Beginning Tropes

"This is the tale I pray the divine Muse to unfold to us. Begin it, goddess, at whatever point you will."

- Odyssey

Methods of starting up an episode or an entire series. ---

See also:
 * Call to Adventure
 * Herald
 * How to Gather Characters
 * Inciting Incident


 * All Your Base Are Belong to Us
 * Boy Meets Girl
 * Boy Meets Ghoul
 * Blitz Evacuees
 * Business As Unusual
 * Cartwright Curse
 * Chilly Reception
 * Closed Circle
 * Cold Open
 * Batman Cold Open
 * Danger Room Cold Open
 * Dramatic Chase Opening
 * Debut Queue
 * Doomed Hometown
 * After the End
 * Sugar Apocalypse
 * Downer Beginning
 * Early-Bird Cameo
 * Easing Into the Adventure
 * Establishing Character Moment
 * Establishing Series Moment
 * Everyone Meets Everyone
 * Fake-Out Opening
 * First Episode Spoiler
 * For Great Justice
 * Framing Device
 * Good Morning, Crono
 * Happy Ending Override
 * The Hero's Birthday
 * A Hero Is Born
 * How We Got Here
 * In Medias Res
 * Action Prologue
 * Fake Action Prologue
 * You Wake Up in A Room
 * I Found You Like This
 * Intro-Only Point of View
 * It Was a Dark And Stormy Night
 * Lost in Medias Res
 * The Magic Comes Back
 * A Minor Kidroduction
 * Minsky Pickup
 * Morning Routine
 * Naive Newcomer
 * Non-Indicative First Episode
 * Once Upon a Time
 * Opening Monologue
 * Opening Narration
 * Opening Scroll
 * Poorly-Disguised Pilot
 * Pre Meeting
 * Prolonged Prologue
 * R-Rated Opening
 * Recruit Teenagers With Attitude
 * Resurrected for A Job
 * Second Episode Morning
 * Storybook Opening
 * Story Within A Story
 * Start to Corpse
 * Starts With a Suicide
 * Starts With Their Funeral
 * Survived the Beginning
 * Theory Before Phenomenon
 * Turn Out Like His Father
 * Villain Opening Scene
 * War Was Beginning
 * Weather Report Narration
 * Welcome Episode
 * When It All Began
 * Where I Was Born and Razed
 * Whole-Episode Flashback
 * You All Meet in A Cell
 * You All Meet in An Inn