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<u>Logo:</u> On a red-tinted background, we see a series of Marvel comic book panels flipping downward second by second like a flipbook. "MARVEL", now in its current logotype, zooms out, fading in as a black outline. As the panels fade into a simple red gradient background, the "MARVEL" logo fades into a solid white color. As the background is finished, "MARVEL" continues to zoom away as the logo fades out.

*Sometimes, the comic pages shown in the logo are customized for whichever Marvel character(s) is/are shown, such as Hulk, Fantastic Four, and The Punisher (a la Hanna-Barbera's All-Stars logo). In addition, again depending on whichever character(s) are shown, the background is sometimes a different color other than red (i.e., on ''Hulk,'' the background is green, and on the Fantastic Four movies, the background is blue).

*A short/sped-up version of this logo was seen at the end of MTV's ''Spider Man: The New Animated Series'' from 2003. Some Marvel video games use this variant.

*"MARVEL" is occasionally enclosed in a white rectangle, with the normally gradient red background being a solid color. Sometimes, the words "IN ASSOCIATION WITH" appears above the rectangle. The regular version of the rectangular variant was seen on ''Marvel's The Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man, Iron Man 3,'' and early episodes of ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' The version with "IN ASSOCIATION WITH" above the rectangle was seen on ''Venom'' and ''Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse.''

*A closing variant was introduced at the end of ''Marvel's The Avengers,'' which has the logo zoomed in and completely still. This is also seen on the ''Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy'' animated series. In the show's intro, the logo is seen, however when its animation is mostly finished, the logo zooms out to reveal the show's title. The Marvel logo finishes its animation, and the show's intro finishes.

*An in-credit variant is seen at the end of ''X-Men and X2.''

<u>Logo:</u> Same concept as the previous logo. Red-filtered Marvel comic book panels are still flipping downward, only this time it zooms out to reveal white shapes. The comic panels fade into white and the shapes are flipped 180 degrees upward to reveal the white shapes are the letters of "MARVEL" in its current logotype. As the logo zooms out, a white rectangle draws itself around the text. The letters are in CGI, and the word "STUDIOS" appears below in silver before turning to white like the rest of the logo.

<u>Music/Sounds:</u> A dramatic fanfare as composed by Brian Tyler. However, some films used the opening theme of the movie.

<u>Availability:</u> Current for TV shows. Appears on the movies ''Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant-Man,'' and ''Captain America: Civil War,'' and all Marvel Studios TV shows starting with ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' Also appears as a de-facto home entertainment logo on DVD/Blu-Ray releases, starting with ''Thor: The Dark World.'' The shortened version also appears on ''Marvel's Spider-Man'' for the PlayStation 4.

<u>Logo:</u> We start with the first five seconds of the previous logo. Then, the pages fade into 3D images of various Marvel Studios characters accompanied by script text describing them (in order of appearance: Iron Man, Hulk, Black Panther, Black Widow, Ant-Man, Groot, Star-Lord, Thor and Captain America), culminating with a shot of Captain America throwing his shield from ''Captain America: The First Avenger.'' This segues into footage of Marvel Studios films being projected onto what is revealed after a camera fly-by to be the word "MARVEL" in its current logotype, now carved in a silver rectangle (the footage can vary depending on the film). As the camera zooms out, the stock footage and background fade into solid red and two lines next to "MARVEL" expand outward to reveal the word "STUDIOS". The logo ends with a faintly visible shine.

*On Avengers: Infinity War, it ends with the solid red background turning to black, and with the "IO" in "STUDIOS" turning into a red number 10 (as "MARVEL STUD10S"), celebrating its 10th anniversary of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This variant also appears on ''Ant-Man and the Wasp,'' as well as the trailers for ''Captain Marvel, Avengers: Endgame'' and ''Spider-Man: Far From Home.''

*On ''Captain Marvel'', the character art and film footage is replaced by footage of Stan Lee's various cameos as well as some behind the scenes and publicity footage. The logo finishes on a black background and fades out before the words "Thank You Stan" appear on screen. This is a tribute variant for Lee who died before the movie's release.

<u>Closing Variant:</u> A still version with a solid red background and solid white text appears at the end of every MCU film starting with ''Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.''

<u>Music/Sounds Variant:</u> On ''Avengers: Infinity War,'' the film's opening theme composed by Alan Silvestri is playing and towards the end of the logo, ''Thor'' director Kenneth Branagh's faint voice from the opening of the movie can be heard.

*(Transcript: This is the Asgardian refugee vessel Statesman. We are under assault. I repeat, we are under assault. The engines are dead, life support failing. Requesting aid from any vessel within range. We are 22 jump points out of Asgard.)

<u>Editor's Note:</u> This logo was commissioned primarily at the behest of Kevin Feige, the president of Marvel Studios. It was intended to celebrate how expansive the Marvel Cinematic Universe film franchise has become. It's a spectacular logo on many levels, and is probably one of the best logos of the mid 2010s.