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{{trope}}
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An early scene consisting of mature content used for works of fiction to let the audience know right off the bat that no, [[What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?|this ain't for kids]]. The
Animated works trying to break out of the [[Animation Age Ghetto]] are a popular source for these. An
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Tokyo getting destroyed nuclear-style in the opening shot, and then the dogs and the spy getting killed in ''[[Akira]]''. The spy's death was especially bloody, just to drive home the point that, no, even though it's animated, this is not for kids.
* This trope was cruelly averted by ''[[Barefoot Gen]]'', which starts out pretty normal until the bomb hits. However, that could be also an attempt to get the audience to feel the same way the characters do, as the bomb was unexpected by them as well.
* The opening of ''[[Karin]]'' has a large amount of nudity that has nothing to do with what actually happens in the anime.
* The three thugs getting killed by Guts in the bar scene from ''[[Berserk]]'', including one getting ''slashed in half'' with his [[BFS]].
** The manga manages to take its opening [[Up to Eleven]] and has Guts, in a totally superfluous non-sequitur, sexing up and killing a female demon just to establish himself as a stone-cold [[Badass]], which the aforementioned bar scene does aptly, without flying in the face of his later characterization.
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** Not to mention the nudity throughout the opening theme sequence in each episode.
* [[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)|The 2003 anime adaptation]] of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' starts off by showing the transmutation that caused the loss of Edward's leg and Alphonse's body. With copious amounts of blood from Edward's stump.
* The [[Your Head Asplode]] scene from the opening of ''[[Ghost in
** To say nothing about the quasi-nudity of the optical camouflage suit.
** Or the actual nudity in the scene of the Major's body being built.
* ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' starts with Keichi beating Rena and Mion into a pulp with a baseball bat. The opening credits also feature a nontrivial amount of blood, creepy music and visuals, and mild nudity.
** This is based on the opening of the original [[Visual Novel]], where he gives a monologue with the sound of loud, sickening thwacks in the background before abruptly cutting to [[Good Morning, Crono|him getting ready for school]].
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** ''[[Bible Black]]'' opens with a [[Human Sacrifice]]. All participants (including the offering) are female. All are naked.
** ''[[Boku no Pico]]'' has this in the opening SONG. [[Desu Des Brigade|Vixen]] was disgusted
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* The opening of ''[[Princess Mononoke]]'' has an ominous bit of background text superimposed on a dark screen, but for good measure the first scene contains a highly disturbing demonic form assaulting a village, almost eating a child, and eventually getting shot by an arrow [[Eye Scream|in the eye]], before melting away into a gigantic skeleton. Needless to say, anyone who brought their young daughter to see the cute anime princess should leave at this point.
* ''[[Sword of the Stranger]]'' opens with a hail of arrows ambush by bandits. This succeeds in killing approximately one person and some pack animals, and maybe winging one or two others. And then the Unstoppable [[Blood Knight]] Badass of the [[Badass Crew]] that comprises the villains of the movie scales a cliff and slaughters 15-20 bandits, throwing their bodies down as he goes. The bandit leader gets taken down by a blade toss. Lastly, he finishes off one unarmed (and missing one arm) bandit who is writhing in pain on the ground as if he were stepping on a bug.
* The first scene of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' is focused on [[Child Soldier|Setsuna's]] [[Dark and Troubled Past]]; it focuses on the future protagonist running through a ruined city filled with bodies, trying in vain to fight a squadron of mobile suits. 0 Gundam does not show its face until the very end of the scene, right before it cuts into the opening.
* ''[[Urotsukidouji]]'' aka ''Legend of the Overfiend'' begins with a boy masturbating in a ball pit while watching girls in the locker room change; not long afterwards, a demon disguised as a woman rips off a girl's clothes and rapes her. The film itself got rated NC-17, so calling the film R-rated might not do it justice.
* ''[[Blood+|Blood Plus]]'' begins with Saya's bloody rampage through a Vietnamese
* ''[[X 1999]]'' [[The Movie]] starts with Kamui having a vision of his mother, with full frontal nudity, pulling the [[BFS]] [[Gorn|out of her stomach with graphic detail]] [[High-Pressure Blood|and lots of blood.]]
* ''[[Arashi no Yoru ni]]'' begins with Mei's mother biting off a wolf's ear to protect her son, only to have the other wolves rip her apart and kill her, telling Mei to leave her as she is dying.
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* ''[[Gear]]'' is a fairly-violent and upsetting [[Humongous Mecha]] war-story, but has very cartoony artwork (
* The first issue of the ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' comic begins with the turtles fighting and killing a street gang, some of which uses a [[Gory Discretion Shot]].
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Small Soldiers]]'', about some [[My Little Panzer|toy army guys]] who come to life, was rated PG-13 and had some swearing in the first scene.
* ''[[Children of Men]]'' opens with newscasts about the murder of eighteen-year-old 'Baby' Diego, the youngest person alive in a world cursed with total infertility, and brings us into a coffee shop where our hero Theo is getting his wake-up cuppa. Just what a world without children – or hope – is like is made clear less than a minute after he leaves, when the coffee shop explodes: the work of terrorists or the government framing them, no-one knows which.
* Indie Chinese film ''The Drummer'' begins with a pretty long sex scene. The ONLY sex scene in the entire movie which would probably have a lower rating if not for that intoductory scene.
* ''[[Watchmen (film)|Watchmen]]''. The very first scene has a unknown assailant break in to the apartment of a an old man, who is then beaten viciously and thrown out a window where he splatters on the pavement below.
** Then, in the ''opening credits'' we see, amongst other horrors, the Hiroshima bomb dropping, a criminal being punched in the face, sending blood spraying out towards the audience, two lesbians murdered in bed with LESBIAN WHORES written on the walls in blood, a man burning himself alive, and [[Richard Nixon]] [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|elected for]] [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?|a third term]].
* ''[[Cannibal! The Musical]]'': The name should probably have got you, but in case you're mistaking musicals as always family-friendly, there's the gory murder of an entire crew to start the movie. Then we [[Mood Whiplash|go to the]] ''[[Oklahoma!]]''-like next scene...
* ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street]]'''s [[
* In [[Freddy vs. Jason]], we just see the title credits superimposed over a bucket full of blood that gets thrown on the floor.
* ''[[Kick-Ass (film)|Kick-Ass]]'' started with a mentally deranged man jumping off a roof in a superhero costume and promptly falling to his death. The very next scene has the main character masturbating to his English teacher. [[Viewers are Morons|This was likely put there for the benefit of all the people who saw the trailers of kids in superhero costumes and completely ignored the R-rating.]]
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** ''[[Alien Resurrection]]'' opens with a chestburster being surgically removed from Ellen Ripley's body.
* The 1989 American Civil War movie ''[[Glory]]'' begins this way. After a quick letter read by the protagonist, the movie pitches into the battle of Antietam, the bloodiest single day in American history. After just a few minutes, in a very short but gory moment, a shrapnel artillery shell explodes in front of a luckless Union commander, causing his head to disintegrate in bloody fragments that splatter on those following behind him. Although plenty of blood and violence remain in the film, none of it reaches the same level as that first scene.
* The novel ''[[The Lord of the Rings|The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' opens with a happy birthday party in the happy land of happy Hobbits with a happy fireworks show. The [[Movie of the Book]], opening (as it did) right in the heat of [[Harry Potter]] fever (and very shortly after the release of the first, much more kid-friendly Potter movie), gives fair warning by opening with a flashback to the fall of
* ''[[Pan's Labyrinth]]'' seems like a fairly kid-friendly movie, yeah? The story of a Spanish girl, dreaming of a fantasy world that may or may not be real. Pretty cool, right? Well... At the ten-minute mark, we see two people getting killed very explicitly ([[Grievous Bottley Harm]] and gunshot, respectively).
** And the opening mixes this one with [[Foregone Conclusion]].
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== [[Live
* The first episode of HBO's ''[[Game of Thrones]]'' opens with a party of rangers encountering dismembered corpses, some of which are shortly after seen apparently alive, as the party is ambushed and brutally massacred, leaving only a single survivor as a witness (who is himself later executed for desertion). And that's one of the least disturbing things to happen on that show. (It should be noted that this scene is taken directly from the book.)
* Possibly one of the reasons David E. Kelley's 2011 ''[[Wonder Woman]]'' pilot didn't get picked up. The opening scene shows a young high school athlete receiving a college acceptance letter, then promptly collapsing to the floor, bleeding from his eyes and ears. Just what moms with fond memories of watching Lynda Carter's series would want to share with their daughters!
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Dragon Age]]'' opens with a quick mythological explanation of the main conflict, followed by a bloody [[Last Stand]] by a dwarven army and Duncan killing Darkspawn in a bloody fashion; the Origin stories only get worse from there (fratricide, organized crime, [[Rape as Drama]], being forced to leave your parents behind to be slaughtered by a treacherous friend, having your best friend vanish only to turn up in the middle of the game as a ghoul who begs you to kill him, falling afoul of an oppressive order of [[Knight Templar
** Likewise, the opening. Plenty of blood, cut throats, and trampled bodies.
** The sequel starts out (immediately after the opening cutscene) showing off the very gory combat engine, including close-up dismemberments; this scene is interrupted in the [[Framing Device]] with Cassandra's exclamation of "Bullshit!"
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* ''[[Police Quest]]: Open Season'' begins with a half-naked corpse in an alleyway, then a boy's corpse in a nearby dumpster.
* ''[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon]]'' has one despite being E-rated. The first image you see (after choosing your character) is a [[Everything's Even Worse with Sharks|Sharpedo-shaped rock]] shown in the most menancing way possible. This is followed by a equally scary storm scene and some [[Mood Whiplash]]. [[It Gets Worse|Then]] comes The [[Adult Fear|Drowzee]] ...
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** ''[[No More Heroes]]'', by the same guy, has Travis Touchdown decapitate a man in its intro.
*** And in [[No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle]], Travis delivers a [[Precision F-Strike]] in his ''very first line''.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Not exactly the first scene (although Jigsaw DOES [http://www.lastres0rt.com/2007/04/that-sound-you-hear-is-a-shattered-stereotype/ threaten someone with 'a violin case']), but ''[[Last Res0rt]]'' [http://www.lastres0rt.com/2007/05/well-it-was-either-reveal-it-now-or-wait-three-years/ throws around the stuff about Vampires pretty quick], and makes sure to [http://www.lastres0rt.com/2007/05/this-is-not-for-shock-value-its-a-harbinger/ toss in some blood after that].
** [[Word of God]] says this was done on purpose (along with the gratuitous swearing) just so she wouldn't have to deal with people complaining when she got up to [http://www.lastres0rt.com/2009/07/what-a-mess/ scenes like this one]. When you know scenes like that could take years to get to (and people have invested more than just a few bucks in their entertainment by then), an
* While not right at the start the first chapter of ''[[Shadownova]]'' definetly counts. A school is blown up, killing heaps of people, most of which would be children. Not long after we see the wounded students and teachers who aren't quite dead. Then Cameron Hunter arrives.
* ''[[Remus]]'' kicks off with a [[Right-Wing Militia Fanatic]] [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|flying a passenger jet into the White House]], the U.S.'s rapid descent into a full-blown second civil war and crackdown on civil liberties, and then gives us a rather bloody glimpse of that war via the series' resident [[Knife Nut]]. [[Up to Eleven|And that's the]] ''[[Up to Eleven|first three pages]]''...
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* The hosts of ''[[Awesomed By Comics Podcast]]'' related a completely accidental, but totally hilarious, example when they attended a matinee showing of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh Tenth Anniversary Movie]]''. In a grievous error, the movie theater accidentally ran the film that apparently had been shown the previous night on that particular multiplex
* The beginning of the first episode of ''[[Lobo (web series)|Lobo]]'' shows Lobo shooting his gun at an alien's head with tons of blood coming out.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* The [[Transformers: The Movie|original animated Transformers movie]] opens with an entire planet full of robotic life forms getting devoured by Unicron, then follows it up with most of the classic characters getting slaughtered, often quite brutally.
* ''[[The Triplets of Belleville]]'' got a PG-13 rating entirely because of the opening scene, which features a topless dancer.
** This doesn't seem to have been intentional,
* The ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers|Galaxy Rangers]]'' pilot episode, "Phoenix," has about three minutes to set up the general situation - the Foxx family heading to Kirwin, the human-Kiwi collaboration on new agricultural tech...and then the Crown Destroyer shows up and people start getting gunned down right and left.
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