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== Cross-Media ==

* The [[Stargate Verse]] loves doing this, in both movies and TV series.

* ''[[Flame of Recca]]'', with the prologue taking place 400 years earlier

* ''[[Pokémon (film)|Pokémon]]'' films have done this in the [[Pokémon 4Ever|fourth]], [[Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys|seventh]], and [[Pokémon: Lucario and The Mystery of Mew|eighth]] movies.

* ''[[One Piece]]'' starts with the execution of Gold Roger on the first page, time skips to Luffy's childhood for the rest of the first chapter, then time skips another 10 years to when Luffy becomes a pirate. (In the anime, Gold Roger's execution was exposition put in the start of the opening theme and Luffy's backstory became a [[Whole-Episode Flashback]] just after Zoro joined the crew.)

* The ''[[Akira]]'' film starts with a very short prologue set in 1988 (basically showing the destruction of Tokyo with what initially appears to be a new kind of bomb) and quickly cuts to the year 2019.

* ''Death Day'' has a prologue set about 500 years before the main story..

* Almost every book in ''[[The Belgariad]]'' and its sequel series, ''The Mallorean''. Most of the time these prologues are told in the style of a historical document or legend

** It's not anything plot-relevant either - it's just the only interesting thing that happened to him in all that time.

* ''[[Stranger in A Strange Land]]'' begins with the first ship to Mars taking off, along with some information on the crew before it crashes. It picks up again years later when the next ship to Mars is sent out and Michael is found.

* Lightweights all. The prologue to ''[[The Silmarillion]]'' takes place ''before the Creation''.

 

* A few episodes of ''[[The X-Files]]'' have prologues that take place years after the actual episode is set, such as Duane Barry and Young At Heart. The opening scene of [[The Movie]] actually opens in prehistoric times and then flashes ahead to 1998.

* Gerry Anderson's ''UFO'' begins one year in the future (ie 1970) with Colonel Straker witnessing a UFO attack. The rest of the series takes place 11 years in the future (1980) when Straker is head of the anti-UFO organization SHADO.

 

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