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While we've [[Tropes of Legend|seen it a million times]], [[Tropes Are Not Bad|it's still a classic]].
See also [[Good Morning, Crono]]. Contrast [[In Medias Res]].
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== Film ==
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* ''[[Animal Crossing]]'': The entire game consists of easing. There is no adventure at all.
* ''[[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|Chrono Trigger]]'' begins with [[Good Morning, Crono|Crono's mother waking him up in the morning]] so he can go to the fair and meet his friend. It even starts off with a lovely little tune called "Town Life."
** ''[[Chrono Cross (Video Game)|Chrono Cross]]'' does something similar. After your mom tells you good morning, you are told you overslept and your [[Tsundere]] girlfriend forces you to kill baby komodo dragons before you are warped to the alternate world and wind up [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|breaking everything you touch]] while being [[Unwitting Pawn|manipulated]] by [[Gambit Pileup|several entities]].
* In ''[[Half-Life 1 (Video Game)|Half-Life 1]]'', you start with a pleasant monorail ride into work and a few chats with your workmates, before things [[Go Horribly Wrong]].
* The first few levels of ''[[Psychonauts (Video Game)|Psychonauts]]'' are normal (for the camp) lessons in basic psychic techniques, with the only abnormality being Raz's stellar natural talent. Then Dogan's brain goes missing and things start to get serious.
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* In almost every [[Shin Megami Tensei (Franchise)|Shin Megami Tensei]] game, you usually get a bit of gameplay where you can just walk through the city, talk to friends and characters and just generally have a good time. Except that even ''that'' hints up on being a [[Crap Saccharine World]], and [[It Got Worse|then things go bad]].
* ''[[Tales of Phantasia (Video Game)|Tales of Phantasia]]'' begins with Cress and Chester wandering around Toltus, helping people and then going to a forest to hunt a boar. [[Doomed Hometown|Things go]] [[Dead Little Sister|downhill]] [[You Killed My Father|from there]].
* [[Vandal Hearts]] 2 starts, after a horrific scene of [[Rape, Pillage and Burn]] done by a [[Black Knight]] squad, by introducing your main character trying to catch a butterfly for his sister. The intro continues into what is essentially a childhood's game of adventure (even if they ''do'' wield real weapons), until {{spoiler|you had to kill the possessed remains of your [[Love Interest]]'s grandfather}}. After that, it skips several years where ''everything'' [[It Got Worse|has gone twenty shades of wrong]].
== Western Animation ==
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