Sometimes, a good entrance or introduction is all you need to get the audience gunning for or sympathizing with a character. What are some of the best entrances you've seen on screen?

I just thought of this while watching Blade. Fantastic scene in the techno "bloodbath" club; amid the blood-soaked vampires, there's Blade, clean as a whistle. The vampires ready themselves while some murmer"That's him!", "It's the daywalker!"... and then he starts kicking. major. vampire. ass.

Now THAT'S an entrance. Told you all you need to know, and was great in doing it.

Rivero, you just shot up three notches in my book.


Which puts you at notch THREE, but hey... that's higher than most posters here

leatherface in the original texas chainsaw massacre

Harry Lime in the Third Man.

Jack Sparrow.
Willy Wonka.

Indiana Jones (ROTLA)
Rhett Butler (GWTW)
Quint (Jaws)

Frank N Furter... Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Darth Vader...Star Wars
Lolita...Lolita
The Wicked Witch...Wizard of Oz

Exactamundo!

I like Wooderson in Dazed and Confused. Amps a good movie into the realm of greatness.

Max Cady in the remake of Cape Fear.

You don't see his face as he gets his stuff together and leaves his cell. Then he walks out... towards the camera... and doesn't slow down...

All the characters in The Good The Bad And The Ugly.

I have some favorites from my movie collection. Some may not be so grandiose, but at the very least made a cool first impression, especially if accompanied by a cool line:

Brandon Lee rising from the grave in The Crow
Daryl Hannah walking up to the Statue of Liberty buck-naked in Splash
Arnold in T2
Jack Black walking in the record store playing air guitar in High Fidelity: "Holy Shiite! What the fuck is that?"
Sean Connery as Ramirez in the first Highlander
Shrek kicking open the outhouse door at the beginning of the movie
John Forsythe as Bill Murray's old boss in Scrooged: "Wooooooo-wee! That was a good one!"
Michael Clarke Duncan stepping off the prison truck in The Green Mile
Kelly LeBrock's entrance in Weird Science: "So, what would you little maniacs like to do first?"

Toshirô Mifune in Seven Samurai

Antonius Block (Max von Sydow) in Seventh Seal

Christian Bale in Equilibrium shooting those guys in the dark.

My most favorite character entrance of all would have to be Juan in Fistful of Dynamite, but pics don't do that one justice.

and the legend begins.

A winnar si yuo. Best two entrances in any movie.

How about:
Max's introductory montage in Rushmore (JV triathalon)?

Nightcrawler in X-men 2.

Bogie in Casablanca. There is no equal.

More of an exit than an entrance...

This was mine as well. One of the best, if not THE BEST, entrances in film history.

Timothy Dalton's hair blowing in the wind like some wolf as his fellow agent falls to his death in the living daylights, and the most dangerous bond of them all is seen by audiences, capturing the scene.