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| 2 | %% This trope is not YMMV. Please do not link to YMMV pages such as Tear Jerker, even if the scene made you cry. |
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| 5 | Oh no! They killed off your favorite character! It's all right — this is a TV show, he'll be back next week, right? |
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| 7 | Not if the victim was the subject of a Really Dead Montage, he won't. Not if somewhere between the famous last words, the anguished shouts of HowDareYouDieOnMe and the [[PietaPlagiarism uncontrollable sobbing while holding the body]], a sad rock or Celtic ballad and two minutes of [[HappyFlashback happy scenes from past episodes starts playing.]] And especially ''not'' if TheCharacterDiedWithHim! A Really Dead Montage can kill a character far more effectively than the shot to the chest, drop off a cliff, or, in extreme cases, graphic decapitation could ever hope to do. You can {{Retcon}}, HandWave, ResetButton, or AllJustADream a character out of just about any kind of messy end, but the Really Dead Montage means KilledOffForReal, no coming back. ''Especially'' if they play [[Music/{{Kansas}} "Dust In The Wind"]] as it rolls. |
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| 9 | Also available in Permanently PutOnABus flavor, when the character doesn't die but is really, really gone. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | For subtlety, this can take the form of a HappierHomeMovie, usually filmed up close at an angle for extra creepiness. |
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| 13 | The ''only'' thing that can override a Really Dead Montage is the FirstLawOfResurrection — however, considering the authors went to all the trouble of planning a Really Dead Montage in the first place, they probably don't ''want'' to invoke the FirstLawOfResurrection later. If the character returns nonetheless, the Really Dead Montage itself qualifies as a particularly conspicuous PrematureEulogy. Compare MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes. |
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| 15 | Contrast ObituaryMontage, when this is done for several real people who died. See also InMemoriam, a dedication honoring a deceased creator, though one might follow an example of this trope if TheCharacterDiedWithHim (as in the Creator/PaulWalker example at the end of ''Film/Furious7''). |
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| 17 | '''WARNING:''' Being about a character's death, unmarked spoilers will follow. |
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| 20 | !!Examples: |
| 21 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 22 | |
| 23 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 24 | * The ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}'' TV series offers a twist. The flashbacks from the show itself occur during Misuzu's (in)famous last walk towards her mother, to emphasize her "goal"-speech. After she dies there is a montage of [[FondMemoriesThatCouldHaveBeen past events that did not actually happen]], such as Haruko buying the baby chick that Misuzu wanted so badly or walking with her along the beach, things that Haruko wished she would have done while Misuzu was still alive. Cue "Aozora" playing in the background. |
| 25 | * ''Anime/AldnoahZero'' has one for [[spoiler:Princess Asseylum]] after being shot dead. It's actually [[spoiler:Inaho]] remembering all the most memorable times he has seen [[spoiler:Asseylum]]. Subverted as the season finale's ending narration states the [[spoiler:United Earth military NeverFoundTheBody]], and season 2 confirmed [[spoiler:she wasn't dead.]] |
| 26 | * Parodied in an episode of ''Manga/AnimalYokocho'' -- after Iyo accidentally bisects Kenta while attempting the old sawing-a-protesting-friend-in-half magic trick, she sits reflectively looking out the window and watches an entire Really Dead Montage go by before Kenta has a chance to protest and demand to be put back together. |
| 27 | * ''Anime/CarnivalPhantasm'' shows a montage of Lancer and Berserker after the latter throws him as a weapon, which he lampshades while he's flying through the air; "WAIT, WAIT WAIT WAIT, WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?!" |
| 28 | * ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'': In the anime, you could almost hope Nagisa, and later Ushio, just fell asleep or something, were it not for all the flashbacks. |
| 29 | * ''Anime/CodeGeass'': |
| 30 | %%** Shirley gets one during the [[ShooOutTheClowns clown shooing]]. |
| 31 | ** None other than Lelouch receives one as he lies dying in Nunnally's arms. Of course, he was so incredibly devious, [[HesJustHiding fans have hard time believing]] that even a Really Dead Montage can make him stay dead. One of the HesJustHiding responses is that montages had occurred before, as a form of MindRape resulting from physical contact with an immortal character, though the images involved were usually a mix of the memories and thoughts of more than one individual. This and other highly questionable and skewed interpretations lead to the possible EpilepticTree that Lelouch might be immortal now too, even though an interview in [[http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/NEOBK-65848 Mook Animedia]] (28 Jan. 2009, [[https://imgur.com/a/fB459UA p.89-90]]) explicitly denies that fan interpretation and explains that Nunnally saw nothing and her realization had nothing to do with codes or geasses or seeing memories. Nunnally figured out Lelouch's real plan because she can sense when someone is being truthful by touching their hand, as has been shown in past episodes with Suzaku ([[https://imgur.com/a/I7a0f1H R2 ep07]], [[https://imgur.com/a/dsL54iN R2 ep15]]) and Alicia Lohmeyer ([[https://imgur.com/a/L0qw4Ym R2 ep15]]). Oh, and there is also the argument that several {{Disney Death}}s happened to other characters in the last few episodes but, in all fairness, none of those went through montages, and extrapolation is always very dangerous. |
| 32 | * ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' plays the trope gorgeously straight [[spoiler:-- [[SubvertedTrope well]], ''[[DisneyDeath almost]]'' --]] with [[spoiler:Spike Spiegel]] in Episode 5 to the transcending tune of "Green Bird" by Yoko Kanno, complete with an intricate and potent [[TroubledBackstoryFlashback flashback]] sequence. The VillainOfTheWeek wounds the character harshly enough to warrant his death, and, before the Villain delivers his final blow, the character leaves him with a DyingMomentOfAwesome. [[spoiler:Only, it isn't... [[AllJustADream or is it]]?]] |
| 33 | * [[spoiler:After L dies in]] ''Manga/DeathNote'', the series mourns by spending half an episode reviewing ''everything'' that's happened so far. (This is right before a TimeSkip, so it was also a very convenient time for a recap.) There's another lingering, montage-y death in the finale. |
| 34 | * ''Franchise/DragonBall'': |
| 35 | ** Shown during the credits of ''Anime/DragonBallGT'''s DistantFinale. |
| 36 | ** Subverted earlier in ''Anime/DragonBallZ''. After Chiaotzu's HeroicSacrifice, flashbacks rushed through a stunned Tien's mind, since at ''that'' point in the series, once someone was already brought back to life once, that was it. [[DeathIsCheap Then came Porunga.]] |
| 37 | ** This happens in the original ''Manga/DragonBall'' after Goku finds Krillin after he was murdered by Tambourine, one of King Piccolo's sons. |
| 38 | * ''Manga/FairyTail'': Jellal gets one coupled with NeverFoundTheBody, [[BackFromTheDead and he still came back]]. [[spoiler:Gajeel]] gets one late into the final arc, but he also came back. |
| 39 | * [[spoiler:Archer]] in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''. There's another one for [[spoiler:Saber]] in the finale. [[spoiler:They even changed the ending sequences for those two episodes to the montages, complete with ending themes different from the usual.]] |
| 40 | * The ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' episode where Rei dies was an entire Really Dead Montage, being a ClipShow. |
| 41 | * ''Franchise/FullmetalAlchemist'': |
| 42 | ** In ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'', [[spoiler:little Nina Tucker]] gets one of these during the end credits after her gruesome death, despite only having been in two episodes. |
| 43 | ** Even more epitomizing this trope, however, is the death of [[spoiler:Maes Hughes]], a character the viewers were just beginning to really love. It seemed so impossible that he could really be dead that the last five minutes of the episode were spent at his funeral, at his burial, with his mourning friends and family, and the kicker: seeing his ghost waving goodbye at a train station. Just to make it REALLY clear. You can't forget [[spoiler:his crying daughter pleading that "He said he has a lot of work to do and if they bury him he can't do it when [[PleaseWakeUp he wakes up!"]]]] |
| 44 | ** [[spoiler:Hohenheim]] gets one in the penultimate episode of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist: Brotherhood''. |
| 45 | * ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'': |
| 46 | ** It not only has one of these for [[spoiler:Nuriko]], it also precedes the death with a montage of him imagining a happy alternative future with Miaka. Then later, there's another for [[spoiler:Hotohori. It ''still'' doesn't stick, though.]] |
| 47 | ** Amusingly, [[spoiler:Mitsukake, who died around the same time as Hotohori, did not have such a montage. Of course, the heroine didn't particularly seem upset by his death. Neither did most of the audience.]] |
| 48 | * The ninja robot Volfogg from ''King of Braves Anime/GaoGaiGar'' gets one after his fight with Penchinon, then [[spoiler:comes back two episodes later. The two characters who do actually die get nothing of the sort.]] |
| 49 | * The last episode of ''Anime/JapanSinks'' has one for the entire country of Japan. Considering that the entire series concerns it sinking into the sea, it was inevitable. |
| 50 | * ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': Jonathan slumps over after being strangled and stabbed multiple times, with Dio taking notice. If that wasn't good enough, the ship the two were on explodes and sinks into the ocean. And if ''that'' wasn't good enough, [[spoiler:Dio resurfaces a century later with his head attached to Jonathan's body]]. |
| 51 | ** In ''Manga/StardustCrusaders'', Iggy manages to defeat Pet Shop, but is badly wounded, including having lost one of his front paws, not to mention that he's in the middle of a river. As he sinks he starts having visions of his life as "King of stray dogs", his capture by Avdol and various scenes of his travel across Egypt with the heroes. [[spoiler:Subverted. The dog-loving boy Iggy saved from Pet Shop saw him floating in the river and helped him out]]. |
| 52 | * ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'':, |
| 53 | ** The 2006 remake, offers a subversion: [[spoiler:Ayu gets the montage, but as we learn in the next episode, when she invokes the power of miracles, both she ''and'' everybody else that seemed headed for certain death is NotQuiteDead. Yes, even Makoto.]] |
| 54 | ** In the original VisualNovel she gets the same after/as part of a damned depressing reveal [[spoiler:only for Akiko to casually mention a recent news article one morning not much later saying that a certain girl woke up from her seven year coma.]] |
| 55 | * ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'', |
| 56 | ** Played in with the episode "Goodbye, Sister." Basically, the entire episode consisted of HotBlooded, definitely-set-to-die-hot-bloodedly big-brother type Ozma Lee surviving multiple cliched death lead-ups and situations, including fond memories of his adopted younger sister, reconciling with his ex-girlfriend, various musical interludes by the band [[Anime/Macross7 Fire Bomber]], sneaking off to the suspicious enemy base by himself, leading the battle against the AlienInvasion with risky maneuvers and hot-blooded speeches, attending his younger sister's first concert while heavily injured, and even a ShoutOut to a famous character death in ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'' (pineapple cake, anyone?)...and then ending up in the hospital, recuperating but safe. |
| 57 | ** It's later played straight with a small twist in Episode 20: [[spoiler:Mikhail, the character who commented on how tragic it would've been for Ozma Lee to have died, gets one [[TakingTheBullet while protecting]] UnluckyChildhoodFriend Klan Klein while she lies in a tube -- complete with happy smiling face, and an acoustic version of 'Diamond Crevasse', a song about farewells and losing loved ones.]] |
| 58 | ** Basically, these two characters were created with the intention of using the viewer's knowledge of tropes against them; Ozma is the hotshot big brother-type who [[SacrificialLion tends to die about halfway through]] this type of story (he very intentionally conjures up the memory of a character who did die in the original ''SDF Macross'') whereas [[spoiler:Mikhail]] is the type of character whose function isn't to die, but [[CharacterDevelopment to go from a stuck-up jerk to a nice guy]] thanks to the influence of his TrueCompanions and [[LoveRedeems the love of a good woman]]. So after leading us by the hand and playing these tropes perfectly straight, the writers [[spoiler:flip them at the last moment, with the first surviving and the latter dying tragically just as he was about to shake off his jerkdom]]. |
| 59 | * Played straight in the ''Manga/MajinTanteiNougamiNeuro'' manga, where Sicks is about to kill [[BadassNormal Detective Sasazuka]], and loudly commands his daughter XI to read Sasazuka's mind so she can witness what someone obsessed with {{revenge}} will see the moment before they die. He begins to think about his friends and family, his family's murder and the [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge events that lead up to his death]], but at the last second chooses to indulge in some happy memories of his allies right before [[YourHeadAsplode his head is blown off]]. |
| 60 | * [[spoiler:Lockon Stratos]] got one before his death in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'', which undermined the impact of the death a bit. |
| 61 | * ''Anime/MonsterRancher'' gives Allan's Worm and Baku one, as well as Tiger--though the latter was FakingTheDead. |
| 62 | * ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' gives one to [[spoiler:Mirio's [[IntangibleMan Quirk]] after he is shot with a [[DePower Quirk destroying bullet]]. It shows him [[DifficultButAwesome working hard to master his Quirk]] from when he was a little kid to the present. All the while [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKuiP2hQNdI Light of Hope]] is playing.]] |
| 63 | * Episode 17 of ''Anime/MyOtome'' has one for TheMole. And in the episode immediately afterward, one for [[spoiler:royal maid Aoi]], right before [[spoiler:she sacrifices herself before an angry mob]]. [[spoiler:The latter of which is one of the rare cases where she actually turns out to have survived, and it wasn't just the creator having second thoughts.]] |
| 64 | * ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': |
| 65 | ** ''Naruto'' has two of these in quick succession with [[spoiler:Neji and Chouji]] when they were nearing the end of Part 1. Somehow they got better. The same goes for [[spoiler:Kakashi]]. [[spoiler:Neji ''did'' ultimately die in the manga, but MUCH later]]. |
| 66 | ** And sorta with Sasuke when he "died" in the Land of Waves. |
| 67 | %%** Played straight with [[spoiler:Jiraiya]]. |
| 68 | * ''Manga/OnePiece'': |
| 69 | ** Strangely, Usopp gets one of these montages during the Water 7 arc after [[spoiler:getting badly beaten up by the Franky Family]], despite not only being alive, but also having been confirmed as such by one of the main characters. |
| 70 | ** [[spoiler:The Going Merry]] got a montage set to one of the ending themes as the [[spoiler:crew watched it burn]]. |
| 71 | ** Chapter 574: [[spoiler:[[HeroicSacrifice Ace shields Luffy]] from Akainu's magma attack]] and is rewarded with one of these as [[spoiler:he dies in his little brother's arms.]] |
| 72 | ** Chapter 1102 gives one to [[spoiler:Kuma, right before Dr. Vegapunk ([[DeathWail VERY grudgingly]]) completes the Pacifista modifications that would turn him into a mindless cyborg. It's depicted as Kuma running through the stages of his life as his friends and loved ones call out to him]]. |
| 73 | * Himari Takakura gets one in episode 12 ''Anime/{{Penguindrum}}''. [[spoiler:And then it's subverted: in the following episode, she's BackFromTheDead.]] |
| 74 | * ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': |
| 75 | ** Oddly enough, in the ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' episode titled "Pikachu's Goodbye?" Ash tries to leave his Pikachu behind with a community of wild Pikachu, thinking it's what's best for him. The show goes into a montage complete with sad music. [[StatusQuoIsGod Obviously]], despite what looks just like a Really Gone Montage, Pikachu refuses to be left behind and they are back together immediately after the montage ends. |
| 76 | ** This also happens in later seasons, where the female sidekick for the region Ash is visiting is PutOnABus. |
| 77 | ** And this is also subverted by Ash's Bulbasaur. Though that Pokémon does not appear in future episodes, he is given a notably depressing montage featuring when Ash captures him. However, the subversion comes when it was revealed that the falling rock didn't crush him as thought, but he burrowed underground. |
| 78 | ** ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesRubyAndSapphire'': Ash catches his Treecko features a Really Dead Montage...for a ''tree''. This is doubly weird because Ash sees it. |
| 79 | ** Jessie's Dustox and Ash's Butterfree both had similar "Release" montages showing various things they had done with their respective trainers. |
| 80 | * In the anime version of ''Manga/ThePromisedNeverland'', [[spoiler:Sister Krone]] is the subject of a flashback to scenes of their time at the orphanage, right before [[spoiler:Isabella's trap is sprung, and Krone is murdered by one of the monsters]]. |
| 81 | * Invoked in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', in the episode following Tomoe Mami's beheading. Some old-fashioned TV monitors in a witch labyrinth replay the dead character's last few scenes to torment Madoka. [[spoiler:Subverted; Mami comes back to life in the last episode.]] |
| 82 | * After [[spoiler:Suzuri is killed]] in ''Manga/RideBack'', the show's next OnTheNext segment is turned into a Really Dead Montage instead of containing its usual wacky shenanigans. This only helps to double the MoodWhiplash caused by the calm ending tune which is sandwiched between the two events. |
| 83 | * [[spoiler:Makoto]] of ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'' gets one interspersed with the scenes of [[spoiler:him being stabbed to death by Sekai.]] |
| 84 | %%or so she says...]] ---What was this supposed to be attached to? %% |
| 85 | * ''Anime/SonicX'': |
| 86 | ** MechaMooks Decoe and Bocoe have one in Episode 48. Subverted of course in that the death in question was a [[DisneyDeath Robot Disney Death]]. [[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids]], of course, [[{{Bowdlerise}} cut out the montage along with everything else mourning the two]]. |
| 87 | ** [[spoiler:Emerl]] got one at the end of episode 46 just before he's knocked into the sea by an anguished Cream and Cheese. In his last moments, he regains memories of his friendship with them and he cries as he sinks into the depths and explodes. |
| 88 | %%** [[spoiler:Cosmo]] got one too at the end of episode 77. |
| 89 | * Subverted in ''Anime/StellviaOfTheUniverse'', where the HumongousMecha piloted by Shima Katase (incidentally, the main heroine) gets hit with an Earth-shattering (literally, as if the phenomenon reaches the Earth [[ApocalypseHow it will cease to exist]]) wave and seemingly ceases to exist in the penultimate episode -- then we are treated to a standard next episode trailer narrated by the sad best friend of the said heroine -- and she in nowhere to be seen. The next, final episode starts with a Really Dead Montage lasting several minutes -- and yet, right after the opening modified to also be a Really Dead Montage she turns out to be alive (and her Mech unharmed) within the next fifteen seconds. |
| 90 | * ''Anime/TenchiInTokyo'' has one in the end credits for [[spoiler:Sakuya Kumashiro]], including a song sung by Creator/MayumiIizuka, [[spoiler:Sakuya's VA]]. |
| 91 | * Parodied in ''Manga/ThoseWhoHuntElves'', where the ''tank'' gets one when it runs out of gas. It largely consists of shooting things. |
| 92 | * The final episodes of ''Anime/TokyoMagnitude8'' does this with [[spoiler:Yuuki]]. It shows off a montage of [[spoiler:his short life from birth, mainly involving him and his sister Mirai]]. |
| 93 | * Subversion: Starscream in ''Anime/TransformersArmada'' gets one of these after he is vaporized by Unicron's lightning, but he comes BackFromTheDead in ''Anime/TransformersEnergon''. |
| 94 | * In ''Literature/WashioSumiIsAHero'', [[spoiler:Gin]] gets an outro sequence dedicated to her after she dies in battle. |
| 95 | * ''Anime/WelcomeToTheNHK'' has the Main/PutOnABus version of this when Yamazaki leaves. He's still a pretty major character for the remaining episodes though, he's just not living next to Satou anymore. |
| 96 | * [[spoiler:Bruno[=/=]Antinomy]] gets one of these in ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', after Yusei insists that those memories together make them true companions. Fittingly, he's one of the very few characters in the show to actually stay dead. |
| 97 | * Spoofed in ''Manga/{{Beastars}}'' when Legoshi starts engaging in a flashback montage after [[spoiler:eating Louis's leg]]... while Louis is casually sitting against a tree a couple of meters away. |
| 98 | -->'''Louis:''' Are you trying to reduce me to a flashback character? I'm ''alive'', you dumb dog. |
| 99 | [[/folder]] |
| 100 | |
| 101 | [[folder:Asian Animation]] |
| 102 | * In ''Animation/HappyHeroes'', Kalo gets one of these, as he looks at the images and scenes flashing in his soul cube before he dies. |
| 103 | [[/folder]] |
| 104 | |
| 105 | [[folder:Comedy]] |
| 106 | * Creator/GilbertGottfried once did a parody of this while host of Creator/USANetwork's movie-program ''Up All Night''. Early on in one of the movies, the supernatural villain offs a minor comedy-relief character named "Curly" or somesuch. So, during the next commercial break, Gottfried showed a misty music-saturated collection of clips featuring Curly, ending with the standard "smiling head-shot", before fading tastefully to black. It was hilarious. |
| 107 | [[/folder]] |
| 108 | |
| 109 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 110 | * ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': In ''ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily'', when Batman finds out that Jason Todd, the second Robin, has found his mother, who it turns out is working for The Joker, he rushes to his aid only to arrive in time to see the warehouse he was being held hostage in explode. He then has flashbacks of his first meeting with Jason and all the fun times they had, shortly before he finds Jason's dead body in a pile of debris. |
| 111 | * ''ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark'': [[spoiler:The Title Character]]'s death features one that takes up an entire page. |
| 112 | * ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman'' concluded with one of these in the form of an in-universe issue of a ''Newsweek'' equivalent. |
| 113 | * ''ComicBook/XMen'': |
| 114 | ** The death of Phoenix in the original [[ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga Dark Phoenix Saga]], which at the time was supposed to be a real death was immediately followed by an issue giving a montage of the X-Men's entire history. (However, the montage issue was going to have been released even with the original ending where she stays alive.) |
| 115 | ** Subverted when [[spoiler:Cyclops]] suffocates in orbit above the Breakworld. He's really dead, so we get a montage of some of his early memories of the Academy -- [[ComicBookDeath but because he's resurrected at the beginning of the next issue]], it's a very short montage. |
| 116 | *** [[spoiler:Kitty Pryde]], who gets PutOnABusToHell at the end of the arc, also has a quick flashback montage...at the very ''beginning'' of the arc. |
| 117 | [[/folder]] |
| 118 | |
| 119 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 120 | * Subverted in ''Fanfic/PrettyCureHeavyMetal'', when [[spoiler:Cures Burton, Stradlin, Roadie, and Hendrix]] all die in the final fight at the end of the penultimate episode. The next episode starts with a montage of all four of them from previous episodes. Of course, then they come back to life at the end of the episode. ''All of them.'' |
| 121 | * In the ''Fanfic/TamersForeverSeries'': [[spoiler:one of these plays when Rika is grieving over Takato's death.]] |
| 122 | [[/folder]] |
| 123 | |
| 124 | [[folder:Film — Animated]] |
| 125 | * Done in ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'' with the King. Set to Music/PaulMcCartney's "Film/LiveAndLetDie", the rest of the characters put King Harold's frog body into a shoe box and cast it into the pond. |
| 126 | [[/folder]] |
| 127 | |
| 128 | [[folder:Film — Live-Action]] |
| 129 | * When Harry Stamper is about to push the button to detonate the nuke in ''Film/Armageddon1998'', we are shown a short montage of his memories of his daughter. |
| 130 | * At the end of ''Film/CoolHandLuke'', Dragline is reminiscing to the other inmates after [[spoiler:Luke is killed by the sheriff]] and we get a montage of the previous scenes in the movie where he's smirking and laughing. |
| 131 | * An odd case in ''Film/Furious7'', where Creator/PaulWalker died in a car accident during production. So at the end of the film -- despite Brian having survived -- we are treated to a montage of Brian's moments in the series, as his car drives off into the sunset. |
| 132 | * In James Cagney's ''Film/{{Man of a Thousand Faces|1957}}'', a heavily fictionalized biopic of Lon Chaney's life, the camera pans over the walls of his house showing posters for all his movie roles, for an overall effect like a death montage, before focusing out the window. |
| 133 | * Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse: |
| 134 | ** ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'', the first MCU film released after Creator/StanLee's passing, turns ''the Marvel studio logo itself'' into this for Lee's many {{Creator Cameo}}s. |
| 135 | ** ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' opens up with one of these dedicated to the heroes who died in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' and ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', namely [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]], [[ComicBook/BlackWidow Natasha Romanoff]], ComicBook/TheVision, and [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]], although the latter didn't technically die]]. |
| 136 | ** ''Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever'' also turns the Marvel studio logo into this for Creator/ChadwickBoseman's appearances as T'Challa in the MCU. Boseman and T'Challa also get a straightforward montage at the end of the movie when Shuri mourns her brother. |
| 137 | * ''Film/ThePaintedVeil'' (2006) has one of these near the end. |
| 138 | * The first movie version of ''Film/PetSematary1989'' gives us a variation. After [[spoiler:Gage]] dies, Creed gives a BigNo as photos of [[spoiler:Gage as a baby]] are shown. |
| 139 | * ''Film/{{Philadelphia}}'' has a particularly heartrending example in the final few minutes. The entire movie focuses on the main character's declining health and [[BuryYourGays eventual death from AIDS]], and after the funeral, a montage of home movies of him as a kid -- accompanied by one of the sweetest songs Music/NeilYoung ever wrote -- is shown right before the credits roll. |
| 140 | * ''Film/RockyIV'' features a montage-to-song when Apollo dies after his fight with Drago. |
| 141 | * In Creator/BazLuhrmann's ''Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet'', after the main characters die there is a montage of their happiest moments together, complete with tragic background music. However [[ItWasHisSled pretty much everyone was aware this was how things would turn out...]] |
| 142 | * ''Film/{{Toothless}}'': More like a [[DraggedOffToHell Really Damned Montage]], but as Katherine descends in the {{Hellevator}}, she gets one of these. [[spoiler:Subverted when she gets to live after all.]] |
| 143 | * Done in the closing credits of ''Film/Tremors7ShriekerIsland'' after [[spoiler:Burt Gummer]] dies sacrificing his life to save Jimmy from the Graboid Queen, a montage of his various badass moments from the previous movies are shown. |
| 144 | [[/folder]] |
| 145 | |
| 146 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 147 | %%* Snape sort of gets this treatment, too. |
| 148 | * ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': After [[spoiler:Chewbacca]]'s HeroicSacrifice in ''[[Literature/NewJediOrder Vector Prime]]'', Han's HeroicBSOD begins with the literary equivalent of a Really Dead Montage, as he goes through a collection of keepsakes. |
| 149 | %%** The comic miniseries of the same name acts as one as well. |
| 150 | * Subverted in universe in ''Literature/{{Mockingjay}}'', when the building in which Katniss' group took shelter when the black wave went off, gets demolished, Coin thinks that they're all dead and broadcasts a proshot mapping Katniss' journey to becoming a rebel leader. The stinger is, that Katniss and her squad escaped underground and are very much alive. |
| 151 | [[/folder]] |
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| 153 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 154 | * [[spoiler:Teri Bauer]]'s death at the end of season 1 of ''Series/TwentyFour'' is accompanied by flashbacks to their happy family life at the beginning of the season. This was especially notable because due to the show's real-time nature (which was played up more in season 1 than any season since), flashbacks and/or montages are otherwise nonexistent. They rectified this by showing the montage on one half of the screen while the other half continued to show Jack in real-time. It's still the only time the show has escaped Limited Third-Person perspective, though. |
| 155 | * Used in part two of ''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'''s third season opener, when [[spoiler:Lily]] dies. |
| 156 | * The ''Series/Adam12'' episode "Elegy for a Pig" opens with one of Malloy's friends on the force getting killed in the line of duty, and most of the rest of the episode is Malloy remembering him in training, on the job, and when Officer Porter earned the Medal of Honor. The final scene is at the funeral. |
| 157 | * ''Series/{{Angel}}'' |
| 158 | ** The episode "[[Recap/AngelS05E16Shells Shells]]" ends with one of these for Fred. |
| 159 | ** When Doyle dies in "[[Recap/AngelS01E09Hero Hero]]", you get the home movie version, with Angel and Cordelia watching a commercial Doyle had filmed for Angel Investigations before dying. In something of an IronicEcho, he's talking about what a hero Angel is but, after his own HeroicSacrifice, the uncertainty in reading his scripted lines for the commercial makes his recorded dialogue extra poignant as they play it back posthumously: |
| 160 | -->'''Doyle:''' When the chips are down and you're at the end of your rope, you need someone that you can count on. And that's what you'll find here, someone who'll go all the way, who'll protect you no matter what. So don't lose hope, come on over to our offices and you'll see that there are still heroes in this world. Is that it? Am I done? |
| 161 | * In Season Four of ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', when the "who is in the grave" mystery was resolved as [[spoiler:Laurel Lance]], many fans didn't believe she was really dead, because several unusual or ambiguous choices in the final scenes suggested HesJustHiding or FakingTheDead.(And also because the number of dead or "dead" characters coming back had led to DeathIsCheap) The next episode, however, not only featured a funeral, but also flashbacks posthumously featuring the character, as well as heartfelt moments of mourning from the other characters, including ones who had been suspected of colluding on FakingTheDead. This effectively settled the matter... until the ''Series/TheFlash2014'' finale raised the possibility of a CosmicRetcon, and the actor came back as the Earth-2 version of the character. |
| 162 | * There's an episode of ''Series/{{Beastmaster}}'' consisting mostly of {{Flashback}}s of a certain character after she falls into the water during a battle scene at the start of the ep. |
| 163 | * On ''Series/CallMeKat'', when Creator/LeslieJordan's character was [[CharacterOutlivesActor written out due to the actor's death]], the episode ended with a montage of his previous scenes set to a song he recorded with Music/DollyParton, with the very fitting title of "Where the Soul Never Dies". |
| 164 | * ''Series/{{CSI}}'': Even though he didn't die per se, the series used this trope on Nick Stokes when he left the team to start another job. Upon his departure, Nick looks at the schedule board one more time, while reminiscing all of the highlights of his career (good and bad) with Onerepublic's "I lived" playing in the background. The episode ends on that note, with Nick having left for good from the next episode onwards. |
| 165 | * Daytime soap operas are known to do this even when the characters aren't dead. This happened during John Black's funeral on ''Series/DaysOfOurLives'' and he had returned by the following year. |
| 166 | * [[spoiler:Mike Delfino]] gets this in the final season of ''Series/DesperateHousewives'' just before [[spoiler:he is shot by a mobster]]. |
| 167 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 168 | ** Used in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E9ColdBlood "Cold Blood"]] after [[spoiler:Rory dies and Amy is trying to remember him, in order to stop him being fully erased from history by the crack in time. And yet he came back anyway.]] |
| 169 | ** ''Series/DoctorWhoConfidential'' had one after [[spoiler:Amy's death]] in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens "The Pandorica Opens"]]. [[spoiler:She got better, too.]] |
| 170 | * In a sad variant, the end of the final episode of sitcom ''Series/FatherTed'' features one of these montages for Ted Crilly -- not because the character had died, but because the actor, Dermot Morgan, had died the day after filming was completed. |
| 171 | * ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Subverted at first, then played straight with Stannis: Stannis's actual death is given a GoryDiscretionShot rather than being shown, and for this reason, a number of viewers wondered if Brienne might have spared Stannis for some ineffable reason. Come Season 6, characters from Roose Bolton to Brienne of Tarth mention his death to drive the point home (more for the viewers than the characters) that he really is DeaderThanDead. |
| 172 | * In ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', arch-villain Sylar gets one in the graphic novel immediately following the Volume 4 season finale, where Mohinder recounts the history of Sylar's evil and the Heroes' 4-Volume long struggle against him. [[spoiler:Of course, [[JokerImmunity this being Sylar]], HesJustHiding. Inside Nathan. And Matt.]] |
| 173 | * ''Series/{{Highlander}}''. When Tessa dies, we're treated to enough clips to span the ''entirety'' of "Dust in the Wind". When Richie eventually dies as well, the exercise is repeated. Other major (good) Immortals, most notably Darius, tend to get montages to the tune of ''Who Wants To Live Forever''. |
| 174 | * Frustratingly enough, the Australian soap opera ''Series/HomeAndAway'' ended a season with a long-running female character being stabbed and lying in a pool of her own blood, followed by one of these montages, set to the song "Light Surrounding You", stretching right back to the series beginning (the actress had been with the show for twenty years). When the first episode of the next season aired, it turned out that the character wasn't even dead! |
| 175 | * After Creator/AlexTrebek passed away in November 2020, the last episode of ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' that he taped concluded with a montage of memorable moments in his tenure, accompanied by Creator/HughJackman's rendition of "Once Before I Go" from ''The Boy From Oz'', ending in a supercut of Alex telling the audience "[[SigningOffCatchphrase So long, everybody]]." |
| 176 | * Parodied on the second season of ''Series/TheJoeSchmoShow'' in which following the supposed deaths of Bryce's pet frog Everett and the falcon Montecore, used to deliver the shows "Falcon Twists" (and murdered by Bryce for killing the frog), both were given montages of this type. Of course, the twist here is that they ''weren't'' really dead, just said to be for the purposes of the show's storyline, and both were brought out during the reveal in the show's finale to show the schmoes that they were fine. |
| 177 | * Used in the miniseries ''Series/TheKennedys'', when UsefulNotes/RobertFKennedy is assassinated. The death of [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy his brother the president]] earlier in the same episode is treated less sentimentally. |
| 178 | * One appears for [[spoiler:Corey]] in the last episode of ''Series/LAInk'', shown between him deciding to quit the shop and his final confrontation with Kat. In this case, it's more like a "Really ''Gone'' Montage" since no one actually dies, but the effect is the same. Between the nostalgic music and the clips of hugging, "birthday" cake, and the first time he saw Kat's shop, it's pretty clear that he won't be coming back. |
| 179 | * [[spoiler:Mr. Eko]]'s death on ''Series/{{Lost}}'' was the only one in the series to get one. Notably, although several other main characters really die throughout the series, this character is the only one never shown again in flashbacks/time travel events/flashforward to the afterlife. |
| 180 | * There is a brief one of these in ''Series/MagnumPI'' when [[spoiler:Mac dies and Magnum flashes back on all the times he bribed him with rich desserts.]] |
| 181 | * The season four finale of ''Series/TheMagicians'' follows the death of [[spoiler:initial series protagonist Quentin Coldwater]] in this way. In a unique take on what would otherwise be a textbook example (a solemn campfire scene in which all assembled sing a poignant rendition of 'Take on Me' and burn [[spoiler:Quentin]]'s personal effects,) the audience watches through the eyes of [[spoiler:Quentin. He and Penny view it from the Underworld]], unseen by the mourning characters. |
| 182 | * The ''Series/{{MASH}}'' episode "Abyssinia, Henry", in which Henry Blake is killed when the plane taking him home is shot down, ends with a Really Dead Montage of clips of Henry from the preceding seasons, prefaced with the PA voice announcing "M*A*S*H 4077 bids a fond farewell to Lt. Col. Henry Blake." |
| 183 | * The final episode of the Filipino show ''May Bukas Pa'' ("There Is Still A Tomorrow") spent a half hour showing all the KidHero's friends mourning and singing sad songs for him. [[spoiler:Then he comes back from the dead for no reason than the Virgin Mary (played by the show's producer!) liked him too much.]] |
| 184 | * Parodied in ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''. In one episode, TV's Frank has been fired by Dr. Forrester and will soon be kicked out of Deep 13. Mike and the 'bots put together a montage to wish him farewell. Right afterwards, [[WithAFootOnTheBus Frank gets himself rehired]]. |
| 185 | * An episode of ''Series/OneFootInTheGrave'' features Margaret very ill in hospital. As Victor watches, she {{flatline}}s, prompting a Really Dead Montage. Except, she's ''not'' really dead; the montage is interrupted by a nurse [[PercussiveMaintenance banging on the ECG]] and explaining "It's always doing that." |
| 186 | %%* [[spoiler:Maid Marian]] in ''Series/RobinHood''. |
| 187 | * ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' did a brilliant parody of TV news as it kept "interrupting" the show covering the assassination of ''Our Gang'' star Buckwheat (as played by Creator/EddieMurphy), running footage of his being shot in slow motion over and over. Then, mere seconds after he died, they ran one of these montages (to the ''Our Gang'' theme tune), first showing photos of the actual kid, then Murphy's leering grin...and finally the slo-mo shooting again. |
| 188 | * ''Series/SesameStreet''. |
| 189 | ** Initially averted: When Will Lee died, having played Mr. Hooper for the show's first 13 years, the show chose to address the issue head-on. Big Bird learns about [[TheCharacterDiedWithHim Mr. Hooper's passing]] and the other characters help him understand what this means. The producers chose not to do a montage or other flashbacks in this particular episode because they felt it might confuse the children to say he's gone forever, then show him on screen a few minutes later. |
| 190 | ** Later in the 1980s, "Really Dead Montages" were used when Big Bird spoke of Mr. Hooper -- usually to a newcomer who asked about the picture that hangs next to his nest or about Hooper's Store. Big Bird would explain that his old friend was deceased. |
| 191 | * The end of ''Series/TheStand1994'' mini-series showed brief clips of the main "good" characters who died during the course of the story. |
| 192 | * Played with in the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Latent Image", when the Doctor discovers that all memories about [[RedShirt Ensign Ahni Jetal]] were deleted from his files due to her death in a medical incident that caused a literal HeroicBSOD in him. Seven of Nine helps him recover the memories, which are shown out of order to him and the audience. |
| 193 | %%* Used towards the end of the third season of German ''Series/TheOfficeUK'' copy ''Series/{{Stromberg}}''. |
| 194 | * Done on ''Series/SuddenlySusan'' when the character Todd dies. Like the ''Father Ted'' example above, [[RealLifeWritesThePlot it was especially tragic because]] [[TheCharacterDiedWithHim the actor who played Todd had died in real life]]. Actor David Strickland committed suicide, requiring the show to find a tasteful way to write Todd out of the show. (The relatively [[VerySpecialEpisode joke-light]] episode revolved around the other characters trying to track down Todd when he didn't show up for work on time. At the end of the episode they learn he'd been in an accident on the way to work. Technically Todd's fate was left ambiguous, but who are we kidding?) |
| 195 | * ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' |
| 196 | ** An interesting version during "Death's Door" in which [[spoiler:Bobby]] dies. The entire episode is him going through his memories in an attempt to escape the Reaper. |
| 197 | ** [[spoiler:Charlie]] also gets one at the beginning of "The Prisoner", as Sam and Dean prepare a hunter's funeral. |
| 198 | * Parodied in series 4 of ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'', where they decide they need to [[TonightSomeoneDies kill someone off]] to inject some pathos into the show. They choose the bit player who happens to be reading the [[FatalFamilyPhoto Facebook page of his beloved girlfriend]] -- and, post-montage, reveal that they fed him into a wood chipper. |
| 199 | %%* Ianto's death in ''Series/{{Torchwood}}''. |
| 200 | * ''Series/UltramanGeed'': Right before the original Ultraman Belial's final death in the [[Franchise/UltraSeries franchise]] we're shown a montage of Belial's past such as his attempt [[Film/MegaMonsterBattleUltraGalaxyLegends at taking the Plasma Spark, exile from the Land of Light, merge with Rayblood]], preparation for the Crisis Impact and [[Series/UltraFightOrb killing of Reibatos]]. |
| 201 | * Any time someone dies on ''Series/{{The Walking Dead|2010}}'' (and it happens [[AnyoneCanDie a lot]]), its follow-up, ''The Talking Dead'', will typically have such a montage, to close out the episode, and include everyone who died in the episode--those who died and then are ''re''killed as zombies are, of course, included twice. |
| 202 | * When Kensington dies in the ''Series/WarOfTheWorlds1988'' episode "Amongst the Philistines", we are treated to a series of stills of him, mostly from that very episode, as he was a minor character who had a grand total of maybe thirty seconds of screen time in the rest of the series. |
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| 205 | [[folder:Professional Wrestling]] |
| 206 | * Wrestling/{{WWE}} did a pair of these for Wrestling/EddieGuerrero after his real-life death; one to Music/JohnnyCash's version of Music/NineInchNails' "Hurt", and the other to "Here Without You" by Music/ThreeDoorsDown. |
| 207 | * WWE also devoted an entire three hour Raw program to Wrestling/ChrisBenoit after his then-recent death -- perhaps to make it clear that he was ''really'' really dead, unlike the {{Kayfabe}} death of Vince [=McMahon=] several weeks earlier. They would quickly end up regretting this, as the full facts about the tragedy had not yet come in. (It did not air on international broadcasts.) |
| 208 | * Long before either of them though back when it was the WWF, the WWE devoted an entire episode of RAW to Wrestling/OwenHart, who died in a horrific accident on the job. For about the length of the show every wrestler broke {{Kayfabe}} and fondly remembered the late Owen and culminated when the WWE's biggest name at the time, Wrestling/SteveAustin, stepped into the ring, said nothing and toasted a beer to the thirty foot picture of Owen that had been raised earlier. |
| 209 | * They did it again for [[Wrestling/RandySavage 'Macho Man' Randy Savage]]. |
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| 211 | |
| 212 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 213 | * In the game ''TabletopGame/FengShui'', your character doesn't just drop dead if they fail a death check and are not stabilized in time: "After death, there is a pause in the action for a slow-motion flashback montage featuring the highlights of the character's career as a sad pop ballad unfolds on the soundtrack. (The player should describe this.)" |
| 214 | * In ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'''s War of the Spark story, the card "[[https://scryfall.com/card/war/199/heartwarming-redemption Heartwarming Redemption]]" serves as this, showing that yes, Gideon really did give his life to annul Liliana's contract to Nicol Bolas. |
| 215 | [[/folder]] |
| 216 | |
| 217 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 218 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'' treats you to one of these when you either consider giving up on [[HorseOfADifferentColor chocobo]] raising or when your chocobo is so old as to be automatically put out to pasture. More or less of the PutOnABus variety. |
| 219 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII: VideoGame/CrisisCore'' does this to Zack. It should be moving, but instead it feels ill-placed and tacked-on amidst the brutal, bloody, emotionally-draining death scene which preceded it -- a better goodbye than a montage could ever be. |
| 220 | * [[spoiler:Isara]]'s death in ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'' featured a gathering of TheSquad around a tombstone, with Rosie singing a new song she promised to sing. |
| 221 | * Subverted in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots''. Raiden manages to hold back a giant Arsenal Gear-type submarine from crushing Snake, but his body is crushed to do it. The sound cuts out except for a soft piano score along with Raiden and Rose's narration from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' about their first date, ending with the lights on Raiden's visor going out. The subversion comes from the fact that Raiden [[NobodyCouldHaveSurvivedThat doesn't die]]; he does [[HandicappedBadass lose both of]] [[AnArmAndALeg his arms]], but he comes back. |
| 222 | * The arcade version of ''VideoGame/DoubleDragon II'' didn't have the happy ending featured in the NES version where Marian returns to life. Instead, the ending shows a photograph of Marian with Billy and Jimmy during happier times in which she sheds a single tear that forms the words "The End", which is as close as you can expect for a really dead montage in an arcade game. |
| 223 | * ''VideoGame/ValkyrieProfile'' uses this over and over. It's how you acquire party members: the Valkyrie herself is there when a warrior soul dies and takes the soul into her squad of einherjar. |
| 224 | * In ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2'', right at the end, when one the main characters (Xion) disappears while [[RetGone everyone forgets her, and everything about her stops existing]] (which won't be explained because the explanation is a bit long), before another of the main characters (Roxas) forgets her, a brief flashback of her turning to him and smiling is shown (about 3 seconds long). After a bit, one of his memories of her and the other protagonist (Axel) of eating ice cream shows up, the three of them having fun. Then the same scene appears again, while Xion fades away. |
| 225 | * In the end of ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', Commander Shepard must choose one of three endings, all of them seeming to end with his/her death. [[spoiler:(Two of them do; the last one features a post-credits scene of him/her waking up in the wreckage of the Citadel.) Either way, as Shepard goes forth to sacrifice him/herself, the player is treated to a flashback of three characters: Joker, Admiral Anderson, and Kaidan, Ashley, or Liara, depending on whom Shepard romanced.]] [[spoiler:The Extended Cut adds more possible flashbacks, including Shepard's love interest from either 2 or 3, and includes a second montage at the end with some of the other characters who died along the way (Thane, Legion, and likely Mordin).]] |
| 226 | * The memorial at the end of ''VideoGame/Halo3'' includes a montage of photos of people killed in the war, including Miranda Keyes and Sgt. Johnson. [[spoiler:And Master Chief's callsign (117) etched onto the side of the memorial. The Chief's not dead, but nobody else knows that.]] |
| 227 | * The last photo in ''VideoGame/Fallout3'''s ending montage is a portrait of James with the Lone Wanderer as a child. In addition, before ''Broken Steel'' is installed, a photo is shown of the LW's [[ImMelting liquefied remains]] if they chose to activate the purifier. |
| 228 | * At the end of ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonExplorers'', [[spoiler:the main character receives one when they vanish due to changing the [[BadFuture Bad Future]] you originate from. It includes your partner's memories of meeting and adventuring with you. [[BackFromTheDead You get better though.]]]] |
| 229 | * ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'' has a brief but effective one after the death of [[spoiler:Hinawa]], set (of course) to the "LoveTheme" that plays during the game's most emotional moments. |
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| 232 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 233 | * The final page of the first volume of ''Webcomic/OurLittleAdventure'' is a montage of nice/funny events with a parody song of ''When She Loved Me'' by Music/SarahMcLachlan. This was at the final part of Pauline's funeral. |
| 234 | [[/folder]] |
| 235 | |
| 236 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 237 | * Parodied in [[http://www.dailymotion.com/LittleKuriboh/video/x1gs2f_ygo-the-abridged-series-episode-18 this]] episode of the ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' FanVid Gag Dub. |
| 238 | * Parodied on ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' in an early Strong Bad Email, [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail10.html trevor the vampire]]. After Strong Bad believes that Trevor has been killed, he shows the viewer a few of his "favourite Trevor moments". Since he was only made aware of Trevor's existence thirty seconds earlier, however, [[ViewersAreGoldfish this consists of little more than replaying everything the viewer just watched]]. "Oh, Trevor, I pine for you!" |
| 239 | * ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'': |
| 240 | ** When a giant bug that Nappa declared his pet dies, it runs to a series of ridiculously bloomy clips of the bug. Problem is the bug was only there for about a minute, so there isn't that much to show. |
| 241 | ** [[spoiler:Cell]] gets one of these, perhaps justified due to his sheer resilience, right as he's being evaporated by the final attack of the saga. Complete with [[spoiler:Cell himself]] singing ''[[Music/FrankSinatra My Way]]'' as he's killed, going out with some showmanship. [[spoiler:His Imperfect version back in Trunks' timeline also gets one, but since he got much less screentime he only gets to "And now, the end is near" before getting evaporated]]. |
| 242 | ** Future Gohan receives one (consisting of greyscaled shots from his fateful fight with the androids) as Trunks approaches his body. |
| 243 | ** Creator/TeamFourStar also does this while releasing "dead" Pokemon in their Nuzlocke playthrough, with [[spoiler:Ydrib]], the first to die, getting a special one mid-battle. |
| 244 | * There's one on ''WebVideo/IsItAGoodIdeaToMicrowaveThis'' every time a microwave quits working. |
| 245 | * WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic |
| 246 | ** One for Becky the Duck during his Series/SavedByTheBell review, accompanied by the haunting strains of "My Heart Will Go On". |
| 247 | ** Done (relatively) seriously in WebVideo/SuburbanKnights, wherein [[spoiler:Ma-Ti from Captain Planet]] dies. |
| 248 | * LetsPlay/{{Marriland}}, in his Pokemon Nuzlocke and Wedlocke runs, does this with any of his Pokemon that faint before releasing them for good, giving a quick opinion and highlighting some of the real cinches they pulled. For ''[[VideoGame/PokemonPlatinum Platinum]]'' onwards, fan art depicting the deceased Pokemon are shown. |
| 249 | * Invoked twice during LetsPlay/HatFilms "Feed The Beast" playthrough both times Smiffy killed one of Trott's pets. The first time when Trott called for the montage, it was played straight; the second time, instead they played a music video for a song about how sad he was and how happy Smiffy was to have killed it (set to "Want You Back (For Good)"). Later defied when Smiffy murders Crystal, one of their NPC prisoners, and Trott angrily shouts that he isn't giving her a montage. |
| 250 | * While not completely about death (it also included the last attacks used against many important trainers), there was one at the end of Letsplay/{{Gamingandstuff}}'s Emerald Parlocke for all pokemon that died and how they died. |
| 251 | * Ruthlessly parodied [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1x3XkHs-BE&t=1h07m06s here]] in the Walking Tacos GagDub of Bakshi's Lord of the Rings, after the death of Gandalf (who we quickly find out, was kind of a Jerkass.) |
| 252 | * WebVideo/GamesRepainted parodies this in their texture hack of VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine at the end of the game. The cutscene where FLUDD suffers a DisneyDeath in the original game suddenly changes to a montage of gameplay from Angelo's first stream of the hack, set to "Don't You (Forget About Me)" by Music/SimpleMinds and using a heavy washout filter. For extra BlackComedy, unlike the original game, [[spoiler:FLUDD is not revealed to have survived in the following cutscene]]. |
| 253 | * When Aeirth is killed in ''WebAnimation/FinalFantasyVIIMachinabridged'', shots of her time with Cloud flash on screen as the White Materia bounces down into the water. |
| 254 | * The deaths of major characters tend to feature this in ''LetsPlay/AScotsmanInEgypt''. The deaths of Edmund and Edward Canmore are followed by a brief glimpse at how their children and loved ones react to the news, and the [[spoiler:presumed]] death of Domnall is followed by an in-universe montage as a spy recaps the survivors' disastrous retreat, fatal attempts at vengeance, and ultimate betrayal to a foreign dignitary. |
| 255 | [[/folder]] |
| 256 | |
| 257 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 258 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' episode "True Colors". After [[spoiler:King Andrias drops Sprig out of his OminousFloatingCastle to fall to his death]], Anne has a montage of flashbacks to the time they spent together. It's then subverted, as these memories spur Anne on to [[spoiler:unlock her SuperMode and start wailing on King Andrias, and while she has him distracted, Marcy is able to swoop down on Joe Sparrow and save Sprig before he hits the ground]]. |
| 259 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'' episode "Gone with the Wind" ends with a montage of Cleveland's deceased ex-wife Loretta from past ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episodes. |
| 260 | * Happened in the last episode of ''WesternAnimation/CyberSix'', complete with an Imaginary Ghost Sitting At Your Table... [[spoiler:although it was vague enough that a second season wasn't entirely unfeasible.]] |
| 261 | * Parodied on ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' with Toot's remembrance of the 'good times' with the briefly reanimated shriveled corpse of "General Mills". |
| 262 | * An episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' had a [[NewYearHasCome New Year's celebration]] from 1999 into 2000, which parodied the [[Creator/TurnerClassicMovies "TCM Remembers"]] variety of Really Dead Montages by having a clip reel of celebrities who died over the past millennium, such as Joan of Arc. |
| 263 | * The classic Rankin Bass version of ''WesternAnimation/{{Frosty the Snowman}}'' has this [[spoiler:after Frosty melts]], underscored with a {{Dark Reprise}} of the title song. Fortunately, it's only a DisneyDeath. |
| 264 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheGarfieldShow'' special "Long Lost Lyman" featured a non-lethal variant where Odie has to go back to Lyman and Garfield morosely imagines a montage of scenes featuring Odie from previous episodes when facing the possibility of never seeing Odie again. It's ultimately subverted because Odie can't bear to leave Garfield and [[StatusQuoIsGod Lyman allows Odie to continue living with Jon]]. |
| 265 | * Parodied excellently in ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR''. The episode in which the BigBad is finally destroyed ends with a montage of memorable moments, mostly from the same episode, entirely accompanied by mournful music and heart-shaped frames around every still. It ends with a shot of the hero and Big Bad with their arms around each other's shoulders and "enemies forever" written in swirly Hallmark Card font above their heads. Of course, he got better. |
| 266 | * Played with in ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'', where Season 3 opens with a recap of Charles's supposed death in the previous episode, complete with an in-universe InMemoriam to sell the idea of him being KilledOffForReal only for the episode to end with him returning very much alive. Flashforward to the end of Season 4 and it's actually revealed that he did in fact die during the events of "Dethrelease", so they ''technically'' weren't lying with the montage. |
| 267 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'': |
| 268 | ** In the Season 3 finale when Zane sacrifices himself to defeat the Overlord by absorbing the power of the Overlord's armor, Zane flashes back through his memories of his father and the ninja team. |
| 269 | ** In the Season 4 finale, Lloyd learns his father, Garmadon, has to die in order to defeat the Anacondrai army. Lloyd initially leaves in anger and denial, but after remembering various moments from his relationship with Garmadon as their theme music[[note]]"A Family Divided"[[/note]] plays, he accepts this and goes back to be the one to read the spell that banishes him. |
| 270 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 271 | ** Done a few times for when a character [[KilledOffForReal kicks the bucket.]] Scratch the "really" part in the episode [[spoiler:"Dial N For Nerder"]]. |
| 272 | ** Towards the end of "Lisa's Sax", as Lisa plays her new saxophone, we see a montage of Lisa playing her original saxophone set to Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street". |
| 273 | ** Season 32's "Diary Queen" centers around Ned Flanders rediscovering his late wife Edna Krabappel's diary, and the episode ends with a montage of Edna's life, ending with the chalkboard gag of Bart writing "We'll really miss you, Mrs. K." from season 25's "Four Regrettings And A Funeral", the show's original tribute to Edna's actress Creator/MarciaWallace after her passing in 2013. |
| 274 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls", Mr. Hankey dies and we are briefly treated to such a montage, which inexplicably features a shot of [[AdaptationDecay the film made to capitalise on Mr. Hankey]]. Mr. Hankey then [[DisneyDeath got better]] and unleashes his vengeance on the Sundance festival (but not before [[DisneyDeath getting killed and resurrected again]]). |
| 275 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': After [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS3E18TwinSuns "Twin Suns"]] aired, in which [[spoiler:Darth Maul]] is ''finally'' KilledOffForReal by [[spoiler:Obi-Wan Kenobi]], the official ''Star Wars'' website put one on their front page in order to make it clear to fans that no, he's ''really not'' coming back this time. |
| 276 | * The ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'' episode "Mr. Grumpy-Pants" ends with a montage of scenes featuring the LittlestCancerPatient that had died. |
| 277 | * [[spoiler:Terra]] sort of had one in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', with little clips of her time with the Titans throughout the episode in which she [[TakenForGranite died]] ''before'' her actual death. Sort of subverted in that apparently, the Titans will be trying to find a way to make her better, but considering that the series came from a much darker comic and was meant for a younger audience, the creators might have just stuck that in there to lighten the blow. Though it still caused many ten year olds to curl up in a ball and cry for a while. |
| 278 | * ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' played with this one. In a multi-part concurrent arc one episode ends with Bulkhead getting thrown into the base by a blast. During his episode he faces multiple GiantMook insecticons and even a named one(for reference there is only one unnamed insecticon fighting in the other episodes and it nearly wins a fight with two Autobots), and has to deal with a highly poisonous energon weapon. During the episode as he's having trouble, he has flashbacks to all the battles hes been in and all the memories of his friends. The episode ends with him heavily damaged, poisoned and blasted in the back out on the floor. He's injured for several episodes but survives. |
| 279 | * In ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'', [[spoiler:Nabu]] receives one the episode after his death. It's complete with a sad song and other characters, even ''Riven'', crying over his death. |
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| 283 | * It's common at funerals to have a collage with pictures of the deceased. |
| 284 | * Some medical colleges have a slideshow at the end of every year naming and honoring the deceased who [[ForScience donated their bodies]] to the students at the college. |
| 285 | * On a mass scale, the AIDS quilt is one of these. |
| 286 | * Since the early 90's, awards shows such as the Emmys, Oscars and Grammys have done a clip reel of contributors to the craft who have died over the past year, complete with slow music. Nowadays they've roped in known singers like Music/SarahMcLachlan, Music/QueenLatifah and [[Music/PearlJam Eddie Vedder]] to perform nostalgic songs live. |
| 287 | * Creator/TurnerClassicMovies does this with little "TCM Remembers" promos whenever an actor, producer or director dies, and at the end of each year they do [[https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=TCM+Remembers&search=Search a longer video]] recalling many important film people who died over the year. The production company, [[http://www.sabotagefilmgroup.com/#!commercial/c12bj Sabotage Film Group]], is noted for its beautiful work on these memorials and other TCM promos.[[note]]And literally every year, someone vitally important to cinema dies ''after'' that film comes out. Sometimes they re-edit, as was the case with Creator/ZsaZsaGabor and Creator/CarrieFisher in 2016. Sometimes this means cutting someone else out who was originally included; to prevent this, they sometimes put the latecomer into ''next'' year's montage instead. This happened with, among others, Creator/LuiseRainer in 2015 and Creator/DebbieReynolds in 2017. Also, the last slot of the reel is typically given to the person who TCM feels has had the biggest legacy in classic film, such as Creator/ElizabethTaylor in 2011 and Creator/ShirleyTemple in 2014. Notably, in 2017, their longtime host Robert Osborne closed the reel (in a year where Creator/JerryLewis or the aforementioned Debbie Reynolds would have done so).[[/note]] |
| 288 | * News reports of famous people who have died have footage of the person while they were alive. |
| 289 | * In a crossover with the film category, as actor Paul Walker died during the making of the 7th ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' movie, the film ends with a montage of some of his character moments in the film, all framed with him driving off into the sunset, in a situation not too dissimilar from the ''Series/FatherTed'' and ''Series/SuddenlySusan'' examples. |
| 290 | * One Creator/{{MTV}} Video Music Awards ceremony parodied modern in memoriam-type clip reels with one showing musicians who were CondemnedByHistory (such as Music/VanillaIce), all while Music/MichaelJackson's "Gone Too Soon" played in the background. |
| 291 | * ''Series/NightOf100Stars'': The third special has one for people who appeared in either of the first two and had died since then, such as Creator/LucilleBall and Creator/JamesCagney. |
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