History Main / LectureAsExposition

As a subtrope of {{Infodump}}, it's an easy way to present {{Exposition}} in a story is to have a character, often the lead character, as a lecturer or teacher in a classroom, conference or boardroom.

* ''TalesOfSymphonia'' introduces its ClicheStorm plot in this only moderately cliched way.

* ''[[Series/BuffytheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'' did it in "Hush", where everyone's voices have been stolen. Giles delivers the exposition through transparencies and pantomime.

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* This is how we learn the main complication in GiveMyRegardsToBroadStreet -- in a board meeting.

* Milo gives two lectures on Atlantis in ''[=~Atlantis: The Lost Empire~=]''. The first one is actually his rehearsal for a proposal to his superiors, which he never gets to give due to them suddenly changing the time that makes it impossible for him to make the meeting.

* OlderThanTheyThink: This trope shows up in ''[[Film/DrMabuseTheGambler The Testament of Doctor Mabuse]]'' by FritzLang from 1933.

* ''Film/HowToTrainYourDragon'' begins with one. In the space of a 5 minute lecture, Hiccup introduces himself, the other villagers, and the different species of dragon while at the same time sounding almost like a tour guide.

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* OlderThanTheyThink: This trope shows up in ''[[DrMabuseTheGambler The Testament of Doctor Mabuse]]'' by FritzLang from 1933.

* ''{{Star Gate SG-1}}'': Jack O'Neill's young clone lectures a class of pilots on the new fighter plane.
** Also the original ''{{Stargate}}'' has as its EstablishingCharacterMoment for Dr. Jackson a lecture he is giving to a room of experts about his theory of the pyramids being made to replicate a design of an older, more advanced civilisation.
* ''[[BuffytheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'' did it in "Hush", where everyone's voices have been stolen. Giles delivers the exposition through transparencies and pantomime.

* OlderThanTheyThink: This trope shows up in ''The Testament of Doctor Mabuse'' by FritzLang from 1933.

* On ''RelicHunter'', Sydney was telling her class about a particular Indian tribe's mysterious shift in culture right before she went out and solved the mystery.

An easy way to present {{Exposition}} in a story is to have a character, often the lead character, as a lecturer or teacher in a classroom, conference or boardroom.

* Milo gives two lectures on Atlantis in ''[=~Atlantis: The Lost Empire~=]''. The first one is actually his rehearsal for a proposal to his superiors, which he never gets to give.

* In ''GameOfThrones'', Maester Luwin teaches Bran of the various Houses vying for power in Westeros, which also serves to educate the audience on the matter.

* One ''TalesOfTheQuestor'' side story was a classroom lecture about the setting's primary MinovskyParticle. (In the storyline, it functioned as the first step in DoingInTheWizard.)

* StarGate (the movie) opens up with Daniel Jackson giving a lecture on why he believes the pyramids were landing pads for ancient alien ships. The people listening to him all walk out at the ridiculousness of the theory. In a radical plot twist that surprises no one, he was right.
** WRONG WRONG WRONG! Daniel never proposed that the pyramids were landing pads. That was an idea that came out later. Jackson merely pointed out that "the ancient Egyptians did not build the great pyramids." He noticed that the language was completely different, ect. This is one of the most annoying myths, and Stargate itself has perpetuated it a couple of times (season 8 comes to mind.)

* ''UrbanLegend'' tells us about, well, urban legends by means of a lecture given in a college classroom.