History Main / WhereItAllBegan

* "Everything You Know About WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls is Wrong" (DC run) has the kids of Pokey Oaks Kindergarten swapping stories of how the girls first came about, using the origins of Superman, Sipderman and the Fantastic Four as parallels. When the girls themselves interject how the really came about, they get a failing grade as the kids were taking part in a creative writing lesson.

* Very popular in Bioware/Obsidian games:

-->"Remember where it all began. [[RememberTheAlamo Remember Reach]]."

* ''Disney/TheLionKing'' ends with Simba returning to the Pride Lands to [[spoiler: defeat his uncle Scar and take his rightful place as king.]]

* In ''Disney/HomeOnTheRange'', the final battle takes with the BigBad takes place on the same farm that the Maggie, Grace, and Mrs. Calloway all left at the start of their adventure.

** Twenty-two years later, the protagonist Luffy arrives at Logue Town. He is captured and placed in a stockade, ironically on the very execution stand upon which the Pirate King died. There, he proclaims that he ''will'' be the Pirate King, and as Buggy's sword came down to end his life, he apologizes to his crew...and [[GoOutWithASmile smiles]], echoing the death of the previous Pirate King. At this point, Luffy is saved by dumb luck (lighting strikes Buggy), and his act of defiance spurs Smoker, a marine captain, who witnessed the Pirate King's execution decades before, to chase after him. Thus, WhereItAllBegan is where the adventure begins again, but this time, with a new Pirate King.

* Series/PunkyBrewster tells of the day she met Glomer in "Glomer's Story." (The opening of the show tells it in a more compressed way.)

* Film/TheHangover

* Twice in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast''--first, you rescue Zelda from the Hyrule Castle dungeons, then return to the castle after obtaining the Master Sword to climb its [[DiscOneFinalDungeon central tower]]. In the Dark World, after completing the final dungeon the final boss crashes through the top of the Dark Pyramid you entered the world on to reveal a chamber inside where the final battle is held. Just to top it all off too, the Dark Pyramid and Hyrule Castle are in the same place between the two works. There are two other instances, as this game is the TropeNamer for DarkWorld--the first dungeon for each of the two worlds is in the same place, and the final dungeon of the Dark World is in the same place as the final dungeon of the Light World.

* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar'', the prologue begins in Chalphy with Sigurd setting out to save Edain. In the final chapter, the last stretch of the war begins in Chalphy with Seliph setting out to end a 20-year Holy War and save Julia in the process.

* Two of the books in the Shatnerverse of the StarTrek novels end this way. Star Trek: Avenger goes back to Tarsus IV, where a very young James Kirk survived the purges of Kodos. Star Trek: Preserver is the ending of the "Mirror Universe Sage" and ends at Halkan, the planet where Kirk first encountered the Mirror Universe.

** The Shrine of Resurrection where Link wakes up in the beginning of ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Breath of the Wild]]'' is revealed in the Champions' Ballad DLC to the be the entrance to the final bonus dungeon.

** The Shrine of Ressurection where Link wakes up in the beginning of the game is revealed in the Champions' Ballad DLC to the be the enterance to the final bonus dungeon.

* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'', the adventure technically begins in Tataroo Valley. In the Epilogue, [[spoiler: when Luke/Asch/whoever comes back]], everything takes place in Tataroo Valley. It's also an example of [[DistantFinale a distant finale]], in that it all takes place two and a half years after the end of the game/anime.

* ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'': TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon is in Prison Island, where the party had been to previously and where "Zanza" released the Monado's shackles. New areas of Prison Island can now be accessed due to the teleporters that have been activated.

Compare HereWeGoAgain, {{Bookends}} and GoBackToTheSource. SoNearYetSoFar is a variant where even the final climactic goal is known and likely even visible from the start, but you can't accomplish that goal until the finale. Not related to WhenItAllBegan; that is a chronology trope (although TimeTravel can cause them to overlap, specifically in cases of SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong).

* The Hive, the heart of the Kreegan infestation of [[VideoGame/MightAndMagic Enroth]] during and before ''VI'' and one of the landing points during the Night of Falling Stars is located in the region of Sweet Water... [[DoomedHometown which is also your characters' home village, from which they fled during the intro of the game]], saved from death by a benign wizard. (Of course, this only counts if the cinematic opening sequence at the start of the game is considered the beginning.)

* In ''Anime/{{Claymore}}'' Raki returns to his hometown after the seven year TimeSkip as a [[FutureBadass badass Yoma-asskicking warrior]]. And yet they still talk shit about him. [[ShamingTheMob Raki sets them straight, though]].