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* ''Literature/{{Bravelands}}'' begins with Swiftcub getting his "adult name" in a NamingCeremony, right before his father Gallant is murdered and he's ran out of his pride. The next chapter starts off a year later, with Fearless being a yearling raised by baboons.

* ''Literature/TheCrimsonTide'' begins with the hero, then 13 years of age, witnessing his [[DoomedHometown hometown being destroyed]] by Eastern barbarians, his mother taken from him, and must salvage what's left of his hometown before setting off on a journey - which takes several years - to the capital city and avenge his family.

Sometimes a work begins by showing us the main character as a child. It can also show us an important supporting character, but it's usually the main character. These kinds of introductions are barely longer than a few minutes at most, and they seldom affect the plot in any way other than being a way to highlight some basic character motivation and [[EarlyPersonalitySigns possibly foreshadow important character traits]], or perhaps provide the origin of some CatchPhrase. After the introduction is done, we are transferred to the present day (often via AgeCut) where the main character is grown up ([[TimeshiftedActor and played by the featured actor or actress]]).

* ''Webcomic/Rain2010'' begins with a prologue focusing on a four-year old Rain (then presenting as a boy), before time-skipping to her final year of high school.

* ''VideoGame/OctopathTravelerII'': Partitio's story begins with him as a child, arriving at what would be the future site of a bustling silver mining town, as he is just beginning to learn how to be a merchant.

* ''Film/SnowDogs'' begins this way with a young Ted Brooks visiting his father's dental practice for [[TakeYourChildToWorkDayPlot Career Day]], then fast-forwarding 25 years later with a now-adult Ted running his own successful dental practice along with his brother.

* ''Film/SnowDogs'' begins this way with dentist Ted Brooks visiting his father's dental practice for [[TakeYourChildToWorkDayPlot Career Day]], then fast-forwarding 25 years later with a now-adult Ted running his own successful practice along with his brother.

* ''Film/SnowDogs'' begins this way with dentist Ted Brooks visiting his father's dental practice for [[TakeYourChildToWorkDayPlot Career Day]], then fast-forwarding 25 years later with a now-adult Ted running his own successful practice.

* The movie ''Film/{{Us}}'' begins in [[TheEighties 1986]] with a seven-year-old Adelaide/[[spoiler:Red]] at the Santa Cruz boardwalk where she [[spoiler: encounters her doppelgänger]] for the first time.

** The episode "Echoes" opens with a young Maya having trouble in school because it's not geared for deaf children, and then curb-stomping a larger opponent in the dojo, before flashforwarding to [[spoiler: her father's death at the hands of Ronin]] and the present day.

** Jae-hoon/[[spoiler: Ba-reum]] first appears as a child who's already showing signs of becoming a serial killer.

* ''Series/TheRiseOfPhoenixes'': The prologue shows Ning Yi as a child. It's cute to begin with as he plays hide-and-seek with his mother, but quickly turns frightening when he [[spoiler: dreams of his older self murdering his mother.]]
* ''Series/{{Search}}'': The North Korean defector hands a baby to the South Korean soldiers in the DistantPrologue. Towards the end of the series we learn that baby was [[spoiler: Ye-rim]].

* Both ''VideoGame/{{Fable}}'' games set up the plot this way. The [[VideoGame/FableI first]] with your [[DoomedHometown town being destroyed]] and your father getting killed [[spoiler: while your mother is sent to prison and your sister kidnapped by bandits]], the [[VideoGame/FableII second]] when your sister is killed in front of you.

* The ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' TV movie "Operation: Z.E.R.O." opens with a flashback on two brothers discovering ''The Book of KND'' and overthrowing Grandfather. Those boys turn out to be [[spoiler: Monty Uno (aka Numbuh Zero) and his brother Benedict (aka Father)]].

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': "A Tale Of Two Stans" starts with Stan and [[spoiler: his twin brother Ford]] playing and exploring a cave together as children in the 1960s.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14199641/1/Spider-Ninja Spider-Ninja]]'' starts with [[GenderFlip Petra Parker]] as a four-year-old being adopted by Master Splinter and meeting his five-year-old sons, before time-skipping to them meeting April.

** Likewise, the first four minutes of the spinoff film ''WesternAnimation/PenguinsOfMadagascar'' opens with baby versions of Skipper, Kowalski and Rico in Antarctica along with a newborn Private, before picking up from the [[WesternAnimation/Madagascar3EuropesMostWanted third movie]].

* ''Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure'''s first episode opens with a young Haruka getting bullied in school for liking princesses, which leads her to meeting Prince Kanata.

* ''Film/TommyBoy'' opens with the young Tommy Callahan being told he's late to school - [[EstablishingCharacterMoment and he promptly runs face-first into the sliding glass door]], with young Richard Hayden teasing him for being late.

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'' has the first half or so of the movie be about Tarzan growing up, with the first sixth being about the apes finding him and the second sixth being about him meeting Terk and Tantor. It culminates with the AgeProgressionSong "Son of Man".

* The ''Series/Hawkeye2021'' episode "Echoes" opens with a young Maya having trouble in school because it's not geared for deaf children, and then curb-stomping a larger opponent in the dojo, before flashforwarding to [[spoiler: her father's death at the hands of Ronin]] and the present day.

* The entire first segment of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' centers around Link's adventures as a child before he seals himself inside the Temple of Time, where he lays dormant for several years and later emerges as an adult.

* ''VideoGame/TheGodfather'' begins with Aldo witnessing his father's murder and the destruction of their family bakery by the Barzinis and Don Corleone's promise that he'll be able to take his revenge. Flash forward nine years...

* ''VideoGame/MyChildLebensborn'' asks the player to choose between the male child and the female child during their adoption in 1948, while the game proper starts in August 1951, just before the child's seventh birthday.

* ''VideoGame/TalesOfGraces'' has its entire first chapter focus on several of the playable characters as kids, followed by a TimeSkip after a key plot event.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': The first chapter of the manga introduces Luffy and has him gain [[RubberMan his powers]] and motivation for becoming King of the Pirates[[note]]The anime changes it into a flashback episode just after Zoro joins the crew[[/note]].

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': The first chapter of the manga does this with Luffy. (The anime however changes it into a flashback episode just after Zoro joins the crew.)

* In ''Film/TheRibaldTalesOfRobinHood'', Robin is introduced as a boy who is watch to as Prince John murders his father, and orders his mother and sister raped. The film then jumps to when Robin is an adult and a permanent thorn in John's side.