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* HayateTheCombatButler begins with a flashback to Hayate's childhood where [[BadSanta Santa]] tells Hayate that he wouldn't ever bring him a present, and provides [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower one of the reasons]] why Hayate is so strong-willed.

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* ''{{Ptitledztlyey0hfvu}}'' begins with a young ____ crying for her mother, the former Queen of Atlantis as she is sacrificed by the Crystal to save her kingdom from a tidal wave. She fail, and as a result she dies and Atlantis ends up underwater.

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* ''{{Ptitledztlyey0hfvu}}'' begins with a young ____ crying for her mother, the former Queen of Atlantis as she is sacrificed by the Crystal to save her kingdom from a tidal wave. She fail, (the Queen) fails, and as a result she dies and Atlantis ends up underwater.underwater.
** Her eventual boyfriend ____ was also briefly shown as a child in both an old photograph of his as well as on an old film reel just right after the titles appear.

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* ''{{Disney/Cinderella}}'' briefly shows the titular heroine as a little girl during the film's prologue.
* At the very beginning of ''Disney/SleepingBeauty'', Prince Phillip for some reason, is a toddler at the same time Princess Aurora is a baby.
* Ariel was briefly shown as a little girl at the very beginning of [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid ''The Little Mermaid III: Ariel's beginning'']].
* At the very beginning of ''{{Dinosaur}}'', Zini is actually shown as a baby lemur alongside with a pregnant Plio during the scene where Aladar's egg is shown landing in a small bush on Lemur Island and immediately hatching out of said egg.
* At the very beginning of ''Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', Kuzco is briefly shown as a toddler just right after he is introduced in his llama form before cutting to his adult human form prior to his transformation.
* ''{{Ptitledztlyey0hfvu}}'' begins with a young ____ crying for her mother, the former Queen of Atlantis as she is sacrificed by the Crystal to save her kingdom from a tidal wave. She fail, and as a result she dies and Atlantis ends up underwater.
* Andy Davis at the very beginning of [[ToyStory ''Toy Story 3'']].
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* ''EverAfter'' begins this way,with Drew Barrymore's character as a little tomboy who quickly on loses her father to heart attack,then the main plot takes place ten years later
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* A few episodes of ''{{Fraiser}}'' open with Frasier and Niles as children, generally to establish that whatever behavior will drive the plot of the episode has been going on since childhood.

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* A few episodes of ''{{Fraiser}}'' ''{{Frasier}}'' open with Frasier and Niles as children, generally to establish that whatever behavior will drive the plot of the episode has been going on since childhood.
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* A few episodes of ''{{Fraiser}}'' open with Frasier and Niles as children, generally to establish that whatever behavior will drive the plot of the episode has been going on since childhood.
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* ''Titan A.E.'' begins with the destruction of earth and the launch of the titular Titan, then jumps into the future, where humans have become a minority, because so many were killed when the earth was destroyed
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* ''TronLegacy'' opens up with Sam Flynn as a child, talking with his father about the plot of the original ''{{Tron}}'' [[spoiler: the night before he mysteriously disappears]]. Also notable for being the only real-world scene where UncannyValley CGI is used to make Jeff Bridges look younger.

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* ''TronLegacy'' opens up with Sam Flynn as a child, talking with his father about the plot of the original ''{{Tron}}'' [[spoiler: the night before he mysteriously disappears]]. Also notable for being the only real-world scene where UncannyValley CGI is used to make Jeff Bridges look younger.
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* Pixar's {{Film.Up}} starts out with Carl and Ellie when they first met as children.

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* Pixar's [[Film.Up]] starts out with Carl and Ellie when they first met as children.

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* Pixar's [[Film.Up]] {{Film.Up}} starts out with Carl and Ellie when they first met as children.
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* Pixar's Film.Up starts out with Carl and Ellie when they first met as children.

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* Pixar's Film.Up [[Film.Up]] starts out with Carl and Ellie when they first met as children.
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* Pixar's {{Up}} starts out with Carl and Ellie when they first met as children.

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* Pixar's {{Up}} Film.Up starts out with Carl and Ellie when they first met as children.
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* Pixar's {{Up}} starts out with Carl and Ellie when they first met as children.
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** ''NightmareOfNunnally'' begins similarly, showing Nunnally an Lelouch at some point not long after their exile, with Lelouch promising to protect Nunnally.

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** ''NightmareOfNunnally'' begins similarly, showing Nunnally an and Lelouch at some point not long after their exile, with Lelouch promising to protect Nunnally.




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* {{Bakuman}} begins with Mashiro Moritaka getting a visit from his uncle Mashiro "Kawaguchi Taro" Nobuhiro ([[PosthumousCharacter who is dead by the time the main story begins]]), who praises him for his artwork and suggests that he will be an artist when he grows up. Moritaka then notes that he wasn't referring to him becoming a {{mangaka}}.



* The first ''GoldenSun'' started with Isaac and Garet as kids.

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* The first ''GoldenSun'' started with Isaac and Garet as kids.kids, during the tragedy in which Isaac's father, Jenna's parents and Jenna's brother lost their lives [[spoiler:but it turns out they actually lived]].




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* In BreathOfFire 2, the player starts out as a child, who goes to find his sister Yua and protects her from monsters, only to return and find out that no one in the town remembers him [[spoiler:because Aruhamel wiped everyone's memories and abducted his father and sister]]. He meets his fellow orphan, Bow, and the two become Rangers together years later.
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* SpecialA begins with kid Hikari practicing martial arts with her father, and then kid Kei comes and defeats her easily, realeasing plot.
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* ''TronLegacy'' opens up with Sam Flynn as a child, talking with his father about the plot of the original ''{{Tron}}'' [[spoiler: the night before he mysteriously disappears]]. Also notable for being the only real-world scene where UncannyValley CGI is used to make Jeff Bridges look younger.
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Titan AE has an awesome example of this trope, it is actually longer and more important (to its story) than most examples

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* ''Titan A.E.'' begins with the destruction of earth and the launch of the titular Titan, then jumps into the future, where humans have become a minority, because so many were killed when the earth was destroyed

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* In ''LesMiserables'', we are introduced to Cosette and Eponine when they are children. Cosette gets her song "Castle on a Cloud", to establish how she's miserable and dreams of someone taking her away and loving her. Eponine doesn't do much, but her mother does compliment the hat she wears, to emphasize how Eponine is spoiled and favored, compared to Cosette.

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* In ''LesMiserables'', ''[[{{Theatre/ptitlenjisnv3p}} Les Misérables]]'', we are introduced to Cosette and Eponine when they are children. Cosette gets her song "Castle on a Cloud", to establish how she's miserable and dreams of someone taking her away and loving her. Eponine doesn't do much, but her mother does compliment the hat she wears, to emphasize how Eponine is spoiled and favored, compared to Cosette.



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* ''ForrestGump'' starts off with scenes of Forrest's childhood, though this lasts for about fifteen minutes.

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* ''ForrestGump'' starts off with fifteen minutes of scenes of Forrest's childhood, though this lasts for about fifteen minutes.childhood.

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* ''{{Carrie}}'' would have started out like this had the special effects necessary for the scene worked properly. They didn't, and so the scene was scrapped.

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* ''{{Carrie}}'' would have started out like this had the special effects necessary for the scene worked properly. They didn't, and so the scene was scrapped. The remake, thanks to the advance of CGI, was able to include this scene, albeit not at the very beginning.
** ''[[TheRageCarrie2 The Rage: Carrie 2]]'', the sequel to the above film, started with a scene of Rachel's mother trying to "protect her from demons" before Rachel is taken by social services and her mother is taken to a mental hospital.

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* {{Carrie}} would have started out like this had the special effects necessary for the scene worked properly. They didn't, and so the scene was scrapped.

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* {{Carrie}} ''{{Carrie}}'' would have started out like this had the special effects necessary for the scene worked properly. They didn't, and so the scene was scrapped.
* ''TheLionKing II'', unlike the original, only briefly shows Kiara as a kid on the day she meets Kovu.
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* {{Carrie}} would have started out like this had the special effects necessary for the scene worked properly. They didn't, and so the scene was scrapped.
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* ''ForrestGump'' starts off with scenes of Forrest's childhood, though this lasts for about fifteen minutes, so this troper's unsure of whether it still counts or not.

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* ''ForrestGump'' starts off with scenes of Forrest's childhood, though this lasts for about fifteen minutes, so this troper's unsure of whether it still counts or not.minutes.
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* ''TreasurePlanet'' opens with young Jim Hawkins reading about the exploits of pirate captain Nathaniel Flint.

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* ''TreasurePlanet'' opens with young Jim Hawkins reading about the exploits of pirate captain Nathaniel Flint.
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* The first ''FatalFury'' OVA starts off with Terry and Andy (and Lily) as kids, and shows us the source of their [[YouKilledMyFather motivation]] for the remainder of the cartoon.

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** And we see a young Laurie walking in on her mother arguing with her stepfather.




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* One episode of ''{{Firefly}}'' begins with a flashback to when Simon and River were children, mainly showing how close they were and how River was a playful, imaginative girl before her brain was hacked up. There are several other flashbacks, mainly dealing with Simon trying to rescue River, but none have them as children.




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* In ''LesMiserables'', we are introduced to Cosette and Eponine when they are children. Cosette gets her song "Castle on a Cloud", to establish how she's miserable and dreams of someone taking her away and loving her. Eponine doesn't do much, but her mother does compliment the hat she wears, to emphasize how Eponine is spoiled and favored, compared to Cosette.
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** [[YourMileageMayVary Arguably]] one of the greatest examples of a JustifiedTutorial in all of gaming. The game teaches you how to walk because you are a baby, and as you grow from a newborn to an infant to a preteen to an older teen to a young adult, you learn to interact with things, talk to other people, use items, and (yes) use weapons.
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* The first episode of ''DharmaAndGreg'' opened on a subway with both characters with their parents just happening to be there at the same time, though they didn't actually meet.
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* The first chapter of ''TegamiBachi'' shows a seven-year-old Lag Seeing being delivered to Cambel Litmus, establishing his goals of finding his mother and meeting Gauche again. By the end of the chapter, he's five years older, and ready to set out to become a Letter Bee.

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* The first chapter of ''TegamiBachi'' ''LetterBee'' shows a seven-year-old Lag Seeing being delivered to Cambel Litmus, establishing his goals of finding his mother and meeting Gauche again. By the end of the chapter, he's five years older, and ready to set out to become a Letter Bee.

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