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* ''[[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
* In episode 7 of ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' when Kamina and Simon meet their soon to be allies.
* At the end of the English opening of ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon Diamond and Pearl: Galactic Battles]]'', there is a scene dedicated to Ash's party Pokémon (of the time) suddenly shouting out their names. Later on, starting with the episode "The Lonely Snover!", said Introdump is removed in favor of a revised, updated opening that includes scenes from the Japanese openings of "High Touch!" and "Pillars of Friendship!".
 
== Comic Books ==
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** Not to mention the live action movie, where the Decepticons perform a roll-call for Megatron across America, and the scene in "exposition alley" where Prime introduces the other Autobots to Sam and Mikaela.
* ''[[X-Men]]'' comics usually averted this only by spreading it around: [[Chris Claremont]] used [[Talking Is a Free Action]] to have everyone announce who they were and what they could do - just not all at once.
** ''[[Ultimate X -Men]]'', however, is not so successful. They do intro dump with ''every other sentence,'' to the point where is becomes crossed with [[Department of Redundancy Department]]. It is ''just that bad.''
* ''[[Elf Quest]]'' does this in the first issue; while the characters are in different areas, they're all called with "sending" (telepathy) and drawn in a single panel, each with their name. The only ones absent are the chief who calls them and the few characters who'd been introduced in the Universe''.
 
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* In ''[[The Sound of Music]]'', Captain Von Trapp has trained his children to march around and [[Intro Dump]] themselves at the sound of a whistle: "Liesl! Friedrich! Louisa! Kurt! Brigitta! Marta! Gretel!"
* 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 (Film)|Serenity]]'' has a particularly elegant one to reintroduce the cast aboard the ship.
* ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I'' does this in the second scene in an info dump meant to cover plot holes left by the previous movies; Bill Weasley in particular manages to claw his way out of the memory hole.
 
== Live Action TV ==
* The title sequence to ''[[Power Rangers Samurai]]'' includes the Rangers shouting out their names. (Depending on the season, both ''[[Power Rangers]]'' and ''[[Super Sentai]]'' involve large amounts of name-shouting through [[In the Name of Thethe Moon]] and [[Transformation Name Announcement]], but these aren't really for the purpose of introducing anyone.)
* ''Zoom'''s theme song is always one of these, dumping both the names of the revolving door cast and the show's mailing address.
* Cambot! Gypsy! Tom Servo! [[Mystery Science TheatreTheater 3000|Crooooooooooooooow!]]
* [[Monty Python's Flying Circus|"Hello, Bruce!"]]
* [[Mickey Mouse Club|Mouseketeer Roll Call!]]
* The Gen2 opener of ''[[Skins]]'' does this ''twice in the same episode''; first when everybody is allocated their classes in the gym hall, and then during the name-and-something-about-yourself bit in Sociology class.
* [[Viper (TV)|Viper]] did this quite often, where a character would explain in length something mundane the other characters already knew, just to 'expose' it to the audience. It was often just awkward.
 
== Literature ==
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== Web Comic ==
* ''[[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 Res 0 rtRes0rt]]'' 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.
* [http://www.scarygoround.com/scare/?date=20111121 This page] of ''[[Scary Go Round|Murder She Writes]]''.
 
== Western Animation ==
* The ''[[Futurama]]'' movie ''Bender's Big Score'' begins with a role call of the main cast - just in case viewers forgot who was who in the years since the show went off the air, or for the benefit of some poor schlub who bought the DVD without seeing the show first.
* In ''[[Super FriendsSuperfriends]]'', 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 [[Intro Dump]] during its opening sequence as well, with the six members of the titular Hyperforce (if Chiro counts as one) shouting out their names.
* 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.
** Any episode of the ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'' cartoon introducing a new subgroup will have a scene where all of them gets a line or two and says their name (such as "Heavy Metal War" where Scrapper feels the need to call out all the Constructicons instead of just saying "We're all here.")
** ''[[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]'' opening 2 parter has LOTS of this. First the Maximals picking their own new names (Based off their beast modes). Every transformation sequence in the two parter is also this, with a character being zoomed upon, saying his name and activation code as he transforms.
** ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' has a scene in the first episode where most of the Decepticons are named and show off their personalities.
** ''[[Transformers Robots in Disguise]]'' does this in "Battle Protocol!" while the Autobot Brothers are responding to Optimus Prime.
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