History Main / ActionHoggingOpening

Note this is the opening, not the first act.

* The {{Naruto}} opening R*O*C*K*S* features a fictional strategic fight in the Chuunin exam Arc where everyone from Team 7 works together. Shown during an Arc where every fight is one on one and has farts as an high point.

** TransformersAnimated's English opening is not particularly action-packed, but when the show was dubbed in Japan, it received a new one that featured extremely fluid animation and plenty of fight scenes (Many of which did not occur in the show itself) . Indeed, the longer opening meant that the actual show had to have material edited out.

->''I mean they usually [[AnimationBump have ten times better animation than the actual show]]...''\\

-->''I mean they usually [[AnimationBump have ten times better animation than the actual show]]...''\\
--'''[[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses That Dude in the Suede]], [[http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatdudeinthesuede/animenia/778-top-11-anime-openings Top 11 Anime Openings]].'''

* M.A.S.K.
* To be honest almost every 80's action cartoon.

** The GI Joe movie has a theme song opening sequence that includes more actual frames of animation than an entire weekly TV episode. It is completely awesome, but must have taken up a disproportionately huge chunk of the budget.

* The [[Naruto]] opening R*O*C*K*S* features a fictional strategic fight in the Chuunin exam Arc where everyone from Team 7 works together. Shown during an Arc where every fight is one on one and has farts as an high point.

** The anime opening for ''TransformersAnimated'' definitely counts.
*** Not really. It's just clips from the show and stock footage with some effects.

** The anime opening for ''TransformersAnimated'' defiantly counts.

It's not always easy to see what makes this kind of opening, but there are a few ways to tell if it's ''not''' this trope:

It's not always easy to see what makes this kind of opening, but there are a few ways to tell if it's not:

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[[caption-width-right:270:[-Awesome image, even if it never shows up in the actual show.-] ]]

->''I mean they usually [[AnimationBump have ten times better animation than the actual show]]...''
->--'''[[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses That Dude in the Suede]], [[http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatdudeinthesuede/animenia/778-top-11-anime-openings Top 11 Anime Openings]].'''

Compare BaitAndSwitchCredits, FakeOutOpening, EpicSlideshow, DetailHoggingCover, AnimationBump. MerchandiseDriven works will often make this a ProductPromotionParade.

* The opening of ''RecordOfLodossWar: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight'' features absolutely gorgeous animation and an award-worthy song. The show itself was... disappointing to say the least.

* ''Shangri-La''. Let the rocking theme play. Let the dramatic and action-packed character shots roll. Let the acrobatic, MagicSkirt-wearing [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair pink-haired]] [[YoungerThanTheyLook legal loli]] Kuniko Hojo kick ass and [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome cut tank cannons with a boomerang, making them explode]]. Then let the facepalms and tears flow when you find out the OP is actually ''better'' than the anime itself.

* While the second ''DeathNote'' opening doesn't feature loads of action per se, it features one hell of a lot more than is ever actually in the show, with most of the investigators pulling out firearms and shooting at Ryuk, who blocks the bullets, and L (who barely moves in the actual anime) doing his Capioera moves.

* While the second Death Note opening doesn't feature loads of action per se, it features one hell of a lot more than is ever actually in the show, with most of the investigators pulling out firearms and shooting at Ryuk, who blocks the bullets, and L (who barely moves in the actual anime) doing weird spinny kick things

* ''FullMetalAlchemist'''s fourth opening has a massive battle between the Elric brothers and Lust and Gluttony, taking place in the waterfall area leading to the underground city below Central. Yet Ed doesn't even go there until his brother is captured and one of the humonculi they're fighting in the opening is dead.

** But that's nothing compared to the later remake, DragonBall Kai. It's opening is made in a streamlined, all-new style. Its footage is cleaned up versions of the same low budget beam-o-wars from the previous example.

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* Several of the opening of ''{{Inuyasha}}''

* The English dub of ''DragonballZ'' has a pretty exciting opening, but most of the episodes that have fights seem to show them as the same four frames looping for a couple of minutes, or a BeamOWar and [[SmokeShield obscuring dust clouds]].