Recovery Sequence

The process of an object being repaired. Sometimes take the form of a "Repair Montage", where the character(s) is/are shown repairing something over a period of time.

Alternatively, it can have a being healing from injuries.

See also Creation Sequence, Transformation Sequence, and A-Team Montage.

No real life examples, please; Real Life does not have montages.

Examples of Recovery Sequence include:

Anime and Manga

• In Naruto, Pain destroys the entire leaf village with one blast, leaving an enormous crater behind. After the battle, Yamato rebuilds the village using his wood jutsu. This process is shown over a couple of panels.

Comic Books

• Damage Control
• A few years ago She Hulk disappeared. It was later revealed that she was working to help rebuild a town her cousin The Hulk had destroyed.

Film - Animation

• WALL-E: Eve rapidly fixes WALL-E in a sequence that ends with shooting a hole through the ceiling to let the sunlight hit him.
• Titan A.E. has a repair sequence of an old spaceship previously used as a house. Shots of welding, rewiring, and reprogramming all set to Over My Head by Lit.

Film - Live Action

• Serenity: after the title ship is seriously damaged while landing on Mr. Universe's planet, a series of shots show the crew repairing it.
• The Houses of Healing scene in the extended film of The Return of the King
• The reforging of Narsil (Aragon's inheritance sword) in Lord of the Rings

Live Action TV

• The "Bicycle Repairman" sketch on Monty Python's Flying Circus has one of these, complete with Unsound Effects like "Alter Saddle!"

Video Games

• The brief repair montage of the Normandy at the conclusion of Mass Effect 2.

Western Animation

• In Avatar: The Last Airbender, after the Gaang saves a river town from the Fire Nation and deciding to clean the river it's on, this happens.