John Kovalic’s Dork Tower isn’t just gamer-geeky:
That’s film-geeky. In case you’re not familiar with Sergei Eisenstein, master of montage, here’s the scene in question, from Battleship Potemkin:
The first homage to that scene that I remember seeing was in The Untouchables, but they’re everywhere. I suppose you could say that Shogun Assassin (Lone Wolf and Cub) inverts the trope.