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Animated works trying to break out of the [[Animation Age Ghetto]] are a popular source for these. An [[R-Rated Opening]] can set the mood early by openly [[Subverted Trope|subverting]] standard conventions about the "heavy" material being well into the work and set the tone for the mature territory right where it should be. It can be combined with [[Mood Whiplash]] by starting out with a clichéd light-hearted scene the audience has seen a million times from the genre and completely dismembering it figuratively and literally.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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** Or the actual nudity in the scene of the Major's body being built.
* ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni (Visual Novel)|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]].
* Shinji [[A Date With Rosie Palms|helping himself]] over Asuka's [[Dude, She's Like, in A Coma|comatose body]] at the start of ''[[End of Evangelion]]''.
* ''[[Black Lagoon (Anime)|Black Lagoon]]'' shows off guns, [[Stripperific]] outfits, and swearing before you even get through the opening song.
* 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.
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* The first scene of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Anime)|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 (Anime)|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
* ''[[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
* ''[[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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* 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
* ''[[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 [[R Emake]] has one character {{spoiler|slash his own neck open with a dinner knife}} before the friggin' title screen shows.
* In [[Freddy vs. Jason (Film)|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
* ''[[Four Weddings and A Funeral]]'' starts with the main character [[Cluster F
* ''[[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
* Several of the ''[[Alien (Film)|Alien]]'' films:
** ''[[Alien (Film)|Alien]] 3'' opens with a "facehugger" xenomorph being birthed from an egg, seeking out the main characters and infecting one (or more) of them with a chestburster, while supporting character Hicks' bandages start to bleed. The characters are jettisoned in a lifeboat that crashes on the surface of a planet, and the next thing we see is the {{spoiler|sole survivor, Ellen Ripley}} being brought in while the other three supporting characters are shown in the lifeboat. One's been smashed beyond repair, one has been graphically impaled by a support beam, and {{spoiler|a young girl}} is shown in a death scream after drowning. This all happens in the first five minutes of the film.
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* 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 [[
* ''[[Killer 7]]'', within about five minutes of the start, has Dan Smith encounter a hooded man in a blood-splattered hotel. The man turns into a skinless monster, which he shoots in the face, followed by a muttered, "Shit." A couple minutes after that, a woman is blown up from the waist down by another of these monsters.
** ''[[No More Heroes]]'', by the same guy, has Travis Touchdown decapitate a man in its intro.
*** And in [[No More Heroes 2]], Travis delivers a [[Precision F
* [[The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim (Video Game)|Skyrim]] opens with the beheading of a Stormcloak. And you are next in line. Also, the cutscene can't be skipped, so you have to watch it every time you create a new character.
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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 Res 0 rt]]'' [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 [[R
* 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 (Webcomic)|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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