Pursued Protagonist
This is a standard opening for a movie, book, or cartoon — start with a protagonist in the adventure pursued by relentless, shadowy figures who outnumber them. It can be on Hellish Horseback, spaceships, cars, roofhopping, or any of a thousand methods of pursuit. If the protagonist has escorts, expect them to wear copious amounts of red. If they are
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A dead animal is used to foreshadow that our main characters are in danger or are about to be confronted with horrors of all kinds. This helps set up the tone for the rest of the work to follow. This can happen at the beginning of the work or elsewhere; if it happens almost immediately before things go bad, it qualifies as Five-Second Foreshadowing.
The animal in question will frequently be a deer (or a
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