History Main / OpeningMonologue

* There's one in ''Film/{{Transformers}}'', where Optimus Prime explains about the Allspark. Somewhat unnecessary, since he explains again to Sam and Sam explains to the government agents and Optimus explains ''again'' to the other Autobots.

* ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' gives us the well spoken and WellIntentionedExtremist Doctor Breen who, over the course of the game can be heard giving various speeches addressed to the Combine, citizens, and even the One Free Man himself, all in a lulling and intelligent manner.
--> "Welcome, welcome to City 17."

* ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'': "Fifty thousand people used to live here...now it's a ghost town."

* ''Film/{{Oblivion 2013}}'': Provided by Jack Harper while we get brought up to speed on the characters and situation and see a montage of SceneryPorn (The skies and some parts of the planet that look less [[BuffySpeak wasteland-y]]), SceneryGorn (the shot of the bombed-out Pentagon (with implications of it having been [[NukeEm ground zero for a nuclear strike]] during The War) and the remains of New York and Washington, DC), TechnologyPorn ([[CrystalSpiresAndTogas Tower 49]], the [[FutureCopter Bubble Ship]], the collector vessels, [[CoolGuns the guns]] and [[CoolStarship the Tet]]), {{Fanservice}} (ShirtlessScene and ToplessnessFromTheBack) and [[spoiler: some {{Irony}} in that [[TheCakeIsALie most of the info is unwitting bullcrap]] on Jack's part.]]

** In ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', Max gives a brief one with a GutturalGrowler voice.

* ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' starts with an opening monologue in the form of a class history lesson.
** This marvelously catches up to the movie's "here-and-now" events in a nested Russian Doll fashion.
*** To elaborate, the actual first scene (the Universal logo) is nested in a class video in River's class, which is all part of a dream sequence when she's actually being broken out of the Academy, but then that's all actually a recording being watched by [[spoiler: the Operative]].
* ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' opens with a monologue delivered by Sarah Connor. The third film, with one by John Connor.

-->'''Nick Danger:''' [[IncrediblyLamePun I wonder where Ruth is?]]
-->'''Narrator:''' Doggedly...(dog barks)...towards his weekly meeting with the unknown. At Fourth and Drucker he turns left. At Drucker and Fourth he turns right. He crosses Mac Arthur Park and walks into a great sandstone building.

* Both ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' and ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2'' begin with Hiccup's introduction: "This is Berk..."

If the monologue describes a fantastical story around which the plot is based, it's also a MythPrologue. See also ExpositoryThemeTune (for a theme song that provides the work's background exposition) and OpeningScroll (the exposition is provided in text on the screen). Sister-trope to OpeningNarration (where a recurring work uses an opening monologue OncePerEpisode). Compare PrivateEyeMonologue.

** "The Skinheads have taken [[NamesTheSame Madonna]][[note]]Not [[Music/{{Madonna}} that]] one.[[/note]] hostage. Take the law[[note]]"Take the power" in the Turbografx-16 version.[[/note]] into your own hands!"

-->'''Galadriel''': Nothing is evil in the beginning. And there was a time when the world was so young, there had not been yet a sunrise. But even then there was light.