History Main / BigEntrance

* ''VideoGame/LoveAndPies'': Upon finding out that Joe quit his job at her café to work at her rival Amelia's, Edwina storms into the café with her face lit by evil green light and [[DramaticThunder lightning striking behind her.]]

* The 1969 film version of ''The Royal Hunt of the Sun'' has a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-LfuVC5bEw Cleopatra-like entrance for Atahualpa Inca]].

* Escamillo, the toreador from ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}'', enters from a distance with a large chorus singing about how great he is. When he arrives onstage, ''he'' then proceeds to sing about how great he is in a song that is as flamboyant, pompous and likable as he is, complete with lots of percussion, dramatic descriptions of bullfighting and possibly the catchiest tune in this catchiest of operas.

* This is common in the ''Anime/PrettyCure'' franchise, but special mention goes to ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'' 's movie where Cure Happy gets her [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu5bVUv2eDU Ultra Form]] and the whole world goes from GaiasLament to an {{Arcadia}} in just ''seconds''. The song is even called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmoIPf-KenU Ultra Cure Happy Tanjou!]] [[labelnote:Translation]] "Tanjou" is Japanese for "Enter". [[/labelnote]]

* [[UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen Queen Elizabeth II]] entered the 2012 Olympics Arena in London '''by paradropping from a hovering helicopter! [[RuleOfCool Alongside]] Film/JamesBond!''' [[spoiler:Okay, it was actually stunt people standing in for her and Daniel Craig, but that didn't make her entrance any less awesome.]]

* In''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'' Mistress Flora, Mistress Fauna and Mistress Merryweather arrive in a heavenly light of sparkles when Lord Duke declares, “Their most honored and exalted Excellencies, the Three Good Fairies! Mistress Flora, Mistress Fauna, and Mistress Merryweather!”. Later in the same sequence, Maleficent gets a really [[EvilIsCool cool one]], by blowing the doors open, filling the palace with DramaticWind and lightning, and slowly coalescing out of green flame. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl8RY7Bm-Ew Seen here.]] It's subtle, understated, and threatening as all hell.

* [[Wrestling/DavidHeath Gangrel]] is considered by many to have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-BWXnD96s8 the greatest non-PPV entrance]] in wrestling history, rising up from the floor through a ''ring of fire'' under blood-red lighting (sometimes strobed). When he was joined by Wrestling/{{Edge}} and Wrestling/{{Christian}} in The Brood, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALFMYWFRjQs all three entered this way together]] and it was ''awesome.''

* In ''Theatre/{{Tosca}}'', Baron Scarpia makes one of grand opera's baddest of bad-ass entrances. He and his secret police crash an enormous chorus number in mid-note, which swerves like a skipped record needle into the bad guy's signature theme. A chorus of ''happy children'', to be precise. Really putting ''bad'' in bad-ass.

* ''Webcomic/CloseToYourHeart'': In contrast to Cuda who is sneaking towards the temple, Blixer makes his presence known by blaring into a horn. Cuda takes him out after the knights are alerted, and then Lycan suggests that they [[LampshadedTrope should have came up with a plan to beat Cuda rather than make an awesome introduction]]. Blixer buffs it off, stating that "presentation is the key".

* ''Webcomic/CloseToYourHeart'' In contrast to Cuda who is sneaking towards the temple, Blixer makes his presence known by blaring into a horn. Cuda takes him out after the knights are alerted, and then Lycan suggests that they [[LampshadedTrope should have came up with a plan to beat Cuda rather than make an awesome introduction]]. Blixer buffs it off, stating that "presentation is the key".

** Creator/CharlieSheen rode onto the stage on a locomotive accompanied by Music/{{Slash}}.

* ''Film/BatmanVsSuperman'': Doomsday sends a massive energy blast at Batman, only for it to be stopped by ''something.'' The blast dies down, and we see what got in the way... a certain Amazonian princess, bracelets crossed in front of her, the glow of the heat from the blast beginning to fade as she lowers them, revealing a look of grim determination on her face, and ''[[AwesomeMusic/WonderWoman that music]]'' strikes up. ComicBook/WonderWoman couldn't have possibly had a cooler cinematic debut. She then clangs her bracelets together, making a shockwave that drives the previously unscratchable monster back!

* ''Film/BatmanVsSuperman'': Doomsday sends a massive energy blast at Batman, only for it to be stopped by ''something.'' The blast dies down, and we see what got in the way... a certain Amazonian princess, bracelets crossed in front of her, the glow of the heat from the blast beginning to fade as she lowers them, revealing a look of grim determination on her face, and ''that music'' strikes up. ComicBook/WonderWoman couldn't have possibly had a cooler cinematic debut. She then clangs her bracelets together, making a shockwave that drives the previously unscratchable monster back!

* You know how performances of the cancan often start with the dancers running to the stage, shrieking and waving their skirts? ''Film/FrenchCancan'' takes this trope UpToEleven for its climactic performance: the dancers surge through the crowds, rappel down ropes into patrons' laps, and burst through a wall poster. Featured dancer Nini makes ''her'' entrance by [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome leaping off the band's elevated bandstand into a rescue blanket.]]

** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E1TheMagiciansApprentice The Magician's Apprentice]]", Twelve carries on this fine tradition and in fact takes it UpToEleven when he rolls into a medieval arena on a tank, playing the electric guitar.

* ''Film/RoboCop1987'' had a special version of this answer concerns that a simple open entrance could make the title character look silly. Instead, Verhoeven had Robo's entrance teased out with first with his support crew coming and as the Desk Sgt. protests, he is suddenly silenced by the sound of heavy mechanical footsteps of some figure entering the station, barely visible through frosted glass. That is followed by teasing looks that become more and more revealing until you are eagerly following the running cops through the halls trying to get a good look at this thing. At the end, you get to see [=RoboCop=] towering in his maintenance chair and looking completely kickass.

* ''Series/{{Arrow}}''

** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'': Thor arrives [[spoiler:in Wakanda in a beam of light wielding Stormbreaker. Bruce Banner even yells out, "You guys are screwed!" at the invading army the second he sees his fellow Avenger... and he's not wrong.]] This scene mirrors a similar one in the beginning of ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld''.

* The Bog King from ''WesternANimation/StrangeMagic'' after his minions sneak in and subdue everyone. They start a rock song and comes in singing [[JukeBoxMusical 'Mistreated' by Deep Purple]] as the stage pyrotechnics go off.

** [[Creator/PamelaAnderson Pamela]] [[LiveActionTV/ComedyCentralRoastOfPamelaAnderson Anderson]] floated down toward the stage on a Glinda-style bubble.

* ''Inverted'' in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' by the Esper, Chaos. As you enter, the Esper telekenetically slams the door shut, [[MagicalGesture by clapping it's hands together]]. The thing isn't even the one doing the entering, and you have that [[ThisIsGonnaSuck sense of dread]] even before the fight starts.

* Maleficent of ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'' gets a really [[EvilIsCool cool one]], by blowing the doors open, filling the palace with DramaticWind and lightning, and slowly coalescing out of green flame. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl8RY7Bm-Ew Seen here.]] It's subtle, understated, and threatening as all hell.

* Franchise/MonsterVerse: In the ''Kingdom Kong'' graphic novel, [[Characters/MonsterVerseKaiju Camazotz]]'s awakening on Skull Island is signalled by a sonic scream from deep in the Vile Vortex that is heard all over Skull Island, followed by earthquake-level tremors and Skull Island's storm system closing in over the sky before Camazotz explodes out of the earth dramatically.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''/''Manga/OnePiece'' crossover ''Fanfic/AGemInTheRough'', the Crystal Gems tend to do this quite a bit. Their most notable entrance would be at the end of "The Seastone Cage:" Steven and the Straw Hats are captured by Crocodile and Sanji has just been knocked out by Mr. 3. Just when Crocodile is confident that nothing will stand in his way, Mr. 3 reveals that he understands the price of what failure in Baroque Works means and has brought partners who are most eager to talk to him. With that, the ceiling came crashing down and said partners adopted a battle stance, ready to take on the Shishibukai.

* ''Fanfic/TheMountainAndTheWolf'':
** The Wolf's very first entrance has [[BadVibrations the approach of loud thudding sounds]] before he emerges to announce that ''he's'' going to fight the Mountain (an unhappy-looking Oberyn confirming this). Later chapters see his longship tear out of the Warp and plowing into the midst of an enemy army/along side an enemy ship, discharging screaming Norscan berserkers while he insults and fights the commander.
** When Daenerys returns to King's Landing, she swoops around the citadel a few times before landing in the throne room, and announcing her position as Queen of the Seven Kingdoms before anyone can say a word.