A Hero Is Born: Difference between revisions

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

 

== [[Film]] ==

* ''Look Who's Talking'' starts at conception. Actually a few moments ''before'' conception.

* ''[[Gattaca]]''

* ''[[Amelie]]'' actually begins with the ''conception'' of the heroine.

** Averted with Beowulf, oddly enough for an epic, who enters the story from a foreign land, long grown up, and little about his childhood is ever revealed, save that he was weak as a child. This seems a small subversion of the typical hero story when they are born under unusual circumstances and have remarkable childhoods, but the unassuming child has become a recognizable trope in itself.

* ''[[White Fang]]'' (it starts a little before the birth of White Fang, actually).

** It's kind of a parody of this trope, considering the rest of the book(s).

* In [[RA Salvatore]]'s ''Drizzt Do'Urden'' series, one of the prequel books starts off with Drizzt's birth, and the consternation surrounding it.

* ''[[Tarzan]]'' The original story "Tarzan of the Apes" starts with the adventures of his parents and is already well into its third chapter before Alice Clayton saves her husband's life, kills a bull ape, becomes insane and bears Tarzan in less than a day.

* The ''[[Gormenghast]]'' novels were conceptualized as the fictional biography of the protagonist from birth to death. The first book begins on the day of his birth and follows the events surrounding his infancy. Instead of going on with a [[Time Skip]], the first book ends before our protagonist is even old enough to speak.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* The [[Famicom]] RPG ''Tao'' provides opening exposition while an embryo - presumably the protagonist's - gestates in the background.

* ''Traverse: Starlight & Prairie''.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Littlefoot in ''[[The Land Before Time]]''

* ''[[Finding Nemo]]'' - Nemo was shown as an egg.

 

=== Examples of type 2: ===

== [[Film]] ==

* ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095806/ The Outside Chance of Maximillian Glick]'' opens up at the title character's [[Useful Notes/Jewish Life Events|bris]].

 

== [[Literature]] ==

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

 

=== Please sort if you know which type the examples are ===