What is your favourite intro to a story?

[Scaletalon]

Pretty self explanatory.

 

[Tempokai]

The one that persuades me into reading further. It doesn't matter how it's done, if it invites me into continuing to press "next", it had done the job. It's not about the content, it's about how it is executed. If it is executed well, it's my favorite.

 

[NotaNuffian]

I chose day to day life because most CN MCs I read have rough everydays and tough problems that require him to kill them all to solve.

 

[Deleted member 266]

It was a pleasure to burn.
It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history. With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black. He strode in a swarm of fireflies. He wanted above all, like the old joke, to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house. While the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning.

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

 

[Deleted member 84247]

The one that persuades me into reading further. It doesn't matter how it's done, if it invites me into continuing to press "next", it had done the job. It's not about the content, it's about how it is executed. If it is executed well, it's my favorite.

This

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Any of the above can work, depending on tone, style and the skill of the writer.

I mean, you can check out stuff like Star Wars, that showed the sidekicks and an eventual MC but initial Damsel in Distress FIRST, then the (apparent) main villain, before going back to the sidekicks and then finally bringing in the first MC...

Or you can look at Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which introduces an MC about to have his home torn down, and trying to get his thoughts together.

Or A Tale of Two Cities which introduces the ENVIRONMENT first, but almost as if this "Best of times, Worst of times" was a character itself...

 

[Elmir_Arch-Ham_of_Omega]

As someone's who's played a lot of VN's back then, I'm cool with starting with slice of life.

 

[winglessdragon]

I don't think I have a favorite. As long as it's engaging, any way is fine