Beginning Tropes
This is the tale I pray the divine Muse to unfold to us. Begin it, goddess, at whatever point you will.
—Odyssey
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Methods of starting up an episode or an entire series.
- 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
- Debut Queue
- Doomed Hometown
- 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 Heros Birthday
- A Hero Is Born
- How We Got Here
- In Medias Res
- 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