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Some studios have [[Vanity Plate|vanity plates]] 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 [[DreamWorks]]. 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.
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== [[Disney]]/[[Pixar]] ==
* ''[[Lilo and Stitch]]'': The Walt Disney Pictures logo gets abducted by a [[Tractor Beam]].
* One extended-version trailer for and the ending credits of the home video version of ''[[WALL-E]]'' has the bulb on Luxo Jr. burning out and then being replaced by WALL-E; on his way out he knocks over the R in Pixar and stands in its place.
** 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 BnL logo and jingle.
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* ''[[Peter Pan|Return To Neverland]]'': A slightly different version of the usual theme played with the spot flying over the castle with a lot more sparkle. A small spot of light is then seen behind the logo as it is projected onto the side of a cloud. The little spot of light (revealed to be Tinkerbell at the end of the opening credits) then moves, causing the logo to vanish.
* ''[[Winnie the Pooh|Piglet's Big Movie]]'': The spot and the trail it leaves are pink instead of white. Also, the start of the rendition of the "Winnie the Pooh" theme song for that movie plays over the logo instead of the usual theme.
* ''[[Tron: Legacy]]'': The castle is rendered as a black angular shape covered in [[Tron Lines]].
* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: On Stranger Tides'' featured the Jolly Roger atop the Disney castle and mermaids in the moat.
* ''[[Tangled]]'': [[Milestone Celebration|50th]] [[Disney Animated Canon]] film disclaimer in the Walt Disney Animation Studios logo.
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* ''Rogue Squadron III'': The ''[[Star Wars]]'' characters dance to a disco version of the main theme, including the Gold Man.
* ''Bounty Hunter'': Jango ties up the Gold Man and yanks him off the logo, then flies onto it with his jetpack and uses his flamethrower to produce his own golden arc to hold. That gold guy just can't keep his job, can he?
* In ''[[Grim Fandango]]'' we see the Gold Man turn into a skeleton, with the ray above also skeletonized.
* ''Star Wars: [[Republic Commando]]'' features the Gold man rendered in monochrome and static, in keeping with the [[Darker and Edgier]] theme of the game.
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* [[Steve Irwin]]'s ''The [[Crocodile Hunter]]: Collision Course'' had an alligator instead of the lion.
* ''[[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 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 [[wikipedia:Thylacine|thylacine]] roaring.
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** BUT, the original ribbon appears for a split-second, possibly due to an editing error.
* At the end of the "Put on a Happy Face" episode of ''[[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.
* On videos produced by MTM Home Video, the kitten holds a remote control. After meowing, the kitten hits "rewind". The picture winds backwards (and loses color), and the kitten meows again.
* ''The Duck Factory'': Before the logo starts, a voiceover says "And now, where's the cat!" The cat then quacks.
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* ''[[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.]]
** By a sad coincidence, Mimsie (the MTM cat) died for real that year, in 1988.
* ''The Steve Allen Show:'' The kitten wears heavy black eyeglasses and declares "Schmock!" in the voice of Steve Allen.
* ''The White Shadow'': A different kitten from the usual Mimsie bounces a basketball off the MTM logo.
* ''Xuxa'': The kitten uses the voice of Xuxa saying "Ciao!"
* The feature film ''A Little Sex'' has an animated cartoon version of Mimsie crying, followed by a second kitten appearing; the two then rub heads affectionately and purr.
* The most startling variation appears at the end of the TV movie/PoorlyDisguisedPilot ''Vampire'', which has "AN MTM ENTERPRISES INC. PRODUCTION" in blood-red against a black background - '''and no kitten at all!'''
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** 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.
* 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.
* ''[[The Bad News Bears]] Go to Japan'' has Mount Fuji as the mountain.
* In ''Hard Rain'', the mountain is amidst a huge storm.
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* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'': The WB Logo fades into a police zepplin.
* ''[[Batman Forever]]'' and ''[[Batman and Robin (film)|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 (film)|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.
* ''[[Gremlins|Gremlins 2]]'': This movie's 1990 release coincided with the 50th anniversary of the first [[Bugs Bunny]] cartoon, so Bugs is lounging on top of the WB shield when it zooms into view. [[Daffy Duck]] immediately appears and attempts to usurp his place. The characters reappear during the closing credits.
* The trailer for ''[[Batman Begins]]'' had the WB shield dissolving into hundreds of bats.
* 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|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.
** "Lumberjack-Rabbit", the only [[Bugs Bunny]] cartoon in 3-D, started with the WB shield bouncing toward the audience, nearly filling the screen before settling to its normal size, in an effort to play with the 3-D effects.
** In "Porky in Wackyland", [[Reality Warper|the Do-Do]] rides the WB shield as it emerges from the vanishing point, bops Porky on the head and rides it back out of sight.
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** Note that the site says that the logo used for ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (video game)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' was also used in ''[[Sonic 3 and Knuckles|Sonic 3 & Knuckles]]'', which is not true:
*** ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 2]]'' and ''[[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]]: 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]]'' 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.
*** ''Sonic & Knuckles'' starts out just like the ''Sonic 3'' version, but the background behind the logo fades into Sonic and the Death Egg falling through the sky, with the Death Egg landing in the volcano and causing the Sega logo to shake itself out of existence.
** ''[[Vectorman]]'' easily gets the best, where you can play a minigame that might get your game started on later levels if you do well enough and, using an off-screen power-up, you can blow up the Sega logo.
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** ''[[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.
** ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]'' has the N64 logo dancing to the beats of the opening drums.
** ''[[
** ''[[Perfect Dark]]'' opens with the typical Nintendo and Rare logos looming out of the dark at first, then you are treated to the typical spinning N64 logo... and watch as it slowly changes into a spinning model of the PD logo instead.
* Neversoft really likes this trope, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8TXtzS_j5E as seen] by the ''[[Tony Hawks Pro Skater]]'' games.
* ''[[Ogre Battle|Ogre Battle: Person of Lordly Caliber]]'' had a group of soldiers stab a fallen block until they carved out the Nintendo 64 logo.
* 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|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]]'' 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!"
* ''[[A Boy and His Blob]]'' ([[Wii]]): The Boy and the Blob appear on the Majesco Entertainment logo, then the Boy throws a jellybean over to the nearby Wayfoward Technologies logo, which is strangely missing the "O"; the Blob moves over, eats the bean, and turns into the "O".
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* 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.
* The Flash game ''Color My World'' opens with the Armor Games logo as a billboard in Black And White City.
* A few [[Electronic Arts]] games have the ''EA Games'' logo done in the style of the game in question, especially in the ''[[Command
** ''[[Bulletstorm]]'' 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]]'' series. Most notably in ''[[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.
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* The 'Gracie Films' logo at the end of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|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.
* The little boy picking the flower in the Gaumont Films logo gets roundhouse-kicked in ''[[JCVD]]'', the Jean Claude Van Damme self-parody film..
* 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 [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!"
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** "...Tantrum."
** "...Blood Pact."
** "...Native American History Exhibit."
** "...Spectacle." And so on...
* ''The Knights Of Prosperity'' had the B, & and B of the B&B animated logo perform a different magic act on every episode, such as the ampersand ("The Amazing Ando" - get it?) sawing the two B's apart.
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