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* ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'': Much of "Fracture" is built around the docs training Lamput back into health when he gets a fracture, which is presented as a montage complete with a song that sounds like "[[Music/{{Survivor|Band}} Eye of the Tiger]]" playing in the background.

* Inverted in the [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Daffy Duck]] cartoon, "Holiday for Drumsticks". To "save" Tom, a turkey destined for Thanksgiving dinner, Daffy coaches him through an exercise regimen to help him lose weight -- while packing away all the food (and the pounds) the farmers have set out to fatten him up. The training montage is on a split screen, with Tom working himself rail-thin in one half, and Daffy stuffing his beak in the other, with the opposite effect on his physique. In the end, Daffy is the one threatened with ending up on the dinner table.

* ''ComicBook/KickAss'' has one which consists of Dave working out and telling us he did some Judo.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldofGumball'' episode "The Slap" has one of these, complete with Gumball and Tobias singing about how to stay alive while ''Mulan''-like music plays in the background.

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** ''Film/{{Creed|2015}}'', where Rocky is the trainer instead of the trainee, features Meek Mill's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y34G9D-OJN0 Lord Knows / Fighting Stronger]]".

* In ''Fanfic/ThisBites'', this is shown while Luffy, Usopp and Chopper are looking for the South Bird and Masira is busy upgrading the Merry: Zoro and Leo spar to both see how Leo can improve and give Zoro a good fight, Sanji and Boss spar to break in Boss's new weapon, Vivi and Carue spar with Raphey and Mikey to help get the former used to their new weapons, Donny helps Nami with her staff-fighting, Robin "weight-lifts" [[LoopholeAbuse using her extra arms]], Shoujou helps Soundbite hone his Gastro-Blast technique, and Cross goes running with Lassoo in his bazooka form to get used to the weight.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'' appears to invoke this trope with the background music from [[LethalLavaLand ''Melty Monster Galaxy"]], due to its very ''Mulan''-like tune evoking the preparation for a war (as it is the first galaxy in the final world before the final boss battle against [[BigBad Bowser]].

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'' appears to invoke this trope with the background music from [[LethalLavaLand ''Melty Monster Galaxy."]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldofGumball'' episode "The Slap" has one of these.

* Inverted in the [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Daffy Duck]] cartoon, "Holiday for Drumsticks". To "save" Tom, a turkey destined for Thanksgiving dinner, Daffy coaches him through an exercise regimen to help him lose weight -- while packing away all the food (and the pounds) the farmers have set out to fatten him up. The training montage is on a split screen, with Tom working himself rail-thin in one half, and Daffy stuffing his beak in the other, with the opposite effect on his physique. In the end, Daffy is the one thrown inside the oven. (As Garfield once said about getting in shape, "I AM in shape! Round is a shape!")

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldofGumball" episode "The Slap" has one of these.

** ''Film/{{Creed}}'', where Rocky is the trainer instead of the trainee, features Meek Mill's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y34G9D-OJN0 Lord Knows / Fighting Stronger]]".

* In ''Western Animation/The Amazing world of gumball''
In the episode ''Recap/The Amazing World Of Gumball S 5 E 24 The Diet''It is parodied. Gumball and Darwin deliberately use this trope to speed up Richard's exercising. It ends up going too far.

* There's one in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode "Supersmurf", as Brainy tries to make himself strong through exercise before he tires himself out.

* Used in an episode of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' in a way that practically mimics ''Film/{{Rocky}}'', down to the Pokemon in question running up a flight of stairs and posing triumphantly.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' does this, with Bob getting back in shape by lifting ''train cars'' at the rail yard. Elastigirl finds the newly-buff Bob rather hot.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'': The training montage depicts the entire platoon of trainees progressing from pathetic failures to a capable team, to the strains of the (intentionally) [[SweetPollyOliver ironically-entitled tune, "I'll Make A Man Out Of You".]]
* Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' also features one as the titular character goes from lanky and uncoordinated to buff and skilled while his Satyr trainer sings "One Last Hope."
* [[{{Troperiffic}} Inevitably used]] in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda''. A great many of Po's training exercises became deliberately hilarious due to either his weight or the way in which Shifu used food to motivate him. Surprisingly, despite Master Crane being in the film, there is no HomageShot of the Crane Stance from ''The Karate Kid.'' Even though it's to be expected, Po's training still works, managing to be uplifting and awesome, probably due to Music/HansZimmer's[[note]][[ArentYouForgettingSomeone and John Powell's]][[/note]] excellent music. Of course it gets trumped by the dumpling fight a few minutes later...

* ''Animation/BoBoiBoy'': When [=BoBoiBoy=] finally becomes [=BoBoiBoy=] Water whose power is needed to exploit [[EvilKnockoff BoBoiBot]]'s weakness, he still face the problem of [=BoBoiBoy=] Water being a lazy, unathletic bum who can't use his power to fight properly. Cue a montage of Papa Zola training Water until he becomes skilled and slim, set to.