History Main / AHeroIsBorn

* ''{{Rose of Versailles}}'' begins just a moment before the birth of Oscar.

* The first memory in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreed2'' is of Ezio's birth.

* The first memory in ''AssassinsCreed 2'' is of Ezio's birth.

* James Kirk in the latest ''Film/StarTrek'' movie.

* ''TristramShandy'' by Laurence Sterne, which begins with the hero's ''conception''. And his troubled birth sets up much of the humor that follows.

* The protagonist of ''{{Fallout}} 3''

* Both Moses and Jesus in TheBible.

* Bambi in ''{{Bambi}}''

* Aladar the Iguanodon in ''{{Dinosaur}}'' is taken from his mother's nest as an egg by a Pteranodon and winds up hatching in the presence of a family of lemurs.

!Please sort if you know which type the examples are

* RealLife. Sort of. At the birth of Ivan the Terrible a Tartar envoy who supposedly was a wise-woman said, "First he will destroy us, then he will destroy you.

* ''WhiteFang'' (it starts a little before the birth of White Fang, actually)

* Years before JudyGarland made the role famous, there was [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016544/ a silent adaptation]] of ''TheWizardOfOz'' that, [[InNameOnly among many, MANY other changes]], established Dorothy Gale's arrival in Kansas as a DoorstopBaby delivered by a mysterious, supernatural figure.

* Mario and Luigi for the entire game of ''[[YoshisIsland Yoshi's Island]]''.

* ''HarryPotter'', in full DoorstopBaby mode.

* The [[Horrible/VideoGames universally reviled]] {{Famicom}} RPG ''Tao'' provides opening exposition while an embryo - presumably the protagonist's - gestates in the background.

* ''OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'' - 13 of the main characters were shown being born.

* ''TristramShandy'' by Laurence Stern, which begins with the hero's ''conception''. And his troubled birth sets up much of the humor that follows.

* ''{{Tarzan}}'' The original story "Tarzan of the Apes" starts with the adventures of his parents and is already well into its third chapter before Alice Clayton saves her husband's life, kills a bull ape, becomes insane and bears Tarzan in less than a day.

* Titus Groan in the ''{{Gormenghast}}'' novels.

* Technically, [[HarryPotter Harry]] is around five months old at the prologue, but it still falls into the spirit of this trope, type 2 of course.

* ''HarryPotter''

* Technically, Harry is around five months old at the prologue, but it still falls into the spirit of this trope, type 2 of course.

* ''Disney/Hercules'' - Hercules was not only once a baby, he was once a god.

* Bambi in {{Bambi}}
* Littlefoot in TheLandBeforeTime
* Simba in the ''TheLionKing''.

* OneHundredAndOneDalmatians - 13 of the main characters were shown being born.
* ''WhiteFang'' (it starts a little before the birth of White Fang, actually)
* The protagonist of ''{{Fallout}} 3''
* FindingNemo-Nemo was shown as an egg.

* ''TristramShandy'' by Laurence Stern, which begins with the hero's ''conception''. And his troubled birth sets up much of the humor that follows.
* The first memory in ''AssassinsCreed 2'' is of Ezio's birth.

* ''{{Hercules}}'' - Hercules was not only once a baby, he was once a god.
* RodgersAndHammerstein's ''Allegro''.
-->His hair is fuzzy, his eyes are blue,\\
His eyes may change--they often do.\\
He weighs eight pounds and an ounce or two--\\
Joseph Taylor, Junior!
* In RASalvatore's Drizzt Do'Urden series, one of the prequel books starts off with Drizzt's birth, and the consternation surrounding it.

* ''HarryPotter''
* ''TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' - Yes, Quasimodo was a baby.

* Aladar the Iguanodon in ''{{Dinosaur}}'' is taken from his mother's nest as an egg by a Pteranodon and winds up hatching in the presence of a family of lemurs.

* ''{{Tarzan}}''

*Titus Groan in the ''{{Gormenghast}}'' novels.