This is the tale I pray the divine Muse to unfold to us. Begin it, goddess, at whatever point you will.
Odyssey
Methods of starting up an episode or an entire series.
Categories:
- Action Prologue
- After the End
- All Your Base Are Belong to Us
- Batman Cold Open
- Big First Choice
- Boy Meets Girl
- Boy Meets Ghoul
- Blitz Evacuees
- Business as Unusual
- Chilly Reception
- Closed Circle
- Danger Room Cold Open
- Debut Queue
- Distant Prologue
- Doomed Hometown
- Downer Beginning
- Dramatic Chase Opening
- Dream Intro
- Early-Bird Cameo
- Easing into the Adventure
- Establishing Character Moment
- Establishing Series Moment
- Everyone Meets Everyone
- Fake Action Prologue
- Fake-Out Opening
- First-Episode Spoiler
- For Great Justice
- Framing Device
- From New York to Nowhere
- Good Morning, Crono
- Happy Ending Override
- The Hero's Birthday
- A Hero Is Born
- How We Got Here
- I Found You Like This
- In Medias Res
- Inciting Incident
- Intro-Only Point of View
- It Began with a Twist of Fate
- It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
- Logical Latecomer
- Lost in Medias Res
- The Magic Comes Back
- A Minor Kidroduction
- Minsky Pickup
- Morning Routine
- Multiple Game Openings
- Naïve Newcomer
- Non-Indicative First Episode
- Once Upon a Time
- Open-Door Opening
- Opening Monologue
- Opening Narration
- Opening Scroll
- Out of Job, Into the Plot
- Plot-Inciting Infidelity
- Poorly Disguised Pilot
- Pre-Meeting
- Pride Before a Fall
- Prolonged Prologue
- R-Rated Opening
- Recruit Teenagers with Attitude
- Resurrected for a Job
- Second Episode Morning
- Show Within a Show
- Start to Corpse
- Starts with a Suicide
- Starts with Their Funeral
- Storybook Opening
- Sugar Apocalypse
- Survived the Beginning
- The Teaser
- Turn Out Like His Father
- Villain Opening Scene
- War Was Beginning
- Weather Report Opening
- Welcome Episode
- When It All Began
- Where I Was Born and Razed
- Whole Episode Flashback
- You All Meet in a Cell
- You All Meet in an Inn
- You Wake Up in a Room
