History Main / ArtisticTitle

-->�And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so?
--> I did.
-->And what did you want?
--> To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.�

The common art forms include [[AnimatedCreditsOpening a cartoon version of the characters]] (''Series/TheManyLovesOfDobieGillis'', ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'', ''Series/{{Bewitched}}''), a flyby of the setting (''Series/StargateAtlantis'', ''Series/{{Newhart}}'') or a bunch of special effects, which are are often used in tandem with a TitleMontage. One common art form in relation to comic-book features (film/TV) involves comic-book art being used in the title (either actual art from the comic is used, or custom art created for the title). Some are elaborate enough to enter DesignStudentsOrgasm territory.

* The American ''Film/TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo'' has this. It's dark and beautiful; it feels like the beginning of a ''Film/JamesBond'' title, if done by [[Music/NineInchNails Trent Reznor]] -- which fittingly enough, it is.

* ''Series/BronBroen'' - It has a title with beautiful cinematography (https://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&v=3qEaG4Dw3FE)

** ''Film/Spartacus'': The opening titles appear in a montage of silhouetted Roman sculptures and tablets, which evokes the strength and power of the Roman Empire. The montage ends with a zoom into the eye of a crumbling Roman bust, which hints at the Empire's coming decline and fall.

* ''Series/{{Severance}}'' has an opening featuring its characters in very abstract and strange situations like a bunch of people pouring out of a mug, or the chair someone is sitting on melting, to convey the strangeness and alienation of the show's premise of people having a separate identity and memories when they are at work.

* ''Series/{{Severance}} has an opening featuring its characters in very abstract and strange situations like a bunch of people pouring out of a mug, or the chair someone is sitting on melting, to convey the strangeness and alienation of the show's premise of people having a separate identity and memories when they are at work.

* ''Manga/ElfenLied'', with its Gustav Klimt-esque paintings.

* ''Film/Psycho'' has its credits appear through bars, set to Bernard Herrmann's creepy theme track.

%%* ''Series/TheNanny''

* ''[[Series/Peacemaker2022 Peacemaker]]'' has the series' main cast dancing to Wig Wam's "''Do You Wanna Taste It''" [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments with completely straight faces]].

* ''Series/BlackSails'', and it just might be the most awesome thing on television.

%%* ''Series/GameOfThrones''

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* ''WesternAnimation/SpiesInDisguise'': The opening and closing credits pay homage to the stylish credit sequences of the ''Franchise/JamesBond'' films.

* The opening titles of ''HouseOnHauntedHill1999''. It's got to be one of the creepiest opening sequences ever, and sets the mood and tone of the film just right.

%%* ''Series/{{Chef}}''

* ''[[Series/Peacemaker2022 Peacemaker]]'' has the series' main cast dancing to Wig Wam's "''Do You Wanna Taste It''" [[FunnyMoments with completely straight faces]].

* [[Creator/TheBBC BBC News 24]]

* ''Series/{{Carnivale}}''
* ''Series/{{Cheers}}''
* ''Series/{{Chef}}''
* ''Series/{{Community}}''

* ''Series/GameOfThrones''
* ''Series/GrowingPains''
* ''Series/HomeImprovement'' in its final years.
* ''Series/{{House}}'' uses images from the classic medical text ''Literature/GraysAnatomy.'' ''Series/GreysAnatomy'', on the other hand, does not.

* ''Series/TheNanny''

* ''Series/NipTuck''

* ''Series/RescueMe''
* ''Series/{{Rome}}''
* ''Series/SecretArmy''

* ''Series/TrueDetective''
* Played with on an episode of ''Series/{{Friends}}'' titled "The One That Could Have Been". Taking place in an AlternateUniverse, the scene's title sequence is shot, not using the cast members as they usually are, but as they are for that one episode.

The common art forms include [[AnimatedCreditsOpening a cartoon version of the characters]] (''Series/TheManyLovesOfDobieGillis'', ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'', ''Series/{{Bewitched}}''), a flyby of the setting (''Series/StargateAtlantis'', ''Series/{{Newhart}}'') or a bunch of special effects, which are are often used in tandem with a TitleMontage. One common art form in relation to comic-book features (film/TV) involves comic-book art being used in the title (either actual art from the comic is used, or custom art created for the title). Some are elaborate enough to enter DesignStudentOrgasm territory.

The common art forms include [[AnimatedCreditsOpening a cartoon version of the characters]] (''Series/TheManyLovesOfDobieGillis'', ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'', ''Series/{{Bewitched}}''), a flyby of the setting (''Series/StargateAtlantis'', ''Series/{{Newhart}}'') or a bunch of special effects, which are are often used in tandem with a TitleMontage. One common art form in relation to comic-book features (film/TV) involves comic-book art being used in the title (either actual art from the comic is used, or custom art created for the title).

* {{Anime/Betterman}} has an opening that consists entirely of still images and animations of the series' cast imposed over live-action footage of a coral reef. ''Anime/BrigadoonMarinAndMelan'' does the same thing, only with upside-down footage of the Earth's stratosphere instead of coral.

* {{Anime/Betterman}} has an opening that consists entirely of still images and animations of the series' cast imposed over live-action footage of a coral reef. ''Anime/BrigadoonMarinAndMelan'' does the same thing, only with footage of the Earth's troposphere instead of coral.