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* ''[[Coyote Ragtime Show]]'' is an indicative example: The first episode: Female detective and a local ditzy blond cop are on the trail of a notorious criminal who's hiding out in a prison. The rest of the series is from the criminal's point of view.
* The first episode of ''[[
* ''[[Futakoi Alternative]]'' opens with a fast-paced, manic and comedic first episode. The rest of the series is comprised of more gentle [[Slice of Life]] episodes.
* ''[[Genesis Climber Mospeada]]'' has a space battle opening that introduces an entire series cast aboard a [[Transforming Mecha]] carrying warship on its way to a battle. The ship is destroyed, and the lone survivor must pick his way through [[Scavenger World]], meeting the rest of the real cast one by
* ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi|The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' starts with "The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina", a painfully low-budget student film that combines [[Stylistic Suck]] with as many clichéd anime genres it can think of ([[Magical Girl]] shows, [[High School]] comedy, [[Shojo]] romance, etc.). However, it's actually [[Foreshadowing]] several key plot points in the ''real'' story (which starts with the next episode), with the brief lapses in the [[Masquerade]] serving as plot hooks.
** The chronologically first episode (which you'll likely see if you're watching them online) is even worse. It's painted out to be a typical high school anime. Stick with it. It gets much better.
*** The series is [[Genre Busting
* The first two episodes of ''[[Earth Maiden Arjuna]]'' make it look like a [[Magical Girl]] series, even though it's really more like a serious version of ''[[Captain Planet and
* ''[[Soukou no Strain]]'' opened like a sweet, idealistic school show with [[Humongous Mecha]], then took an abrupt left turn when [[Everybody's Dead, Dave|half the cast died]].
* The first episode of ''[[Now and Then, Here
* The first episode (actually, the first ''and'' second episodes, fused into one one-hour special) of ''[[
* The first few episodes of ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' make the show out to be a fairly breezy comedy with pretty nuns and a friendly devil. Then it gets darker and darker until {{spoiler|[[Downer Ending|3 of the 4 main characters die]], and the [[Big Bad]] survives the final battle because he has an [[As Long
* ''[[Murder Princess]]'' is an example where the first example is ''darker'' than the rest of the series.
* ''[[Heroic Age]]'s'' first episode is about a lone teenager stranded on a planet, raised by computers, and contacted by other humans. It quickly turns into a space battle anime.
* The first episode of ''[[The Tower of Druaga (
* ''[[Lucky Star]]'' admittedly does this with their first episode, misleading many viewers curious about its [[Surreal Theme Tune]] on whether or not this is actually a series about food.
* The first episode of ''[[Najica Blitz Tactics]]'' features plenty of [[Les Yay|lesbian behaviour]], implying there might be more in future, especially between the two protagonists. Unfortunately, [[Bait and Switch Lesbians|there wasn't]].
* ''[[From Eroica
** That's because it was originally going to be about the [[Power Trio]], until the author decided Eroica was much more interesting and changed the focus.
* ''[[
* ''[[Toward the Terra]]'''s opening few episodes would not lead one to expect an epic [[Space Opera]], even with the opening.
* Both ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' animes pull this one. Both start with flash-forward stories and do not explore Ed and Al's
** The original series kicks off with a two-part adventure where Ed and Al wander into a town and discredit a false prophet. The new series begins with a filler story which is basically pure action, involving an evil ice-using alchemist. The former show's premiere makes the show seem like a [[Walking the Earth]] affair with Ed and Al stopping bad guys at different [[Adventure Towns]] each week. The latter show's premiere makes it seem like a straight-on action [[Shounen]]. Neither is entirely true (though the story has some elements of all these tropes.)
** The manga did the same, with the first two episodes of the first anime being based on (and [[Adaptation Expansion|expanded from]]) the first two chapters of the manga. (''Brotherhood'' doesn't visit this story until its third episode, after the backstory has been delved into somewhat.)
* ''[[Ga
* The first chapter of ''[[Billy Bat]]'' makes it appear the series will be a film noir parody with a cast of animals. Halfway through chapter two, it's revealed that this is a [[Show Within a Show|comic within a comic]], and its creator is the real main character.
* The first episode of the ''[[Berserk]]'' anime is chronologically set ''after'' the events of the rest of the series, in which Guts has already become the one-eyed/one-armed wandering mercenary he is known to be. The rest of the series covers how he got to be that way.
* The DVD box art combined with the first episode of the anime ''[[Gungrave]]'' makes you think this will be a [[Grimdark]] show about an old lone gunman fighting evil, right? Guess what, the majority of the series from that point on is a giant flashback that shows how two small-time thieves rise up through a mafia-like organization to the point where it reaches the time of the first episode.
* The first few pages of ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20190717190935/http://www.tnemrot.com/ Tnemrot]'' make it look like it's about the main character surviving in an apocalyptic wasteland [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]. Then he's captured and we see it's Pokemon with real people.
* The first two-and-a-half episodes of ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' make the series look like a [[Magical Girl]] series with [[Slice of Life]]. That's [[Genre Deconstruction|half-correct]]. Though to be fair, the scene with the [[Eldritch Location|witch's barrier]] right at the end of episode 1 makes it clear this is not your usual happy fun time show...
* ''[[Rumbling Hearts]]'' begins as a sweet, almost saccharine story of young lovers coming together despite awkwardness and misgivings, promising to overcome their initial mistakes. And then in the last five minutes of episode two, [[It Got Worse|it gets worse]].
* The first episode of ''[[
* The very first episode of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' is chock full of magical girl cliches. The deconstructions start immediately in the second episode.
== Live-Action TV ==
* The first episode of ''[[Star Trek:
* Even better examples in the ''Star Trek'' spin-offs:
** The opening of the premiere episode of ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' begins with a flashback to one of the biggest battles in franchise lore (indeed, the most detailed canon depiction yet) and then promptly goes...to a broken-down space station the Federation recently inherited. It then looks like that the series is going to be about the Federation dealing with cooperation with the relatively primitive Bajorans, who were just liberated from occupation by another alien race. But then near the end of the episode, all of a sudden this wormhole starts to open up ''literally'' right next door....
*** To make the surprise even more complete, the episode originally aired with an opening sequence sans the [[It Was His Sled|now famous]] wormhole
** ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' begins with scrolling text about the state of the Maquis, a group of rebels fighting the Federation. The USS ''Voyager'' gets ready to track down a particular group of these bandits and retrieve a Federation officer working undercover. Then both the ''Voyager'' and the bandits get suddenly transported to the literal other end of the galaxy....
* ''[[The Invisible Man (TV series)|The Invisible Man]]'' series had a pilot with a very distinctive style of cinematography and a variety of settings and camera angles thrown in that give it a visual style that is very distinct (and probably very expensive) from the rest of its episodes. It was also ''a lot'' more comedy oriented than the rest of the series, including stuff like a scene with Darien and Hobbes getting into a gunfight with a couple of Canadian terrorists with the latter dual wielding assault rifles and screaming "SCREW THE EXPOS!".
* The pilot of ''[[Airwolf]]'' is much more cerebral and slower-paced than future episodes would be. Future villains would rarely be on par with Doctor Moffet, who could've easily carried a permanent [[Big Bad]] status if not for being killed off. This effect becomes even more pronounced after the first season, when the show moved away from its down-to-earth commentary on the Cold War.
* In the ''[[Upstairs, Downstairs]]'' pilot, a lot of things go just as they go in the show - but Alfred is a creepy, biblically-speaking maid-harrassing implied perv. In the actual show he didn't speak any too funnily, and turned out to be gay.
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== Western Animation ==
* The two part pilot for ''[[The Dreamstone]]'' is somewhat more actionized than the rest of the show, the heroes and the mystical background of the Dreamstone are given more serious [[Character Development]] and even a death occurs (a couple more [[Disney Death|are teased]] to emphasize the danger of the mission). Afterwards the show quickly downgrades to a [[Road Runner vs. Coyote]] cartoon, the focus more on the Urpney's slapstick or the [[Tastes Like Diabetes|cutesy goings on]] of the Noops. In addition Rufus, who was the main protagonist of the pilot, is demoted in favor of making the Urpneys [[Villain Protagonist
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