

* Just like in the series, Matthew Patel summons his demon hipster chicks in ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld''.

* ''Theatre/{{Pippin}}'' does this most obviously in "Kind of Woman," which brings a bunch of adoring backup singers come to Catherine's side. They disappear when the song is over, leaving her alone with Pippin as before (but not really, since the show has NoFourthWall).

** Played straight earlier when Tara is singing her love song to Willow "Under Your Spell". While dancing through the park she passes near two other girls resting by the pond who are compelled to rise to their feet and start dancing behind her.

* On ''[[Series/LegionOfExtraordinaryDancers The LXD]]'', Sp3cimen has this power. When fighting other dancers, he can summon around four backup dancers who help him power up his Ra blasts and provide cool visual effects.

* In VideoGame/CryptOfTheNecrodancer, the Necrodancer himself summons minions while you fight him. Considering everything in this game [[MickeyMousing is constantly dancing]], it fits this trope.

* In VideoGame/CryptOfTheNecrodancer, the Necrodancer himself summons minions while you fight him. Considering everything in this game [[MickeyMousing is constantly dancing]], it fits this trope.