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* The ''[[Star Trek]]'' films tend to do this. It was especially notable in the first one, where the prologue turns out to be the most action-oriented part of the whole movie.
* ''[[Hancock]]'' opens up with a gun battle on the L.A. Freeway, with the eponymous hero arriving to "save" the day.
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]: The Fellowship of the Ring'' starts with the Battle of the Last Alliance not only because it was establishing the backstory, but because [[Peter Jackson]] felt that the movie needed an epic battle scene with armies at both sides, not just the Fellowship vs. dozens of Orcs.
* ''[[Predator]] 2'' starts off with a 'Predator-eye' view of a pitched gun battle between the LAPD and a street gang. This battle is interrupted when the Predator kills and 'cleans' the surviving gangsters.
* The [[Film of the Book]] of ''[[Narnia|The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe]]'' starts in WWII London, where German fighter pilots are conducting an air raid.
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* ''[[Vindictus]]'' begins with a siege on a bell tower against a giant spider. The Oracle, Tieve, wants to talk to the spider and find out why it's so frightened, so a group of soldiers, including you, are assigned to escort her to the top. Everyone is promptly ambushed by Gnolls after the leader of the soldiers finds a Fomorian Emblem, and everyone except you and Tieve are wounded or killed. The game then gives you control of your character and walks you through the combat system as you kill your way through the Gnolls and escort Tieve to the top of the tower, where you have to fight the spider as ballista spears rain down on the roof.
* ''[[Shadow Complex]]'' begins with a man in a city with [[A Taste of Power|about half of the full set of equipment]] for a shootout with some troops and a helicopter. He is then killed, and the action switches to the actual player character, where the real ''[[Metroidvania]]'' part begins.
* Done extremely well on the [[The Lord of the Rings]] video games, as the prologues are there not just to state how the fight elements are there, but also to tell most of the backstory and certain background elements.
* The prologue of ''[[The Reconstruction]]'' thrusts you into a dangerous, action-packed mission of boarding and fighting your way through an enemy ship. This is done with only a cursory introduction to the characters, and it's not really clear what's going on until the end of the prologue.
* The DS and PS1 versions of ''[[Dragon Quest IV]]'' add a prologue chapter in which you play as the hero for a short while as you look around for Eliza.
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