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* [[Bugs Bunny]] gets his in "[[A Wild Hare]]", when he appears out of the ground and establishes his collected, casual attitude with "Eh, what's up, Doc?"
* The titular Ben Tennyson of ''[[
* [[Woody Woodpecker]] established his heckler nature by literally bursting onto the screen, saying a smug "Guess Who", dodging a subsequent blow from Poppa Panda, retorts by honking his nose like a horn, and then unleashes his legendary laughter as he treks off to reek havoc on the Panda's rooftop. His second (albeit first solo) appearance in "The Cracked Nut", where he sings a [[Bragging Theme Tune]] about how he's crazy and he's proud of it, is another one of these moments.
* [[Daffy Duck]]'s "I'm just a crazy ol' darnfool duck" line from his debut in "[[
* Azula's first appearance (as a named character) in ''[[
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'''Captain:''' Uh, I'm afraid I don't understand.
'''Azula:''' You said the tides would not allow us to bring this ship in. Do the tides command this ship?
'''Captain:''' No, Princess.
'''Azula:''' And if I were to have you thrown overboard, would the tides think twice about smashing you against the rocky shore?
'''Captain:''' No, Princess.
'''Azula:''' Well then, maybe you should worry less about the tides, who have already made up their minds about killing you, and worry more about me, who's still mulling it over. }}
** Another is her arguable ''actual'' first appearance, during Zuko's flashback in "The Storm". All you can guess about her is that she's family by the fact that she's standing next to Iroh, has yellow eyes, and is dressed in very similar robes, but when she's seen ''smiling'' as Zuko gets disfigured, you ''know'' she's going to be trouble whenever she'll show up. True enough...
*** Similarly, Ozai's first talking-and-doing-things appearance (as opposed to the brief silhouette he got a few episodes earlier) features him burning Zuko's face. His own son. In public. As the thirteen year old boy begs for mercy. That's pretty much all we need to know about the guy.
** Toph's entrance, which consists of her effortlessly beating a man about five times her size in the Earth Rumble ring without breaking a sweat also qualifies her as a [[Little Miss Badass]]. Did we mention that she's also [[Disability Superpower|blind]]?
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'''Toph''': [[Little Miss Snarker|Sounds to me like you're scared, Boulder!]]<br />
'''The Boulder''': ...The Boulder is over his conflicted feelings and now he's ready to bury you in a rockalanche!<br />
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** Mai is established as a [[Deadpan Snarker]] [[Emotionless Girl]] and formidable [[Ninja]] and [[Knife Nut]] in less than a minute.
** Iroh as well. He just wants to finish his game and drink some tea.
** The titular character of ''[[
*** Ikki was introduced as asking "[[Are We There Yet?]]" ad nauseum, while her little brother Meelo chews his father's head.
** [[The Charmer|Bo]][[Big Fun|lin]] introduces himself this way via a [[Funny Background Event]] where he spots [[Hot Amazon|Korra]] and decides, after some [[Casanova Wannabe|preening]], to [[The Dulcinea Effect|help her out of an argument]] with his earthbending teacher.
** [[Iron Lady|Chief Lin Bei Fong]]. She's introduced by grilling {{spoiler|Korra}} in the interrogation room. [[Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist|She's dead serious, pissed off, and 100% focused on her job.]] [[Lawful Neutral|Even though the one in custody is none other than]] {{spoiler|The Avatar}}. We've got a hardass over here, folks.
* Terry McGinnis' first scene in ''[[
* ''[[
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'''Tallest Red''': You made them ''worse!''
'''Zim''': Worse...''or better?'' }}
** Then there's GIR...
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'''Zim''': GIR? What does the "G" stand for?
'''GIR''': [[Cloudcuckoolander|I don't know]]...(''suddenly begins giggling and hitting himself on the head'') }}
* Used with Shego in the pilot of ''[[
** Averted with Drakken in the very same episode, when he disabled an outside camera by rope gliding. [[Early Installment Weirdness|He never did such feats ever again.]]
** Ron Stoppable's first moments establish him as the Goofy Best Friend:
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'''Ron''': Like what?
'''Kim''': Something not naked. (Rufus [[Blowing a Raspberry|blows a raspberry]] at Kim)<br />
'''Ron''': (dramatically) Never be normal, that's the Ron Stoppable motto! }}
* [[Darkwing Duck (
* ''[[Ruby Gloom]]'''s [[One We Prepared Earlier|first episode]] gives introductory scenes to most of the cast. The best one may be Misery's, where a few sentences into an already gloomy conversation, she puts the always-optimistic Ruby at a temporary loss for words by describing her own genetic predisposition toward being struck by lightning.
** Two seconds later, Ruby further establishes her own character by changing the subject and managing to lift her spirits a little anyway.
* General Grievous' first appearance in ''[[Star Wars]]'' canon is the season one finale of ''[[Star Wars: Clone Wars]]'', where he takes on a team of six Jedi, and kills or incapacitates all but one of them.
** Unfortunately, while Grievous' reputation as a dangerous foe carried over into ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]'', all of his screen time is spent running away or getting his butt handed to him by Obi-Wan. So in the [[Expanded Universe]], Grievous is quickly established as a legitimate threat, but in the movie it just comes across as an [[Informed Ability]].
** In the movie, he first appears as a skull-faced boss villain, and the first thing he does is coughing uncontrollably. Thus: He is sick (In fact he suffers from [[Incurable Cough of Death]]), and he cannot be a robot because he is sick ([[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul]], someone?), so there must be something organic somewhere to [[Dragon Their Feet|Dragon His Fett]]. An Establishing Character Moment saying he's a pitiful, or by now at least pitiable, villain.
** The shift in characterization is a result of the constantly shifting production of Episode III. While initially he was supposed to be a powerful and feared Jedi hunter, Lucas decided to rewrite the character as a moustache-twirling coward. The ''in-story'' reason is that towards the end of the Clone Wars cartoon, [[Badass|Mace]] [[Samuel L. Jackson|Windu]] Force-Crushes his chest -- and with it, his few remaining organs, leaving Grievous horribly weakened during the events of Episode III. As for Grievous vs. Kenobi? Obi-Wan is considered the master (not ''a'' master, ''the'' master) of the ultimate defensive lightsaber form, and thus could block all Grievous' attacks 'cause he's so damn good at blocking attacks. And when Grievous kept failing to hit him, he got angry, which made him get sloppy, which made him get angrier, which made him get sloppier, and... you get it.
*** Very true. A deleted scene gives him a very different ECM... with him executing Shaak Ti. Being a deleted scene this was retconned {{spoiler|and her death was saved for a much later [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for Vader's Apprentice.}}
* ''[[
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'''Quagmire''': ''(wearing a lecherous grin)'' And I have a question for you: ''why are you still here?'' }}
* The first episode of ''[[
* After being played up as [[The Ace]] by Eddy throughout ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy
* The [[Transformers]] franchise has plenty of these:
** Dinobot enters ''[[
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'''Dinobot:''' You slipped. To defeat you in such a manner would be [[Honor Before Reason|lacking in honor]]. ''I'' would not have earned the right to lead. I prefer to defeat my opponents the old fashioned way--''BRUTALLY''! }}
** Blitzwing from ''[[
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'''[[Dark Action Girl|Blackarachnia]]''': Blow it out your [[Unusual Euphemism|actuator]], three-face.<br />
'''[[The Ahnold|Hothead Blitzwing]]''': Ze name is Blitzwing, insect! Remember it! Cause it's the last thing you will hear before I-<br />
'''[[Cloudcuckoolander|Random Blitzwing]]''': -express my feelings in song! ''Ze itsy bitsy spider...'' }}
** Really that entire scene is an ECM for the Decepticons. We see Starscream being [[The Starscream|starscreamy]], Lugnut [[Undying Loyalty|calling him a traitor]] and [[The Renfield|praising his GLORIOUS master]], the aforementioned conversation between Blitzwing and Blackarachnia, and Megs himself being the imposing and powerful leader he is.
** Showing that ''Transformers'' loves this trope, ''[[Transformers Prime
*** The first thing Cliffjumper does in ''Prime'' is boast about freaking out some cops. The second thing he does is jump into a fight alone with several Vehicons. {{spoiler|The third thing he does is die.}}
* In the first full-length ''[[The Simpsons (
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'''Patty:''' Oh, nothing, dear. I'm just trashing your father.
'''Lisa:''' Well, I wish you wouldn't because, aside from the fact that he has the same frailties as all human beings, he's the only father I have. Therefore, he is my model of manhood, and my estimation of him will govern the prospects of my adult relationships. So I hope you bear in mind that any knock at him is a knock at me, and I am far too young to defend myself against such onslaughts.
'''Patty:''' Mm hm. Go watch your cartoon show, dear. }}
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** In "Luna Eclipsed", we finally get to see how Princess Luna normally acts. The answer? '''[[Incoming Ham|VERY LOUD]]'''!
** In "Return of Harmony Part 1", Discord first appears in the stained glass windows, demonstrating a sense of humour and mystery, as well as great knowledge of the Mane Six.
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*** Another part of this that helps establish him is Princess Celestia's (the only one present that actually knows him) reaction to Discord in the scene. She takes him dead seriously and tries her best to stop his [[Hannibal Lecture|Hannibal Lectures]] from getting started, showing him to be a very serious threat.
* [[Black Widow (
** Similarly, on that show, [[Iron Man]] first appears in "Breakout" (following some scenes in promotional shorts and a compilation of those shorts) as he effortlessly breaks up a weapons sale, tells off [[Doctor Doom]]'s representative, blows off [[Nick Fury]] and SHIELD, and dismisses a request that soon comes back to massively bite him (and everyone else) in the ass.
*** If you ''do'' count the shorts and their compilations, Iron Man's establishing moments come when he fights a giant robot and shrugs off advice that he'd be better off making weapons than fighting evil directly and alone.
** [[The Wasp]]'s establishing moment comes in the short "Enter the Whirlwind" (also featured in the show's fifth chronological episode). She tells Ant-Man that the two of them need to find a better use of their time than private scientific research, then goes outside to fight Whirlwind. Ant-Man eventually comes to help Wasp, so she tells him they could use their powers to benefit others through crimefighting.
** With Black Widow at his side, [[Hawkeye]] makes his debut in "Hulk vs. The World" by striking the Hulk with two arrows, descending from a plane on a zip line, and quipping, "Tick tick boom!" right before the arrows explode.
* Looking back at the first episode of [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003
** There's also the first verbal exchange between Raphael and Leonardo, right after the training session:
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'''Leo''': Ninja dropout!
'''Mikey & Don''': [[Do Not Taunt Cthulhu|Oooooooh!]] }}
* Although a well-established character in other media and previous shows, even if you didn't know anything about the character, the opening theme for ''[[Batman:
* In ''[[Drawn Together]]'', a few happen in the first episode.
** Clara, upon meeting Foxxy for the first time, assumes she's a servant and asks her to fetch her bags, which Foxxy does not take well.
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* ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]''. The first things that come out of Starscream's mouth is how the Autobots would have lost a long time ago if he was in charge, establishing him as, well, [[The Starscream]].
** Again, Transformers loves this one. Usually it's done in the form of an Introdump.
* ''[[
* The first appearance Dr. Rockzo The Rock n' Roll Clown on ''[[Metalocalypse]]''. Try to guess what he does {{spoiler|He does cocaine.}}:
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* In ''[[Thundercats 2011
* In his second appearance in the [[DCAU]], [[Darkseid]] establishes exactly who he is to [[Superman]] on their first meeting. Superman demands to know who he is and Darkseid just stands there, not saying a thing. After a little pushing, Darkseid uses his Omega Beams to torture Superman and forces him to bow down and finally responds with "''THAT'' is who I am." And thus the relationship between arguably the two most hated enemies in the entire [[DCAU]] was established.
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