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If you want to get your story's messy background out of the way as fast as possible but don't have the budget to shoot the background scenes for the [[Opening Monologue]], then your next best option is the
As the name implies, this is a text scroll that passes over (or in some cases ''into'') the screen, supplying all of the relevant information with minimal damage to time or budget. A variation is to have the text fade up and then fade down, but this is something that shouldn't go on for too long as it's terribly dull to watch.
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* Similar to [[Alone in The Dark]], [[The Last Airbender]] has an opening scroll narrated by Katara.
* ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]] [[The Movie]]'' opens with an expository scroll about the backstory on the source of the Power Rangers powers. The text is read by a female voice completely straight, making the whole thing sound even more ridiculous than it is already.
** Even more [[
* ''"[[Leatherface the Texas Chainsaw Massacre III]]'' starts with a lengthy text scroll in an attempt to fill in the gaps between the first movie an [[Canon Discontinuity|the sequel that never happened.]]
* ''[[Barb Wire]]''
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* An
** The writers were planning to do an episode before this one tying up all the loose plots but couldn't make it funny enough, so they made do with a parody.
** The scroll also includes the bizarre phrase "The saga continuums..." which many fans take as an indication that the series from this point on follows an alternative continuity based on the novel ''Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers'', which changes several previous claims about Lister's background.
* ''[[The Pretender]]'' opened every episode of its first two seasons with a cross between the [[Opening Monologue]] and the fade-up version of the
* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' made a [[Running Gag]] of this in one episode. The scroll would always begin, "In (year), (noun) lay in ruins," to introduce subjects such as Hungarians entering tobacco shops, [[World War I]], or [[The End]] of the episode. The Spanish Inquisition have one in a different episode, which notes that the "violence, terror and torture" they unleashed make for "a smashing film."
* ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' opens with a quick text scroll to refresh people's memories about "The Best of Both Worlds", just before they introduce Captain Sisko in the Battle of Wolf 359.
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