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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 ''[[
* This trope was cruelly averted by ''[[
* 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 ''[[
** 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.
* Lucy's rampage through the lab in ''[[
** Not to mention the nudity throughout the opening theme sequence in each episode.
* [[Fullmetal Alchemist (
* 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
** 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]].
* Shinji [[A Date
* ''[[
* Quite a few [[Hentai]] shows will have an explicit sex act as the first thing the viewer sees. ''[[Jiburiru|Devil Angel Jiburiru]]'', for instance, has female characters being raped by monsters within the first two minutes of each season's first episode.
** ''[[Bible Black]]'' opens with a [[Human Sacrifice]]. All participants (including the offering) are female. All are naked.
** ''[[Boku
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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 ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Blood+
* ''[[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
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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 (
** 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!
* ''[[A Nightmare
* In [[
* ''[[Kick-Ass (
* ''[[Four Weddings and
* ''[[The Beast of Yucca Flats]]'' begins with a topless woman being killed. The scene was edited for the ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' version, however.
* The first scene in ''[[The Dark Knight]]'' features a realistic bank robbery where each of the robbers (wearing [[Malevolent Masked Men|creepy clown masks]]) get systematically killed off in the process. The scene ends with a school bus crashing into the bank, killing the penultimate [[Mook]], and [[The Joker]] placing a grenade into the bank manager's mouth. [[Sarcasm Mode|Totally]] [[What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?|kid-friendly]].
* Several of the ''[[Alien (
** ''[[Alien (
** ''[[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
* ''[[
** And the opening mixes this one with [[Foregone Conclusion]].
* As shown above, ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: [[At Worlds End]]'' starts with a scene with many, many, people being executed, and implies that many might have been somewhat innocent, and ends with a small child, who couldn't even reach the noose, being killed. Even if the first two weren't exactly family friendly and the rest of the film seems fairly tame in comparison with this scene.
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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
** 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!"
* ''[[Phantom Brave]]'' opens with Marona's parents getting killed by a rather creepy looking monster. After that, the opening sections of the game are comparatively lighthearted and look almost kiddy. The darkness doesn't come back into play until later on in the game. Unless you're silly enough to count little things like a greedy mercenary first trying to murder a small child to take her work and pay out from under her, then doing so by framing her for causing the problem she was hired to solve, or virtually the entire world hating said small child because she has powers they don't approve of dark.
* ''[[
* The last few moments of [[Controllable Helplessness]] in ''[[XIII]]'''s opening (the game is a [[Cel Shaded]] comic adaptation) consist of an innocent woman in a bathing suit being graphically machinegunned to death.
* The opening of the original ''[[Shadow Hearts]]'' has the main villain violently killing soldiers with his impish familiars. The main protagonist, Yuri, then proceeds to have a brutal fight with the [[Big Bad]] which includes Yuri punching the villain's face in. Ironically, the rest of the game is far from being this violent again.
* ''[[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
* ''[[
** ''[[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''.
* [[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
== [[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
** [[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.
* ''[[
== [[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]] ==
* ''[[Green Lantern: First Flight
** And ''[[Green Lantern: Emerald Knights
* ''[[
** By the way, that man was (an ''extremely'' thinly veiled) Dr. Seuss. Just in case him killing himself didn't do it for you.
* The opening scenes of ''[[Watership Down]]'' probably [[Sugar Apocalypse|served as]] an inspiration for ''[[Happy Tree Friends]].''
* ''[[Batman: Under the Red Hood]]'' opens with [[The Joker]] beating Jason Todd with in an inch of his life with a crowbar, mocking him as he lies in a pool of his own blood, and then leaving him to die in an explosion. This film was also rated PG-13.
* The ''[[Spawn]]'' animated series starts with a shockingly brutal (and [[Visual Effects of Awesome|beautifully animated]]) scene where several people are [[Gorn|messily]] killed, including one guy whose head gets twisted 180 degrees by the title character, another who burns to death in graphic detail, and another whose arm is snapped in half so that he blows his brains out with his own gun.
* ''[[Batman: Mask of the Phantasm]]'' opens with a crook being beat up by Batman, and then being killed by an unrelated figure.
** Wait... isn't the film itself rated PG!? At least ''[[Batman: Under the Red Hood|Under The Red Hood]]'' was rated PG-13!
* ''[[The Matrix
* ''[[
** Wait a moment, this is a parody of "Let's All Go to the Lobby," a drive-in movie trailer!
* The pilot episode of ''[[Transformers Prime]]'' has {{spoiler|Cliffjumper}} getting beaten up quite badly and then stabbed through the chest within the first 5 minutes. Brought [[Up to Eleven]] in the second episode with Megatron slicing his reanimated corpse in half, and Starscream destroying the remains with a bomb. The rest of the show, after the [[Five Episode Pilot]], followed a standard, menace-of-the-week approach, with only [[Mooks]] and [[One-Shot Character|one-shot Decepticons]] getting killed on a regular basis.
* The [[Transformers:
* ''[[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
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