Recommendations The opening of works that hook me.

NotaNuffian

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Oh wow, now Erlang Shen is the newest hot shit to be put on display as the OP IMBA thing in chinese mythos. First it was some random three heads six arms ashura or Nezha, then massive sized muscular Pangu, then Sun Wukong and now the dude with three eyes.

Back to my reason why I post this thread, I like the starting of MC to be hard, or at the very least being shown as hard.

MC is of the lowest caste, which is depicted to be a weak hunter/ forager/ serf/ boi, the cherry on top will be to then show who MC needs to kill later. Haughty pricks such as gang members, servants from civic or wealthy home and the usual arrogant young masters. Because it makes me automatically think underdog and root for MC.

Then comes the system, an inorganic thing that inflates MC like R34. This role can be filled by a teacher/ father figure/ anything that has a will and being vocal, but that just means that MC needs to interact with the inflationist and the system doesn't need a mouth.

So yes, I am looking for anything that has the above opening flow:
1. MC is shit.
2. Shitty people is teabagging MC.
3. MC gains a golden finger or is getting goldenly fingered by someone willing to pull MC up.
4. Murder of shitty people.

All the points are kind of important and exactly in said order.
 

Comatoast

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Wait okay, If you mind self promo I won't link the novel but my character for my action/comedy novel is JUST LIKE THAT.

The opening sequence starts with him getting beat up and thrown off a bus after screaming at a homeless guy ?
They all mock him and then he gets attacked by what's essentially a mafia of intelligent Isekai trucks trying to send him to the fantasy world.

The only missing component is the inflationary character but if you want the link, I'm totally looking for feedback.

I thought it was hysterical how you describes him down to a T.
(Get out of my skin *starts violently thrashing*)
 
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