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* The anime version of ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' took the manga's [[Batman Cold Open]] and added a hint that [[Big Bad|Aion]] was behind the attack to turn it into an [[Action Prologue]].
* The anime of ''[[D.N.Angel]]'' opens on a fight between Dark and Krad that apparently happened in the past, before cutting to the high school [[Shojo]] romance opening of the manga.
* ''[[Venus Versus Virus]]'''s [[Pragmatic Adaptation|anime version]] has this. Guns, check. Shooting stuff with said gun? Check. [[Eyepatch of Power|Eyepatch wearing]] [[Elegant Gothic Lolita|Gothic lolita girl]] [[The Gunslinger|wielding the gun]]? Check. Creepy girl with [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|red eyes]]? Check. Then we cut to the [[Ear Worm]] of an opening. In the manga however, the intro is mellow, and shows how Sumire became the way she is.
* ''[[Berserk]]'' is a extreme example: it starts with a two and 2/3 volumes of story to establish the setting and then has a ''twelve'' volume flashback before reaching the point of time when it started. The anime follows suit with its first episode (basically a shortened version of the first episode without Puck), which is given no explanation as to how it happened, given that the anime ended at a point where the story could have only gotten there based on action taken by [[Schrodingers Cat|characters that were never introduced in the anime]].
* Not exactly ''action'', but ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni (Visual Novel)|Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni]]'''s anime adaptation opens with watching a half-obscured silhouette beating someone to death with a blunt instrument... And then the OP starts playing...
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== Fan Fiction ==
* ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero (Fanfic)|Kyon Big Damn Hero]]'' combines this with [[In Medias Res]].
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* ''[[X Men Origins Wolverine (Film)|X Men Origins Wolverine]]''. The pre-credits prologue is a flashback of the main character's childhood, while the credits sequence is a montage of Wolverine and Sabretooth taking part in battles through the ages.
* The Tea Room shootout at the beginning of ''Hard-Boiled''.
* ''[[Gladiator]]'' begins in the [
* ''[[Top Gun]]''.
* ''[[The Matrix]]'' and ''[[The Matrix Reloaded]]''.
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* [[Human Target]] almost always starts this way, with Christopher doing something awesome (often involving explosions).
* The first episode of [[Game of Thrones]] cold opens with a suspenseful scene that features rangers of the Night's Watch getting ambushed by White Walkers.
* A few [[Cold Opening|cold openings]] of ''[[
** "The Empty Child" begins with the TARDIS chasing after a Chula warship through a time track.
** "The Girl in the Fireplace" starts with offscreen screaming and Madame de Pompadour calling for the Doctor's name through a fireplace.
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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
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