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[[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.
Or they would, if the audience weren't [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny|distracted by the totally awesome credits]].
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If you have further interest on the subject, [http://watchthetitles.com/ Forget the Film, Watch the Titles] and [http://www.artofthetitle.com/ The Art of the Title Sequence] are entire sites devoted to showcasing creative closing and opening titles (with accompanying [[Word of God]] and videos).
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[
* The final episode of the OVA series ''[[El-Hazard: The
* 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]].
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* Every [[Pixar]] movie save the first ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'' had unusual ending credits:▼
▲* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion (Anime)|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.
** [[Hilarious Outtakes]] appear in ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 2'', ''[[A Bug's Life
▲* The final episode of the OVA series ''[[El-Hazard: The Magnificent World (Anime)|El Hazard the Magnificent World]]'' ends with a series of pastel drawings under the credits, which show selected bits of "what happens after".
== Film -- Animation ==▼
▲* Every [[Pixar]] movie save the first ''[[Toy Story]]'' had unusual ending credits:
▲** [[Hilarious Outtakes]] appear in ''[[Toy Story]] 2'', ''[[A Bug's Life (Animation)|A Bugs Life]]'', and ''[[Monsters, Inc. (Animation)|Monsters Inc.]]'' ''Monsters, Inc.'' also features a company play based on a throwaway line from earlier. ''Monsters Inc.'''s ''opening'' credits has a 2D effect of monsters wandering through all the doors like they were [[Scooby-Dooby Doors]].
** During the credits of ''[[Cars]]'', the cast goes to the movies (drive-in, of course) and we see clips of vehicle versions of previous Pixar movies. For bonus points, Mack (voiced by John Ratzenberger) raves about [[Actor Allusion|certain characters]] before realizing [[Hey, It's That Voice!|they're all voiced]] [[Hypocritical Humor|by the same guy]].
** ''[[Finding Nemo]]'''s credits featured the characters swimming through and around the credits (including [[The Cameo|Mike]] from ''[[Monsters,
** ''[[The Incredibles]]'' had a very stylistic montage recapping the film during its credits, evoking the work of master movie title designer [[wikipedia:Saul Bass|Saul Bass]] (it's actually a spiffed-up version of the film's early storyboards; originally it was all going to be animated in this style).
** ''[[Ratatouille]]'' used stylised hand-drawn animation, similar to ''The Incredibles'' for its end credits.
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** The end credits of ''[[WALL-E]]'', which is pretty much a mini-movie (and rough history of Western Art) after the movie is over, depicting the renewal of Earth. It even has its own [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]], with the boot.
*** Also serves to make clear that humans survive the recolonization of Earth; some test audiences were concerned that [[Hope Sprouts Eternal|one sprout]] [[Inferred Holocaust|wasn't enough to prove that they wouldn't die out]]. (The closing shot of the field of plants right before the credits was likewise added for that reason.)
** ''[[Up (
** ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 3'' has a kind of [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]] montage during the credits. Suffice it to say that the story simply doesn't end when the credits begin.
* Even some non-Pixar Disney films have some. ''[[Brother Bear]]'' has clips of Kenai, Koda, and even Rutt and Tuke, which is followed by [[
* ''[[Cloudy
* ''[[
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'''Homer''': A lot of people worked hard on this movie, and all they ask of you is to memorize their names. }}
** It would've included Comic Book Guy's scathing critique of the film, but it was rejected in previews.
* The end credits for ''[[Wallace and Gromit]] in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit'' feature absolutely ''hilarious'' flying bunnies. Crossing over with [[Credits Gag]], at the very end, the line "No animals were harmed in the making of this motion picture" comes up. The last rabbit rises until he bumps his head on that line and falls squealing off the screen.
* ''[[
** Credits of ''[[
* ''[[Madagascar]]: Escape 2 Africa'' [http://watchthetitles.com/articles/00106-Madagascar_Escape_2_Africa had] 3D paper cut-outs of the characters.
* ''[[
* ''[[Coraline (
* ''[[The Princess and
* ''[[9
* The credits of ''[[How to Train Your Dragon (
* ''[[
* ''[[
* [[Don Bluth]] is fond of this. ''[[All Dogs Go to Heaven]]'' has a continuously moving background of painted clouds, ''[[Rock
* ''[[
* ''[[Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of
* The ending credits of ''[[
* ''[[Shrek]]'' 4 had a [[Dance Party Ending]] followed by a "collage" of characters from the first three films (minus Artie); the rest of the credits were on Rumple's fancy parchment paper, with inverted versions of the first film's credit illustrations.
* ''The Tigger Movie'' ends by showing different scenes re-drawn in a style resembling that of EH Shepard, the illustrator of the original ''[[Winnie the Pooh]]'' books.
* The 2011 ''[[Winnie the Pooh (
** Or getting [[Squashed Flat]] by the credits, in the case of Rabbit.
* ''[[Secondhand Lions]]'', in a [[Book Ends|bookend]] style.
* ''[[Last Holiday]]'' did the kind of epilogue ending, where it tells you what happened to everybody.
* ''[[Harry Potter (
** ''Goblet of Fire'' had the credits as smoldering bits of paper coming out of the title goblet.
** ''Half-Blood Prince'' has swirling black ink drops in amber liquid. (reproducing how wizards apparate, the effects added to the Pensieve, and such)
* ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' [http://watchthetitles.com/articles/0019-Lemony_Snicket_s_A_Series_of_Unfortunate_Events featured] very stylish animated scenes of the Baudelaire children escaping from Count Olaf.
* ''[[Bill and Ted (
* ''[[The Boondock Saints]]'': They show "[[Real Life]]" [[Man On The Street]] interviews about the eponymous Saints during the end credits.
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings (
** [[Peter Jackson]] used credits on black for the first two films because he wanted to save the special credits for the ''real'' ending.
* ''[[The Cannonball Run]]'' pretty well started the [[Hilarious Outtakes]] form of credits sequence, and most [[Burt Reynolds]] movies had outtakes playing over the end credits.
** [[Jackie Chan]] borrowed that after he was in ''[[The Cannonball Run]]'', so lots of his movies have outtake credits as well.
* The 1956 version of ''[[Around the World
* ''[[Spice World]]'' has a scene of the various actors complaining about their roles under the credits.
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* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (
* In ''Deathstalker 2'', the end credits include [[Hilarious Outtakes]].
* At the end of ''[[Sesame Street]] Presents Follow That Bird'', the Count wanted to count all the people who worked on the movie.{{spoiler|("That is 267 incredible, colossal credits! HAHAHAHAAA! I LOVE MOTION PICTURES!!!! HAHAHAHAAAA!!!")}}
* ''[[
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* The [[Dance Party Ending]] during the end credits of ''[[Slumdog Millionaire]]''.
* ''[[
* While it pales in comparison to most of these examples, ''[[Se7en]]'' had odd credits that scrolled down (this was to add to the already horrific ending) and if I recall correctly looked as though they were written with a faulty typewriter and then had the color poorly inverted.
* ''[[Drumline]]'' had twisting, curving credits along with diagrams from the drummers' manual.
* ''[[Shoot
* ''[[300
* ''[[
** ''[[The Mummy
** ''[[The Mummy
* ''[[Alice in Wonderland (
* ''[[Moulin Rouge]]'''s credits appeared to be projected from a roll of film/paper that at one point is taped together.
* ''[[Kill Bill]] Vol. 2''s credits aren't all that unusual, it's just that there's [[Ending Fatigue|so many of them]]: the opening credits, the end credits that show clips of everyone with a speaking part from both films, the crossing out of the Death List Five {{spoiler|except Elle, who gets a [[Sequel Hook|?]]}}, plus the credits from the first film.
* The ''[[Dawn of the Dead (2004
* Closing credits of ''Married To The Mob'' show various (non-hilarious) outtakes.
* ''[[West Side Story]]'' had most of the credits as
* ''[[Shallow Hal]]'' and ''[[Stuck On You]]'' (both by the Farrelly Bros.) had short video clips of ''[[Shown Their Work|every single person who worked on the film]]''.
* Both ''[[Never Been Kissed]]'' and ''[[I Love You, Beth Cooper]]'' featured high school-era photos of the stars, director, writers, producers and other crew members. Which in the case of the latter made for an amusing contrast between [[Hayden Panettiere]] and Paul Rust.
* The credits for ''[[
* ''[[Dreamgirls]]'' not only had clips from the movie but sketches of the costumes and sets for their respective credits.
* The first ''[[Austin Powers]]'' continued the groovin' '60s vibe with a "Blow-Up"-style photo shoot with Austin and Vanessa, and then a full musical number with Austin's band featuring Matthew Sweet and Suzanna Hoffs.
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* The 1968 mess of a counterculture comedy ''Skidoo'' has all the closing credits ''sung'' by Harry Nilsson ("Copyright M-C-M-L-X-V-I-I-I by Sigma Productions Incorporated - your receipt's on fire...").
* The closing credits of ''[[Lethal Weapon]] 4'' show a pin board holding photos from all previous movies, including mostly behind the scenes photos, with "Why Can't We Be Friends" playing in the background, giving the whole series a warm, family like, closure.
* ''[[Sherlock Holmes (
* ''[[School of Rock]]'' has the end credits roll over the closing scene of the kids playing [[
** "Movie's almost over! But we're still onscreen! Everybody's rockin', yeah we came from Horace Green!"
* The closing credits of ''Repo Man'' scroll ''downwards'' across the screen, not upwards, in a possible [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Se7en]]''.
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* ''[[Big Money Hustlas]]'' has the closing credits play over a gunfight that happens in a funeral, with [[Unexplained Recovery|unexpected revivals on people who died]]! ''[[Big Money Rustlas]]'' has a similar ending, this time set in a saloon.
* The entire end credits sequence for ''[[Tapeheads]]'' is a [[Call Back]] to the first video the main characters did (a commercial for Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles) with Roscoe rapping about what happened to the boys, and how his chain has grown, among other things.
* Some consider the ending credits for ''[[Robin Hood (2010 film)]]'' (with [[Russell Crowe]]) the best part of the entire
* An apparent tradition in the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]], although some movies (not listed here) have Creative ''Opening'' Credits instead:
** ''[[Iron Man (
** ''[[Thor (
** The end credits for ''[[Captain America: The
** ''[[The Avengers (
* ''[[
* The ''[[Doom (
* ''[[
* ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]: [[The Voyage of the Dawn Treader]]'' recaps the film using the original book illustrations by Pauline Baynes.
* ''[[Superman III]]'' and ''[[Supergirl (
* ''[[
* The end credits for ''[[Young Sherlock Holmes]]'' are accompanied by a sleigh-ride across snowy countryside {{spoiler|supposedly carrying Holmes after he's taken his (temporary) leave of Watson but which, at the '''very''' end, proves to have been taken by Sherlock's thought-to-be-dead archenemy Rathe, alias Moriarty}}.
* The German comedy ''Men...'' has the end credits rolling in front of parallel elevators on which the cast and crew are riding, coming into shot with their credit and moving up or down.
* The end credits of ''[[Snake Eyes]]'' roll over a busy construction site, presumably the site of a new casino to replace the one that was destroyed at the climax of the film. The camera closes in further and further until it focuses on one construction worker leaning against a pillar. {{spoiler|Once he leaves, it turns out his hand was blocking a red jewel embedded in the concrete. The jewel was part of a ring that belonged to minor character Serena, who had been killed by [[Big Bad]] Kevin Dunne, then thrown into a cement mixer}}.
* Horror comedy ''[[Waxwork II Lost in Time]]'' has the credits roll over a music video for the rap title theme tune "Lost In Time". As well as displaying [[Video Full of Film Clips|clips from the movie]] and behind the scenes moments, the video also features the cast dancing around in the various sets used throughout the film.
* ''[[Knocked Up]]'''s end credits featured baby pictures of the cast and crew.
* Going hand-in-hand with [[Downer Ending|the film's ending]], the first part of the end credits for ''[[Rise of the Planet of
* ''The Raven'''s end credits are rather creative, with a sort of raven made of blades.
* ''[[The Fourth Kind]]'''s end credits are accompanied not by music but by (supposedly) real phone calls made by people who've encountered aliens, with the time and date of each call appearing on screen.
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* The second ''[[Gremlins]]'' film appears at first to have fairly standard closing credits, except that [[Daffy Duck]] periodically shows up out of nowhere to make snarky comments at the audience ("You're still here? Don't you people have homes?") This is especially random since the movie had nothing to do with Daffy or the Looney Tunes.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* For several years, the closing credits of the British [[Soap Opera]] ''Crossroads'' reflected the title by alternating horizontal and vertical roller captions.
* ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'' had outtakes over the credits after the episode which frequently referenced ''[[Smokey and
* ''[[
** ''[[
* ''[[Police Squad!]]'''s gag ending. The characters in the last scene all freeze in place as though the last frame of the scene has been frozen to allow the credits to roll over it (similar to how credits were handled in many live-action adventure series over the years). The credits do roll, but the film keeps rolling as well - it's the actors who aren't moving! This allows for all sorts of weirdness (see the show's article for more on this).
* Ernie Kovacs would frequently end his shows with creative end credits. For example, one program featured credits over vignettes where a Snidely Whiplash-style villain unsuccessfully threatens a damsel in distress.
* Nickelodeon uses this concept to announce winners at the Kids Choice Awards: Names on T shirts, faces on banners, etc.
* ''[[The Monkees (
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
* The closing credits of [[Rule of Three|the third]] ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'' game are accompanied by the models of [[Loads and Loads of Characters|many characters]] doing the standard walking animation with the ability to rotate them and adjust the camera.
▲== Video Games ==
* Several games like to put their [[Concept Art Gallery]] in the end credits, such as ''[[Fahrenheit (2005 video game)]]'' and ''[[Legacy of Kain]]: [[Soul Reaver]]''.▼
▲* The closing credits of [[Rule of Three|the third]] ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'' game are accompanied by the models of [[Loads and Loads of Characters|many characters]] doing the standard walking animation with the ability to rotate them and adjust the camera.
* Throughout the entire game of ''[[
▲* Several games like to put their [[Concept Art Gallery]] in the end credits, such as ''[[Fahrenheit]]'' and ''[[Legacy of Kain]]: [[Soul Reaver]]''.
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
▲* Throughout the entire game of ''[[Earthbound]]'', [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment|a man in a top hat descends from the sky and takes a picture of your party]] every time you step in one of many spots throughout the game for seemingly no reason. After the [[Crowning Music of Awesome|first credits sequence]] which credits all the game's characters, the ''real'' credits afterwards [[Brick Joke|contain a montage of all the picture spots you found]].
** Similarly, the credits of ''[[
▲* ''[[Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories]]'' had various characters walking in on the sides while they displayed the true quality of the GBA by playing [[Kingdom Hearts (Franchise)/Awesome Music|the full vocal version of Simple and Clean with almost the same quality as on the PS2]].
** This in turn was carried on in ''[[Kingdom Hearts
▲** Similarly, the credits of ''[[Kingdom Hearts II (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts II]]'' had a [[Where Are They Now]] thing going on, showing small videos of the different characters Sora met in his journey after all the problems were took care of. Special mention goes to [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|King Mickey finally returning to his Queen and subjects at Disney Castle]]. Little guy [[Earn Your Happy Ending|earned it]].
* ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' had various FMV clips from the game play on the side of the scrolling credits while they turned on the vocal version of the game's theme: Melodies of Life.
▲** This in turn was carried on in ''[[Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep]]''. Many of these allude to future events and themes that would play on later, from {{spoiler|1=Isa and Lea buying sea salt ice cream from Scrooge McDuck to [[Lilo and Stitch (Disney)|Experiment 626]] flying off to a mysterious blue planet. Again, one of the most touching moments involves King Mickey, who, having failed to save the three heroes, returns the star shard and his keyblade to Master Yen Sid and turns to walk away... [[Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep (Video Game)/Heartwarming|Only for Yen Sid to return the Keyblade to him]], signifying that he passed the Mark of Mastery exam.}}
** ''[[Final Fantasy
* ''[[Super Smash Bros
▲* ''[[Super Smash Bros (Video Game)|Super Smash Bros]].'' lets you pause, accelerate, target, or warp the end credits. The two sequels turn the credits into a shooting minigame.
** Not to mention that in ''Brawl'', the actual credits are overshadowed by the awesome mini-movie at the right side of the screen, featuring scenes of the entire Subspace Emissary that go pretty well with the credits music.
* ''[[
* [[Capcom]] seems particularly fond of this trope:
** Almost all of the ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
* The ending credits for both ''[[
* Many [[JRPG
* The credits of ''[[
* The end credits for ''[[Doctor Robotniks Mean Bean Machine]]'' features a roll call for all the opponents you faced, which is the only way to learn the names of some of them.
* In ''[[Street Fighter]] EX3'', while the credits roll, your fighter is placed at the center of a room in which you have to fight waves of opponents. Not fighting will not deny any benefits to you, nor will it spring a [[Kaizo Trap]], but the enemies come in such a sheer number that you're sure to take one hell of a wallop if you just stand there. Thankfully, their strength is inversely proportional to their ranks...
* In the DS version of ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
** All the ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
* ''[[God Hand]]'': Officially the most [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|awesome]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAga2AjfZlg ending credits scene] ever.
* In the end credits of ''[[Legacy of Kain|Legacy Of Kain: Blood Omen]]'', one of the dev team yells "Coffee time!" over the music.
* ''[[Crash Bandicoot|Crash Team Racing]]'', Naughty Dog's last ''Crash'' game, features all the playable racers (and Oxide) dancing over the end credits, overlaid with [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue|short text blurbs telling what happened to them all after the game's events]]. After the credits, the player is also treated to a [[Concept Art Gallery]] slideshow with sketches, character designs, and promo renders of every game in the series so far, as a final farewell from Naughty Dog.
* ''[[The House of the Dead (
* The outro of ''[[New Super Mario Bros
* ''[[
** The main game also has a sweet song and claptrap-style logos accompanying the scroll.
* ''[[
* In the Collectors Edition of ''[[Mystery Case Files]]: Dire Grove'', there's a math puzzle in the end credits. Solving it gives you a seven-digit number. If you then replay the game, you can enter that number into a certain telephone and get a message about an upcoming Ravenhearst sequel.
* ''[[Portal (
** ''[[
* The original ''[[The Adventures of Sam
* ''[[
* The end credits of ''[[Sacrifice]]'' feature a [[Machinima]] in which all the people who worked on the game, each represented by a different one of the game's character models, come out and take their bows.
* The last level of ''[[
* In ''Super [[Karoshi]]'', the ending credits are a playable level. The last line of the credits are [[Spikes of Doom]].
* In ''[[Viva
* ''[[Katamari Damacy]]'' has you roll up the countries in the world during the closing credits.
**The [[
* ''[[Guitar Hero]] III'', where you actually PLAY the end song "Through the Fire and Flames"?
** ''World Tour'' uses "Pull Me Under" by Dream Theater, ''5'' uses "21st Century Schizoid Man", and ''Band Hero'' uses "American Pie."
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* ''[[Sonic Chronicles]]: The Dark Brotherhood'' has the game's characters giving the credits in dialogue. Yes, seriously. Omega eventually joins them.
** Playing as Sonic, you can eventually tell Tails to [[Get It Over With|shut up]]. This brings you back to the title screen.
* Speaking of Sonic, ''[[
* The ''[[Super Monkey Ball]]'' games tend to turn the ending credits into minigames. Mostly they ask the player to gather bananas (which counts toward the overall score), but bumping into the letters of the credits makes you lose bananas.
* In the Master Modes of the ''[[
* After defeating the [[Final Boss]] of ''[[
* This trope is traditional in the ''[[
* ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' lists the four survivors as actors in a movie, with the player's handle as the actor playing their chosen character. At the end of the credits, the number of kills is listed as "X zombies were harmed in the making of this film."
** And the survivors that didn't make it are listed under In Memory Of.
* ''Teleroboxer'' for the [[Virtual Boy]] had the robot hands in first person perspective that were used during the game. Pictures of the developers come into perspective and the hands start punching them, making them hilariously deformed before they are thrown into [[A Twinkle in
* In ''[[Viewtiful Joe]] Red Hot Rumble'' you get to control the character you ended the game with to break rocks that hold the names of the developers.
* The first ''[[
** Keeping with ''Pokemon'', ''HeartGold'' and ''SoulSilver's'' credits are [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFWqkhe37ks really, really sweet]. Dancing Pokemon, gym leaders screwing around, TR getting chased by Lance, Silver kicking you...
*** ''[[
* In ''[[
* ''[[Jade Empire]]'''s credits are talked over partially by the must-mentioned but never seen wife of Hou, then by the "actors" playing two of the supporting cast - their conversations cover the difficulties of filming, the interwebs, [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] to ''[[
* In the 2008 ''[[Prince of Persia]]'', the credits play over the last section of the game; then, inexplicably, they roll ''again'' after you finish it.
* ''[[
** Likewise, the third game sets Dante against an endless tide of enemies. Killing one hundred of them gives you [[The Stinger]], which confirms {{spoiler|Vergil becoming Nero Angelo}}.
* In the credits of ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Loco Roco]] 2'' has the Loco Rocos on the credits, letting you tilt them around as normal and collecting fruit to make them grow.
* ''[[
* The credits of ''[[Rock Band]]'' are accompanied by a photo of every named Harmonix staff member [[The Power of Rock|rocking out]].
* The credits of ''[[
* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* ''Barrow Hill'' shows some creepy cinematic-style images and spooky landscapes from the game during its closing credits.
* ''[[Beatmania|beatmania IIDX 13]]'' lets you use the turntable to pan around the abstract monochrome geometric world ... thing you float through over the staff roll.
** Later beatmania IIDX installments [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VhtIoDMKeQ let players] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnR-cZI4e_4 play through their] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbeFK-wB5EU ending themes].
* ''[[Ehrgeiz]]'' takes the cake by making you fight the [[True Final Boss]] during them.
* ''[[Dawn of War]]'' shows the sync kill animations from the game alongside the credits.
* ''[[
* ''[[Mystery Case Files|Escape From Ravenhearst]]'', a game in which you must spot objects whose appearance shifts back and forth, has some of its closing credits shift between the real names/headings and jokes.
* ''[[Zombies Ate My Neighbors]]'' combines this with [[Developer's Room]]. The credits are a playable level called "Monsters Among Us", set in the Lucasarts offices, where you not only rescue people and kill monsters as usual, but also meet all the developers of the game. And [[George Lucas]].
* ''[[Punch
** The [[Sega Genesis]] ''[[Altered Beast]]'' allowed to punch too.
* ''[[Skylanders:
* ''[[
* [http://www.kongregate.com/games/whiteboardwar/creeper-world-2-academy?acomplete=creep Creeper World 2: Academy] features a playable level in its credits.
* ''[[
** The movie "Is It Fall Yet?" had [[Animated Actors|supposed bloopers]], while "Is It College Yet?" used the "alter-ego" format for a not-necessarily-canon [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]].
▲* ''[[Daria (Animation)|Daria]]'', with its alter-egos credits showcasing the characters of the show in an array of alternate personae, costume and even other animation styles (for example, [[Lovable Libby|Quinn]] as Hello Kitty, [[Hippie Teacher|Mr. O'Neill]] as Mr. T, etc.)
* ''[[
▲** The movie "Is It Fall Yet?" had [[Animated Actors|supposed bloopers]], while "Is It College Yet?" used the "alter-ego" format for a not-necessarily-canon [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]].
▲* ''[[Wakfu (Animation)|Wakfu]]'': The credits of each episode have a small scene acted out by a character or characters from that episode alongside them. The first four episodes are simply the main characters introducing themselves, but the following episodes all have little skits attached. The series Finale's credits show most of the secondary characters and what they've become.
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