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** 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 The Pussycats (Film)|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.
* The trailer for ''Clean Slate'' has the main character's dog in place of the lion doing the roar. This wasn't in the film though (which instead had a special "70th Anniversary" logo shown on MGM's 1994 lineup).
 
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* At the end of the 1951 ''[[Popeye]]'' cartoon, ''Alpine For You'', after Popeye punches Bluto, Bluto slams into a mountain peak, forming stars around the mountain. After that, "A Paramount Picture" appears over said mountain, closing the cartoon. This joke was preserved on the AAP prints.
* Popeye, [[Little Lulu]], and [[Little Audrey]] also had their own [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MceZCTT7MCE special] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uzO3sPO-zQ "Spinning Star"] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESjMx0pQvHU openings], where stars from the logo would zoom in with the characters' headshots.
* 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).
** Also, when they awaken the Golden Knight from his slumber beneath the Hill, Ginger is carrying a torch and Detritus bangs a gong. In Ginger's dream there's a lion roaring as well, but that never actually happens.
* Paramount loves the [[Match Cut]]. In ''[[The Busy World of Richard Scarry]]'' animated series, the Paramount logo [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgV3vdOT09I morphs into a mountain in Busytown] which the Applecopter promptly flies out from behind, again via a fade.
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* In ''[[Four Brothers]]'', it is snowing around the mountain.
* In ''The Geisha Boy'', [[Jerry Lewis]] is seeing the sights in Japan - at Mount Fuji he does a double take as stars surround it like the studio logo.
* In the 2009 ''[[Friday the 13 th13th]]'', the logo is tinted blood red.
 
 
== [[Universal]] Studios ==
* ''[[Serenity (Film)|Serenity]]'': The Universal spinning-planet logo becomes [[Earth -That -Was]], with the colony ships blasting off for space.
* ''[[Waterworld]]'': The Universal Studios spinning-planet logo shows the ocean levels rising up and flooding the continents. The camera zooms into the globe down to sea level, and the Mariner's boat, starting the movie.
* ''[[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.
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* ''[[The Matrix]]'' trilogy: A special version of the WB and Village Roadshow Pictures logos, made of the running green code of the Matrix itself, appear at the start of the film.
* ''[[Sherlock Holmes (Film)|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.
* ''You've Got Mail'': The background changes into a computer screen and the Warner Brothers logo moves to up-left corner.
* ''[[Osmosis Jones]]'': The logo appears as a one-celled organism floating in a dark background.
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*** 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].
** The ''[[Mucha Lucha]]'' movie opened with the usual logo with Bugs, but then fades into The Flea leaning against the shield and eating a donut in the same fashion.
** In [[The Nineties]], this Bugs-based opening was also used for live-action family films released under the specific banner of Warner Bros. Family Entertainment.
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** ''[[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.]]
* The early 90's [[Konami]] logo featured on their [[Sega Genesis|Mega Drive/Genesis]], [[Super NES]], and PC Engine games varied a little depending on the system ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpMUKzIXymg&feature=related see them here]). For SNES, the laser that shoots out at the beginning of the logo is purple, while the Genesis version is green, and the PCE version blue, and of course, the jingle sounds a little different on all three systems due to their differing sound-chips.
** 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]]''?
* No two [[Nitrome]] game will ever show the developer's logo forming in the exact same way. ''Test Subject Blue'' has the logo as blobs of Blue Enzyme, in ''Steamlands'' it's made out of two steam-tanks blasting away at each other, ''Fault Line'' has it formed from the nodes when two screens get joined together, etc...
* ''[[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).
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* The THX logo has quite a few variations, but the funniest is probably [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cDi0yV8jpk&fmt=22 the one with the cows.]
* In ''[[Tenacious D]] And the Pick of Destiny'', THX: The Audience Is Now Listening is replaced with [[Stoner Flick|THC: The Audience Is Now Baking.]]
* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', "[[Doctor Who (TV)/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]].
* ''[[Be Kind Rewind]]'': For British distribution by Pathé, its logo [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqKdsajKTnw got] [[Stylistic Suck|sweded]]. (Compare with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyzwj1a8spM&fmt=18 the real deal].)
* 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.
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