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{{trope}}{{Needs Image}}Examples of [[{{BASEPAGENAME}}]] in [[{{SUBPAGENAME}}]] include:
* The trailer for the fourth ''[[Naruto]]'' overall movie seems to strongly have this going. For those interested, the tagline is {{spoiler|"Naruto Dies"}}. This turns out to be true, but it's a really weird situation. {{spoiler|Naruto is bodyguarding a priestess who has the power to see her own death and usually puts someone else in that place so she can survive. So there ''is'' a continuity where Naruto dies {{color|white|
** Regular Naruto episodes do this from time to time, too -- early in ''Shippuuden'', one episode made Naruto's knowledge of the ending of an "Icha Icha" book a plot point. The [["On the Next..."]] consisted of Tsunade yelling at him for reading porn, and telling him he'd be cleaning the Academy's toilets as punishment. The actual next episode was the start of the Rescue Gaara arc.
*** It was more or less intentional, since the first few chapters of ''Shippudden'' all do that. There was another where Naruto and Sakura argue over why they got a D rank mission.
*** In fact, not only does that not happen, [[Adaptation
** Much earlier, the trailer and title for one episode suggested [[Sealed Evil in
** In the Three-Tails arc trailer, Naruto stands beside the other members of Team 7 and Team 8 on the foggy lake, apparently facing off against Deidara and Tobi, and Orochimaru and Kabuto. He says "I'll never let them take the Three Tails!" {{spoiler|The Akatsuki don't come for the beast until after the Leaf ninja have left, and Naruto doesn't meet Tobi until late in the next arc}}, so this scene never happens, and he never says that line.
* Cartoon Network's advertisements for ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' were infamous in this regard. Thanks to the Toonami-style editing that the trailers underwent, ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' was made to appear as an exciting, action-oriented anime full of guns and stuff. While the show does have some action sequences, it is certainly not action-oriented in any way, and the disappointment was reflected in the show's ratings. Note also that the trailers combined clips from all three of the series' incarnations (Toonami showed all three series' one after the other).
** This might be a double example, as the trailer for the show also played up the show's steamier side (complete with an out-of-context clip of Sasami saying "You're a naughty boy, aren't you, Tenchi?") While the uncut show does have quite a bit of this, the version broadcast on Toonami cut out any and all sexual references.
* Similarly, a TV-guide description of ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]] in Love'' was "Police officers chase an escaped convict." While technically true, this leaves out the fact that they're [[Space Police]] officers, that the convict is a evil alien, that they're chasing it ''back in time'', and that said officers are only two members of the group that goes back -- and the ones who get the least attention, at that.
* The trailer for the original ''[[Hellsing]]'' TV Series not only has almost nothing to do with the plot of the TV series, but also features a completely different style of music and higher quality/differently styled animation to that which occurs in the series. The problem is that the trailer is based mainly off a volume of the manga that never made it into the TV series.
** It also ends with a tease of the Major. Neither he or anything to do with Millennium end up in the series, as it [[Overtook the Manga]] ''just'' before the introduction of Millennium.
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' was marketed by the dub company to US TV stations with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEXqoPgbH0c this tape], informing potential business partners that "[[Periphery Demographic|Boys]] will love the non-stop action!"
* The back of some of the DVD boxes for ''[[Gravitation]]'' are very carefully worded in just how they summarize the series and its events. It's entirely possible for someone to pick it up without realizing that it's a [[Boys Love]] series.
* ''[[Planetes]]'' does this deliberately with its [[Post Episode Trailer]]. While they use clips from the next episode, all of them are stripped of context and out-of-order, making it completely impossible to accurately guess the next episode's contents.
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* For every ''[[Pokémon (
** I would say the most notable, and odd, was the first movie's trailer. What does an adult Misty with her GSC hair style, that police lady, and a girl who looks like Misty's future daughter, have to do with Mewtwo?
*** It's speculated that around the time this trailer was made, the Pokémon anime was slated to end at episode 78, with the movie (which would most likely be told as a flashback by an older Misty) serving as the "finale" to the show.
*** That still doesn't explain why Miranda was with Misty though.
** Some of the trailers for the eighth Pokémon movie (''Lucario and the Mystery of Mew'' or ''Mew and the Wave-Guiding Hero, Lucario'' depict scenes like Kid's van being caught in the middle of a geyser field, Lucario dodging falling rocks, Lucario apparently ''dead'' of unknown causes, and various other scenes, none of which are seen in either the Japanese or English versions of the film.
** Not to mention how a trailer for ''Destiny Deoxys'' depicted a badass space battle between Deoxys and Ash riding on the back of Rayquaza, which was nowhere to be seen in the final cut.
** Many old promos for English version episodes when the series was dubbed by 4Kids did this as well. One in particular showed Ash being transformed into a Pikachu, which led many to believe that was the main focus of the episode. Turns out that it didn't happen until the end of the episode and the transformation was undone immediately at the beginning of the following episode. Needless to say, many fans were greatly disappointed.
** The trailer for "Zoroark: Master of Illusions" first depicted an aerial battle between Lugia and Ho-Oh, possibly intended to be a [[Heart Gold]] / [[Soul Silver]] tie-in, later cut. The recent trailer shows Zoroark transforming into an evil version of Ash, but while Zorua did transform into Ash in the final film, it was for fun and had no real effect on the plot.
* The ''Gakuen Utopia [[Manabi Straight!]]!'' trailer featured missiles destroying clocktowers and city-levelling explosions, absolutely none of which were featured in the show itself. This somewhat disappointed many viewers, who were hoping for a [[Twist Ending]] they had pre-emptively dubbed "The Lolicaust".
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* Spoofed by ''[[Excel Saga (
* Quite a lot of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' [[Post Episode Trailer
* ''[[Rebuild of Evangelion]]'''s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-rjxQm_6Go American trailer], which makes it seem like something [[Michael Bay]] would come up with, rather cleverly concealing all the angst.
** The preview of the second movie played at the end of the first turned out to have several scenes that didn't actually appear or did appear, but were radically different. This is due to the fact that the second movie was still just beginning production when the preview was called to be made. Also, the end-of-movie previews are a [[Mythology Gag]] for the [[Post Episode Trailer|Post Episode Trailers]] of the original series, including the promise of more fanservice.
** Rebuild finally paid up that fanservice Misato's been promising.
* Spoofed in the fan-made flick, AMV Hell. At the end of the first AMV Hell, there is a trailer for AMV Hell 2, with several scenes set to epic music, with the note "Featuring none of the scenes shown here." Nothing is sacred, indeed.
* ''[[Clannad (
** Another particularly hilarious one is [[Yamato Nadeshiko|Nagisa]] seemingly agreeing that she's a bully.
* Behold [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSkrKXp2Ces the trailer] for ''[[Tweeny Witches]]'' (''Maho Shoujo Tai Arusu''). Look exciting? Not a single frame of it appears anywhere in the actual series.
* The trailers for the anime adaptation of one [[Tear Jerker]] of a strip in ''[[
* ''[[
** This one is so infamous it was endlessly mocked and parodied, culminating in one of the Mazinkaizer stage in ''Super Robot Wars J'' being called "Kouji Kabuto Dies in Lava!?"
** The second to last ''Anime[[Mazinkaiser]]'' episode was also called "Kouji Kabuto Dies in Lava!" {{spoiler|He almost does, but the [[Jet Pack|Kaiser Scrandrer]] pulls him out.}}
* Famously, some of the boxes for ''[[Ranma
* Done many, many times in Italian dub openings (see also [[Spoiler Opening]]). Examples:
** [[Kimagure Orange Road]]: the opening says Kyōsuke (dubbed Johnny in Italy) is psychokinetic and can also read minds. Ok, he's psychokinetic, but he can't read minds. (Probably this is due to a misunderstanding: in an episode, Kyōsuke and his cousin Kazuya [[Freaky Friday|switch bodies]], and Kazuya can read minds). Furthermore, the song focuses on Kyōsuke's powers, but the plot is actually focused on the [[Love Triangle]].
** ''[[Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water]]'': the opening says Nadia and Jean are 13. But they're 14 !
** ''[[Saint Seiya]]'': the first time it was aired in Italy (by Odeon TV, in 1990), the opening depicted it as the story of some guys fighting each other in a tournament to win the Sagittarius golden armor - repeating obsessively "only one in the end will win". Actually, the tournament only lasts the first few episodes, it's abruptly interrupted when the bad guys show up, {{spoiler|and it's NEVER resumed, so that NOBODY wins the tournament}}. Oh, yes, {{spoiler|sometimes the main character wears the Sagittarius armor, but only because the armor is somewhat sentient and ''decides'' to protect him - after all, he's [[The Hero]]}}.
*** Furthermore, the opening call the characters "Saints", but they are never called Saints in the Italian dub, only Knights.
*** Before it was broadcast, the Odeon TV spot announced it as a new cartoon coming "sulle ali della fantascienza più sfrenata" ("on the wings of the most unleashed science fiction"). But science fiction has little or no role in the plot.
*** In 1991 a new opening was aired: AGAIN, it focused around the tournament, around winning the golden armor as the only important thing, around "the stronger in the end will win". It included also nonsensical sentences such as "l'amicizia non ha più dignità" ("friendship has no longer dignity"): friendship among the main characters is a very important plot point, as in many similar stories.
* The opening for ''[[
* Before the second season of ''[[Darker
* Early promotion for the 13th ''[[
* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro
* ''Ninja Resurrection : The Revenge of Jubei'' is one of the most infamous examples. ADV Films put together a rather deceptive trailer and marketing campaign that made it look like the series was a sequel to [[Ninja Scroll]]. In fact, the two works have nothing in common except that the main characters both happen to be named Jubei. The series wasn't even originally titled "Ninja Resurrection" in Japan! Despite this, ''Ninja Resurrection'' sold like hotcakes on the strength of the deception. In fact, it sold better than the ''actual'' sequel to ''Ninja Scroll''!
* ''[[Sentou Yousei Yukikaze]]'' has a particularly cruel example: the [[Blu
* The creators of ''[[Gankutsuou]]'' decided to apply major changes to the anime in the very last moment. The result is that the official trailer features events that didn't happen or happened in a very different way, characters who didn't make it, and characters who look different from their final versions (Eugénie in particular).
* ''[[Mariasama ga Miteru
* ''[[Baccano
* Parodied in the ''[[Moyashimon]]'' manga. The first volume ends with a preview for the second volume, which consists of a two-page spread of action-packed panels hinting at [[Genre Shift|a switch from a slice-of-life comedy to a thriller]]. A caption at the bottom of the spread reads [[Lampshade Hanging|"Preview may not represent actual content."]]
* ''[[First Squad]]'' had this pretty badly. Early trailers advertised, among other things, ''Nazi mechas''. What we got were medieval people on horseback.
* The trailers for ''[[Ookami
* The preview of the final episode of ''[[
* May also be a mixed example with [[Covers Always Lie]], but in ''[[
* The trailer for the 4th episode of ''[[Katanagatari]]'' shows clips of the long-awaited fight between Sabi Hakuhei and Shichika ([[Badass|in which, among other things, a shark is bisected]]). Instead the episode is about Shichika's sister and concludes with Shichika and Togame talking about the fight with Hakuhei while eating dango. Apparently the fight was over 11 shades of awesome and would have been too much to show the viewers.
* ''[[
* The commercials for ''[[
** The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CTHwEZK2JA first trailer] of the Aniplex USA release also qualifies. Apparently, according to the comments, some people are still being tricked despite the infamy this anime has gathered on the internet.
* ''[[Wolverine (
* You can't forget Iron Man. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4Q7xgxDJh4 What happened guys?]
* The back of the case for ''[[
* The trailers for ''[[Bakemonogatari
* ''[[
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