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Compare [[Developing Doomed Characters]], which is about the time spent examining the mundane lives of the characters before something extraordinary happens that starts the "real" story.
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== [[Anime and Manga]] ==
* This is a favored tactic of [[Cromartie High School]], often combined with [[Random Events Plot]] or [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]. Rarely will anything actually be resolved. One episode for example ended with:
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* Another documentary that manages it is ''Hitman Hart: Wrestling With Shadows''. It starts as a straightforward year-in-the-life documentary of one of the most popular wrestlers of the era. Then comes the [[Montreal Screwjob]], and all of a sudden it's about one of the most dramatic betrayals in wrestling history.
* [[No Country for Old Men]] starts off as a thriller about a young man who is trying to get away from a murderous psycopath, all building up to a big showdown at the end whilst the Sheriff tries to understand what's going on. {{spoiler|In the last 30 minutes, Llewellyn Moss is killed ''offscreen'' by a few minor Mexican criminals, and most of the rest of the film is centered around Sheriff Bell trying to cope with his inability to keep up with the community's high crime rate}}.
* 1980's [[Melanie Griffith]]
* ''[[Flight Plan]]'' starts with a recently-widowed woman waking up on a plane with her daughter nowhere to be found with no one on the flight crew or among the passengers remembeing a little girl. Soon, even she begins to doubt her own sanity, especially when the captain proposes that her daughter died along with her husband, and that she's in deep denial over this. After discovering that it's all a plot to blackmail the airline for a lot of money and frame her for it, the movie promptly turns from a psychological thriller into an action flick, where she tries to find her daughter, while trapped on a plane with a killer and his accomplice.
* 1980's Russian movie ''Air Crew'' (''Экипаж'') starts off as a [[Kitchen Sink Drama]] and then switches to a [[Disaster Movie]].
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