History Main / EvolvingCredits

* The opening credits for ''Anime/YuriOnIce'' start off almost entirely monochrome in episode 1. With every episode, though, a few more colour splashes are added, and by the time episode 10 rolls around, the opening credits are almost entirely in full colour.

In the case of {{anime}} or other shows being aired outside their home country, these changed credits may or may not carry over into foreign broadcasts, with overseas airings using only the first version of the credits or different ones entirely instead.

** Beginning with "Hunting Palismen", Eda is wearing a new dress, and Amity has a different necklace and her new violet hairdo.

** Major changes to locations are accounted for: from season three to season five [[spoiler: Winterfell, which has been burned down, billows clouds of smoke,]]. Season eight introduces many changes including [[spoiler: 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]].

** The [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt three-part season finale]] has [[SpecialEditionTitle the entire opening sequence changed]] to prominently display [[spoiler:[[BigBad Bill Cipher]] and [[RealityIsOutToLunch his "liberation" of Gravity Falls]], with Dipper, Mabel, and Stan's segments replaced until the final part]]. While the first two parts replace the whisper with Bill's declaration that [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou he's watching us]], the final episode instead has the original voice saying "[[EndOfSeriesAwareness Goodbye, Gravity Falls.]]"

* ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'': Seasons 3-4 ditched TheOner opening where it zooms in on a computer and showing Dora and her friends participating in a computer game and changes it to a scene where Dora and Boots swing through the forest, meet their friends, and followed by clips from several episodes. It changed slightly in Season 5 to reflect the removing of the "Star Catching" element in the previous seasons. A new TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects opening was introduced in Season 7, along with the ArtEvolution for the show and the transition to HD.

** The opening is changed a third time in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E1TheCutieMapPart1 the season 5 premiere]] to replace the Golden Oaks Library in the background with the castle Twilight gains in the previous season's finale.

** Season 8, beginning with "The Maud Couple", has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg251_PxACc a completely different opening]], featuring ([[PromotionToOpeningTitles among others]]) DJ-[=PON3=], the Wonderbolts, Princess Ember, and King Thorax for the first time. Twilight's friends also appear in her castle.

* In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', at the end of the title sequence, you can see images of episodes from past seasons. For example, the first season has images of the {{Pilot}} and the fourth season has pictures of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension'' and the third season.

* ''ComicBook/{{Knightfall}}'' features this quite a bit. The self-titled first arc features the yellow and black classic ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' logo slowly being eclipsed by red and purple until the Azrael-Batman logo's debut on the cover of ''Batman'' #500. ''Knightquest'' kept the same gold and black Azrael-Batman logo throughout, but ''[=KnightsEnd=]'' features a shattered ''Knightquest'' logo falling away, revealing the classic ''Batman'' logo.

** Incredible Hulk 292-300 (1983-84) starts off with comic letterbox art of the Hulk, who at the time posessed Bruce Banner's brain, wearing lab clothes and handling chemicals. The art would display the Hulk dropping the chemicals, becoming enraged, and tearing off his clothes, reflecting the arc that saw the Hulk lose control and return to savagery, thanks to the manipulations of Nightmare.

** Season 11 essentially parodies Film/2001ASpaceOdyssey, with a TV-covered Monolith, an old Cluckerella on a hospital bed, and the titular character [[ItMakesSenseInContext as a space baby.]]

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' changed its main title sequence every season, as well as [[SpecialEditionTitle various one-offs for specific episodes]]. These usually tied in to the major theme of the season or its BigBad. For instance, season 5 had blood disippating against a blinding white light (because Lucifer walked the Earth), season 7 had the credits explode into OminousObsidianOoze (the true form of Leviathans), and season 9 had burning angel wings (because Metatron banished all angels from Heaven).

** For Season 3, the opening was completely redone [[NothingIsTheSameAnymore to reflect the ending of "True Colors"]], including [[spoiler: Anne and the Plantars now living in the human world, Sasha and Grime still in Amphibia building a rebellion, King Andrias keeping [[OnlyMostlyDead a barely-alive Marcy]] [[PeopleJars in a tank of liquid]], and Anne fighting an army of robo-frogs with [[SuperMode her new powers]]]].

** Incredible Hulk 292-300 (1983-84) started off with comic letterbox art of the Hulk, who at the time was under Bruce Banner's control, wearing lab clothes and handling chemicals. The art would display the Hulk dispose of these chemicals and tear off his clothes, reflecting the arc that had the Hulk lose control thanks to the manipulations of Nightmare.

* In the third season of ''Anime/YamiShibai'' each episode has an additional creepy head added to the end credits.

* Likewise, ''ComicBook/SecretEmpire'' features the shield the HYDRA version of Franchise/CaptainAmerica used since ''ComicBook/CaptainAmericaSteveRogers'' evolve into a HYDRA version of itself before shattering and giving away to the true Captain America shield.

* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'':

** The Season 6 intro gas the Robot Chicken get his revenge by [[LaserGuidedKarma doing everything done to him to the Mad Scientist]].

* As of the episode "Lame and Fortune", the theme song of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants has been digitally remastered by simply tracing over the original animation and putting it in a 16:9 format as well as giving the island at the start a CGI look.

* The Animated/Live-Action CBeebies Game Show ''Kerwhizz'' has an intro sequence consisting of episode clips. Series 1 used the same clips in every episode, while Series 2 replaced them with clips from the particular series, which sometimes depended on the episode.

* 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.

* ''Anime/BNABrandNewAnimal'': The closing credits of the first five episodes show Michiru's best friend Nazuna in human form. At the sixth episode where she's revealed to have transformed into a fox beastman, the end sequence depicts her with her baeast form for the rest of the series.

** The most significant change is that the montage, before the logo, ends with Hilda and her Mum, Johanna. In Season 1, Mum is seen smiling and spins Hilda around. However in Season 2, slated to stream on Creator/{{Netflix}} this December, the new opening features a concerned Johanna as she struggles to keep up with Hilda and fails to catch her in time when she falls, only for a white woff to fly Hilda to safety. This can easily foreshadow that Hilda and her Mum have a rift and falling out.

* Halfway through the series, the opening of ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry Kai'' added two scenes with [[spoiler:Hanyuu]] and slightly modified another to reflect a very important event that had just occurred. A variation from the same intro was a playback to the gory, PoorCommunicationKills time (Rena's machete) being replaced with a scene where the connection was fixed. It's a variation since it was due to ''censorship''.