History EstablishingCharacterMoment / AnimeAndManga

* In ''Anime/MyHime'', Shiho is first established as a ClingyJealousGirl when she punches Yuuichi out of the way when he tries to give Mikoto CPR, saying that "(his) eyes look indecent".

** Jonathan jumps to help a young lady being bullied by kids taller and stronger than him because hey, that's just what a gentleman does.
** Joseph asks two {{Dirty Cop}}s to let a victimized black kid go, even if said kid stole his wallet. Then one of the cops provokes him. A moment later, both cops have broken fingers and Joseph is freaking at the possibility that his grandmother will find out he lost his temper.
** Jotaro is introduced after being arrested due to a street fight. The cops explain to his mother that he's not only unharmed, but severly beat multiple opponents. His mother assures them that Jotaro is a good boy, and takes off to his cell, having flashbacks of a younger Jotaro acting like a sweet young boy. This immediately cuts to the now 17-year old Jotaro yelling at his mother to shut up. However, he goes on to explain that he had no control of his actions in the street fight, and refuses to leave his jail cell until he's sure no one else will get hurt because of him.
** Josuke is first seen calmly tolerating a group of would-be bullies, but beats one of them to a pulp when he insults his hair.
** Giorno returns a woman's stolen wallet, uses his Stand to swipe some cash without her noticing, and buys some gelato for himself and a kid.
** Jolyne is introduced in a cell complaining that someone saw her masturbate.
** Johnny witness Gyro Zeppeli's duel and without a care touches the Steel Balls.
** Josuke wakes up and asks Yasuho who he is, then fiercely retaliates against Joshu, who pushed Yasuho aside and attempted to smash in Josuke's head with a rock.

** Karma is introduced by having him be the first to injure Korosensei by [[TheTrickster tricking him into shaking his hand]] [[GuileHero when it's taped with blades that harm him.]]

* ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'': His proper character introduction gives all the foundation of Zenitsu's character, the bad and the good in him:
** 1) He is desperate to find himself a lover and marry right away.
** 2) He is quite easily scared and overreacts to near everything. Upon close inspection, however, Zenitsu never skips on his fights when the chips are down.
** 3) Zenitsu says he is weak and needs to be protected, while in fact his strength is pure speed, his fight record and achievements doesn't lag behind any of his friends.
** 4) His tantrums makes it seem he only cares about himself, but in truth, Zenitsu is faithful and shows immense gratitude when he protected Tanjiro's box. Zenitsu had only just gotten close to Tanjiro and by then he had no idea what actually was inside the box; all Zenitsu knew it was very important to Tanjiro so he protected it with his own body as a shield.

** [[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam Domon Kasshu]]starts the first episode by befriending a kid, growling "[[CatchPhrase Have you seen this man?]]" at a guy, and then cleaning up in a bar brawl. Allenby has one defining her as an ActionGirl by pitting her in an arcade simulation battle against Domon. The machine broke down before either of them called it quits.

* ''Manga/InuYasha'': minor character Jinenji is first mentioned when Inuyasha and company arrive at a village and are told about a half-demon who lives not far away and has been terrorizing the locals. The heroes go to find Jinenji, who is pretty creepy-looking with a huge stature, a horse-like head, and bulbous all-blue eyes. His immediate response when Inuyasha attacks isn't to fight back, [[NonMaliciousMonster but for tears to start welling up in his eyes and he runs to a nearby farmhouse, crying out for help]], and his aged mother comes running out and bonks Inuyasha on the head. The protagonists quickly realize that Jinenji is quite peaceful, the product of genuine love between his human mother and demon father, and befriend him; he has scars all over his arms from abuse that the locals inflicted on him, not anything from starting fights or even defending himself from other demons. They even stand up to the other villagers [[VanHelsingHateCrimes when they show up to kill Jinenji themselves]].

* Christine from ''Manga/UFOBaby'' seems like a quiet girl until the end of the episode. First she voices her concern that Kanata and Miyu have not returned to class then [[ClingyJealousGirl she starts talking to herself about what they are doing together]] [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} and imitates their voices]] and finally [[{{Yandere}} she trashes her desk in a fit of rage]].
* ''Anime/DanganRonpa3'':

* ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2017''

* In ''Anime/MaiHime'', Shiho is first established as a ClingyJealousGirl when she punches Yuuichi out of the way when he tries to give Mikoto CPR, saying that "(his) eyes look indecent".
** Haruka's first scene has her yelling at Mai for the property damage caused by her arrival at Fuuka Academy, while the other student council members are calmer and more welcoming of Mai.

* Manga/{{Naruto}}'s introduction establishes his nature as a prankster well enough, but the first scene that shows how there's more to him than that is when he sits on the swing, looking on at all the other kids who graduated get congratulations from their parents, while he is the ''only'' one who failed, showing the depths of his loneliness and isolation.

*** Frieza smirking as his men murder the Namekians for their Dragon Ball. If you watch ''Anime/DragonBallKai'', he is shown in the first episode blowing up Planet Vegeta while laughing.

** The series begins with the protagonist, Haruyuki Arita, getting a message from a bully demanding that Haru buy him food or face the consequences. Depressed about school, as usual, Haru retreats into the bathroom during lunch and plays a squash game, in which he has the high score. All this shows that Haru's a victim of bullying with terribly low self-esteem, and an impressive gamer.

** Misato Katsuragi -- Wild party girl in her picture, drives like crazy, sympathetic in a motherly or CoolBigSis way towards our hero, established in the first episode.

** Asuka Langley Sohryu -- the '''infamous''' introduction, following her skirt blowing in the air: *SMACK* *SMACK* *SMACK* "What was that for?" "Viewing fee."
*** That's only half of her character, though. In the next episode, she is shown crying in her sleep about the loss of her mother, which displays her sweeter, almost completely hidden side.
*** More subtly, her first proper line is to respond to Misato's remark that she has grown taller, by pointing out that she has also "developed into a woman in other places as well." This establishes her obession with being seen as an adult.
** Kaji -- "Is she still wild in bed?" While playing footsie under the table. Oh Kaji you HandsomeLech you.

* Anime/AkazukinChaCha botching her spell.
* ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' has several of these in the first chapter. America shows his ManChild personality and how they can make a huge hero to defend the earth. Switzerland irritably snaps at Japan for agreeing with America. England first appears to be the OnlySaneMan (with [[BritishStuffiness a hint]] of {{Tsundere}} towards [[HoYay America]]), only to lose his temper when France speaks up and then get into a fight with him.
** Then [[TeamMom China]] attempts to calm things down but [[ButtMonkey is ignored.]] Greece shows his [[ThePhilosopher philosophical]] side while being surrounded by cats and later is seen sleeping when the rest of the countries argue amongst themselves. Russia mentions enjoying seeing [[TheWoobie Lithuania]] begging to him in tears with [[PsychopathicManchild a cheerful smile]] and then asks if [[ProneToTears Latvia]] agrees (while [[GirlWithPsychoWeapon Belarus]] holds [[KnifeNut a knife]] to his throat). Poland jumps in to protect [[HeterosexualLifePartner Lithuania]] from Russia. [[DrillSergeantNasty Germany]] yells at everyone to shut up and strictly proceeds on with business. [[TheDitz Italy]], when chosen to speak first, shouts out his trademark food "PASTA!!!!!!!!!!!"
*** Italy gets another one when he first meets Germany; he's found hiding in a tomato crate, tries and fails to convince Germany [[ItMakesSenseInContext he's a fairy]], then tearfully surrenders and begs for his life.
** In Canada's first appearance, he apologizes for being late ... with no one realizing who he is.

* ''Manga/BloomIntoYou''

* ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}''

* ''Manga/ComicGirls''

* A few in ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer''

** Joseph asks two [[DirtyCop Dirty Cops]] to let a victimized black kid go, even if said kid stole his wallet. Then one of the cops provokes him. A moment later, both cops have broken fingers and Joseph is freaking at the possibility that his grandmother will find out he lost his temper.

** Dio's very first appearance features him pulling off a literal KickTheDog moment, telling the audience immediately that this guy is going to make most [[{{Jerkass}} Jerkasses]] seem tame.

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'':
** Jack Rakan is introduced when he interrupts Negi's fight against Kagetarou and proceeds to end it with [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v22/c200/8.html a sword the size of a building]].
** After Kurt Godel's first appearance, it is quite clear that he is a manipulative asshole and a blatant liar ("Where have I seen your face? Couldn't ''possibly'' have been on Megalomesembria's Most Wanted...") -- and that he is not one to be trifled with, politically or on the battlefield.

* ''Manga/MuhyoAndRoji'',

* ''Manga/OnePiece''

** 2) He is quite easily scared and overreacts to near everything, upon close inspection however Zenitsu never skips on his fights when the chips are down.
** 3) Zenitsu says he is weak and needs to be protected, while in fact his strenght is pure speed, his fight record and achievements doesn't lag behind any of his friends.
** 4) His tantrums makes it seem he only cares about himself, in truth Zenitsu is faithful and shows immense gratitude when he protected Tanjiro's box, Zenitsu had only just gotten close to Tanjiro and by then he had no idea what actually was inside the box, all Zenitsu knew it was very important to Tanjiro so he protected it with his own body as a shield.

* In ''Manga/MuhyoAndRoji'', [[LovableSexManiac Yoichi]] is first introduced performing a SkinshipGrope on Nana.

** Itona manages to make clear both his oddiness and his overwhelming desire for strength and victory in the first five seconds on-page. [[spoiler:By bursting through a wall and sitting at his desk without breaking a sweat, while declaring his superiority over said wall]].

* Everything you need to know about Umaru Doma is summed up neatly in the opening moments of ''Manga/HimoutoUmaruChan''; In public, she's an [[TheAce honor student who excels at everything she does with virtually zero effort,]] yet is incredibly friendly, humble and worshipped by nearly all her classmates. But in the privacy of her home, she literally turns into a lazy, bratty gremlin of an otaku who would like nothing better than to eat junk food, play video games, read manga, and sleep all day, with her brother Taihei walking in on her while she's napping with her school clothes and a pile of snacks all over the floor.

** Jotaro is introduced in a jail cell telling his mother to shut up, having locked himself up to stop his "evil spirit" (actually his Stand, Star Platinum, but he didn't know what Stands were at the time) from hurting innocent people.

*** The [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Ginyu Force]]'s entrance. Nothing more needs to be said.

* In the opening pages of ''Rike ga Koi ni Ochita no de Shoumeishitemita'', Yukimura gets on Himuro's case about her arriving 3 minutes late. Himuro replies coolly that it was actually 2 minutes and 32 seconds, and mocks him for being unable to measure time correctly.

** Jotaro is introduced in a jail cell telling his mother to shut up, having locked himself up to stop his "evil spirit" (actually his stand Star Platinum, but he didn't know what stands were at the time) from hurting innocent people.

** Kamina's very first onscreen action is to tell Simon that he should walk with his head held high and [[BigBrotherMentor insists that he call him "bro"]]. Later in the episode he challenging a giant robot to a fight on foot ''with nothing but a katana'', while self narrating, clearly displays the level of HotBlooded {{determinat|or}}ion the audience is to expect.

** In the first episode Kamina challenging a giant robot to a fight on foot ''with nothing but a katana'', while self narrating, clearly displays the level of HotBlooded {{determinat|or}}ion the audience is to expect.

** Kumagawa Misogi has perhaps the most unsettling introduction in the series. While there were certainly a few earlier scenes discussing his character, his actual debut comes right after the protagonists have finished taking on the Flask Plan. What do they see? [[spoiler: Twelve bloodied fighters pinned to the walls with screws]]. Out comes an unassuming boy who proclaims "It wasn't my fault".

** Yubaba is mentioned a few times in advance of her first appearance on-screen and it's made clear that she's not someone you want to mess with. When Chihiro finally enters her office, she's quietly sitting at her desk, going through paperwork, and magically zips Chihiro's lips shut because she annoys her, calmly telling the little girl that there's no place for her at the bathhouse and would prefer to turn her into something more useful, like a pig or a lump of coal. When she finally lets Chihiro speak again, her insistence that she be given a job sets off Yubaba and suddenly everything in the room starts flying around in response to her anger and she soars across the room to deliver a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to her face-to-face, relenting only when her literal giant baby of a son starts crying and finally agrees to hire Chihiro to the end of allowing her to calm him down. All this together solidifies her as a calculating businesswoman who won't stand for any nonsense and with a HairTriggerTemper, but who can also be reasoned with.

* ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia''
** The first time we see a teenaged Akko, she's thrilled to have arrived in a town close to Luna Nova... but has no clue how to get there. While she undergoes CharacterDevelopment during the series, she never stops being her bubbly, excited and clueless self.

** The 2013 movie also did the same with the above four characters in the first scene at Luna Nova. Akko is sleeping in class, indicating she's a BookDumb IneptMage, Sucy is pranking her with a potion to establish her TheTrickster, Lotte nervously looks on concerned to establish her as a ShrinkingViolet while Diana flawlessly answers a question to establish her as TheAce. Given that the series gave Diana an AdaptationalNiceGuy treatment, her first extended interaction in the movie with Akko is her dissing Akko's childish view on magic to establish her as an AcademicAlphaBitch, which is used as the picture for the page.
*** ''The Enchanted Parade'' also introduces Green Team's personalities by showing what they got in trouble for. Jasminka wouldn't stop eating to establish her as a laidback BigEater, Constanze gets in trouble for trying to use Magitek, and Amanda got in trouble for trying to steal an artifact which almost worked thanks to her great skills on a broom.
** Andrew in the series is introduced utterly disinterested in the witches fawning over him and the magic they perform with, establishing him as TheStoic IndifferentBeauty.

* Christine from ''Manga/DaaDaaDaa'' seems like a quiet girl until the end of the episode. First she voices her concern that Kanata and Miyu have not returned to class then [[ClingyJealousGirl she starts talking to herself about what they are doing together]] [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} and imitates their voices]] and finally [[{{Yandere}} she trashes her desk in a fit of rage]].