Evolving Credits / Live-Action TV

• The West Wing's credits changed not only to reflect the show's different casts, but also their evolving job titles. Fans have even gone so far as to edit together very convincing credits for a hypothetical eighth season, which happen to have the very sweet touch of Bradley Whitford being introduced at the exact moment John Spencer used to be, as Whitford's character would be taking up the same position as Spencer's. Plus, it works out right alphabetically.
• Great British Menu changes the credits to show the chefs in the regions that they doing and in the end the winners of each regions.
• Happens frequently in Kamen Rider, with edits being made with every major Rider introduction or extremely important plot development.
  • Kamen Rider Ryuki has the characters that aren't properly introduced yet being given Plot-Based Photograph Obfuscation in the opening theme scene.
  • The series shows a few quick glimpses of the content of the episode at the beginning of each title sequence. 555 and Den-O went on to show similar preview clips in their opening sequences. Kabuto shoehorned in new opening clips when Gatack was introduced, and so did Den-O for Zeronos.
  • Kamen Rider Blade does this twice, with both of its openings. The first big change is that a character who was previously keeping his face obscured with a hat, Mutsuki, shows his face in the updated version after his proper debut. After some time, the second opening changes to show off all of the Riders in their final forms (those who had any, at least).
  • Of course, the AMV for Opening 1 still features four Riders.
  • Kamen Rider Decade evolved in two different ways: first, clips of Diend are added after his introduction, second, the opening narration is slightly changed when it becomes apparent that more worlds beyond the Heisei era Riders' will be visited.
  • Kamen Rider Ex-Aid may be reigning king of this trope in the franchise, constantly making minor aesthetics to reflect plot developments, such as new forms, Riders, character deaths, and who the current main Big Bad is. This applies even after the more significant evolution starting episode 25. The most egregious case is the differences between the openings of episodes 36 and 37. The former reinstates the resurrected and now evil Kiriya, scowling in a black jacket into his usual spot. 37, on the other hand, , to reflect the two significant plot developments in the previous episode, immediately changes THAT to show the revived Kiriya was only The Mole, his personal shot changed again to have him smiling with his usual brown jacket, and is back on the heroes' side. Not to mention the addition of Hyper Muteki Ex-Aid in the form exhibition.
  • Kamen Rider Geats does much the same as Ex-Aid, having dead Riders removed from the sequence where all of them are shown. This happens as early as episode 3, which is a first for the franchise. After the first rounds ends that entire part of the sequence is reset to remove the greyed out defeated Rider's entirely and replace them with a new batch who also get greyed out upon their removal from the game. There's also a notable blank spot in the sequence at first which is filled in by Keiwa (who was himself removed from the original when he had to retire because of injury) and Neon who weren't originally selected for the game but added in later, and these shots are updated to show them looking more confident as veterans of the game.
• The final season of Liv and Maddie ditched the original opening with the Rooneys in the bathroom and switched it with a new sequence of the Roonies in various California landmarks and wearing sunglasses which show clips throughout the season.
• The American Gladiators revival adds the new gladiators to the title sequence only after they've actually appeared on the show. In addition, gladiators have been removed from the credits due to injury or being part of the reserves.
• On Angel, new images of Fred as Illyria were not added to the credits until after the characters [and the audience] discovered they couldn't get Fred back.
  • Additionally, in season 1 Wesley didn't appear in the credits until after he started working with Angel and Cordelia. His first episode still had Doyle in the credits despite the fact that Doyle had already died in the previous episode.
• Babylon 5: The second season modified its opening after the third episode once a surprise is revealed. It also constantly updated its credit captions throughout the run to reflect change in character status, such as promotions. Unfortunately, the DVD release of the second season did not maintain these changes, and thus a new viewer could be spoiled if watching the opening credits on the first two episodes. They also did a variant credit sequence for the episode "The Corps Is Mother, The Corps Is Father", reflecting the episode's focus on Psi Corps.
• Battlestar Galactica
  • Katee Sackhoff's name was removed from the opening credits after her character's death.
  • Additionally, they update the survivor count in the introduction every episode.
  • There is also a variant opening with different clips and no survivor count during the New Caprica arc possibly to hide how bad things had really gotten on New Caprica, so the revelation to the characters themselves in show would have more impact, or more simply because the governing president wasn't updating the white board.
  • The Cylon part of the opening ("The Cylons were created by man...") also evolved over the course of the series. Season 1 used a longer version than the other seasons with lines focusing on Boomer's status as a "sleeper agent." Season 4 changed to a whole new wording focusing on the Final Five (which also evolved as the other characters learned their identities). The Plan went back to the original wording, but it was done as a voiceover by the various Cylon characters. They also updated the footage in each season to reflect which Cylons were known to the audience.
• Miller Boyett shows did this out of necessity; in addition to reflecting cast changes, reshoots were done to reflect character development.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer did not add Michelle Trachtenberg to the opening credits until the second episode of the fifth season to so as not to completely spoil her surprise appearance at the end of the premiere (though she is still credited as a guest star).
• The 1978-1991 Dallas originally had a diagonal helicopter flyover of Texas Stadium, former home field of the NFL's Dallas Cowboys. When the series started, the whole field was taken in, goalpost, end zone and all; this lasted for the miniseries (first season) and all of the second season, and then starting in Season 3 (1979-80), the shot was edited such that the goalpost and end zone were covered up. This lasted until Season 7 (1983-84), when the original shot returned, but that didn't last long, as Season 8 (1984-85) returned to a variation of the Seasons 3-6 version. Season 9 modified the shot to one that zoomed directly down towards the field, where the end zone and goalpost got progressively closer, before the camera passed over it and moved upward (this version was the one that lasted throughout the remainder of the series and through the J.R. Returns and War of the Ewings movies in 1996 and 1998 respectively [starting in Season 13 and going through the 14th and final season, the shot was unfettered by the black lines that the previous 12 seasons had between shots]).
• Especially common in Reality Competition shows:
  • Survivor
    • In the Guatemala season, two extra contestants (returning from the previous season) were added to the opening after being introduced post-opening in the first episode. The China season was the first of several to change its titles post-merge to show who was still competing and who was on the jury. Micronesia had eliminated contestants being removed from the opening, along with implementing the China-style post-merge titles.
  • Big Brother does a version of this as well; ejected housemates have a clip of them leaving the house replacing their appearance in the intro.
  • Every season of The Mole (except the first possibly) updated the credits each episode. The status of players who had left the game was displayed when their name and picture appeared in the credits.
  • The Amazing Race revises its opening titles around the sixth episode in each season. Early on each team has an "in their home environment" shot before a turn-to-the-camera-and/or-the-camera-pans-to-you portraits, both filmed in a single session (Sometimes just the same shot from two angles). In the revised credits each team's first shot is from one of the first episodes. Teams eliminated early are usually shown in their fatal challenges, while the continuing teams at that point team are shown doing other challenges or in transport - occasionally also a Crowning Moment of Funny.
• Power Rangers
  • The title sequences for the shows change after a bit to include the new Sixth Ranger, Megazord, Battlizers, etc.
  • The season that holds record for fewest opening changes is Lightspeed Rescue, at a mere one change (only adding its Sixth Ranger, and nothing else), but some are always changing. Power Rangers Operation Overdrive changes to add a new Ranger, to update Miratrix's hairstyle, to add every new Megazord formation, to add a Super Mode for Mack, and... sometimes just because they feel like it, it seems.
  • Power Rangers in Space shows only four Rangers in its first opening and continues to feature Divatox from Power Rangers Turbo as if she'll be remaining Big Bad, the better to keep the arrival of new Ranger Andros and new Big Bad Astronema hidden until their debut later that episode.
  • Power Rangers Lost Galaxy has several, due to any character who isn't in the episode being left out, as well as permanent new characters being added. (The exception being Kendrix's departure, due to the actress' leukemia. She was left in the opening for the duration.)
  • Power Rangers RPM is a strange case. The initial opening only showed four of the rangers, but mentioned important characters or actors. They even showed Tanaya 7, who wouldn't appear for several episodes to begin with. This was then changed to showing Milo Cawthorne as Ziggy, the Green Ranger, when he officially joined the team and, changed again later, a clip of Olivia Tennet portraying Doctor K, once revealed.
  • Power Rangers Cosmic Fury has five different title sequences, reflecting major story and character developments:
    • Episodes 1-3: Russell Curry gets top billing as Red Ranger Zayto. The characters are depicted wearing their Dino Fury suits. The opening shot reuses an image from the Dino Fury finale of the team standing together.
    • Episode 4: The opening shot of the entire team together shows the four Rangers who currently have powers: Amelia, Aiyon, Izzy, and Javi. With Amelia's promotion to Red Ranger, Hunter Deno now gets top billing, followed by Curry and the others. Chance Perez's credit as Javi now features his prosthetic arm. The costumes now match their Cosmic Fury Ranger suits, and Ollie's shows off his Evil Costume Switch.
    • Episode 5-6: Zayto is now included with the other four in the opening image as the Zenith Ranger.
    • Episode 7-9: Fern now stands with the other five Rangers in the opening shot as the Orange Ranger. Likewise, Jacqueline Joe's credit goes from purple to orange.
    • Episode 10 (Finale): All seven Cosmic Fury Rangers stand together in the opening shot. In Kai Moya's credit, Ollie finally ditches the sinister stare for a bright smile and he is costumed as the Cosmic Fury Blue Ranger.
• Each season of The Wire uses a different version of the theme song, "Way Down in the Hole", and a different montage during the opening credits, which reflect the mood of each season. The montages integrate clips from previous seasons and out-of-context clips that become clear much later on.
• The opening titles to the first episode of The Worst Witch did not feature Mildred and her friends. Instead we saw the shots we usually see of all of the other witches (as well as one of a witch descending in front of the gate which didn't end up in the proper opening). The school song (used as the show's opening theme) was also not played and instead an instrumental BGM was. It was from the second episode onward we saw Mildred and her friends (bar Enid, who wasn't added until after her debut episode) flying on broomsticks and the school song was used as the opening theme.
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  • The first episode opening does not show the wormhole, because it's only discovered in that episode.
  • Starting with season 4, the original arrangement of the opening theme music was replaced with a faster-paced version with a more intense rhythm, possibly to reflect on the darker turn the series had taken with the introduction of the Dominion Myth Arc. There's also a lot more activity shown around the station in general, to reflect that the fact it's become a seat of power, rather than its former status as a remote backwater nobody much cared about. The Defiant (which had been introduced in season 3) is showcased, shown departing the station and flying into the wormhole, which also fixes an anomaly where the earlier title sequence had shown the wormhole opening and closing for no reason.
• The opening credits for the pilot episode of Charmed did show the sisters casting a spell, but not their individual powers. Plus, the title sequence was altered regularly to only show actors who appear in the episode.
• iCarly has a new credit sequence every season after the second, and adds casts members as they are introduced. The only scene that stays throughout the entire run is the final scene of "iPilot" where Carly tosses her hat in the air, with the scene of Spencer and the ostrich screaming from "iMeet Fred" sticking around since Season 2.
• British satirical show Have I Got News for You changes its introductory sequence from season to season, to reflect recent news stories. The one constant is that it opens by zooming through London to focus on Big Ben.
  • Series 49's intro depicted a squabble between the leaders of the various opposition parties, referencing the upcoming general election. The election occurred just before Episode 5 was being filmed, and over the course of the episode, three of the opposition leaders ^note UKIP's Nigel Farage, the Liberal Democrats' Nick Clegg, and Labour's Ed Miliband were revealed to have resigned. From Episode 6 onwards, their faces were crudely scribbled out of the intro.
• Henry Danger updates its title sequence with new scenes every episode. Henry's introduction is also redubbed to reflect Jace Norman's puberty.
  • As a strange example of this, Riele Downs and Sean Ryan Fox's positions in the credits are switched around every other episode.
• Australian soap opera Neighbours has as its title sequence a montage of all the main characters that are in the show at that time (not just the characters who show up in the storylines for that particular episode, though which storylines will be continued in a given ep is spoiled by the "previously on" catch-up before the title sequence). Whenever a character or characters join the main cast or leave/die, the title sequence montage is updated to reflect this...though not always immediately.
  • In some versions of its title sequence, rival Australian soap opera Home and Away would also use evolving credits showing the current main cast. Again, just because a new arrival isn't on the credits, doesn't mean that they're not staying long...they might just not have been added to the credits quite yet.
  • By contrast, British soap operas don't tend to use title sequences that show the show's characters. Coronation Street has an establishing shot of the titular street, Eastenders has a title screen of a map of the London area, and Emmerdale has establishing shots of the rural setting. Hollyoaks however, does show images of its main cast. Unfortunately they only update the credits every so often, and with Hollyoaks being a quiet suburb with the mortality rate of a Mafia blood feud, it means that on occasion a good proportion of the characters in the montage are currently dead. Later on it gets updated more often but still doesn't change immediately after a character change.
  • Eastenders did, however, update the title sequence when the Millennium Dome (now the O2 Arena) was built at pretty much the focal point of their map.
• Fringe's opening sequence was originally a series of fringe science-related words flashing on a blue background, some of which would relate to that season's themes. The season two finale, which took place in the Alternate Universe, introduced a new sequence with a red background; during the next season, the color of the intro indicated on which side the episode took place. The season three finale was set 15 years later in a Bad Future and featured a silver background along with a mixture of scientific concepts and basic necessities that have been lost, such as "water" and "hope". Season four brings us a yellow sequence, signifying either the new Peter-less timeline or the fact that the two universes are bridged. Finally, the fifth and final season uses a cold blue sequence, and ditches the fringe science terms for words like "freedom" and "private thought" for things the conquered Earth has lost.
• Game of Thrones universe:
  • Game of Thrones:
    • The opening sequence is a sweeping flyover of a map of Westeros, complete with Clock Punk-themed cities and castles, changes from episode to episode, depending on where members of the main cast are at any given time, and new locations are periodically added to the opening title sequence as the story moves into new regions.
    • Major changes to locations are accounted for such as destructions (from season three to season five Winterfell, which has been burned down, billows clouds of smoke) and which faction controls the place. Season eight introduces many changes including the Wall having a hole in it, the interiors of important locations being shown and major locations being visited in reverse order from previous seasons.
  • House of the Dragon: Beginning with the second episode, the opening titles depict the literal bloodline of the Targaryens that ruled Westeros and certain other relevant characters. The blood flow representing characters in the series' present alters as their relationships change. The first such change occurs in the third episode where King Viserys' blood flow meets up with Alicent Hightower's, representing their marriage.
• Being a Long Runner that swaps out its main character as a matter of course, the credits for Doctor Who have gone through many changes.
  • The most extreme example has to be the credits sequences of Series 7.1, which grew progressively darker with each episode. Also, during that same series, the show logo gained unique textures in keeping with that episode's plot (e.g. for "Asylum of the Daleks," the logo was covered with Dalek bumps).
• As doctors came and went from the 4077th, M*A*S*H inserted and removed its characters from the scramble to get the wounded in the opening credits. The final shot of the credits originally showed Hawkeye and Trapper riding on the jeeps headed back to the camp. After Wayne Rogers left the show, they kept the shot, but reframed it to crop Trapper out.
  • For Season Four, the shot of Trapper scurrying to a chopper is removed, and replaced with a shot of B.J. rushing towards the chopper, from a distance, making him somewhat indistinguishable. Afterwards, a clearer of shot B.J. helping casualty from the chopper's rumble seat is used for Seasons Five and Six. Similarly, the same shot was used for the first couple of episodes for Season Seven, before we see on the show itself that B.J. now has a mustache; afterwards, a close up of a mustachioed B.J. is used in the opening credits for the rest of the series.
  • A subtle one, but after Gary Burghoff left the show the opening moment of the credits, which is an Over the Shoulder shot of Radar looking at the choppers coming in, is cropped to take Radar out of the picture.
• ER had its opening credits changed to reflect its ever-evolving main cast. Whenever a main cast member joined or left the series, the opening credits would be amended to include or remove them.
  • Season 2 saw the theme music extended by five seconds to accomodate the extra cast. However, the music was never extended again, despite the number of cast in the opening increasing from seven in Season 2 to thirteen in Season 6.
  • The constant changes resulted in there being an incredible thirty-three distinct variations of the opening credits. Both Seasons 6 and 8 alone had six variations each just within the season.
• In Soap the "family photo" at the start of each episode would change whenever more characters became part of the family or when some left/died.
• The credits for NYPD Blue showed Dennis Franz second after the somewhat younger actors (David Caruso and Jimmy Smits) who played his partner. He was moved to first in the lineup when Sipowicz was partnered with detectives played by the considerably younger Rick Schroeder and Mark-Paul Gosselaar.
• Person of Interest opens with the how the Machine views the characters including what the public record says on them.
  • As the Machine evolves those labels begin to change, Finch is clearly marked as 'Admin', Reese as 'Primary Asset', Root as 'Analog Interface'.
  • When Samaritan wakens and gains control of the NSA feeds the credits reflect what he sees - that the most of the cast are deviants, oh wait they're not.
  • Finally in the last season has the two Admins begin fighting for control of the opening lines.
    Finch: You are being watched. The government has a secret system.
    Greer: A system you asked for.
• Breakout Kings: After Charlie's death Ray is alone and his badge now sports the black band used for mourning a fallen officer.
• The second season credit sequence for Project UFO was significantly changed from the first. While justified in part by the recasting of the "lead officer" role, the cast members weren't actually shown in the first season credits. The new credits include 40 seconds of spaceship special effects shots plus footage of the leads taking off in an Air Force fighter jet. It's all more suggestive of a science-fiction action-adventure show than what the show actually was — a "just the facts" procedural in which, as in real life, the Air Force never found conclusive evidence of extraterrestrial visitors.
• This happened to the opening credits sequence for season 2 of Grimm, such as with the inclusion of Captain Renard's Game Face following its much-anticipated reveal during episode 2.
• The Big Bang Theory ends its opening sequence with a brief clip of the cast having take-out together. The original was taken before the show really established itself and thus has a few unusual quirks unique to the pilot such as: Penny has a much different hairstyle than normal, Raj is wearing a reddish ball cap that is never seen again and the white boards filled with equations are displayed prominently (they show up from time to time, but are not a mainstay of the apartment set design). The third season had a new one that reflected the series slightly better and the fifth season added a new shot where Penny is taking a really big bite. The sixth season finally includes the latest cast additions Amy and Bernadette.
• Modern Family's credits were redone in season five to update the children's ages, swap in a new, older actress for Lily, and add Gloria and Jay's new baby Joe. It was done again partway through season seven to update the ages again, as Joe was no longer an infant.
• Daredevil (2015) is an interesting example, the credits don't change, but the Netflix title card changes with Matt Murdock looking increasingly beat up, and finally wearing the Daredevil costume after the viewer has finished season 1.
• Mock the Week: The title sequence features clips of famous people (Mostly politicians) with hilarious captions. The pictures and captions are updated over time, though one of David Beckham getting a medal has survived since the start, albeit with different captions.
• 7th Heaven changed its title sequence to include the actors who appeared in the episode, while also adding new characters into the sequence (when they appeared anyway). These changes occurred almost every episode.
• The Wonderful World of Disney: In the title sequence for the 1997 revival, the references to The Three Musketeers, and Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book were removed and replaced by references to The Little Mermaid (1989) and George of the Jungle beginning with the 1998-99 season.
• 11/22/63's credits change from episode to episode reflecting interference in the timeline. For the first seven episodes it's fairly subtle, but the eighth episode, after Kennedy's assassination is stopped, has things really different.
• The Durrells has opening titles consisting of semi-animated artwork depicting events in the series, and changed each season.
• The Expanse: Starting in season 2, the credits change to reflect in-universe developments such as the destruction of Deimos, the departure of the Nauvoo from Tycho Station, the protomolecule spreading across Venus, the nuclear attack on South America, the opening of the Ring gates and the asteroids hitting Earth.
  • In Season 6 there is also an element of foreshadowing, as you can see the Ring Station having some kind of construction taking place, by Episode 5 it looks complete and in that episode, the construction is revealed to be a set of gigantic railguns that annihilate an attacking MCRN fleet.
• Mystery Science Theater 3000 would change intros whenever a major character left or added or a situation changed.
• Midnight Caller replaced Wendy Kilbourne with Lisa Eilbacher early in the third season.
• The second season of Star Trek: Discovery replaces the Klingon symbols — since the Klingon war is over and the season is about a new potential threat — with the Red Angel and the Section 31 version of the Starfleet logo. After the true nature of the Red Angel is revealed in "The Sounds of Thunder", the image of it is changed to reflect this. The third season replaces them with references to the 31st century setting, including the new Starfleet insignia and the little service robots, and the fourth season adds images of the DMA and Zora. Season 5 has the "twin moons", the puzzle map, and a ball bearing rolling around an infinity symbol, possibly a reference to Starfleet's secret "infinity room".
• Outlander regularly changes its credits sequence to reflect each season's shifting storyline. Season 1 was pure Scottish Highlands; Season 2 mixes it with a trip to France; Season 3 adds in modern touches as Claire returns to the 20th century before coming back to the 18th and later the pair heading to Jamaica; Season 4 has Claire and Jamie in colonial America and season 5 with them joined by Claire's grown daughter and the coming Revolution. Also, the theme song regularly shifts to capture these changes (compare the pure Scottish themes of season 1 to the American influence of season 5).
• Cheers had a title sequence that by necessity changed as the seasons went on, but there was more to it than simply adding the names of new members of the cast. The sequence memorably used old-timey art and photographs that not only established Cheers as being a century-old bar, but the people in the pictures were chosen to be counterparts of the characters as well. This meant old pictures had to be dropped and new ones added.
  • The iconic picture of a well-dressed person reclining on a table while raising her glass with a companion had to be removed after Shelley Long left the cast, as the image represented the relationship between Diane and Sam. Ted Danson instead got a solo picture of a bartender (very similar to the one used for Nicholas Colasanto when he was still alive, a nice subtle Passing the Torch nod).
  • New pictures were also added for Woody Harrelson (a teenage bar worker), Kirstie Alley (a middle-aged barmaid), Kelsey Grammer (a doctor sitting by himself), and Bebe Neuwirth (a pale, gaunt woman who bears an amusing resemblance to Lilith).
• Home Improvement started out with a cardboard cutout style for it's intro, which was updated slightly in season 2, notably by changing the text to a darker shade of blue and by adding Richard Karn. The entire sequence was changed in season 4 into a completely different, abstract style, which included the Taylor family kids being shown in a pixelated video game style. Season 7 brought about yet another complete sequence style change, one which also began crediting Debbe Dunning.
• Sister, Sister started out with stop motion effects and animation sequences as the original version of the theme song is played in the background for the first four seasons. For the final two seasons to mark the twins' maturity, the opening credits for seasons 5 and 6 abandon the stop motion/animation sequence to make room for a music video sequence.
• In addition to occasionally updating the general footage to account for cast changes, The Office (US) replaced the shot of Michael in is office when Steve Carell left the show with whichever character was the current Branch Manager. First the spot was taken by Deangelo Vickers, who later became indisposed and the position shifted to Dwight, then Creed and finally Andy. After Andy was Put on a Bus in the final season, a shot of Jim and Pam kissing was used instead.
• Supernatural changed its main title sequence every season, as well as various one-offs for specific episodes. These usually tied in to the major theme of the season or its Big Bad. For instance, season 5 had blood disippating against a blinding white light (because Lucifer now walks the Earth), season 7 had the credits explode into Ominous Obsidian Ooze (the true form of Leviathans), and season 9 had burning angel wings (because Metatron banished all angels from Heaven).
• The Thundermans updates its theme song slightly as of Season 3, which mostly remains unchanged aside from re-shooting the ending shot with the cast to include the new family member Chloe, and updating the living room photo so Chloe appears in it as well.
• Unfabulous: The theme song is mostly unchanged in Season 2, but alters the "I'm gonna be the one unforgettable..." sequence slightly to include Maris and Cranberry, reflecting their actors being promoted to the main cast.
• WandaVision employs a different TV intro with each episode, which parodies a specific era of television sitcom. One small, subtle touch is an actual evolution; Elizabeth Olsen, who plays Wanda, provides a “Previously on WandaVision” vocal tagline, and this grows increasingly stressed-sounding and less perky as her character comes apart through the series.
• Ms. Marvel (2022)'s Creative Closing Credits feature comic-book-style animated graffiti superimposed over shots of Jersey City. When the setting changes to Karachi in Episode 4, the credits change accordingly, with the same graffiti now superimposed over shots of Karachi instead.
• Arrowverse:
  • Arrow consistently retains the arrowhead logo in its title sequence, but changes its design every season. In the first two seasons, it's dull grey, while the third features a stylized arrowhead with League of Assassins motif, signifying them as the villains of the season. The fourth and fifth seasons use a green arrowhead, symbolizing that Oliver finally takes up his Green Arrow moniker. The sixth season introduces a grey-green arrowhead, which stays for the rest of the series. The sixth season's sequence also has symbols representing other members of Team Arrow, as the Ensemble Cast is played up (when the New Recruits form a breakaway team, the symbols representing Wild Dog, Mister Terrific, and Black Canary are recolored dark red).
  • The earlier seasons of The Flash have a very modest title card, featuring just "THE FLASH" against a black background. In season 4, it's changed to an animated red and orange background. The current title card, introduced after the Crisis, is probably the most grandiose one in the Arrowverse: a 20-second sequence featuring shots of the cast members, set to an epic rendition of the theme tune.
  • Supergirl initially features a triumphant title card with predominantly orange (season 1) and blue (season 2) colors. The third introduces a somber and sorrowful shot of the House of El symbol, signifying Kara's struggle to move on from Mon-El. The fourth season goes back to a triumphant look of the symbol set against the rising sun, showing that Kara has moved on.
  • Legends of Tomorrow recolors its usual grey and light blue title card of the first three seasons to a hellish red in the fourth, as it focuses on the team's mission to capture the demons and magical creatures released from Hell. The fifth season has a new punk-influenced animated title sequence that features all of the main cast members, and the sixth adds sci-fi elements to this to reflect that this year's threat is aliens. Season 7 has another completely new sequence, again showing the cast members, to represent the fact the team is stuck in the 1920s. One episode that season also has a unique sequence because it focuses on a team of robot doppelgangers.
• The opening titles of Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year change each season, as they comprise a montage of self-portraits by that year's contestants which are effectively their audition pieces for the show.
• Odd Squad has eleven variations of the opening theme to date, which usually changes with each season and/or when a new character is introduced. Old scenes from episodes that have already aired are often swapped out for new ones from episodes that either have already aired or have yet to air (at the time the themes are introduced), the three pictures that show odd happenings following Olive (and later Olympia and Oprah) talking about what she does are swapped out for others, and if spoilers about new characters need to be hidden, the Narrator is changed to Oprah.
  • Season 1 has three variations, all of which are narrated by Olive. The second variation, introduced in "Rise of the Hydraclops", has the writer and director of each episode (as well as any additional credits) listed on the bottom-right of the screen at the beginning of the episode instead of being listed on the Episode Title Card, which became a mainstay of the series.
  • Season 2 has the most variations of any season, with five of them reflecting characters' departures and introductions. The first variation, only seen in the season premiere "First Day", has narration from Oprah and has scenes exclusively from Season 1 episodes. The theme song is shortened, and the shot of the Main 4 characters of the season is also removed because the Main 4 of Season 2 hadn't formed yet. The opening theme was changed again in the next episode, "Back to the Past", with Olympia handling narration duties, scenes from Season 2 episodes alongside Season 1 ones, and the Character in the Logo shot returning with Oprah, Oscar (replaced with Oona in "Olympia's Day" following his departure in the previous episode), Olympia and Otis comprising a new core group.
  • Season 3 has three variations of the theme to date. Like with the previous season, the first half of the season premiere, "Odd Beginnings: Part 1", has Oprah (as the Big O) doing narration and has scenes from both Season 1 and Season 2 episodes as well as a scene from the show's Made-for-TV Movie, Odd Squad: World Turned Odd. The Character in the Logo shot at the end is also removed. Come the next episode after the season premiere, "Portalandia", the opening credits are changed again in what is perhaps the most drastic change of the series. Opal handles narration duties (and states that "we travel the world" instead of "we work for an organization"), the "but back to me" slide is removed, the first "oddness slide" of a giant baby in a race is swapped for a still from "Wax On Wax Odd", and scenes from Season 3 episodes comprise the entirety of the theme. The opening theme song is also extended by 5 seconds and the "who do we work for?" line is removed so Opal simply states "We work for Odd Squad."
  • Following Opal's departure in "End of the Road", the opening theme is changed beginning with "Box Trot". Orla does narration, scenes from past Season 3 episodes are swapped with new ones in the second half of the season, and the Character in the Logo shot removes Opal and Oprah, replacing them with Osmerelda Kim and the Little O, respectively. In addition, Orpita reads the Episode Title Card aloud following Oprah's departure (although it's still Oprah's hand opening up the turquoise manila folder).
• Better Call Saul: The opening credits' video quality noticeably degrades with each season, with the video developing dropouts, glitches and other artifacts reminiscent of VHS tape degradation. This is a nod to Jimmy McGill, now on the run and living under the alias "Gene Takovic", reliving his Glory Days by repeatedly watching a VHS tape of the TV commercials he made as Amoral Attorney Saul Goodman. The tape degrades just as the memories of the good times get further and further behind him. By the Finale Season episode "Nippy", the footage finally cuts out abruptly, leaving no VCR signal. This signifies the Gene Takovic scenes becoming the dominant plotline from here on out.
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver had during the first two seasons opening titles that only changed the last slide. Season 3 started a trend to change every year a few of them, with replacements, more often than not with references to past segments, or have the Canis Latinicus description above changed (before 2017, the Statue of Liberty had "Frenchium Garbagum", afterwards it was “Requiescat in pace”; the White House was "Sublease Concordium",^note noting that the current inhabitant of the White House is merely a temporary one, who lives there at the agreement of the owners "Domus Bannon",^note Steve Bannon helped someone get elected... "Mar-a-Largo Northus"^note ...who frequently left Washington for his Palm Beach resort and finally reverted to the original when Joe Biden was elected). John Oliver's card also started having him as he looked at the season's start.
• The nine "panels" featuring the cast members of The Brady Bunch were updated with new season, reflecting the aging of the Brady Kids and the changing fashions and hairstyles.
• Murder, She Wrote sometimes updated the Title Montage, but more specifically the scenes of Jessica writing were updated from typewriter to computer in Season 10 and again to a laptop in season 12.
• Marvel Studios shows on Disney+ use this practice. The credits sequence itself remains unchanged, though actors are added to the credits as they show up. This generally means that earlier episodes of a given show will have quite conspicuous gaps between starring credits as all of the characters haven't made their debut yet. This is a double-edged sword, however as if one of the gaps still hasn't been filled by late in the season, this can serve to clue eagle-eyed fans in on an impending plot twist or surprise appearance, as was the case with Vincent D'Onofrio's comeback as Wilson Fisk in Hawkeye (2021)
• Avatar: The Last Airbender (2024) changes its opening logo's color every two episodes, starting from brown (1-2) to green (3-4), red (5-6), and blue (7-8). If you can read Chinese, you will notice that the hanzi changes as well, referencing the elemental theme naming for the seasons of the original show; the hanzi, respectively, translate to "Air" (气), "Earth" (土), "Fire" (火), and "Water" (水).

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