Promotion to Opening Titles: Difference between revisions

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Compare [[Ascended Extra]].

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== Anime ==

* Yun (Kaori Nazuka) on ''[[Simoun]]''.

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== Live Action TV ==

== Live-Action TV ==

* DeForest Kelley as Bones on ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'', promoted to the opening credits at the beginning of the second season. The second season also added [[Gene Roddenberry]]'s "created by" credit to the opening titles.

* After having the exact same opening titles for 8 seasons (aside from adding Robert Patrick in season 8), ''[[The X-Files]]'' updated them for the 9th season, since the original titles looked outdated due to cast changes, cast aging, and new developments in the [[Myth Arc]]. This was when Assistant Director Walter Skinner, who was introduced back in the latter half of the 1st season, finally got clips and an actor credit in the opening titles.

* After having the exact same opening titles for eight seasons (aside from adding Robert Patrick in season 8), ''[[The X-Files]]'' updated them for the 9th season, since the original titles looked outdated due to cast changes, cast aging, and new developments in the [[Myth Arc]]. This was when Assistant Director Walter Skinner, who was introduced back in the latter half of the 1st season, finally got clips and an actor credit in the opening titles.

* James Marsters, Emma Caulfield and Seth Green in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. And, because it appears that [[Mutant Enemy]] has a rule that if you're going to do something, make it angsty, [[Amber Benson]] was also promoted in her third season - for one episode, then she was killed off (in a deliberate subversion of this trope). Marc Blucas was a bogus example, as he was marked for promotion from the moment he entered the show.

** Inversion averted: [[Joss Whedon]] wanted Jesse to be in the opening credits to the first episode, despite being killed off in the same (or second, if it's split into a two-parter). They didn't have the money to do two versions of opening credits.

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* Mid season 6, the US version of ''[[The Office]]'' added Ed Helms to the opening credits, which had been unaltered since episode one (save for one isolated episode that had an extended opening featuring all the characters), and aside from that addition, remains ridiculously out-of-date, featuring some characters working jobs at the office that they've been promoted out of for a while.

** Recently changed, updating images of cast and including other cast members, though many appear only in group shots.

* The ''[[Battlestar Galactica ~~Reimagined~~]]'' opening title credits remained the same for all four seasons, but its list of secondary stars (an intermediate step above guest stars) saw two promotions: Nicki Clyne as Cally Henderson Tyrol in season 2 and Michael Trucco as Samuel Anders in season 4.

* The ''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' opening title credits remained the same for all four seasons, but its list of secondary stars (an intermediate step above guest stars) saw two promotions: Nicki Clyne as Cally Henderson Tyrol in season 2 and Michael Trucco as Samuel Anders in season 4.

* Subverted in ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'', where the opening credits remained the same from season 1 to 6, despite the fact that by season 4, Peter Jacobson (Taub), Olivia Wilde (Thirteen), and Kal Penn (Kutner) have comparable "face time" (if not more) as any of the named stars and Jennifer Morrison shifting to guest star status in all but name.

** As of season 7, the intro has finally been updated to take out Morrison and add Jacobson and Wilde.