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[[File:foxplane.jpg|link=Futurama (Animation)|frame|[[FOX]] [[Biting the Hand Humor|shoots down yet another]] [[Stealth Pun|promising pilot]].]]

Some studios have [[Vanity Plate|vanity plates]]s that are [[Iconic Logo|recognized everywhere]]. The moment you see a ring of stars swirling into place above a serene-looking mountain, for example, you know you're looking at a [[Paramount]] production. That little kid who tosses a fishing line into the water while sitting in the crook of the moon is instantly recognizable as [[Dream WorksDreamWorks]]. Such logos, once they climb to a certain point of universal recognition (no pun intended for those people who are watching a globe spin on their movie screens), are a sure fire form of brand name recognition.

Every once in a while, though, a creator will have fun with it. The [[Vanity Plate]] will be changed in some way, just enough to put a new spin on it. [[Match Cut|Match Cuts]]s are also a common form of this.

A very specific type of inside joke. A subtrope of [[Special Edition Title]]. More examples in the IMDb's [https://web.archive.org/web/20100410142601/http://www.imdb.com/Sections/CrazyCredits/ Crazy Credits] section, or at the [http://www.closinglogos.com/page/Logo+Variations Closing Logos Group Wiki]

* The second to last note of the ''[[Alien (Filmfranchise)|Alien]] 3'' ident is [[Last-Note Nightmare|held for several seconds, rising in crescendo, before cutting off abruptly.]] (This variation can be heard on the soundtrack album for ''[[Predator]]''.)

* ''[[Alvin and the Chipmunks (Film)|Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel]]'': Alvin appears on one of the searchlights singing along to the fanfare. Simon and Theodore stand nearby singing along as well. Alvin dashes over to join them for the last notes, nearly knocking Theodore off the platform in the process. After they finish singing, Theodore worriedly glances down at the ground as he is still hanging off the edge of the platform.

* ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'': The logo reads ''30th Century Fox Television''. The logo even appears in-universe, as seen above.

* ''[[Ice Age (Animation)|Ice Age]] 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs'': A stone-age version of the logo appears, with the searchlights replaced by smoking fumaroles.

* ''[[Robin Hood: Men in Tights]]'' has a 12th Century Fox logo. On an actual fox.

* ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'': In one [[Couch Gag]], [[Biting the Hand Humour|Homer notices the Fox logo on the screen, rips it off furiously, and his family joins him in stomping on it]].

* The searchlights going out also occurs in FOX Searchlight's ''[[Sunshine (Filmfilm)|Sunshine]]'' and ''[[Twenty Eight Days Later|28 Days Later]]''.

* In the ''[[X-Men (Filmfilm)|X-Men]]'' trilogy and ''[[X-Men: Days of Future Past]]'', the "X" in the Fox logo remains visible to the end although the rest of the logo has already faded out.

* ''[[Men in Black (Filmfilm)|Men in Black]]'' series: The Torch Lady's torch flashes like a [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|neuralizer]]. Happens in-universe at the end of the second movie.

* ''[[The Mouse That Roared (Literature)|The Mouse That Roared]]'': The Torch Lady looks down, sees a mouse at her feet on the pedestal, [[Eek! A Mouse!|and runs off-screen, leaving her torch behind]].

* ''[[CharliesCharlie's Angels]]'': The movie begins with the usual Colombia Torch Lady logo. Then the logo pans to the right, as the movie starts off in the sky on a plane.

* ''[[Cloudy Withwith a Chance of Meatballs]]'': A giant banana falls on the Torch Lady.

* ''[[BeakmansBeakman's World]]'': A toy rocket flies around the Torch Lady.

* ''[[The Green Hornet (Filmfilm)|The Green Hornet]]'': The torch has a green glow instead of a yellow glow.

** ''[[Twenty Twelve2012]]'' has a bright orange glow - though a review said it'd be better if the statue was in ruins, [[Scenery Gorn|to fit the movie]].

* ''[[Lilo and Stitch]]'': The Walt Disney Pictures logo gets abducted by a [[Tractor Beam]].

** Although the joke isn't necessarily with the Disney/Pixar logos themselves, if you stick around to the very end of the credits, the Disney and Pixar logos are followed by a [[Bn L]]BnL logo and jingle.

* ''[[The Haunted Mansion (Filmfilm)|The Haunted Mansion]]'' has the castle set against the foyer organ, before fading into the roof of the mansion.

* ''[[Enchanted (Film)|Enchanted]]'': The camera zooms in on a tower of the Disney castle to show the book on a stand inside, effectively integrating the logo into the animated prologue.

* ''[[Atlantis: theThe Lost Empire]]'': The logo looks as if it's been hammered onto brass, and the "arch" looks like an electric spark going over the castle.

* ''[[TeachersTeacher's Pet (AnimationTV series)|Teachers Pet]]'': The castle is drawn in the style of the series it is based on, and thus series creator Gary Baseman.

* ''[[Recess: SchoolsSchool's Out]]'': After the flash of light, we see the gang standing on the castle and they play out the jingle with their kazoos.

* ''[[Tron Legacy (Film)|Tron: Legacy]]'': The castle is rendered as a black angular shape covered in [[Tron Lines]].

* ''[[Tangled (Disney)|Tangled]]'': [[Milestone Celebration|50th]] [[Disney Animated Canon]] film disclaimer in the Walt Disney Animation Studios logo.

* ''[[Sleeping Beauty (Disney film)|Sleeping Beauty]]'': The trailer for the 1995 re-release included a clip of the Walt Disney Pictures castle transforming into the castle where Aurora's parents live.

== [[Dream WorksDreamWorks]]/DreamworksAnimation ==

* ''[[Shrek]]'': The S in both "[[Dream WorksDreamWorks]]" and "SKG" grow ogre ears.

* ''The Lost World: [[Jurassic Park]]'' for [[Play StationPlayStation]] and [[Sega Saturn]]: The boy's line gets a tug, he exclaims, "Caught something!", and the boy is violently yanked off the moon as a raptor squeal is heard.

* ''[[Small Soldiers]]'' for [[Play StationPlayStation]], the Commando Elite climb up the line and tie the kid up.

* ''[[How to Train Your Dragon (Filmanimation)|How to Train Your Dragon]]'': a Night Fury flies around in the background. This otherwise introduces the new vanity plate for Dreamworks Animation (which exploits the 3D with a more elaborate fishline-swinging).

== [[Lucas ArtsLucasArts]] ==

{{quote| Doing the "normal" logo is usually the ''exception'' rather than the rule for [[Lucas ArtsLucasArts]]:}}

* ''[[Star Wars: Dark Forces Saga (Video Game)|Jedi Knight]]'' series and ''[[The Force Unleashed]]'': multiple variations on drawing a lightsaber / using force powers etc.

* ''[[Afterlife (Video Game)|Afterlife]]'', where the Gold Man first falls into a flaming-red lava pit ... and then flies out with a halo and wings into [[Go Into the Light|a heavenly white light]] off the screen.

** ''[[Escape Fromfrom Monkey Island]]'' also had the logo change to a monkey holding a banana.

** In ''[[The Curse of Monkey Island (Video Game)|The Curse of Monkey Island]]'' the game starts with the letters C M I done in the style of the THX sound preface, complete with the THX noise, with their slogan replaced with "The monkeys are listening."

* In ''[[Grim Fandango]]'' we see the Gold Man turn into a skeleton, with the ray above also skeletonized.

* On several different ''[[Tom and Jerry (Animation)|Tom and Jerry]]'' cartoons, principally those directed by [[Chuck Jones]], Leo the Lion is replaced by Tom, who gives his best housecat "roar".

* In the 2006 [[R EmakeRemake]] of ''[[The Pink Panther]]'', after the lion roars, an animated version of Inspector Clouseau appears within the MGM logo, followed by the Pink Panther, then the lion again, reacting [[Monty Python]] style.

* ''[[The Fearless Vampire Killers (Film)|The Fearless Vampire Killers]]'' had the lion turning into an animated vampire.

** There are two versions of this. The original one is the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaGfWpFT79o lion morphing into a vampire where a drop of blood drops off his fang and segues into the opening credits]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OPvFqh-Oe8 The American version is at the end of the cartoon opening where animated versions of Abronsius and Alfred walk onto the logo as the lion roars then sprouts vampire fangs causing them to run off.] One more blood drops from its fangs and segues to the opening credits

* [[The Movie]] of ''[[Josie and Thethe Pussycats (Filmfilm)|Josie and The Pussycats]]'' (a co-production between Universal and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) begins with [[Boy Band]] music playing over the Universal logo but is immediately followed by the MGM logo as the music continues, with the lion being replaced with a [[Squee|squealing]] teenage girl.

* ''[[The Howling|Howling III: The Marsupials]]'' replaced the lion roar with a quick film clip a [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Thylacine |thylacine]] roaring.

{{quote| Mary Tyler Moore's film company, MTM, uses a logo that is a parody of the MGM logo, using a meowing [[Cute Kitten|kitten]] (owned by Moore and named "Mimsie") instead of a roaring lion. (Sometimes Mimsie is shown as a still image, as seen on ''[[Lou Grant (TV)|Lou Grant]]'', ''Paris'', the theatrical release ''Just Between Friends'' and the pilot for ''Three For The Road''). MTM has used variations of its own logo for various shows produced by them over the years.}}

* For [[Christmas Episode|Christmas Episodes]]s, such as those on ''[[The Bob Newhart Show (TV)|The Bob Newhart Show]]'', Mimsie was shown encircled by a Christmas wreath in place of the usual gold ribbon.

* At the end of the "Put on a Happy Face" episode of ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show (TV)|The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]'', Mary Tyler Moore herself appeared in place of Mimsie and mouthed the words "Th-th-th-that's all folks!"

* At the end of the 1991 ''Mary Tyler Moore'' [[Reunion Show]], Mimsie does not meow, she says "Bye!" in Mary Tyler Moore's voice.

* ''[[Newhart]]'': Bob Newhart's voice says "Meow" -- except—except for the first episode, where she meows normally, and the last episode, where Darryl and Darryl scream "QUIET!".

* For ''[[Remington Steele (TV)|Remington Steele]]'' the cat wears a [[Sherlock Holmes]] deerstalker cap and has a meerschaum pipe in its mouth; when it meows, the pipe falls and lands in front of the word "Productions".

* ''[[St. Elsewhere]]'': The kitten is dressed for surgery in mask and smock. In the final episode, the kitten appeared beneath the closing credits, hooked up to life support machinery, [[Tear Jerker|and flatlined]] [[Downer Ending|at the end of the credits.]]

* ''The Steve Allen Show:'' The kitten wears heavy black eyeglasses and declares "Schmock!" in the voice of Steve Allen.

* ''Xuxa'': The kitten uses the voice of Xuxa saying "Ciao!"

* The most startling variation appears at the end of the TV movie/PoorlyDisguisedPilot[[Poorly-Disguised Pilot]] ''Vampire'', which has "AN MTM ENTERPRISES INC. PRODUCTION" in blood-red against a black background - '''and no kitten at all!'''

{{quote| Note that the variants are all exclusive to ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', and so the entries refer to episodes of that show.}}

{{quote| '''Hope:''' Hey, get a load of that bread and butter!<br />

(Cut to a shot of a snow-covered mountain)<br />

'''Crosby:''' Bread and butter? That's a mountain!<br />

(The "Paramount Pictures" logo suddenly appears in front of said mountain)<br />

* It was planned for the end Paramount logo to turn into the ''[[Star Trek]]'' insignia at the end credits of ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation]]'', but the plan was dropped.

* ''[[Indiana Jones (Franchise)|Indiana Jones]]'': The mountain fades into...

** ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark (Film)|Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'': A mountain in the film via a dissolve.

** ''[[Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom (Film)|Indiana Jones and Thethe Temple of Doom]]'': A relief carving of a mountain on a gong.

** ''[[Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (Film)|Indiana Jones and Thethe Last Crusade]]'': A mountain in Utah.

** ''[[Indiana Jones and Thethe Kingdom of The Crystal Skull (Film)|Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of Thethe Crystal Skull]]'': A [[Stealth Pun|molehill]].

* ''[[Team America: World Police]]:'' The Paramount logo animation runs backward.

* In ''[[Coming to America]]'', the camera zooms in to the mountain -- andmountain—and then ''over'' it, until it reaches the fictional African country.

* In ''[[South Park: Bigger, Longer and& Uncut]]'', the mountain changes into a construction-paper mountain in the skyline of South Park, Colorado.

* It's [[Stealth Pun|never spelled out in the text]], but Holy Wood Hill in the [[Discworld]] book ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Moving Pictures|Moving Pictures]]'' is implied to be a worn-down, aged version of the "Paramountain", and in Ginger's dreams is shown surrounded by huge stars (which is [[Fridge Horror]] when, as well as being a [[Shout -Out]], these appear to be connected with the established large stars in the skies of the Dungeon Dimensions).

* As seen on the ''[[Exit Through the Gift Shop]]'' poster, guerrilla artist [[Banksy]]'s vanity production company is Paranoid Pictures, whose logo is very similar to Paramount's.

* In the 2009 ''[[Friday the 13 th13th]]'', the logo is tinted blood red.

* ''[[Serenity (Film)|Serenity]]'': The Universal spinning-planet logo becomes [[Earth -That -Was]], with the colony ships blasting off for space.

* ''[[Xanadu (Film)|Xanadu]]'': A recreation of the 1929 Universal globe with biplane flying around opens the film. As the opening credits appear, the globe remains on screen and a succession of increasingly modern flying machines (four-engine airliner, Concorde, flying saucer) emerge from behind the Earth. The music changes in different styles of music as the objects appear.

* ''[[Casper (Filmfilm)|Casper]]'': The globe turns into the moon.

* ''[[Changeling (Filmfilm)|Changeling]]'': A 1920s version of the logo is used - [[Retraux|appropriate for a 1920s period film.]]

* ''[[Van Helsing (Film)|Van Helsing]]'': The Universal Earth is in black and white, and transforms into the flaming end of a torch carried by a member of a [[Torches and Pitchforks]] mob.

* The Remake of ''[[The WolfmanWolf Man]]'' features multiple versions. In one, the Universal Earth moves to reveal a full moon. Another kept the ''Art-Deco Globe logo'' featured in the original 1941 version, albeit a [[Darker and Edgier|darker]] version.

* ''[[Doom (Filmfilm)|Doom]]'': Mars is used instead of Earth.

* ''[[Land of the Lost (TV series)|Land of the Lost]]'': Uses the 1970s version of the Universal logo.

* ''[[Inglourious Basterds (Film)|Inglourious Basterds]]'': The 70s/80s version of the Universal logo.

* ''[[Sgt. PeppersPepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Film)|Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'': The 1929 Byplane logo is used since the first scene is a flashback to World War I.

* ''[[Smokey and Thethe Bandit]] Part 2'': Animated versions of Bandit's TransAm and Sheriff Justice's police car chase around the globe.

* ''[[Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Film)|Scott Pilgrim vs. the World]]'' displays the logo and fanfare in ''glorious'' 8-bit.

** Also inverted [[Playing Withwith a Trope|or something]] when Lucas Lee makes his entrance to the tune of the original fanfare.

* The international release of ''[[Josie and Thethe Pussycats (Filmfilm)|Josie and The Pussycats]]'' had the Universal logo turn into a tongue ring shown on a screaming girl's tongue. Although the film opens with both logos, this variation is not on the US release (which got the MGM logo joke seen above; the joke appears on the logo of the company that ''didn't'' release it in that territory).

* ''[[Man Onon the Moon]]'' uses "Fanfare for Andy", a whimsical acappella piece associated with [[Andy Kaufman]]'s wrestling career, instead of the standard vanity plate music.

* ''[[Mars Attacks (Film)!]]'' starts with the usual "sky-borne" WB Shield, from behind which a Martian saucer emerges and wobbles sinisterly off-screen to the strains of a Theremin.

* ''[[Sherlock Holmes (Filmfilm)|Sherlock Holmes]]'': The WB shield, Village Roadshow W, and Silver Pictures square, appear as metal-worked sewer covers on a cobblestone street; the camera pulls back to reveal the street as part of the movie's opening chase.

* ''[[Constantine (Film)|Constantine]]'': The Warner Bros. logo starts out in front of the traditional blue sky with fluffy white clouds. Then the [[Red Sky, Take Warning|sky and clouds turn red]] and the logo crumbles and blows away, which is a reference to events later in the movie when Constantine goes to Hell. Again.

* ''[[Three Hundred|300]]'': Not only are the WB and Legendary Pictures logos rendered to look like unearthed ancient gold, but the "As Time Goes By" jingle is ''also'' done [[In the Style Of|in a Greek-sounding style]].

* ''[[Rock N RollaRocknRolla]]'': The WB and Dark Castle Entertainment logos are spray-painted onto the side of a brick wall.

* ''[[Batman: theThe Animated Series]]'': The WB Logo fades into a police zepplin.

* ''[[Batman Forever (Film)|Batman Forever]]'' and ''[[Batman and Robin (Filmfilm)|Batman and Robin]]'': The Warner Brothers logo morphs into the shapes of the Bat Emblem. The latter has the logo freezing.

* ''[[Superman Returns]]'' and ''[[Superman (Filmfilm)|Superman IV: The Quest For Peace]]'': The opening logo isn't changed, but the accompanying music has a few notes added at the end, effectively playing the Superman fanfare.

* The classic ''[[Looney Tunes]] / [[Merrie Melodies]]'' cartoons traditionally began with the WB shield surrounded by brightly colored concentric rings. Some twists: Many of the classic [[Bugs Bunny]] cartoons start with Bugs reclining on the shield, and in some cases pulling down the card reading "Looney Tunes" or "Merrie Melodies".

** One [[Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner (Animation)|Road Runner]] cartoon ended with the Coyote essentially quitting, and placing a sign in view advertising for "one gullible coyote" [[No Fourth Wall|to speak to the movie theater manager]], then pulling the closing "Th-Th-That's All Folks" card onto the screen.

*** This was also reused for the 2003 Looney Tunes shorts WB made in a short-lived revival attempt (for tying in with ''[[Looney Tunes: Back in Action]]''), but the effect was not as convincing.

* A variation: For many of their TV cartoons and animated movies, WB would use an intro with Bugs Bunny leaning on the shield and eating a carrot while the last few notes of the Merrie Melodies theme plays. ''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]'' replaced it with the last four notes of their theme ("Those are the facts!"), and that was used until 2008 (at which point, a remade intro returned the Merrie Melodies tune).

** ''[[WakkosWakko's Wish (Film)|Wakkos Wish]]'' featured Bugs coming out as usual, followed by [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gECzxP8FHCw Wakko coming out and taking a bite out of the WB shield].

* In ''[[Green Lantern (Filmfilm)|Green Lantern]]'', the logo as a power ring construct, as well as the DC logo.

* ''[[Yogi Bear (Animation)|Yogi Bear]]'' has the Warner Bros. logo in green and wood-paneled. The sky in the background is also done in a more realistic style than the animated sky usually seen.

* The WB shield at the beginning of each ''[[Harry Potter (Filmfilm)|Harry Potter]]'' movie becomes [[Darker and Edgier]] [[Scenery Gorn|Rustier]] [http://youtu.be/RkDiA5ea2KQ as the series progresses]. The accompanying music is the ''Harry Potter'' theme, becoming each time more sinister too.

* ''[[Mortal Kombat 9 (Video Game)|Mortal Kombat 9]]'' has the camera go around from one side of the WB water tower (with the WB logo on the tower and the normally bright sky background) to the other side (with the WB ''Games'' logo and, uhhh, a ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' dragon logo skyline).

* In ''[[Zodiac (Filmfilm)|Zodiac]]'', co-produced by Warner and Paramount, both companies' logos are presented in [[Retraux|period-appropriate (i.e., 1970s) versions]].

* ''[[Gladiator (Filmfilm)|Gladiator]]'': The [[Dream WorksDreamWorks]] and Universal logos are sepia-toned.

* In [[Watchmen (Filmfilm)|the film adaptation]] of ''[[Watchmen]]'', all of the logos (Warner Brothers, Paramount, Legendary Pictures, DC Comics) are rendered in static, monotone black on a yellow background with the "Futura Condensed" font when applicable, mimicking the cover of the comic book.

* ''[[The Cat in Thethe Hat]]'': The Universal and Dreamworks logos, plus that of Imagine Entertainment, are all drawn and colored Dr. Seuss style. Plus, the Dreamworks logo's kid is wearing the titular hat, and you can see Fish-In-a-Dish swim away in the ripples of the Imagine logo. By far, the only good thing about this atrocity of a movie.

* ''[[Get Smart (Filmfilm)|Get Smart]]'': The WB logo is a CONTROL-like door, and the Village Roadshow logo is a billboard.

** The [http://www.closinglogos.com/page/Cartoon+Network+Studios third and current "Cartoon Network Studios" logo] is a grungy, 1992 version of the network logo that stops blinking when a green scanner runs over it. However, most series/movies have it open up to some rough, animatic-like animation of the main characters (for example, [[The Grim Adventures of Billy and& Mandy]] has Grim trying to chop off Billy and Mandy's heads).

* [[Michael Bay]] ''[[Transformers (Filmfilm)|Transformers]]'' films: While the visuals are unchanged, the logos are accompanied by the transformation sound effect.

* The final shot of ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'' combines the closing logo-gimmicks of Warner Brothers and Disney, with Porky Pig stammering his "[[That's All Folks]]!" and Tinkerbell giving him a parting tap with a magic wand.

* In ''[[The Last Airbender (Film)|The Last Airbender]]'', the Paramount stars are accompanied with splashes of water. The [[Nickelodeon]] Movies logo afterwards is on fire, and gets covered by earth.

* The Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow logos in ''[[Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole]]'' appear after the film starts and are shown in the sky with Soren flying around them, followed by the film's title.

* In ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Filmfilm)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'', both the Dreamworks and Warner Bros. logos have desaturated colors to match the look of the film proper.

* In ''[[The Avengers (Filmfilm)|The Avengers]]'', the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe|Marvel Studios]] and [[Paramount]] logos (Paramount sporting a 100th anniversary banner<ref>though the logo is only there due to [[Executive Meddling]], Marvel's parent company Disney is distributing the movie</ref>) disappear into a glowing swirling mist, which turns out to be the interior of the Tessaract.

** Note that the site says that the logo used for ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (Videovideo Gamegame)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' was also used in ''[[Sonic 3 and Knuckles (Video Game)|Sonic 3 & Knuckles]]'', which is not true:

*** ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 2]]'' and ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 4 (Video Game)|Sonic the Hedgehog 4]]'' actually had Sonic run to the right of the screen to make half of the logo appear, and then run back to the left to complete the logo. ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 4 (Video Game)|Sonic the Hedgehog 4]]: Episode 1'' trailers have a black background, with Sonic (In the form of a blue streaking blur) coming towards the viewer three times, the third time in the middle of the screen & leaving the Sega logo in his wake.

*** ''Sonic 3'' and ''[[Sonic 3 and Knuckles (Video Game)|Sonic 3 and Knuckles]]'' displayed the Sega logo, then the background turns black and Sonic jumps out from behind the logo. And then the screen flashes white for a second before cutting to the Sonic 3 title screen.

** ''[[Panic (Video Game)|Panic!]]!'' for the [[Sega CD]] opens with the letters in the logo all mixed up so that they read "GASE", accompanied by an edited version of the clip used for the Sonic games: "Gaaa-Seee". Then Slap and Stick (the game's protagonists) fall from above and land on the logo, which snaps back to normal and is accompanied by the standard "Seee-Gaaa!"

* The SNES version of ''[[Mortal Kombat 2 (Video Game)|Mortal Kombat 2]]'' has a hidden alternative intro: Shao Kahn walks next to the Acclaim logo and taunts it while Kintaro walks in from the right, roars and uses his teleport stomp attack to bend it downwards. Shao Kahn then taunts it again.

** Another Acclaim example in ''[[Turok (Video Gameseries)|Turok]] 3: Shadow of Oblivion''. The lizard is lounging on top of the Acclaim logo as usual, when lightning strikes it and turns it into a skeleton, which promptly falls apart.

** ''[[Banjo -Kazooie]]'' has the N64 logo walk into the frame and stop to watch a dragonfly whiz by. After a brief consideration on what it just saw, it shrugs and continues on its way. The Rareware logo then pops up, which is promptly crashed into by the dragonfly.

** ''[[Conkers Bad Fur Day (Video Game)|ConkersConker's Bad Fur Day]]'' opens with Conker cutting the N64 logo with a [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaw]]. He then replaces it with the Rareware logo, a huge [[Take That]] at Nintendo's policy of replacing Rare's logo with their own (cf.: [[Donkey Kong|Dixie Kong's hat]]).

* nVidia sponsorship sometimes plays with this. ''[[Call of Juarez]]'' has you shooting down the logo so that it falls on an opposing gunfighter. ''[[Unreal Tournament 2004 (Video Game)|Unreal Tournament 2003]]'' had a player [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53TnAGQiChM punching through the logo], and ''UT2004'' followed that up with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5-X4pqL6QA a Skarrj pounding him through it].

** ''[[Borderlands (Video Game)|Borderlands]]'' has the logo appear without the nVidia voice. Claptrap comes up, pounds on it, sighs, and then the Nvidia voice plays, making Claptrap go "Ta-da!"

* The [[Homestar Runner]] faux video game company ''Videlectrix'' has a logo with a white man running onscreen, tripping and falling, and then getting up in time with the music. In ''[[Strong BadsBad's Cool Game for Attractive People (Video Game)|Strong Bads Cool Game for Attractive People]]: 8-Bit Is Enough'', Strong Bad himself takes the white man's place when he first enters the Videlectrix mainframe.

** ''[[Peasants Quest (Video Game)|Peasant's Quest]]'' has the Videlectrix guy, carrying a sword and shield, trip and fall on his sword. [[He's Dead, Jim|He doesn't get up.]]

** Actually, they are even more variations of the standard Konami logo. Playstation games had two major ones : the "Logo coming out of earth" one for Western-released games, and the "Walking Logo" one for Japan-released games ; most of the ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]]'' games had the games' heroines cheerfully shouting "Konami!" as the logo appears ; and who could forget the legendary ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' Konami logo, which was a [[Shout -Out]] to [[Hideo Kojima]]'s previous game ''[[Policenauts]]''?

* ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Turtles in Time (Video Game)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Turtles in Time]] Reshelled'' featured the four tutles falling into the [[Ubisoft]] logo in the same manner they fall into time holes in the game. This was later recycled for ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Smash Up]]'' (despite the two games' different art styles).

* The ''[[Star Trek]]'' games done by [[Activision]] always feature the Activision logo de-cloaking in space, and then getting torpedoed by either the ''Enterprise-E'' or the ''[[Star Trek: Voyager|Voyager]]'' as they fly by.

* A few [[Electronic Arts]] games have the ''EA Games'' logo done in the style of the game in question, especially in the ''[[Command and& Conquer]]'' series (for example, where one grows out of Tiberium).

** ''[[Bullet StormBulletstorm]]'' has the main character lasso the EA logo and kick it away, turning it into the Epic Games logo.

* Another of Ubisoft's includes the ''[[Raving Rabbids (Video Game)|Raving Rabbids]]'' series. Most notably in ''[[Rabbids Go Home (Video Game)|Rabbids Go Home]]'', where after the logo appears, the 2-D rabbids seen during level intros run in and swipe the logo in their cart.

* In ''[[Grand Theft Auto Vice City (Video Game)|Grand Theft Auto Vice City]]'', the opening credits depict the [[Rockstar Games]] logo as a [[Commodore 64]]-style loading screen.

* ''Lords of Dogtown'': The words "locals only" is spray-painted over the [[Tri -Star Pictures|TriStar]] logo.

* ''[[A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Theatre)|A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum]]'': The [[United Artists]] logo is written in a messy Roman font, making it look like "VNITED ARTISTS".

* The 'Gracie Films' logo at the end of ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'' has been altered for comedy a few times specific to the episode. At the end of every Halloween episode, the accompanying bit of music is played on a pipe organ, along with a woman's shrieking in lieu of the logo's usual "SHHHHH!" sound effect.

* In the second season of ''[[Auf Wiedersehen Pet|Auf Wiedersehen, Pet]]'' the opening Central logo (a white globe) shrinks down and dissolves into a live action shot of a white roulette ball at the start of the opening credits.

* One episode of Thames Television's ''[[The Kenny Everett Video Show]]'' had Kenny bursting through the opening logo. The shot was repeated in reverse for the closing logo.

** Another of Cuddly Ken's programmes replaced the London buildings that made up the Thames logo with [https://web.archive.org/web/20140903224653/http://hub.tv-ark.org.uk/images/itvlondon/itvlondon-thamesmain/images/thames-ident1979-kennytits-l.jpg women's breasts]...

** One edition of the ''[[Morecambe and Wise]]'' Christmas shows produced by Thames used a re-recorded version of the Thames logo jingle: "Here they are now, Morecambe and Wi-i-i-i-i-ise!"

* In the Lakeshore Entertainment title card for ''[[Underworld (Filmfilm)|Underworld]]'', the normally sunlit sky turns dark, and a full moon comes out.

** Even the "single bolt of lightning" is a reference in itself. The original logo was two lightning bolts striking in the same place from different parts of the screen -- beingscreen—being the logo for Don Simpson ''and'' Jerry Bruckheimer's company. After Don Simpson's death, Bruckheimer altered the logo to the single bolt of lightning it presently is.

** Two other Bruckheimer Productions logo jokes: Hurely from ''[[G-Force (Film)|G-Force]]'' runs on the road and flees offscreen when the lighting strikes, and before ''[[The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Film)|The Sorcerers Apprentice]]'' the lighting bolts make the same sound that the Tesla coil lighting makes in the film.

** ''[[DejaDéjà Vu (Filmfilm)|Deja Vu]]'' has the normal strike, then it rewinds and strikes again.

* Another [[ITV]] company who went along with the [[Logo Joke]] idea was Yorkshire Television - perhaps the best remembered example was their chevron logo zooming off like a firework in the titles to game show ''3-2-1''.

* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', "[[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/20th AS the Five Doctors/Recap|The Five Doctors]]" 1995 VHS release: The '90's BBC Video logo gets sucked up by the Time Scoop at the end. It was kept on the 2008 DVD release of the story as an [[Easter Egg]].

* The logo for Shadow Projects, involved in the production of a number of puppet shows, featured a dog. It would normally be heard barking at the end of one of these shows, but on ''[[Bear in The Big Blue House|Bear in the Big Blue House]]'', sometimes it would make a different noise, such as meowing or quacking.

* When [[The Beatles]]' black-and-white movie ''[[A Hard DaysDay's Night]]'' premiered on NBC in 1967, the network's "In Living Color" peacock intro was replaced with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XQ9KZcU294 an animated penguin].

* The [[Marvel Comics]] "Flipping Pages" logo changes with each film, with the pages shown being altered to the series the film is based on -- Soon—So the [[Spider-Man (Filmfilm)|Spider-Man]] films featured images from the [[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]] comics, and so on. Some films, such as [[Fantastic Four (Filmfilm)|Fantastic Four]] also alter the color of the Marvel logo from the traditional red to a color more suited to the series.

* An example at the end of an episode: the A.K.A. Cartoon logo at the end of every ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'' episode is remarkably different in every season, episode and even [[The Movie]].

* ''[[Attack the Block (Film)|Attack the Block]]'' has an all-black version of the Studio Canal logo, to match the colors of the film's aliens.

* ''[[Community (TV)|Community]]'' is "A Dan Harmon/Russo Brothers...

** "...Native American History Exhibit."

* The ''[[South Park]]'' [[The Problem Withwith Licensed Games|first person shooter game]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuLvfLKSHjM had the iguana from Iguana Entertainment's logo] [[They Killed Kenny|bite Kenny's head off.]]

* When [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]] reviewed ''[[Moulin Rouge]]'' (see above), he parodied said film's variation of the Fox logo, except with Chester A. Bum conducting the [[Channel Awesome]] fanfare.

* Google does this frequently, to celebrate an event, whether minor or major. They're called [https://www.google.com/doodles Google Doodles].