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** The series also features a spoiler ending which depicts the final scene of the series.
* ''[[Battle Programmer Shirase]]'' is an odd case; it was canceled before some of the characters shown in the intro are even ''introduced''.
* Hikaru and Athena are shown fighting in the OP of ''[[
* The opening to ''[[Gate Keepers]]'' reveals the series' [[The Man Behind the Man|surprise]] [[Big Bad]] ''before the very first episode''.
* The first series of ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]'' manages to bizarrely combine this with a [[Bait and Switch Credits]] sequence, as the opening briefly but prominently features a scene from the climactic mecha battle with Zagato. There's little indication of mecha content in the series prior to them finally showing up besides this... but that's because they're just [[MacGuffin
* Done many, many times in Italian dub openings. The worst offender is, by far, ''[[Sailor Moon]]'': the lyrics for the first season's opening stated outright that Sailor Moon is the reincarnation of Princess Serenity; the third season's opening showed that two of the [[MacGuffin|Talismans]] were in the hearts of Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune; and don't even get us started on the fourth season's opening...
** The English dub opening, which never changed anyway, does completely kill the mystery of who the other four Sailors are by showing and naming them right in the theme song.
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*** {{spoiler|And Allen's broken arm, Bak, For's fight with the lvl3, Kanda's weapon upgrade, the giant-combined-akuma-thing, Chomesuke's human form, the ark, Crown Clown and Lenalee's short hair.}} [[Sarcasm Mode|Almost nothing!]]
** The fourth opening does this the most: {{spoiler|showing the Generals with their Innocence, Jasdevi combined, Tyki's other form, the Fourteenth Noah as well as the Score, Lvellie as well as Howard, Chaozii's Innocence...in short, everything besides a certain 'beer belly punk'...}}
* Averted in ''[[Blood
** However, the 4th opening falls squarely into this, revealing {{spoiler|Hagi's wings}} long before they're actually shown.
** It takes a really sharp eye to see in the first opening {{spoiler|any hint alluding to Diva's pregnancy in the second half of the series.}}
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** Less noticable, but a quick eye makes it quite obvious that {{spoiler|Xellos is a Mazoku}} inside the ''Slayers Next'' opening.
** ''Slayers Evolution-R'' is the biggest offender for being an original story and yet still having an opening that spoiled the climax. {{spoiler|Pokota's sealed body is shown opening his eyes with the symbol of Shabranigdu in them, and then it cuts immediately to Lina fighting Shabranigdu and then a scene of her casting the Giga Slave. Guess what happens!}} Many fans thought it was so obvious that it had to be a red herring.
* ''[[
* The ''[[Vision of Escaflowne]]'' opening spoils Escaflowne's Dragon form, whose first appearance is treated as a cliffhanger surprise at the end of Episode 4.
** It also has a shot of Escaflowne fighting Sherazade on a desolate battlefield, a fight that happens near the very end of the series.
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** The latest one also shows {{spoiler|Maria's witch outfit}}.
** The lyrics are also basically a summary of the most of the main plot, and give strong hints of what's coming.
* The opening of ''[[
* The second opening of the ''[[NEEDLESS]]'' anime very strongly hints that {{spoiler|Cruz's sister Aruka is alive and is the last member of Simeon's Elite Four whose identity even Disk didn't know.}}
* The first opening for ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (anime)|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' makes it very clear that a [[The Rival|blond girl Nanoha's age]] would be an important part of the story four episodes before we see her.
** The second opening of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS|
* The opening and closing of ''[[Kämpfer]]'' make it nigh-impossible to not figure out who's on what side. [[Friendly Enemy|It doesn't make much of a difference anyway.]]
* ''[[The Law of Ueki]]'' spoils characters and scenes aplenty in both of its opening sequences, using actual footage from the show (although one can't figure most out until it happens... OK, fine, the second OP is almost criminal).
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* The opening narration of ''Hop'' spoils the fact that the main human character becomes the first human easter bunny. This concept isn't introduced untill a little before the climax, after a movie of basically nothing happening.
* The newest release of [[Planet of the Apes]] features a picture of a ruined Statue of Liberty overlooking the main character. [[Earth All Along|Guess what the plot twist is...]]
== Literature ==
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*** It also spoils that {{spoiler|Ghetsis ''made'' N "King" of Team Plasma, and is in fact the [[The Man Behind the Man|true power behind the throne]].}}
* ''[[Hyperdimension Neptunia]]'' spoils us in the opening sequence when a jet comes by while Neptune is being shown. Most of us would said [[Cool Ship]] already if it weren't for the fact that {{spoiler|later on, ''Neptune'' herself transforms into that jet plane.}}
* The opening of ''[[
* The opening to the console version of the first ''[[BlazBlue]]'' game heavily implies that Hazama isn't just another NOL officer. The arcade version of ''Continuum Shift'''s opening all but flat-out states that he's a major villain. Later, the opening to ''Continuum Shift II'' hints at Litchi's [[Face Heel Turn]], and depicts {{spoiler|Noel turning into Mu-12.}}
* If you don't want to be spoiled on some of the mechs and battles in ''[[Vanguard Bandits]]'', you'd better not watch the Openings.
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* The only movie unlocked before you beat any of the team's stories in ''[[Sonic Heroes]]'' (which also sometimes plays as soon as you start up the game, before you even see the ''title screen'') has a couple shots of Neo Metal Sonic. You don't see him outside of the Last Story. Granted, [[Trailers Always Spoil|the fact that he was in the game was highly advertised, but...]]
* The third part of the ''[[City of Heroes]]'' [[Tonight Someone Dies|"Who Will Die"]] storyline opens with your character being assigned to either bodyguard or kidnap a character. [http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/File:Who_Will_Die_Part_3.jpg The loading screen for all missions in the arc] features Statesman, the character's father, grieving over a toe-tagged body. Sure enough, the character is killed in the course of the arc.
* The UK special edition/pre order box art for [[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker]] has to be the most ridiculous example of this ever, because it features the final boss battle on the front cover. Keep in mind that at the start of the game, you technically don't know Ganon is in, don't know Tetra is Zelda, don't know the Light Arrows exist and don't know about flooded Hyrule. Here's the artwork in question: [https://web.archive.org/web/20150109080546/http://www.zeldacollectorsmuseum.com/2009/05/wind-waker-limited-edition-uk.html The Wind Waker box]
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Full Frontal Nerdity]]'' offers [http://ffn.nodwick.com/?p=195 different points of view] on the opening sequence spoiling the episode.
== Western Animation ==
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* An episode of the animated ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]'' series has the team helped out by an arrow fired from the shadows. When they confront Green Arrow and accuse him of babysitting them and he proves it wasn't his arrow, they assume his sidekick, Speedy, is ready to join the team after storming out in the pilot. Yeah ... or maybe it's the female archer who appears in the opening credits of the show as a team member despite having not appeared in the actual show yet at that point.
** Similar to the aforementioned ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' series, right before the show's logo is viewed, each ''Young Justice'' episode's opening contains a quick display of clips which previews events that occur later in whichever episode is airing at the moment.
* In ''[[
* The opening credits for ''[[The Secret Saturdays]]'' features the Saturdays being charged by a quartet of villains. While one of them, Piecemeal, shows up relatively early in episode 4, the others are Eterno, a one-shot villain who doesn't show up for several more episodes, Rani Naga, who also doesn't appear until almost the end of the season, and Shoji Fuzen, who appears in episode 3, but is wearing blue samurai armor he won't don until many episodes later.
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