->''Start as late in the story as possible.''
-->--''Writing proverb''

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->''"You hit the ground running"''
-->--'''Music/SmashMouth'''

->''"Most epic poets plunge ''in medias res''\\
(Horace makes this the heroic turnpike road),\\
And then your hero tells when'er you please\\
[[HowWeGotHere What went before by way of episode]],\\
While seated after dinner at his ease,\\
Beside his mistress in some soft abode,\\
Palace, or garden, paradise, or cavern,\\
Which serves the happy couple for a tavern."''
-->--'''Creator/LordByron''', ''Literature/DonJuan'', I.6

->''"Creator/{{Homer}} doesn't begin UsefulNotes/TheTrojanWar with Leda's twin eggs: he always rushes toward the outcome, and he carries the listener along with him [[TropeNamer into the middle of things]], just as if they were familiar."''
-->--'''Creator/{{Horace}}'''

->''"I suppose I have trouble getting into ''Transistor'' because the moment you walk in the door, it starts throwing shit at you like the audience at an ill-conceived [[ProducePelting Holocaust denial open-mic showcase]]."''
-->--'''''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''''' on ''{{VideoGame/Transistor}}''

->''"We don't see Zack's discovery of [[IconicItem a discarded brick-phone]] in a storm drain, or Screech being bitten by [[NiceCharacterMeanActor a radioactive dickhead]], or a homeroom roll-call of each character, with voice-over exposition of their trademark traits and crushes. And we don't need to, because it's unthinkable that a time could exist when Zack, Slater and co., and their various interpersonal foibles, weren't as much a part of our cultural database as ''[[Music/LedZeppelin Stairway to Heaven]]'' or the great flood."''
-->--'''Stuart Millard''', ''So Excited, So Scared: The ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' Retrospective''

->"I'll tell you my story in a way you can understand, with a beginning, a middle and an end. We'll start in the middle."
-->--Professor Paradox, ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce''

->''That wasn't the first time I met the Doctor, and it certainly wasn't the last. Oh no. [[InvokedTrope I just put that at the beginning because it's a brilliant opening.]]''
-->--'''Elton''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "Love and Monsters"

->'''Bravoman:''' ''How did we get up here anyway? I don't even remember him capturing us.''
->'''Alpha Man:''' ''I'd wager the show's writers wanted to start us off "mid adventure" it's a writing technique called in medias res.''
->'''Bravoman:''' ''In mid whawha?''
->'''Alpha Man:''' ''I believe it's latin for "skip the boring parts".''
-->--''VideoGame/BravoMan Episode 1''

->''Proper story's supposed to start at the beginning. Ain't so simple with this one.''
-->--'''Rucks''', ''VideoGame/{{Bastion}}''

->''When and where did you find out about [[MentalWorld that world]]? How is it even possible to [[HeelFaceBrainwashing steal another's heart]]? Now, tell me your account of everything. ...Start from the very beginning.''
-->-- '''Sae Nijima''', ''VideoGame/Persona5''

-> genius! why start at the beginning when you can bypass the whole [[spoiler: sburb process]]
-->-- A comment at the official tumblr of ''WebComic/WakeUp''.

->''...our play leaps o'er the vaunt and firstlings of these broils, beginning in the middle,''
-->-- Prologue, ''Theatre/TroilusAndCressida''

->''I've started our story'' in medias res'', a Latin phrase which directly translates to "skipping straight to the good bit."''
-->--'''Madeline''', ''Podcast/WoodenOvercoats'', "Georgina and the Waves"

-> ''You cannot just start your story with ‘So there we was, on Air Force One...’''
-->--''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks''

->''"No, gentle reader, you haven't missed anything-- You've merely joined the Man of Steel in the middle of the strangest struggle of his career... But to learn the who, what, when, where, how and why, we must review the mysterious events of the previous 36 hours..."''
-->-- '''Narrator:''', ''ComicBook/ThePlagueOfTheAntibioticMan''
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