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Compare with [[Growing the Beard]] (which can also win viewers), [[Killer App]] (which wins the crowd for a system), [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]], and [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
Contrast with [[Jumping the Shark]], [[
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== Anime ==
* Many people don't like the first episode of ''[[Code Geass]]'' until the [[Anti-Hero|final]] [[Psychotic Smirk|few]] [[Magnificent Bastard|moments]].
* Thanks to the [[Compressed Adaptation]], ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'', is criticized for ''not'' winning the crowd until nearly twenty episodes, when it finally starts uncompressing. However, many critics and fans of the series let this slide considering the fact that the [[Growing the Beard|remaining forty episodes are widely hailed as some of the best animated television in recent memory]].▼
* Many ''[[Gundam]]'' fans didn't start to enjoy ''[[Gundam AGE]]'' until they got to the last three episodes of the First Generation (that's [[Animation Bump|episodes]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|13]], [[Tear Jerker|14]], and [[Wham! Episode|15.]])▼
* It gets a lot easier to get people into ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' after they get to the first psychotic outburst.
* Assuming you don't [[Late Arrival Spoiler|already know how it goes]], let's just say you should watch ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' until the third episode before you decide whether or not to drop it.
▲* Many ''[[Gundam]]'' fans didn't start to enjoy ''[[Gundam AGE]]'' until they got to the last three episodes of the First Generation (that's [[Animation Bump|episodes]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|13]], [[Tear Jerker|14]], and [[Wham! Episode|15.]])
▲* Thanks to the [[Compressed Adaptation]], ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'', is criticized for ''not'' winning the crowd until nearly twenty episodes, when it finally starts uncompressing. However, many critics and fans of the series let this slide considering the fact that the [[Growing the Beard|remaining forty episodes are widely hailed as some of the best animated television in recent memory]].
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* ''[[Gladiator]]'' is the [[Trope Namer]], and the opening battle likely was this for many.
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* ''[[Scanners]]''. [[Your Head Asplode|You know the scene.]]▼
** [[Magnum Opus Dissonance|Before that, Disney was just making it as a filler film before]] ''[[Pocahontas]]'' [[Magnum Opus Dissonance|came out the next year,]] but after that it became clear that it would be a massive success.
▲* ''[[Scanners]]''. [[Your Head Asplode|You know the scene.]]
* The opening crawl and the [[Crowning Music of Awesome|kickass John Williams theme]] won the crowd for ''[[Star Wars]]'' and that even before the [[Visual Effects of Awesome|shot of the puny Tantive IV being chased by the miles huge Star Destroyer]].
* The opening of the first ''[[Superman]]'' film as the score by [[John Williams]] really gets going as Superman's chest symbol appears, marking the beginning of the [[Superhero]] film as a big time movie genre.
* ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]''. When the first song, "You've Got a Friend in Me" started playing over the opening credits, we knew they would win the crowd over.
== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' won some fans by [[Trope Namer|growing the beard]] in the second season, won a few more with the acclaimed third season episodes, but with "The Best of Both Worlds", even the holdouts were won over.▼
{{quote| Riker:''Mr. Worf, fire.''}}▼
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' achieved this when introducing the Daleks, resulting in a series that was originally going to run for just 13 weeks lasting for 26 years.
** Then, after 16 years of being off the air, ''came back'' and became even more ridiculously popular than it was during the old series and has been on for 5 years already.
* The first few episodes of ''[[24]]'' were solid, but it was the sixth episode, where Janet York was murdered in her hospital bed by the man who, up until that point, the audience had believed to be her father and Jack Bauer was told his daughter had been kidnapped and would be killed if he didn't comply with the terrorist's instructions, that proved the show could live up to its hype.▼
* The end of the second episode of ''[[Lost]]''.
▲* ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' won some fans by [[
▲* The first few episodes of ''[[24]]'' were solid, but it was the sixth episode, where Janet York was murdered in her hospital bed by the man who, up until that point, the audience had believed to be her father and Jack Bauer was told his daughter had been kidnapped and would be killed if he didn't comply with the terrorist's instructions, that proved the show could live up to its hype.
== Web Comics ==
* It's been noted by both [[Schlock Mercenary|Howard Taylor]] and [[Girl Genius|Phil and Kaja Foglio]] that ''every single page'' of a webcomic has to be like this, since it's likely that for someone that one page is the only one they'll ever see. Given the length of the average webcomic page, more than likely it will fill up most of that space.
* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' fandom often notes something to the effect of "Every page is a cliffhanger!" or "we are a club of cliffhanger addicts".
== Video Games ==
* An [[In-Universe]] example is the [[Play Station 2]] game, ''[[Shadow of Rome]]'', where the segments that have you play as Agrippa the gladiator requires you to have a lot of flash and impressive moves, because if you play for speed and simple efficiency, the crowd wouldn't like your performance and it's [[Game Over]].▼
* In Chapter 3 of ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'', you have to defeat your opponents in a particularly spectacular manner in order to advance to the next rank.
▲* An [[In-Universe]] example is the [[
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