Basic Trope: The work starts with a scene where the main character (or other important character) is a child.
- Straight: The movie The Adventures of Bob starts with a scene featuring the titular character as a child, discovering his penchant for adventure.
- Exaggerated:
- The Adventures of Bob starts with much of the cast as children.
- The Adventures of Bob starts with showing Bob as a baby.
- The first scene focuses on Bob's birth.
- Downplayed:
- The Adventures of Bob has an intro with a very brief scene where Bob is shown as a child.
- In the intro, Bob is a teenager.
- The Adventures of Bob mostly starts with showing Charlie as a kid.
- Justified: Bob has been an adventurer ever since he was a child, so it's understandable that this would be shown in the intro.
- Inverted:
- Bob is a Kid Hero, and the last scene in the movie shows him as an adult.
- The movie starts with Bob as an adult before flashing back to his childhood.
- Subverted:
- Although this appears to be Bob as a kid, it's actually Charlie.
- We aren't told until the ending, but Bob is a kid make-believing his adult adventure.
- Double Subverted: But Charlie is an adult in the actual movie, and is Bob's sidekick.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: The film's intro has multiple scenes showing Bob at various ages.
- Averted:
- The movie starts with Bob as an adult.
- Bob is a Kid Hero and remains that way for the entire movie.
- Enforced:
- To show Bob's childhood and backstory.
- Something important to the film's plot happened when Bob was just a child, and this is a way to introduce that.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Bob's parents buy a home camera to showcase Bob's childhood.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed:
- "I think it's pretty cool when they show the protagonist as a kid in the first scene of the movie."
- "When I was younger, I used to think that when the first scene of a movie showed the main character as a child, they actually waited for the actor to age instead of using Time-Shifted Actors."
- Played for Drama: The intro shows Bob's childhood trauma.
- Played for Horror: Bob is a Villain Protagonist, and the intro is his Start of Darkness.
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