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An early scene consisting of mature content used for works of fiction to let the audience know right off the bat that no, [[What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?|this ain't for kids]]. The
Animated works trying to break out of the [[Animation Age Ghetto]] are a popular source for these. An
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* The first scene of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' is focused on [[Child Soldier|Setsuna's]] [[Dark and Troubled Past]]; it focuses on the future protagonist running through a ruined city filled with bodies, trying in vain to fight a squadron of mobile suits. 0 Gundam does not show its face until the very end of the scene, right before it cuts into the opening.
* ''[[Urotsukidouji]]'' aka ''Legend of the Overfiend'' begins with a boy masturbating in a ball pit while watching girls in the locker room change; not long afterwards, a demon disguised as a woman rips off a girl's clothes and rapes her. The film itself got rated NC-17, so calling the film R-rated might not do it justice.
* ''[[Blood+|Blood Plus]]'' begins with Saya's bloody rampage through a Vietnamese
* ''[[X 1999]]'' [[The Movie]] starts with Kamui having a vision of his mother, with full frontal nudity, pulling the [[BFS]] [[Gorn|out of her stomach with graphic detail]] [[High-Pressure Blood|and lots of blood.]]
* ''[[Arashi no Yoru ni]]'' begins with Mei's mother biting off a wolf's ear to protect her son, only to have the other wolves rip her apart and kill her, telling Mei to leave her as she is dying.
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** ''[[Alien Resurrection]]'' opens with a chestburster being surgically removed from Ellen Ripley's body.
* The 1989 American Civil War movie ''[[Glory]]'' begins this way. After a quick letter read by the protagonist, the movie pitches into the battle of Antietam, the bloodiest single day in American history. After just a few minutes, in a very short but gory moment, a shrapnel artillery shell explodes in front of a luckless Union commander, causing his head to disintegrate in bloody fragments that splatter on those following behind him. Although plenty of blood and violence remain in the film, none of it reaches the same level as that first scene.
* The novel ''[[Lord of the Rings|The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' opens with a happy birthday party in the happy land of happy Hobbits with a happy fireworks show. The [[Movie of the Book]], opening (as it did) right in the heat of [[Harry Potter]] fever (and very shortly after the release of the first, much more kid-friendly Potter movie), gives fair warning by opening with a flashback to the fall of
* ''[[Pan's Labyrinth]]'' seems like a fairly kid-friendly movie, yeah? The story of a Spanish girl, dreaming of a fantasy world that may or may not be real. Pretty cool, right? Well... At the ten-minute mark, we see two people getting killed very explicitly ([[Grievous Bottley Harm]] and gunshot, respectively).
** And the opening mixes this one with [[Foregone Conclusion]].
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Dragon Age]]'' opens with a quick mythological explanation of the main conflict, followed by a bloody [[Last Stand]] by a dwarven army and Duncan killing Darkspawn in a bloody fashion; the Origin stories only get worse from there (fratricide, organized crime, [[Rape as Drama]], being forced to leave your parents behind to be slaughtered by a treacherous friend, having your best friend vanish only to turn up in the middle of the game as a ghoul who begs you to kill him, falling afoul of an oppressive order of [[Knight Templar
** Likewise, the opening. Plenty of blood, cut throats, and trampled bodies.
** The sequel starts out (immediately after the opening cutscene) showing off the very gory combat engine, including close-up dismemberments; this scene is interrupted in the [[Framing Device]] with Cassandra's exclamation of "Bullshit!"
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Not exactly the first scene (although Jigsaw DOES [http://www.lastres0rt.com/2007/04/that-sound-you-hear-is-a-shattered-stereotype/ threaten someone with 'a violin case']), but ''[[Last Res0rt]]'' [http://www.lastres0rt.com/2007/05/well-it-was-either-reveal-it-now-or-wait-three-years/ throws around the stuff about Vampires pretty quick], and makes sure to [http://www.lastres0rt.com/2007/05/this-is-not-for-shock-value-its-a-harbinger/ toss in some blood after that].
** [[Word of God]] says this was done on purpose (along with the gratuitous swearing) just so she wouldn't have to deal with people complaining when she got up to [http://www.lastres0rt.com/2009/07/what-a-mess/ scenes like this one]. When you know scenes like that could take years to get to (and people have invested more than just a few bucks in their entertainment by then), an
* While not right at the start the first chapter of ''[[Shadownova]]'' definetly counts. A school is blown up, killing heaps of people, most of which would be children. Not long after we see the wounded students and teachers who aren't quite dead. Then Cameron Hunter arrives.
* ''[[Remus]]'' kicks off with a [[Right-Wing Militia Fanatic]] [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|flying a passenger jet into the White House]], the U.S.'s rapid descent into a full-blown second civil war and crackdown on civil liberties, and then gives us a rather bloody glimpse of that war via the series' resident [[Knife Nut]]. [[Up to Eleven|And that's the]] ''[[Up to Eleven|first three pages]]''...
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* The hosts of ''[[Awesomed By Comics Podcast]]'' related a completely accidental, but totally hilarious, example when they attended a matinee showing of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh Tenth Anniversary Movie]]''. In a grievous error, the movie theater accidentally ran the film that apparently had been shown the previous night on that particular multiplex
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* The [[Transformers: The Movie|original animated Transformers movie]] opens with an entire planet full of robotic life forms getting devoured by Unicron, then follows it up with most of the classic characters getting slaughtered, often quite brutally.
* ''[[The Triplets of Belleville]]'' got a PG-13 rating entirely because of the opening scene, which features a topless dancer.
** This doesn't seem to have been intentional,
* The ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers|Galaxy Rangers]]'' pilot episode, "Phoenix," has about three minutes to set up the general situation - the Foxx family heading to Kirwin, the human-Kiwi collaboration on new agricultural tech...and then the Crown Destroyer shows up and people start getting gunned down right and left.
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