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{{trope}}
The program's opening credits promise wondrous
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 [[Rule of Cool|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
Compare [[Fake-Out Opening]] and [[Action-Hogging Opening]]. For when a character prominently featured in the credits of an early episode suffers a shockingly rapid demise, see [[Dead Star Walking]].
{{examples}}
== Anime and Manga ==▼
* The first opening of ''[[
▲== Anime ==
▲* The first opening of ''[[To Aru Majutsu no Index]]'' does this when showing Accelerator using Misaka Mikoto's ability Electromaster, which is technically impossible for him to use, and Aureous Izzard armed with a gun he is never shown using, among other things.
** Technically, it is not impossible. If he really can control the vector of all things then he can control the movement of electrons and therefore can technically produce electricity.
* The opening sequence of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' is fairly standard for a [[Humongous Mecha]]
** 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).
** It's also interesting that the "wings" of Unit 1 in the intro appear nowhere in the
** 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.
*** I don't have the exact source image on me to confirm this, but I'm pretty sure that that's 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.
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** Not to mention the song itself. While the upbeat, peppy melody isn't necessarily odd, as ''NGE'' is rather [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw5acgqIHQE notorious] for [[Lyrical Dissonance]], the [http://www.animelyrics.com/anime/eva/ngetnshi.htm lyrics themselves] ''also'' seem to point to a more upbeat, standard [[Humongous Mecha]] anime.
* 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.
* ''[[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, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wInHktd7hU theme-song's] [[Ear Worm|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 fami--[[Gorn|SO]] [[Fingore|MUCH]] [[Up to Eleven|BLOOD]].
** Also, {{spoiler|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.}}
* The ''[[
** Weirdly, the more sad sounding outro music is changed halfway through the season, just as [[It Got Worse]], for another song, but they didn't swap the opening, making it seem deliberate.
* Similarly, ''[[Mai-Otome]]'', despite already foreshadowing the darker themes in the first opening, carefully tries to avoid any implication of conflict between Arika, Nina and
** [[Averted Trope|Aversion]]: ''[[Mai-Otome]]'''s second set of credits 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. {{spoiler|(Although in the actual scene, Mai fights with Mikoto on her back, not alone as shown in the credits.)}}
* ''[[Macross Frontier]]'' is an example of this. Nobody saw it coming, {{spoiler|Grace being the big bad, given how the OP and first few episodes played her straight like a side character }}.
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** 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.
* ''[[Muteki Kanban Musume]]'' (''Ramen Fighter Miki'' [[Market-Based Title|in the English release]]) has exactly this kind of opening, making 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.
* ''[[Bleach]]'' is rife with these, showing characters in different costumes and situations than you would ever expect. The worst offender was the second opening, which promised many really cool battles in the Soul Society arc that never happened.
** The eighth opening shows filler captain Amagai fighting his third seat, Kifune after the latter's [[Face Heel Turn]]. It's misleading because Izuru ends up fighting Kifune and also because {{spoiler|Amagai is the real villain and was manipulating Kifune}}.
** 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 {{spoiler|alongside Ginjou}}. While it seems to be true considering how {{spoiler|Ginjou subjected Ichigo to a [[Training
* ''[[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 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUg5M0a_x8s 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]].
* ''[[Magical Pokaan]]'''s haunting OP implies something of [[Elegant Gothic Lolita|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
* The first opening to [[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]] gives a rather prominent role to Hohenheim, {{spoiler|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 {{spoiler|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 {{spoiler|due to helping Maria Ross in Xing}}!
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** 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 Opening|spoiler]] of {{spoiler|Edward's Gate of Truth dissolving}}.
** 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 [[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)|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 {{spoiler|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 [[Gecko Ending|movie]]}}.
*** The fourth opening of the 2003 series shows Ed and Al vs. Gluttony and Lust, and Ed and Al vs. Wrath, Envy and Sloth. {{spoiler|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 opening sequences of ''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]]'' from the ''[[Gundam]]'' 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
** The first opening to ''[[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam|Victory Gundam]]'' 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 [[Battle Royale With Cheese]] 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, {{spoiler|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, ''[[Demoted to Extra|at all]]''), but they were not even the true antagonists for either the first season or second. 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, {{spoiler|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 its not until after the 4th OP premiered and he's piloting a different (superior) suit to the one seen here. No one has yet to engage Ali in space, and Seravee's weird red beams from his backpack are yet to be shown.}}
*** 4th OP: This OP shows a naked Tieria who regained his [[Eyes of Gold]] 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, {{spoiler|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 that needed Veda.}}
** ''[[Gundam Wing]]'''s very 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, so the errors of the first OP are often attributed to rewrites that happened during Wing's troubled production.
* ''[[Ninin ga Shinobuden]]'' shows a dramatic battle involving most of the main cast against Shinobu's evil counterpart (see example image). 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.
* A half-example with the second OP for ''[[Demashitaa Powerpuff Girls Z]]'', as the series delivered {{spoiler|Powerprof, Dynamo Z and the bit with the volcano, but didn't get round to the [[Beach Episode]] or the Super Zero costumes}}.
* The opening to ''[[Paranoia Agent]]'' consists of brightly lit shots of most of the ensemble cast laughing insanely as they [[No Fourth Wall|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 [[Lyrical Dissonance|lyrics that mix cheerful and apocalyptic themes]]
** 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.
* Although the general wackiness of the openings fit the theme of the show, ''[[
* ''[[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 [[Meganekko|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.
* The loving interaction between Kurau and Christmas dressed in cute summer attire in the opening credits of ''[[Kurau Phantom Memory]]'' doesn't appear anywhere in the anime.
* 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]]...
* ''[[Neko Kawaigari]]'' is probably the ultimate example of this trope. It promises a light-hearted fun atmosphere involving [[
* 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 [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|amnesiac]] boyfriend Kaito.
* 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 {{spoiler|Until the end of Episode 30, after the world has been destroyed and reborn}}. Furthermore, in the credits show actual rainfall -- {{spoiler|something that also doesn't happen until Episode 30, where it allows the lunar flowers to germinate and regenerate life on Earth.}}.
* ''[[Trinity Blood]]'': The ending credits hint at {{spoiler|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.
* Both openings to ''[[Akahori Gedou Hour Rabuge]]'', fitting to the [[Widget Series]] 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.
* The original Saban-controlled [[FUNimation]] OP for ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' wasn't ''technically'' bait-and-switch, but the spirit was sure there. 90% of the clips were either taken from the ''Dead Zone'' movie or from the Cell
** [[Dragon Ball Kai]] (the new director's cut of Z) also has a bait and switch. The end credits feature Launch, a character who was prominent in Dragon Ball but who has barely any appearances in Z...and the one sequence she ''does'' appear in was cut out of Kai.
* 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
** This opening also makes it seem as though Prince Clovis would be a major villain, as the credits end with him smirking at Lelouch and Lelouch glaring back. {{spoiler|He bites it three episodes in.}}
*** That's actually Schniezel, but this is misleading for a different reason; {{spoiler|he doesn't become a major villain until R2}}.
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* The first ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' 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 Pokemon that he either never sees, or ends up seeing them in completely different seasons.
** Heck, Ash didn't even aquire 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 Pokemon Ash has ever
* The opening credits of ''[[Monster (manga)|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. {{spoiler|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 [[Complete Monster|Johan]] takes a constant toll on him.}}
* The opening of ''[[Pretty Sammy|Magical Project S]]'' 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 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.
* The opening of ''[[Kannagi]]'' depicts Nagi [[Dancing Theme|dancing on stage]] as an [[Idol Singer]]. While somewhat thematically
** [[Stealth Pun|It's also a pun.]] Kannagi is a wooden IDOL come to life, the opening portrays her as a different kind of idol.
* Some shots in the opening of the ''[[Getter Robo|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. [[Mid-Season Upgrade|No such luck]], unfortunately.
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** The seventh opening to ''Shippuden'' is the worst, though. It features (in increasingly level of inaccuracy) Choji and Kakashi vs. Preta Pain; [[Designated Girl Fight|Ino, Hinata, and Sakura vs. Konan]]; Sai vs. Asura Pain; Kiba, Lee, Tenten, and Neji vs Deva Pain. In actuality, {{spoiler|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
*** The scene of Naruto {{spoiler|embracing his "shadow" self}} transitioning from him about to do...''something'' to Sakura.
*** The Elder Toad shown alongside the villains.
*** {{spoiler|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, [[
* The first seven episodes of ''[[Penguin Musume Heart]]'' slowly change before stabilizing into something that makes the show look like some sort of combination of ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena|Utena]]'' and ''[[Captain Harlock]]''.
* The OP for the first season of ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]'' 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.
* Subverted in ''[[Gate Keepers]]''. The OP depicts [[Meganekko|Megumi Kurogane]] apparently firing an [[Kamehame Hadoken|energy blast]] from her hand. This is supposed to be impossible in-universe, as her power is to [[Barrier Warrior|create walls]]... then you notice that Megumi ''was'' using her barriers - to ''block'' said blast.
* 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 ''[[Kare Kano]]'' 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 [[The Stoic|stoic]], romantic male lead nonchalantly [[Stuff Blowing Up|blows up the locker room]] with plastic explosive.
* The opening credits of the ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' [[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.
** The opening credits 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.
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* Ran and Midori from ''[[Telepathy Shoujo Ran]]'' never fly around in the series as they do in the opening credits. Bummer.
* ''[[Mega Man Star Force|Ryuusei no Rockman]] Tribe''. Fans were disappointed in the lack of Ninja and Dinosaur transformations.
* 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.
* The credits of ''[[Darker
** I always felt that scene was a flashback to the Heaven's Gate War.
** 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.{{spoiler|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
* The opening credits of ''[[Venus Versus Virus]]'' present the two female leads Lucia and Sumire lying in a field wearing pretty dresses, their [[Intertwined Fingers|fingers intertwined]] as they throw meaningful glances. It's very sweet and
** It's [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|symbolic]].
* The eighth opening of ''[[One Piece]]'' 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 {{spoiler|the Straw Hats don't even appear or take part in the current storyline after the [[Wham! Episode]], save for Luffy.}}
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* 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
* ''[[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 here being really young (15?), but there was definitely subtext.
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* In the (rather lovely) opening sequence of ''[[Aoi Hana]]'', 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.
* ''[[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 {{spoiler|Sai disappears permanently.}}
* ''[[Red Garden]]'' has an opening that would make you think it's basically Sex and the City. The show's content goes in a [[Mind Screw|different direction]] however. The ending falls under this as well; it's an upbeat rap song with the characters having fun at a concert.
* 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.
* 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 [[Hikikomori|extreme social anxiety]] struggling to deal with his psychological issues and addictions, being helped by a [[Blithe Spirit]] {{spoiler|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
* ''[[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.''
* ''[[Keroro Gunso]]'' uses 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.
* ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]''. The opening? Standard cute [[Magical Girl]] song, images (including [[Shout-Out|references]] to Sailor Moon, CCS, and even Pretty Cure), the works. The problem? [[Gen Urobuchi]] is
** 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.<ref>Yes, it's a [[Twelve-Episode Anime]]. Yes, it's pulled off more than once.</ref> In a series full of [[It Got Worse]], on a second viewing you can get [[Mood Whiplash]] because the actual episode is so ''light'' compared to the opening credits.
* ''[[Kamichama Karin]]'' sports a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7YUhKAZp9s rather dark-looking opening sequence] that, combined with the [[Non-Indicative First Episode|sombre first ep]], convinced some fans that the series was going to be a darker-and-edgier [[Magical Girl]]-slash-[[Moe|Moe Series]], ala Nanoha. [[Affectionate Parody|So wrong.]] {{spoiler|On the other hand, once the [[Cerebus Syndrome]] kicks in, the opening doesn't look quite as much out of place.}}
* ''[[Narutaru]]'''s opening treats us with an [[Soundtrack Dissonance|upbeat, cheerful opening song]] with the characters drawn in cute grade-school drawing, 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 ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' and ''[[Digimon]]'', but [[Mohiro Kitoh]] being the creator and the series is a deconstruction of the genre, the actual series is [[Crap Saccharine World|nothing]] [[It Got Worse|like]] [[Kill'Em All|that]] ...
* ''[[Yu Gi Oh 5 D's]]'' does this with openings 2 and 5. In the second version of opening 2, we see Jack facing off against {{spoiler|Dark Carly}} in a ground duel, whilst the episode they duel in is a Riding Duel. Opening 5 does this at the very end by showing Yusei using Junk Warrior to attack Z-ONE. {{spoiler|Junk Warrior is never used in that duel, but he pops up in 154 to deal the finishing blow to Jack}}
* 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, [[Holier Than Thou|Filia]] is portrayed as some demure [[Mysterious Waif|prophetic waif]]/DistressedDamsel, but in the show proper, she's an obnoxious, prissy, and loud (and very dead-on) variant of [[Holier Than Thou]].
* 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 try to search for {{spoiler|a holy item from their world, which turns out to be an [[Elditrich Abomination]] holding the sister of the protagonist's former love interest.}}
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** That scene was a ''double'' bait and switch, since {{spoiler|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.}}
* [[Oniisama e...]]'s opening features many pretty dolls, [[Creepy Doll|some of them being quite creepy]]. They're seen in a rather luminous and jewelry-full environment, but in the series itself {{spoiler|one of them is actually in Rei's very dark [[Room Full of Crazy|apartment full of crazy]]. The other items are in Fukiko's own [[Room Full of Crazy|Madness Room]], which she has kept locked away from others ''for six years''.}}
* ''[[Twin Signal]]'s'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hjIORoPahA 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 [[Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here|sleepy town in the countryside]], is comedy-oriented, and about half the characters in the intro don't even ''appear'' in the show proper.
* ''[[The Noozles]]'' does not involve dancing on rainbows with stars. The show does feature exciting adventures, but these get [[Cerebus Syndrome|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.
* The opening to the ''[[Rance]]'' OVA [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lnrIgCHSBY makes it look like a shoujo anime] with [[Happiness in Slavery|Sill]] as the protagonist and [[Designated Hero|Rance]] as a [[Knight in Shining Armor]]. The actual series is [[H-game|nothing]] [[Comedic Sociopathy|like]] [[Black Comedy Rape|that]].
* [[Master of Martial Hearts]] has a rather unappealing, but otherwise lighthearted and optimistic opening. It's ending features a quiet and somewhat romantic song featuring its lead females in some rather [[Les Yay|suggestive]] moments. [[Sarcasm Mode|There's no way it would have possibly the worst ending with the worst plot twist ever]]...
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* Almost every Western of the classic era begins with an opening montage of wild west themed paintings. These paintings routinely feature epic western landscape and charging wild horses. These things are almost never found on a Warner Brothers backlot, where the film was actually made.
* The film of ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' began with an animated opening to a movie called ''The Littlest Elf'', before stopping mid-stride (complete with [[Record Needle Scratch]]) for the narrator to tell us that the movie we'll be seeing will be far more depressing. Of course, this is a hilarious [[Mythology Gag]] for the people who have read the books.
* The opening credits for the (non)hit b-movie ''[[Cave Dwellers]]''. Two men in loincloths run around the screen doing weird
* There are a few of these in the [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]
** The ''Master Ninja'' credits are actually fairly representative of the "movies"
* The beginning of the movie ''[[Return of the Killer Tomatoes]]'' shows a group of attractive teenager girls in skimpy bathing suits romping on a beach, with a voiceover announcing "You are about to see the movie ''Big Breasted Women Go To The Beach And Take Their Tops Off''" (complete with a Beach Boys-style theme song containing those words), until the screen goes black, the voiceover apologizes for showing the wrong movie, and the title for "Return Of The Killer Tomatoes" appears.
** This is [[Brick Joke|brought back]] at the very end of the movie, after the denouement. During the course of the movie it's explained that the [[Mad Scientist]]'s machinery can turn tomatoes into beautiful young women, and the final scene features one of the secondary characters taking them all to the beach, whereupon the footage plays
* Minor example: ''Ghost Ship'' starts with cheesy lounge music and the title in a cheerfully 50s-style font, and zooms in on the ship's passengers happily dancing the night away {{spoiler|and then a tightly wound wire slices through the crowd}}.
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSWINQ32Ozw opening credits] to the 1958 version of ''[[The Blob]]'' written by none other than Burt Bacharach (no, I'm not kidding) sound like a fun, beach-rompy movie (lyrics notwithstanding).
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* The live-action [[Popeye]] movie starts out like one of his old cartoon opening, 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.
* 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.
* ''[[Monty Python and
** Some editions of 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.
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** This was a rather popular type of gag on the series. 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. The Pythons frequently set out to subvert not just the structure of the typical comedy sketch, but also the structure of television programmes themselves.
** Episode 29 opened with the opening credits, music and all, to ''The Money Programme'' ([[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|a finance and business programme]] [[Long Runners|that has been airing since 1966]]). Only when the presenter was revealed to be a comically money-mad Eric Idle was the veil lifted.
** Episode 39 took this still further by opening with the Thames TV ident<ref>
** One step further in the program for ''Spamalot.'' The main section of the play booklet describes a Finnish play that sounds like torture to the audience. Among the notes in the playbook are "There will be three intermissions -- one every two-and-a-half hours" and warnings not to speak Swedish in the theater. After this five-page section comes the real opening.
* ''[[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 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.
* The opening of the recent Spike TV reality show ''Murder'' shows car chases, the host firing weapons, ''CSI''-style graphics, and contestants observing what appear to be car explosions. The show is actually about contestants investigating realistic crime-scenes, and episodes mostly consist of people discussing the case in a conference room.
* 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 [[Red Shirt|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.)
* 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
** The [[Ominous Latin Chanting|solemn choir]] isn't all that solemn either, if you translate it back from [[Altum Videtur|the Latin]]. ''Ecce homo, qui est fava'': {{spoiler|Behold the man, who is a bean.}}
* The first season of the ''[[War of the Worlds (TV series)|War of the Worlds]]'' television series 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.
* ''[[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.
* 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 {{spoiler|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.
** Something similar happens during the credits of ''[[Quincy, M.E.]]''
* ''[[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.
* 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.
* It was one of Joss Whedon's long standing dreams to give an actor initial credit and then kill him or in this case her off in that episode. In [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]] {{spoiler|Amber Benson}} is credited for the first and last time in {{spoiler|
** Joss wanted to do this for the pilot with Jessie but it was shot down.
* ''[[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":
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** 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...")
* Peter
* The fifth season opening of ''[[The Wire]]'' contains at least two things that appear to be [[Spoiler Opening|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 {{spoiler|
* ''[[Torchwood]]'' pulls a fast one on viewers in its first episode. The opening credits to the pilot includes {{spoiler|Indira Varma, who plays Suzie Costello}}. This was done to make it look like {{spoiler|she was a regular cast member. She wasn't, and her character was dead by the end of the episode}}.
* The opening credits of ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' episode "The Muttiny" suggested Rita Repulsa would remain as the [[Big Bad]]. Then we got caught by surprise with the debut of Lord Zedd and that Rita was working for him all this time.
* The opening credits of ''[[Power Rangers in Space]]'' indicated Divatox would remain as the main villain. Sure, Astronema had already made an appearance in the [[Batman Cold Opening]] but nothing concrete to that point indicated she'd take over.
* BBC children's comedy series ''[[Out Of Tune]]'', which opened with a title card showing the church in the background, and accompanied by some beautiful choir singing, suddenly transitions mid-music into off-key wailing. The on-screen title begins to collapse as well.
== Video Games ==
* 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.
* 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.
* 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 {{spoiler|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 {{spoiler|Ethan diving and catching Kori, or Ethan saving the place his parents were trapped in from blowing up}}. Instead, in the story, {{spoiler|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 -- {{spoiler|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]].
* The ''[[Wild
* 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"
* ''[[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.
* 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.
* ''[[Metal Gear Solid|Metal Gear Solid 2]]'' did this rather infamously. The demo and subsequent real game opening showed a lot of scenes involving Snake, with a brief moment by [[Replacement Scrappy|Raiden]]. How little we really knew back then.
* ''[[Jays Journey|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?"
* ''[[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.
* ''[[Warriors Orochi]] 2'' treats us with the opening consisting of Cao Pi, Date Masamune, Saika Magoichi and Tachibana Ginchiyo kicking the ass of Orochi army. Come to the game, however, you find out that Masamune still remains with Orochi, not even thinking about joining the heroes.
** 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.)
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB_TXhfpQio opening] to ''[[Eternal Eyes]]'', in addition to prominently featuring Shillay (a character with maybe 5 minutes of screentime), also shows the main characters fighting [[Big Bad]] Vorless in a number of places that don't exist in the game, with strange [[Beam-O-War]] skills, and what the heck is that glowing blue skull anyway?
== Web Original ==
* ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' 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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20131027140836/http://www.homestarrunner.com/kotpoptoon.html senior prom].
** Also, the [http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail155.html 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."
* 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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** The movie does change the line in the theme tune, though, making the line all about Shep the elephant.
** Possibly as a nod to this, in one episode George hits his head walking out of his tree-house (he forgot that he and Ursula live in a tree), and subsequently addresses Ursula as "Fella". Other character: "Fella?!" Ursula: "George is a simple man." "Nearsighted, too."
* The [[Title Sequence]] for ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'' consists of clips from the pilot episode, "Big House Blues." When shown on the series, the episode had scenes cut, including Ren realizing that he had been kissing Stimpy in his sleep and washing his mouth on the toilet
* The Japanese credits to ''[[X-Men (animation)|X-Men]]'' 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 Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack]]'' has a minor example of
** Not to mention that the [[Art Shift|opening is in stop-motion]]
*** 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.
* The first episode of ''Back to the Sewer'', ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|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! Entertainment|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.
* The opening credits to the [[Show Within a Show|Itchy and Scratchy cartoons]] in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' promises that 'they fight and bite' over animation of the two hitting each other with weapons. In fact in the vast majority episodes they don't ''fight'' at all: Scratchy is minding his own business when Itchy brutally attacks and kills him for no reason at all.
* 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 [[Designated Girl Fight|fighting Blackarachnia]] underwater (which, it should be noted, she is [[Did Not Do the Research|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 an around Detroit. Despite all that, it's ''still'' [[Spoiler Opening|full of spoilers]]( {{spoiler|Longarm Prime,}} anyone?).
** It also features [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cloaked_mystery_villain Cloaked Mystery Villain], who doesn't look much like ''anybody'' in the show.
* Supposedly the inspiration for Bart Simpson comes from Matt Groening being
** Bart is actually closer in personality and age to the '''other''' [[Dennis the Menace UK|Dennis the Menace]].
* During ''[[
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jCgVfDhH3A The second] season opening of ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' makes the show appear to be quite saccharine, with Jimmy having [[Fertile Feet]] that turn everything he touches happy, and not showing off any of Heloise's [[Comedic Sociopathy]]. The actual show is largely a [[Sadist Show]] with [[Black Humor]].
* The opening credits for the short-lived cartoon [[Alvin and The Chipmunks|''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 [[The Hero|Luke Skywalker]], Simon and Theodore as [[Robot Buddy|C-3PO and R2-D2, respectively]], and David Seville as [[The Dragon|Darth Vader.]] Unfortunately, the ''Star Wars'' parody was ''never'' made into an actual episode of that series.
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