What franchises would you think it's fine to skip the first entry into the series?

Franchises you'd recommend, but maybe not so much that first one. Maybe the most recent wasn't that good either, but basically games where you're really not missing out if you didn't play prior entries.

Not even to say the first entry in such a franchise isn't worth playing, but that it's eclipsed by later entries and that you aren't losing out in those later entries from having skipped it. Series where each of the games stand on their own well enough.

I'm especially concerned with games focused on a narrative, but if it's debatable that say, skipping the first Civ game really shapes your experience of Civ VI, then I think that's noteworthy.