Creative Closing Credits / Live-Action Films

• 22 Jump Street is a Here We Go Again! with a bunch of fake sequels and creating a multi-million dollar media franchise.
• 300 had stylized credits that evoked scenes from the movie, and its sequel followed suit.
• Alien Abduction (2014) presents the closing credits as a series of partially-redacted government documents, newspaper clippings, and photographs regarding the Brown Mountain Lights phenomenon, with key portions circled or left un-redacted.
• The credits for A Little Bit Zombie are played over a photo montage of Steve and Tina's wedding, showing them exchanging vows, partying in the reception (including a dance Tina was dead set on doing), and Tina dragging Steve into a closet to touch him up and hide his condition.
• The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle has closing credits that begin with Boris, Natasha and Fearless Leader chasing (and being foiled by) Rocky and Bullwinkle over, through and around the credits lettering. It can be seen here.
• Alice in Wonderland (2010) had a very pretty scene for the cast list and Avril Lavigne's song that showed the clouds shifting, mushrooms growing (and glowing) and the bare Goth Spirals branches blooming to show that Underland is healing after the Red Queen's defeat. In the 3D version, this is windowboxed, with the growing fauna spilling out onto the blank areas of the screen, giving the impression that the screen is a window to Underland. Can be seen here.
• The closing credits of Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie feature the Nerd's long-awaited review of E.T. (or "Eee Tee", as it's spelled in-universe).
• Some prints of Apocalypse Now have the end credits roll over footage of Kurtz's compound being destroyed. Interestingly, the footage isn't actually part of the story - they had to destroy the set after filming wrapped. When the director realized that audiences thought the footage depicted the air strike mentioned in the film, he removed it. Most copies of the film have plain white-on-black credits instead.
• Around the World in 80 Days (1956): One of the earliest of its kind, it was set up as a six-minute miniature sequence that duplicated Fogg's adventure, using a specific caricature to represent a cast/crew member (David Niven as a watch, Jules Verne as an angel with a novel, etc). It was designed by Saul Bass, can be seen here.
• The first Austin Powers continued the groovin' '60s vibe with a "Blow-Up"-style photo shoot with Austin and Vanessa, and then a full musical number with Austin's band featuring Matthew Sweet and Suzanna Hoffs.
  • The second one plays various scenes during the credits.
• Bad Moms has out-of-character interview footage of the lead actresses and their mothers over the first part of the credits: First each actress talks about their mother and growing up, then each mother talks about their daughter, and finally the mothers and daughters are shown together.
• The credits of the Bakuman。 live-action movie are first presented as text in the panels of a new manga the characters are writing, and then on the spines of dozens of manga volumes on a long shelf, where the authors' names usually go. It can be seen here.
• Big Money Hustlas has the closing credits play over a gunfight that happens in a funeral, with unexpected revivals of people who died! Big Money Rustlas has a similar ending, this time set in a saloon.
• Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey: We learn the rest of the story during the credits, in a "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue.
• The Boondock Saints: They show "Real Life" man on the street interviews about the eponymous Saints during the end credits.
• Borat's end credits give us a little mock propaganda film accompanied by a boastful National Anthem about how great Kazakhstan is.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer has all sorts of short vignettes during the credits.
• The Cannonball Run pretty well started the Hilarious Outtakes form of credits sequence, and most Burt Reynolds movies had outtakes playing over the end credits.
  • Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy featured outtakes in its end credits, including one from the Burt Reynolds movie.
  • Jackie Chan borrowed that after he was in The Cannonball Run, so lots of his movies have outtake credits as well.
• Central Intelligence: The credits are revealed inside black lines of redacted documents, under a teal and orange digital filter.
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader recaps the film using the original book illustrations by Pauline Baynes.
• Cocaine Bear: The end credits play as multi-color blood splatters splash across the screen.
• Dave Made a Maze: The credits are animated much like the intro to the film, with a cartoon minotaur (having found its way to the real world) dancing alongside cartoon versions of the cast in a club.
• The Dawn of the Dead (2004) remake's end credits starts with clips from the rich jerkass's video camera (which appears to be a parody of Paris Hilton's infamous sex tape), then shows the survivors landing on an isolated island.
• The DC Extended Universe had a few.
  • Suicide Squad (2016) uses the Enchantress's magical vortex, with items arranging themselves alongside/behind each credit to reflect that cast/crew member's role.
  • Wonder Woman (2017) are set in a stylish montage of scenes from the film, accompanied by Wonder Woman's lasso, shield and logo.
  • Aquaman (2018) are a montage of underwater representations the film's characters, locations and scenes.
  • SHAZAM! (2019) are a sequence of notebook drawings featuring the Shazam Family goofing off with other popular DC Comics heroes.
  • Birds of Prey (2020) are set around a stylized version of the Booby Trap funhouse.
  • Wonder Woman 1984 downplays it with Raster Vision credits that look like something in an 1984 TV.
  • The Suicide Squad is also a minor case, as it's only colorful instead of white on black, and features icons representing the characters.
  • Black Adam (2022) has objects of the characters alongside Doctor Fate's light constructs.
  • SHAZAM! Fury of the Gods has illustrations reminiscent of a mythology book being altered to fit the movie's events, at times even resembling more comic panels, with the implication the magic quill Steve is drawing them.
  • The Flash (2023): The first set of credits plays over a slo-mo of the therapy dog falling from the opening scene. Eyes wide, tongue out, we follow the dog as it runs into such items as a towel, a baby, and a Batman plushie when Michael Keaton's name is shown.
• In Deathstalker 2, the end credits include Hilarious Outtakes.
• Delicatessen has its opening credits using household items to display cast and crew names.
• The Doom movie had the credits in the same vein as it's first-person segment, complete with the names getting shot and killed. The only names to not get shot are those of the actors that played characters that survive, or of the backstage staff. The Rock gets particularly shot up, as he's the film's equivalent of a Final Boss.
• The ending credits of Down with Love include an extra scene with Renee & Ewan singing a duet and one with David Hyde Pierce and Sarah Paulson.
• Dreamgirls not only had clips from the movie but sketches of the costumes and sets for their respective credits.
• Drumline had twisting, curving credits along with diagrams from the drummers' manual.
• The Duff: The outtakes are presented on various screens, and (most of) the cast and crew have their Twitter handles accompanying their credits. The credits is also shown in the style of various social media websites and apps, including Vine, Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr, Instagram and Snapchat.
• Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves: They're done in a combination of pop-up book and medieval illuminated manuscript style, loosely recapping the events of the movie and including some bits of D&D lore that don't show up, like a beholder and a gnoll.
• The credits for Enchanted featured animated silhouettes with a "woodblock printed paper" background.
• The opening credits of Ed Wood have the principal actors' names on B-movie style prop gravestones.
• The closing credits of Employee of the Month (2006) appear on a register's display.
• Five Nights at Freddy's (2023) has the credits accompanied with Abby's drawings while The Living Tombstone's iconic FNaF song plays.
• Filth features an animated short where Bruce is represented as a cartoon pig in a Sugar Bowl and his antics are represented as innocent cartoon shenanigans.
• Footnote: This film is about professional rivalries between scholars researching the Talmud. The main closing credits are presented in the style of an old-school microfilm reader, such as the ones that Eliezer uses when poring over old texts.
• The Fourth Kind's end credits are accompanied not by music but by (supposedly) real phone calls made by people who've encountered aliens, with the time and date of each call appearing on screen.
• Gentlemen Broncos had the opening credits as the titles of pulp sci-fi novels.
• Ghostbusters
  • Ghostbusters (2016) The end credits highlight the various gadgets "Holtzmann" built for the team including the Inner workings of the proton pack, Ecto 1 and the ghost trap. They also feature several post credit scenes of the Ghostbusters fitting into their new firehouse and a deleted dance number where Rowan, possessing Chris Hemsworth's character, makes everyone move along with him.
  • Ghostbusters: Afterlife: The credits are layered over notes, diagrams, and maps that (presumably) Egon made about Summerville, the Shandor mine, and his farm and equipment.
• The end credits of Goosebumps (2015) feature a tribute to Tim Jacobus's cover artwork for the book series, with faithful recreations of several iconic spooks animated throughout.
• Gremlins 2: The New Batch appears at first to have fairly standard closing credits, except that Daffy Duck periodically shows up out of nowhere to make snarky comments at the audience ("You're still hanging around? Don't you people have homes?") This is especially random since the movie itself had nothing to do with Daffy or the Looney Tunes. The credits themselves are followed by another Call-Back to the beginning of the film where Bugs and Daffy argue about who gets to ride out on the Warner Bros. shield; this time Porky Pig is about to say "That's all, folks!" when Daffy pushes him out of shot and does it himself — at which time the shield slams shut on (most of) him to reveal who wrote and directed the animated open and close ("...fade out!"). Just as random, but at least it ties together.
• Harry Potter:
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban did its credits in the style of the Marauder's Map.
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire had the credits as smoldering bits of paper coming out of the titular goblet.
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix uses the same formatting style as that of Harry's letters from the Ministry of Magic.
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has swirling black ink drops in amber liquid. (reproducing how wizards apparate, the effects added to the Pensieve, and such).
  • In Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, memorable scenes from the film are depicted in multicoloured smoke, created by Grindelwald's blood pact phylactery. Juxtaposed halves shots of the main characters accompany the actors' names to highlight romantic and antagonistic relationships.
  • Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore has the credits roll over kaleidoscopes of magical items and silhouetted creatures, with bursts of magic in a blue-grey cloudy background.
• Help!: During the end credits, a many-faceted gem filters the cast members into multiple images as they file past - on the soundtrack "The Barber of Seville" overture plays as The Beatles hum, laugh, and talk over it.
• Hercules (2014) have animated scenes depicting how Hercules' group defeated the Nemean Lion, Lernaean Hydra, and Erymanthian Boar, fitting the film's theme of Demythification.
• Alongside the end credits for Honey we see the first major music video to be choreographed (in-universe) by the title character, Blaque's "I'm Good." It is also the first music video in history to give the choreographer on-screen credit along with the singer and song title.
• The end credits for Hotel for Dogs feature the canine companions of many members of the cast (including star Emma Roberts) and crew.
• The Internship, a comedy about a Google internship, closes with the names and titles appearing as if they're part of various Google products, like Google Translate, Google+, and such.
• Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle shows the credits on a map of Jumanji, and Jumanji: The Next Level goes one step further by having objects positioned atop it.
• Kill Bill Vol 2s credits aren't all that unusual, it's just that there's so many of them: the opening credits, the end credits that show clips of everyone with a speaking part from both films, the crossing out of the Death List Five except Elle, who gets a ?, plus the credits from the first film.
• Knives Out shows old timey hand-drawn portraits of the characters over the strains of The Rolling Stones' "Sweet Virginia". Glass Onion repeats those Video Credits with the song being, naturally, "Glass Onion".
• Knocked Up's end credits featured baby pictures of the cast and crew.
• Closing credits of Polish comedy Kołysanka have some clips with cast members dancing to the closing theme – while in character, but leaning on the fourth wall heavily.
• Finnish comedy skit film Kummeli Stories shows a message "Don't leave yet, there will be a show of boobies after the credits!" intermittent with the cast andA crew names. Once they've rolled however, a character from the film walks onto the screen, looks directly at the audience and states: "Look, a bunch of pervs still hanging about! Nobody's showing boobies here today! Shoo, go home!"
• Last Holiday did the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue.
• The closing credits of Lethal Weapon 4 show a pin board holding photos from all previous movies, including mostly behind the scenes photos, with "Why Can't We Be Friends" playing in the background, giving the whole series a warm, family like, closure. The final shot was of literal closure, of a photo album labeled "Lethal Weapon".
• In Major Grom: Plague Doctor the end credits are animated in a doodly style, are set to an upbeat song and depict Igor Grom beating up the movie's crew as their names appear onscreen (as part of an investigation into some stolen refrigerators mentioned earlier in the movie). Then it switches to a regular credits roll.
• Closing credits of Married to the Mob show various (non-hilarious) outtakes.
• A tradition in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The films that don't follow the standard credit form (only The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Guardians of the Galaxy and Black Widow^note Though Black Widow makes up for it with a stylish opening credits sequence do) have Artistic Titles instead:
  • Iron Man smash-cuts to the credits right after Tony Stark says "I am Iron Man." The end credits song, is, of course, "Iron Man" by Black Sabbath. It plays while the credits zoom in and out of blueprint-style graphics showing the schematics for the Iron Man armor and other devices from the film.
    • Iron Man 3 smash-cuts to the credits right after Tony Stark says "I am Iron Man." This time, however, the end credits song, "Can You Dig It" is a '70s style action-series theme, complete with strings, bongo beats, horns, organs and tambourines. It plays to a glorious '70s style action series introduction; a Split Screen montage of shots from throughout the Iron Man film series.
  • Thor's end credits feature a visual representation of how Norse mythology saw the cosmos, ending with a trip up the trunk of Ygdrasil (the world tree) to Asgard.
    • Thor: The Dark World has credits that show oil paintings of stills from the film, highlighted by only one vibrant color. For instance, most of the stills featuring Thor only have his red cape colored, while shots with Loki have green.
    • Thor: Ragnarok features several Kirby-esque silhouettes of characters and key scenes from the film.
    • Thor: Love and Thunder has 1980s-styled metal text accompanied by the Bifrost background in rushing colors.
  • The end credits for Captain America: The First Avenger are set against various 1940s propaganda posters, befitting the tone of the movie.
    • Captain America: The Winter Soldier does its credits in a traditional, spy-thriller graphics montage, reflecting the tone of the movie.
    • Captain America: Civil War has a mix of light and shadow forming the symbols of different characters on a cracked granite surface, representing the division between the heroes.
  • The Avengers (2012) has its credits set against various icons and gear associated with each Avenger (Captain America's shield and uniform, Iron Man's armor, Thor's hammer, etc.).
    • Avengers: Age of Ultron has the credits pan by a statue of the Avengers battling Ultron bots. Once it gets to the actors, the names of the ones playing the Avengers and Ultron are used in a Video Credits-like manner.
    • Averted with Avengers: Infinity War. The end credits do not have any amazing art or animation per the norm for other MCU films: instead, it's nothing more than white text in a plain font simply appearing and disappearing on a black screen, all while a mostly quiet, somber orchestra plays. It hammers home the Downer Ending vibe — the only different effect, the title scattering like dust, even alludes to what happens in the film's conclusion.
    • Avengers: Endgame has traditional Video Credits (though the use of an Unreveal Angle on most of the characters is an extra trick), they do get creative at least in billing: the original six Avengers are the last to appear (in reverse order, from Jeremy Renner to Robert Downey Jr.), and with their autographs alongside the names.
  • Ant-Man has animated graphics that go from an Astronomic Zoom to the subatomic scale.
    • Ant-Man and the Wasp replays key scenes from the film... as plastic toy dioramas with characters replaced by miniatures and cars with Hot Wheels toys, as a repeated element is valuables such as buildings, cars and superhero suits shrunk to the size of toys and re-grown on demand.
    • Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania has a kaleidoscope effect that takes place within the Quantum Realm.
  • Doctor Strange (2016) has kaleidoscopic graphics full of mandalas and other spiritual symbols.
    • Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has kaleidoscopes of Rorschach ink blots that reflect scenes from the movie, which is fitting for the multiverse.
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 basically has an 80's-style album back for credits, complete with defaced pictures and re-written titles. And all the characters dancing. Broken up with five stingers.
    • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 features pictures of the Guardians from their previous films.
  • Spider-Man: Homecoming shows Spider-Man's various superhero acts in collage-style Limited Animation, set to The Ramones' "Blitzkrieg Bop".
    • This is continued with Spider-Man: Far From Home, with The Go-Go's' "Vacation" being the chosen song.
    • As for Spider-Man: No Way Home, the credits are shown in notebook sketches like in Homecoming with Alien Geometries such as the Penrose Triangle, while De La Soul's "The Magic Number" plays.
  • Black Panther (2018) showcases the "smart sand" technology used throughout the movie (most notably the Opening Monologue), this time showing silhouettes of the characters and the Panther/Jaguar habits, as well as various locations and scenes from the film against a glowing background that changes color based on the character shown.
    • Black Panther: Wakanda Forever simply plays the credits over Shuri's funeral clothes burning - aside from cutting to her Panther suit once the title shows up.
  • Captain Marvel (2019) has the shiny trail Carol does as she flies eventually lighting up images similar to those that appear when the Skrulls are going through her memories.
    • The Marvels (2023) features images of the characters and events of the film appearing in space.
  • Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings takes inspiration from one scene in the form of flowing water reshaping itself in the form of various scenes and characters from the movie. (it also marks the first time since Doctor Strange where the artistic credits don't include visual representations of the characters next to the actors)^note Guardians Vol. 2 doesn't count as the film had opening credits to roll out the cast
  • Eternals, being about Ancient Astronauts who influenced mankind's development, has ancient art reminiscent of the cast of characters, at times enhanced by the Tron Lines worn by the Eternals.
• The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions had the credits appearing from a line of Matrix code running horizontally across the screen, leaving the credit line(s).
  • The Matrix Resurrections contains similar credits, but the text disintegrates upwards and downwards as a transition to the next one.
• The German comedy Men... has the end credits rolling in front of parallel elevators on which the cast and crew are riding, coming into shot with their credit and moving up or down.
• Middle-earth:
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ended with brilliant sketch artwork of the principal characters, scenery, and various props. Peter Jackson stated that he used regular black-screen credits for the first two films because he wanted to save the special credits for the real ending.
  • Repeated with The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, with the film's credits sequencing in from the last shot of Thror's Map. Not only are the actors' names showed along their character portraits, but the names of the principal production staff are accompanied by something relevant to their role and the rolling credits are displayed above scenes that chronologically depict Bilbo's entire journey.
• Mortal Kombat (2021) has black and red recreations of scenes from the movie.
• MonsterVerse: Given Godzilla (2014) introduced a secret government agency studying giant monsters, the opening credits are shown alongside text that ends up redacted with black ink - i.e. "Reliability of these sightings is still questionable BASED ON THE CHARACTER witnesses. One must ask, is GODZILLA OWNED AND CREATED BY TOHO COMPANY, LTD." Sequel Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) goes the same way ("Footage DIRECTED BY MICHAEL DOUGHERTY from U.S. Submarine Scorpion revealed"), as did Godzilla vs. Kong ("The reality is stranger than anything in a SCREENPLAY BY a raving lunatic, and makes ERIC PEARSON AND MAX BORENSTEIN seem credible by comparison").
• Moulin Rouge!'s credits were printed onto paper and rolled in front of a camera. The credits list is so long it required two sheets of paper to fit everyone in. There's a deliberately accentuated black line where the sheets connect.
• The Mummy Trilogy:
  • The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy Returns: the camera is pulled down CGI passage ways while hieroglyphics morph around and into the credits.
  • The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor had stylized credits that looked like a cross between 300 and Kung Fu Panda.
• The opening credits of My Man Godfrey are on neon signs as the camera pans through part of New York City.
• Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie has Mike and the bots go back into the theater to riff on their own credits.
  Crow: "Puppet wranglers"? There weren't any puppets in this movie!
  Tom Servo: Eastman! He came out of the east to do battle with The Amazing RANDO!
• The Naked Gun, along with the standard listing of cast crew, included jokes such as "so-an-so's ex-wife=Jane Doe", and also credited everyone with a role, usually identifying them via the line that they spoke.
  • One of the directors for the above did Hot Shots!, which had sufficiently long credits, over a montage of many of the visual gags in the film. The credits also contain trivia, recipes, and end with "If you had left the theatre when these credits started, you'd be home by now."
  • The writer for the third Naked Gun followed the gag credits formula in Wrongfully Accused, which even featured "These people were not important for the movie" followed by fastly scrolling names.
• Both Never Been Kissed and I Love You, Beth Cooper featured high school-era photos of the stars, director, writers, producers and other crew members. Which in the case of the latter made for an amusing contrast between Hayden Panettiere and Paul Rust.
• Likewise, the credits for Nine Months opened with baby pictures of the principal cast.
• The Other Guys features economic facts with the credits not rolling, but instead positioned in specific parts.
• For Paddington 2, Paddington's scrapbook is shown on the right as the credits roll on the left, revealing things such as scenes from Aunt Lucy's party and that three inmates who escaped the prison with Paddington and later helped rescue him, Knuckles Phibs and Spoon, got pardoned, Knuckles opening a restaurant which was quickly a big hit. This ends with a scene of Phoenix being sentenced and showing six months later that he's now made friends with the prison inmates like Paddington did has staged them in a musical show.
• Pixels: The credits feature a summarized version of the entire movie played as an 8-bit style video game cutscene.
• Pokémon Detective Pikachu has a tribute to the Pokémon Adventures manga, featuring the main cast and all the Pokémon shown in the movie in the Sugimori-esque style that the manga uses, all over a rapidly-flipping background of manga pages.
• Psycho (1998) has the cars Norman sunk in the swamp being brought up by investigators in real time as the credits roll. Gus Van Sant also added a "flying through the clouds/POV of God" opening that Hitchcock wanted to do but didn't have the budget and/or technology or access to the Air Force like Leni Riefenstahl did.
  • Van Sant used to do something like this regularly on his films, such as the basketball game being played behind the credits for Finding Forrester and Janice skating over the frozen lake where the late Suzanne is interred throughout the end credits of To Die For.
• The main credits of Ratter are accompanied by a multitude of screens showing everyday people going about their private lives, completely unaware that they're secretly being filmed.
• The Raven's end credits are rather creative, with a sort of raven made of blades.
• The closing credits of Repo Man scroll downwards across the screen, not upwards, possibly inspiring those of Se7en. Stoker (2013), Cherry Falls (1999), Bird on a Wire (1990) and Sticky Fingers (1988) have the credits scrolling down as well, but the last named also has them tilting left and right as they scroll before finally tipping over and falling out of frame at the end!
• Requiem for a Dream's end credits are a more understated example, almost certainly due to the subject matter, but still pretty creative. The credits are staggered and scattered across the screen, and interspersed with black-and-white "woodblock" images of Coney Island rides and roller coasters. The audio consists of very faint seaside and carnival sounds.
• Going hand-in-hand with the film's ending, the first part of the end credits for Rise of the Planet of the Apes roll over an animation of international patterns spreading the ALZ-113 virus across the globe.
• Some consider the ending credits for Robin Hood (2010) the best part of the entire film — not because the film is terrible, but because the credits are so awesome.
• Scanners displays the ending credits as part of a computer program, with green text scrolling upwards. This was rather novel in 1981, and computer programs played a vital part into the film's psychic world domination conspiracy plot.
• School of Rock:
  • The opening credits appear as various posters and on people's shirts in the bar.
  • The film has the end credits roll over the closing scene of the kids playing AC/DC. Halfway into the song Jack Black suddenly begins singing about the credits, and pointing to random names in the credits and saying things like, "I don't know that guy."
  • "Movie's almost over! But we're still onscreen! Everybody's rockin', yeah we came from Horace Green!"
• Scary Movie 2: The first half of the credits highlight production photos of director Keenen Ivory Wayans and the crew and actors, showing that they all had a lot of fun making it.
• Secondhand Lions, in a bookend style.
• A Series of Unfortunate Events features a very stylish animated sequence of the Baudelaire children being chased by Count Olaf.
• At the end of Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird, the Count insists on counting all the people who worked on the movie. He counts 10 before leaving... and shows up again immediately after the last credits scroll up, proclaiming the grand total as "278 incredible, colossal credits! HAHAHAHAAA! I LOVE MOTION PICTURES!!!!"
• While it pales in comparison to most of these examples, Se7en has odd credits that scroll down (this was to add to the already horrific ending), looking as though they were written with a faulty typewriter, and has many visual aberrations such as color inversion.
• Shallow Hal and Stuck on You (both by the Farrelly Bros.) had short video clips of every single person who worked on the film.
• Sherlock Holmes (2009): Images from the film are rendered as Victorian era-esque pencil illustrations. Much like the kind you might find in the occasional novel, including the original stories (illustrated by Sidney Paget). Art of the Title did an interview with Danny Yount about the sequence here.
• Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows also has the actual text from "The Final Problem" (the story that the film is loosely based on) appearing around the illustrations and credits themselves.
• Shoot 'Em Up had some extremely stylized credits - for example, a drop of blood color-shifts into a drop of milk, which becomes Monica Bellucci's character's breasts.
• Short Circuit finishes with a recap of the entire story (including a few deleted scenes that don't appear in the movie proper).
• The 1968 mess of a counterculture comedy Skidoo has all the closing credits sung by Harry Nilsson, including the legal disclaimers. ("Copyright M-C-M-L-X-V-I-I-I by Sigma Productions Incorporated - your seat's on fire.").
• The end credits of Snake Eyes roll over a busy construction site, presumably the site of a new casino to replace the one that was destroyed at the climax of the film. The camera closes in further and further until it focuses on one construction worker leaning against a pillar. Once he leaves, it turns out his hand was blocking a red jewel embedded in the concrete. The jewel was part of a ring that belonged to minor character Serena, who had been killed by Big Bad Kevin Dunne, then thrown into a cement mixer.
• The start of the closing credits for Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) show a sprite-based animation of the events of the movie, complete with a Sonic the Hedgehog sprite with custom animations.
• Just like the previous example, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022) has sprite-styled animations recapping this movie during the end credits, although the art evolves from Sonic the Hedgehog 2 into a hybrid of something now more reminiscent of Sonic Adventure, though it is closer to the earlier 3D games.
• Spice World has a scene of the various actors complaining about their roles under the credits.
  The Nostalgia Chick: We know the movie was Spice Crap! We did that on purpose!
• Star Trek (2009), Star Trek Into Darkness and Star Trek Beyond have their end credits zip by an array of planets, either shattered, on the verge of shattering, or primordial, as well as a few stars, to show off the main cast and crew names (the last one also had a a giant space hand mentioned in the movie as an Mythology Gag). The earlier Star Trek movies stuck with basic crawls on either plain black or starfield backgrounds, except for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, which ran the crawl over a mix of stills and clips (mostly clips) from the film.
  • As the final film to include the entire original main cast, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country followed Kirk's final Captain's Log entry with the signatures of the cast written one-by-one on screen, as if they were signing the log themselves, before the crawl.
• Sucker Punch, for its end-credit nightclub duet between Blue and Dr. Gorski.
• Superman III and Supergirl (1984) had most of their closing credits coming towards the camera in a staircase manner.
• The entire end credits sequence for Tapeheads is a callback to the first video the main characters did (a commercial for Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles) with Roscoe rapping about what happened to the boys, and how his chain has grown, among other things.
• The Terminal has the opening credits show up on the airport's split-flap display.
• Tetris (2023): Naturally the end credits are set against a game of Tetris, with the cast’s photos being incorporated into the Tetrominos.
• The opening credits of Thank You for Smoking have the actors' names on tobacco packages.
• The ending credits to There's Something About Mary feature the entire cast, including extras, doing a music video for The Foundations' "Build Me Up Buttercup."
• Tropic Thunder, alternates between Tom Cruise in a fat suit dancing to rap with scenes from the movie which get stylized "splash pages" for actors and the such.
• The director of the above, Adam Mckay, had in Vice (2018) the credits besides fishing flies with artwork related to the Dick Cheney and the Bush administration.
• The opening credits of Watchmen consist of a series of beautiful shots in slow motion which won the OFTA Film Award for Best Titles Sequence.
• Horror comedy Waxwork II: Lost in Time has the credits roll over a music video for the rap title theme tune "Lost In Time". As well as displaying clips from the movie and behind the scenes moments, the video also features the cast dancing around in the various sets used throughout the film.
• West Side Story (1961) had most of the credits as graffiti — writing on walls, doors, dusty windows, and street signs. These literal Walls of Text were arranged by Saul Bass, who celebrated his engagement to Elaine Makatura by drawing their initials together.
• Interspersed within the credits of Wild Things are a series of short scenes that tie the rest of the movie together, including a final one that ties Bill Murray's character with Neve Campbell's.
• X-Men Film Series
  • X-Men: First Class, appropriate to its '60s setting, has Saul Bass and the James Bond-inspired geometric animations representing genetics concepts.
  • The Wolverine is a lesser one — it's set in Japan, and thus the credits have accompanying Japanese art and ideograms.
  • Deadpool (2016) has closing credits with an animated Deadpool fooling around, making jokes about the actors, and prancing about the screen on a unicorn.
  • Deadpool 2 has a wall full of pictures and drawings, most of whom have been either made or vandalized by Deadpool.
• The end credits for Young Sherlock Holmes are accompanied by a sleigh-ride across snowy countryside supposedly carrying Holmes after he's taken his (temporary) leave of Watson but which, at the very end, proves to have been taken by Sherlock's thought-to-be-dead archenemy Rathe, alias Moriarty.

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