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* ''[[Elfen Lied]]'', with its Gustav Klimt-esque paintings.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* The [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] films always include trippy title montages featuring silhouettes of naked women dancing in thematically appropriate environments (most directed by [[wikipedia:Maurice Binder|Maurice Binder]]). The exceptions are ''[[Dr. No]]'' (the first film, which uses stylized geometric animation) and ''[[Casino Royale]]'', which replaced the babes with surreal sequences of Bond beating the crap out of a brigade of [[Mooks]] who burst into playing card symbols as they expired.

** The ''other'' ''[[Casino Royale 1967]]'' had animated titles that could be best called psychedelic medieval illuminations.

* ''[[The Pink Panther]]''

* In the first version of ''[[Death at a Funeral]]'', they use a title/credit sequence with a map where you're watching the hearse drop the coffin off where it is to be buried as the credits play out.

* [[Saul Bass]] was the king of this trope.

* The Spider-Man sequels feature montages of still paintings that approximate the story thus far from previous entries in the series.

* Some of the films from [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]] episodes features this, but many more avert it in strange ways; [[Cave Dwellers]], [[Pod People]], [[Marooned|Space Travelers]] and others were films re-edited and redistributed by Film Ventures International, strangely presented with opening and closing credit sequences from other, unrelated films. They're presumably intended to convey the feeling of the movies, but manage to fail spectacularly in some instances.

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* ''[[Game of Thrones]]''

* ''[[Growing Pains]]''

* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' uses images from the classic medical text "Gray's Anatomy." ''[[Grey's Anatomy]]'', on the other hand, does not.

* ''[[In Living Color]]'' took this idea rather literally. The first few seasons' title sequences had the actors painting walls, including the fourth one. The last few took place in an animated art gallery.

* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' used different cut-out animations for each of its four seasons; all included the famous descending foot.

* ''[[The Nanny]]''

* Season 3 of ''[[Veronica Mars]]'' used this, as the show had moved away from the High School setting of the first two seasons and the series was being promoted less as a teen soap and more as a neo-noir. Ergo, the notebook motif of the original credit sequence had to go. The music was changed also: it's still the same song by Dandy Warhols but a more brooding version is used.

* All [[Ultra Series]] shows up to and including ''Ultraman Ace'' had silhouettes of the various characters and vehicles being shown on a background of colored stuff(Created with ink and camera effects). This carried over to other Tsuburaya shows such as ''[[Fireman]]'' and ''Kaiki Daisakusen'' as well.

** Another Alan Ball show, ''[[Six Feet Under]]'', also had an amazing title sequence. It was created by Digital Kitchen, the same studio that made ''[[True Blood]]'''s.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF-yh4mU6ps The 1985 version of the Twilight Zone opening.]

* The first season of ''[[Wonder Woman (TV series)|Wonder Woman]]''

* ''[[Fringe]]'' uses creative changes in its title sequence to reflect the theme of particular episodes. When the episode is set back in the '80's and deals with the characters' backstories, the titles use an '80's font and digitised theme music, reminiscent of the period. When the episodes are set in the alternative Fringe universe instead of our own, the titles are set in a red background, as opposed to the normal blue. Perhaps unsurprisingly (you don't expect a TV channel to show that level of detail, do you?), SKY in the UK appears unaware of these conventions and frequently uses the wrong colour background card prior to ad breaks, which can leads to no small confusion.

* ''[[The X-Files]]''

 

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