History Main / IdiosyncraticWipes

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Spliced}}'': A RunningGag is to have wipes that say funny things on them, most often [[BreakingTheFourthWall addressing the audience]].

* ''Series/{{Millennium}}'' would start scenes with a slow fade-in from white, usually accompanied by a heavy, ominous [[DrumRollPlease drum]].

* ''Series/Batman1966''. The bat symbol (with a spinning psychedelic background sometimes) would flash on screen with a snippet of the theme music. Whenever idiosyncratic wipes are played for laughs, this is the one most often parodied.

* In ''Film/{{Spawn}}'', each scene would burn away in a blaze of fire across the screen, leaving the next scene below it.

* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' freezes the screen, replacing each of the different levels of shade with a pattern. When the next bit has loaded, a load of barely theme-appropriate junk is thrown on to the screen and peeled off again. Thankfully this is only done sparingly.

* In Creator/LaurelAndHardy short ''Thicker Than Water'' Stan and Ollie are leaving home to go to the bank. As they go, Ollie steps over to the right of the screen, sticks out his arm, and appears to physically grab hold of the edge of the screen. He then physically drags the wipe across the screen by hand, which, when it's completed, shows the front of the bank.

** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E7MakeNewFriendsButKeepDiscord Make New Friends but Keep Discord]]": A scene where Fluttershy and Tree Hugger are talking transitions into one set in Discord's dimension when one of the monsters that live there flies across the screen, trailing the new scene behind it.

** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E22WhatAboutDiscord What About Discord?]]": A scene where Fluttershy and Tree Hugger are talking transitions into one set in Discord's dimension when one of the monsters that live there flies across the screen, trailing the new scene behind it.

* ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw'' uses four distinctive ones - a courtroom gavel banging, a briefcase falling, Harvey's head zooming away and towards the camera, and a fast car of some sort. This makes for an excellent drinking game.

* ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'' would either show the series logo flying toward the screen, or He-Man's power sword spinning. Both were punctuated by a flash of light and a reverberating voice saying "He-Man". The revival did something similar.
** ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'' also did this. It even had its own version of the "spinning sword" bit.

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily"

* The ''Series/Batman1966'' example below is parodied once on ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway''.
* This example is also parodied in ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'', but with the Disney Castle logo taking the place of the bat logo.
* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/SaludosAmigos'', the "Gaucho Goofy" segment features some imaginative wipes, a couple where a solid line moves from one side of the screen to the other, [[BreakingTheFourthWall pushing Goofy and his horse along with it.]]
* Some of the Franchise/{{Barbie}} movies do this. Also done in ''WebAnimation/BarbieLifeInTheDreamhouse''.
* Idiosyncratic wipes occur frequently in the film series ''Animation/TheMindsEye'' due to the series's abstract nature.
** ''The Mind's Eye (1990)'' segment "Creation" has the camera [[EyeRecall go into a fish's eye]] for no obvious reason other than this trope.
** The ''Beyond The Mind's Eye'' segment "Windows" has several of these in a row with the camera flying into nested [=TVs=].
** ''The Gate to The Mind's Eye'':

*** "The Ascent Of Man" has a few of these. One transitions from a waterfall to an Antarctic landscape (featuring [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins a penguin]]) with the latter shot's camera peeking out from behind a rock. Another transitions from the exterior of a Mesoamerican temple to the interior of an Egyptian temple. This is accomplished when a painted pillar wipes the screen to the left and brings another scene with it.
** ''Odyssey Into The Mind's Eye'' segment "The Traveler" does this when the camera zooms into a screen.

* Some incarnations of ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends'' (particularly ''Challenge of the Super Friends'') would do a similar transition, with prismatic flashes of light. This trope would appear to have been very common in 80s action cartoons.

** In fact, this was a big thing for the Hanna-Barbera brand as a whole during the latter part of the 1970s.

** In one episode, Homer shows a strong preference for star wipes when video editing. Then, a star wipe is used in the episode itself.
** The ''Series/Batman1966'' version has also been parodied several times, once for Child Safety Services.
* The second season of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'' featured zooming from one bit of a map to another when changing locations, accompanied by a scratching record.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' uses a "claw wipe" - criss-crossing parallel tears, as though from a gargoyle's claws, through the previous scene into the new one. There are a few variations with the claw wipes going across and diagonal as well.
* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' (the episode with Creator/AdamWest)

* ''WesternAnimation/KappaMikey''. Dancing sushi, anyone?

* The wipes on ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' are also related to the plot.
* In ''WesternAnimation/WidgetTheWorldWatcher'', they use the letter "W" from the show's title logo. ''WesternAnimation/DenverTheLastDinosaur'', which was made by the same animation company, also did something similar.
** And on the subject of that, in ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'', they used the show's logo against a black background with a bunch of colored stars and streaks before the logo zooms directly into the screen.

* ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries'' had a couple.
** One was dalmatian spots appearing, blackening the scene, and then disappearing to show the next scene.
** Another one used the same format, but with paw prints.
** One was silhouetted puppies running across the screen, and sometimes it was Cruella's car.
* ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'' had several - a blue Salem shape spinning and stamping around the screen while turning green, spinning away to reveal the next scene, a faster version of the Salem transition except being red and turning black while spinning, a bat flying from nowhere with [[EatTheCamera its mouth zooming into the camera]], a broom sweeping the screen to produce smoke, which covers the screen and disappears, a red door appearing, zooming into the camera and opening to reveal the next scene, a witch hat coming into view with its bottom turning towards the camera and zooming in, a huge rat spinning around revealing the next scene, while shrinking and coming into the center, and then crawling away, and a lightning bolt striking the screen, which then shatters for a wipe, among a few others.

* To complement the show's setting, ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' usually uses bubbles (and an appropriate sound effect) for its wipes, other than the occasional brief cut-away, or whenever else quick transitions are needed. In the episode "Born to Be Wild," [=SpongeBob=] [[BreakingTheFourthWall rides on the bubble transition]] so he get to the Krusty Krab faster.

* Creator/HannaBarbera often did the "spinning" wipe in its various 1960s and 1970s shows. ''WesternAnimation/TheRobonicStooges'' had an interesting one, made up of the LMC crests the protagonists wore.
* A RunningGag on ''WesternAnimation/{{Spliced}}'' is to have wipes that say funny things on them, most often [[BreakingTheFourthWall addressing the audience]].

* Like ''WesternAnimation/{{Bravestarr}}'', ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers'' was a SpaceWestern cartoon whose wipes sometimes featured the heroes' badges.
* In the episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' in which Timmy's parents get superpowers, some scene changes get accompanied with the parents' heads zooming towards and away from the camera against a swirling background. In one transition, Timmy's dad zoomed in to close to the camera and hit himself, making Timmy's mom look embarrassed as she zoomed away.
* During the TitleSequence of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', each of Twilight Sparkle's friends gets one, related to their specialties (and cutie marks): a dashing rainbow for Rainbow Dash, a party balloon inflating to cover all the screen for Pinkie Pie, a growing eye twinkle for Rarity, a shower of apples for Applejack, and a swarm of butterflies for Fluttershy.

* In syndication, ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' used its insignia directly over the finishing scene to transmit to the next.
* Interesting variation on ''WesternAnimation/StuntDawgs:'' an immediate transition to a spotlight, into which Human rushes, followed by the TitleScream, and finally, Human [[EatTheCamera rushing into the lens]] to reveal the new scene.
* Between scenes in ''WesternAnimation/CodeMonkeys'' you'd see an animation relating to something that just happened or was said.

* The ''Anime/DeltoraQuest'' anime (even in the Japanese version)

* While ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' itself was fairly staid in its transitions, its original ''trailer'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28Ud8O3KBSM used every wipe known to the science of the time]].

** ''The Gate to The Mind's Eye'' segment "The Ascent of Man" has a few of these.

*** One transitions from a waterfall to an Antarctic landscape (featuring [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins a penguin]]) with the latter shot's camera peeking out from behind a rock.
*** Another transitions from the exterior of a Mesoamerican temple to the interior of an Egyptian temple. This is accomplished when a painted pillar wipes the screen to the left and brings another scene with it.

* To complement the show's setting, ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' usually uses bubbles (and an appropriate sound effect) for its wipes, other than the occasional brief cut-away, or whenever else quick transitions are needed.

** ''Film/{{Creepshow}}'' did the same thing. Justified, in that case, by the FramingDevice of the view actually "reading" a comic book that was tossed on a trash pile and is having its pages turned by the wind.

SisterTrope to PicturePerfectPresentation.