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* ''[[The Dark Crystal]]'' opens with the Skeksis.
* ''[[Hellraiser]]'' introduces Frank and the Cenobites before the good guys, unfortunate victims of their schemes.
* Extreme case: the first scene of ''[[Predator 2]]'' is seen through the predator's point of view.
* ''[[Spaceballs]]'' opens with the bad guys' ship and its infamous "We brake for nobody" plate.
* Some of the '[[James Bond (film)|James Bond]]'' opening sequences.
** ''[[Dr. No]]'', the first in the series, begins with the murder of secret service agent John Strangways.
** ''[[From Russia with Love]]'' appears to begin with Bond, {{spoiler|but it is actually a double, who is killed by Red Grant for a [[Nebulous Evil Organization|SPECTRE]] training mission.}}
** ''[[You Only Live Twice]]'', ''[[The Spy Who Loved Me]]'' and ''[[Moonraker]]'' begin with spacecraft (or submarine)-hijacking before cutting to Bond.
** ''[[Live and Let Die (film)|Live and Let Die]]'' opens with people getting murdered (though the cause only appears after the credits).
** ''[[The Man with the Golden Gun]]'' focuses on Scaramanga.
** ''[[For Your Eyes Only (film)|For Your Eyes Only]]'' also opens with a murder, following a sequence where a spy ship accidentally collides with a mine.
** ''[[Licence to Kill]]'' blurs the two tropes, mainly focusing on [[Big Bad]] Franz Sanchez who, unfortunately for him, unintentionally interuppts the wedding on Felix Leiter, which means Bond gets involved.
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* ''[[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).
== Literature ==
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** And ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire|Goblet of Fire]]'' opens with a chapter about Voldemort murdering people, albeit from the POV of one of the victims.
* ''[[The Coldfire Trilogy]]'' by C.S. Friedman begins with a scene with the villain (although it's from the viewpoint of his wife).
** Also somewhat subverted- {{spoiler|Tarrant}} is undeniably ''evil'', but he turns out not to be the main villain. {{spoiler|That's Calesta, who isn't introduced until the middle of the book}}.
* ''[[Intensity]]'' by Dean Koontz opens with a scene about the villain, from the villain's point of view.
* Ken Follett writes amazing books like ''[[The Key To Rebecca]]'' and ''[[The Eye Of The Needle]]'' where the villain starts out as the main character, with the readers' sympathies with him, and then the focus and sympathies begin to slowly shift to the hero.
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* The very first scene of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' featured not Buffy, but Darla. It looked like the guy with her was a creepy predator, but then she ate him. (Driving home the whole "helpless blondes in this show aren't actually helpless" thing).
* Any number of detective shows, e.g. ''[[Columbo]]''.
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'''s first episodes features [[Red Shirt]] soldiers getting attacked by Jaffas. Apophis' face is seen before Teal'c (and Teal'c is the first main character we get to see).
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'' opens with Number Six molesting the Armistice Officer and a Cylon Basestar destroying Armistice Station.
* Of course, the hundreds of episodes of shows with a [[Monster of the Week]] (e.g. ''[[The X-Files]]'', ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', ''[[Angel]]''), where the entire [[The Teaser]] involves said monster killing or attacking someone, and we don't see any main characters until after the opening credits.
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* ''[[Power Rangers]]'' began with Rita Repulsa and her goons being accidentally released by two astronauts investigating the planetoid her space dumpster was hidden on. She hammily declared her intent to attack the first planet she saw, which happened to be Earth.
* Both story arcs of ''[[Dark Season]]'' have one of these as the [[Cold Opening]] of the first episode.
* ''[[NCIS]]'' generally opens with the crime they'll be investigating, villain generally included but not identified.
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== Western Animation ==
* The first episode of ''[[Freakazoid]]'' begins with a news report on Cave Guy, a minor supervillain, wreaking havoc and confounding the police. The narrator then directs our attention to the [[Batman|one hero with a chance at stopping him]], adds that he's owned by another network, and settles for a nerdy teenager named Dexter. [[Incoming Ham|Or is he...?]]
* Aku from ''[[Samurai Jack]]''. He even narrates the opening credits every week.
* The four villains at the start of ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' episode "Meet the Beat-Alls" each plot to destroy the girls before deciding to [[Pun|band]] [[Villain Team-Up|together]].
* A couple of ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' episodes opened with [[Big Bad]] Vlad. The most devious one might be "Kindred Spirits" where the opening unfolded his plans to make a perfect clone.
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