History EstablishingCharacterMoment / WesternAnimation

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}''
** In the series [[TheTeaser Cold Opening]], Hilda removes her bell from troll's nose, after seeing that it causes pain to him. At first, it seems that trolls wants to eat her, but he actually returns her her scetchbook, and Hilda wasn't really scared at it. This showcases Hilda being the same thrill-seeking adventure, but also being AdaptationalNiceGuy.
** [[spoiler:Hilda's father Anders gets one himself, when he reaches the boat to Trolberg at last second, awkwardly pays for ticket, and also shows the captain the photo of his daughter as the reason of his arrival, showcasing him as an awkward wild adventurer, who genuinely cares for his daughter. Take in note, she has his thrill for adventures]].

** [[spoilers:Hilda's father Anders gets one himself, when he reaches the boat to Trolberg at last second, awkwardly pays for ticket, and also shows the captain the photo of his daughter as the reason of his arrival, showcasing him as an awkward wild adventurer, who genuinely cares for his daughter]].

* ''WesternAnimation/Hilda''

* In ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'', Gyro Gearloose's first scene has him barge into a board meeting to shout [[InsufferableGenius "Shut up everyone, I've just done something brilliant!"]] This establishes him as quite different from the kindhearted BunglingInventor of the original show.

* WesternAnimation/BugsBunny gets his in "WesternAnimation/AWildHare", when he appears out of the ground and establishes his collected, casual attitude with "[[CatchPhrase Eh, what's up, Doc?]]"

*** In Bender's first interaction with Fry, his recklessness is established when he waits impatiently for the suicide booth, with an attitude indicating he doesn't comprehend the implications of what he's doing. He also avoids paying for the suicide booth by putting in a coin on a string and yanking it out, establishing his criminal tendencies (and even though he won't have any use for the money once he's killed himself, further indicating that he doesn't understand what he's doing). His very first line of dialogue is [[CatchPhrase "Bite my shiny metal ass."]]

** The show establishes the three main characters pretty well in the first episode. Jackie in his first scene is shown [[AdventurerArchaeologist dodging flying arrows in a Bavarian castle]] as well as using {{improvised weapon}}s to do so. Uncle first appears like a sweet, caring old man before going straight to his trademark DopeSlap and his CatchPhrase "... [[AndAnotherThing and one more thing!]]" Jade is shown breaking into the underground military base of one of the most elite police organizations and hijacking a moped in her first attempt to "help" Jackie.

** [=SpongeBob=]'s first appearance (In "Help Wanted") is him enthusiastically getting ready to apply for a job at the Krusty Krab, saying his CatchPhrase "I'm ready" multiple times, showcasing his boundless enthusiasm and cheerful personality.

** Our main trio (Wubbzy, Widget, and Walden) were given this in the show's first episode, "[[Recap/WubbzyS1E1aATaleOfTails A Tale of Tails]]." Wubbzy is first seen playing with a kickity-kick ball, and his first line is his {{Catchphrase}}, "Wow!" When we first see Widget, she is clearly seen hammering on her robot chicken, hinting towards her GadgeteerGenius personality. Walden has a lot of stuff in his house hinting toward his role as TheSmartGuy, including busts of several famous people, some bookshelves, and even fossils of dinosaurs. And let's not start on his wacky words, which he has also said in that episode.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Llanargollen}}'': The first thing Prys is seen doing in the first episode, "Y Parsel Coll", is to not realize that letting go of his new painting would help him to get the nail he needs to hold it on the wall quicker, establishing him as slow-witted compared to Ceri.

* The three Eds in ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' all display their personalities in the show's intro alone. Eddy, the unofficial leader and show-off, hogs the camera on himself while his friends are left in the background, setting up his SmallNameBigEgo personality, and he gets angry with Ed when the latter messes up the camera, also setting up his HairTriggerTemper attitude. Ed, the clumsy oaf, just waves in the background and accidentally shoves his friends back while also messing up the camera, setting up his LethallyStupid tendencies as well. Edd, the shy, neurotic NeatFreak, is shown attempting to step away from the camera while in the background, and when Ed messes it up, Edd then straightens the camera. At the end, they end up destroying the camera due to their horseplaying, which also sets up the many destructions they would cause in the show itself.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Thundercats 2011}}'' young {{Catfolk}} Prince Lion-O is introduced [[KingIncognito sneaking]] cloaked and [[InTheHood hooded]] into the [[TheCityNarrows worst part]] of Thundera's slums, only to catch the eye of a gang of "Alley Cat" muggers who've just finished beating a hapless {{Dog|faces}}. He manages to [[MuggingTheMonster fight most off]] but has to be bailed out by ActionGirl Cheetara, to whom he reveals his reasons for being there: to find rare and obscure pieces of "[[LostTechnology technology]]," which everyone else believes to be a myth.iron

* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/TimothyGoesToSchool'' the protagonist Timothy is getting ready for his first day of school. When he goes on the bus for the first time he see's a female cat who kindly says "Hello" to him while the others are mostly quiet. This character is Yoko who would later become Timothy's best friend and is very friendly. In the same scene, he sees Doris who is viewed by Timothy to be quite annoying and loudmouthed. In the same episode, when the class introduced themselves. Charles says his not but quickly sits back down in silence due to his shyness and Lilly saying her name but thinks that's what her name is due to being very forgetful.

** Captain Hero's desire for AnythingThatMoves is indicated when he confesses that he'd "stick and stir any one of those broads," but wants a "hot black chick," too. When that is granted, he waits, in vain, for a twelve year old and a donkey to come.

** Creator Alex Hirsch pinpoints the gift shop scene towards the end of the episode as being this. [[AdorablyPrecociousChild Dipper]] chooses the pine tree hat due to practicality, since he lost his old one during the events of the episode. Meanwhile, [[GenkiGirl Mabel]] chooses a grappling hook, revealing how unpredictable the character can be.

** The titular character is introduced as a four-year-old, breaking through a wall while bending three elements at once and screaming [[BadAssAdorable "I'm the Avatar, YOU GOTTA DEAL WITH IT!"]]

** [[TheCharmer Bo]][[BigFun lin]] introduces himself this way via a [[FunnyBackgroundEvent Funny Background Event]] where he spots Korra and decides, after some [[CasanovaWannabe preening]], to [[TheDulcineaEffect help her out of an argument]] with his earthbending teacher.

** Asami crashes into Mako on the street. A couple minutes later, she takes him out to dinner, and gets her father to fund his team to make up for it.

** In Season 2, Mako's first appearance is him, now a cop, stopping out a van full of criminals by knocking them over. [[BondOneLiner Then he suggests that they should call the police for help]]. Given his dour disposition throughout the first season, this marks a big change. [[spoiler:He later shows Korra he actually wrote potential one-liners ahead of time.]]
** Zaheer's introduction shows him locked away in an isolated mountain prison. He spends a minute politely educating his guards about some obscure Airbending philosophy, hinting that he's AffablyEvil and something of a WarriorPoet, before he breaks out using Airbending (which he's able to use like a master [[InstantExpert despite only having the ability for at few days, at most]]) and declares his intention to destroy the White Lotus and the Avatar, hinting at him being a [[BombThrowingAnarchists Bomb Throwing Anarchist]].
** Kuvira, the main antagonist of the 4th season is firmly established in her first scene by single handily taking down a group of bandits and giving them two choices; Join her new empire and live or remain attached to the rail tracks and die.

** Archer himself gets his moment near the end of the pilot episode "Mole Hunt" when he [[spoiler:gets an erection at the thought of his mother dying]]. May also double as an EstablishingSeriesMoment.

** Aang's is where after being restored from a HumanPopsicle, his first words were to ask Katara if she wanted to go penguin-sledding. He also gets an EstablishingCharacterMoment for the Avatar in the second episode, by going into the [[SuperMode Avatar State]] and [[CurbStompBattle quite effortlessly wiping out everyone on the ship]] in under a minute.
** The first two episodes quickly show Prince Zuko's obsession with capturing the Avatar in order to return from his exile. He also gets a more subtle one when he gets Aang to surrender to him in exchange for him sparing the Southern Water Tribe - most villains would [[ILied level the place anyway]] [[ForTheEvulz for their own amusement]], but even after Aang escapes later on, [[NobleDemon Zuko proves to be as good as his word]], the first sign of his many [[EvilVirtues virtuous qualities]].
** Iroh as well. He just wants to finish his game and drink some tea.
** [[BigBad Fire Lord Ozai's]] first talking-and-doing-things appearance (as opposed to the brief silhouette he got a few episodes earlier) features him burning Zuko's face. His own son. In public. As the 13 year old boy begs for mercy. [[AbusiveParents That's all we need to know about the guy.]]
** [[TheDragon Princess Azula's]] first appearance during Zuko's flashback in "The Storm". All you can guess about her is that she's family by the fact that she's standing next to Iroh, has yellow eyes, and is dressed in very similar robes, but when she's seen ''smiling'' as Zuko gets disfigured, you ''know'' she's going to be trouble whenever she'll show up. When she shows up as a named character it is one of these. We can tell from her first appearance that, as opposed to her sympathetic AntiVillain brother, she is a vicious creature, and that is the truth all the way through the series.

** Toph's entrance, which consists of her effortlessly beating a man about five times her size in the Earth Rumble ring without breaking a sweat also qualifies her as a LittleMissBadass. Did we mention that she's also [[DisabilitySuperpower blind]]?

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Some of the characters get one in the first episode, "Let's Play Prison-Ball":
** Kaeloo remains happy for most of the episode despite all the chaos going on around her.
** [[TheDitz Stumpy]] takes the term "prison" in "prison-ball" too literally[[note]]Prison-ball is a game similar to dodgeball, except if a player is hit they get sent to a space at the back of the court called a "prison"[[/note]].
** Mr. Cat decides that prison-ball is a fun game because the game involves hitting another person and the other person going to "prison".

** The first scene we see with Olaf is him trying to get Mr. Cat to bow down before him while talking about [[TakeOverTheWorld world domination]].

*** The Trix sisters are also properly introduced in this episode. As of yet, we only knew them as sinister silhouettes giving orders to their ogre. When Darcy senses that Bloom is spying on them, she duplicates herself teleports behind bloom and attack’s her showing that she is the most strategic and observant of the Trix. Icy's first encounter with Bloom has her taunting the young fairy, which shows Icy's cruelty and arrogance. Also, she's the first Trix the camera pans on and is the one who questions Nut, revealing that she's TheLeader. Stormy attacks Bloom with a wild Tornado right off the bat, therefore demonstrating that she is the most violent of the Trix and that she enjoys inflicting pain on others.

*** Coran awakens from stasis to mistake Lance for an intruder, to which he performs a wacky, over-the-top battle stance before settling into a more joking banter once he figures Lance is not a serious threat. This serves to establish him as a EccentricMentor and a source of ComicRelief.

* [[BigBad Darkseid]] gets this moment in his first speaking appearance in ''Franchise/{{DCAU}}'', the ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Father's Day". Superman arrives for a final confrontation with MonsterOfTheWeek Kalibak, only to see Darkseid (who has just given a YouHaveFailedMe speech out of earshot) disintegrate Kalibak. Superman demands to know who he is and Darkseid just stands there, smiles at Superman, and then uses his Omega Beams to torture Superman to the ground before answering "''THAT'' is who I am." And thus the relationship between arguably the two most hated enemies in the entire DCAU was established.

* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' gives each member (other than Bloom and Stella) their establishing moment the same scene they're introduced, when Bloom and Stella move into their suite. Flora speaks to her talking plant and gives Kiko carrots, establishing her as nature-loving and sweet; Tecna greets her with a series of facts about Bloom's planet, showing she's extremely smart but not too sociable; Musa shows she's the snarky and fun-loving one by cracking a joke about Stella blowing up the lab the year before.
** The Specialists each establish their characters in their first scene, though their personalities are established further later on: Sky is nice, Brandon is cool, Riven is difficult, and Timmy's nerdy. In season two, Helia is established as an artist and a pacifist in the first scene, which shows him drawing, and then fighting a dragon without harming it.
* WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker established his heckler nature by bursting onto the screen, saying a smug "Guess Who", dodging a subsequent blow from Poppa Panda, retorts by honking his nose like a horn, and then unleashes his legendary laughter as he treks off to reek havoc on the Panda's rooftop. His second (albeit first solo) appearance in "The Cracked Nut", where he sings a BraggingThemeTune about how he's crazy and he's proud of it, is another one of these moments.

** Even Daizy got an Establishing Character Moment when she was introduced in the season two premiere "[[Recap/WubbzyS2E1aWhosThatGirl Who's That Girl?]]" She is shown spinning and tip-toeing around. Sure, she's done that in other episodes, but in her introduction, people would get to understand that she is [[TheChick very feminine]].

** Said grandfather, Ed Wuncler, is mostly benign in his first appearance. He fully shows [[CorruptCorporateExecutive what kind of man he is]] in his second appearance, where he arranges a HostileTakeover of Jasmine's lemonade stand, [[MoralEventHorizon tricking her into voluntarily working in defiance of child labor laws, only to make a killing off of "cruelty-free lemonade" when protests start,]] [[WouldHurtAChild leaving poor Jasmine in debt for all her efforts]]. [[{{Greed}} Bear in mind that he's already]] [[{{Fiction 500}} the richest man in the state.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'': The first few minutes of ''Independence Day'' sets the personalities of four of the major characters. Robin attacks Mr. Freeze from out of sight, letting out a cackle to taunt him. Speedy is annoyed at Icicle Junior's rampage interrupting his arrival to the Hall of Justice. Aqualad initially dodges his mentor Aquaman's question of his own anticipation, focusing on taking down Killer Frost before answering. Kid Flash is impatient and rushes in to grab Captain Cold's gun.

* The first appearance of Dr. Rockzo The Rock n' Roll Clown on ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}''. Try to guess what he does. [[spoiler: He does cocaine.]]:

* ''MickeyMouse'': Mickey's appearance in ''WesternAnimation/SteamboatWillie'' shows him whistling and smiling as he steers the boat before being told off by the actual boat captain, Pete. This sets in place his personality as a happy go-lucky yet mischievous mouse.

** ''[[WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime Prime]]'' shows that ''Transformers'' loves this trope:

*** The first thing Cliffjumper does in is boast about freaking out some cops. The second thing he does is jump into a fight alone with several Vehicons. [[spoiler:The third thing he does is die.]]

** Showing that ''Transformers'' loves this trope, ''[[WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime Prime]]'' has Knock Out and Breakdown showcasing the former's vanity and the latter's bruiser status, and then they [[BashBrothers manage to work in tandem]] to overpower ''Optimus'' and the rest of the Autobots, showing that they aren't normal Vehicon {{mooks}}.
*** The first thing Cliffjumper does in ''Prime'' is boast about freaking out some cops. The second thing he does is jump into a fight alone with several Vehicons. [[spoiler:The third thing he does is die.]]