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"Hi, [[Alice and Bob|Bob]], glad you could make it. Look, here come Ted and Sarah and Sean and Drew and Dan and Erin. You already know [[Ron Jeremy|Ron and Jeremy]] and [[Mary Sue|Mary and Sue]] and Peter and Ben and [[One Steve Limit|Steve]]. Come sit down next to Ken and Eric and Lee, and then Jim and Frank and Maxwell and Fred can call the meeting to order."▼
▲"Hi, [[Alice and Bob|Bob]], glad you could make it. Look, here come Ted and Sarah and Sean and Drew and Dan and Erin. You already know Ron and Jeremy and [[Mary Sue|Mary and Sue]] and Peter and Ben and [[One Steve Limit|Steve]]. Come sit down next to Ken and Eric and Lee, and then Jim and Frank and Maxwell and Fred can call the meeting to order."
A type of [[Info Dump]] specific to [[Loads and Loads of Characters|a large ensemble show]], in which hordes of characters are introduced and immediately all referred to by name. They may be new characters, they may be old characters being reintroduced after a break, but they're all standing in a line and they're all perfectly happy to say their own names.
May be called as a sub-process during the bridge of an [[Expository Theme Tune]]. Also see [[Product Promotion Parade]].
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== Anime And Manga ==
* This happens in ''[[Negima]]'' in the form of Negi's class register, including the class' clubs and special notes on certain students. The new teacher himself wonders how he'll remember all this ([[Wise Beyond Their Years|he figures it out by the next volume]])
** Only natural considering that he's a 10 year old genius who mastered Japanese in only 3 weeks.
** And thankfully afterwards the series then introduces the class the normal way.
* The first episode of the second season of ''
* This is parodied in episode 17 of ''[[Seto no Hanayome]]'' when a group of 8 gang leaders are introducing themselves to Akeno. After the third one, a card pops up explaining that they're just going to skip right to the last one.
* ''[[Banner of the Stars]]'': The intro shows pictures of the various military commanders involved in the campaign, along with their name, rank, title, and fleet commanded
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== Fanfiction ==
* Generally inevitably in stories taking place in other time-periods than the source material. A ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fic about his father's time at Hogwarts (for example) requires a [[Loads and Loads of Characters|lot of new characters (both students and teachers)]] to fill the world. Inexperienced authors also often introduce too many original characters at once.
== Film ==
* In ''[[The Sound of Music]]'', Captain Von Trapp has trained his children to march around and
* The opening credits of ''[[The Dirty Dozen]]'' has a roll call of all the "Dozen" as they stand before Major Reissman(Lee Marvin). An MP reads each members name and his prison sentence while his face is in closeup.
* ''[[Serenity]]'' has a particularly elegant one to reintroduce the cast aboard the ship.
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== Theatre ==
* The first third of the musical ''[[Starlight Express]]'' is one giant
* In the original production of ''[[Starmites]]'', the titular band of heroes had four members aside from their leader, and they briefly introduced themselves to [[Ascended Fanboy|AscendedFangirl]] Eleanor in their [["I Am" Song|We Are Song]]. Four names, each followed by "At your service, miss!" isn't so bad and is a pretty concise introduction, but subsequent youth theater productions have expanded the mites' ranks to sometimes as many as ''twenty kids''. And they all say their names in the song. Every. Last. One of them.
* The song "Jacob & Sons" in ''[[Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat]]'' (originally the opening number) introduces all 12 sons by name.
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* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' plays it straight up in this comic where the main character is dumped in a magic school against his will. http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=050828
* ''[[Last Res0rt]]'' doesn't do this immediately... until the titular Reality Show's Series Premiere, which [http://www.lastres0rt.com/2007/08/there-will-not-be-a-pop-quiz-on-this/ introduces all the players in short order]. Mostly justified in that, well, it's what Reality Shows DO, even if we already know a few of the players that were introduced earlier.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120125202914/http://www.scarygoround.com/scare/?date=20111121 This page] of ''[[Scary Go Round|Murder She Writes]]''.
== Western Animation ==
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* In ''[[Superfriends]]'', Lex Luthor would frequently introdump the Legion of Doom. This was memorably parodied in a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGQEAiZJMco Cartoon Network commercial].
* ''[[The Backyardigans]]'' has an [[Expository Theme Tune|expository]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAZn8iiChcM opening song] which begins with the five main characters introducing themselves.
* ''[[Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!]]'' had an
* The first episode of ''[[Metalocalypse]]'' quotes the not-very [[Expository Theme Tune]]: "Gentlemen: Skwisgar Skwigelf, taller than a tree. Toki Wartooth, not a bumblebee. William Murderface Murderface Murderface.Pickles the Drummer, doodeley-doo, ding-dong, doodeley-doodeley-doo. Nathan Explosion. I'm afraid that's all we know, gentlemen."
* [[Transformers]], as pictured above. Heck, their wiki [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Introdump has a page] just for this.
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