Evolving Credits: Difference between revisions

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** They're basically a ''reversal'' of the usual intent of this trope. Instead of revealing characters one by one, characters who won't be seen for a ''very'' long time appear, and some one-shot characters are given screentime to make you think they were as important as Prime himself. Both openings are a thing of beauty, with major [[Ear Worm]] songs, but they're ''on crack'' when held up against the actual events of the show.

** Just to go into the already-mentioned examples: the black-and-red Soundwave represents '' {{spoiler|the real Soundwave's virtual world avatar}}'', not another character. Also, ''Grindor is not in TFA '''at all''''' <ref>Okay, ''long'' after the fact, a Grinder (with an E) who is colored nothing like Blackout (unlike Blackout's 100% identical twin in the opening) does appear in a ''card game.''</ref> and the two Blackouts are perfectly identical (unlike movie Grindor, a blue-gray repaint of movie Blackout) so he ''is'' a second Blackout, not Grindor. In the actual show, Blackout appears for all of 20 seconds in the opening scenes of the third season premiere. He gets one line. He doesn't even appear in the virtual world alongside most of the rest of his team. Also, Swindle is a solo operator who'll sell arms to ''anyone,'' and is only considered a Decepticon because [[Merchandise-Driven|his toy's gotta be sold as something, and he sure ain't no Autobot]], and makes little sense as someone to have alongside Megs. This is by no means the full extent.

* ''[[Angel Beats]]''

* ''[[Angel Beats!]]''

** The ending credits evolve with changes in the cast or relations among the characters, such as the removal of characters who move on, or a character who was revealed in that episode to be buff going [[Fan Service|shirtless]] in the credits.

** The opening credits evolve as well. Like the ending credits, characters are added or subtracted from the opening as they are introduced to the cast, or they move on. Both the opening and ending of the final episode credits include ALL of the characters, even those who moved on very early in the series.

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* ''[[Game of Thrones]]'''s opening sequence alters slightly depending on where members of the main cast are at any given time.

* Being a [[Long Runner]] that [[The Nth Doctor|swaps out its main character as a matter of course]], the credits for ''[[Doctor Who]]'' have gone through ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjMR98ODhS4 many]'' changes.

* As doctors came and went from the 4077th, ''[[M*A*S*H|Mash]]'' inserted and removed its characters from the scramble to get the wounded in the opening credits. The final shot of the credits originally showed Hawkeye and Trapper riding on the jeeps headed back to the camp. After Wayne Rogers left the show, they kept the shot, but reframed it to crop Trapper out.

* As doctors came and went from the 4077th, ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|Mash]]'' inserted and removed its characters from the scramble to get the wounded in the opening credits. The final shot of the credits originally showed Hawkeye and Trapper riding on the jeeps headed back to the camp. After Wayne Rogers left the show, they kept the shot, but reframed it to crop Trapper out.

* The credits for ''[[NYPD Blue]]'' showed Dennis Franz second after the somewhat younger actors (David Caruso and Jimmy Smits) who played his partner. He was moved to first in the lineup when Sipowicz was partnered with detectives played by the ''considerably'' younger Rick Schroeder and Mark-Paul Gosselaar.

* ''[[Breakout Kings]]'': After Charlie's death Ray is alone and his badge now sports the black band used for mourning a fallen officer.