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-->-- '''Leon Kennedy''', ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''
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* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'':
** Mia Fey's very first case has her getting within a hair's breadth of actually managing to get her client acquitted... then [[spoiler:he ''commits suicide on the witness stand''.]]
** [[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth Miles Edgeworth]]'s first case doesn't fare any better. He's about to take up the prosecution after the prosecutor he is replacing is accused of wrongdoing, then [[spoiler:both the defendant ''and'' the previous prosecutor get murdered before the trial even resumes]], and Franziska shows up and whips him a lot. Since the trial never resumes, his actual first case is the same as Mia's, above.
** While not necessarily his first day on the job, in Phoenix's second case, [[MentorOccupationalHazard his own mentor gets murdered]], he gets nearly destroyed in the courtroom by his childhood friend, and right as he was about to get a lead on the actual culprit, ''he'' gets accused of the murder.
** In [[VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney Apollo Justice]]'s first trial, he gets [[{{Troll}} trolled]] a lot by his client, [[spoiler:Phoenix Wright]], and [[spoiler:ends up accusing his own mentor, Kristoph Gavin, and proving with ''forged evidence'' that he committed the murder Wright was accused of, leaving poor Apollo out of a job]]. ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'' goes on to elaborate that he took this fairly hard, but his ChildhoodFriend encouraged him not to give up.
* ''VideoGame/{{Arknights}}'': The game starts with the [[PlayerCharacter Doctor]] waking up from cryostasis, and got thrown into a fight for their life within moments of their awakening to escape the Reunion Movement trying to capture them.
* ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheShiftedSpires'': One of the guards in /c/, which got massacred. As said by another guard:
--> ...Hey... Do me... a favor, will you? Tell my buddy...over there....that he did a great job...\\
It was....his first day....on the job....He was so scared....But he\\
ne..ver...ran....or...ga...ve.....u..p...........\\
[Interact with other guard]\\
Unfortunately, it seems like this guard is already dead. He died without ever being praised for his bravery...
** Mia Fey's very first case has her getting within a hair's breadth of actually managing to get her client acquitted... then [[spoiler:he ''commits suicide on the witness stand''.]]
** [[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth Miles Edgeworth]]'s first case doesn't fare any better. He's about to take up the prosecution after the prosecutor he is replacing is accused of wrongdoing, then [[spoiler:both the defendant ''and'' the previous prosecutor get murdered before the trial even resumes]], and Franziska shows up and whips him a lot. Since the trial never resumes, his actual first case is the same as Mia's, above.
** While not necessarily his first day on the job, in Phoenix's second case, [[MentorOccupationalHazard his own mentor gets murdered]], he gets nearly destroyed in the courtroom by his childhood friend, and right as he was about to get a lead on the actual culprit, ''he'' gets accused of the murder.
** In [[VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney Apollo Justice]]'s first trial, he gets [[{{Troll}} trolled]] a lot by his client, [[spoiler:Phoenix Wright]], and [[spoiler:ends up accusing his own mentor, Kristoph Gavin, and proving with ''forged evidence'' that he committed the murder Wright was accused of, leaving poor Apollo out of a job]]. ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'' goes on to elaborate that he took this fairly hard, but his ChildhoodFriend encouraged him not to give up.
* ''VideoGame/{{Arknights}}'': The game starts with the [[PlayerCharacter Doctor]] waking up from cryostasis, and got thrown into a fight for their life within moments of their awakening to escape the Reunion Movement trying to capture them.
* ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheShiftedSpires'': One of the guards in /c/, which got massacred. As said by another guard:
--> ...Hey... Do me... a favor, will you? Tell my buddy...over there....that he did a great job...\\
It was....his first day....on the job....He was so scared....But he\\
ne..ver...ran....or...ga...ve.....u..p...........\\
[Interact with other guard]\\
Unfortunately, it seems like this guard is already dead. He died without ever being praised for his bravery...
* In ''VideoGame/DeusEx'', on the night JC Denton joins UNATCO, the NSF attacks a shipment of plague vaccines, and the first few missions of the game consist of pursuing the vaccine and ultimately confronting the NSF leader, [[ExtremelyShortTimespan apparently all on the same night]]. Before long, [[spoiler:JC Denton ends up going rogue and leaving to fight the conspiracy behind UNATCO. On his way out, Jaime Reyes offers him an augmentation upgrade that was supposed to be a welcome aboard gift, but ends up being a going-away present]].
* ''VideoGame/Doom3'':
** Downplayed. You've just arrived on Mars, where you're soon after tasked with retrieving a lost scientist by your CO, and just when you find said scientist, all hell breaks loose--literally. Ghostly skulls fly out of a portal and began zombifying people, including the guy you were supposed to retrieve, who you're forced to kill. From then on, you fight through dozens of zombies and demons, and later discover that the invasion was caused by a MadScientist who works at the base you're assigned to. It's a pretty long first day.
** Happens again in the expansion pack ''Resurrection Of Evil'', where you're part of a team investigating a faint signal on Mars. You touch an ancient artifact, and your teammates are vaporized as hell once again breaks loose. Of note is that ''you'' started the invasion this time.
* ''VideoGame/Doom3'':
** Downplayed. You've just arrived on Mars, where you're soon after tasked with retrieving a lost scientist by your CO, and just when you find said scientist, all hell breaks loose--literally. Ghostly skulls fly out of a portal and began zombifying people, including the guy you were supposed to retrieve, who you're forced to kill. From then on, you fight through dozens of zombies and demons, and later discover that the invasion was caused by a MadScientist who works at the base you're assigned to. It's a pretty long first day.
** Happens again in the expansion pack ''Resurrection Of Evil'', where you're part of a team investigating a faint signal on Mars. You touch an ancient artifact, and your teammates are vaporized as hell once again breaks loose. Of note is that ''you'' started the invasion this time.
* This is par for the course in ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' and [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 its sequel.]] You sign up to be a night guard at an old family pizzeria, thinking it'll be essentially them paying you to sleep. [[AIIsACrapshoot Then]] [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane the animatronics]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath stuff you into a suit intended for the titular Freddy.]] Or attempt to, at least.
* The first flight of the SSV Normandy in ''VideoGame/MassEffect'' ends with an attack on a human colony, the death of a special forces operative, and the discovery of a massive threat to all life in the galaxy.
* In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', your first day at school involves you getting lost and wandering into the physical manifestation of a serial rapist's distorted view of the school he works at, nearly getting killed by the physical manifestation of said rapist's dark side and his minions several times over, and finally escaping only to discover that your (wrongful) criminal record has been exposed to the rest of the student body and you're going to be a social pariah for the rest of the school year.
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** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'': Leon Kennedy's first day with the Raccoon City PD is the day of [[ZombieApocalypse another T-Virus outbreak]].
** In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', Leon's first day as a Secret Service agent isn't much better, though he's at least better prepared for it.
** In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', Leon's first day as a Secret Service agent isn't much better, though he's at least better prepared for it.
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** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'': Leon S. Kennedy's first day with the Raccoon City PD is the day of [[ZombieApocalypse another T-Virus outbreak]].
** In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', Leon'soutbreak]]. His first day as a Secret Service USSTRATCOM agent in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' isn't much better, though he's at least better prepared for it.
** In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', Leon's
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* This is par for the course in ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' and [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 its sequel.]] You sign up to be a night guard at an old family pizzeria, thinking it'll be essentially them paying you to sleep. [[AIIsACrapshoot Then]] [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane the animatronics]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath stuff you into a suit intended for the titular Freddy.]] Or attempt to, at least.
* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'':
** Mia Fey's very first case has her getting within a hair's breadth of actually managing to get her client acquitted... then [[spoiler:he ''commits suicide on the witness stand''.]]
** [[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth Miles Edgeworth]]'s first case doesn't fare any better. He's about to take up the prosecution after the prosecutor he is replacing is accused of wrongdoing, then [[spoiler:both the defendant ''and'' the previous prosecutor get murdered before the trial even resumes]], and Franziska shows up and whips him a lot. Since the trial never resumes, his actual first case is the same as Mia's, above.
** While not necessarily his first day on the job, in Phoenix's second case, [[MentorOccupationalHazard his own mentor gets murdered]], he gets nearly destroyed in the courtroom by his childhood friend, and right as he was about to get a lead on the actual culprit, ''he'' gets accused of the murder.
** In [[VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney Apollo Justice]]'s first trial, he gets [[{{Troll}} trolled]] a lot by his client, [[spoiler:Phoenix Wright]], and [[spoiler:ends up accusing his own mentor, Kristoph Gavin, and proving with ''forged evidence'' that he committed the murder Wright was accused of, leaving poor Apollo out of a job]]. ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'' goes on to elaborate that he took this fairly hard, but his ChildhoodFriend encouraged him not to give up.
* The first flight of the SSV Normandy in ''VideoGame/MassEffect'' ends with an attack on a human colony, the death of a special forces operative, and the discovery of a massive threat to all life in the galaxy.
* In ''VideoGame/DeusEx'', on the night JC Denton joins UNATCO, the NSF attacks a shipment of plague vaccines, and the first few missions of the game consist of pursuing the vaccine and ultimately confronting the NSF leader, [[ExtremelyShortTimespan apparently all on the same night]]. Before long, [[spoiler:JC Denton ends up going rogue and leaving to fight the conspiracy behind UNATCO. On his way out, Jaime Reyes offers him an augmentation upgrade that was supposed to be a welcome aboard gift, but ends up being a going-away present]].
* ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheShiftedSpires'': One of the guards in /c/, which got massacred. As said by another guard:
--> ...Hey... Do me... a favor, will you? Tell my buddy...over there....that he did a great job...\\
It was....his first day....on the job....He was so scared....But he\\
ne..ver...ran....or...ga...ve.....u..p...........\\
[Interact with other guard]\\
Unfortunately, it seems like this guard is already dead. He died without ever being praised for his bravery...
* In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', your first day at school involves you getting lost and wandering into the physical manifestation of a serial rapist's distorted view of the school he works at, nearly getting killed by the physical manifestation of said rapist's dark side and his minions several times over, and finally escaping only to discover that your (wrongful) criminal record has been exposed to the rest of the student body and you're going to be a social pariah for the rest of the school year.
* ''VideoGame/Doom3'':
** Downplayed. You've just arrived on Mars, where you're soon after tasked with retrieving a lost scientist by your CO, and just when you find said scientist, all hell breaks loose--literally. Ghostly skulls fly out of a portal and began zombifying people, including the guy you were supposed to retrieve, who you're forced to kill. From then on, you fight through dozens of zombies and demons, and later discover that the invasion was caused by a MadScientist who works at the base you're assigned to. It's a pretty long first day.
** Happens again in the expansion pack ''Resurrection Of Evil'', where you're part of a team investigating a faint signal on Mars. You touch an ancient artifact, and your teammates are vaporized as hell once again breaks loose. Of note is that ''you'' started the invasion this time.
* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'':
** Mia Fey's very first case has her getting within a hair's breadth of actually managing to get her client acquitted... then [[spoiler:he ''commits suicide on the witness stand''.]]
** [[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth Miles Edgeworth]]'s first case doesn't fare any better. He's about to take up the prosecution after the prosecutor he is replacing is accused of wrongdoing, then [[spoiler:both the defendant ''and'' the previous prosecutor get murdered before the trial even resumes]], and Franziska shows up and whips him a lot. Since the trial never resumes, his actual first case is the same as Mia's, above.
** While not necessarily his first day on the job, in Phoenix's second case, [[MentorOccupationalHazard his own mentor gets murdered]], he gets nearly destroyed in the courtroom by his childhood friend, and right as he was about to get a lead on the actual culprit, ''he'' gets accused of the murder.
** In [[VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney Apollo Justice]]'s first trial, he gets [[{{Troll}} trolled]] a lot by his client, [[spoiler:Phoenix Wright]], and [[spoiler:ends up accusing his own mentor, Kristoph Gavin, and proving with ''forged evidence'' that he committed the murder Wright was accused of, leaving poor Apollo out of a job]]. ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'' goes on to elaborate that he took this fairly hard, but his ChildhoodFriend encouraged him not to give up.
* The first flight of the SSV Normandy in ''VideoGame/MassEffect'' ends with an attack on a human colony, the death of a special forces operative, and the discovery of a massive threat to all life in the galaxy.
* In ''VideoGame/DeusEx'', on the night JC Denton joins UNATCO, the NSF attacks a shipment of plague vaccines, and the first few missions of the game consist of pursuing the vaccine and ultimately confronting the NSF leader, [[ExtremelyShortTimespan apparently all on the same night]]. Before long, [[spoiler:JC Denton ends up going rogue and leaving to fight the conspiracy behind UNATCO. On his way out, Jaime Reyes offers him an augmentation upgrade that was supposed to be a welcome aboard gift, but ends up being a going-away present]].
* ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheShiftedSpires'': One of the guards in /c/, which got massacred. As said by another guard:
--> ...Hey... Do me... a favor, will you? Tell my buddy...over there....that he did a great job...\\
It was....his first day....on the job....He was so scared....But he\\
ne..ver...ran....or...ga...ve.....u..p...........\\
[Interact with other guard]\\
Unfortunately, it seems like this guard is already dead. He died without ever being praised for his bravery...
* In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', your first day at school involves you getting lost and wandering into the physical manifestation of a serial rapist's distorted view of the school he works at, nearly getting killed by the physical manifestation of said rapist's dark side and his minions several times over, and finally escaping only to discover that your (wrongful) criminal record has been exposed to the rest of the student body and you're going to be a social pariah for the rest of the school year.
* ''VideoGame/Doom3'':
** Downplayed. You've just arrived on Mars, where you're soon after tasked with retrieving a lost scientist by your CO, and just when you find said scientist, all hell breaks loose--literally. Ghostly skulls fly out of a portal and began zombifying people, including the guy you were supposed to retrieve, who you're forced to kill. From then on, you fight through dozens of zombies and demons, and later discover that the invasion was caused by a MadScientist who works at the base you're assigned to. It's a pretty long first day.
** Happens again in the expansion pack ''Resurrection Of Evil'', where you're part of a team investigating a faint signal on Mars. You touch an ancient artifact, and your teammates are vaporized as hell once again breaks loose. Of note is that ''you'' started the invasion this time.
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* ''Anime/AkibaMaidWar'': Poor Nagomi. After a rough first day at Oinky Doink Cafe (during which she discovers being a maid isn't nearly as fun and glamorous and she imagined), she (along with fellow "rookie" maid Ranko) is sent to deliver a message to a rival cafe. A "delivery" that quickly devolves into Nagomi watching Ranko [[BloodyHilarious bloodily]] gun down the entire roster of the rival cafe. [[FromBadToWorse It gets worse for Nagomi from there.]]
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* ''Anime/AkibaMaidWar'': Poor Nagomi. A double dose for poor Nagomi: After a rough first day at Oinky Doink Cafe (during which she discovers being a maid isn't nearly as fun and glamorous and she imagined), she (along with and fellow "rookie" maid Ranko) is Ranko are sent to deliver a message to a rival cafe. A "delivery" that quickly devolves into Nagomi watching Ranko [[BloodyHilarious bloodily]] gun down the rival's entire roster of the rival cafe.roster. [[FromBadToWorse It gets worse for Nagomi from there.]]
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* ''Series/FBIMostWanted'': In the Season 5 premiere, Special Agent Nina Chase's first day on the team involves foiling a terrorist attack on FBI HQ that nearly results in the destruction of the entire complex.
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* ''Film/{{Dredd}}'': Cassandra Anderson's final exam to become a Judge results in her spending a day being trapped in a skyscraper being hunted by hundreds of gangers in the pay of a sadistic drug lord. Of course, to her evaluating officer, the legendary Joe Dredd, [[ButForMeItWasTuesday it was just another drug bust]].
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* April 27, 1953, Union Pacific section worker Ralph Vicenty, a Puerto Rican native who had only been on the job for less than 90 minutes, threw a switch to a siding in Red Desert, Wyoming to protect a herd of sheep waiting to cross the track. Seconds later, UP Big Boy #4005 hurtled into the siding at 50 miles per hour, flipping and derailing the engine, tender, and the first 18 cars, and killing the fireman and engineer (driver) on impact. The front brakeman survived long enough to give testimony, but succumbed to his burn injuries two days after the accident.
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* ''Anime/AkibaMaidWar'':Poor Nagomi: After a rough first day at Oinky Doink Cafe (during which she discovers being a maid isn't nearly as fun and glamorous and she imagined), she (along with fellow "rookie" maid Ranko) is sent to deliver a message to a rival cafe. A "delivery" that quickly devolves into Nagomi watching Ranko [[BloodyHilarious bloodily]] gun down the entire roster of the rival cafe. [[FromBadToWorse It gets worse for Nagomi from there.]]
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* ''Anime/AkibaMaidWar'':Poor Nagomi: ''Anime/AkibaMaidWar'': Poor Nagomi. After a rough first day at Oinky Doink Cafe (during which she discovers being a maid isn't nearly as fun and glamorous and she imagined), she (along with fellow "rookie" maid Ranko) is sent to deliver a message to a rival cafe. A "delivery" that quickly devolves into Nagomi watching Ranko [[BloodyHilarious bloodily]] gun down the entire roster of the rival cafe. [[FromBadToWorse It gets worse for Nagomi from there.]]
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* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers:'' Patsy Walker's first day as Hellcat, which only comes about because she butts in on an Avengers case, involves her being zapped to another universe, having to fight a Justice League knock-off and then nearly getting killed by her psychotic ex-husband several times.
* ''ComicBook/TransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers:'' As Springer warns new recruits going in, sometimes your first day in the Wreckers is also your last. For the four new recruits, their first day involves having to break into a prison taken over by a sociopathic supersoldier. [[spoiler:Two of them die, one getting their brains blow out and the other torn limb-from-limb, while the third suffers a bad case of BreakTheCutie. The fourth gets torn in half, but he was already not right in the head, having only joined the team for a chance to kill Kup.]]
* ''ComicBook/TransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers:'' As Springer warns new recruits going in, sometimes your first day in the Wreckers is also your last. For the four new recruits, their first day involves having to break into a prison taken over by a sociopathic supersoldier. [[spoiler:Two of them die, one getting their brains blow out and the other torn limb-from-limb, while the third suffers a bad case of BreakTheCutie. The fourth gets torn in half, but he was already not right in the head, having only joined the team for a chance to kill Kup.]]
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* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers:'' ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'': Patsy Walker's first day as Hellcat, which only comes about because she butts in on an Avengers case, involves her being zapped to another universe, having to fight a Justice League knock-off and then nearly getting killed by her psychotic ex-husband several times.
*''ComicBook/TransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers:'' ''ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers'': As Springer warns new recruits going in, sometimes your first day in the Wreckers is also your last. For the four new recruits, their first day involves having to break into a prison taken over by a sociopathic supersoldier. [[spoiler:Two of them die, one getting their brains blow out and the other torn limb-from-limb, while the third suffers a bad case of BreakTheCutie. The fourth gets torn in half, but he was already not right in the head, having only joined the team for a chance to kill Kup.]]
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* In ''Series/TwentyFour'', Lynn [=McGill=]'s first day as head of CTU Los Angeles involves getting mugged by his junkie sister and her boyfriend, [[DisasterDominoes leading directly to]] a nerve gas attack on CTU headquarters. [[spoiler: Which gets him killed.]]
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* In ''Series/TwentyFour'', Lynn [=McGill=]'s first day as head of CTU Los Angeles involves getting mugged by his junkie sister and her boyfriend, [[DisasterDominoes leading directly to]] a nerve gas attack on CTU headquarters. [[spoiler: Which gets him killed.]]He ends up dying while saving everyone from the gas, a RedemptionEqualsDeath moment for his earlier mistakes]].
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* Integral to the first two games in the ''{{Franchise/Danganronpa}}'' series. Fifteen (first game) or sixteen (second) high school students show up at the prestigious Hope's Peak high school, a place meant to hone "talented" individuals into the next generation of leaders in their fields. Then the world goes screwy and next thing they know they wake up locked in the school with no idea how (first game) or are transported to an island by a talking MagicalGirl [[ItMakesSenseInContext rabbit plushie]] (second) and soon after forced into a [[DeadlyGame killing game]] by a black and white talking bear plushie named Monokuma. [[spoiler:Subverted, however as they actually have had their memories wiped of their time as students and TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt and it's actually several years after their first day.]]
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* Integral to the first two games in the ''{{Franchise/Danganronpa}}'' series. Fifteen (first game) or sixteen (second) high school students show up at the prestigious Hope's Peak high school, a place meant to hone "talented" individuals into the next generation of leaders in their fields. Then the world goes screwy and next thing they know they wake up locked in the school with no idea how (first game) or are transported to an island by a talking MagicalGirl [[ItMakesSenseInContext rabbit plushie]] (second) and soon after forced into a [[DeadlyGame killing game]] by a black and white talking bear plushie named Monokuma. [[spoiler:Subverted, however as they actually have had their memories wiped of their time as students and TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt and it's actually several a few years after their first day.]]
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** Happens to Rebecca Chambers in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil0''. Her first mission involves fighting [[ZombieApocalypse the very first T-Virus outbreak]]. As TheMedic she's distinctly more overwhelmed than rookie cop Leon but fortunately she gets to share the ordeal with Billy Coen, [[SemperFi former marine]].
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** Happens to Rebecca Chambers in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil0''. Her first mission involves fighting [[ZombieApocalypse the very first T-Virus outbreak]]. As TheMedic she's distinctly more overwhelmed than rookie cop Leon but fortunately she gets to share the ordeal with Billy Coen, [[SemperFi former marine]]. After she lies to her superior, Enrico, about not finding Billy, she bitterly remarks on the state of affairs.
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** [[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth Miles Edgeworth]]'s first case doesn't fare any better. He's about to take up the prosecution, then [[spoiler:both the defendant ''and'' the previous prosecutor get murdered before the trial even resumes]], and Franziska shows up and whips him a lot.
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** [[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth Miles Edgeworth]]'s first case doesn't fare any better. He's about to take up the prosecution, prosecution after the prosecutor he is replacing is accused of wrongdoing, then [[spoiler:both the defendant ''and'' the previous prosecutor get murdered before the trial even resumes]], and Franziska shows up and whips him a lot.lot. Since the trial never resumes, his actual first case is the same as Mia's, above.
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* In ''VideoGame/DeusEx'', on the night JC Denton joins UNATCO, the NSF attacks a shipment of plague vaccines, and the first few missions of the game consist of pursuing the vaccine and ultimately confronting the NSF leader, apparently all on the same night. Before long, [[spoiler:JC Denton ends up going rogue and leaving to fight the conspiracy behind UNATCO. On his way out, Jaime Reyes offers him an augmentation upgrade that was supposed to be a welcome aboard gift, but ends up being a going-away present]].
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* In ''VideoGame/DeusEx'', on the night JC Denton joins UNATCO, the NSF attacks a shipment of plague vaccines, and the first few missions of the game consist of pursuing the vaccine and ultimately confronting the NSF leader, [[ExtremelyShortTimespan apparently all on the same night.night]]. Before long, [[spoiler:JC Denton ends up going rogue and leaving to fight the conspiracy behind UNATCO. On his way out, Jaime Reyes offers him an augmentation upgrade that was supposed to be a welcome aboard gift, but ends up being a going-away present]].
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* Mia Fey's very first case in ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' has her getting within a hair's breadth of actually managing to get her client acquitted... then [[spoiler:he ''commits suicide on the witness stand''.]]
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* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'':
** Mia Fey's very first casein ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' has her getting within a hair's breadth of actually managing to get her client acquitted... then [[spoiler:he ''commits suicide on the witness stand''.]]
** Mia Fey's very first case
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* Downplayed with ''VideoGame/Doom3''. You've just arrived on Mars, where you're soon after tasked with retrieving a lost scientist by your CO, and just when you find said scientist, all hell breaks loose--literally. Ghostly skulls fly out of a portal and began zombifying people, including the guy you were supposed to retrieve, who you're forced to kill. From then on, you fight through dozens of zombies and demons, and later discover that the invasion was caused by a MadScientist who works at the base you're assigned to. It's a pretty long first day.
** Happens again in the expansion pack ''Resurrection Of Evil'', where you're part of a team investigating a faint signal on Mars. You touch an ancient artifact, and your teammates are vaporized as hell once again breaks loose. Bonus points because '''YOU''' started the invasion this time.
** Happens again in the expansion pack ''Resurrection Of Evil'', where you're part of a team investigating a faint signal on Mars. You touch an ancient artifact, and your teammates are vaporized as hell once again breaks loose. Bonus points because '''YOU''' started the invasion this time.
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* Downplayed with ''VideoGame/Doom3''.''VideoGame/Doom3'':
** Downplayed. You've just arrived on Mars, where you're soon after tasked with retrieving a lost scientist by your CO, and just when you find said scientist, all hell breaks loose--literally. Ghostly skulls fly out of a portal and began zombifying people, including the guy you were supposed to retrieve, who you're forced to kill. From then on, you fight through dozens of zombies and demons, and later discover that the invasion was caused by a MadScientist who works at the base you're assigned to. It's a pretty long first day.
** Happens again in the expansion pack ''Resurrection Of Evil'', where you're part of a team investigating a faint signal on Mars. You touch an ancient artifact, and your teammates are vaporized as hell once again breaks loose.Bonus points because '''YOU''' Of note is that ''you'' started the invasion this time.
** Downplayed. You've just arrived on Mars, where you're soon after tasked with retrieving a lost scientist by your CO, and just when you find said scientist, all hell breaks loose--literally. Ghostly skulls fly out of a portal and began zombifying people, including the guy you were supposed to retrieve, who you're forced to kill. From then on, you fight through dozens of zombies and demons, and later discover that the invasion was caused by a MadScientist who works at the base you're assigned to. It's a pretty long first day.
** Happens again in the expansion pack ''Resurrection Of Evil'', where you're part of a team investigating a faint signal on Mars. You touch an ancient artifact, and your teammates are vaporized as hell once again breaks loose.
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* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers:'' Patsy Walker's first day as Hellcat, which only comes about because she butts in on an Avengers case, involves her being zapped to another universe, having to fight a Justice League knock-off and then nearly getting killed by her psychotic ex-husband several times.
* ''ComicBook/TransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers:'' As Springer warns new recruits going in, sometimes your first day in the Wreckers is also your last. For the four new recruits, their first day involves having to break into a prison taken over by a sociopathic supersoldier. [[spoiler:Two of them die, one getting their brains blow out and the other torn limb-from-limb, while the third suffers a bad case of BreakTheCutie. The fourth gets torn in half, but he was already not right in the head, having only joined the team for a chance to kill Kup.]]
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* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers:'' Patsy Walker's first day as Hellcat, which only comes about because she butts in on an Avengers case, involves her being zapped to another universe, having to fight a Justice League knock-off and then nearly getting killed by her psychotic ex-husband several times.
* ''ComicBook/TransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers:'' As Springer warns new recruits going in, sometimes your first day in the Wreckers is also your last. For the four new recruits, their first day involves having to break into a prison taken over by a sociopathic supersoldier. [[spoiler:Two of them die, one getting their brains blow out and the other torn limb-from-limb, while the third suffers a bad case of BreakTheCutie. The fourth gets torn in half, but he was already not right in the head, having only joined the team for a chance to kill Kup.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'': While she'd been operating as Ms. Marvel for some time beforehand, on the day Carol Danvers is inducted into the Avengers, Iron Man falls victim to a ParanoiaGambit that causes the team to split up.
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* ''Film/AssaultOnPrecinct131976'': The film's central siege occurs during [[TheHero Ethan Bishop's]] first day as a Lieutenant in the California Highway Patrol, with the assignment of supervising [[{{Retirony}} Precinct 13's final night of operations]].
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* ''Anime/AkibaMaidWar'':Poor Nagomi: After a rough first day at Oinky Doink Cafe (during which she discovers being a maid isn't nearly as fun and glamorous and she imagined), she (along with fellow "rookie" maid Ranko) is sent to deliver a message to a rival cafe. A "delivery" that quickly devolves into Nagomi watching Ranko [[BloodyHilarious bloodily]] gun down the entire roster of the rival cafe. [[FromBadToWorse It gets worse for Nagomi from there.]]
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* Will Colson in ''Film/{{Unstoppable}}''.
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* Will Colson in ''Film/{{Unstoppable}}''.''Film/{{Unstoppable}}'': His first day as the trainyard's lead engineer involves having to stop a runaway train hauling toxic chemicals before it jumps the rails (an inevitability at the speeds it was running at) and causes a near-nuclear level toxic explosion.
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Distinct from ItNeverGetsAnyEasier, in that this is clearly ''not'' part of the routine. Compare with NewJobEpisode. Contrast {{Retirony}} ("last day from hell").
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Distinct from ItNeverGetsAnyEasier, in that this is clearly ''not'' part of the routine. Compare with WorkplaceHorror and NewJobEpisode. Contrast {{Retirony}} ("last day from hell").
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-->'''Amirante''':(After Gacy drunkenly confesses ''everything'') I aged many many years during that night both as a lawyer and as a person. It was one of the scariest nights of my life.
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-->'''Amirante''':(After Gacy drunkenly confesses ''everything'') ''everything''): I aged many many years during that night night, both as a lawyer and as a person. It was one of the scariest nights of my life.
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-->'''Amirante''':(After Gacy drunkenly confesses ''everything'') I aged many many years during that night both as a lawyer and as a person. It was one of the scariest nights of my life.
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-->'''Amirante''':(After Gacy drunkenly confesses ''everything'') I aged many many years during that night both as a lawyer and as a person. It was one of the scariest nights of my life.
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* Attorney Sam Amirante's first client in private practice was [[SerialKiller John Wayne Gacy]].
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* Creator/BobNewhart, in an early comedy skit, imagined a the story of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7Oh1SI9lbs&ab_channel=lewistaylor1965 a new security guard at the Empire State Building on his first night at work...]] which happened to be the night when Film/KingKong climbed the building.
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* Creator/BobNewhart, in an early comedy skit, imagined a the story of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7Oh1SI9lbs&ab_channel=lewistaylor1965 a new security guard at the Empire State Building on his first night at work...]] which happened to be the night when Film/KingKong climbed the building.
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* ''Creator/BobNewhart'': one of his classic stand-up routines involved [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7Oh1SI9lbs&ab_channel=lewistaylor1965 a new security guard at the Empire State Building on his first night at work...]] which happened to be the night when Film/KingKong climbed the building.
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* ''Creator/BobNewhart'': one Creator/BobNewhart, in an early comedy skit, imagined a the story of his classic stand-up routines involved [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7Oh1SI9lbs&ab_channel=lewistaylor1965 a new security guard at the Empire State Building on his first night at work...]] which happened to be the night when Film/KingKong climbed the building.
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* ''Creator/BobNewhart'': one of his classic stand-up routines involved [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7Oh1SI9lbs&ab_channel=lewistaylor1965 a new security guard at the Empire State Building on his first night at work...]] which happened to be the night when Film/KingKong climbed the building.
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr9oVLX0rlY This police officer]] who was shot and killed on her first day.
