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* Several openings from ''[[Inuyasha|Inu Yasha]]''.
* ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex|Ghost in The Shell Stand Alone Complex]]'' especially the second season. The openings mostly focus on Kusanagi and the Tachikomas going into heated battle, while the show itself is much more cerebral and talky, and action sequences tend to be quick and decisive. A couple of episodes have no action sequences at all.
* ''[[Lupin III]]'' has an intro showing Lupin and friends being chased all over the world by Zenigata. In the actual show, the crew's conflicts with Zenigata tend to feature fewer chase sequences and more clever trickery and disguises.
* ''[[Mobile Fighter G Gundam|G Gundam]]'' has a first-season intro which shows a chaotic battle royale involving at least a half-dozen Gundams fighting it out in outer space. Except that no one goes to outer space until the end of season two, and nearly every fight in the first season is one-on-one. Season two's opening, oddly enough, has barely any fighting at all, despite coming right at the point where the show's action kicks into high gear.
* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00|Gundam 00]]'' is full of this due to the prevalent nature of the completely original footage of the Gundams. This sets it apart from its predecessor ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED|Gundam SEED]]'' which is made entirely in stock footage.
** In the second opening, while the fight in the desert did happen, the Gundam were not mobilized to fight the entire army in that shot, so most of the Gundams never fought anyone face to face and were on the losing end of that fight.
*** In the same opening, Celestial being never launched a full scale assault against the Gundam Thrones. Although it COULD have been the final battle, the thick GN mega launcher shot that blew up Exia's shield could only have come from the Gundam Throne Eins.
** In the third opening, Tieria never fought Ali in space nor did he ever get the chance to activate the trial system. He did fight him, but that was when he was teamed up with the 00 Gundam.
* The fourth opening to [[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)|the 2003 anime version]] of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' has a massive battle between the Elric brothers and Lust and Gluttony, taking place in the waterfall area leading to the underground city below Central. Yet Ed doesn't even go there until his brother is captured and one of the homunculi they're fighting in the opening is dead.
** Oddly enough, this fight happens ([[Evasive Fight Thread Episode|although inconclusively]]) in the OVA short before leading to every state alchemist versus every homunculus.
* [[Saiyuki]]
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* The English dub of ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' has a pretty exciting opening, but most of the episodes that have fights seem to show them as the same four frames looping for a couple of minutes, or a [[Beam-O-War]] and [[Smoke Shield|obscuring dust clouds]] It should be noted that a fair amount of said opening was taken from the movies.
** But that's nothing compared to the later remake, [[Dragon Ball]] Kai. Its opening is made in a streamlined, all-new style. Its footage is cleaned up versions of the same low budget beam-o-wars from the previous example.
* The opening of ''[[Record of Lodoss War]]: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight'' features absolutely gorgeous animation and an award-worthy song. The show itself features far sparser action sequences, more still frames, and far more talking.
* ''[[Shangri-La]]''. Let the rocking theme play. Let the dramatic and action-packed character shots roll. Let the acrobatic, [[Magic Skirt]]-wearing [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|pink-haired]] [[Older Than They Look|legal loli]] Kuniko Hojo kick ass and cut tank cannons with a boomerang, making them explode. Then let the facepalms and tears flow when you find out the OP is actually ''better'' than the anime itself.
* [[D.N.Angel]] has an epic opening sequence drawn mostly from scenes from the final two episodes of the series, with some images from other parts of the series, and yet since the series is more of a ROMANCE COMEDY than an action-packed battle between two angels… most of the series is a lot less low key. There are episodes with that level of action, and other episodes devoted solely to romance or developing the characters, and thus falling far behind the opening in the action department.
* The [[Naruto]] opening Haruka Kanata features a fictional strategic fight in the Chuunin exam Arc where everyone from Team 7 works together. Shown during an Arc where every fight is one on one and has farts as an high point.
* [[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'s second opening featured an adrenaline-inducing theme song set to Yugi and his friends gearing up for battle, and unleashing their monsters to fight the bad guys in the streets of a darkened city. While there is fighting due to it being a tournament arc, it's not the free-for-all the credits portray it as, and the fact that the monsters are holograms ensures that it won't be as dramatic as it seems.
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** ''[[G.I. Joe: The Movie]]'' has a theme song opening sequence that includes more actual frames of animation than an entire weekly TV episode. It is completely awesome, but must have taken up a disproportionately huge chunk of the budget.
*** Originally, that was going to be the climactic battle sequence of the entire film. Then the plot went in a completely different direction.
*** When Hasbro put out a "Best of ''[[G.I. Joe]]''" DVD as part of a toy box set, the opening to the movie was included. Not the movie itself—just the opening.
* The opening to the [[Ruby-Spears]] ''[[Mega Man (animation)|Mega Man]]'' cartoon made it seemed accurate to the actual games, yet the actual episodes were nothing but standard Saturday morning fare.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akJygsSXcjw Super fighting robot...Mega MAN!]
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* The original ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'', with Shredder appearing through a dimensional portal accompanied by vast armies of Foot Soldiers behind him.
* ''[[Mighty Orbots]]''
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* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0CYNm_dRBA opening] to the ''[[Super Mario World (animation)|Super Mario World]]'' cartoon has dinosaurs crushing cities, Mario saving the Princess from Bowser, and Yoshi eating a fireball. The character designs are even a bit more game-accurate than in the actual episodes.
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