How characters are introduced in stories.
See also How to Gather Characters. Compare Beginning Tropes.
- Attack Hello
- Avengers, Assemble!
- Big Damn Heroes
- Big Entrance
- Bitch Alert
- *Click* Hello
- Come with Me If You Want to Live
- Crash-Into Hello
- Debut Queue
- Delayed Narrator Introduction
- Dramatis Personae
- *Drool* Hello
- Dynamic Entry
- Early-Bird Cameo
- 11th-Hour Ranger (if they're not already an established character)
- Emerging from the Shadows
- Establishing Character Moment
- Everyone Meets Everyone
- Feet-First Introduction
- Forgotten First Meeting
- Hero Looking for Group
- Incoming Ham
- Introduction by Hookup
- Intro Dump
- Last Episode, New Character
- Meet Cute
- A Minor Kidroduction
- Mysterious Stranger (a subversion)
- Naked on Arrival
- Pursued Protagonist
- Putting the Band Back Together
- Remember the New Guy?
- Rescue Introduction
- Second Episode Introduction
- Theme Tune Roll Call
- *Twang* Hello
- Welcome Episode
- The Worf Effect
- You All Meet in a Cell
- You All Meet in an Inn
