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[[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 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]].
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* [[Don Bluth]] is fond of this. ''[[All Dogs Go to Heaven]]'' has a continuously moving background of painted clouds, ''[[Rock-a-Doodle]]'' has a colorful, abstract background consisting of huge music notes scrolling up, ''[[The Secret of NIMH]]'' frames the credits with delicious illustrations, etc. ''[[The Land Before Time]]'' showcases the lush Great Valley
* ''[[Tangled]]'' has stylized credits of various scenes from Rapunzel and Flynn's adventure. They were animated by Shiyoon Kim, and you can check out a few pictures of them [http://shiyoon.blogspot.com/2010/11/hey-everybody-thanks-for-all-wonderful.html here].
* ''[[Legend of the Guardians:
* The ending credits of ''[[Steamboy]]'' taking the form of a [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]].
* ''[[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.
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* ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]: Return of the King'' ended with brilliant artwork of all the characters (actually photos morphed with hand-drawn art), scenery, and anything else the artists managed to make into wonderful sketches.
** [[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 in Eighty Days]]'' has an animated recap of the entire movie.
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** ''[[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 (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)|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]]}}
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* 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 Apes]]'' roll over {{spoiler|an animation of international patterns spreading the ALZ-113 virus across the globe}}.
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* ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'' had outtakes over the credits after the episode which frequently referenced ''[[Smokey and the Bandit]]''.
* ''[[Blackadder]] the Third'' ended each episode which its final scene frozen and turned into a woodcut-style illustration, which would then scroll upward and reveal the credits as a theater program from a Regency-era play.
** ''[[Blackadder]] 2'' ended each episode with Edmund walking away from the camera into a garden, while being followed by (and interacting with) the minstrel singing the closing theme.
* ''[[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.
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== 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.
* 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]]''.
* 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]].
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories|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/Awesome Music|the full vocal version of Simple and Clean with almost the same quality as on the PS2]].
** Similarly, the credits of ''[[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]].
** This in turn was carried on in ''[[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 film)|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/Heartwarming|Only for Yen Sid to return the Keyblade to him]], signifying that he passed the Mark of Mastery exam.}}
* ''[[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.
** ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' [[Older Than They Think|did it first]], showing the various craziness of the main party characters as they celebrate in Balamb Garden. It's not until the very, ''very'' end of the credits that you get confirmation that {{spoiler|Squall is still alive}}.
* ''[[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.
* ''[[Tatsunokovs Capcom]]'' has a minigame during the credits where you ride a bike with Doronjo and her lackeys. It even unlocks another minigame! And if you were playing as Roll, you can fly her broom instead.
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* ''[[Cave Story]]'': In lieu of a credits list (it would be too short, considering just one guy made the game all by himself), the game ends with a roll call for all the characters, enemies, and bosses. These are accompanied by pixel art renditions of scenes from the story, and cutscenes showing [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue|where the characters end up after the end]]. These scenes change depending on which of the [[Multiple Endings]] you got.
* 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 ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' plays out beneath the credits.
* In ''Super [[Karoshi]]'', the ending credits are a playable level. The last line of the credits are [[Spikes of Doom]].
* In ''[[Viva Piñata|Viva Pinata]]: Trouble in Paradise'', the credits are a minigame in which you can smash piñatas to earn the [[Money for Nothing|extremely useful]] wishing well.
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* ''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 the Sky]]- er space. At the end the player can punch the Nintendo logo for a while.
* 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 ''[[Pokémon Ranger]]'' game let you explode the text by tapping it with your stylus while [[Where Are They Now]]-type scenes play on the top.
** 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...
*** ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'' initially displays sweeping close-up views of Reshiram (in ''White'') or Zekrom (in ''Black'') during the end credits. Afterwards, you get to see {{spoiler|N flying off on the dragon that appeared}} during [[The Stinger]]. The end credits after beating the [[True Final Boss]] don't have a gimmick, though.
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* ''[[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 ''[[Star Trek]]'', not getting typecast and exactly what she does with [[Noodle Implements|that banana]] on stage. And then your mentor telling you about the time you were decapitated as a child, but got better after walking it off. And then exploded a mountain by punching it. [[In Space]]. [http://uk.gamespot.com/users/edubuccaneer/video_player?id=ISE2njf45bwNvTI The credits can be seen here], Hou's section starts at just before three minutes in, Dawn Star and Sagacious Zu at a little past five minutes.
* 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.
* ''[[Devil May Cry]] 4'' challenges you to defend Kyrie from waves of scarecrows for ninety seconds, which is of course made more difficult by the credits obscuring the entire screen. There's a bonus cutscene [[The Stinger|at the end]], though.
** 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 ''[[Kirby and The Amazing Mirror]]'', you can keep shooting the [[No Kill Like Overkill|already defeated boss]] as the game counts your number of hits.
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* ''[[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.
* ''[[Super Mario RPG]]'' ends with a parade of the game's entire cast, filled with plenty of visual gags and ending at night with a fireworks display that changes depending on a relatively minor mechanic from earlier in the game.
* ''[[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-Out!!]]'' on the Wii lets you punch the names in the credits. The important part is to look out for weird symbols, misspellings, and the names of characters from the game in particular.
** The [[Sega Genesis]] ''[[Altered Beast]]'' allowed to punch too.
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== Western 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]]'': 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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