**On the first two trailers for ''Hop'', there's a short version of this variant in which it just shows the minion peeking in, but the text is already there.
* ''Hop'': A minion stands in the centrecenter, staring at the camera. Another minion prances in from the left, wearing bunny ears and a cotton bunny tail, while carrying an Easter basket and tossing candy. He stops in front of the other minion and shows off his costume, but he is not amused. The latter tosses some candy at the former's goggle, chuckles nervously and takes off the ears, and the former looks back at the camera.
* ''The Lorax'': The text looks different. We see a minion attempting to cut down a truffula tree with a chainsaw, while another observes. However, the chainsaw shakes the tree, causing Lou the Barbaloot from the movie to fall out, and crush the former. The latter slowly backs away nervously from Lou, who is eating some truffula fruits.
* ''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, originally composed by Jerry Goldsmith and arranged by Brian Tyler, and one minion voice continues to singhold the closing note. asThe theIllumination logo fades in, revealing the five-minion chorus, andwith the minion in the centre iscenter still singing the note as the others watch (except for the one on the very left, who stares at the camera depressingly). The minion finally runs out of breath and fallspasses flat on his faceout, 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.
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** On the theatrical trailer for ''Sing'', it only shows the part where the minion fallspasses out.
* ''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 Grinch'' (trailers):
** The text is off. Bob turns a flashlight on and says the company name in a dark manner, laughing maniacally afterwards. The text suddenly turns on, scaring him away.
** The text appears above at first. A minion is seen in the distance, blowing a party blower to another minion who is close to the camera and annoyed by the blower. The latter then grabs the end of the blower, pulls the former towards him and shoves him off-screen. The latter moves out, the text drops down to the centrecenter and Bob is heard saying the company name.
** A spotlight turns on, revealing Bob, who gets joined by Stuart and Kevin. The camera zooms out as the minions notice some small eyes outside the spotlight, which frightens them. Another spotlight turns on, revealing the eyes to belong to Max, Gidget, Duke and Snowball from ''The Secret Life of Pets''. Behind them, they notice a sparkling yellow twist, and yet another spotlight turns on, revealing Gunter from ''Sing''. Suddenly, the spotlights turn off, and the camera pans to the Grinch from his self-titled movie, having pulled the plug to the spotlights. He connects it to another cable, turning on a giant neon sign shaped like his movie's logo off-screen. The camera zooms out to reveal it. Bob walks in from the left, and the sign turns into the text. The ''Toho Cinemas'' emblem drops in and bonks the Grinch on the head. As Bob says the company name, the emblem picks him up, and carries him off-screen, transitioning to the ''Toho Cinemas'' logo.
** The background, even the text, is covered entirely in snow, with snow also falling throughout. Stuart and Kevin are seen wearing Christmas outfits as they play with tambourines, while Bob plays in the snow, shouting out the company name as he catches snowflakes on his tongue. This is also seen at the start of the ''Minions Holiday Special''.
* ''The Grinch'' (the film itself): Bob stands on the right side of the screen, waves a sparkler and says the company name. Suddenly, Snowball the rabbit from ''The Secret Life of Pets'' (voiced by Kevin Hart) drops down from the top of the screen and yells the name. He then sets off some pyrotechnics over the logo's stage, burning Bob's feet, while Snowball laughs maniacally. The pyrotechnics trigger some sprinklers, dousing the flames and covering Snowball in water, much to his dismay. Bob gives his sparkler to Snowball, making him feel better. The text then brightens up the screen to start the movie.
* ''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'' and ''Migration'' teaser trailer: As a light clunks on, we see loads of minions (led by, from left to right, Stuart, Bob and Kevin) in a song involving the company name, as they clap along and 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. The teaser trailer for ''Migration'' has this shortened to the last time "Illumination" is sung.
* ''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.
** On the second trailer, the lights are removed, and is cut short to the letters being knocked out.
** On a Dutch Twitch ad for the film, the logo is in a splitscreen with [[Nintendo Studios]].
* ''The Super Mario Bros. Movie'' (the film itself): The text is darkened and seen above a minion inside a rocket-powered go-kart (similar to those in the film and the ''Mario Kart'' series). He is behind the starting line, and starts to rev his engine. As the countdown sound from ''Mario Kart 8'' plays, segments of the text light up {{color|red}} like race starting lights, then all light up {{color|green}}. The minion attempts to start the go-kart, only for it to stall out. As that happens, the text turns white. The minion hits the go-kart in frustration, causing it to suddenly blast off-screen. The minion yells out the company name as he blasts away.
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'''Music/Sounds:''' Just the minions (voiced by Pierre Coffin) doing their thing.
* On the ''Despicable Me'' variant, a loud, bombastic three-note fanfare isbased heardon asRichard theStrauss' logo"Also appears,sprach kindaZarathustra" soundingis likeheard as the [[Viacomlogo Productions|Viacom]] "Wigga-Wigga" logoappears, composed by Heitor Pereira (one of the film's composers).
* Starting in 2016, 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.
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