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Compare [[Batman Cold Open]], which illustrates a character's skills at the beginning of a story; and [[Danger Room Cold Open]], which demonstrates the skills of a team. Contrast [[Prolonged Prologue]], which is what happens when you drag it out too much, as well as [[It Gets Better]] where the work slaps you from the start with exposition... and more exposition... and still more exposition... It can happen that the Action Prologue is cut short and revealed not to have been really happening; that's a [[Fake Action Prologue]].
A form of [[The Teaser]], often [[In Medias Res]]. Also known as a [[Bond Opening Sequence]], since [[James Bond]] uses it so much. Not to be confused with [[Action
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== Anime & Manga ==
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** {{spoiler|It turns out that it's actually the fight vs Silvario Gospel in the last episode}}
* ''[[Hidan no Aria]]'' starts with Kinji trying to not be blown up by the bomb on his bike, and Aria falling out of the sky, shooting guns and all, to try to save him.
* The ''[[Dirty Pair (Anime)|Dirty Pair]]'' movie ([[Title Confusion|better known as]] ''Project Eden'') takes this all the way into a full [[Pastiche]] of [[James Bond]] films, starting with an equivalent of the [[Bond Gun Barrel]] and ending with a [[Design
* ''[[Ghost in The Shell (Anime)|Ghost in The Shell]]'' begins with Major Kusanagi carrying out a hit on a defecting programmer and a corrupt government minister, establishing her as a consummate [[Action Girl]] (as well as [[Technology Porn|showing off the coolness]] of the series' [[Invisibility Cloak|thermoptic camouflage]]).
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* The ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' story arc "Phoenix Rising" (well, the Oasis half of it, anyway) begins right away with Oasis fighting a group of convenience store robbers. Things then quiet down for a while, giving us time to know the characters, before the action starts up again when {{spoiler|Nash Straw kills Lupae}}.
* ''Pibgorn'''s arcs start this way, but they're so confusing they're pretty much [[Mind Screw]] prologues. For example, the latest arc began with a [[Rapunzel Hair|Rapunzel Haired]] Pibgorn messing around with dewdrops in a meadow, with the panels interrupted by a giant rack-focused number 8 on a plain white background out of nowhere. It then switched to short-haired Pibgorn and Drucilla talking on a glacier (Rapunzel-Hair Pib is a flashback). Pib suddenly fainted then attacked Drucilla who fought back, and then the giant 8 explodes in a shower of Photoshop brushes.
* ''[[Remus (Webcomic)|Remus]]'' begins with a [[Right Wing Militia Fanatic]] [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|flying a plane into the White House]], [[It Got Worse|continues by showing the United States descending into a second Civil War,]] and then caps off the prologue with [[R
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