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* Nearly every episode of ''Series/{{Flashpoint}}'' begins this way (the moment being the titular the flashpoint). However, the beginning intro is often cut in such a way that it makes the situation seem much simpler than it turns out to be when the full scene is played out in context.

* Creator/{{Christopher Priest|Comics}} loves this technique, and once opened a ''ComicBook/BlackPanther'' comic this way, along with a caption that said, "in medias res: Latin for 'not boring'."

** The ''Literature/VitaNuova'''s FeverDreamEpisode opens with Dante being awoken from his nightmare, while the rest of the poem details what he actually hallucinated.

* ''Literature/UniversalMonsters'': The first chapter of each book starts with a civilian encountering the monster of the film before the second chapter switches to following the PowerTrio of the series.
** Book 1 starts with father and son duo Ralph and Todd Gentry, out for some late-night fishing, finding an abandoned ship that turns out to have been depopulated by a recently [[RefugeeFromTVLand released from his movie]] Dracula.
** Book 2 starts with Don Earl Abernathy and his girlfriend Gayle Braddock attending a carnival before Don gets attacked and bitten by a Wolf Man.
** Book 3 starts with Herr Frankenstein and Fritz stealing a body from a graveyard, intending to use its hands for a new incarnation of the FrankensteinsMonster, while Detective Mike Turner investigates a different crime and ends up witnessing the duo speeding and then carrying their stolen coffin, whereupon he confronts them and ends up knocked out, with Herr Frankenstein planning (but never getting the chance, as later revealed) to harvest ''his'' hands.
** Book 4 starts with Professor Angus Tovar and his student Karl Homer in their office at the San Tomas Inlet Convention Center, the Professor analyzing a recently-arrived strip of papyrus... and after Karl leaves, Professor Tovar suddenly gets attacked by the mummy of the priest he found with the queen who's the focus of the exhibit.
** Book 5 starts with Trent and Skyler Crockett, out fishing in the middle of the night, only for Trent to get mauled by the Gill Man.
** Book 6 starts the night before the last chapter of book 5, on a Saturday night when security guard Alvin Brown is doing his duty at the Universal Studios theme park and encounters Dr. Pretorius, who steals the still-functioning second projector and tells Brown to inform the three teens that he's returned for revenge.

* The ''Manga/SpyXFamily'' RoleSwapAU ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/3003702 Roleswap Damianya Brane Rot]]'' has an adult Anya and Damian already in their MarriageOfConvience with just as much ShipTease between them as Loid and Yor in canon, along with taking place after Anya took on the mission and adopted child esper Loid.

* ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDuty Call of Duty: Big Red One]]'' begins in September or October of 1944 as the player, a sergeant in command of TheSquad, helps attack a small town during the tutorial. After being wounded in the end, [[HowWeGotHere the story flashes back]] to November 1942 when the player character was a lowly private. After playing the mission which ends with your squad leader being wounded and you taking over, the game essentially skips the events of the tutorial and continues from October or November 1944 until crossing the Sigfried Line in 1945 at the end of the game.
** ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty: VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' begins with a team of [[UsefulNotes/BritsWithBattleships SAS]] operatives discussing an ongoing civil war in Russia and the [[CrapsackWorld badly destabilizing effects]] it is having on the rest of the world. As of yet, the causes of the civil war have never been revealed in-game, with the war being used as a springboard for the [[FromBadToWorse primary plot of the series]].
** ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty: [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps Black Ops]]'' starts with Mason being interrogated, flashing back to events leading to it.

* ''VideoGame/{{killer7}}'' begins with the Smith syndicate storming Kun Lan's headquarters, and only after poking around the building does it become clear what it is you're there for, where the enemies are coming from and who the hell you even are.

** The first game opens with Max on the rooftop of a building, having landed a successful sniper shot. The entire rest of the game reveals [[HowWeGotHere How He Got There]] via FlashBack.

** ''ComicBook/SupergirlWomanOfTomorrow'': The first issue concludes with [[BigBad Krem]] fleeing into Characters/{{Supergirl|TheCharacter}}'s spaceship and getting blasted into space accidentally. The second issue begins with Kara and Ruthye travelling to another planet by starship. At the end of the issue, Ruthye remembers the events which led Kara and herself to hunt Krem down.

** ''ComicBook/AdventuresOfSupergirl'' opens with Supergirl's face being grabbed and smashed into National City Stadium's bleachers by Rampage. In the aftermath of the battle, Supergirl flashes back to how their fight began.

* ''Fanfic/{{Eleutherophobia}}'': ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'' begins during chapter 1 of ''Literature/{{Animorphs}} #54: The Beginning'', hours before the end of the war, at the [[ForWantOfANail exact moment]] it diverges from canon.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/HulkVs Hulk vs. Wolverine]]'' begins with Characters/{{Wolverine|JamesLoganHowlett}} waking up after getting punched by the Hulk. The short then shows a lengthy flashback of Wolverine getting sent on a mission by Department H to hunt the Hulk, encountering Bruce Banner while searching, and leading to Banner HulkingOut.