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Line 1: {{trope}} [[File:Laputa creative closing credits.png\|frame\|link=Laputa: Castle in the Sky\|Original animation? Check.<br>Detailed backgrounds? Check.<br>Moving parts? Check.<br>Day night cycle? Check.<br>[[Thematic Theme Tune]]? Check.<br>It's not just about the names!]] {{quote\|''"The end credits for [[Pixar]] films are more entertaining than half the films I see."''\|'''[http://twitter.com/richardroeper/status/16193889894 Richard Roeper]'''}} [[Closing Credits]] usually consist of a black screen and white text. The names of the cast and crew scroll slowly up the screen, while some sort of music plays. After the Crowning Moments of [[Crowning Moment of Funny\|Funny]], [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming\|Heartwarming]], [[Tear Jerker]], or [[Crowning Moment of Awesome\|Awesome]], they're pretty anti-climatic. Most people leave once the credits start, because hey-- [[Closing Credits]] are boring. But they don't have to be! Sometimes, the producers shell out a bit of extra coin and the result is closing credits with [[Crowning Music of Awesome\|awesome]] [[Award Bait Song\|music]], awesome graphics, and an awesome concept. ~~These~~Such ~~credits~~'''Creative Closing Credits''' exist to entertain the audience even after the film is over, so they'll stick around—and the cast and crew will ''finally'' get some of the recognition they deserve. Or they would, if the audience weren't [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny\|distracted by the totally awesome credits]]. Line 14 ⟶ 15: {{examples}} == [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] == * ''[[~~Neon Genesis Evangelion\|~~End of Evangelion]]'' has the ending credits in the ''middle'', between the two "episodes" that make up the movie. This was done so the ending could cut to black. The credits also spiral up the screen while spinning. * The final episode of the OVA series ''[[El-Hazard: The Magnificent World]]'' ends with a series of pastel drawings under the credits, which show selected bits of "what happens after". * Almost every [[Studio Ghibli]] film. In ''[[Spirited Away]]'', ''[[The Wind Rises]]'', ''[[When Marnie Was There]]'', and ''[[The Cat Returns]]'', the ending credits are layered onto still images from the backgrounds of the film. On its own, this is nothing special, but these backgrounds often have more detail than entire paintings, showing how the studio really went the extra mile. In ''[[Porco Rosso]]'', and ''[[My Neighbor Totoro]]'', original images are created for the ending credits. The former has a series of sepia drawings regarding the topic of aviation. The latter has drawings of the protagonists, Mei and Satsuki, playing with them and other children, as well as the titular Totoro. [[Exaggerated]] in ''[[Kiki's Delivery Service]]'' and ''[[The Borrower Arrietty]]'', where the studio didn't just make the credits creative. They made the credits ''fully animated'', showing epilogues of the characters after the main story is completed. The animation in these sequences absolutely holds up to Ghibli's [[Scenery Porn\|rigiorous]] [[Awesome Art (Sugar Wiki)\|animation]] standards. However, this is averted in some productions like ''[[Princess Mononoke]]'' and ''[[Howl's Moving Castle (anime)\|Howl's Moving Castle]]'', which opt for a standard white names on black background approach. * The ending sequence of ''[[Violet Evergarden (anime)\|Violet Evergarden]]'' depicts Violet under a starry sky, and in a forest. It's filled with original animation, created specifically for the sequence itself. The [[Ending Theme]] "Michishirube" also helps the "creative" feel. * In ''[[Suzume (film)\|Suzume]]'', the credits are imposed on animated sequences and paintings that show the [[Denouement]]. == [[Film]] == Line 110 ⟶ 118: ''[[Iron Man (film)\|Iron Man]]'' smash-cuts to the credits right after Tony Stark says "I am Iron Man." The end credits song, is, of course, "Iron Man" by [[Black Sabbath]]. It plays while the credits zoom in and out of blueprint-style graphics showing the schematics for the [[Iron Man]] armor and other devices from the film. ''[[Thor (film)\|Thor]]'' has end credits set in an otherworldly cosmos. The end credits for ''[[Captain America: The ~~First Avenger\|Captain America the~~ First Avenger]]'' is set against various 1940s propaganda posters, befitting the tone of the movie. ''[[The Avengers (2012 film)\|The Avengers]]'' has its credits set against various icons and gear associated with each Avenger ([[Captain America ~~(comics)]]~~'s shield and uniform, the [[Iron Man]] armor, [[The Mighty Thor\|Thor]]'s hammer, etc.). * ''[[The Matrix]]'' series had the credits appearing from a line of Matrix code running horizontally across the screen, leaving the credit line(s). * The ''[[Doom (~~series~~film)\|Doom]]'' movie had the credits in the same vein as it's first-person segment, complete with the names getting shot and killed. {{spoiler\|The only names to not get shot are those of the actors that played characters that survive, or of the backstage staff. [[Dwayne Johnson\|The Rock]] gets particularly shot up, as he's the film's equivalent of a [[Final Boss]]}} * ''[[Tropic Thunder]]'', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWBEHzi3wgc alternates] between [[Tom Cruise]] in a fat suit dancing to rap with scenes from the movie which get stylized "splash pages" for actors and the such. * ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]: [[The Voyage of the Dawn Treader]]'' recaps the film using the original book illustrations by Pauline Baynes.