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Bait-and-Switch Credits

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Bait-and-Switch Credits	comment	The program's opening credits promise wondrous things — its images of stupendous beauty, righteous butt-kicking, and noble heroes make it clear what's to come in the story. Except, once you get into the program, you never see those things again — and sometimes, you see the exact opposite. A way of countering the Spoiler Opening trope. Sometimes a show will mix the two just to confuse the viewer horribly, or to create a dramatic or ironic contrast (a subtrope of Soundtrack Dissonance). Or sometimes they just want to create something really cool that will draw a lot of viewers, Canon be damned. Note that extremely heavy symbolic content may sometimes resemble Bait-and-Switch, but only if the audience is too dense — or the creator too clever — for them to figure it out. Compare Fake-Out Opening, Action-Hogging Opening, Never Trust a Trailer and Covers Always Lie, which covers posters too. For when a character prominently featured in the credits of an early episode suffers a shockingly rapid demise, see Dead Star Walking. Contrast Spoiler Opening.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_10321784	comment	The opening of Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten is home to quite a few inconsistencies with the actual game, such as Fuka using guns despite having no aptitude for them and Flonne using an special attack that doesn't exist in-game, but the biggest one is its depiction of Axel. He's featured heavily alongside the main cast, giving the impression that he's a central protagonist. In the actual game, not only is he an antagonist for the majority of the main campaign, he's not even playable until the postgame.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_1331990c	comment	Puella Magi Madoka Magica. The opening? Standard cute Magical Girl song, images (including references to Sailor Moon, Cardcaptor Sakura, and even Pretty Cure), the works. The problem? Gen Urobuchi is writing — the series is a rather savage deconstruction. The monsters aren't harmless, people can (and do) die, the aspects of a bunch of young girls fighting horrific Eldritch Abominations are fully explored... and oh yeah, the cute mascot appears to be Faustian. Notably, the first two episodes didn't have an ending sequence on their initial broadcast (they do have one on DVD), and episode 3 is a Wham Episode that culminates in the main character floating in the mask of Mephistopheles during the ending sequence (which is not remotely a standard Magical Girl song). Oh, and by the way, Madoka doesn't even become a magical girl until the final episodes, even though she is prominently shown transformed both in the opening and in promotional material. By the time the series ends (and the viewers know what's really going on), it becomes obvious that it's a subverted trope. It's especially obvious each time the OP gets shifted to the end of the episode; it's the exact same song, but because of the episode we just saw, a new meaning is revealed.note Yes, it's a 12-Episode Anime. Yes, it's pulled off more than once. In a series that delights in going From Bad to Worse, on a second viewing, you can get Mood Whiplash because the actual episode is so light compared to the opening credits.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_13ff1e76	comment	Peter Weir's first feature The Cars That Ate Paris opens with what appears to be a cigarette ad featuring a couple taking an idyllic country drive. Then things go horribly wrong. The sequence is part of the film narrative (though stylistically distinct) but the original cinema audience wouldn't have realised it until the very effective 'punchline'.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_14206b9a	comment	Red Garden has an opening that would make you think it's basically the anime Sex and the City. The show's content goes in a different direction, however. The ending falls under this as well; it's an upbeat rap song with the characters having fun at a concert.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_143acb7a	comment	In the (rather lovely) opening sequence of Sweet Blue Flowers, Fumi and Akira are depicted as a cheery, loving couple, complete with full nudity. Sure, the girls are extremely close, but never get this far in the series. In the anime at least. The manga has them undergoing a Relationship Upgrade eventually.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_1682583	comment	The ending theme of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam is almost entirely comprised of a shot of Fa Yuiry running alongside Haro while a bouncily cheerful romantic tune plays. Not only is it a bit of an odd choice of music for a notoriously grim series, but Fa is really not a particularly important character in the show beyond being one of Kamille's love interests; there are entire arcs where she isn't around.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_18ec2b28	comment	The opening for Beverly Hills Teens makes it look like a show about surreal and over-the-top globetrotting adventures. While wacky stuff does occasionally happen, it's more of a sitcom-esque Affectionate Parody of 80's greed and decadence.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_19ab0e8d	comment	Two openings of Neo Ranga features all three female protagonists in white Stripperiffic outfits, having mysterious symbols painted on their bodies and wielding stone weapons. None of this happens.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_1aa7aa83	comment	Subverted in Gate Keepers. The OP depicts Megumi Kurogane apparently firing an energy blast from her hand. This is supposed to be impossible in-universe, as her power is to create walls... then you notice that Megumi was using her barriers - to block said blast.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_1ad6e2b5	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL: The first opening theme features Fuya Okudaira (aka Robin) in the same sections as Yuma's main rivals. He continues to make appearances in the opening and ending themes due to the character's popularity, but rarely actually shows up. The opening and ending themes prominently feature Anna Kozuki as if she is a main cast member. She appears in only eight episodes, with two of those only being cameos. Overall, she tends to appear once or twice an arc. The first opening shows Number 39: Utopia ("King of Wishes, Hope") fighting Number 17: Leviathan Dragon ("Levice Dragon"), indicating that they are rivals, since Yuma and Shark are rivals as well. However, since Yuma wins this card in episode 2, the scene has become ironic. The fifth opening shows Shark using Number 32: Shark Drake and Number C32: Shark Drake Veiss, even though he never uses either of them during the entire run of this opening. It also has a large group of prior characters appearing in succession near the start, suggesting the season will be about them working together—this does sort of happen, but in the actual season, nearly all of them are wiped out by the Barian Emperors in fairly short order.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_1b26b261	comment	The opening animation to Battle Spirits Shonen Gekiha Dan shows the protagonist Dan using the DarkDragonEmperor Siegfried. Throughout the series, he's never even in possession of this card.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach is rife with these, showing characters in different costumes and situations that you would never expect. The worst offenders were the second and fourteenth openings, which promised many really cool battles in the Soul Society that never happened. The eighth opening shows filler captain Amagai fighting his third seat, Kifune, after the latter's Faceâ€“Heel Turn. It's misleading because Izuru ends up fighting Kifune and also because Amagai is the real villain and was manipulating Kifune. Not to mention the part where Renji attacks Byakuya with his signature move, only to have it deflected, which never happens in the show at all. The 10th opening is similar, as it's essentially just a music video featuring Rukia, Orihime, and Rangiku dancing, with a few shots of the Shinigami and Ichigo just to remind us that we're watching the right show. The last opening shows Ichigo fighting Tsukishima and Shishigawara alongside Ginjou. While it seems to be true considering how Ginjou subjected Ichigo to a Training from Hell to fight Tsukishima, we later find out that Ginjou was actually in a Big Bad Duumvirate with Tsukishima. Furthermore, Ichigo never even fights Shishigawara at all, nor does he fight with fullbring outside the Xcution hideout before achieving his second stage.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_1cf10d97	comment	The fourth season opening to Boruto shows an alliance of school-age ninjas from multiple villages coming together to fight a giant ice monster which resembles one of the Tailed Beasts. Nothing remotely like that happens in the series. Season five's intro has Boruto and his team going up against a mysterious cloaked villain with a metallic arm. Who is he? He's nobody, because no one like that appears anywhere in the series.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_1d8df2cf	comment	School Days has a very heavy one. It's light-hearted which matches with the mood the show starts with, but slowly it starts to feel really out of place to hear this when most of the characters are having mental breakdowns. In the final episode, things had gotten so dark that instead of showing the cheery opening the title came on with a slow piano piece, and then the title screen shatters like glass so the makers could avoid a jarring Mood Whiplash.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_1fb7a2ae	comment	Magical Pokaan's haunting OP implies something of a gothloli drama/horror, despite it being a Gag Series. According to interviews, this was actually a mistake — the songwriters were given a theme of soul-searching creatures of the night, but weren't told it was a comedy — but they just went with it and created matching footage.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_218d6788	comment	One particular scene in the opening to Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana heavily implies that Norn is much more mysterious and important to the plot than she appears. Not so in the actual game.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_22ffc0f8	comment	The opening credits of Riget make it look like a normal medical drama, although the Opening Narration that precedes them has already revealed the true genre.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_24e41891	comment	The opening credits for Dexter are an Affectionate Parody of this trope. The viewer sees shots in extreme closeup which appear to be violent and bloody amusing and wrong because Dexter is a methodical serial killer... but turn out to be Dexter only going through his morning routine and having his breakfast.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_25f3f2d1	comment	The Vicar of Dibley credits open with a sweeping view of the English countryside and singing of the 23rd Psalm, but end with a humorous scene poking fun at village life. However, when a major character died, this montage was played straight.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_26f0d547	comment	While Kotoura-san still has a significant amount of comedy moments, don't assume the Downer Beginning (which proceeds the opening credits of the first episode) is just a buildup for a Romantic Comedy as the opening credits suggested. It's just the first bump in the road. (It would be slightly less of a Bait and Switch if the ending theme Flower of Hope is considered as well, as the latter is a more accurate description of the Broken Bird heroine).
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_271c1469	comment	In Death Parade, the opening is a catchy, jaunty tune that's sure to get you up on your feet. With lyrics like "everybody, put your hands up!" shouted in excitement, and scenes of the cast dancing, jumping around, and drinking, it almost makes you believe that this show is going to be the anime version of Cheers. That is, until you get to the part where the show becomes a high-tension psychological drama that takes place in the afterlife and forces a newlywed couple to play a game that causes each player extreme physical discomfort if they ever want to get out alive...
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_2729ce77	comment	Both openings to Akahori Gedou Hour Lovege, fitting to the Quirky Work nature of the program, are really only true in the protagonists' minds. Kaoruko and Aimi never destroy anything that poses an actual threat to the city, and the Gedou Otome Tai never summon an army of demons to wreak havoc on the city.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_289bf65	comment	Zombieland Saga's first opening, Adabana Necromancy, features an extended sequence of the girls dressing in Sentai-esque suits and fighting a giant monster. Nothing even resembling this occurs in the series.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_2a4c791e	comment	Ah! My Goddess: The opening credits of the OVA series briefly show Mara but she never actually appears in the series itself. This was apparently due to the animators being unable to animate her hair correctly. Those same credits also show a lot of characters from the original manga that do not appear in the OVA. This includes Banpei the robot, Yoko the ghost, etc. They also show Demon Belldandy spreading dark wings over the city, while her friends watch below. That never happens. Instead, Belldandy's pureness turns the demon into an angel within minutes.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_2a8943c0	comment	The theme song of Miraculous Ladybug suggests that the action takes place during the night. In truth, nearly all of the fights in the series take place in broad daylight.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_2c8d8309	comment	Brain Powerd's opening consists of naked girls flying around everywhere, but the actual series is a Humongous Mecha show with minimum nudity. Faux Symbolism ensues.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_2cad7105	comment	The credits of El-Hazard: The Magnificent World show a number of things that never come to pass, most notably Makoto flying over the lands of El-Hazard (when flight is not the power he gains from the transit between worlds), and giggly pacifist nymphomaniac Allielle wielding a nasty-looking sickle as a weapon.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_2cd28570	comment	Downplayed with Serial Experiments Lain. On paper, using a Break-Up Song as the opening to a Cyberpunk Mind Screw series sounds very strange and unfitting, but the lyrics have just enough Sanity Slippage to make it work, and the song sounds rather bleak.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_2cdf7ad4	comment	If you put Cinemaware's The Three Stooges game into your NES and power it on, you'll see...the Ghostbusters II logo. Then the Stooges walk in and speak with digitized voices. The DOS version features a similar gag, but with the title for Defender of the Crown and without the digitized voice sample.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_2d316ba2	comment	The first episode of Back to the Sewer, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' seventh season, plays the intro for Fast Forward, the series' sixth. While it makes sense in context — the episode is a transitional one, taking the characters from one premise to the next, with the actual opening played in the end to reflect the change — the fact that both seasons feature different characters, settings, premise, and art style, and that 4Kids had actually organized a contest to let the fans vote for the new theme song made the bait and switch very surprising — and disconcerting.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_2e6be66a	comment	My-Otome: Similarly, despite already foreshadowing the darker themes, the first opening carefully tries to avoid any implication of conflict between Arika, Nina and Mashiro — instead, they are shown as happy with each other and enjoying their time together. Which is, of course, the exact opposite of their actual relationships. Aversion: My-Otome's second set of credits, which are appropriately darker, show Mai turning into a comet of flame and destroying literally hundreds of Slaves in one zooming pass. While it has the look of precisely the kind of over-the-top "see how impressive this character is" footage that typifies this trope, not only does she actually do exactly this in one of the final episodes, the production team in fact animated it a second time rather than reuse the credits footage. (Although in the actual scene, Mai fights with Mikoto on her back, not alone as shown in the credits.)
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_2e77f176	comment	The theme tune to Denver the Last Dinosaur contains the line "Everywhere we go, we don't even care, if people stop and stare at our pal dino". The characters spend nearly the whole of the first few episodes fretting about whether they've been spotted with the eponymous reptile.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_2ef7cb74	comment	Lyrical Nanoha: The second Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS opening seems to set up a fight between Subaru and Nove, which was also hinted at when Nove said she wanted to get revenge on Subaru for severely injuring Cinque. In the final battle, Teana ends up fighting Nove with Wendi and Deed, while Subaru fights her Brainwashed and Crazy older sister Ginga. The opening of ViVid Strike! has a scene of Fuuka facing Rinne in the Winter Cup, something that never happens since Vivio beat Rinne in the quarterfinals. Their actual climatic battle instead takes place at Lutecia's training grounds on Carnaaji, and the closest they get to being in the ring together during the tournament is when Rinne acts as Fuuka's second for her match against Einhart at the very end of the series.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Virtually every opening for Naruto features activities of characters who really aren't doing anything at the time. Especially during the filler seasons, when almost all the openings featured Sasuke and Orochimaru, despite neither of them making any appearance besides cameos. The openings in Part I (especially the first and fourth ones) give the impression that Sakura often fights alongside her squad, but she's often set aside and forced to serve as a (somewhat ineffective) last line of defense for the people who need protection. The second version of the fourth Shippuden opening features members of Team 8 fighting the Quirky Miniboss Squad (Hinata vs. Gozu, Kiba vs. Kigiri, Shino vs. Nurari, Sakura vs. Rinji, and Sai and Naruto vs. Guren). Only the ones with Kigiri, Nurari and Guren happened. The twelfth ending features Sakura prominently, and makes the show look like it's a romance. While the ending after that is only Hinata and makes it look like a Slice of Life! The seventh opening to Shippuden is the worst, though. It features (in increasingly level of inaccuracy) Choji and Kakashi vs. Preta Pain; Ino, Hinata, and Sakura vs. Konan; Sai vs. Asura Pain; Kiba, Lee, Tenten, and Neji vs Deva Pain. In actuality, Choji and Kakashi actually fight together against Deva Pain (and Asura Pain, sort of), Hinata tried to fight him later on, Ino didn't fight because she was working with her father getting some information, Sakura spent the battle treating the wounded and defending a hospital, Konan fought Shino and some other members of the Aburame clan (mostly off-panel in the manga, more is shown in the anime), Kiba fought Preta Pain with his mother (briefly and it was a bit longer in the anime), and Lee, Tenten, Neji, and Sai never fought because they were out of the village at the time (for the first three until after most of the fighting was over, for Sai the entire arc) so none of those things ended up happening. All those have nothing on Shippuden's tenth opening, which features, in increasing order of implausibility/absurdity: Naruto, Sakura, and Sai fighting Madara, Kisame, and Zetsu—all six of them flying around—, and unleashing an All Your Powers Combined jutsu. The scene of Naruto embracing his "shadow" self transitioning from him about to do...something to Sakura. Though, that could be foreshadowing his later embracing of Kurama as an ally. The Elder Toad shown alongside the villains. The revived Akatsuki zombies sliding into each other while their containers comedically topple in the background An out-of-nowhere dance routine featuring the Konoha rookies and the Sand Siblings, while the adults are shown prancing about synchronously on a tropical beach. EVEN THE 4TH RAIKAGE AND THE 3RD TSUCHIKAGE. Unlike most examples, though, the tenth opening has an expnanation/justification; previous openings had been rather intense and so the studio thought a fun, silly opening would be a change of pace.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_32a0137d	comment	Makura no Danshi: None of the boys in the opening are actually shown sleeping, save for Merry. Even besides the lack of sleeping, viewers who see the opening would be forgiven for expecting it to be a Yaoi series or a more risque Otome of some sort, what with all the scantily dressed men and camera pans that focus on their muscles.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_32c541e6	comment	The third opening of the 2003 anime version features Edward and Alphonse fighting some dragon-looking monsters in a swamp. This never comes to pass in the series. Indeed, nothing even remotely close to these creatures appears in the series proper until the very end, when Envy transforms into a very similar dragon on his way into the other world. He later appears, still as a dragon, in the movie In the same opening, we see a shot of Edward fighting against Martel in a collapsing city, which never actually happens on a multitude of levels. Number 1, Edward never fought against Martel, he only fought against her boss Greed. And number 2, the two of them don't fight in a collapsing city, but rather they met each other when the brothers are getting ready to head for Ishval. The fourth opening of the 2003 series shows Ed and Al vs. Gluttony and Lust, and Ed and Al vs. Wrath, Envy and Sloth. Ed and Al do fight Sloth and Wrath, but Lust is on their side in that fight and she and Sloth die in the fight while Wrath escapes. Envy abducts Al, preventing him from getting into any more fights, and Ed fights Envy in the finale, but loses, dies, gets better with Al's help and performs a Heroic Sacrifice to save Al at the cost of being brought to the real world. The fourth ending of the 2003 series shows Ed facing off against Envy and the rest of the homunculi except Greed and Pride in a graveyard. See the above spoiler for why this is a case of bait and switch.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_32d86902	comment	The first season intro for The Backyardigans teases Austin being in that season's cowboy western-themed episode and Tasha being in the respective pirate episode, but neither occurs. All of the show's other intros deliver on what they promise.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_34de22dc	comment	The show Mr. Bean uses this and then subverts it at the same time, by starting with a solemn choir...and then apparently, beaming down Mr. Bean, as if from space. He gets up and wanders off. Towards the end of the credits, he wanders back into the picture, then off again in the opposite direction as before. Lampshaded and subverted by the animated version, in which Mr. Bean is taken aboard a flying saucer populated by Mr. Bean lookalikes — but of course, just when he thinks he's found his place in the universe, the aliens reject him and beam him down in an exact facsimile of the live-action opening credits. The solemn choir isn't all that solemn either, if you translate it back from the Latin. Ecce homo, qui est faba: Behold the man, who is a bean.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_34fd3cf6	comment	The opening credits of Aqua Teen Hunger Force portray the titular trio heroically fighting bank robbers and space aliens, which doesn't come close to anything that occurs in the actual series. The first season did follow a similar format to what the credits show (although instead of having them as "heroes", they were just... well, themselves), but it was quickly abandoned. They didn't change the credits simply because they worked within the logic of the show. Lampshaded by Master Shake in one episode: when asked by Frylock why they didn't fight crime anymore, Shake tells him that 1) it wasn't making the Aqua Teens a lot of money, and 2) they spent most of their budget on the kickass credits they used to play themselves up. The closing credits shenanigans with Lincoln, the wooden rocket and (presumably) Neil Armstrong obviously never happened in the show either... except when The Movie, Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters showed this was part of ATHF's backstory. Exaggerated with the season 8 intro, which is animated in a dark and gritty style and features the characters as a police squad fighting criminals. The show is exactly the same as before. The season 10 intro is a similar case. However, the season 9 intro, which is a Disney Acid Sequence, is a bit closer to what the show actually is. Season 10 brought back embelishing, only this time with the teens depicted as thieves that manage to pull off a diamond heist and masquerade as the band for a strip bar. Though the ending shows cops closing in on the place. Season 11, the final season, depicts the teens in an Animesque style partying and once more kicking ass, with many callbacks to previous openings.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_3544ad11	comment	If you're watching the DVD for House of Cards (US) season 2, one of the things you'll see on the opening menu is a full-screen shot of Zoe staring at the camera holding a microphone, hinting that they'll have a big role in the upcoming season. That character, in fact, is dead by the end of the first episode.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_35cbcc7e	comment	The English theme for the Advanced Battle season is called "Unbeatable" and seems to proclaim Ash as someone who has never lost. Not only is this untrue- he lost plenty of times before- but this season also was the season with the Hoenn Leauge, which he also lost.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_35e05f2a	comment	RWBY: The Volume 2 and 3 openings give the four main characters action-packed fight scenes against the four main villains of each volume, pairing each protagonist and a villain. Blake is paired with Roman in Volume 2 and Adam in Volume 3, reflecting her conflicts in the two volumes. Ruby and Cinder are paired together in both as symbolism of the leaders of the two groups while Yang is paired together with Mercury, which sets up their Volume 3 storyline. That leaves Weiss and Emerald; they end up having no direct conflict with each other in either volume, but are the left-over characters from both groups in the opening credit sequences. The Volume 5 opening shows a new character (later named as Vernal) opposite Cinder, heavily hinting at Vernal being the Spring Maiden. Which she isn't: Raven was pulling a fast one.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_35ebcc22	comment	In the program for Spamalot. Playing off the "Fisch Schlapping Song" that starts the actual program, the main section of the playbill describes a Finnish moosical called Dik Od Triaanenen Fol (Finns Ain't What They Used To Be), "the story, in music and song, of Finlandâ€™s transformation from a predominantly rural agricultural base to one of the most sophisticated industrial and entrepreneurial economies in the world. Featuring the show-stopping, foot-stomping East Finland Moose Ballet â€” 45 magnificent creatures in high-stepping harmony, believed to be the greatest display of horn ever seen on an American stage." Reading it will give you the impression you came to see something that is outright torture. With numbers like "Milk It", â€œItâ€™s a Bleeding (Economic) Miracle!â€�, â€œI Hear Your Nokia But I Canâ€™t Come Inâ€� and "Foek You, Farmers," Dik Od Triaanenen Fol is performed with three intermissions - one every two and a half hours. The real playbill information for Spamalot requires you to sift through these five pages first. Patrons are asked not to smoke or speak Swedish in the theatre. Please use cell phones whenever possible.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_37cfcb80	comment	The opening to Paranoia Agent consists of brightly lit shots of most of the ensemble cast laughing insanely as they look directly at the "camera", and even as things like mushroom clouds (in direct defiance of the Nuclear Weapons Taboo) appear in the background. Throughout the series, said characters rarely if ever smile, much less laugh, and the song that plays over the credits is also loud, tribal, and cheerful, albeit with lyrics that mix cheerful and apocalyptic themes — the combination is surreal and twisted, more so once you've seen enough of the series to realize just how wrong it really is. According to an interview with the director, Satoshi Kon, the tone of the opening theme was because the show was to appear on an unusually late time slot. He wanted a theme that was loud and bombastic so that it would wake the viewers' brains up a little bit.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_3a219aa4	comment	The season 8 opening of Peep Show sees Mark's romantic rival Gerard in the opening titles, suggesting that his role will be expanded. It's actually done to disguise the fact that he dies halfway through the first episode, after which he is replaced in the opening.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_3b05a9de	comment	Power Rangers Time Force was about time travelers from the future, and clips in later versions of the opening showed the characters in different eras like the Wild West, feudal Japan, or prehistoric times. The actual show, however, mostly took place in the present day (where the time travelers were stuck); with only the prehistory clip being from a legit time trip. The rest of the clips came from either Mirai Sentai Timeranger Stock Footage, which was never put into the American version, or from an episode where the characters were trapped in various movies showing off different time periods. It's said that the producers originally wanted the series to contain several Time Travel arcs. Unfortunately, all of the megazord fights in the Timeranger footage took place in modern Tokyo. With that in mind, the second opening was more like the series they'd wished they'd could create had the footage cooperated.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_3c40bfef	comment	Both of The Tower of Druaga's opening credit sequences seem to suggest some sort of Slice of Life show about school children, with subtle references to what actually happens in the show and most of the characters cleverly hidden in plain sight. The only things in the credits for The Aegis of Uruk that are at all reliable are the character pairings and various posters in the background, which show the truth of the show.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_3cb47b0f	comment	The Life and Death of Peter Sellers has an Animated Credits Opening covering the first stretch of the credits set to "What's New Pussycat?" and featuring loads and loads of animated Peter Sellers gadding about. It's inspired by the opening titles of many of Peter Sellers' actual films...but it's also light and funny to deliberately contrast with the mostly-miserable story of a mostly-miserable man that follows.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_3d22c14b	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam 00 lies constantly in its openings. Most fans attribute this to the show's near-constant on-the-fly rewriting due to the production committee's ever-changing demands. Some images were also meant to be figurative but taken literally by most fans. Some of it was old-fashioned misdirection. 2nd OP: The intro shows a big battle between Celestial Being and the combined military forces of all 3 prominent nations using their respective mobile suits, with almost each Gundam Meister squaring off against a rival mobile suit. The last part of the intro also shows the presence of three ominous-looking Gundams that the original Gundams from Celestial Being fight in space. In the actual show, each Gundam Meister instead falls into a trap, are separated from one another by each nation that focused on targeting one of them at a time, and the three nations, despite cooperating with one another, were still opposed to working as one lumbering force. As for the three new Gundams that appear in the intro, not only did Celestial being not face them in space (or in Allelujah's case, at all), but they were not even the true antagonists for either the first season or second. In fact, in their first appearance, they rescue the ambushed Gundam Meisters from certain death. The true antagonists were absent from the intro. 3rd OP: This OP shows the mobile suits Arios and Cherudim engaging Louise on Earth, Seravee against Ali and Patrick in space, and Setsuna clashing blades with Mr. Bushido in space. In the actual show, Arios and Cherudim never directly faced off against Louise (while Louise does a real bait and switch herself; she's eventually piloting the stronger mecha in the same scene). When Mr. Bushido finally encounters Setsuna in space, it's not until after the 4th OP premiered and he's piloting a different (superior) suit to the one seen here. 4th OP: This OP shows a naked Tieria who regained his Supernatural Gold Eyes indicating the recapture of Veda, the 00-Raiser shooting the Regnant to bits showing Setsuna's Co-pilot Saji reaching for the Regnant's pilot Louise in agony and Seravee Gundam battling Arche Gundam in space, ending with both mobile suits clashing blades as red beams again appear from Seravee's backpack. In the actual show, Tieria not only regained possession of Veda, but he also merged with it as Ribbons killed his physical body. Although Setsuna did shoot one of his comrade's girlfriend, it is not Saji's girlfriend Louise but instead Lyle's Manchurian Agent girlfriend Anew Returner. And the first and only time anyone battled Arche Gundam in space was in the 23rd and 24th episodes, where it was Cherudim that fought against it. The red beams shown emanating from Seravee's backpack was shown to be from Seraphim directly, when it first activated its TRIAL Field, an ability that was strictly Seraphim's own but needed Veda.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_3d22c68b	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ: The first opening features cameo appearances from Char and Amuro. Neither appear in the show at all.note Apparently, this happened because Tomino did plan to have them show up, but then he got the greenlight for the Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack movie and decided not to.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_3d2731ed	comment	The first episode of Saul of the Mole Men opens with the credits to STRATA, ostensibly a show about the adventures of intrepid underground explorers. Then within the first minute, nearly the entire "STRATA Action Team" is gruesomely killed, the only survivors being the Robot, Johnny Tambourine, and the titular Saul, a mere geologist who didn't even merit a mention in the STRATA opening. (The actual opening is an Expository Theme Tune that would spoil the plot of the first episode if it were run up front.)
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_3d67ab11	comment	The first opening of Brynhildr in the Darkness, used from episodes 1-9, prominently features Valkyria, who doesn't appear until episode 10. It also shows Hatsuna, who doesn't appear until episode 11, and Hexenjagd who, aside from a (mostly) incomprehensible cameo in episode 7, don't appear until episode 12. Both openings depict an Ax-Crazy Valkyria fighting Neko, which never quite happens. On the other side of the coin, the second opening (used in episodes 10-13) features Nanami, who is killed off five minutes into Ep.10, and the female student Murakami tutors (Kikka), who doesn't appear at all in those episodes.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_3e8c09b9	comment	In Attack on Titan, the OP shows people heroically fighting and killing Titans — most of the fights with Titans don't go that way, and a lot of people die in every fight. Also, one part of the opening specifically shows Eren, Mikasa, Annie and Jean fighting a Titan together — this never happens. Also, Eren never kills a Titan as a human until the second season.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_3f892b00	comment	At first, Time Hollow seems like a story filled with the player spamming his ability to create time rifts, after it shows multiple prominent plot points in the character introduction part of the intro, as well as some parts of the story nicely animated. Your character cannot stop things already in motion in-game (like the treehouse once it's already on fire — the player needs to stop the firebomb from burning the tree in the first place), and we never get to see Ethan diving and catching Kori, or Ethan saving the place his parents were trapped in from blowing up. Instead, in the story, the place blows up anyway, and it's actually Ethan's uncle who saves the girl from falling off the school building — and even then, they don't even manage to prevent that — instead, the uncle and the girl fall a few stories to the ground. Also, there's even a direct contradiction in the opening to actual fact in-story — a Hollow Pen user cannot go through a Hole without losing their ability to use the pen — or even see or hold said pen. This was simple necessity. For a point-and-click game, especially one with no running timer or similar restriction, showing what you actually need do would constitute a MASSIVE spoiler. Plus Rule of Cool.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_3ffb960f	comment	Hikaru no Go has a scene at the end of its last ending sequence which shows Hikaru and Sai playing against each other as equals, implying that someday Hikaru will reach Sai's level and be able to play against him in a fair match. Though Hikaru wants to do this, it never happens, and he's nowhere near Sai's level when Sai disappears permanently.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_42c17ca1	comment	The opening credits of the Power Rangers in Space premiere indicated Divatox would remain as the main villain, and didn't credit Andros. Sure, Astronema had already made an appearance in the Batman Cold Open, but nothing concrete to that point indicated she'd take over.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_44fe781e	comment	The opening sequence of Neon Genesis Evangelion is fairly standard for a Humongous Mecha series — the smiles on characters' faces, the panoramic views, the heroic and determined figure of Shinji Ikari standing tall with the wind of a thousand cliches blowing through his hair. It also completely belies the nature of the actual series. You will, however, catch glimpses of the mopey female trio along with People Jars. Another way to read the opening is it reinforcing the fact that Shinji is an angry passive-aggressive kid who will have to face the (end of the) world, like it or not. This interpretation is more common nowadays since fans look for signals towards a Gainax Ending (though it's debatable how much of said ending was intended from the start. Word of God actually says the final ending was only decided three months in advance). It's also interesting that the "wings" of Unit 1 in the intro appear nowhere in the series — but make a prominent appearance in The End of Evangelion. You do catch a brief glimpse of a creature with similarly-shaped wings at the beginning of the series. It's arguably foreshadowing that the Evangelions have more to do with the Angels than we are led to believe. It's also interesting to note that despite Asuka's importance in the show, she barely appears in the intro. She has one brief appearance alongside Shinji and Rei, which only lasts a few seconds, and a couple of frames to show her role as the pilot of Unit-02. However, this can be attributed to her late debut in the show. There's a monstrous multi-winged creature at the beginning of the opening that looks like an Angel and is covered in all sorts of weird letters. You can spot it right behind the "Gainax" title. Nothing like it ever shows up in the series, whatever it is. Apparently, the thing is a representation of Samael, or a Qabbalistic depiction of a seraph of some sort. So, toss that one in the same heap along with the sephira on Gendou's floor, etc. It's worth noting that if one freeze-frames a lot in the last bit of the intro, there are all sorts of hints about much later events in the show. A patient person who wanted to take the OP apart frame-by-frame could probably guess a lot about the series even before watching it. Like the fact that AT Field means "Absolute Terror Field", for an example. Not to mention the song itself. While the upbeat, peppy melody isn't necessarily odd, as NGE is rather notorious for Lyrical Dissonance, the lyrics themselves also seem to point to a more upbeat, standard Humongous Mecha anime.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_467c89f7	comment	This even showed up twice in the OP for the original Super Dimension Fortress Macross. First, a prolonged sequence shows Hikaru flying over an outdoor city and fighting Zentradi in his white-and-red VF-1J. Hikaru does fight in outdoor towns, but he never did in his VF-1J. He first fought in Macross City before the city was transported to Pluto while piloting a VF-1D, and later engages in outdoor urban combat late in the series, but by that point he had inherited Roy Focker's VF-1S. note He also engages in city fighting on board the Macross after the Zentradi invade, but even there he's flying Roy's Valkyrie, as the invasion occurs just shortly after his own VF-1J is shot down and destroyed and Roy is killed in combat. The other one is an omission. Lynn Minmay appears nowhere at all in the original opening sequence, though she is one of the three central characters of the show! note She does, however, appear in a reanimated version of the sequence made for, of all things, a licensed pachinko machine.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_495f277f	comment	The second opening of Hayate the Combat Butler's second season has a scene that was taken directly from a manga chapter where Hayate goes to Risa's house and they both end up being chased by a giant crocodile. You'd take this to mean that they'd be animating that chapter, right? But then they skipped it....
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_49ff762	comment	Torchwood pulls a fast one on viewers in its first episode. The opening credits to the pilot includes Indira Varma, who plays Suzie Costello. This was done to make it look like she was a regular cast member. She wasn't, and her character was dead by the end of the episode.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_4a091dfc	comment	Jay's Journey starts with a scrolling crawl giving some backstory about a hero from a thousand years past defeating a demon... that, as the scroll eventually admits, has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the rest of the game, "but it's still a pretty cool story, don't you think?"
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_4a4a982a	comment	Though the destroyed city later appears in a flashback scene in Endless Waltz, and Episode Zero reveals that Relena was there too, finally giving a belated explanation for that scene.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_4be3aedd	comment	The opening credits of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers episode "The Mutiny" suggested Rita Repulsa would remain as the Big Bad. Then we got caught by surprise with the debut of Lord Zedd and The Reveal that Rita was working for him all this time.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_4c517588	comment	The opening of Tentai Senshi Sunred depicts Sunred with all the typical toku hero tropes. A Transformation Sequence, stylized weapons, a bike and a Finishing Move. None of these have appeared outside the credits.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_4e433e78	comment	Monty Python and the Holy Grail Some editions start out with several minutes of the 1961 film Dentist on the Job (starring a young Bob Monkhouse). This goes on far longer than most credit gags, to the point where one wonders if there was some bizarre mix-up before the projectionist sleepily grumbles about having put in the wrong reel and the credits proper start up. (This gag was carried over from the original cinema release.) The opening credits of the film proper feature pseudo-Swedish subtitles and references to things that have nothing to do with the movie.note Mynd you, mÃ¸Ã¸se bites Kan be pretty nasti... The opening credits are actually the full credits, run at the beginning to set up an elaborate joke on the viewing audience. At the intermission (which is actually 90% of the way through the movie), music begins playing and goes on just long enough for viewers to think it's a real intermission and get up, only to have the movie abruptly reappear, forcing them to return to their seats. At the end, a fourth wall break that's the result of the police arresting everyone causes the physical film to run out and be held over by the same intermission music (with no picture), but this time it runs for three minutes before the movie simply ends without credits, leading viewers to sit in their seats (having been tricked by the intermission) until it runs out and then be puzzled why there are no end credits. Especially as the ending is abrupt and weird.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_4f01368	comment	Static Shock has four openings (technically three, the fourth one is just the third one with edited-in shots), which show Static fighting villains. With the exception of season two's opening, the rest are inconsistent with the villains shown. The first season's opening features Rubberband Man, who is shown robbing a jewelry store, something he never does in the show as he only wanted revenge on a record producer for stealing his music, and Dwayne McCall is seen summoning a mechanical dinosaur to attack Static. In the show, Dwayne is an otherwise neutral character who only appeared one, and was only being persuaded to attack Static by his stepbrother Aron. The third season's opening features the Heavyman, a one-time villain who kidnapped Shebang's parents in the episode that featured him. Professor Menace, another one-time villain, also appears, despite the fact that he is Soul Power's nemesis. The last villain shown is, of all things, Brainiac in a robot body, who is one of Superman and the Justice League's villains. Puff's appearance in the season two opening is a subversion, however, as though she appeared in one season two episode, that episode was aired during season three instead.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_4f82fde6	comment	Eversion has an adorable, sugary-sweet title screen that's a tad misleading. The quote and warning do hint at what's to come, though.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_524e2e3b	comment	Donald Duck's cartoon shorts (post-1947) feature a theme song that shills Donald, claiming he has "the sweetest disposition", "never, ever starts an argument", and "never shows a bit of temperament". Amusingly, Donald himself reacts to the music, demonstrating his real personality to the audience. The last line, however, is entirely accurate.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_55d81244	comment	The opening of ViVid Strike! has a scene of Fuuka facing Rinne in the Winter Cup, something that never happens since Vivio beat Rinne in the quarterfinals. Their actual climatic battle instead takes place at Lutecia's training grounds on Carnaaji, and the closest they get to being in the ring together during the tournament is when Rinne acts as Fuuka's second for her match against Einhart at the very end of the series.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_55de9501	comment	A half-example with the second OP for Powerpuff Girls Z, as the series delivered Powerprof, Dynamo Z and the bit with the volcano, but didn't get round to the Beach Episode or the Super Zero costumes.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_55ef2655	comment	Kenan & Kel features the titular characters in Los Angeles with Coolio (who performs the opening theme) essentially partying at night outdoors. Nothing like this ever happens in the show (most of it takes place indoors). None of the other characters besides those two appear in the opening either.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_5690420f	comment	The German opening to DuckTales (1987) mentions Pluto and Goofy, two characters who never appear in the series at all. The German opening theme for the 2017 reboot has different lyrics entirely.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_58449314	comment	The Mr. Magoo film, which is live-action, starts out with an animated Magoo going through his usual near-sighted hijinks before we enter the main plot and live-action.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_5b42bbed	comment	The opening to Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice shows Master Big Star as an antagonist working (or at least hanging out) with Salvatore. In the game itself Master Big Star is a good guy who has a war with Salvatore, and is one of the more saner members of the cast. The opening of Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten is home to quite a few inconsistencies with the actual game, such as Fuka using guns despite having no aptitude for them and Flonne using an special attack that doesn't exist in-game, but the biggest one is its depiction of Axel. He's featured heavily alongside the main cast, giving the impression that he's a central protagonist. In the actual game, not only is he an antagonist for the majority of the main campaign, he's not even playable until the postgame.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_5ce3fc86	comment	In Soul Eater, the second opening, Papermoon, starts out pretty basic... with just a bunch of pictures of the characters flashing across the screen in rapid succession. Until the very last shot, when we see Soul crying in anguish, holding an unconscious Maka in his arms. This never happens. If anything, it's Soul's near-death in the final episode that fuels Maka's Roaring Rampage of Revenge. The one that reveals that she is a weapon. Although Studio Bones had some hints as to what was going to happen in the manga before it came out, as a bit of an assistant for the Gecko Ending they created. Kid's stripes, Black Star's conversations with the Will of Nakatsukasa, and Rachel Boyd's return to health make an appearance.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_5d354f8	comment	Red Dwarf had something like this in the first two seasons, with a slow sweep across the Red Dwarf, and portentous music which led many first-time viewers to expect something serious and dark, with just the slight comedy visual of a bloke in a spacesuit painting the F of "RED DWARF". From season 3, this was replaced by guitar rock and visuals of the wacky things the Boys from the Dwarf went through. The ominous music remains the eponymous ship's Leitmotif.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_5d44346b	comment	The opening for Campione! prominently features all four main girls, despite Liliana only showing up past the halfway mark and Ena making her only appearance in the final arc.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_5e16d550	comment	The fourth ending of Black Clover has Noelle, Mimosa and Kanoho dressed as schoolgirls in an ending that makes it seem like a Slice of Life or Shoujo. The third ending focuses almost entirely on Noelle, even though she's not the most important character of that particular arc.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_5e3f6639	comment	Looking at the OP for Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu you'd think that it'd be a cute, romantic high school Shoujo in the vein of His and Her Circumstances or Marmalade Boy. If you hadn't first watched season one, you might even think that it was one ...for about thirty seconds. At that point, the guy that you've pinned as the stoic, romantic male lead nonchalantly blows up the locker room with plastic explosive.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_60bce256	comment	The opening credits of Daisies have a World War II Scenery Gorn montage, which eventually cuts to two bored girls in bikinis. However, the girls' complaints about how the world has gone bad ties directly to the previous montage and their consequent actions are what drives the (un)plot.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_6119f60f	comment	Done with the second opening of Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom. While the 1st opening is not one of these as it was very dark and melodic fitting the tone of the series, the second one is a huge contrast and gives the series a Slice of Life appearance, showing Reiji and Eren happily living their day to day life in Japan and hanging out with friends while Drei, a violent girl with a death wish in the series, is shown being happy and carefree in the opening.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_61d3b6b8	comment	The anime opening of Fly Me to the Moon shows Nasa and Tsukasa, the main couple, getting married in a Western-style wedding. No such event happens in the actual series, in which Nasa and Tsukasa merely drop off their marriage registration at the ward office while wearing casual clothes.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_62126ef1	comment	Episodes from The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes Season Two begin with an Opening Narration creating the impression that the Avengers consist entirely of the "Big Three" — Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor — and the Incredible Hulk. Thanks to villains who try to weaken the Avengers by separating their members, the succeeding episode will more often than not feature only one, two, or three of those heroes, fighting alongside some less-iconic Avengers.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_6234eae7	comment	Mobile Suit Victory Gundam: The first opening is pretty upbeat and optimistic, with only a reaction shot or two from main character Uso to even hint at the bleak tone and setting of the series. The second opening is even more upbeat which furthers the separation as the end of the series gets even darker and bloodier.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_62b21b5c	comment	Ramen Fighter Miki debatably has this kind of opening. At first glance, it makes one think the series is a serious fighting or drama type of series when it's actually an incredibly over-the-top physical comedy show. On the other hand, the images are: the main cast Chewing the Scenery, Miki Death Raying Megumi's house, Makiko Megaton Punching the world, Miki Sky Surfing her ramen container... all of them showing a World of Ham.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_632df25e	comment	Kurau Phantom Memory: The loving interaction between Kurau and Christmas dressed in cute summer attire in the opening credits doesn't appear anywhere in the anime.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_638624c8	comment	The third Slayers opening (Slayers TRY) has a humorous shot of Lina's sister, Luna, with a sign pointing at her reading, "sorry, opening only!" As for the song itself, it is less energetic and more mellow than the previous two openings, citing for a darker story, but while the overarching plot darkens later on, the overall tone of the show is as comedic as it had always been, creating some poorly timed Mood Whiplash during the comedic filler episodes. Also, in that opening, Filia is portrayed as some demure prophetic waif/Damsel in Distress, but in the show proper, she's an obnoxious, prissy, and loud (and very dead-on) variant of Holier Than Thou. The Italian opening theme has an Alternative Foreign Theme Song and new opening sequence with an intense, epic sounding medieval folk song, making it look like a serious fantasy series, not hinting at the show being largely a comedic parody of fantasy.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_63c1175b	comment	Ultra Fast Pony pulls this off in just a few seconds. The theme song is just the word Friiieeeeends!" As the series progresses, the characters grow to hate each other more and more.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_68c7e5cd	comment	Macross Frontier: Nobody saw Grace being the Big Bad coming, given how the OP and first few episodes played her up as a side character. Then subverted later on, when the last episode uses scenes directly lifted from both OPs during the climactic fight. This even showed up twice in the OP for the original Super Dimension Fortress Macross. First, a prolonged sequence shows Hikaru flying over an outdoor city and fighting Zentradi in his white-and-red VF-1J. Hikaru does fight in outdoor towns, but he never did in his VF-1J. He first fought in Macross City before the city was transported to Pluto while piloting a VF-1D, and later engages in outdoor urban combat late in the series, but by that point he had inherited Roy Focker's VF-1S. note He also engages in city fighting on board the Macross after the Zentradi invade, but even there he's flying Roy's Valkyrie, as the invasion occurs just shortly after his own VF-1J is shot down and destroyed and Roy is killed in combat. The other one is an omission. Lynn Minmay appears nowhere at all in the original opening sequence, though she is one of the three central characters of the show! note She does, however, appear in a reanimated version of the sequence made for, of all things, a licensed pachinko machine.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_6a4c8f1b	comment	The opening of One-Punch Man portrays Saitama as some kind of badass, tough-as-nails action hero when he's actually just a hero for fun and so overpowered that he can defeat any enemy with one punch and therefore never has to actually fight anybody. This is lampshaded by the ending, which switches Saitama's appearance from the hard look of the rest of the theme to his usual appearance.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_6b1e9070	comment	The PokÃ©mon the Series: Black & White opening during the Team Plasma season makes it look like Charizard will have a lot of focus, and that Reshiram will fight Charizard and partner with N as it did in the game. The actual events of the show have Charizard in a supporting role, Ash using Pikachu to fight Reshiram, and only to snap it out of Ghetsis's brainwashing. The same opening also depicts a battle between Ash and Cheren (who is already a gym leader by that point) against an epic, church-like background, making it seem important. While the battle does happen, it takes place on a generic schoolground battlefield, is kinda anti-climactic and has literally zero impact to the story.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_6dbc2611	comment	The opening for Welcome to the NHK features a cheery sounding duet for the theme, with pastel-colored, brightly lit scenes of cute girls frolicking, which gives the impression of a lighthearted romantic comedy of some sort. The series is actually about a young man with extreme social anxiety struggling to deal with his psychological issues and addictions, being helped by a Blithe Spirit that's actually as screwed up mentally as he is. There are some hints of the darker, Black Comedy tone of the show in the opening—the few times the main character is shown he's almost always shown having some sort of panic attack, the main heroine is shown looking lonely as she leans against a wall, and the other women in the opening are faceless (a probable nod to the issues the main character and his friend have with women)—but it still seems a little too upbeat.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_6eef78c2	comment	The Sky Girls opening is a bit of a lie in two ways: first, it suggests an action story, while the series is mostly a slice-of-life story (with some action, but not as much as suggested); second, it features a monster that's never battled (mostly because the footage is from the Sky Girls OVA, which follows a different storyline).
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_73dae89	comment	The Noozles does not involve dancing on rainbows with stars. The show does feature exciting adventures, but these get darker as the series progresses. While the credits might make you think you are watching your typical "child has magical adventures and must hide them from parents" show, the show's actual plot is so strange that a "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer is often involved when describing it.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_75292f21	comment	Ran and Midori from Telepathy Shoujo Ran never fly around in the series as they do in the opening credits. Bummer.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_75584731	comment	Taken to the logical extreme with Tropic Thunder, which opens with fake trailers and commercials starring almost all of the lead "actors" of the film-within-a-film. The parodies are so spot on that some in the audience thought the previews were still running.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_755fadab	comment	Given the amount of stuff that has actually come to pass from it, the opening for Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu is probably an exception. What were originally simply random, half-second images took on new meaning the further we got through the story; furthermore, a few clips are direct from the Light Novels or interpretations of what happens on drama CDs. Maybe the entire thing is a Spoiler Opening...
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_76e539c2	comment	The second Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS opening seems to set up a fight between Subaru and Nove, which was also hinted at when Nove said she wanted to get revenge on Subaru for severely injuring Cinque. In the final battle, Teana ends up fighting Nove with Wendi and Deed, while Subaru fights her Brainwashed and Crazy older sister Ginga.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_77aa72de	comment	Used and lampshaded in I Wanna Be the Guy. The title screen features a scrolling story card and shows the game's items in a fashion taken directly from the first Legend of Zelda, complete with Link at the end. Link himself, however, is holding a card reading "Most of this shit does not appear in this game"
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe has three openings. One used up until part-way into the second season, another for the rest of the original series, and a third for the Sequel Series/Finale Season Steven Universe Future. The first two were accurate when first seen, but quickly became outdated: The first intro is a pretty good summary of what season one is like... except it leaves out any sort of hint towards the Mid-Season Twist that kicks off the real plot of the show. This is, of course, intentional. The second intro is a much stronger example; while it accounts for the status quo changes in season two, like Connie joining the Crystal Gems and the introduction of the Homeworld Gems, it quickly became outdated once said season was over. It continues to portray Lapis and Peridot as villains and Jasper as a major threat long after the former two have sided with the heroes and the latter has been corrupted and imprisoned. Its tone increasingly clashes with the more serialized and dramatic turns the plot takes, and it never touches on major reveals and events like the trips to space or Roseâ€™s true identity.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_7849f0c1	comment	Some shots in the opening of the Shin Getter Robo vs Neo Getter Robo OVA series suggest that it will live up to its title and the two Getters will fight each other, or at least side-by-side, at some point. No such luck, unfortunately.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_78d4f24	comment	Ryuusei no Rockman Tribe. Fans were disappointed in the lack of Ninja and Dinosaur transformations.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_7995a57c	comment	Twin Signal's opening shows scenes of a futuristic city, with the title character battling a slew of super-powered robots, running from Combat Tentacles, and several unusual characters including what appears to be a fairy. The actual OVA is set in a sleepy town in the countryside, is comedy-oriented, and about half the characters in the intro don't even appear in the show proper.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_7a4375df	comment	21 Jump Street: Peter DeLuise mentions in his commentary track for one of the episodes of the first season: the credits feature a bunch of gunplay and a car flipping over; however, the series mostly is about undercover work and centers around sedate dialog-driven scenes. The car flipping over was one of the most expensive scenes shot for the series, and was really the only one of its kind.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_7ac43256	comment	Super Robot Wars: Original Generation: Divine Wars shows Latooni battling in her Elegant Gothic Lolita outfit. She only uses that outfit for two episodes (and only one battle) and most of the time is given a regular uniform and glasses. This is a shout-out to the original game series, where Latooni in fact wears said outfit the entire second game. Of course, in the remake that the TV show borrows from or vice versa, she always wears a normal uniform.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_7b68eb70	comment	The Mega Man (Ruby-Spears) cartoon's title sequence had epic action scenes and detailed Japanese-style animation. The actual cartoon was legitimately an action series, but had slightly less emphasis on the fight scenes and was visually more in line with traditional early-'90s American animation.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_7dc973ed	comment	gen:LOCK: The Season 1 opening theme depicts the five upgraded Holons in a Big Badass Battle Sequence against assorted Union troops. While there is a battle in the sixth episode fairly close to the opening's in scale, the Holons don't get upgraded until the end of the seventh, which is the second-to-last episode of the season; to date the upgraded Holons have only been seen in battle against a small handful of Mooks and the season's Heavy. Also, while spoiling the second-episode twist that Sinclair will not become a Holon pilot as he's been advertised—the title sequence features only five Holons and excludes Sinclair from the shot of the pilots powering up—he is still featured prominently in the opening as if he will be a main character regardless, when in fact he appears only in the second episode due to being revealed as an impostor and killed; the real Sinclair makes his first appearance in The Stinger of the season. The third episode onward removes his voice actor's name from his appearance in the opening titles to mitigate this somewhat.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_7f39a041	comment	The fifth Gintama opening makes the show seem a lot more serious and dramatic than it actually is. (For the first several episodes, it did accompany a comparatively serious story arc, but the key word here is "comparatively.") A good chunk of Gintama's openings qualified. How many times do they show Gin engaged in epic battles? All the time. Does it ever happen? No.note Except when they do. Then again, it's a Gag Series with a Trolling Creator, so is it a surprise? Then the series starts hitting the deeper pits of the Cerebus Rollercoaster in its later (and especially final) arcs, and the openings fit right in. The anime's Slip Arc has an ominous shot of Shoyo and his pupils in the opening, with a brief cameo from Utsuro in his silhouette. Is this going to be an important plot point? Definitely, but in the seasons that sandwich it, as the Slip Arc was dedicated to all the chapters BNP skipped to get to the serious final parts.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_7f8a38b6	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: The first opening ends with a climatic battle between Heero and Zechs in outer space. That does eventually happen very late in the show, but not in the way portrayed here. Also, there's a shot of Relena walking around a destroyed city, where no cities were really destroyed during the series at all. The second opening doesn't have any misleading details like this (save for one minor detail: Zechs is depicted as still wearing his mask for some reason, even though he has long abandoned it by that point), so the errors of the first OP are often attributed to rewrites that happened during Wing's troubled production. Though the destroyed city later appears in a flashback scene in Endless Waltz, and Episode Zero reveals that Relena was there too, finally giving a belated explanation for that scene.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_806b1344	comment	The opening credits of Nurse Witch Komugi R paint Lilia as the main villain. She doesn't show up until the penultimate episode, and while she is evil, it's not willingly (or even knowingly, for that matter). The true mastermind is her stuffed bear. It Makes Sense in Context. The intro also shows Magical Nurse, Magical Sister and Magical Maid working together to defeat a monster. The three magical girls spend the entire series fighting amongst themselves until circumstances force them to work together in the finale, and even then their Combination Attack doesn't take the form of a powerful energy beam like in the intro: instead, they pretty much defeat the Big Bad by singing at it.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_83c5459c	comment	Trinity Blood: The ending credits hint at a romance between Abel and Esther, which never happens. Also, the opening credits seem to give the Crusnik way more screen time than he gets in most episodes.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_8466043a	comment	In Grand Blue, the opening is about our protagonists diving. Truth is, the series is more about drinking alcoholâ€” just like how everyone thought Peek-a-boo is a legitimate diving club instead of a drinking club.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_846beec3	comment	Vandread's first ending shows Meia glomping Hibiki and being incredibly affectionate towards him. In the show proper, not only does it take several episodes for her to warm up to him, their relationship is more akin to Vitriolic Best Buds than anything particularly romantic.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_847bd9e0	comment	The opening credits of the Chinese series Go Princess Go suggest it is a very serious and dramatic historical romance set in Imperial China with multiple shots of the main cast crying, fighting or in slow tender moments. The actual show - while it does have some emotional and dramatic moments - is mostly a wacky comedy Gender Bender time travel story about a modern womanising man whose mind is hurled back in time to end up in the body of a beautiful princess.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_84f3f987	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V: The first opening shows Sawatari holding his three Darts Shooting cards. However, since he replaces them for another deck in episode 7, three episodes after they are revealed in the opening, they have become meaningless. The second opening shows participants of the Junior Youth Championship in a prominent way, including the students from the various Duel Schools and the LDS trio. None of them are actually important to the tournament plot and they are eliminated pretty early, most of them off-screen or very quick. Particularly, the LDS trio, who are supporting characters, are highlighted with the rest of the supporting cast, but all of them besides Masumi, who was eliminated before the opening was first aired, suffer from The Worf Effect and they have lost their prominence in the show. Sora is also shown among the ranks of LDS, which might foreshadow that he will eventually leave You Show, but Sora never joins LDS and even antagonizes them. The third opening depicts a vicious battle between an angry Yuya and Yugo, using Odd-Eyes Rebellion Dragon and Clear Wing Synchro Dragon, respectively. Presumably, it was setting up a war between them, as Yuya is on a mission to rescue Yuzu, who Yugo accidentally whisked away. In the show proper, not only does Yuya not use Odd-Eyes Rebellion in the Synchro Dimension during the span the show used this opening, he and Yugo never duel. Their only meeting came at the end of episode 91, and they never spoke - they just dueled their opponents in the same room. What's more, neither of the two bear any ill will towards each other; in fact, Yugo seems to think Yuya's a pretty cool guy if Yuzu thinks so highly of him. Furthermore, Odd-Eyes Rebellion normally doesn't attack with a Breath Weapon and has only done that in the final episode of the series. The fourth opening features Yuya's rematch with Jack Atlas. Odd-Eyes Rebellion Dragon is fighting Red Daemon's Dragon Scarlight in the opening, but Yuya does not summon it during the rematch. The sixth opening is positive and upbeat, and depicts our protagonist performing and bringing smiles to an audience full of his friends. Some of the lyrics are about making people smile and following your dreams. While the show uses this opening, the Lancers become a Dwindling Party, Yuya fails to reach his goal of saving Yuzu and the other bracelet girls, suffers from Sanity Slippage multiple times, and eventually gets possessed and turns evil, becoming Zarc and bent on killing all those people Yuya was making smile in the opening. It also prominently features Odd-Eyes Raging Dragon being the center of Yuya's entertainment, despite Yuya never summoning Odd-Eyes Raging in his non-awakened state, and the series implies that Odd-Eyes Raging is actually the most evil one of all the hybrids.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_856ba747	comment	The educational program Dragons, Wagons & Wax had an exciting, action-packed animated opening featuring a dragon who gets stuck on a runaway cart! The actual show was live-action, intellectual, slow-paced, and no Dragons. Watch here
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_86fa6d5b	comment	.hack//SIGN: We're treated to an Electronica-esque opening song with a ton of technicolor visuals. The major characters come onto screen one at a time looking like they're dancing, as well as falling through a data-field while their clothes gradually disintegrate. There's also a female character in a red and blue bodysuit and visor featured VERY prominently. None of this appears at all in the show. The girl in the body suit doesn't even EXIST. The only things that come close are the screen gradually "breaking" over a face shot of Tsukasa, and a very brief shot at the end showing the sleeping Aura (and the bodysuit girl in what looks like the REAL world which makes even less sense). The show itself is more brooding, and introspective than anything else with most of the very Mind Screw-y plot handled via exposition which only serves to make the upbeat opening even MORE jarring. It's possible that the opening is symbolic of the fact that the show takes place in a virtual world, hence the girl in the VR goggles and suit and the dissolving clothes while falling could symbolize the shifting of realities. It's also possible the unnamed girl represents Tsukasa, who's hiding his true gender.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_88b348e8	comment	Sakura never actually wears any of the costumes she wears in the Cardcaptor Sakura openings, aside from one of Tomoyo's fantasy sequences showing her in the first opening's costume.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_8ac4e993	comment	Gundam: The ending theme of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam is almost entirely comprised of a shot of Fa Yuiry running alongside Haro while a bouncily cheerful romantic tune plays. Not only is it a bit of an odd choice of music for a notoriously grim series, but Fa is really not a particularly important character in the show beyond being one of Kamille's love interests; there are entire arcs where she isn't around. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny: The opening sequences are mostly composed of scenes that never happen in the show. Also, the main characters taking their clothes off for no clear reason. A particularly noteworthy sequence shows the Freedom and Destiny Gundams joining forces to battle a Destroy Gundam — when in fact, the Freedom and Destiny never once fought on the same side, even in "temporary truce for convenience" fashion. Mobile Suit Victory Gundam: The first opening is pretty upbeat and optimistic, with only a reaction shot or two from main character Uso to even hint at the bleak tone and setting of the series. The second opening is even more upbeat which furthers the separation as the end of the series gets even darker and bloodier. Mobile Suit Gundam 00 lies constantly in its openings. Most fans attribute this to the show's near-constant on-the-fly rewriting due to the production committee's ever-changing demands. Some images were also meant to be figurative but taken literally by most fans. Some of it was old-fashioned misdirection. 2nd OP: The intro shows a big battle between Celestial Being and the combined military forces of all 3 prominent nations using their respective mobile suits, with almost each Gundam Meister squaring off against a rival mobile suit. The last part of the intro also shows the presence of three ominous-looking Gundams that the original Gundams from Celestial Being fight in space. In the actual show, each Gundam Meister instead falls into a trap, are separated from one another by each nation that focused on targeting one of them at a time, and the three nations, despite cooperating with one another, were still opposed to working as one lumbering force. As for the three new Gundams that appear in the intro, not only did Celestial being not face them in space (or in Allelujah's case, at all), but they were not even the true antagonists for either the first season or second. In fact, in their first appearance, they rescue the ambushed Gundam Meisters from certain death. The true antagonists were absent from the intro. 3rd OP: This OP shows the mobile suits Arios and Cherudim engaging Louise on Earth, Seravee against Ali and Patrick in space, and Setsuna clashing blades with Mr. Bushido in space. In the actual show, Arios and Cherudim never directly faced off against Louise (while Louise does a real bait and switch herself; she's eventually piloting the stronger mecha in the same scene). When Mr. Bushido finally encounters Setsuna in space, it's not until after the 4th OP premiered and he's piloting a different (superior) suit to the one seen here. 4th OP: This OP shows a naked Tieria who regained his Supernatural Gold Eyes indicating the recapture of Veda, the 00-Raiser shooting the Regnant to bits showing Setsuna's Co-pilot Saji reaching for the Regnant's pilot Louise in agony and Seravee Gundam battling Arche Gundam in space, ending with both mobile suits clashing blades as red beams again appear from Seravee's backpack. In the actual show, Tieria not only regained possession of Veda, but he also merged with it as Ribbons killed his physical body. Although Setsuna did shoot one of his comrade's girlfriend, it is not Saji's girlfriend Louise but instead Lyle's Manchurian Agent girlfriend Anew Returner. And the first and only time anyone battled Arche Gundam in space was in the 23rd and 24th episodes, where it was Cherudim that fought against it. The red beams shown emanating from Seravee's backpack was shown to be from Seraphim directly, when it first activated its TRIAL Field, an ability that was strictly Seraphim's own but needed Veda. Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: The first opening ends with a climatic battle between Heero and Zechs in outer space. That does eventually happen very late in the show, but not in the way portrayed here. Also, there's a shot of Relena walking around a destroyed city, where no cities were really destroyed during the series at all. The second opening doesn't have any misleading details like this (save for one minor detail: Zechs is depicted as still wearing his mask for some reason, even though he has long abandoned it by that point), so the errors of the first OP are often attributed to rewrites that happened during Wing's troubled production. Though the destroyed city later appears in a flashback scene in Endless Waltz, and Episode Zero reveals that Relena was there too, finally giving a belated explanation for that scene. Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ: The first opening features cameo appearances from Char and Amuro. Neither appear in the show at all.note Apparently, this happened because Tomino did plan to have them show up, but then he got the greenlight for the Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack movie and decided not to.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_8d318bad	comment	The intro movie for Super Mario RPG shows a few scenes that only loosely resemble the actual game. Some of the more elaborate examples include a Goomba chasing Mario out of a warp pipe and Geno saving Mario and Mallow from a Magikoopa (in the actual game, he joins them for the fight against Bowyer).
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_8eda89ef	comment	The credits of Darker than Black shows falling stars and Amber cradling Hei's head. In the second version, there's a scene of Hei fighting against several clones of himself — neither happens in the series. In other respects, though, the clones scene is pretty similar to one in the OVA. The cake goes to the second season OP, which barely has Hei in it at all, prominently has the schoolkids from the first episode playing at the beach, and has Suou travelling alone, save for her absurdly cute pet... squirrel... thing. It took a lot of flak for those reasons. One classmate gets turned into a Contractor very early on and kills another one, the rest have their memories of Suou and said Contractor friend erased, Hei is still the real main character, Suou very rarely travels alone and that squirrel is actually Mao from S1 Back from the Dead.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_8f422dc7	comment	Although the general wackiness of the openings fit the theme of the show, Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo includes the character Battleship among the main cast, yet after his run as a villain he disappears, except for occasional appearances, usually knocked out by the current villain. The same occurs with Suzu in the second opening, who only joins the main crew for one arc, and doesn't really do much. But then again, it's Bo-Bobo. It may have also been an attempt to subvert the Spoiler Opening.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_90032631	comment	The serious tone of the opening credits to Orange Is the New Black prepare the viewer for a dramatic prison drama. While the series has plenty of dramatic moments, they are equalled or surpassed by more lighthearted moments.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_903d6567	comment	According to the Goof Troop Thematic Theme Tune, the apples don't fall far from the tree (they certainly do in all but the shallowest sense). Also, the Title Montage essentially gives a visual equivalent of a Quote Mine for PJ, who looks cheerful and safe in every single shot he appears in (except for one where he's making a face along with Max and Pistol), even if they're taken from an episode where he's miserable for half the running time like "O, R-V, I N-V U"—which is, along with episodes where he's an understandably agitated No-Respect Guy or an Out of Focus Satellite Character, the status quo.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_9068877a	comment	The Season 3 DVD of Red vs. Blue opens like this, with a lot of violence and explosions, and the scene cuts to some of the characters saying outright that the new season isn't going to have any less to do with standing around and talking than usual.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_909ca4b1	comment	During ReBoot's opening, Bob mentions that he intends to learn about the User and why it plays dangerous games. In the actual show, Bob doesn't even attempt to learn anything about the User at all. That line in the opening is removed in later seasons as the plot shifts away from dealing with the games.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_919cd120	comment	The characters in the opening of The Crumpets didn't get updated for seasons 3 and 4, which only has teenagers as its main characters. For instance, Li'l One the infant continues to appear in the center among the characters even though he was downgraded by importance.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_9332ddb8	comment	Invoked in Girl-chan in Paradise, being a shonen parody. Its theme song promises much more fluid and action-oriented animation than can be seen in the actual show. The Burning Man appears as the song reaches its climax, giving the impression that he'll be a much more prominent villain than he actually is. And at once point in the theme, Girlchan is seen walking alongside some blond boy who never appears in the show, though maybe he would have had the show not been orphaned after three episodes.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_93d11d6f	comment	Kamichama Karin sports a rather dark-looking opening sequence that, combined with the sombre first ep, convinced some fans that the series was going to be a darker-and-edgier Magical Girl-slash-Moe Series, ala Nanoha. So wrong. On the other hand, once the Cerebus Syndrome kicks in, the opening doesn't look quite as much out of place.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_9440423a	comment	The live-action Popeye movie starts out like the opening of the old cartoons, then, where the title of the short is, Popeye sticks his head up and says, "Hey, what's this? One of Bluto's tricks? I'm in the wrong movie!" and we enter live-action.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_957922a4	comment	The opening credits for the short-lived cartoon Alvin and the Chipmunks Go To the Movies contains footage from different episodes, each parodying a different movie, but also a brief clip parodying Star Wars, starring Alvin as Luke Skywalker, Simon and Theodore as C-3PO and R2-D2, respectively, and David Seville as Darth Vader. Unfortunately, the Star Wars parody was never made into an actual episode of that series. There's also Eleanor swimming away from a shark and being saved by Jeanette in a Jaws parody that was never made either.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_960062b7	comment	My Hero Academia The fifth opening has a set of rapid-fire shots, placed prominently after the title card, of a red-haired man with goggles and a toothy grin. He never actually shows up in that arc, and since he isn't from the manga either, nobody in the fandom has the slightest clue who he is. The 11th opening features a pale, shriveled person with no arms rising up while screaming. Fans speculate that it might either be Kotaro Shimura, abusive father of the Big Bad due to the hair, or returning villain Overhaul due to having no arms, but no definitive answer is availible. That opening also shows Ida, Bakugo, and Todoroki fighting the Big Bad, who doesn't make any appearances in the arc.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_96308290	comment	Akiba's Trip: Undead and Undressed has the heroines fighting each other in the intro and even fighting on the rooftops. This never happens in game.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_967347ea	comment	The opening sequence for Revolutionary Girl Utena shows Utena and Anthy in dark blue and red plate armor, respectively, riding flying horses in an implied battle against an unseen enemy. Needless to say, we never see anything like this in the series. This was a result of changes to the author's original storyline rather than deliberate deception, not that someone watching the finished product has any way to tell the difference. Director Ikuhara later joked it was a scene he had thought up during his work on Sailor Moon and that it wouldn't make any sense there either.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_96cc976	comment	The opening of Asobi Asobase has a cute and fluffy song with visuals of the three protagonists in white sundresses with copious lilies everywhere, suggesting that it's an easygoing Slice of Life Schoolgirl Series. In actuality, the series is a surreal comedy featuring the girls being moronic jerks to each other and everyone else. The ending theme, "Inkya Impulse", which is a heavy metal song featuring surreal neon scribbles of the girls while Hanako screams about popular girls, is more in line with the series' true tone.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_976efc02	comment	There are a few of these in the MST3K canon — the calling card of Film Ventures International, all "featuring" music by Karl Demer — including Master Ninja I and II, Stranded in Space, Pod People, and Space Travelers. The FVI credits footage for Pod People and Stranded in Space are egregious in how not from the repackaged film they are (Pod People takes its opening credits footage from the 1985 film Galaxy Invader; the source for the Stranded in Space credit footage is the 1983 film Prisoners of the Lost Universe). The Master Ninja credits are actually fairly representative of the "movies" themselves — Lee Van Cleef somewhat half-assedly pretending to be a ninja. It's the score and film-negative effect that make them stand out....
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_985ad25d	comment	Dragon Ball Super's 2nd OP features the main characters fighting in the upcoming Tournament of Power, including some surprising faces like Android 17. While Android 17 is present on the team, Majin Buu is not - he's incapacitated just before the tournament begins, forcing the team to revive Freeza to take his place. The OP then changes to reflect this. Similarly, when the first opening changes some footage to include the fighters of Universe 6, Cabba and Hit use techniques that they never use in the actual series and don't even fit their battle styles.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_99055407	comment	Family Matters shows the Winslow family on a group bike ride through Chicago. They never do anything like this in the show, where Carl's aversion to physical activity is a frequent punchline.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_9992c8a8	comment	Bart is actually closer in personality and age to the other Dennis the Menace.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_9992c8b0	comment	Supposedly, the inspiration for Bart Simpson comes from Matt Groening being disappointed by Dennis the Menace (US), as in the show Dennis is not the whirlwind of disruption he is depicted as being in the credits. Bart is actually closer in personality and age to the other Dennis the Menace.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_9a959369	comment	The opening of Pretty Sammy makes the show look like a fairly standard Cute Witch style of Magical Girl show, with Sasami actually appearing happy about her powers and Misao being in on the secret. Then you get to the actual show, which is a Magical Girl Warrior show with Sasami not caring for her role and Misao most definitely not in on the secret. Since the show is meant as a parody of the Magical Girl genre, this was intentional.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_9bb5aad4	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: The first opening, somewhat notoriously, features Daichi summoning two monsters: one is obviously Water Dragon, but the other, looking like a fire-based counterpart to Water Dragon, never appeared. It was mentioned that he had a deck for each attribute, so presumably that was the Fire deck's ace... the trouble is, he ditched that gimmick pretty early on in favor of a general science-themed deck, and never played a game with the Fire deck. The fourth opening prominently features Judai's Card Ejecter, even though she never appears in the fourth season. Card Ejecter is only played once, during the Final Battle of the third season, but her effect is interrupted. This card is not even one of Judai's signature cards or a Duel Spirit. Some viewers would think that Judai got this card in the fourth season. The third opening of the English dub shows a mirrored shot of Amon Garam/Adrian Gecko, implying that he's left-handed. He's not. In general, while the original version cycled through a number of openings that fit the tones of their respective arcs (happy and jokey in the first arc, a bit more serious but still fairly energetic in the second season, and mournful, introspective, and morose by the third season), the English dub kept the same song throughout. Said song is an upbeat, Totally Radical number whose first line is "chillin' out with the crew in the schoolyard!"—it fits pretty well with the first season, feels a bit off for the second, and is downright baffling by the third.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_9bdb7d4	comment	The opening theme to Berserk (1997) shows very little of the plot, being mostly comprised of various shots of Guts walking around and posing, his equipment, a flower bursting into flames, and a split second of blood splatter. The only actual image that informs the series is a shot of a tree with bodies hanging from it. It tells very little about the series, but more relevantly, the opening theme is a rather upbeat rock song mostly comprised of Gratuitous English (with its most prominent lyrics being "put your glasses on, nothing will be wrong"). Anyone familiar with Berserk will tell you that it is not an upbeat show about how things are going to be okay. Particularly funny is that "Even mother will show you another way!" plays over the aforementioned shot of the tree—those familiar with Berserk will tell you that tree is important because Guts's mother was hanged there.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: The eighth opening shows the Straw Hats relaxing, going shopping, enjoying themselves on the beach and acting out covers from the manga, making it seem very relaxing. This opening plays during the Enies Lobby arc, where they're attacking one of the most heavily defended government installations in the world, to save Robin from being taken away from them forever. The eleventh opening becomes a bit of a retroactive bait and switch, since the Straw Hats don't even appear or take part in the current storyline after the Wham Episode, save for Luffy. However, in the anime we still see them a lot because of filler episodes adapted from covers showing what the Strawhats besides Luffy were doing. The twelfth opening pulls this too. The first half of it is devoted to the Straw Hats having crazy adventures together, then it abruptly cuts to the current storyline, which features Luffy alone. The fifth opening also has a misleading moment where Nami pulls out a gun. While it is in the anime, it's during an incredibly calm moment where Nami's seeing if they're prepared for attackers, and the gun is never actually used. Very disappointing. There's an extended sequence throughout the thirteenth opening showing Luffy reuniting with Ace amidst the ruins of Marineford. Not very likely given that arc in the manga has already ended with Marineford damaged but eventually rebuilt and Ace dead shortly after being released. In the 17th opening Wake Up, it showcases Luffy, Zoro and Sanji going up against the Admirals which includes newcomer Issho as well as Luffy vs Blackbeard. No, this doesn't happen in the manga. In fact both Akainu and Blackbeard hadn't even been revealed yet in the current timeline when this was aired. The 19th opening features Luffy, Zoro and Sanji in skirmishes against Jack and Kaido; the former is never really fought directly by any of the Straw Hats while the latter is not even physically present during the arc. The 18th, 20th and 21st all have variations of this as they showcase scenes of all the Straw Hats fighting together despite the crew being split in half during those arcs. Only Luffy and four specific Straw Hats are present during the Dressrosa arc in the 18th opening, while openings 20 and 21 feature Luffy again, but with the other four that weren't at Dressrosa. The 26th opening, which focuses on the Egghead arc, features a very ominous shot of Shaka slowing turning to face the camera with silhouettes of government agents behind him, suggesting that despite having the epithet of "the Good" there's a darker side to him. In the actual scene it's depicting Shaka had just discovered that said agents had been secretly imprisoned in Vegapunk's lab and he's seconds away from being shot in the head by York, the real traitor of Egghead.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_9e5f03e3	comment	The opening of Ally McBeal promised a smiling and happy woman most of the time. However, during the episodes she was depressed/sad/angry nearly the whole series and only rarely seen in a happy mood.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_9fa7d06a	comment	Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei features a bizarre mash-up of vaguely symbolic imagery, Les Yay, and light bondage. I AM IN DESPAIR! THE LACK OF A FOLLOWUP ON YURI ELEMENTS HAS LEFT ME IN DESPAIR!
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_a00c5828	comment	The credits sequence for Di Gi Charat Nyo! is perhaps the king of Bait and Switch Credits sequences, showing the cast participating in multiple genres that the series very much isn't. Almost certainly a parodic use of the trope, but it still wins for sheer volume of misleadingness.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_a11895a9	comment	During its title sequence, the Japanese-humor-filled comedy adventure game Touch Detective 2 1/2 features music and scenes that imply that it's in the mold of serious detective anime. Fortunately, the prominently featured dancing mushroom and corn-husk-masked villain should keep anyone from being genuinely fooled. The original game, Touch Detective had a very similar intro, except slightly more believable; then, of course, the dancing mushroom appeared.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_a1492688	comment	Granblue Fantasy: In the opening sequence, one short scene just before the title has Gran jumping towards Bahamut with his sword in hand. While this implies that the dragon becomes a threat that the crew must face, it does not actually happen by any means during the entire season. Instead, Bahamut is benevolent, saves the party from the Hydra, and can offer its power to Gran's weapon at Lyria's command.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_a19a1ec9	comment	Played for laughs with No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular!. It has a very hard rock intro with visuals that make it seem like an action or horror anime. It's really a Cringe Comedy filled anime about a very awkward high school girl who wants to be popular.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_a4420d22	comment	The first opening of The Venture Bros., though it does a great job of reflecting the intended "Jonny Quest but miserable" vibe of the early seasons, was clearly made when the show was in an earlier stage of development. Overall, it features some noticeably off animation in a similar style to the pilot and apparently done in Flash; it's most evident with Brock, who is rather Off-Model. There's also early designs for Baron Ãœnderbheit and Molotov Cocktease—it's hard to even recognize Molotov, as her facial features are all wrong and she's missing her eyepatch—as well as a completely unknown man with scuba gear and a dagger in his teeth.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_a465e6bd	comment	Jujutsu Kaisen: You'd think given the 3rd opening, the series will be a cheerful high school slice of life with a few shonen elements from now on, given how everyone is having the time of their life in the opening... Nope. Episode 3, Amanai is unceremoniously killed off and the episode is left at a cliffhanger, episode 4, Gojo and Geto are overwhelmed with trauma after the whole ordeal, (a cult mocking Amanai's death and all...) and lastly episode 5, Yu is killed fighting a curse and Geto undergoes a Faceâ€“Heel Turn due to all the tragedies that transpired... and that's not even getting into the every nightmare surrounding the curses...
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_a4a6b86a	comment	The first opening of Code Geass shows Lelouch riding a white horse, something that never happens in the show. The show's creators have said that the scene is metaphorical, but what exactly it means they didn't say. The first opening for the second season has a similar scene, which differs in that it ends with Lelouch glaring at what appears to be a coastal military base — again, something that has yet to happen. This opening also makes it seem as though Prince Schneizel would be a major villain, as the credits end with him smirking at Lelouch and Lelouch glaring back. He doesn't become a major villain until R2. Additionally, the show's last opening shows the Black Knights attacking Schneizel's flying fortress Damocles, when in the actual series, Schneizel manipulates the Knights into betraying Lelouch/Zero, meaning that they fight to defend Damocles. Also, it shows the Ganymede armed with the same kind of nuclear sakuradite weapon from the end of the first season and the Sutherland Sieg in what seems to be space (?) shooting a barrage of missiles. These, of course, never happen. Then there's this pic◊ showing C.C. hanging with Lelouch's friends, though Nina, Milly and Shirley never meet her. For instance, Nina never met C.C. until near the end of the second season while Shirley never met her until the third compilation movie.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_a609791a	comment	Scooby-Doo The Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! credits showed all manner of supernatural menaces, while of course the episodes centered on proving that mysterious events have a mundane explanation. There is no way to tell if the supernatural menaces in the opening credits are real or not. Conversely, later incarnations of the show did include real supernatural elements. Finally fixed with What's New, Scooby-Doo? opening, which has the unmasking of three monsters.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_a61ca024	comment	The opening credits of Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue indicated Vypra would be the main villain. But in reality, she wasn't.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_a670a7dc	comment	Bait and Switch Credits seem to be a staple of the Warriors series in general, as you never quite get to play out the scenarios depicted in the opening sequences. (At least the Warriors Orochi opening was more of a How We Got Here prologue.)
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_a81bac45	comment	Downplayed with the opening to the 1990 Record of Lodoss War OVA, which makes the series look purely like a sappy fairy tale love story. While there is a romantic subplot, the series is an action oriented work of High Fantasy first and foremost, with the romance elements only vaguely hinted at until Parn finally got the hint during the final few episodes, and even then isn't as prominent as the OP would have you believe.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_a881a68a	comment	The first opening of Spider Riders shows a fight between Hunter and Magma. The two never fight each other during the course of the series, not even as friendly sparring. Also, the 3rd ending inexplicably shows what appears to be blood coming from Aqune's mask.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_abc09ce0	comment	Finally fixed with What's New, Scooby-Doo? opening, which has the unmasking of three monsters.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_aef6c6f9	comment	Kino's Journey's 2003 anime adaptation has a very uplifting song as its opening theme. The show itself, aside from Land of Wizard, not so much.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_b0183e04	comment	Garth Marenghis Darkplace parodies this: the opening shot of Darkplace's title sequence shows Rick Dagless running from an exploding ambulance, holding a baby in one arm. The actors (in-character) state on the DVD Commentary that this single shot was so expensive it used up the entire budget and couldn't be used in the show itself.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_b0fc9724	comment	This concept was swiped wholesale from the first six seasons of Saturday Night Live. ("'Charlie's Angels Get The Syph' will not be seen tonight...")
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_b2ac2311	comment	The second opening to The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show mentions Belle, Snoopy's sister. She never appears in any episode of the cartoon. The reason for this is that the theme song Let's Have A Party was first released on the Flashbeagle album, one year before the second season of the show aired. Though that still begs the question why she was chosen to be mentioned alongside Spike and Snoopy in the first place.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_b2fba3e0	comment	Ultra Series: Ultraman: The opening titles start out as a colored version of Ultra Q's introduction titles, only for the title to suddenly change to the series' proper one. The opening to Ultraman Ace features a lot of kaijuu from previous shows that never show up in the show proper.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_b3b15bc1	comment	The Japanese credits for X-Men: The Animated Series feature Cable as a member of the team, but on the show he was a guest character who only appeared in five or six episodes total. It also features a final shot of Cyclops angsting while Krakoa looms over him. Krakoa never appears ever. Not to mention the opening's inclusion of Magneto summoning the Brood out of the earth itself. The Western opening for the show has Magneto leading a group to fight the X-Men which never happens in the show. Two of them (Warpath and Yuri Topolov) don't oppose the X-Men throughout the show. Cable is nothing! The second opening features Iceman as a member of the team. Iceman only appears in one episode.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_b4dd17d	comment	In Dimension W, the opening mostly consists of Kyouma battling various gangsters and dancing. While he does fight gangsters in the first episode, this essentially serves as an Action Prologue that leads to him meeting Mira, and the rest of the anime has no gangsters whatsoever. As for the dancing, that's so ridiculously out of character for Kyouma that it comes across as Narm.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_b5c5f55e	comment	Shadow Star's opening treats us to an upbeat, cheerful opening song with the characters drawn in cute grade-school drawings, ending with Shiina and her mon sleeping together in her bed. At first, it looks like just another adorable mon series in the vein of PokÃ©mon: The Series and Digimon, but Mohiro Kitoh being the creator, and the series being a deconstruction of the genre, the actual series is nothing like that ...
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_b7157bff	comment	Jewelpet Happiness: The first opening makes a big deal of Chiari magically changing into a pink, frilly outfit, giving the impression that it was going to be a Magical Girl series played straight. The anime is actually a school/workplace fantasy comedy, and Chiari's outfit only ever shows up in the first episode.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_b7296d31	comment	My-HiME: The opening presents the show as a light-hearted school drama with three Magical Girls thrown into the equation, as well as presenting Mai, Natsuki and Mikoto as a strong-willed, determined team- in reality, Natsuki doesn't get along with the other two, but gradually becomes friends with them just in time for things to get serious. As the series gets darker, both the optimistic opening and the upbeat "Shining Days" theme song become progressively ironic, causing Soundtrack Dissonance. Weirdly, the more sad sounding outro music is changed halfway through the season, just as things get dark, for another song, but they didn't swap the opening, making it seem deliberate.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_b8f4145d	comment	The opening of the Shamanic Princess OVA is standard, pastel-toned romance fanfare. The series itself is a dark tale of a powerful Cute Witch and her rivals as they search for a holy item from their world, which turns out to be an Eldritch Abomination holding the sister of the protagonist's former love interest.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_b9b796cf	comment	Fate/stay night's second opening depicts Shirou and Archer facing off inside the Unlimited Blade Works reality marble a la the Unlimited Blade Works scenario in the game. They never do, as the anime stays mostly with the Fate scenario. That scene was a double bait and switch, since Archer was killed off just before this opening began airing. Thus the intro led viewers to believe that Archer would be brought back to life. He wasn't.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_bb5cd713	comment	In the second season of Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch, Hanon is shown with Nagisa, Rina with Hamasaki and Lucia with Rihito. The first two couples get together, but Rihito shows little interest in Lucia and, in fact, supports her reunion with loving amnesiac boyfriend Kaito.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_bcdcf629	comment	The Japanese opening of Transformers: Animated barely features Lugnut while prominently showing minor characters Arcee and Ironhide apparently on Earth and fighting alongside our heroes - indeed, Arcee is shown fighting Blackarachnia underwater (which, it should be noted, she is physically incapable of doing in-universe, since she is part organic). It also shows various fight scenes around the world, when in fact all the scenes on Earth take place in and around Detroit. Despite all that, it's still full of spoilers ( Longarm Prime, anyone?). It also features Cloaked Mystery Villain, who doesn't look much like anybody in the show.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_bd886ad	comment	The opening to Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law depicts a typical dashing hero-type lawyer show with romance, dangerous investigations, action scenes, etc. However, the show is actually a parody of legal dramas, and nearly everyone at the law firm of Sebben and Sebben is crazy and/or stupid. And rather than a dashing hero, Birdman is an incompetent No-Respect Guy.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_bdc321e2	comment	The first season of War of the Worlds (1988) was basically a sci-fi paranoia thriller set in the 80's (and shot in Toronto, Ontario, Canada). By the end, audiences were expecting more of the same thing for the next season. The second series then opened with a radio broadcast detailing how soldiers were rioting and shooting people (as a result of the paranoia?). Of course, once you watch the second season, you find out that the whole premise is a team of people living underground in a sewer system, and launching covert attacks against the aliens. There is no army to speak of. They're disregarded as an ally in the second episode.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_bf23eedd	comment	Fullmetal Alchemist: The first opening to Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood gives a rather prominent role to Hohenheim, showing him as a teenager as well as providing two extended shots of his present-day self. Despite this, Hohenheim gets less than ten seconds of screen time until after the opening switches. The second Brotherhood opening shows King Bradley fighting in a heated battle against Ling, Lan Fan, and Fu. However, not only is it a Curb-Stomp Battle in the episodes that feature this fight, Lan Fan is unconscious from the word go and Fu doesn't even show up due to helping Maria Ross in Xing! The fourth Brotherhood opening features Major Miles and a column of Briggs tanks going head to head with Sloth and Kimblee. This, of course, doesn't happen, awesome as it would have been. There's also a brief shot of Fu and Lan Fan fighting Envy, but that doesn't happen either, though it did spoil their return. The fifth and final Brotherhood opening features Winry turning into Truth, which has no relation to any event in canon and was probably a Red Herring to the real spoiler of Edward's Gate of Truth dissolving. Some have suggested it's symbolic - the first time Ed opened the Gate, the woman in his life and on his mind was his mother, who he sees outlined in bright light like Truth, but by this time in the series, the woman in his life is Winry, his future wife. It could also reflect his goal; Trisha's revival was his goal when his journey first began, while Winry's affections became his goal after his journey ended. In general, almost none of the fight scenes in Brotherhood's credits actually happen between those characters. About the only one that does, Ed vs Scar, happens at night in the credits and in broad daylight in the show! The third opening of the 2003 anime version features Edward and Alphonse fighting some dragon-looking monsters in a swamp. This never comes to pass in the series. Indeed, nothing even remotely close to these creatures appears in the series proper until the very end, when Envy transforms into a very similar dragon on his way into the other world. He later appears, still as a dragon, in the movie In the same opening, we see a shot of Edward fighting against Martel in a collapsing city, which never actually happens on a multitude of levels. Number 1, Edward never fought against Martel, he only fought against her boss Greed. And number 2, the two of them don't fight in a collapsing city, but rather they met each other when the brothers are getting ready to head for Ishval. The fourth opening of the 2003 series shows Ed and Al vs. Gluttony and Lust, and Ed and Al vs. Wrath, Envy and Sloth. Ed and Al do fight Sloth and Wrath, but Lust is on their side in that fight and she and Sloth die in the fight while Wrath escapes. Envy abducts Al, preventing him from getting into any more fights, and Ed fights Envy in the finale, but loses, dies, gets better with Al's help and performs a Heroic Sacrifice to save Al at the cost of being brought to the real world. The fourth ending of the 2003 series shows Ed facing off against Envy and the rest of the homunculi except Greed and Pride in a graveyard. See the above spoiler for why this is a case of bait and switch. The third ending focuses entirely on Winry, with the only shots of Ed and Al being a quick sequence of images at the very end. A non-fan could easily mistake the show's genre and main character if they only saw that ending and nothing else.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_c0eadab8	comment	Sonic X is guilty of this. The second opening shows Super Sonic and Super Shadow fighting. They do fight midway into the Metarex saga, but it's nowhere near as spectacular. Also, though Shadow is featured decently prominently in the first opening, he doesn't even appear until after the second opening has appeared. This is because the first opening is almost entirely recycled footage from the 2001 pilot, which summarizes the plot for the show as a whole.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_c6dbe98e	comment	The opening credits of Monster center on a man with scraggly hair and a hunted look. He glances around as if afraid of being followed; in one shot he's holding a gun. This man is the hero of the show. (The real "monster" does appear, but only for a second.) It's a sneaky example because it's not dishonest — Dr. Tenma is a murder suspect on the run, and his quest to kill Johan takes a constant toll on him.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_c79063a2	comment	Dear Brother's opening features many pretty dolls, some of them being quite creepy. They're seen in a rather luminous and jewelry-full environment, but in the series itself one of them is actually in Rei's very dark apartment full of crazy. The other items are in Fukiko's own Madness Room, which she has kept locked away from others for six years.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_c832776	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny: The opening sequences are mostly composed of scenes that never happen in the show. Also, the main characters taking their clothes off for no clear reason. A particularly noteworthy sequence shows the Freedom and Destiny Gundams joining forces to battle a Destroy Gundam — when in fact, the Freedom and Destiny never once fought on the same side, even in "temporary truce for convenience" fashion.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_c98e9a3c	comment	The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack credits (in stop-motion, unlike the actual series) seemingly frame Captain K'nuckles as a free-spirited adventurer and Bubbie as a stuffy, almost-antagonist figure who opposes adventure or risk of any kind. In the actual series, Captain K'nuckles is a lazy, shiftless, and greedy Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist who manipulates the eponymous Flapjack's idolization of him to further whatever ill-advised and self-serving plan he's currently trying to enact, while Bubbie is the perpetual voice of reason and resident Reasonable Authority Figure. One popular fan interpretation for the art shift and the out-of-characterness is that the opening is showing the world from Flapjack's (rather skewed) way of seeing things.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_ca08598f	comment	The fifth season opening of The Wire contains at least two things that appear to be spoilers but in context were misleading in a rather ironic fashion: various newspaper covers mentioning a Serial Killer of the homeless with a possible sexual motive which McNulty and Freamon made up to get the Police department more funding, and a picture of McNulty laid out as if it were part of a wake which was really just a mock-wake held as a send-off before he was taken off active police work.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_ca5d97f1	comment	Monty Python's Flying Circus loved this trope, particularly in later seasons when they frequently set out to subvert not just the structure of the typical comedy sketch, but also the structure of television programmes themselves. One episode had the opening at the very end of the show, followed by the credits. Another ran the opening credits at the beginning of the show... followed immediately by the closing credits. Episode 25 begins with fake titles and credits for a historical epic called The Black Eagle, whose opening scene is interrupted by the real Title Sequence. The scene nevertheless goes on for long enough that early audiences were probably scrambling for the week's Radio Times, wondering if there had been another last-minute schedule change. Episode 29 opens with the opening credits, music and all, to The Money Programme (a finance and business programme that has been airing since 1966). Only when the presenter is revealed to be a comically money-mad Eric Idle is the veil lifted. Episode 39 took this still further by opening with the Thames TV identnote Well known to international viewers of such programmes as Danger Mouse and Count Duckula and a fake continuity link delivered by actual Thames continuity presenter David Hamilton, perhaps fooling early viewers into thinking their television was tuned to the wrong station until Hamilton announced, "But right now, here's a rotten old BBC programme!"
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_cae652c	comment	The openings for the 2011 anime Hunter Ã— Hunter occasionally show events that don't actually happen in the show, and that's ignoring the Soundtrack Dissonance between the cheery and optimistic theme song, "Departure" and the actual content of the show, and occasionally the visuals in the theme song. The fifth opening implies that all Chimera Ants will be fighting the main hunters, when after Meruem is born and the Chimera Ant queen dies the chimera ants split up and some of the chimera ants don't show up to fight them. The sixth opening also has Knov show up, while he doesn't get many lines of dialogue in the arc the opening is part of.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_cb6abea3	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh!: The first, fourth and fifth openings show Yugi and his friends prominently in their school uniforms, even though Yugi is the only character who wears his uniform everywhere. The other characters wear their school uniforms... only in school. Also, the third and fourth opening have Yami Yugi wearing his Coat Cape, even though he doesn't wear it in the Battle City Finals and in the fourth season. The only times he wears it after the time of the second opening is in a hallucination of Jonouchi and after the end of the Battle City Tournament, when he and Jonouchi have their decisive duel. The second opening has Yami Yugi fighting against Faceless Goons wielding an army of monsters, who at one point summon a monster that never appears in the series at all — namely, Nuvia the Wicked, who was Adapted Out between the manga and anime. On top of that, Nuvia is recolored to look like Worm Drake, who did appear. The third opening shows Yami Yugi dueling Marik on the Battle Ship (a zeppelin). However, Marik never duels personally in the series at all; he's eventually replaced by his Superpowered Evil Side who duels our protagonist on top of the Alcatraz Tower. The fifth opening shows The Winged Dragon of Ra without teeth. While Ra's Ancient Egypt version has no teeth in the manga, in the anime it does have them. The fifth opening in general is much more inspired by the manga's take on the arc than the one that actually aired — the anime added in diadhanks, which are completely absent in the opening, and Yugi and his friends are in their school uniforms, which is the case in the manga but not the anime. The English openings for the show tended to be a mishmash of good-looking footage from other openings and various seasons. As a result, they often end up being... rather strange in the context of openings for their given arcs. For instance, pretty much every opening after the Virtual World arc used footage from Tristan and Tea's duels in that arc, dramatic poses with Disks at the ready and everything, which would probably give the viewer the impression that they would be getting Duels that season; neither of them get into any onscreen Duels after that arc. Tristan's footage in particular is strange, since it's pulling from a time when the Big Five was possessing his body—meaning the bit meant to spotlight him isn't actually him.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_cd8905f6	comment	Baccano! looks like a funny, lighthearted (albeit chaotic) romp about 1930's America; complete with a lovable, happy-go-lucky cast and a series name that means "big ruckus." Hell, the anime's opening, with its sitcom-esque cinematography, is catchy enough to get anyone revved up to laugh at some silly, old-timey antics and kick back with a show that's fun for the whole family. While not without a sense of humor (especially with Isaac and Miria's antics), the anime is darker and more violent than the opening suggests. Also, despite being a main character, Claire goes unnamed in the intro to avoid spoiling the surprise — though he's there for a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment. His significance is spoiled very subtly as the shot of him does a slight stutter as it does for the main cast.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_cd8e6855	comment	Ultraman: The opening titles start out as a colored version of Ultra Q's introduction titles, only for the title to suddenly change to the series' proper one.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_cdf4ee66	comment	Master of Martial Hearts has a rather unappealing, but otherwise lighthearted and optimistic opening. Its ending features a quiet and somewhat romantic song featuring its lead females in some rather suggestive moments. There's no way it would have possibly the worst ending with the worst plot twist ever...
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_ce005579	comment	Uta∽Kata's opening suggests the series is a fluffy shoujo story. It's a seinen series, and things get very dark later as mature issues are explored in detail. As a bonus, Ichika's Magical Girl costume in the opening does not appear in the show at all. Actually, it does, kinda...Palette Swap it to black, and it's her twelth and final transformation's costume.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_cf203bee	comment	The opening to Ultraman Ace features a lot of kaijuu from previous shows that never show up in the show proper.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_cf5c0f55	comment	Suikoden is guilty of this in a few videos. The most poignant would be the opening video of Suikoden III, which has, among other things, Geddoe slicing up some flying creatures from a cliff-side, and Hugo fighting against Hallec, an ally who joins him without any sort of fight in-game.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_d07da2f9	comment	The film of A Series of Unfortunate Events begins by baiting you into thinking you are watching a stop-motion animated movie called The Littlest Elf, until the needle scratches and the lights suddenly go dark. Of course, this is a hilarious Mythology Gag for the people who have read the books. The Littlest Elf itself exists in the movie universe, though, since Sunny is seen using an elf bobblehead's head as part of an improvised lever to pull a track switch, and the song in the fake-out opening is heard on a tapedeck in Count Olaf's car.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_d11cd383	comment	Kamen Rider Den-O begins its opening sequence with the narration: "The time-traveling train, Denliner. Will its next stop be in the past or the future?" The answer to this question is ALWAYS "the past." At no point in the TV series does Denliner visit the future.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_d139745f	comment	Ninja Nonsense shows a dramatic battle involving most of the main cast against Shinobu's evil counterpart. Most of the final episode is in fact the characters complaining about this trope, as they scramble to end the show in a satisfactory way.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_d36053d7	comment	Dragon Ball Z Kai in general uses new artline invented for video games and post-2000s movies for the intros and endings, but the whole series is a blatant copy-and-paste of the original 1989 adaptation, where nothing improves besides the coloring and pacing.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_d3ff6961	comment	The Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! credits showed all manner of supernatural menaces, while of course the episodes centered on proving that mysterious events have a mundane explanation. There is no way to tell if the supernatural menaces in the opening credits are real or not. Conversely, later incarnations of the show did include real supernatural elements.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_d5d98e35	comment	Police Squad! made the bait-and-switch a Running Gag, introducing and then instantly killing off a "Special Guest Star" during each episode's opening credits. There's also a scene where Abraham Lincoln (played by and credited to Rex Hamilton) foils his own assassination by pulling out a gun and shooting back. Obviously, that never happens in the show. There were plans to show Mahatma Gandhi wielding an assault rifle if the show had been picked up for a second season. The opening credits also featured a running gag where the title of the episode as stated by the narrator is different to the title shown on screen.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	PokÃ©mon: The Series: The first opening featured a Blastoise, Venusaur, and Charizard...of which only the latter was ever acquired by Ash, and shows him using a Pidgeot, which didn't happen until near the ending of the season. It also features several legendary PokÃ©mon that he either never sees, or ends up seeing them in completely different seasons. Heck, Ash didn't even acquire Pidgeot until the episode the opening changed in Japan. A worse offender is the tenth opening, which starts off with a group shot of just about every PokÃ©mon Ash has ever owned — more than half of which don't appear again in the show. It goes on to show a series of battles of which only one (Pikachu vs. Aipom) actually happens in the show. This all makes sense when you realize it was made to celebrate the franchise's 10th anniversary. The PokÃ©mon the Series: Black & White opening during the Team Plasma season makes it look like Charizard will have a lot of focus, and that Reshiram will fight Charizard and partner with N as it did in the game. The actual events of the show have Charizard in a supporting role, Ash using Pikachu to fight Reshiram, and only to snap it out of Ghetsis's brainwashing. The same opening also depicts a battle between Ash and Cheren (who is already a gym leader by that point) against an epic, church-like background, making it seem important. While the battle does happen, it takes place on a generic schoolground battlefield, is kinda anti-climactic and has literally zero impact to the story. The iconic original English opening repeatedly proclaims "Gotta catch 'em all!", essentially the tagline of the series. In the run of that opening, Ash never even comes close to catching all PokÃ©mon (he owns maybe a tenth of what was available at the time at some point), nor does he really profess it as a goal of his; he just wants To Be a Master, and often releases PokÃ©mon or gives them away. The English theme for the Advanced Battle season is called "Unbeatable" and seems to proclaim Ash as someone who has never lost. Not only is this untrue- he lost plenty of times before- but this season also was the season with the Hoenn Leauge, which he also lost.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_d7bc10d5	comment	Ren and Miu start the DearS opening off with an intensely Moe kiss. Ren in-series is completely fixated on Takeda and Miu doesn't particularly like her, though there's a moderate amount of Les Yay available.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_d8f56fe1	comment	Washio Sumi Is a Hero has a bright, cheery intro about friendship. This fits the first three episodes, as the show begins lighthearted despite the girls ending up bloody after each battle, but stops being accurate after Gin dies. The latter half of the series isn't so cheery.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_d9c602eb	comment	The opening for the South Park episode "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining" features the boys apparently in danger while ziplining. There's even a few shots of the boys being all bloody. In the actual episode, however, they are in no real danger whenever they are actually ziplining. They never even get into any ziplining accidents. All the distress actually comes from the tour group they were forced to be a part of.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_d9e1a051	comment	The 2019 Fruits Basket anime ending focuses on Yuki above the other Sohma characters, and features two shots highlighting his relationship with Tohru, a freeze-frame as they walk past each other and then at the very end when he looks up at her and smiles. As Fruits Basket is a Shoujo series, most newcomers would probably assume this means they end up together. But nope - while Tohru is very important to Yuki, he ultimately realises that his feelings for her were entirely platonic, and they both end up with different people.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_daff6a21	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds: The first version of the second opening shows Yusei Tribute Summoning Turret Warrior by tributing Junk Warrior during his Riding Duel with Kiryu. While Yusei does this against Dick Pitt, he never uses Turret Warrior against Kiryu in the anime. In the second version of opening 2, we see Jack facing off against Carly as a Dark Signer in a ground duel, whilst the episode they duel in is a Riding Duel. The second version also shows Road Warrior fighting Earthbound Immortal Uru, but during Yusei's first duel with Rudger, Road Warrior is already in the graveyard when Uru is summoned. The second version appears after the first duel with Rudger, but it shows them dueling outside even though their second duel is inside the building with the Old Momentum. And Road Warrior is not used in the rematch either. Road Warrior appears in the third and fifth opening as one of Yusei's prominent Synchro Monsters, even though he never uses him during the entire run of both openings when they are aired. Road Warrior appears only twice in the anime. Nitro Synchron appears in the third opening, but Yusei never uses it after the beginning of the Dark Signer arc, which was already over when the third opening started. Junk Destroyer appears in the fifth opening along with Yusei's four Synchro Warriors, despite Yusei never playing him during the time the opening is aired, like Road Warrior above. The fourth opening and fourth ending shows Life Stream Dragon, but it never appears during the run of these themes. However, it's subverted later as it is a Spoiler Opening for the last arc. In the fifth opening, the very end shows Yusei using Junk Warrior to attack Z-ONE. Junk Warrior is never used in that duel, but he pops up in 154 to deal the finishing blow to Jack.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_dca041af	comment	The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Season 2 episode 4, "We're Going to the Catskills!" opens with what seems to be a color recreation of the title sequence to To Kill a Mockingbird, even using the same music. It's only when we see a boy's hand pushing a U-Haul trailer, and Abe snatching said toy trailer away from Midge's son Ethan, that we remember which show we're in.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_dd327884	comment	The girls from Diamond Daydreams are shown in the opening credits as if they form a group of close friends. Although this would have offered some interesting possibilities, only some of them meet up shortly in the last episode.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_de4c0209	comment	The intro to Wandering Son literally reveals nothing about the show, except maybe that it's school related. Not a single human appears in it. It just shows off the school.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_defd21de	comment	The opening credits of Venus Versus Virus show the two female leads Lucia and Sumire lying in a field wearing pretty dresses, their fingers intertwined as they throw meaningful glances. It's very sweet and romantic — and also occurs nowhere in the anime itself. It's symbolic.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_e24fdfdb	comment	The Big Chill starts with obviously female hands fiddling with obviously male clothing on an obviously male body. You're set up to believe something raunchy is either about to happen, is happening, or has just happened. It's then revealed that the hands are those of a mortician dressing a corpse.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_e25322af	comment	Homestar Runner: It promoted a new short supposedly starring the King of Town. Clicking the link showed a title sequence for "The King of Town's Very Own Quite Popular Cartoon Show"... but at the end of the title sequence, an announcement said "The King of Town's Very Own Popular Cartoon Show will not be seen tonight. Instead we bring you: Strong Bad's Very Popular Cartoon Show, already in progress." Then it cuts to the Strong Bad Email "senior prom". Funnily enough, there would eventually be an actual "The King of Townâ€™s Very Own Quite Popular Cartoon Show" short. The King of Town lampshades it by saying, at the end of the title sequence, "For realzies this time!" Also, the email "theme song" shows a couple potential title sequences for the Strong Bad Emails. The one with the "inspirational" Theme Tune by "some kind of Neville" contains scenes not even remotely similar to anything in the actual toons, such as Strong Bad in a tank or Strong Bad in space. Strong Bad claims, "Of course, the best clips are from the un-aired pilot you'll never see."
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_e4d1ce93	comment	Shakugan no Shana pulled this off with its second opening, which contains a one-on-one duel between Shana and Sydonay that never actually happens.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_e5497d09	comment	Perhaps not a bait and switch as such, but the opening credits of Wolf's Rain place the characters in a modern (Japanese?) city that doesn't appear in the series until the end of Episode 30, after the world has been destroyed and reborn. Furthermore, the credits show actual rainfall — something that also doesn't happen until Episode 30, where it allows the lunar flowers to germinate and regenerate life on Earth.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_e5bcaba6	comment	Downplayed in The Fruit of Grisaia anime adaptation. The opening credits prominently feature Yumiko, making it appear as though her arc will be the main focus of the series. Sure enough, she's arguably the most prominent of the five girls during the first two episodes, due to her opposition to Yuuji - however, her entire character arc is compressed into a single episode midway through the series, whereas Michiru and Makina's arcs get two episodes apiece and Amane's gets four.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_e64b0d38	comment	Elfen Lied's opening does have some elements of the heavy fanservice featured in the show, but is played over a soothing Gregorian chant about divine justice and Art Nouveau-inspired Moe imagery, most likely meant to convey innocence rather than sensuality. The ending is also a pop love song that may match the show in the lyrics, but not in tone.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_e6841b88	comment	Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens: The opening depicts Nagi dancing on stage as an Idol Singer. While somewhat thematically appropriate — she does need to be loved by the people — she is not actually a singer nor is the supporting cast her managers, makeup artists, directors, etc. It could also be a pun, since Kannagi is a wooden idol come to life while the opening portrays her as a different kind of idol.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_e9ec19e1	comment	Spec Ops: The Line does this to an extensive degree. The cover, the trailer, the adverts, and even the first hour or so of gameplay make it look like a generic modern military shooter. However, after that, it reveals itself to be a deconstruction of the genre, and it's all downhill from there...
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_ea4f62db	comment	The lyrics to the opening theme for Family Guy tout the show as being wholesome and embodying good old fashioned family values... Even though the show is anything but.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_ea77c5ab	comment	The OP for the Shin Captain Tsubasa OAV features two girls alongside the guys: Tsubasa's Love Interest Sanae and Misaki's female friend Azumi. Azumi was actually Adapted Out, and only Sanae shows up in the story proper.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_ecde384c	comment	School-Live! has an intentionally deceptive opening that belies the story's true nature. The anime has an adorable, bright and happy opening sequence with a peppy pop song, which makes it seem as though it's a typical laid-back Schoolgirl Series. The series itself is actually a Nightmare Fuel laden anime about a group of high school girls trying to survive in the middle of a Zombie Apocalypse. As the anime goes on, the opening's visuals gradually change to reflect the reality of the girls' situation, such as adding zombies shambling towards the school and shots of ruined classrooms.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_ee6c1abc	comment	It promoted a new short supposedly starring the King of Town. Clicking the link showed a title sequence for "The King of Town's Very Own Quite Popular Cartoon Show"... but at the end of the title sequence, an announcement said "The King of Town's Very Own Popular Cartoon Show will not be seen tonight. Instead we bring you: Strong Bad's Very Popular Cartoon Show, already in progress." Then it cuts to the Strong Bad Email "senior prom". Funnily enough, there would eventually be an actual "The King of Townâ€™s Very Own Quite Popular Cartoon Show" short. The King of Town lampshades it by saying, at the end of the title sequence, "For realzies this time!"
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_ee742814	comment	Jewelpet Twinkle☆: The opening for the OVA features Hilde and Sagan prominently due to their out-of-universe popularity, but they never appear in it. They also barely qualified as one-shot characters in the televised series. The first opening gives the impression that Peridot, Luna and Milky will be as prominent as the Jewelpets partnered with humans, but they're actually comic relief side characters with only one or two episodes dedicated to them.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_eedac02b	comment	Durarara!!'s second opening introduces five new characters, three of which showed up briefly in the first half of the series. This means they're important, right? Not really. Only one was actually important, three of the others played bit parts, and one didn't show up at all in that cour save for the direct-to-DVD epilogue.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_eef5470a	comment	Until the Kyoto Arc, the opening sequence to Rurouni Kenshin made it seem like some kind of Rom Com (the peppy theme song in which the female singer waxes poetic about an unrequited love don't help). ...It kind of was. Don't forget — the opening only shows Sanosuke with his Zanbatou, even in the final crowd shot. He loses the Zanbatou more or less one episode after his introduction, and fights with his fists from then on. Similarly, the opening shows Kenshin fighting... chain-wielding... farmers? Well, they never show up. Unless you consider it Foreshadowing to Elite Mook Akamatsu who would figure in a later arc.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_ef26ede1	comment	Hidamari Sketch: The OP for the first season shows Yuno walking in on Sae on top of Hiro in a suggestive manner, but the scene where it comes from (sadly, a Not What It Looks Like moment) isn't shown until the second season.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_f11d7892	comment	Too Many Cooks takes this to an extreme, as the tone of the opening credits changes many times before the show even starts. The show itself is only five seconds long.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_f3897bcf	comment	Witch Hunter Robin's opening made it look like Robin had a crush on Amon but no such relationship ever materialized. There was Unresolved Sexual Tension there. Not much, what with her being really young (15?), but there was definitely subtext. The intro in general makes Robin seem like a depressed person in total despair, and the lyrics to the opening song support this, but nothing in Robin's backstory is ever revealed to be anything close to this and she seems to always have at least one person she can rely on throughout the show.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_f6da9a18	comment	Sgt. Frog plays with this in episode 150. After spending the entire episode getting ready to leave (he'd been promoted), Giroro gives a heartfelt (for him) goodbye at the train station. Cue a special ending sequence, complete with sad music and a "Goodbye Giroro" card... only for Giroro to literally shoot through them and grab Keroro by the neck. That promotion letter? Turns out it was a month old. Cue the regular ending sequence.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_f6fb4731	comment	Minor example: Ghost Ship starts with cheesy lounge music and the title in a cheerfully 1950s-style font, and zooms in on the ship's passengers happily dancing the night away and then a tightly wound wire slices through the crowd.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_f725307e	comment	The credits of Quincy, M.E.. You see the main character (a forensic pathologist) examining what you think is a dead body, but it turns out to be a young woman in a bikini with whom he is sharing drinks on his houseboat. These credits became even more of a B&S after the character evolved as a more of an "everyman" type rather than a playboy, and it became even weirder when he got married.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_f8bd2d94	comment	The Wild ARMs series seems to run on this trope. Every game has an animated sequence that plays when you continue from a save file featuring the characters of the game. Almost none of the things shown in those sequences actually happen in the games.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_f9addebf	comment	You Can't Do That on Television episodes almost always started off with a title card for pre-empted shows that were cancelled, usually pop culture parodies related to the theme of the episode. For example, the episode, "Wildlife and Animals": This concept was swiped wholesale from the first six seasons of Saturday Night Live. ("'Charlie's Angels Get The Syph' will not be seen tonight...")
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_faeff512	comment	Outlaw Star has a variant involving the ending credits. The ending features science fantasy illustrations completely unrelated to the show, and we never actually see any of the characters, locations, or creatures present in the show itself.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_fd7de151	comment	The second opening of Psycho-Pass season 1 has Kougami sitting on the floor and surrounded by bodies of his teammates, causing most viewers to expect that this is what Gen "Urobutcher"' Urobuchi is going to do. At the end of season 1, only two are dead and one of them is disintegrated by Destroy Decomposer mode, leaving no trace of his body. And there's the beginning of the opening where Kougami is wounded and sitting against the wall, which doesn't happen in the show proper. The second season's opening shows a showdown between Akane and Mika, with Kougami being tied to a chair. That never happens in the show and Kougami isn't physically present since he's in Cambodia, as seen in the movie.
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Bait-and-Switch Credits / int_fdbace96	comment	Gravity Falls: The standard opening, used for all episodes but the last three, fits the tone of the show, but depicts many things which don't occur in the series itself. It shows, among other things, the twins and Stan looking at a large human-like right footprint embedded inside a gigantic left footprint, Dipper finding the skeleton of what seems to be a large Horned Humanoid, and a jar of eyeballs at the gift shop moving to look at the camera; those shots are believable (and it's heavily implied that the series only shows a part of Dipper and Mabel's adventures), but those specific events don't occur in any episode. Some other things, like the photo showing three UFOs note since Dipper has never seen one before "Dipper and Mabel vs the Future", and didn't really have a chance to find any more afterwards and the shot where Dipper and Mabel are reading in their room when everything, including them, starts rising in the air note "Not What He Seems" has several gravity anomalies of that sort, but when one occurs with the twins in their room, they're sleeping soundly and don't notice subtly contradict the series itself. The alternate "Weirdmageddon" opening used for the multi-part finale does this deliberately, with the opening starting off the same as the regular one, then quickly becoming grotesque, with Bill Cipher and his gang inserting themselves in the title sequence and replacing the main characters.
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Mnemosyne / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Mobile Fighter G Gundam / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Pokémon the Series: Black & White / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Psycho-Pass / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Red Garden / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Saber Marionette J / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Samurai Pizza Cats / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
School Days / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Senki Zesshou Symphogear / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Space☆Dandy / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Space Runaway Ideon / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Symphogear / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
The Noozles / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
The Price Of Smiles / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
The Tower of Druaga / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Yes! Pretty Cure 5 / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Yu-Gi-Oh! / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Yu-Gi-Oh! (first anime series) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Angel Of Vengeance / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Daisies / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Frankenstein (1931) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Iron Angels / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
King of Gambler / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Monty Python and the Holy Grail / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Pod People / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Popeye / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
The Blade Master / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
The Cars That Ate Paris / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
The Flying Dagger / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Time of the Apes / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Too Many Cooks / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
War of the God Monsters / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Perry Mason (Franchise) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Aria the Scarlet Ammo / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Campione! / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Chivalry of a Failed Knight / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Durarara!! / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Fate/Apocrypha / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Fate/Zero / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Slayers / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Strawberry Panic! / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Welcome to the N.H.K. / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
A Series of Unfortunate Events / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Aria the Scarlet Ammo / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Baccano! / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Campione! / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Chivalry of a Failed Knight / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Durarara!! / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Fate/Apocrypha / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Fate/Zero / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Slayers / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Strawberry Panic! / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Welcome to the NHK / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
National Geographic (Magazine) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
ChaosD1	seeAlso	Bait-and-Switch Credits
DarkerThanBlackTwinsOfTheMeteor	seeAlso	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Welshy	seeAlso	Bait-and-Switch Credits
A Certain Scientific Railgun (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Ah! My Goddess (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Asobi Asobase (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Boruto (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Cells at Work! CODE BLACK (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Claymore (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Dazzle (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Dear Brother (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
DearS (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Fly Me to the Moon (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Genshiken (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Gingitsune (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Grand Blue (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Heroman (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Hidamari Sketch (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Honey Honey (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
House of Five Leaves (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Karin (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Kimagure Orange Road (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Kiniro Mosaic (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Level E (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Living for the Day After Tomorrow (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Merman In My Tub (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
New Game! (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Ninin Ga Shinobuden (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Ninja Nonsense (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Pilot Candidate (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Ramen Fighter Miki (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
School-Live! (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
School Rumble (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Sweet Blue Flowers (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Tentai Senshi Sunred (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
The Case Study of Vanitas (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
'Tis Time for "Torture," Princess (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Tokyo Ghoul (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Venus Versus Virus (Manga) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Cristina D'Avena (Music) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Ally McBeal / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Battlestar Galactica (2003) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Blossom / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Chased by Dinosaurs / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Chouriki Sentai Ohranger / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Degrassi: The Next Generation / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Herman's Head / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Hounded / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Iron Chef / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Kamen Rider Agito / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Keishichou Nasi Goreng-ka / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Monty Python's Flying Circus / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Peep Show / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Power Rangers in Space / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Power Rangers Time Force / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Prehistoric Park / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Saul of the Mole Men / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
The Mod Squad / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Today's Special / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
21 Jump Street / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Ultraman Ace / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Unsolved Mysteries / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Spamalot (Theatre) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Eversion (Video Game) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Fairy Fencer F (Video Game) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Gate Keepers (Video Game) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Inazuma Eleven (Video Game) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Jay's Journey (Video Game) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story (Video Game) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Puzzle & Dragons X (Video Game) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
River City Girls (Video Game) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
SD Gundam G Generation (Video Game) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Sakura Wars (Video Game) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Sakura Wars (1996) (Video Game) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Tekken 8 (Video Game) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Unbound Saga (Video Game) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Warriors Orochi (Video Game) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Fate/stay night (Visual Novel) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
9-nine- Series (Visual Novel) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Ookami Kakushi (Visual Novel) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Phantom of Inferno (Visual Novel) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Justice For All (Visual Novel) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Time Hollow (Visual Novel) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Girl-chan in Paradise (Web Animation) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Jiz (Web Animation) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Team Neighborhood (Web Animation) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Doom House (Web Video) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
HellsingAbridged	seeAlso	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Hellsing Ultimate Abridged (Web Video) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
The Annotated Series (Web Video) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Welshy (Web Video) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Big Hero 6: The Series / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Blake and Mortimer / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Denver the Last Dinosaur / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Duck Amuck / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Extreme Ghostbusters / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Goof Troop / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Jimmy Two-Shoes / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har Har / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Mirthworms / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
My Little Pony Tales / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Paradise PD / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Perfect Hair Forever / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Red Hot Riding Hood / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Static Shock / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Steven Universe: Future / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Teen Titans Go! / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
The Backyardigans / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
The Chipmunks / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
The Crumpets / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
The New Scooby-Doo Movies / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
The Raccoons / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
The Transformers / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Thundarr the Barbarian / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Totally Spies! / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Voltron: Legendary Defender / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Wally Gator / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
X-Men: The Animated Series / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Yogi's Gang / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
El Cazador de la Bruja / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Gankutsuou / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Mobile Suit Victory Gundam / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Spider Riders / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Baccano! / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Riget / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
CLANNAD (Visual Novel) / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits
Alvin and the Chipmunks / int_c76b215e	type	Bait-and-Switch Credits

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