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* ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'' starts with the arrival of the first elves, trolls and preservers on the World of Two Moons and their fateful meeting with humans, and then jumps forward about ten thousand years between two panels!
* ''ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist'' starts in the 13th century with one of the early Iron Fists defending his home; from this point on the story takes place in the modern day.
* ''ComicBook/TheMagnificentMsMarvel'': The first issue begins hundreds of years in the future, with a Saffan father telling his child about the legend of the Destined One -- that is, the events of the story.
* ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'':
** The first issue of ''ComicBook/TheUltimates2002'' narrates the ultimate fate of Captain America during World War II. The next one continues in modern day, half a century afterwards.
** The first issue of ''ComicBook/UltimateVision'' details the Vision's creation and journeys across the space, thousands of millions of years ago (previously included as bonus scenes in ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'' and ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour''). The second issue starts the actual story, set in the modern day, right after the ''ComicBook/UltimateGalactusTrilogy''.
%%* ''ComicBook/YTheLastMan'' does this in some issues.

** ''[[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Adventures of Superman]]'' Annual #8 begins with a {{Hologram}} of Jor-El appearing to Superman in the 20th Century and downloading a great deal of information about Krypton into his brain. The remainder of the story takes place on Colu 500,000 years later, where the same thing happens to the Curatti Willigig.
** In ''ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'' Annual #3, the first scene depicts the metahuman Sanson posing as the god Quetzalcoatl and promising the people of Aztlan that a superman would be delivered to them. Sanson then pretended that his previously secret powers were a gift from Quetzalcoatl. The rest of the story takes place 500 years later when Aztlan is ruled by a [[BewareTheSuperman tyrannical Superman who abuses his great power for his own benefit]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Pathfinder|DynamiteComics}}: Hollow Mountain #1'' takes us back all the way back to the last days of Thassilon, where Alaznist, Runelord of Wrath and mistress of the mountain, entombs herself in her Runewell just as the first meteors of [[https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Earthfall Earthfall]] begin to strike. We then fast-forward nearly ten thousand years to the comics' present day in the mid-4700s.

-->'''Narrator:''' This is the Earth at a time when the dinosaurs ruled a lush and fertile planet. A piece of rock just six miles wide changed all that.
-->65 MILLION YEARS LATER

** ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'' opens with Indy going on an undercover mission during the waning years of World War II before jumping to TheSixties.

* At first, it looks like ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' opens with a pair of boy scouts stumbling upon one of Indiana's archaeological digs. Then the man in the fedora looks up and we see that he's not Indiana Jones. It's then revealed that the scene takes place in 1912 (twenty-six years before the rest of the movie) and one of the boy scouts is a young Indy.