Evolving Credits / Western Animation

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• Season 3 of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius replaced the clips in the intro from season one and the original movie with clips from the second and third seasons. Libby was also added to the lineup of main characters at the end of the theme song.
• Amphibia:
  • The title sequence in Season 2 replaces both Anne and Sprig encountering a monster behind them and the "BFFs" picture on a tree branch with a scene of Anne and Sasha swordfighting on a bridge, with Marcy depicted in the background holding the Calamity Box. Meanwhile the Ending Theme becomes a semitone higher and features additional instrumentation, with the scene now being the Plantars and Anne riding in the family wagon under a night sky.
  • For Season 3, the opening was completely redone to reflect the ending of "True Colors", including Anne and the Plantars now living in the human world, Sasha and Grime still in Amphibia building a rebellion, King Andrias keeping a barely-alive Marcy in a tank of liquid, and Anne fighting an army of robo-frogs with her new powers. Meanwhile, the ending theme received a hi-tempo techno remix played over a technicolor music video of Anne and the Plantars dancing and goofing around.
  • The Season 3 intro was first teased at the very end of "True Colors", which have a few visual differences changed for the actual intro. First, a Lil' Gideon doll was added to the background when Anne is hiding from a Frobot; second, the water in the jar Marcy is in is changed from blue to green to match her gem; finally in the Crowded-Cast Shot at the end, Marcy's picture in the background is replaced with Domino.
  • From "Hollywood Hop Pop / If You Give a Frog a Cookie" onward, the shot of Marcy in the tank is replaced with one of "Darcy" a now Core-possessed Marcy, standing above Andrias, to reflect the ending of "Olivia & Yunan".
• In Alvin and the Chipmunks, after switching animation studios in season 6, the title of the show was changed to The Chipmunks. Initially, clips from the "Girls/Boys of Rock and Roll" scene from The Movie were used, then shortly afterwards a newly animated sequence was introduced featuring the Chipmunks coming out of a limo and getting their makeup done. Both featured a newer, harder rocking version of the theme, which was also used with the original opening animation on syndicated prints of season 6 episodes.
• After a few seasons, American Dad!'s opener changed almost entirely. Stan leaves the house differently, the rotating newspaper gag is replaced with Roger stowing away in a different costume each week (though often previously seen in the series), and his stance in front of Old Glory outside the CIA changed from a presentational gesture to a salute.
• In Animaniacs, the line "...while Bill Clinton plays the sax" was replaced in the second season with "We've got wisecracks by the stacks" and again in the third season with "We pay tons of income tax" as backup lyrics if Clinton didn't win the 1996 Election. In addition, the third season replaced Pinky & the Brain's verse with one on Ralph, Dr. Scratchansniff, and Hello Nurse after the two mice were given their own spin-off.
• In the reboot of Animaniacs, the line "You should see our new contracts!" features the Warners signing a deal with a grim reaper-like figure. For the first two seasons, this deal read "2 More Seasons". For the third though, this is updated to read "2 10/13 More Seasons", to accommodate for the third season and how it was cut short.
• The ending shot of The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes changes consistently to show who's currently on the team's lineup.
• The clips in the title sequence for The Backyardigans are updated each season to show scenes for that current season.
• Ben 10:
  • This happens in Ben 10 after Ghostfreak leaves the Omnitrix and Ben gains Cannonbolt. The alien roll call takes out the former and puts in the latter.
  • The opening of Ben 10: Alien Force showed Alien X in silhouette until after his introduction in the season one finale. Funnily enough, Alien X's actual appearance is just that of his silhouette pasted over a space background.
  • Arc 5 of Ben 10: Omniverse (also called "Galactic Monsters") have aliens of the opening changed to be more Halloween-themed. For example, Heatblast is replaced with Whampire and Four Arms' place is taken by Gutrot. The theme song also has two variants (a rock version and a more techno-infused version) that are swapped between every so often, with the aforementioned Arc 5 using a dark cabaret variant.
• Big City Greens:
  • Season 2C (beginning with "'Rent Control") updates the intro slightly, showing Big Coffee is now vacant and for lease, and Gloria is now living with the Greens.
  • In Season 3A, the theme song is mostly unchanged, with the only additions being the backgrounds are slightly redrawn to reflect the Animation Evolution, and the new Gloria + Green Café appears in the background.
  • Season 3B introduces a completely different intro to reflect the Greens moving back to the country, with the addition of a reorchestrated theme song and adding Remy and Nancy to several scenes. Alice is added following "Homeward Hound" to reflect her extended stay.
  • Season 4 reverts back to the Season 3A intro with minor changes, such as the close-up shots are done in pairs (with Remy and Vasquez taking the last shot), and a new scene of the Greens visiting Nancy at the country house (with Nick joining her as of "Bad Dad").
• Big Hero 6: The Series:
  • Season 2 updated the opening to feature Mini-Max, showcase the heroes' new Power Armor, Baymax activating Overdrive Mode against Orso Knox, and modified the shot of Hiro looking at images of their Rogues Gallery to replace Yama, Mega Yama, the Mad Jacks and Globby with Liv Amara, Hardlight, Trina and Nega-Globby, respectively. The credits themselves also got a slight update, with Super-Deformed versions of the heroes and villains chasing each other.
  • Season 3 updated it yet again, with only Hardlight, NBB and Momakase staying in the villain shot, the heroes returning to their regular armors, and showcasing the return of Pirate Noodle Burger Boy! Arrrrr!
• Following its Art Evolution midway through Season 3, Blaze and the Monster Machines has its theme song redrawn from the original to reflect the change, as well as change some locations (the jungle Stripes hops through is more detailed, Starla drives through the badlands instead of a forest canyon, Blaze and Darington do tricks in the forest instead of the badlands, and trees appear behind Blaze and Zeg when they bash tires away). Also, new Monster Machine Watts drives alongside Blaze in the Monster Dome with Gabby driving her.
• Blue's Clues changed its opening in Season 5 to "Another Blue's Clues Day", to reflect Joe becoming the new host, and also have Mr. Salt hold up a pennant with the episode's name at the end. Season 6 changes this slightly to reflect the new Blue's Room segment, by having the theme open in Blue's playroom.
  • In the middle of Season 3, Periwinkle is added to the intro. Season 4 (the final season with Steve as the host) had a slightly different version of the opening compared to previous seasons. Steve now calls out "Hi, it's me, Steve. Is that you? It is! Great! Could you help me find Blue? Thanks, come on!" instead of "Hi out there, it's me, Steve! Have you seen Blue, my puppy? Oh, come on in!". Magenta has been Promoted to Opening Titles and she and Periwinkle's respective houses are shown next to each side of Blue's house. Shovel and Pail also appear in front of the house instead of next to it, and say "Hi, Blue!" when they appear. Paprika now appears with Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper in one of the house's windows. Mailbox's post is now black as opposed to purple as it was in the original sequence and in early season one. A cloud resembling the Thinking Chair can also be seen in the sky.
• A few subtle examples in Bob's Burgers: In the first two seasons, Linda, Louise, and Gene stand still during the intro. Starting with season 3 onward, Linda puts her arm around Bob, Louise does a "ta-da!" to the camera when she appears, and Gene has (and uses) his trusty sound effects-playing keyboard (and can also be seen bobbing up and down as the opening plays).
  • Season 13 adds in another store-closing disaster, the huge sinkhole from the movie and a huge gush of water coming out, followed by a "Grand Re-Re-Re-Re-Opening" sign afterwards.
• BoJack Horseman subtly changes the opening titles to reflect recent changes to continuity, and does this so regularly that it's easier to link to this video detailing all the changes done throughout the show's six seasons than listing them here.
• Blinky Bill: Season 3 placed its end credits on a background of whatever country the episode was mainly set in. ^{In order:} Australia for episodes 1 and 2, Antarctica for 3 to 5, a view of the ocean for episodes 6 and 19, Africa for 7 to 11, China for 12 to 14, Brazil for 15 to 18, India for 20 to 22, and France for 23 to 25. The credits for episode 26, the season finale, instead included photos featuring Blinky and each country's respective escaped circus animal, implied to be taken throughout the trip.
• Butterbean's Cafe has its theme reanimated in the new animation style in Season 2, featuring remastered scenes and even having Ms. Marmalady, Spork and Spatch make appearances as well.
• During the third season of ChalkZone, the clips from the Oh Yeah! Cartoons shorts (including one that wasn't repackaged as an episode of the series) in the Title Montage opening theme were replaced with clips from the second and third seasons (with the exceptions of the clips of Snap, Penny, and Reggie saying "Rudy's got the chalk!"). One episode from the show's fourth season did air the first and second season's version of the opening; presumably by accident (this was fixed on the DVD release).
• Code Lyoko starts Season 1 off with introducing the characters during the song and showing a purple background. Seasons 2-3 had clips of Seasons 1-2. Then Season 4 had clips of Seasons 3-4.
• In the second season premiere of Danny Phantom, Danny gets a new "D" logo added to his uniform, and it's subsequently reflected in the show's intro the following episode, lasting to the series finale.
• Doc McStuffins: The last two seasons have a new opening sequence featuring McStuffinsville and the Toy Hospital.
• Dora the Explorer: Seasons 3-4 ditched The Oner opening where it zooms in on a computer and showing Dora and her friends participating in a computer game and changes it to an Epic Tracking Shot 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 2D Visuals, 3D Effects opening was introduced in Season 7, along with the Art Evolution for the show and the transition to HD.
• DuckTales (1987) initially only had Bubba Duck appearing in new clips for the second season version of the intro. After the 5-part arc that introduced Bubba there was another 5-parter that introduced Fenton Crackshell/Gizmo-Duck, and subsequently there was another new version of the opening that featured clips of Fenton as well.
• DuckTales (2017):
  • For the second season intro, Gizmoduck now appears accidentally shooting off a laser, replacing the giant version of Lil' Bulb. Magica DeSpell is also added to the group of villains near the end, replacing one of the Beagle Boys.
  • Season 3's intro inserts Della into many of the scenes, interacting with the rest of the characters.
• Starting with its 9th season, The Fairly OddParents! had its opening reanimated in HD and now includes baby Poof.
  • With season 10, the intro now has new scenes and most of the main theme has been rewritten to reflect Chloe's introduction.
• When Family Guy switched to HD in their ninth season, the opening sequence was reanimated to match the updated animation style. Also, the random extras in the chorus line were replaced by recurring characters.
  • Parodied in "He's Bla-ack!" with the official return of Cleveland Brown to Quahog following the cancellation of his spin-off. He stops the opening and replaces the poor Mort Goldman in the chorus line.
  • Donna replaces Jillian in "The Peter Principal".
  • In the middle of season 17, Consuela replaces Angela, as she was written off the show due to her voice actress's death. Starting with season 18, Seamus replaces Mayor Adam West for similar reasons.
  • There were also at least three occasions where the theme song was altered for a gag.
  • In the brief time he replaced Brian, Vinny was also present in the theme song.
• The Flintstones had its opening and end credits sequences completely revised in the third season, with Fred taking Wilma and the pets for a night out on the town. As the cast continued to grow, Pebbles, Barney, Betty, and Bamm-Bamm (the second and third of whom earned a Promotion to Opening Titles in the process) joined their activities.
• The Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends opening sequence was completely reanimated in the fifth season to go with the rest of the show's switch to HD.
• The Ghost and Molly McGee: The opening sequence for the second season adds Libby and Geoff to the group hug.
• Go, Diego, Go!: The opening credits change each season to reflect different animals rescued that season.
• Gravity Falls:
  • There is backwards whispering heard at the end of the theme song, with said whispering being a backmasked message that usually reveals how to solve that episode's closing credits cryptogram. One exception is the episode "Not What He Seems", which changes the message to say the titular phrase.
  • From the episode "A Tale of Two Stans" onwards, the photo of the pterodactyl from the episode "The Land Before Swine" is replaced with that of the Author holding Journal 3.
  • The three-part season finale has the entire opening sequence changed to prominently display Bill Cipher and his "liberation" of Gravity Falls, with Dipper, Mabel, and Stan's segments replaced with members of Bill's gang until the final part. While the first two parts replace the whisper with Bill's declaration that he's watching us (delivered in a more furious manner in part 2), the final episode instead has the original voice saying "Goodbye, Gravity Falls."
  • This fancomic implies an attempt at this post-“Not What He Seems”.
• Harvey Beaks gets a new intro in its second season, which most notably includes his sister Michelle who had hatched in the first season.
• Hilda: In each season the opening credits show Hilda running through different scenes depending on what she, along with her friends and family, will be facing throughout the season.
• Infinity Train has this overlap with Logo Joke, as the vanity plate is the thing regularly changing, rather than the credits proper:
  • In season one, Tulip stares at her hand as it quickly rotates through the numbers. The final end card has the number stop at zero, then fill the screen with a blinding light.
  • In season two, MT stares at her hand, with her downtrodden frown reflected back at her. The final end card has her give a relieved smile, now that she's off the train.
  • In season three, the vanity plate is different for every episode, with the most significant changes being the fifth episode onward no longer showing Tuba's hand, as she's been killed and the final episode only showing Grace's hand, as Simon has died and Hazel has left to travel with Amelia.
  • In season four, the vanity plate is once again different for every episode, with the most noteworthy changes being the fourth episode having Min-Gi and Ryan's numbers desynced, and the final episode having them in the Utica nightclub, holding a stylophone and guitar pick, respectively.
• The show's title card in Invincible (2021) get this treatment, starting out as a pristine blue with the title written in yellow font. Every episode afterwards adds more and more splatters of blood to it.
• Jackie Chan Adventures would change its credits with the season's story arc, with Jade casually tossing either a talisman or magic puzzle box, followed by Jackie punching out the more threatening of the whatever version of the Enforcers were featured in that story arc (Tohru, then Hak Fu, then magically altered Enforcers). Other minor changes occur between seasons as well.
• Jay Jay the Jet Plane: The Season 1-2 opening ended with Jay Jay swirling around and flying into a cloud, and the show's logo flies out. The Season 3 opening has Jay Jay sling upwards through a cloud and back down, then bursts out of another cloud toward the screen and away as the logo flies out behind him, and a rainbow is added to the top of the logo.
• 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 clip that changed every episode in that series is of one of the Pod Mods, which always changed to feature one of the mods featured in that particular episode, which itself is a hint of what the race track theme in the episode was.
• The final season of Kim Possible replaced all scenes of the first season with those of seasons 2-4 and the movie, So the Drama.
• When King of the Hill moved to HD, they re-animated their opening sequence EXACTLY as it was when the show started. Even Buckley was kept in.
• The Kung Fu Panda franchise features an evolving DreamWorks Animation logo: the first film features a kung-fu animal reaching to the moon, the second film and “Secrets of the Scroll” has Master Oogway getting there and staying there, and then the third film has Po make it there, marking how kung-fu masters who are attain a specific level of enlightenment are able to manage transcendence and reach a new realm, which Oogway and Po achieve in the first/third films.
• The Lion Guard:
  • After the Season 2 special "The Rise of Scar", the scene in the theme song which happens in-between the close-up of Kion and the Guard running uphill is replaced with one showing Scar and his army at a volcano, as an ominous theme is played.
  • For the final season, a whole new opening is introduced showing the Lion Guard as adults and journeying across the Pride Lands to find the Tree of Life, with the addition of Makini and Anga.

M-Z

• MAD updated the opening with random characters from their sketches and changed the color of their background for every new season.
• Mixels in season 1 extended the theme song to add the new tribes from the newly-introduced wave, while season 2 simply used only the Mixels introduced for the specific special in the intro.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: The opening starts out as a relatively simple sequence showing Twilight Sparkle and Spike arriving in Ponyville in a hot air balloon, followed by brief shots of the other five main characters and the cast taking a picture together, which Spike then sends to Princess Celestia. As the series goes on, more details are added to sequence to reference the developments of various seasons and episodes:
  • The opening is changed in Season 2 episode 3 to include the Cutie Mark Crusaders, Big Macintosh, more background ponies and the Friendship Express train, as well as an additional appearance of Canterlot and the mountains in the background. Later episodes of Season 2 see some minor changes — namely, the color of the train's front carriage changes, and one character walks in the opposite direction.
  • The opening is changed again in the Season 4 premiere; Twilight Sparkle has her wings, Discord is seen peeking out from inside Fluttershy's cottage, Princess Luna is beside her sister Celestia when she receives a letter from Twilight, and the picture of Twilight and her friends enclosed in said letter is seen being taken by Photo Finish and includes Spike, the Cutie Mark Crusaders, Snips and Snails, Mr. and Mrs. Cake, Big Macintosh, Granny Smith, Mayor Mare, and Zecora.
  • The opening is changed a third time in the Season 5 premiere to replace the Golden Oak Library in the background with the castle Twilight gains in the previous season's finale.
  • The opening is changed once again in the Season 6 premiere to show the Cutie Mark Crusaders with their new cutie marks and add Starlight Glimmer to the crowd shot.
  • For Season 7, Starlight Glimmer no longer looks nervous. Also, the show's logo has been updated with the franchise's new logo.
  • Season 8, beginning with "The Maud Couple", has a completely different opening, (among others) DJ-PON3, the Wonderbolts, Princess Ember, and King Thorax for the first time. Twilight's friends also appear in her castle.
• Ninjago: In seasons 1 and 3 the intro changes to match the ninja's new suits. Lloyd's appearance in the intro also changes halfway through Season 2 to match his Plot-Relevant Age-Up.
• The Owl House:
  • Starting from the end credits of "I Was A Teenage Abomination", Willow's uniform is now green in both the opening and ending sequences, to reflect her now being on the "plant magic" track instead of the "abomination" one.
  • The end credits of "Young Blood, Old Souls" has Eda depicted with a grey eye and blacked-out gemstone, reflecting the loss of her magic.
  • Starting with "Separate Tides", the theme song undergoes a dramatic overhaul, featuring a new sequence showing the heroes of the show doing the types of magic crucial to them, the slides of Willow, Gus and Amity are replaced with Lilith, Kikimora and the Golden Guard, and the scene with King on a stack of plush toys is replaced with Emperor Belos at his castle. The shot of Luz flying Owlbert is changed to sunset, and the night scene is more detailed. Finally, when the logo appears, the burst of light magic is replaced with those of light, ice, plant, and fire magic — the four spells Luz learned up to that point — and is encased in a gold frame.
  • Beginning with "Hunting Palismen", Eda is wearing a new dress, King's horn is repaired, and Amity has a different necklace and her new violet hairdo.
  • Season 2's end credits show various scenes in a different art style, but continue to keep the character's appearances even after they changed during the season. After "Follies at the Coven Day Parade", the image of Lilith drinking tea with Hooty was removed, while the one of Luz and her friends at Hexside was updated to show Willow and Amity's new hairstyles, as well as Luz and Amity holding hands and Gus with two illusions of himself, while Willow's plant has grown more. Also, the image of Eda partially transformed was replaced with her in her new Harpy form with King using his new power, King sitting down and wondering about his past was replaced with Camila and Vee through the window of the former's house, and Luz holding the portal key while Eda and King come and join her was replaced with her being joined by them while overlooking the Titan's head. An additional image of Raine with Terra's vines wrapping around them, with Darius and Eberwolf nearby, was also added.
• As PAW Patrol progressed, the opening credits changed a lot.
  • At the beginning of Season 3, the credits were updated to include Everest. The scene for the "no job's too big" verse was also changed from the pups getting Alex and Cali out of a tree to the pups, as well as Cap'n Turbot, getting Alex and a a dinosaur egg off of a cliff.
  • In Season 4, the "whenever there's a problem" verse's animation was changed to showcase the Sea Patrol gear.
  • In Season 5, every time there was a new Ultimate Rescue, the theme song would change to show footage from that specific UR.
  • In Season 6, the theme song showed footage from the first 2 "Mighty Pups, Super PAWs" episodes starting with "When Super Kitties Attack." It was then updated again later in the season to include footage from the first "Charged Up" episode, "Pups vs. the Copycat."
• Phineas and Ferb:
  • In 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 show's original pitch and the fourth season has pictures of Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension and the third season.
  • Partway through Season 2, during the zoom-in on Phineas, he no longer looks neutral and his mouth gradually changes to a smile.
• The second season of Pound Puppies (2010) had the intro re-animated to better match the animation style that began when DHX Media Vancouver took over from 9 Story a few episodes in. Rebound, Cupcake, and Patches were even added in (the latter being an Early-Bird Cameo).
• Robot Chicken used the same opening for 5 seasons: a Mad Scientist finds the corpse of a chicken who tried to cross the road, but got run over. He revives the dead chicken with robotic enhancements, then straps him to a chair and forces him to watch the show. As the show goes on, this intro has changed...
  • At the Season 5 finale, the Robot Chicken managed to escape and get his revenge on the Mad Scientist.
  • The Season 6 intro has the Robot Chicken get his revenge by doing everything done to him to the Mad Scientist.
  • The Season 8 intro has the Robot Chicken frozen in the Arctic in the future. He is located by the Mad Scientist's descendant and is revived and stuck in the chair again.
  • The Season 10 intro has the Mad Scientist and Robot Chicken dig up the Nerd's corpse (since he'd killed himself in the Season 9 finale for an Evil Knievel stunt) and revive him for the chair.
  • Season 11 essentially parodies 2001: A Space Odyssey, with a TV-covered Monolith, an old Cluckerella on a hospital bed, and the titular character as a space baby.
• Rusty Rivets changed its theme in Season 2 to reflect the new mobile lab and also to introduce the new robot animals, Botarilla, TigerBot, and ElephantBot.
• Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! may be the oldest example in Western animation - the second season's opening swaps in several clips of new monsters, like the Ghost of Mr. Hyde and the Tiki Witch-Doctor. It ends, nicely enough, with a completely new piece of animation where Scooby himself is disguised as a monster.
• After nearly twenty years of Art Evolution, The Simpsons finally updated the opening when the show switched to HD. It's essentially the same, but with some added background material that includes Continuity Nods and a bunch of characters introduced after the second season. Which itself is Older Than They Think: the show's first season had an opening different from the one used for the next 18 seasons.
• She-Ra and the Princesses of Power:
  • The fourth season updates the shot of the villains in its opening. Shadow Weaver is no longer there, Scorpia, Lonnie, Rogelio, and Kyle look sad (foreshadowing their eventual defection from the Horde), Double Trouble and Horde Prime are now included, and Entrapta can be seen in in the background if you look closely. The rest of the credits after this also include Catra and Glimmer's new looks, and the ending shot has Entrapta missing, while Flutterina and a hologram of Mara are included.
  • The opening changes throughout the fifth season, most notably the ending shot. The changes depend on who joined the Rebellion, and who got mind-controlling chips implanted by Horde Prime. It also initially has Adora as her normal self, since the previous season ended with the sword being destroyed, but changes into her new look as She-Ra after she is able to transform without it.
• Shimmer and Shine's theme song was updated slightly after the first episode to include clips from various episodes of Season 1. Season 2 redoes the theme and sequence entirely to reflect the story shifting to Zahramay Falls and the animation having Shifted to CGI, and rewords some of the lyrics. The theme changes again in the third and fourth seasons to reflect the themes for Rainbow Zahramay and Zahramay Skies, respectively.
• Sofia the First:
  • The title sequence changes in Season 2, replacing most scenes from Season 1 and the Pilot Movie with scenes from Seasons 1 and 2.
  • Another title sequence was introduced in the third season to reflect Sofia's dress change and the new pink version of the logo. Same goes for Season 4 to include the Mystic Isles.
• South Park: Kenny's (muffled) line in the opening theme changes every few seasons until Season 10. As for the opening itself...
  • The first four seasons gradually added new characters, objects, and events to the opening over course of the seasons.
  • Eventually they switched to a new opening consisting of clips from the series and a group shot at the end that was updated every season.
  • The broadcast version of South Park continues the addition of characters to its opening for each episode long after the Comedy Central version had stopped doing so. This resulted in an absolutely chaotic-looking opening as the show reached and exceeded its 200th episode.
  • Season 17 completely changed the intro again, to a 3D computer animated one imitating a 3D version of the show's cardboard style. The opening started with the main characters stepping on the school bus and followed them on the way to school, panning over reoccurring places and characters on the way.
• The Spectacular Spider-Man added Mary Jane to the titles after her inevitable "jackpot" introduction. Also, during the second season, the intro becomes Different in Every Episode to indicate which supporting characters will play major roles.
• SpongeBob SquarePants: As of "Lame and Fortune", the theme song 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.
• Star Trek: Lower Decks: The intro sequence includes a scene of the Cerritos coming across a battle between the Romulans and the Borg. In season 2, Klingon Birds of Prey and Pakled Clumpships join the fray. In season 3, a Crystalline Entity joins the battle royale, nuking a Borg Cube in the process.
• Star vs. the Forces of Evil:
  • The second season updates the group shot near the end of the intro, adding many new characters, updating the appearances of some, and removing others who were Demoted to Extra.
  • An entirely new opening credits sequence is used for the last two seasons, due to the show switching its main location from Earth to Mewni, but this trope comes into play after the events of season three's "Battle for Mewni" arc, wherein Star's wand regains its missing fragment and takes on a new form. The wand's appearance is updated to match from that point forward.
• Steven Universe:
  • For the first half of season one, the credits theme gradually becomes more complex, starting as a short piano piece in episode one and adding another instrument to the song every few episodes. The credits of the first season’s mid-season special features an extended version of the song with added lyrics. From then to the end of season three, the credits theme changes to a completely different song every few episodes. These songs can be pieced together in order to form a full song, titled "Love Like You". Overall, discounting a few oddballs, the first three seasons had twenty different ending themes.
  • Seasons 4 and 5 continues the trend with a second song that uses ambient noise that slowly and ominously builds up with piano, strings, and seaside animal sounds. It appears to end when the truth about Pink Diamond's shattering is revealed in "A Single Pale Rose", but then "Reunited" reveals it to be a Triumphant Reprise of "Love Like You".
  • Starting in Season 3, when Greg’s van goes to the beach, we see more of Beach City’s townspeople in the past. Most significantly, Connie now excitedly runs after the van to join the others instead of watching in wonder, to show that she’s taking on a bigger role in the show.
  • Steven Universe: Future also reveals its Ending Theme "Being Human" in fifteen second increments that change every three or four episodes. Unlike the previous cases, the name of this song was given in the credits for the first episode.
• The opening speech of the Superman Theatrical Cartoons underwent a small change after Superman learned how to fly. Originally, it went, "Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound!" The updated speech used, "Able to soar higher than any plane!" for the third line. Then, when production transferred from Fleischer Studios to Famous Studios, the speech completely changed. Also, the only short in which Superman used his X-ray vision ("The Mechanical Monsters") added the line "Empowered with X-ray vision" and briefly shows X-rays coming from Superman's eyes during the intro.
• In Tangled: The Series, the opening completely changes from season to season, though it keeps the same song and framing device (Rapunzel drawing on her diary and writing things about her friends interspersed with clips from the show).
• Team Umizoomi: The Season 1 opening begins with the team poking out of the grass, then jumping over some shoes, then they jump in Umicar and drive off. The Season 2, 3, and 4 opening replaces the scene with the team in the grass with a new shot of Bot, Geo, and Milli coming into view with the middle and latter without their helmets on; they then put on their helmets, Milli's Magic Hair grows out, and the team jumps. Then it shows the team jumping over shoes, and cuts out the scene of them getting in Umicar and just shows them driving away. Also in the Season 1 opening, Umicar was inanimate; in the Season 2, 3, and 4 opening, he becomes sentient. Milli and Geo's vocals are also re-recorded as they get replaced over the course of the series.
• Midway through the fourth season of the second Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, the show's opening was altered to take out scenes featuring the old vehicles (which had been destroyed) and Foot Ninja (which had been redesigned), replacing them with newer versions of each. Also, the scene featuring the Shredder, which had been altered to reflect his ultimate defeat, was altered yet again to reflect Karai's debut as his replacement.
  • Both of the other cartoons have done so as well. The 80's cartoon featured a completely brand-new animated intro in the middle of the fourth season when the show went from syndication to Saturday mornings on CBS. And for the 2012 cartoon..
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012). The opening of Season 2 has added most of the Turtles' Rogues Gallery from Season 1 to the "villains" part of the opening, featuring Ms. Cambell, Kraang Prime, Snakeweed, Spider Bytez, Newtralizer, The Rat King, Xever, Bradford, Karai, and Shredder.
  • A lesser example has Metalhead and Pulverizer (in his mutagen form) in Donnie's portion of the intro, and Casey Jones leaning on the building as the turtles run up to the rooftop at the end.
    • Starting with "Wormquake/The Manhattan Project", the villains went through slight change to depict Kraang Prime, a Squirrelanoid, Slash, Mutagen Man, Bradford/Rahzar, Fishface, Tiger Claw, Karai and Shredder. Also, the part near the ending that has Leo cutting two Kraangdroids and Donnie peeking out of a manhole is replaced with the turtles firing grappling hooks and using them as zip lines. However Spike is still shown with Raphael after the Slash episode.
  • Season 3 changes things up again to feature mostly the Foot Clan, with Baxter Stockman added, while most of the mutants nonaffiliated with the Foot are removed... except for the Newtralizer.
  • Starting with Return to New York, the intro is changed a lot, with the Party Wagon replacing the Shellraiser, the turtles wearing their "Vision Quest" outfits, a scene with Splinter and April training together, and a car chase featuring the turtles, Leatherhead, Bebop and Rocksteady, and Mondo Gecko.
  • The first half of season 4 has the intro interrupted by a Triceraton soldier stepping on the manhole cover at the beginning, followed by Leo recapping the events of the season 3 finale and new scenes of the Turtles, April and Casey in space. The second half is the first intro with new scenes and Karai and Shinigami added to the background near the end.
• Tom & Jerry Kids: Seasons 2, 3 and 4 replaced the show's original cinematic opening with a new adventurous one where Tom chases Jerry around a construction site and encounter their co-stars while the logo is being built.
• Top Wing changes its opening partly into Season 2 to reflect the team in their new base outfits and uniforms, and having Speedy and Bea pilot the Command Flyer.
• Each season of The Venture Bros. has a subtly different opening. Some episodes that focus on specific characters have special openings, like the season two and three openers.
  • They also reflect evolving character features, most notably Hank and Dean's divergent style selections at the start of Season 4.
• Wakfu: The second season's opening credits had a character added to the heroes' group after 4 episodes, when it was revealed he was Back from the Dead (for some reason the episodes on Netflix continue to use the initial season 2 opening though).
• The opening to the second season of Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa had clips of some of the second season's new villains spliced in.
• Winx Club changes the title sequence every season, with the addition of Replaced the Theme Tune.
  • A more straight example for this would be halfway through Season 5, which replaces the title sequence with 3D scenes showing the Winx in their Sirenix and traversing the Infinite Ocean. It does it again in Season 6 to reflect the aquisition of the Mythix power. The Cinelume dub of the third season also does this partly through Season 3, to include scenes of the Winx in their Enchantix.
• W.I.T.C.H. has a completely different set of opening titles for the second season, showing the villains of the new arc as well as updating other aspects. The theme song is also ever so slightly remixed. This is only for the UK/European release, however. The US version keeps the same opening for both seasons, which makes little sense when it displays villains who barely appear in the second season.
• Xiaolin Showdown: The intro for the first season has some visual differences from the seasons 2-3 intro. In the latter, the Xiaolin monks do martial arts on a background that showcases their elemental powers, while the former used simple colorful backgrounds instead. Chameleon Bot is replaced by Chase Young in the villains line up since the former was Put on a Bus in season 2, while Chase debuted in the same season.
• X-Men '97: The opening credits for each episode list the current members of the X-Men base on who joins, leave, or dies after the previous episode.

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