* ''Despicable Me 2'' (most prints): Again, a different design for the text. Two minions stand at the bottom right corner of the logo. The former poses and shouts "TA-DAAA!", then the latter shoves him aside and also shouts "TA-DAAA!" in a different pose. The former then shoves the latter and shouts "TA-DAAA!" once again, and then the two minions then start yelling "TA-DAAA!" at each other and start pushing and shoving until the former shoves the latter off-screen, and triumphantly yells "TA-DAAA!". The latter then chimes "TA-DAA!" off-screen, causing the former to mumble in frustration.
* ''Minions'': The preceding [[Universal Pictures]] logo has a five-minion chorus singing along with the logo's theme arranged by Brian Tyler, and one minion voice continues to sing the closing note as the logo fades in, revealing the five-minion choirchorus, and the minion in the centre is still singing the note as the others watch (except for the one who stares at the camera depressingly). The minion finally runs out of breath and falls flat on his face, then weakly holds out a hand for the others to lift him up, but quickly puts it back down as the other minions exchange glances.
** It's worth noting that this was a part of the first track of that film's soundtrack, entitled "Universal Fanfare".
** On the theatrical trailer for ''Sing'', it only shows the part where the minion falls.
* ''The Secret Life of Pets'' (prototype): A minion is seen teasing a puppy by squeaking and pretending to throw a ball. He continues until a group of dogs come in from the right, and one of them barks at the minion. The minion then realizes he is being mean to the puppy and throws the ball, chuckling nervously, and the puppy goes after it, but the dogs instead start chasing him offscreen. Then, a chihuahua runs after the group of dogs, barking until it goes offscreen. This variant did not make it into the final movie for unknown reasons. This is also the first and so far only variant in which a minion does not look at the camera.
* ''The Secret Life of Pets 2'': A squeaky ball bounces in from the left. Six dogs on leashes run at the ball in the same direction it came, dragging a minion along. The dogs crowd at the ball and the minion smiles and chuckles with relief. The dogs soon knock the ball off-screen and stare at it for a moment before one of them barks and they chase it down, all barking. The minion screams the company name as he gets dragged off-screen.
* ''Sing 2'': FromStarting herewith onthis film, the animations would be completely different compared to the previous ones. A light clunks on, and we see Bob leading Stuart, Kevin, Otto, Mel and countless other minions in a song involving the company name. The minions clap along as they sing. The camera slowly zooms out until we see the text above. As the minions finish their song with one big note, Otto can be seen doing a bunny-ears bomb on Stuart, which briefly makes Mel chuckle. The text turns off, and "MIN" and "ION" (a mirrored reference to the previous film's variant) are visible for a split-second before the screen turns black.
* ''Minions: The Rise of Gru'': The text is smaller and closer to the floor than usual. A minion swings by on a disco ball, calling out the company name as {{color|darkviolet|purple}} and {{color|blue}} lights appear around the background. As the ball swings around, it knocks out some of the letters and the minion loses control and falls off. When he gets back up, he notices the remaining letters spell "Minion". He turns to the camera excitedly and and tries to say "Minion!", stuttering. Before he can finish, the disco ball swings back into the frame and hits "ION", pushing it into "MIN" and crushing the minion between them, thus forming "MINION". The minion then finishes "Minion...", muffled.
* ''Minion Scouts'': On a dark, starry night background, the top of the text can be seen at the bottom of the screen, with an {{color|orange}} glow. A wooden platform held by two strings lowers, holding the minion trio, who are ready to roast some marshmallows on the glowing text. Kevin and Stuart pull out their sticks, with four marshmallows on each one, and start roasting. Bob takes some time to pull out his stick, and when he does, it holds a huge jumble of marshmallows curled up in a ball, much to Kevin and Stuart's surprise. Bob laughs excitedly and says the company name, as the camera zooms out and reveals the rest of the text, which has a glowing top and a more metallic center and bottom.
* ''Norman Television'': This is the first ever animated variant without any minions. On a {{color|grey}} background, Chloe the Cat from ''The Secret Life of Pets'' comes in from the right and sees a {{color|green}} feather next to one of the letters as its edge causes the feather to be stuck. She then tries to take it off nicely, before cutting to a montage of her trying to take it off in several aggressive manners before she pushes the letter forward until it eventually topples, freeing the feather. Chloe looks in shock at what she did to the letter. The camera then zooms out and reveals another letter on the right with a {{color|darkviolet|purple}} feather stuck on it, which Chloe then spots and decides to leave the green one to try and take off. The camera zooms out again, revealing the letters to be the "I" and "N", with the "I", being made of glass-like material, being broken due to the fall.
*''Training Wheels'': A minion can be seen sitting on a bicycle in a dark room. He then sighs and cracks his fingers before starting to pedal the bike, which powers up some sort of electric machine that powers a huge lightbulb off-screen. We then cut to a wide shot of it, revealing several other minions standing around the bulb which has the text in it's filament. As it lights up, the minions gasp in admiration as one of them says the company name in that manner.
*''Love at First Sight'': On a {{color|green}} background, Miss Crawly from ''Sing'' (voiced by Garth Jennings, the film's writer/director) can be seen pushing various letters that form the text in an somewhat exasperated, but mostly tired manner, starting with the "N", as the camera angles change between every shot. After she pushes the "I" towards it's "place", she says that her work is finally finished, by saying "Okay, we're all set now.", and she slowly walks across the text, which, in a far shot, she accidentally arranged as "LILI MOUNTAIN".
*''The Secret Life of Kyle'': Bob can be seen in the middle of an eye test, trying to read an off-screen snellen chart while another minion teaches him. As Bob reads the word in the chart wrong two times, the other minion gives him a pair of {{color|pink}} glasses with magnifying lens on them, making Bob's eyes seem bigger. The camera then cuts to an angle revealing the text on the chart as Bob reads it out correctly and happily repeats the company name afterward as the latter happily looks on.
*''Hop'': Now words appear “ILLUMINATION ENTERTAINMENT” A frolicking minion tosses candy from a basket, he wags a bunny tail at a one-eyed minion but throws candy at his goggles, Embarassed, he takes off the bunny ear headband and grins.
*''The Lorax'': Another logo appears “ILLUMINATION ENTERTAINMENT” Two minions stand under a
*''The Secret Life of Pets'': A silver logo reads "ILLUMINATION ENTERTAINMENT". A minion points to it.
'''Other Variants:'''
* From ''The Grinch'' to ''Sing 2'', the logo cuts in and out instead of fading in and out.
'''Technique:''' CGI animation by Illumination themselves through their animation studio in Paris, Illumination Mac Guff (now known as Illumination Studios Paris). 2D animation for ''How to Draw a Minion'', ''Saturday Morning Minions'' and ''Penglai'', and none for the still variants.
'''Music/Sounds:''' Just the minions (voiced by Pierre Coffin) doing their thing.
* On the ''Despicable Me'' variant, a loud, bombastic three-note fanfare is heard as the logo appears, kinda sounding like the [[Viacom (1971-2006)|Viacom]] "Wigga-Wigga" logo, composed by Heitor Pereira (one of the film's composers).
* Starting with ''The Secret Life of Pets'', one of the minions (usually Bob) says the company name at the beginning or the end of each logo. In variants where Bob appears without Stuart and Kevin, the name is said twice. In variants from the ''Sing'' franchise, they sing the name in unison. On ''Minions & More'', they only say it at the end of a few variants.
* On ''Minions & More'', sounds from the non-minion characters differ. Sometimes they use laughs, grunts and screams, other times they are completely silent. Unlike the others though, Miss Crawly uses full english sentences.
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