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* Very common in ''Series/TheXFiles'', particularly the [[MonsterOfTheWeek stand-alone episodes]]. The Teaser-Only Characters rarely survived the experience, and were often referred to as the [[FanNickname Victim (or Victims) of the Week]].
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* In ''Manga/{{Ooku}}'', the entire plot opens with a little boy wandering in the forest and getting mauled by a bear. Then his family was infected by the Red Pox disease, the aftermath of which resulted in the storyline's setting.
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* In the beginning of ''ComicBook/TheBraveAndTheBold: The Lords of Luck'', several dozen identical corpses are found by different parties all across the globe, which prompts Franchise/{{Batman}} and Franchise/GreenLantern to investigate.
* [[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 "Song of the Silver Banshee"]] opens with ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'s foe [[MakeMeWannaShout Silver Banshee]] murdering an innocent, unnamed woman.
* Several ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'' stories begin with a random -often inebriated- character wandering into a dead end and getting murdered.
* [[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 "Song of the Silver Banshee"]] opens with ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'s foe [[MakeMeWannaShout Silver Banshee]] murdering an innocent, unnamed woman.
* Several ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'' stories begin with a random -often inebriated- character wandering into a dead end and getting murdered.
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* In the beginning of ''ComicBook/TheBraveAndTheBold: The Lords of Luck'', ComicBook/TheLordsOfLuck'', several dozen identical corpses are found by different parties all across the globe, which prompts Franchise/{{Batman}} and Franchise/GreenLantern to investigate.
* [[ComicBook/Supergirl2005"Song of the Silver Banshee"]] 2010]] story arc ''ComicBook/DeathAndTheFamily'' opens with ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'s foe [[MakeMeWannaShout Silver Banshee]] murdering an innocent, unnamed woman.
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* Aramir from ''Roleplay/ElementalDoom''. On his second night he found a sickly red substance that he gave a taste test to, and later he exploded into a red sludge.
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* Aramir from ''Roleplay/ElementalDoom''. On his second night he found a sickly red substance that he gave a taste test to, and later he exploded into a red sludge.
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** ''Film/DiamondsAreForver'': James Bond pursues Ernst Stavro Blofeld and eventually finds him at a facility where Blofeld look-alikes are being created through surgery. Bond kills a test subject, and later the "real" Blofeld, by drowning him in a pool of superheated mud.
** ''LiveAndLetDie'': Three [=MI6=] agents are killed under mysterious circumstances within 24 hours in the United Nations headquarters in New York City, in New Orleans, and the small Caribbean nation of San Monique, while monitoring the operations of the island's dictator, Dr. Kananga.
** ''TheManWithTheGoldenGun'': An American gangster visits famed crack shot hitman Francisco Scaramanga to try to kill him to collect a bounty, but he is directed into a funhouse section of the estate where there are mannequins of gangsters. Scaramanga eventually retrieves his golden gun and shoots the gangster.
** ''ForYourEyesOnly'': An unnamed figure in a wheelchair (implied to be Blofeld) attempts to kill Bond. Bond turns the tables and [[SmokestackDrop drops his wheelchair down a factory smokestack]].
** ''LiveAndLetDie'': Three [=MI6=] agents are killed under mysterious circumstances within 24 hours in the United Nations headquarters in New York City, in New Orleans, and the small Caribbean nation of San Monique, while monitoring the operations of the island's dictator, Dr. Kananga.
** ''TheManWithTheGoldenGun'': An American gangster visits famed crack shot hitman Francisco Scaramanga to try to kill him to collect a bounty, but he is directed into a funhouse section of the estate where there are mannequins of gangsters. Scaramanga eventually retrieves his golden gun and shoots the gangster.
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**''LiveAndLetDie'': ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'': Three [=MI6=] agents are killed under mysterious circumstances within 24 hours in the United Nations headquarters in New York City, in New Orleans, and the small Caribbean nation of San Monique, while monitoring the operations of the island's dictator, Dr. Kananga.
**''TheManWithTheGoldenGun'': ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'': An American gangster visits famed crack shot hitman Francisco Scaramanga to try to kill him to collect a bounty, but he is directed into a funhouse section of the estate where there are mannequins of gangsters. Scaramanga eventually retrieves his golden gun and shoots the gangster.
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** ''Film/DrNo'': In the opening scene, John Strangways, the Station Chief of [=MI6=] in Jamaica, is murdered by a trio of assassins, along with his secretary.
** ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'': A fake James Bond is stalked and killed by Red Grant in TheTeaser.
** ''Film/DiamondsAreForver'': James Bond pursues Ernst Stavro Blofeld and eventually finds him at a facility where Blofeld look-alikes are being created through surgery. Bond kills a test subject, and later the "real" Blofeld, by drowning him in a pool of superheated mud.
** ''LiveAndLetDie'': Three [=MI6=] agents are killed under mysterious circumstances within 24 hours in the United Nations headquarters in New York City, in New Orleans, and the small Caribbean nation of San Monique, while monitoring the operations of the island's dictator, Dr. Kananga.
** ''TheManWithTheGoldenGun'': An American gangster visits famed crack shot hitman Francisco Scaramanga to try to kill him to collect a bounty, but he is directed into a funhouse section of the estate where there are mannequins of gangsters. Scaramanga eventually retrieves his golden gun and shoots the gangster.
** ''ForYourEyesOnly'': An unnamed figure in a wheelchair (implied to be Blofeld) attempts to kill Bond. Bond turns the tables and [[SmokestackDrop drops his wheelchair down a factory smokestack]].
** ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'': After fleeing from knife-throwing twin assassins Mischka and Grishka in East Berlin, mortally wounded British agent 009, dressed as a circus clown and carrying a counterfeit Fabergé egg, dies in the residence of the British West Berlin.
** ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'': Money laced with explosives explode ant [=MI6=] headquarters, killing M's friend Sir Robert King.
** ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'': Bond gains promotion to 00 agent status by assassinating two targets: traitorous section chief Dryden at the British Embassy in Prague and his contact, Fisher.
** ''Film/{{SPECTRE}}'': Bond kills Marco Sciarra, the terrorist leader, and takes his ring, which is emblazoned with a stylised octopus.
** ''Film/DrNo'': In the opening scene, John Strangways, the Station Chief of [=MI6=] in Jamaica, is murdered by a trio of assassins, along with his secretary.
** ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'': A fake James Bond is stalked and killed by Red Grant in TheTeaser.
** ''Film/DiamondsAreForver'': James Bond pursues Ernst Stavro Blofeld and eventually finds him at a facility where Blofeld look-alikes are being created through surgery. Bond kills a test subject, and later the "real" Blofeld, by drowning him in a pool of superheated mud.
** ''LiveAndLetDie'': Three [=MI6=] agents are killed under mysterious circumstances within 24 hours in the United Nations headquarters in New York City, in New Orleans, and the small Caribbean nation of San Monique, while monitoring the operations of the island's dictator, Dr. Kananga.
** ''TheManWithTheGoldenGun'': An American gangster visits famed crack shot hitman Francisco Scaramanga to try to kill him to collect a bounty, but he is directed into a funhouse section of the estate where there are mannequins of gangsters. Scaramanga eventually retrieves his golden gun and shoots the gangster.
** ''ForYourEyesOnly'': An unnamed figure in a wheelchair (implied to be Blofeld) attempts to kill Bond. Bond turns the tables and [[SmokestackDrop drops his wheelchair down a factory smokestack]].
** ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'': After fleeing from knife-throwing twin assassins Mischka and Grishka in East Berlin, mortally wounded British agent 009, dressed as a circus clown and carrying a counterfeit Fabergé egg, dies in the residence of the British West Berlin.
** ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'': Money laced with explosives explode ant [=MI6=] headquarters, killing M's friend Sir Robert King.
** ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'': Bond gains promotion to 00 agent status by assassinating two targets: traitorous section chief Dryden at the British Embassy in Prague and his contact, Fisher.
** ''Film/{{SPECTRE}}'': Bond kills Marco Sciarra, the terrorist leader, and takes his ring, which is emblazoned with a stylised octopus.
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* ''Film/TuckerAndDaleVsEvil'' has a cold open in which a TV news reporter and her cameraman are murdered by a disfigured slasher. This is never returned to again [[spoiler:but the events in the film reveal that it actually happened after them, and it indicates that the film's villain survived his apparent death and [[TheEndOrIsIt became a classic slasher]].]]
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*''Film/TuckerAndDaleVsEvil'' has a cold open in which a TV news reporter and her cameraman are murdered Maggie's boyfriend Jimmy is ripped apart by a disfigured slasher. This FrankensteinMonster during the teaser of ''Film/ArmyOfFrankensteins''.
* Douglas Winter (Richard Grieco) and his family in the pre-title sequence of ''Film/ArtOfTheDead'' who show what happened to the last person to assemble all [[AnomalousArt seven paintings]] in one place.
* The foreman and logging crew killed in the pre-title sequence of ''Film/DarkWasTheNight''.
* The blonde woman being chased through the ParkingGarage in TheTeaser of ''Film/FearInc'' [[spoiler:Given what is later revealed about Fear, Inc., it is not surprising she is neverreturned to again [[spoiler:but the events in the film reveal that it actually happened after them, and it indicates that the film's villain survived his apparent death and [[TheEndOrIsIt became a classic slasher]].heard from again.]]
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* Jill, the sexy coed Professor Kapps kills to serve as a HumanSacrifice in the opening scene of ''Film/TheHazing''.
* The two unfortunates who are chasedthrough and killed during the ParkingGarage opening credits of ''Film/HobokenHollow''.
* The sailor and his bride killed by Railroad Jack inTheTeaser the pre-title sequence of ''Film/FearInc'' [[spoiler:Given what is later revealed about Fear, Inc., it is not surprising she is never heard from again.]]''Film/JackTheReaper''.
* John's uncle who dies in the opening scene of ''Film/PigHunt''; killed by the [[FullBoarAction killer boar]].
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* John's uncle who dies in the opening scene of ''Film/PigHunt''; killed by the [[FullBoarAction killer boar]].
* Tiburon disposes some of some nameless mook in his Shark Pool in the teaser to ''Film/SharkWeek'' in a scene that serves no plot purpose whatsoever.
* ''Film/TuckerAndDaleVsEvil'' has a cold open in which a TV news reporter and her cameraman are murdered by a disfigured slasher. This is never returned to again [[spoiler:but the events in the film reveal that it actually happened after them, and it indicates that the film's villain survived his apparent death and [[TheEndOrIsIt became a classic slasher]].]]
* ''Film/TuckerAndDaleVsEvil'' has a cold open in which a TV news reporter and her cameraman are murdered by a disfigured slasher. This is never returned to again [[spoiler:but the events in the film reveal that it actually happened after them, and it indicates that the film's villain survived his apparent death and [[TheEndOrIsIt became a classic slasher]].]]
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* The sailor and his bride killed by Railroad Jack in the pre-title sequence of ''Film/JackTheReaper''.
* John's uncle who dies in the opening scene of ''Film/PigHunt''; killed by the [[FullBoarAction killer boar]].
* Douglas Winter (Richar Grieco) and his family in the pre-title sequence of ''Film/ArtOfTheDead'' who show what happened to the last person to assemble all [[AnomalousArt seven paintings]] in one place.
* Jill, the sexy coed Professor Kapps kills to serve as a HumanSacrifice in the opening scene of ''Film/TheHazing''.
* The two unfortunates who are chased and killed during the opening credits of ''Film/HobokenHollow''.
* The teaser to ''Film/GreatWhite'' features a pair of tourists who have anchored their yacht at Hell's Reef. They become the first victims of the eponymous shark. They only appear again as corpses.
* Maggie's boyfriend Jimmy is ripped apart by a FrankensteinMonster during the teaser of ''Film/ArmyOfFrankensteins''.
* Tiburon disposes some of some nameless mook in his Shark Pool in the teaser to ''Film/SharkWeek'' in a scene that serves no plot purpose whatsoever.
* John's uncle who dies in the opening scene of ''Film/PigHunt''; killed by the [[FullBoarAction killer boar]].
* Douglas Winter (Richar Grieco) and his family in the pre-title sequence of ''Film/ArtOfTheDead'' who show what happened to the last person to assemble all [[AnomalousArt seven paintings]] in one place.
* Jill, the sexy coed Professor Kapps kills to serve as a HumanSacrifice in the opening scene of ''Film/TheHazing''.
* The two unfortunates who are chased and killed during the opening credits of ''Film/HobokenHollow''.
* The teaser to ''Film/GreatWhite'' features a pair of tourists who have anchored their yacht at Hell's Reef. They become the first victims of the eponymous shark. They only appear again as corpses.
* Maggie's boyfriend Jimmy is ripped apart by a FrankensteinMonster during the teaser of ''Film/ArmyOfFrankensteins''.
* Tiburon disposes some of some nameless mook in his Shark Pool in the teaser to ''Film/SharkWeek'' in a scene that serves no plot purpose whatsoever.
* Most ''Literature/AlexRider'' stories start with someone being killed off by the villain before switching to the main action of Alex Rider.
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* In a rare literary example, every narrator of the various prologues and epilogues in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' have ended up dead by the end of that book, often by the end of the scene. But then, [[AnyoneCanDie so does almost everybody else]].
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* Most ''Literature/AlexRider'' stories start with someone being killed off by the villain before switching to the main action of Alex Rider.
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* Tiburon disposes some of some nameless mook in his Shark Pool in the teaser to ''Film/SharkPool'' in a scene that serves no plot purpose whatsoever.
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* This happens in almost every episode of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', starting in the pilot where we are introduced to the boys' mother [[spoiler: only to have her burned alive before the opening credits.]] After that, the majority of episodes have a teaser where some poor soul is dispatched by the MonsterOfTheWeek. This is often a sign that it will be a monster-of-the-week episode but not always. The MythArc-heavy episode ''Are You There God, It's Dean Winchester?" begins with the death of a hunter named Olivia but turns out to be pivotal in setting up the season's mythology.
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This only lasts about a minute, or even a matter of seconds, before we cut to the show's characters, who have come in to investigate the death, deaths or deadly threat. The character/s from the teaser have almost no involvement from this point on; they might be asked one or two questions, but they're just as likely to get nothing but a brief mention ("A couple of kids found her three hours ago", etc) and that'll be it for them.
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At the beginning of many shows — most commonly in PoliceProcedural or MonsterOfTheWeek shows — a nameless generic character or two will wander around some deserted location, frequently either on a date or up to hijinks, and then one of three things will happen:
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At the beginning of many shows — most commonly in PoliceProcedural or MonsterOfTheWeek shows — a nameless generic character or two two, often a DisposableVagrant or {{jogger|sFindDeath}}, will wander around some deserted location, frequently either on a date or up to hijinks, and then one of three things will happen:
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* Used from time to time in episodes of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'', especially in its' [[WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo later years]].
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* Favored by the ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' shows, ''Series/{{CSI}}'', ''Series/TheXFiles'', ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' and ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. ''Buffy'' actually subverted this trope in its first episode; the opening sequence featured a good-looking teenage girl intruding on school property after hours with a date (making it both a date ''and'' hijinks). We think she's a generic soon-dead girl, but then she reveals herself as a vampire and kills and eats her date, who was the real generic victim. She then goes on to be a main RecurringCharacter throughout the history of ''[=BtVS=]'' and ''Series/{{Angel}}''.
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* Favored by the ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' shows, ''Series/{{CSI}}'', ''Series/TheXFiles'', ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' and ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. ''Buffy'' actually subverted this trope in its first episode; the opening sequence featured a good-looking teenage girl intruding on school property after hours with a date (making it both a date ''and'' hijinks). We think she's a generic soon-dead girl, but then she reveals herself as a vampire and kills and eats her date, who was the real generic victim. She then goes on to be a main RecurringCharacter throughout the history of ''[=BtVS=]'' and ''Series/{{Angel}}''.
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