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Batman Cold Open
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Named after the common scenario found in the adventures of the Dark Knight Detective, this is the short two-to-three page Cold Open sequence that opens a super-hero comic, depicting the vigilante engaging in some crime-fighting on Bit Part Bad Guys. Typically, this is a bank-robbery or a mugging, usually unrelated to the plot-at-large, meant to illustrate the crime-fighting abilities of our hero, and often giving them the chance to brood about whatever is/will be bothering them for the extent of the issue. It can also help offset The Worf Effect by showing that the hero is competent before having them beaten by the serious threat later in the story. The opening titles for the TV series Batman: The Animated Series also used this trope, as does Batman: The Brave and the Bold. In a practical sense, it allows for a reasonable amount of action in an issue that may be very talky, especially if it's the start of a Story Arc. Plot-driven series sometimes devote entire episodes/issues/chapters at the beginning to exposition of the heroes' powers and routine assignments, as well as any kind of Applied Phlebotinum, before said plot takes over. If nothing really exciting happens and we are instead treated to normal life at the beginning before trouble starts, it overlaps with Day in the Life. Sometimes involves Luckily, My Powers Will Protect Me. Subtrope of The Teaser. See also Action Prologue, Danger Room Cold Open and Dramatic Chase Opening. Contrast And the Adventure Continues, which is essentially the opposite, done at the end of the series, and On Patrol Montage, which is something similar during an episode instead of at the start. |
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The exceptionally long cold opening of Super Troopers starts off with two of the troopers toying with and eventually busting some stoners, then getting drawn into a high-speed chase by another trooper playing a prank on them. | |
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All the Dirty Harry movies have a scene in the beginning where Harry stops a crime unrelated to the main plot. In the first one, it was a bank robbery, in Magnum Force it was a plane hijacking,The Enforcer it was a liquor store holdup. A diner was being robbed in Sudden Impact and in The Dead Pool it was mob hitmen out to kill him. | |
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Blood Rites: The novel begins in a burning building, finishing up a job prior to the start of the story proper. | |
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The first stage of X-Men 2: Clone Wars on Sega Genesis drops you right into the stage with a random character the instant you power on the console, and only see the title screen once you've beaten the stage. | |
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Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad frequently opens in the middle of a battle with a Monster of the Week sort of construct, which sometimes leads to the villains immediately coming up with a new plan (and the true monster for the episode) to avenge the thwarting of the old one. | |
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The first few minutes of The Marine show John Cena (or, rather, a character played by him) fighting terrorists (or at least terrorist sympathizers) in a Middle Eastern country. This cold opening actually serves two purposes: 1) establishing John Triton as a badass and 2) showing him disobeying a direct (although unreasonable) order from his commander, thus justifying his being discharged from the service and sent home to the United States, where the real plot takes place. | |
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Breath of Fire II begins with a normal day in Ryu's childhood. After a timeskip, Ryu and Bow are shown taking on a normal job. | |
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The first episode of Justice League Unlimited begins with Green Arrow foiling a supermarket robbery before being beamed up to the JL Watchtower and asked to join the all-new expanded Justice League. | |
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In Kenji's long voyage with Natsuki at the beginning of Summer Wars, several scenes play out with King Kazma kicking all kinds of ass as a then-background event or action opener, which turns out to have shown off how capable the user of King Kazma is when we find out who he is, making this some kind of Batman Cold Open. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist opens with the Elric brothers on a normal mission, where they explain the principles of alchemy, before the Back Story is explained and the prime plot kicks in. The first anime adapts this as the first two episodes. Brotherhood, instead, adapts it in the third, after some other events; but then, its first episode, an original story, fills this same purpose. | |
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The Night Unfurls: The first chapter of both versions shows the Hunter's chores as a wandering sellsword, hunting down orc bands left and right as his means for earning income. The Hunter also gives brief exposition on how Eostia has a war going on, though he wants nothing to do with it. The only difference between the two versions is that the one for the remastered version has a bit more action. | |
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Batman Forever begins with Batman moving out to stop Two-Face committing an overblown bank robbery, where Two-Face declares, "Let's start this party with a bang!" | |
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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons: Each episode starts with an unknown gunman sneaking up on Captain Scarlet and unloading an entire magazine into him from a submachine gun to no effect, before Captain Scarlet shoots him. | |
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In Seven Samurai, we're introduced to Kambei as he rescues a boy being held hostage in a barn. | |
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Cloak & Dagger (1984) begins with Jack Flack on an espionage mission, then reveals that it's all been the plot of game being played by our kid hero Davey, who soon gets embroiled in a real spy caper. | |
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The first Modern Warfare game has a tutorial, followed by a mission on freighter (ending with an epic Video Game Set Piece) related to the main plot (It helps set up Al-Asad having the nuke later on), then the credits play over a Scenic-Tour Level. Modern Warfare 2 starts with a tutorial, then a typical Middle-Eastern urban warfare mission that's completely unrelated to the plot (except that it seems to occur on the tail end of the war that begins in the first game), and then "No Russian" is where the game's plot really starts. |
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The cold opening of Moonraker shows Jaws, The Dragon of The Spy Who Loved Me trying to kill Bond by pushing him from an airplane without a parachute. His 'chute fails but lucky for him (and Bond), there's a nearby circus tent. | |
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A few Power Rangers series have been known to do this: The premier of Power Rangers: Dino Thunder has Tommy escaping from an exploding island before anything else in the season. Power Rangers RPM often starts in the middle of a megazord battle before moving on to the plot o' the episode, which is usually unrelated. It's used to emphasize just how much of a war of attrition is going on, and how relentless the machines are ... and to get the merchandising for the giant robots out of the way as soon as possible, so they don't have to interrupt the plotty action scenes with stock footage. |
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The Mandalorian: Chapter 1 opens on one of Mando's typical bounty runs, before moving onto the actual first arc of the show, involving taking a job for an Imperial remnant. | |
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Tiger & Bunny opens with the entire main cast having turns at trying to catch a group of escaping bank robbers. | |
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Robin (1993): Issue #167 starts with five pages of Tim apprehending an Arkham escapee who had stolen a semi and gotten on the interstate before being called away to the main plot of the issue; tracking down and recapturing Lock Up. | |
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The first chapters/episodes of Claymore depict Clare going about the usual yoma-slaying business (until her first almost-Awakening). | |
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In Batman: The Brave and the Bold, we see one short adventure before the credits, often unconnected to the main story, with a different villain and partner. There are still occasions in the main story as well, where Batman will meet his team up during or just after defeating a minor villain. During the second season, the cold opens involved their own ongoing story, where one of Batman's past partners encounters Starro and gets mind controlled by him which eventually led to the Siege of Starro two-parter season finale. | |
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In Deadwood, Seth Bullock is introduced as he faces down a Montana lynch mob and executes a prisoner on the porch of his Sheriff's office. Immediately afterward, he retires from his post and departs for Deadwood, starting the show proper. | |
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The online version of The Order of the Stick begins with the party effortlessly trouncing a bunch of random goblins before the game system is updated. It was later revised in the print version to begin earlier, with a voice-over about the Order and their goals. | |
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Both seasons of A Certain Scientific Railgun devote their first episodes to series protagonists Misaka Mikoto and Shirai Kuroko apprehending and beating up rogue espers or terrorists in showcases of their powers. Conversely, the main series A Certain Magical Index starts off with its protagonist, Kamijou Touma, running away from pursuing thugs after a misguided attempt to keep them from harming Misaka (actually, to keep her from harming them). | |
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James Bond movies, typically, although they often do have some relation to the main plot of the movie. The cold opening of Moonraker shows Jaws, The Dragon of The Spy Who Loved Me trying to kill Bond by pushing him from an airplane without a parachute. His 'chute fails but lucky for him (and Bond), there's a nearby circus tent. The opening of For Your Eyes Only has Bond attacked by a bald man stroking a cat, who he drops into an industrial smokestack. It doesn't directly relate to the plot, though it ties into an important theme in the film: do we really have the right to avenge our lost loved ones? Tomorrow Never Dies has only one connection in its opening, a brief appearance by arms dealer Henry Gupta. Otherwise, it's just 007 exploding a terrorist weapons bazaar. Die Another Day opens with Bond on a mission in North Korea... which he actually fails. He ends up getting captured and spends a year and a half in a torture camp before his superiors can spring him. As a Continuity Reboot, Casino Royale (2006) shows Bond getting his first two kills, thus achieving "double-0" status. |
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Ghost in the Shell (1995) opens with the Major stopping a diplomat from getting a programmer out of the country by shooting him in the head (explosively) and then literally disappearing from sight. | |
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The Expanse: In Caliban's War, the crew of Rocinante is introduced doing a job they have taken following the epilogue of Leviathan Wakes: catching space pirates that have proliferated following the war between Mars and the Belt. In Babylon's Ashes, Michio Pa is introduced as a Space Pirate wrecking a colony ship heading out of the Solar System and robbing it for supplies the Free Navy will supposedly redistribute among the local Belter colonies. James Holden's role in Persepolis Rising begins with him and his crew getting an unenviable "job" of telling the freedom-obsessed colonists at Freehold they will be denied any supplies from outside their star system as a punishment for a reckless use of the Portal Network. This thread mostly serves to introduce the topic of how governments enforce their laws, though Freehold ends up being a key location for La Résistance in the later novels. |
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Minority Report starts off with Pre-Crime going off after a double murder foreseen by the Pre-Cogs. It really lacks impact into the story afterwards with the exception of telling the audience that Pre-Crime fundamentally works by avoiding the homicides. | |
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The opening chapters/first few episodes of Soul Eater have the main casts carrying out a typical mission in both The Teaser and the episode (Soul and Maka succeed at gaining a soul, Black Star and Tsubaki fail due to BS' egomania and Kid fails due to being Obsessively Organized, then in the episode Maka and Soul fail because they succeed, BS and Tsubaki fail because Black☆Star's really a Jerk with a Heart of Gold and Kid succeeds despite his OCD but does so much collateral damage he has to give the souls up). This is because the artist was hired to do a couple one-shot stories, which eventually took off and became the series proper. | |
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John Dies at the End opens with a prologue in which Dave and John are lured to a remote cabin and attacked by a monster made of meat. | |
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Eddie LaCrosse: The Sword-Edged Blonde begins with the protagonist being hired for a relatively typical assignment: retrieve a teenage aristocratic runaway who has fallen in with the wrong crowd in a rough border town. This serves to show the kind of unglamorous thing that he normally does, before the book moves on to the main plot (which involves royal infanticide and goddesses.) | |
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InCryptid: The prologue of That Ain't Witchcraft is a sequence of Casual Danger Dialogue between Annie and Fern as they hunt a unicorn. The first chapter has Sam and Annie, in the present day, destroy a Corn Blight that has been killing people in a small midwestern town. | |
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The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes: "Some Assembly Required" (which takes place almost immediately after the Avengers' founding) begins with the team confronting Mandrill after a bank robbery. | |
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The Sin City miniseries "A Dame to Kill For" opens with the main character spying on a Domestic Abuser (he's a Private Detective) and having to save his mistress from getting killed. This is the main character's introduction and has nothing to do with the main story, though it does do wonders in establishing his character and setting up his Fatal Flaw (his violent protectiveness toward women). | |
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Hellboy Animated: Storm of Swords opens with Hellboy, Liz, and Abe Sapien taking down giant bat-monster in Latin America. | |
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In District 13 the second hero, a supercop is introduced about twenty minutes into the movie in a huge martial arts brawl in an illegal casino to establish his badass credentials before he gets fit into the main plot. | |
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The Expendables show the team rescuing a group of hostages from African pirates, just to show how good they are at what they do. | |
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Grenadier spends the first episodes expositing the series' world, such as the structure of the Empire and the position of gunslingers in it. | |
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Batman is the Trope Namer. Batman #608 (the first part of the Batman: Hush arc) depicts Batman sneaking around a shipyard and taking down four of Killer Croc's thugs in rapid succession to save a small boy who happens to be heir to an enormous fortune. | |
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The Black Cobra starts with Cowboy Cop Robert Malone going after some bank robbers who've taken hostages. | |
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Chrono Crusade kicks off with Rosette and Chrono doing an exorcism job in a haunted ship so that the audience understands that in this 'verse, "exorcism" involves less use of holy symbols and more use of guns. | |
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In the Mrs. Hawking play series, part III: Base Instruments opens with the team finishing a case up by beating up a gang of ruffians, in order to lead into the otherwise fairly cerebral plot of the main mystery. | |
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The first couple of episodes of Trinity Blood don't do anything for the story except introduce some of the main characters and establishing the conflict between The Church and the vampires. | |
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In the Line of Fire begins with an introductory scene of Frank busting some counterfeiters while undercover, which has no relation to the rest of the movie. It also acts as a Shown Their Work scene for the writers to demonstrate that they're aware the Secret Service still has a few functions other than protecting the President. It does play into the plot a little later on, when it's revealed that Frank's colleague Al is having some difficulty coping with the pressures of the job (in the Cold Open, he comes very close to getting killed), which leads to the film playing with the Retirony trope. | |
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Super Mario RPG, Paper Mario 64 and all the Mario & Luigi games have Mario fighting Bowser in some form (and in one of them... Bowser wins). | |
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Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door opens with bounty hunters Spike and Jet apprehending a few criminals robbing a convenience store. | |
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About half the episodes of The Real Ghostbusters begin with the Ghostbusters in the middle of busting one or more ghosts. You can pretty much count on these ghosts to have nothing to do with the main plot, and they are often the same ghosts used in crowd scenes or cold opens in other episodes, since the animators worked from a small pool of stock ghosts. But every so often they do figure into the main plot later in the episode when they're released from the containment unit by the ghost-of-the-week or phenomenon-of-the-week. | |
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Dollhouse: Due to Executive Meddling, the first five episodes are 'Imprint of the Week'-style stand-alone stories, before any kind of Story Arc kicks in. | |
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The Spectacular Spider-Man often begins with Spider-Man mid-battle with criminals. | |
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The second season of Daredevil (2015) shows the eponymous hero beating up a few common criminals. Besides showing how badass he is, the scene also shows that he became part of the day-to-day life of Hell's Kitchen, as he was mostly unknown through a good chunk of the first season. | |
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In the prologue of Star Wars: Kenobi, Obi-Wan intervenes in a bar fight while on his way to drop Luke Skywalker off at the Lars's. A very drunk old man finds himself holding an infant and watching as an odd blue light takes out several of Jabba the Hutt's thugs in the dimness. | |
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Ultimate Spider-Man: One plot deals with the Big Bad sending a group of mercenaries to bring Spider-Man to him so that he can find out how Spider-Man knows about all the attempts on his company and why he's been helping to stop them. Spidey has no idea what the guy is talking about until he shows footage of several Batman Cold Opens from previous issues. Shocker exists pretty much solely to get beaten up in the first two pages. This leads to an arc where Peter starts wondering what he's accomplishing, if this guy keeps getting out of jail so easily. It also creates a Wham Episode when Shocker manages to capture Spider-Man. |
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The first chapter of Unity (Finmonster) is the Big Hero 9 team intercepting and apprehending some bank robbers, showing how far they've come as an organized team since the first story. It's actually titled "Cold Open". | |
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In Streets of Fire, the hero is introduced by beating up some local toughs who are breaking up his sister's diner. | |
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The opening of For Your Eyes Only has Bond attacked by a bald man stroking a cat, who he drops into an industrial smokestack. It doesn't directly relate to the plot, though it ties into an important theme in the film: do we really have the right to avenge our lost loved ones? | |
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Beverly Hills Cop starts with Axel Foley undercover trying to bust a cigarette smuggling operation and turns into a big chase with him hanging from the back of a speeding semi and dozens of police cars. | |
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Zatanna (2010): Issue #2 begins with Zatanna finishing up an adventure with the JLA: putting down a gang of werehyenas alongside Vixen and Black Canary. This is also used to established Zatanna is exhausted for the rest of the issue, while she still has to deal with Fuseli bothering her in her dreams. | |
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Some issues of Spider-Man begin with Spidey trouncing some random gangsters who have nothing to do with the issue's plot. | |
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The opening sequence on the planet Nibiru in Star Trek Into Darkness drops the viewer right in the middle of a scene in which Kirk and Bones are Chased by Angry Natives. | |
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Blown Away has Jimmy Dove demonstrating his bomb-defusing badassary skills on a not-related-to-main-plot bomb. | |
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The beginning of For a Few Dollars More shows two bounty hunters, Colonel Mortimer and Manco separately tracking and killing wanted criminals and collecting their bounties. | |
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Cosmic Star Heroine begins with the protagonist Alyssa L'Salle, an API agent, being sent to counter a terrorist attack holding civilians hostage. While this mission shows that Alyssa is a competent agent, it has no bearing on the plot except for setting up a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment that happens later. | |
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The Danny Phantom episode "13" has the hero combating various animal ghosts in the beginning. He ends up losing thanks to the Monster of the Week's bad luck shadow. | |
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The premier of Power Rangers: Dino Thunder has Tommy escaping from an exploding island before anything else in the season. | |
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In the Boston Legal episode "An Eye for an Eye", the dubious moral compass of star lawyer Alan Shore is established by him showing up on trial at night court dressed as, ironically, Batman. It plays no further role in the episode. | |
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Batman (1989) introduces the audience to Batman in action as he attacks two small-time muggers on the rooftops. | |
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Because the classic Doctor Who series was very relying on cliffhangers, the series since the 2005 relaunch has a sort of substitute with opening scenes before credits, and a trailer for the upcoming episode after the end credits. Often the Doctor and Companion(s) are having an adventure and it directly or indirectly leads into the story itself. Sometimes it has no connection, the concept is malleable. | |
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Biker Mice from Mars: Many episodes of the original 1993 series have Throttle, Vinnie, and Modo heckling and messing with the main villain, Lawrence Limburger, in the beginning just before the opening title. The 2006 revival did the same with the series' new villains, the Catatonians and Ronaldo Rump. | |
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The Magnificent Seven (1960) features Chris and Vin escorting the hearse of a "halfbreed" to the local cemetery when the rest of the town is dead-set against him being buried in their graveyard. | |
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Bloodstained Heroes of Humanity begins with Todoriki and Izuku defending Yaoyorozu, Kirishima and Iida from a feral werewolf that used to be their classmate. | |
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Kaitou Saint Tail: Meimi/Saint Tail occasionally opens stealing a priceless artifact and getting away, leaving her "victim" to cry out without thinking about how hard he worked to steal it in the first place and being heard by her detective pursuers. | |
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Werewolves on Wheels opens with biker gang the Devil's Advocates kicking the asses of a couple punks who tried to run them off the road. | |
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Margin Play by Eric Plume opens with a chapter about Amber serving court papers on Thom Cullen. It's completely unrelated to the main plot. | |
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Wild Wild West spends a good twenty minutes in an opening saloon scene where both West and Gordon fail to catch Disc-One Final Boss Bloodbath McGrath. | |
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The Other Guys starts of with an action chase scene where Cowboy Cops Danson and Highsmith stop some low-level drug dealers. This cold opens especially serves to set up Danson and Highsmith as Decoy Protagonists for the movie, before the narrative changes to the actual protagonists. | |
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Power Rangers RPM often starts in the middle of a megazord battle before moving on to the plot o' the episode, which is usually unrelated. It's used to emphasize just how much of a war of attrition is going on, and how relentless the machines are ... and to get the merchandising for the giant robots out of the way as soon as possible, so they don't have to interrupt the plotty action scenes with stock footage. | |
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The first episode of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex begins with Section 9 rescuing a bunch of officials taken hostages by robots — although this is related to the plot of the first episode, it is still essentially just to show how badass Section 9 is. | |
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In Babylon's Ashes, Michio Pa is introduced as a Space Pirate wrecking a colony ship heading out of the Solar System and robbing it for supplies the Free Navy will supposedly redistribute among the local Belter colonies. | |
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The Live-Action Scooby-Doo movie starts with Mystery Inc. trying to catch the Luna Ghost, providing the audience a chance to see each member of the gang's strengths, weaknesses, and role in the Five-Man Band. After the Ghost is caught, tensions between the main characters lead to their breakup, thus setting the tone for the first act of the plot. | |
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Mirror's Edge starts the Prologue off with Faith delivering a package, setting her own job as Parkour "courier" in-universe. That really only serves to explain why she has the flexibility, speed and energy of a monkey overdosed in Redbull before she goes off to clear her sister's name. | |
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The Expendables 2 opens with them raiding a stronghold to rescue a Chinese billionaire. | |
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Episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer frequently start with Buffy killing a random vampire on patrol. Occasionally doubles as a Couch Gag; for instance, "Halloween" starts with Buffy fighting a vampire in a pumpkin patch. | |
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The first few pages of Once Stung cover Queen Bee foiling a robbery before flashing back to her origin story. | |
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Mission: Impossible (1996) opens with the IMF finishing off a mission. | |
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Ra starts with the heroine getting accosted in an alley by a group of thugs, and taking them out with her magic skills. | |
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Firefly was due to start with a double length origins episode, featuring the arrival of River Tam, Simon and Book. Instead, Executive Meddling mandated that a train heist episode be adjusted to become the first episode, in order to show the normal hijinks of the Firefly crew on a job. The prequel story was later shown out of order without warning, causing mild temporary confusion for some viewers. | |
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The Professional begins with a scene showing the title character on a routine job, killing a gang of drug dealers in a matter of minutes. The entire scene only exists to establish how proficient he is and has nothing to do with the rest of the film. | |
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The "opening gambits" of MacGyver (1985) — especially for the first few episodes — have little to do with the rest of the plot and are often directed by a separate team. This particular style of opening is important in the pilot, as it's our first glimpse of MacGyver in action. A good portion of the episode is devoted to this gambit: Mac scales a sheer cliff, disarms a missile, and makes an impromptu rescue, all while his internal monologue brings us up to speed via a series of somewhere between home-spun and downright corny analogies about hockey, riding horses or people he knows. | |
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The first episode of The Batman opens with Batman taking down Rupert Thorne and his goons before moving on to the actual plot of the episode. | |
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Buffyverse: Episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer frequently start with Buffy killing a random vampire on patrol. Occasionally doubles as a Couch Gag; for instance, "Halloween" starts with Buffy fighting a vampire in a pumpkin patch. |
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Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony starts off with Holly tracking a smuggler, though in true Artemis Fowl fashion it ends up becoming a Chekhov's Gun. | |
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The Other Side of Doomsday starts with four pages of The Flash, The Atom and Supergirl beating up a gang of high-tech crooks called "Sky Pirates" before the beginning of the real plot (which the Pirates have nothing to do with). | |
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In Octopath Traveler, H'aanit's story begins with her taking a not-so-routine hunting job in absence of her mentor and parental figure Z'aanta. Her story starts proper when she returns to the village and meets Z'aanta's wolven companion without Z'aanta himself, giving her a cause for concern. | |
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Bookhunter opens with Agent Bay leading a SWAT Team to apprehend a "freelance censor" | |
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The first episode of the Hellsing anime opens with a creepy old guy and a young-looking woman dressed like a prostitute walking into a hotel room. After some dialogue from the old guy, they realize that Alucard has been there the whole time. Cue Alucard pointing his gun at the two of them and shooting the woman, who turns out to be a vampire. | |
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The Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers episode "Gadget Goes Hawaiian" opens with the Rangers already in dire peril, having to defend themselves against a giant octopus while being tied up. It is not explained how they got into this situation, and this is not that episode's actual case either. | |
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Tomorrow Never Dies has only one connection in its opening, a brief appearance by arms dealer Henry Gupta. Otherwise, it's just 007 exploding a terrorist weapons bazaar. | |
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Deadpool (and later Cable & Deadpool) often opens with a splash page of the title character engaged in a spectacular fight against a considerably large group of Mooks while making absolutely random remarks. | |
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Die Another Day opens with Bond on a mission in North Korea... which he actually fails. He ends up getting captured and spends a year and a half in a torture camp before his superiors can spring him. | |
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