Cartoons that tell its story in the opening

[Atoon]

Which cartoons tell a story (their origin or whatever) in the opening sequence?

[Patchwork]

Off the top of my head:

Danny Phantom
Super Robot Monkeyt Team Hyperforce Go!
Invader Zim (sort of...)
Gargoyles

[Silverbolt]

Batman TAS
Votron Lion Force

[Daffy Dork]

Samurai Jack

That's all I can come up with right now...

[straw_hat]

Avatar The Last Airbender basically sets up the whole origin story and the main characters quest so anyone who hasn't seen prior episodes aren't totally lost. It's a very ingenous thing to have for an american animated show with a continuous story.

[Sharklady]

The Powerpuff Girls.

[don Jaime]

Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, Pinky & the Brain, Freakazoid, and Histeria.

A lot of older shows do, as well. George of the Jungle, Super Chicken, Roger Ramjet, you know.

[90'sCartoonMan]

Reboot did, and in seasons 3 and 4, they had different characters telling it.

Bob's "I come from the net" standard opening always confused me...what "peoples" is he referring to?

[Rover_Wow]

"Cro" (that CTW E/I show from the mid 90s) explains why Phil is with that Spanish scientist and that black kid with its title sequence, but explains how Cro met Phil as the first episode's flashback. Weird, eh?

[sdp]

Captain Planet, las guerreras magicas,

Batman TAS

???? not really.

[I.R Joey]

Exosquad comes to mind most immediatly for me. I absolutely love the opening.

"It was a golden age for mankind..."

In the 80's both He-man and She-ra told their origan stories during the openings. As did G.I Joe. Dinosaucers also had an opening narrative.

Now a days quite a few shows do it.

Loonatics Unleashed.
Danny Phantom (I guess we can toss in FOP too, but to a lesser degree)
Avatar: The last Airbender.
Catscratch.
Someone else mentioned Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go.

There are alot of them.

[Dudley]

The 1960's Hulk cartoon.

[Peter Paltridge]

Dungeons and Dragons did it, and took its sweet time. I think that opener was about two minutes long.

Well, they had more time to work with in 1983....

[DarthNuriko]

Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
The Pirates of Dark Water
Biker Mice from Mars (in a way)

[Contrail]

SuperTed (this is a story about an ordinary teddy bear...)
Galaxy High School (Doyle was a high school star...)
Earthworm Jim (through the soil he did crawl...)
Captain Caveman
Ulysses 31 (though it may count as a prologue rather than the opening proper)

[Nin-Nin69]

Superman:TAS (well they didn't say, but showed)
Gargoyles
Freakazoid
Street Fighter
Darkstalkers

[DarkKnight]

the original TMNT doesn't really explain it, but you watch the whole thing on screen.

[John Pannozzi]

Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, Pinky & the Brain, Freakazoid, and Histeria.

Animaniacs only explained its origin in the Newsreel of the Star Cold Opening, and I don't think TTA and H! really have stories.

[don Jaime]

"So here's Acme Acres, a whole wide world apart
It stands alone
Our home sweet home
A comic work of art."

"At Acme Looniversity we earn our toon degree
The teaching staff's
Been getting laughs
Since 1933."

"Come join the Warner Brothers
And the Warner Sister Dot
Just for fun we run
Around the Warner movie lot
They lock us in the tower
Whenever we get caught
But we break loose and then vamoose
And now you know the plot!"

I can't remember enough of the Histeria theme to say if it went over the time travel much, but then the show had a very thin premise to begin with. All three themes did go over the main characters.

[I.R Joey]

"Come join the Warner Brothers
And the Warner Sister Dot
Just for fun we run
Around the Warner movie lot
They lock us in the tower
Whenever we get caught
But we break loose and then vamoose
And now you know the plot!"

I can't remember enough of the Histeria theme to say if it went over the time travel much, but then the show had a very thin premise to begin with. All three themes did go over the main characters.

Well in Animaniacs they often had the "backstory" prolouge for the Warner's before the actual theme song.

And I can only remember bits and pieces of the Histeria theme too.