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** The audience gets to know the kind of person [[VillainProtagonist Light]] becomes when we learn that in the time between acquiring the Death Note and meeting Ryuk, he's already written ''pages'' of names within the Note, knowing that they're all dead by his hand. And then he proclaims his plans to use the Death Note to become [[AGodAmI "God of the New World"]].

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** The audience gets to know the kind of person [[VillainProtagonist Light]] [[Characters/DeathNoteLightYagami Light Yagami]] becomes when we learn that in the time between acquiring the Death Note and meeting Ryuk, he's already written ''pages'' of names within the Note, knowing that they're all dead by his hand. And then he proclaims his plans to use the Death Note to become [[AGodAmI "God of the New World"]].
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** Lelouch gets multiple of these in Episode 1. First, he turns around a nearly lost chess game by moving his king piece first, establishing himself as a brilliant tactician with a penchant for bold, audacious, and borderline reckless moves. Then, when Kallen crashes her truck, he is pretty much the only bystander who goes to help (while everyone else just stands around with their cellphones out and wonders where the ambulance is), establishing him as the one guy who will get his hands dirty to help a stranger. When he is trapped in said truck later, he deduces he is in Tokyo's old subway system by ear, showing his vast encyclopedic knowledge. This is often overlooked, but when he believes he's about to die, he thinks of his [[MoralityPet little sister]]--the one person he'd go to any length to protect. Finally, at the end of the episode, after using his MagicalEye to make the soldiers threatening him kill themselves, he flashes an [[PsychoticSmirk Evil Grin]], revealing just what kind of a fabulous WellIntentionedExtremist he is about to start transforming into.
** In the first episode, Suzaku proceeds to give Lelouch his only gas mask when the (supposed) container of poison gas opens, and then gets shot for refusing to kill Lelouch for [[HeKnowsTooMuch witnessing something he shouldn't]]. This becomes a lot more significant once we get TheReveal about [[DeathSeeker Suzaku's motivations]].

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** [[Characters/CodeGeassLelouchLamperouge Lelouch Lamperouge]] gets multiple of these in Episode 1. First, he turns around a nearly lost chess game by moving his king piece first, establishing himself as a brilliant tactician with a penchant for bold, audacious, and borderline reckless moves. Then, when Kallen crashes her truck, he is pretty much the only bystander who goes to help (while everyone else just stands around with their cellphones out and wonders where the ambulance is), establishing him as the one guy who will get his hands dirty to help a stranger. When he is trapped in said truck later, he deduces he is in Tokyo's old subway system by ear, showing his vast encyclopedic knowledge. This is often overlooked, but when he believes he's about to die, he thinks of his [[MoralityPet little sister]]--the one person he'd go to any length to protect. Finally, at the end of the episode, after using his MagicalEye to make the soldiers threatening him kill themselves, he flashes an [[PsychoticSmirk Evil Grin]], revealing just what kind of a fabulous WellIntentionedExtremist he is about to start transforming into.
** In the first episode, [[Characters/CodeGeassSuzakuKururugi Suzaku Kururugi]] proceeds to give Lelouch his only gas mask when the (supposed) container of poison gas opens, and then gets shot for refusing to kill Lelouch for [[HeKnowsTooMuch witnessing something he shouldn't]]. This becomes a lot more significant once we get TheReveal about [[DeathSeeker Suzaku's motivations]].
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* ''Literature/KonoSuba'': The very first scene tells you everything you need to know about Kazuma and Aqua. Kazuma dies an extremely humiliating death, but gets back at a goddess who constantly belittles him by exploiting a loophole to drag him down to the mortal realm with him as his "cheat item", showcasing him as a LoserProtagonist who nevertheless can be very cunning and vindictive when pushed. Aqua meanwhile is said goddess who pridefully mocks Kazuma only for all her composure to break down when Kazuma gets one over on her, nicely displaying how underneath her godly pride is a LoserDiety who's ultimately not very different from Kazuma.
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* ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'':
** Fujiwara's first scene gets off a lot of her personality traits in rapid succession. She's offering movie tickets that she won to Kaguya and Shirogane because her father won't let her see anything with romance, [[UnwittingPawn completely unaware that Kaguya had secretly snuck them into her mailbox]]. Then she flips the entire script by [[SpannerInTheWorks offering a second pair of tickets to another movie]], leaving Kaguya and Shirogane to have to alter their plans of attack on the fly. Finally she [[BigEater grabs the steamed bun]] that [[SecretlySelfish Kaguya and Shirogane were already reaching for]], before heading off to class, all while completely oblivious to the DuelOfSeduction happening right under her nose.
** Tsubame is introduced being assigned as the vice captain of the cheer team, showing off both her leadership skills and her bubbly personality. But the real moment comes at the end of the meeting when everyone is exchanging Line [=IDs=] and she notices Ishigami sitting by himself due to not using the app and goes to give him her email address so he can stay involved with the group, establishing her as someone who looks out for people that would otherwise be ignored.
** Maki's first focus chapter starts with her laughing off the idea of having a crush on Kashiwagi's boyfriend before walking off to mope and ending up getting accidentaly stepped on by Shirogane when he finds her passed out on a pathway from crying too much, showing her to be the story's ultimate {{Tsundere}}, ThirdWheel, and ButtMonkey.

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** ''Anime/AfterWarGundamX'': In his first minute on screen, Garrod Ran hijacks a Mobile Suit, ''with nothing but a 9mm and a homemade flash bang''; he then goes on to "rescue" a girl from kidnappers, steal a Gundam, wipe out an army with his Gundam's WaveMotionGun and put his girl into a coma. [[http://s978.photobucket.com/albums/ae270/Kytrix/Gundam%20X/?action=view¤t=GarrodRan.jpg&newest=1 And that's just the first two episodes.]]

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** ''Anime/AfterWarGundamX'': In his first minute on screen, Garrod Ran hijacks a Mobile Suit, ''with nothing but a 9mm and a homemade flash bang''; he this is a 15 year old kid, by the by, a teenage ActionSurvivor. He then goes on takes a job to "rescue" a girl named Tiffa Addil from supposed kidnappers, but promptly turns on the one who hired him when he realizes they have evil intentions and Tiffa is frightened, showing he is not so heartless as to never question a shady employer. He then proceeds to steal a Gundam, wipe fight off Tiffa's pursuers, and later wipes out an army ''army of raiders'' with his Gundam's WaveMotionGun in a ferocious bid to keep her safe. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Unfortunately, the last part ended up traumatizing Tiffa and put his girl putting her into a coma. coma because she has psychic powers, and suffered a backlash from the great amount of death she "felt" when Garrod wiped out the raiders.]] [[http://s978.photobucket.com/albums/ae270/Kytrix/Gundam%20X/?action=view¤t=GarrodRan.jpg&newest=1 And that's just the first two episodes.]]]]
** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'':
*** Setsuna F. Seiei introduces himself in the past as a hopeless ChildSoldier in an army of minimally armed children fighting a "holy war in the name of God", running for cover as he despairingly declares that there is no god. In the present day, we see him older and in the seat of the GN-001 Gundam Exia. He then proceeds to subject a bragging pilot in a prototype Mobile Suit to a CurbStompBattle, effortlessly dismantling the guy before taking his leave. All with a calm, deadpan, almost robotic demeanor. One wonders how his past broke him to become so deadpan, just about emotionless.
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** Before his first physical appearance, [[BigBad All For One]] is established as [[TheManBehindTheMan the man pulling the strings]] of the [[LegionOfDoom League of Villains]] and All Might's former ArchEnemy. Once he [[VillainNoLongerIdle finally deigns to intervene in the plot]], he asserts what a menace he is even in [[HandicappedBadass his crippled state]] by [[CurbStompBattle effortlessly defeating all the Pro Heroes]] attacking his base, [[PersonOfMassDestruction levelling a sizeable portion of the Kamino Ward]] in the process, and blasting a hole in Best Jeanist when he's the last one still able to fight, leaving Midoriya and his friends (who happen to be hiding nearby) to hallucinate their own deaths from the sheer malice exuding from All For One and struggling to hold their breath and not make a sound. It's especially bad for Midoriya since, unlike his friends, he knows ''exactly'' just who All For One is since All Might told him about his history with the One For All users.
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* ''Manga/RoosterFighter'': The series starts with Keiji saving a child from a demon like he's a Franchise/{{Superman}}, then flashbacking to him mating with a chicken he melodramatically leaves behind.

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