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6	Somewhat similar to FakeOutOpening but distinct, this is when the story starts with what appears to be a probably over-the-top ActionPrologue, but after it's been going on for a while, maybe PlayedForLaughs, it's cut short. It's then [[ProsceniumReveal revealed]] that this sequence was a DreamIntro, a ShowWithinAShow, [[DangerRoomColdOpen a simulated test]], or similar. Whatever the case, the beginning is revealed not to have been real, and the actual story now begins on a more restrained note. May be used among other things for when the main character is a loser who only dreams of becoming the kind of badass they're acting like in the imaginary prologue.
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8	Usually a film trope, though there's no logical reason why it can't be used in other media. In video games, it often serves as ATasteOfPower. After some exposure, you can usually spot the humorous ones -- unless the hero is played by Leslie Nielsen, in which case the movie may just be silly enough that it's all really happening.
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10	If it's the 'show within a show' variant, it may end with a ProsceniumReveal, pulling back to show the cameras or stage.
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12	When used capriciously, this trope can leave the viewer feeling cheated, but it can also be very relevant for the plot, or just [[RuleOfCool cool]] or [[RuleOfFunny funny]].
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14	Compare ActionPrologue, FakeOutOpening, DangerRoomColdOpen and UnwinnableTrainingSimulation (which may be this as well).
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17	!!Examples:
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21	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
22	* ''Anime/CyberpunkEdgerunners'' opens with a heavily armed cyborg blowing a cop's head off, followed by a violent and bloody battle with police and finally [=MaxTac=] troopers before the psycho is put down, only for the killshot to reveal that the entire experience was a braindance (digital memory upload) being relived by a high school adrenaline junkie in his living room. However, it's subverted in that the event being depicted ''did'' actually happen, it just happened the night before.
23	* In ''Anime/DigimonFusion'' the first scene shows Taiki and along with his soon to be teammates with an army of shadowed digimons facing against the Bagura army, and when Shoutmon X4 dukes it out with Greymon... Taiki wakes up.
24	* ''Manga/MagicalGirlOre'' begins with a DreamSequence where Saki's idol persona becomes a magical girl and saves her adoring crush. Then the exact same thing happens in real life, though not in the way she expected. Or wanted, for that matter.
25	* ''Manga/OnePunchMan'' starts with Saitama facing off against an army of subterranean monsters who've come to conquer the surface world. It was AllJustADream, however, and while they do show up in the episode, they surrender immediately on seeing Saitama's prowess.
26	* The ''Anime/SanrioBoys'' [[AnimatedAdaptation anime]] starts of with princely politics and swordfighting that is really just a part of the ([[HamAndCheese somewhat]] [[NarmCharm melodramatic]]) school play, all of which [[InMediasRes occurs much later]].
27	* The last episode of ''Manga/TentaiSenshiSunred'''s first season features Sunred in his full sentai suit battling the Evil Organization Florsheim who have unleashed hell on Kawasaki city and are genuinely looking to take over the world. Vamp grows to a massive size and Sunred breaks out his Firebird Form to match him, everything looks set for the final clash... And then Vamp wakes up. The remaining episode goes back to the standard GoKartingWithBowser shenanigans.
28	* The first episode of ''Anime/TheTowerOfDruaga'' is a RPGEpisode ClicheStorm that is in fact a dream the main character has after getting knocked out.
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31	[[folder:Comic Books]]
32	* ''ComicBook/DakotaNorth'': The first issue of the detective series starts with her associate Mad Dog shouting a warning to Dakota, while shooting at a half-seen silhouette. The next page reveals he's training in her basement and has just failed a ShootingGallery test by opening fire on a "bag lady" civilian target.
33	* ''ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse'': A comic that has Mickey as a professional detective solving a mystery in the superhero comics industry starts with two pages of a reptilian SuperHero fighting a MadScientist and his MechaMooks. Since it was already said the story is about superhero comics, you can probably guess [[ShowWithinAShow what that really is]].
34	* ''[[ComicBook/ModelsIncMarvelComics Models, Inc.]]'': The murder mystery comic starts its first issue with the models confronted by a wolf in the woods, which is then revealed as a perfectly safe photoshoot. The same approach is used to open subsequent issues, with the cast seemingly finding a body or locked up in jail. [[spoiler:The last issue begins with them seemingly trapped in a burning building -- which is a BaitAndSwitch of sorts, as this time it ''is'' real]].
35	* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol. 1]]: Issue #32 appears to open with Uvo bombing the Empire State building and leaving it a pile of burning rubble. The next page reveals that this was a slightly sized down model on the planet Uranus and that the bombing is just a test for the intended attack on Earth.
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38	[[folder:Fan Works]]
39	* ''Fanfic/DigimonCodex'': The first scene of the story opens with a battle between Greymon and Monochromon, with Greymon digivolving to [=SkullGreymon=] to win. Then it is revealed this was not a battle between real Digimon, but just an online match that Flash Sentry won against another player.
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42	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
43	* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHeadDoAmerica'' starts with a scene of the two as giants rampaging through a city.
44	* Sort of half used in ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'', which starts out looking like a typical girl-meets-dog story that suddenly turns into a [[Creator/MichaelBay Michael Bay-esque]] action film about an AnimalSuperhero. It all turns out to be a ShowWithinAShow, which Bolt believes is real. His gradual realization that everything he knows is wrong, and his need to understand what reality actually is, drive the film's plot.
45	* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda1'': The hand-drawn opening sequence and its BuffySpeak meets TotallyRadical narrative voice over are revealed to be part of a dream Po is having: the rest of the film is 3D animation and more conventionally written.
46	* The [[DeletedScene deleted opening]] of ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'' shows the Tunes participating in a ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}''-esque action sequence with Daffy in the Batman role and Elmer as a Joker-type character taking Bugs hostage. It then would've cut to the Creator/WarnerBros executive office, where it would be revealed to be just Daffy attempting to pitch this movie idea to the executives.
47	* ''Franchise/ToyStory'':
48	** ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'' begins as a sci-fi adventure sequence with Buzz Lightyear infiltrating Emperor Zurg's base, cut short when Zurg vaporizes Buzz. Fortunately, it was all a video game being played by Rex.
49	** ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', starts with a [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Calvinesque]] FantasySequence that [[ContinuityNod calls back]] to the playtime scenario in the original ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1''.
50	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' opens with a tense scene out in the wilderness where an innocent rabbit is about to be eaten by a jaguar... only to reveal that we are watching a pageant, where grade-school students are acting out what it was like ''before'' [[WorldOfFunnyAnimals animals evolved]].
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53	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
54	* In ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'', we first see Scott in the midst of an elaborate heist, which is quickly revealed to be a game he planned for his daughter. Being under house arrest gives him lots of free time for this kind of thing.
55	* The beginning of ''Film/AustinPowersInGoldmember'', which is actually [[ShowWithinAShow a movie being made about Austin Powers in the movie]].
56	* ''Film/FlightOfTheNavigator'' opens with a lingering shot of a shiny FlyingSaucer hovering in midair... and then a dog leaps up and catches it. It was a frisbee.
57	* ''Film/TheForbiddenKingdom'' starts with a scene of the Monkey King fighting a bunch of {{mooks}}, which looks something like "''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] WireFu", so it's easy to guess it's fake. It's actually a dream of the protagonist, but ironically it appears to be of events that have actually happened -- though the whole similar "fights mooks" flashback later serves no purpose in the backstory being told other than a backdrop for saying the Monkey King was not defeated by mooks (duh). Thankfully the other fights in the movie look a ''lot'' better.
58	* ''Film/Frankenstein1970'' opens with a monster chasing a girl. It also turns out to be a shooting of a film.
59	* Both ''[[Film/FXMurderByIllusion F/X]]'' films open with a shooting of a film. First opens with a gangster-revenge flick and the second one with a transexual alien on a rampage.
60	* Averted in ''Film/GalaxyQuest'', which begins with what is revealed to be an episode of the ShowWithinAShow being exhibited to fans at a convention. This sets up a major theme of the film, which is how blurry the line between fiction and reality can become for truly obsessed fans (especially the Thermians, whose belief in the canceled TV show is so strong that they ''make'' it real by building the ship and abducting the actors to serve as the crew).
61	* ''Film/HeartOfDragon'' opens with a bunch of terrorists (led by Creator/JackieChan, no less!) battling a platoon of SWAT personnel in a dense forest, with the entire SWAT team getting killed (one even suffers a NeckSnap from Jackie) and the personnel leader facing Jackie in a MexicanStandoff. Then, Jackie hands over his gun... the next scene reveals it to be a training exercise with Jackie's team tasked with training some junior operatives. In fact the fake prologue which is filled with shootouts is a BaitAndSwitch for the entire film in general, since the rest of the movie is a {{narm}}y melodrama about Chan's character raising his mentally-ill brother with few action scenes countable on one hand.
62	* ''Film/InspectorGadget1999'' starts with the hero (a loser security guard) heroically saving the day, then waking up from his dreams.
63	* ''Film/JamesBond'':
64	** ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'' begins with James Bond dueling with Red Grant in a hedge maze, only to be killed by Grant. It turns out that it's actually a test for Grant to determine his efficiency; the "Bond" killed is actually another man in disguise working for Grant's new employers.
65	*** The video game likewise has the hedgemaze duel as the second level, with players controlling the fake James Bond for the first half of the mission.
66	** The "unofficial" James Bond film ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain'' opens with Bond infiltrating a tropical compound to rescue a hostage (a beautiful woman tied to a bed, naturally). After taking out the guards, he starts untying the hostage, not noticing as she discreetly pulls out a knife. He looks away for a second, she stabs him in the chest... and he fails the training exercise (the knife was fake).
67	* ''Film/{{JCVD}}'' starts by the shooting of an action movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.
68	* ''Film/JohnnyEnglish'': The title character is right at the bottom of the secret agent ladder, but dreams of being a veritable Film/JamesBond.
69	* ''Film/KillerParty'' opens with a creepy funeral where one of the mourners is dragged into the coffin and subjected to MurderByCremation. This is then revealed to be a movie that two teenagers are watching at the DriveInTheater. And then this turns out to be the intro to a music video one of the main characters is watching.
70	* ''Film/LoneHero'' opens with a ShowdownAtHighNoon between a town marshal and a trio of {{Outlaw}}s, which turns out to be part of a WildWest show at the local tourist trap.
71	* ''Film/LeMagnifique'' begins with the most ludicrous SharkPool ever. Then it's revealed to be a SpyFiction novel being written.
72	* ''Film/MajorGromPlagueDoctor'' has the CowboyCop hero introduced in an ActionPrologue, but one that ends with him being killed and [[FakeKillScare given a funeral]]. Grom then [[RuleOfFunny wakes up in his coffin and realises this won't do]], so we cut back to earlier in the action with Grom trying to think up a plan that ''won't'' get him killed, which takes a couple of goes before he gets it right. This [[RunningGag happens several times]] during the movie.
73	* ''Film/MurdersInTheRueMorgue1971'' opens with a KillerGorilla breaking loose, kidnapping Madeline, then being shot by the police and beheading a MadScientist before he dies. This is then revealed to the climax to Cesar's stage version of ''Murders in the Rue Morgue''.
74	* Frank Drebin's anxious dream at the beginning of ''[[Film/TheNakedGun Naked Gun 33⅓]]'', where all sorts of bizarre catastrophes are about to happen and he can't stop them.
75	* The opening HostageSituation in Johannesburg from ''Film/OperationDeltaForce'' turns out to be a drill, with the "terrorists" being marines. The Delta protagonist who's TheHeart gets "killed" in said scene though, which serves as {{Foreshadowing}} [[spoiler:when he gets killed for real late into the picture]].
76	* ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' opens with a triple fake, of which one is a Fake Action Prologue: The narrated history lesson ''turns into'' a lesson being viewed by young River ''turns into'' a hallucination by the grown River, who is rescued by Simon, ''and this then turns into'' a holographic [[MagicalSecurityCam security recording]], being watched by the Operative.
77	* ''Film/StageFright2014'' opens with a man in evening dress being stabbed by a figure black robes and a WhiteMaskOfDoom. This turns out to a staging of the musical ''The Haunting of the Opera''.
78	* ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' opens with the ''Enterprise'' caught in an unwinnable battle that results in the deaths of the entire main cast except for Kirk, who has been replaced as captain by a young Vulcan woman named Saavik. Then the lights turn on, Kirk enters, and everyone gets up, revealing they were merely acting the part for Saavik's [[UnwinnableTrainingSimulation Kobayashi Maru test]], the ''Enterprise'' having become a training vessel since we last saw her. The importance of facing a No-Win Scenario becomes a major plot point later in the story.
79	* ''Film/SullivansTravels'' starts with an exciting action sequence involving two men fighting on top of a train. One man [[DisneyVillainDeath falls off the train to his death]]. TheEnd pops up. It turns out that the movie is actually about a Hollywood movie director, and the train sequence is the end to his latest film.
80	* ''Film/{{Sunset\|1988}}'' opens with a robbery and a runaway stagecoach. It turns out to be a movie that Tom Mix is shooting.
81	* Two sets in ''Film/TropicThunder'': The opening of the movie is some [[RealTrailerFakeMovie Fake Trailers]] for films starring the lead characters (if you watch it on DVD you might skip these, figuring they're just more ads before the start of the film); then we get to the big Vietnam fight scene, which we eventually discover is just a movie they're shooting.
82	* ''Film/UltramanGaiaTheBattleInHyperspace'' had one of these where Gamu, the HenshinHero host of Series/UltramanGaia, prepares to battle the alien Satan-Bizorm who transforms himself kaiju-sized. As Gamu turns into Ultraman Gaia, it's revealed to be a ShowWithinAShow seen on a television screen.
83	* ''Film/Vice2015'' opens with a high-octane BankRobbery that turns intro a HostageSituation and then a BlastOut as the robbers shoot their way out through the cops. This is then revealed to be one of the fantasies being acted out in the Vice resort.
84	* The director's first vision for ''Film/TheWayOfTheGun'' was for the first sequence to be filmed like an action-packed, cliche-filled trailer for a movie starring the two main characters and detailing their backstories, then move on to the actual film's more realistic setting.
85	* ''Film/XMenTheLastStand''. After two false starts (one a flash back and another to do with [[spoiler:a future X-man named Archangel]]) we finally see the team assembled. [[spoiler:The sentinel's head came of of the smoke]] but it was merely [[spoiler:a danger room simulation]].
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88	[[folder:Literature]]
89	* ''Cat-A-Lyst'' by Creator/AlanDeanFoster opens with two soldiers on a battlefield in the American Civil War. It turns out to be a scene from a movie, starring the main character.
90	* ''Literature/GoMutants'' opens with a monster movie spoof written in script format.
91	* The first ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'' begins with main character Talia having a daydream about being a Herald and fighting with Herald-Mage Vanyel to save the kingdom.
92	* The ''Literature/WarriorCats'' novel ''Dark River'' begins with what appears to be the main characters fighting off an invasion by the fierce rival Clan [=ShadowClan=], only for it to be revealed that it was only a game they were playing, and that there's no real invasion.
93	* There is a comedy book (probably ''The Feather Merchants'') by Max Shulman that begins with the line, "Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Four shots ripped into my groin and I was off on the greatest adventure of my life!" He immediately changes gears and says you need to know more about me first, and starts a relatively tame, although funny, retelling of his hero's story. It isn't until a good 2/3 of the way into the novel that he throws off the idea he had for the best exciting sentence to start a novel and guess what it was? No other mention of this is made anywhere else.
94	* InvokedTrope in ''B.A.D. Boyes and the Gangsters'' by Jim Eldridge, which opens with Brian saying that he wanted to start with an exciting sentence, possibly involving his mother being attacked by aliens, but since that didn't happen and he'd have gone on to talk about cake icing, the reader would probably be disappointed.
95	* The first chapter of ''Literature/TheCityAndTheStars'' starts with the protagonist and his friends fleeing some monsters in underground tunnels. It turns out to be a full VR CoOpMultiplayer session.
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99	* The season 3 premiere of ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' starts with an over-the-top jailbreak, which turns out to actually be Sophie's ''plan'' for an over-the-top jailbreak. [[spoiler:They don't use it.]]
100	* Spoofed by ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' in their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwtq0GPr-Jc "Previously, on the Satellite of Love..." skit]].
101	* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
102	** In the episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E18HollywoodBabylon "Hollywood Babylon"]], a woman is left alone in the woods looking for her sister when she hears a noise and screams. It is then revealed that she is an actor on the set of a horror movie.
103	** "Goodbye Stranger" has a nasty one where a {{brainwashed}} Castiel is shown [[SuperDickery apparently killing Dean Winchester]], which doesn't get any less shocking after the ProsceniumReveal when we see he's in a warehouse [[ExpendableClone full of murdered Dean simulations]].
104	* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': "Obscene" begins with a police dog being brought to follow a scent in a crime scene. It ignores it, prompting the "victim" and a film crew to say that the dog has ruined the take. However, the dog goes straight to a trailer car, where the actual victim of the episode is.
105	* The ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E01E02TheWayOfTheWarrior The Way of the Warrior]]" starts with half the main cast and several {{RedShirt}}s hunting a changeling infiltrator--who turns out to be Odo acting as the infiltrator for a drill.
106	* Every episode of ''Series/FXTheSeries'' starts with a scene that turns out to be part of a film the crew is shooting. Most, though not all,[[note]]One involves someone getting a bad case of PinocchioNose in a courtoom.[[/note]] are action scenes of some sort.
107	* The ''Series/CriminalMinds'' episode "The Instincts" opens with the team tensely searching a house, which turns out to be less action-packed when all they find is a body. [[AllJustADream Then Reid wakes up on the jet, and the episode proper begins.]]
108	* One episode of ''Series/ThePretender'' opens with Jared getting in a spectacular one-car crash, which then goes up in flames and he stumbles out ''completely on fire''. Then two guys with fire extinguishers step in from off-screen and it is revealed his job of the week is as a stunt driver/stuntman, and he was wearing a fire-retardant suit.
109	** Another episode opens with Jared delivering a lecture as a criminology professor, only to be seemingly gunned down by a couple of guys in nice suits. He then gets up, unharmed, and has his students tell him what details of the "crime" they'd observed.
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113	* ''VideoGame/PerfectDark Zero'''s first mission is a training simulation.
114	* ''VideoGame/{{The Hobbit\|2003}}'' for [=GameCube=] starts out with Bilbo dreaming about the Battle of the Five Armies, which has yet to occur. During this dream you are invincible, and the controls are explained. Bilbo wakes up upon being surrounded by orcs in a moment of CutsceneIncompetence and the storyline proceeds for real.
115	* ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'' starts with a nightmare the main protagonist has.
116	* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyLegendIII'' opens with the party fighting some big monsters before revealing that it was just a simulation where you can grind experience right from the beginning of the game.
117	* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' starts off with a playable action sequence of Hawke and one of his/her siblings (A warrior or a rogue will have Bethany, and a mage will have Carver) fighting off two groups of darkspawn plus an ogre, but this particular scene reveals itself to be made up by Varric, who narrates the story of Hawke for Cassandra. During this playable sequence, the player character's health meter constantly regenerates, they're wearing the Armor of the Champion (which you don't get until the final act) and their abilities' cooldown times are very short.
118	** The few dialogue options are also suitably nonchalant. What, an army of darkspawn? Psh, bring an Archdemon if you want to impress me.
119	*** It's a small detail but the breasts of the female characters are bigger in that scene than the rest of the game, showing he's exaggerating everything.
120	* ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' begins with the "dream" variant [[spoiler:though it's really a vision of the future]].
121	* ''[[VideoGame/CrisisCore Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core]]'' starts off with a bang, but once Sephiroth shows up to challenge Zack, the simulation is forcibly shut down.
122	* ''VideoGame/PokemonXDGaleOfDarkness'' starts with an arena match between two high level, powerful Pokémon that is revealed to be a simulation.
123	* ''[[VideoGame/SpaceQuest Space Quest V]]'' starts with Captain Roger Wilco commanding an intense battle on the bridge of his ship...until his viewscreen is suddenly filled with an ''actual'' captain who tells ''Cadet'' Wilco to get out of the training simulator.
124	* ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaV'' starts off with Purple Heart against Green Heart, White Heart, and Black Heart all ganging up on her, [[CallBack just like how]] the [[VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptunia first game started]]. Only this time, the girls are actually playing a video game.
125	* ''Boutalles'' starts with a party of four going off to confront [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Great Evil Sorcerer]] for a comedic HopelessBossFight. This turns out to be main character Blanc trying to promote her new tabletop game idea to a reluctant Plumm, who insisted on having his character artificially boosted so that he could jump straight to the FinalBoss encounter.
126	* ''VideoGame/OctopathTravelerII'': Temenos's story starts with the epic, playable battle of Aelfric the Flamebringer against the wicked god Vide... Until Aelfric forgets his lines and the scene cuts to Temenos acting the scene in a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamishibai Kamishibai]] in front of a bunch of kids.
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129	[[folder:Web Comics]]
130	* ''Webcomic/{{Doodze}}'': [[http://www.seguemediagroup.com/doodze/?p=383 opens with a fantasy dragon slaying]]
131	* ''Webcomic/TalesOfTheQuestor'': [[http://www.rhjunior.com/totq/00001.html opens with a fantasy rescue]]
132	* ''Webcomic/TheSpecialists'': [[http://thespecialistscomic.com/page-62/ chapter two opens with what turns out to be a comic.]]
133	* ''Webcomic/{{Far from Home\|MightyMartianStudios}}'' opens with the ShowWithinAShow.
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136	[[folder:Western Animation]]
137	* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' has one in the episode ''The Trial of the Monarch.'' Hank and Dean are dressed as Franchise/IndianaJones and [[Series/MagnumPI Thomas Magnum]], exploring an ancient ruin. They then transform into "Mecha Shiva" to fight the Monarch, but it all turns out to be a story they are making up while on the witness stand.
138	* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' episode "Fearful Symmetry" starts with Supergirl chasing down a man while fighting presumably private military. Seems simple enough, but then when she finally catches the guy, she seems rather [[SmugSnake aggressively smug]] about it before [[ThouShaltNotKill burning the guy to death with her heat vision]]. As soon as it happens, we cut to Supergirl [[CatapultNightmare waking up]] and she wonders how she could have done that if she doesn't remember doing it. [[spoiler:It turns out she was having dreams about her secret clone's memories.]]
139	* ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes2006'' second season opens with an intense battle in which Brainiac 5 makes a near HeroicSacrifice to protect Superman. The two share a very intimate moment before the scene is revealed to be a simulation created by Brainiac 5, who has missed Superman greatly.
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