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** ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]''. Okay, so it actually opens with the Merchant, but straight after it goes to Jafar. This is also true with ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]''.
** ''[[Mulan]]'' opens with Shan-Yu and his army attacking the Great Wall of China. Mulan herself doesn't appear till scene three.
** For Disney, this trope goes back to the very beginning. The first proper scene of ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]'' is of the Queen consulting the Magic Mirror.
** ''[[Dinosaur]]'' actually begins with the film's [[Big Bad]], [[Carnivore Confusion|the Carnotaurus]] attacking the nest made by Aladar's mother, smashing all but one of the eggs (which was taken away by an Oviraptor, and later on a Pterodactyl, to Lemur Island) and presumably killing his mother.
** ''[[Tangled]]'' begins with the villainess finding the magic flower used by Rapunzel's mother to heal her illness (and later transferring its magic to her daughter's hair), only to have it snatched away by the King to heal his aforementioned wife.
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* ''[[Clash of the Titans]]'' opens with ''a'' villain, King Acresius of Argos, crossing the [[Moral Event Horizon]] by sentencing his daughter and baby grandson Perseus to death by exposure in a sealed boat cast upon the waves. Of course, Acrisius dies only a few minutes later, so he's not the main villain of the film, but he is responsible for Perseus being raised as a commoner on an island rather than as a prince.
* ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture|Star Trek the Motion Picture]]'' opened with V'Ger and ''[[Star Trek V: The Final Frontier]]'' opened with Sybok. (The status of both as true "villains" is somewhat debatable, though.)
** Somewhat less ambiguously, ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]'' opens with Shinzon (or, in any case, one of his co-conspirators) wiping-out the Romulan Senate.
* ''[[Inglourious Basterds]]'' starts up with a meeting between Col. Hans Landa and a dairy farmer. [[Moral Event Horizon]], ahoy!
* ''[[Stargate (film)|Stargate]]'' (the film) opens with Ra abducting his future host and slaves. (We don't see Ra himself, but we do see the host and Ra's ship).
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* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' does this for the "[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=060814 Phoenix Rising]" arc. Also, the "[http://72.36.141.236/daily.php?date=081201 bROKEN]" arc begins with a section titled "Year in the Life of a Villain."
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