History Main / FakeActionPrologue

* ''DragonAge2'' starts off with a playable action sequence of Hawke and one of his 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 and their abilities' cooldown times are very short.

Usually a film trope, though there's no logical reason why it can't be used in other media. 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.

* ''DragonAge2'' starts off with a playable action sequence of Hawke and his/her sister Bethany 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 sequence, the player character's health meter constantly regenerates.

* ''DragonAge2'' starts off with a playable action sequence of Hawke and his/her sister Bethany 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.

* ''DragonAge2'' starts off with the action sequence of Hawke and his/her sister Bethany 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.

* The MortalKombat movie. It's not the opening scene of the film, but when Johnny Cage's is introduced, he's seen entering a warehouse, is approached by several sinister looking men, and they engage in a fight. He downs all of them and while fighting the last one, punches him several times. After being hit, the other man reacts as though nothing has happened. An irritated Cage looks at him and says "This is where you fall down." The man then falls back very unconvincingly. Cage turns around and yells "Where do you come up with these guys?" It's then revealed that he's on a movie set, and the fight was a scene being filmed.

* The ''InspectorGadget'' movie starts with the hero (a rather loser cop) heroically saving the day, then waking up from his dreams.

* ''Apollo13'' began with an Apollo launch that rapidly becomes a deadly disaster. Turns out it was an astronaut's wife, having a nightmare.

* ''{{Serenity}}'' opened with the rescue of River by Simon. Turns out it was actually a holographic security recording, being watched by the Operative.

* In DigimonXrosWars the first scene shows Taiki and along with his soon to be teammates with an army of shadowed familiar digimons facing against the Bagura army, and when Shoutmon X4 dukes it out with Greymon...Taiki wakes up.

* ''TheForbiddenKingdom'' starts with a scene of the Monkey King fighting a bunch of {{mooks}}, which looks something like "''HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' [[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.

* ''Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan'' opens with the simulated Kobayashi Maru test.

* Frank Drebin's anxious dream at the beginning of one of the ''NakedGun'' films, where all sorts of bizarre catastrophes are about to happen and he can't stop them.
** That would be Naked Gun 33 1/3, and the scene is a parody of a scene in TheUntouchables.

* [[TheHobbit The Hobbit]] 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 cutscene incompetence]] and the storyline proceeds for real.

** That would be Naked Gun 33 1/3, and the scene is a parody of a scene in TheUntuchables.

* Frank Drebin's anxious dream at the beginning of one of the ''NakedGun'' films, where all sorts of bizarre catastrophes are about to happen and he can't stop them.

* ''Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan opens with the simulated Kobayashi Maru test.

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Compare ActionPrologue, FakeOutOpening and TheKobayashiMaru (which may be this as well).