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* Creator/RobertEHoward's Literature/ConanTheBarbarian:

* {{Trigun}} is another example; interestingly, it takes several episodes before the show actually focuses more on the point of view of the true protagonist. This is partly done to emphasize the disparity between his [[TheDreaded dreaded]] [[WalkingDisasterArea reputation]] and [[DorkKnight actual]] [[IncorruptiblePurePureness personality]], as it takes a while before the other characters are convinced that this goofy TechnicalPacifist is really the legendary gunslinger Vash the Stampede.

* {{Trigun}} is another example; interestingly, it takes several episodes before the show actually focuses more on the point of view of the true protagonist.

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* The prequel to ''{{Webcomic/Marla}}'' introduces Carmickle and Hink, two {{funny animal}} friends who bumble their way through a series of comic mis-adventures. They are unceremoniously killed off in the first pages of the prologue, at which point the real story begins.

** In "Literature/BlackColossus", a thief breaks into a tomb, fights a great snake, and screams with horror with what he sees. Again, the rest of the story is how this collides with ConanTheBarbarian.

* In Creator/RobertEHoward's "Literature/TheDevilInIron", a fisherman goes into a ruin, takes up a knife, and dies. The rest of the story is how this collides with ConanTheBarbarian.

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* The introduction of ''Literature/MyAntonia'' is told from the viewpoint of a character who meets an old friend, Jim Burden, and the two of them reminisce about their youth in Nebraska and their friendship with Ántonia. The rest of the book is a first-person narrative from Jim.

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The opening of a story is told from Tom's point of view, about how he saw Jack and what Jack did, and then the point of view shifts to Jack, the actual protagonist. -- exclusively, or predominantly.

This is a way to ease the audience into the story, because Jack is a very odd or outlandish character, and viewing him from the outside first makes the transition easier. It can cause problems if the opening doesn't arouse sufficient interest in Jack, and the audience may dislike the transition for that reason.

* {{Trigun}} is another example; interestingly, it takes several episodes before the show actually focuses more on the point of view of the true protagonist.\

* ''Literature/AHeroOfOurTime'' by Mikhail Lermontov does this ''twice''. Part one is told by the main character's old friend to TheWatson, part two--by TheWatson himself, and only the last three chapters are narrated by Pechorin (main character).

* The introduction of Willa Cather's ''My Antonia'' is told from the viewpoint of a character who meets an old friend, Jim Burden, and the two of them reminisce about their youth in Nebraska and their friendship with Antonia. The rest of the book is a first-person narrative from Jim.

* The opening to ''Literature/TheGhostBrigades'' opens from the POV of a scientist whose base comes under attack during the aftermath of the prequel book ''Old Man's War''. [[spoiler:The kicker comes during the final lines when we realise his abductors are human -- the scientist belongs to the species that served as BigBad in ''Old Man's War'']].

* In their first episodes, both the old ''Series/DoctorWho'' and the new focused on human characters -- Barbara and Ian, Rose -- who tracked down mysterious happenings and found the Doctor at the bottom of them.

* ''Videogame/BatmanArkhamKnight'' starts with the player controlling a random cop in Gotham City. After a short ScenicTourLevel, he's driven to madness by [[BigBad The Sacrecrow]], in an attack meant to draw out Batman. The cop, named Henry Owens, slowly recovers from the effects of the toxin over the course of the game.

* ''Law & Order'' and its spin-offs. Every once in a while, you wonder what happened to those people at the beginning.

* Happens in the [[Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy Mistborn trilogy]] Two-thirds of the prologue of the first book is in the POV of a random noblebman who gets killed offscreen between the second and last third of the prologue, and a peasant on said nobleman''s estate who shows up only once, very briefly, later in the book. The third book sort of uses it, the prologue is from the POV of a character that gets further point of view chapters later, but it's very short, and the beginning of the first chapter is from the point of view of the leader of a random settlement.

The SacrificialLamb is frequently the introductory character. The DecoyProtagonist is, sometimes, if his part is told in his point of view.

** ''Law & Order'' and its spin-offs. Every once in a while, you wonder what happened to those people at the beginning.

* The prologue of Creator/VernorVinge's ''Literature/AFireUponTheDeep'' is mostly told from the viewpoint of the nascent EldritchAbomination/SealedEvilInACan as it rapidly gains sentience, though a small portion of it is also told from the viewpoint of several other nascent [[ArtificialIntelligence AIs]] in the same network.

* The first three sequences of ''Videogame/AssassinsCreedIII'' follows Haytham Kenway, father of protagonist Connor Kenway. At the end of the third sequence, Haytham is revealed to be a Templar and is a major antagonist for most of the game.