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Background

The Behemoth is an American video game company that was founded on May 27, 2003 by John Baez, Nick Dryburgh, Tom Fulp, Brandon LaCava and Dan Paladin. Based in San Diego, California, they are known for their arcade-inspired games that are animated in Paladin's artstyle, with their best-known games being the Alien Hominid series and Castle Crashers.

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1st Logo (June 2003-September 26, 2012)	2nd Logo (April 3, 2013)	3rd Logo (March 2, 2018)	4th Logo (January 30, 2020-)

1st Logo (June 2003-September 26, 2012)

Logo: A fat, white chicken that is entirely outlined in blue and is sitting down crashes into the ground, leaving behind a few feathers. "THE BEHEMOTH COMPANY" appears below the rotund bird, which looks at us, then turns back before zooming away to the top left corner.

Variants:

On the console ports of Alien Hominid, the chicken lands on the preceding Newgrounds logo and crushes it, causing tank parts to fly everywhere and the background to change from black to white. "THE BEHEMOTH" appears below the rotund bird, which then looks at us before it zooms in and fades away.
- On Castle Crashers, after the chicken crushes the Newgrounds logo, it pulls out a sword before multiple arrows are rapidly fired from the right side of the screen.
On the Game Boy Advance port of Alien Hominid, the logo is still.
On Super Soviet Missile Mastar, the logo is rendered entirely in white and 1-bit on a red background.

Technique: 2D Flash animation.

Music/Sounds: A crush sound followed by chicken clucking.

Music/Sounds Variants:

On Alien Hominid and Castle Crashers, the opening theme of the game is heard. The latter game has this accompanied by the added sounds of a sword being drawn and arrows flying.
On the GBA port of Alien Hominid and Super Soviet Missile Mastar, it's silent.

Availability: Seen on the console (and later Steam) ports of Alien Hominid, Castle Crashers and Super Soviet Missile Mastar. It first appeared as an opener on the company's website.

2nd logo (April 3, 2013)

Logo: In a dimly-lit room with a brick wall and red curtains with gold bordering and tassels, we see a statue of the chicken on a white pedestal above the blocky and cartoonish text "THE BEHEMOTH". The chicken slightly jumps up as it clucks, and two cardboard puppets, one of the hominid from Alien Hominid and the Blue Knight from Castle Crashers, come up from the bottom of the screen before the lights cut out.

Technique: 2D animation.

Music/Sounds: The intro theme of the game and the chicken clucking.

Availability: Seen on BattleBlock Theater.

3rd logo (March 2, 2018)

Logo: On a dark blue background with a lighter blue spot on the left side of the screen, we see the silhouette of a hand holding a grey chess piece of the chicken with a blue wattle above numerous other chess pieces, all of which are colored bronze. The hand makes the chicken piece knock over all the pieces, and on the right side of the screen, The Behemoth's logo appears in blue above the smaller white text "WE MAKE GAMES".

Technique: 2D animation.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Seen on Pit People.

4th Logo (January 30, 2020-)

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Logo: On a light blue background, we see the chicken, now in full color with a white body, a yellow beak and feet and a blue wattle, comb and tail feathers, fall down to the center of the screen, leaving behind feathers and creating a blue ring with a light blue interior behind it when it lands. The chicken then pulls out a green laser gun and pretends to fire it before multiple green square projectiles fire from the right side of the screen, surprising the bird. The chicken then puts the gun away, and The Behemoth's logo in dark blue and motto in blue appear under the chicken as a white outline flickers around it.

Technique: 2D animation.

Music/Sounds: A cartoony falling and landing sound, the chicken clucking when it pretends to fire the laser gun, sci-fi beam firing noises when the projectiles appear and a high-pitched, altered voice saying "Behemoth" at the end.

Availability: Seen on The Behemoth's YouTube channel, specifically with some development updates with Alien Hominid Invasion, starting with the game's announcement trailer.

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-{{PageCredits|description=StarlightFantasy|video=Broken Saw and The Behemoth}}
+{{PageCredits|description=StarlightFantasy|video=Web Design Museum, Broken Saw, CostlyFall7604 and The Behemoth}}
 ===Background===
-'''The Behemoth''' is an American video game company that was founded on May 27, 2003 by John Baez, Nick Dryburgh, Tom Fulp, Brandon LaCava and Dan Paladin. Based in San Diego, California, they are known for their arcade-inspired games that are animated in Paladin's artstyle, with some of their best-known games being the ''Alien Hominid'' series and ''Castle Crashers''.
+'''The Behemoth''' is an American video game company that was founded on May 27, 2003 by John Baez, Nick Dryburgh, Tom Fulp, Brandon LaCava and Dan Paladin. Based in San Diego, California, they are known for their arcade-inspired games that are animated in Paladin's artstyle, with their best-known games being the ''Alien Hominid'' series and ''Castle Crashers''.
+{{ImageTOC
+|The Behemoth (2004) (From - Alien Hominid for GameCube).png|1st Logo (June 2003-September 26, 2012)
+|The Behemoth (2013) (From - BattleBlock Theater for Xbox 360).png|2nd Logo (April 3, 2013)
+|The Behemoth (2018) (From - Pit People for PC).png|3rd Logo (March 2, 2018)
+|The Behemoth (2020) (From - Alien Hominid Invasion Announcement video on their YouTube channel).png|4th Logo (January 30, 2020-)
+}}
-===1st logo (November 23, 2004, 2008, 2015)===
+===1st Logo (June 2003-September 26, 2012)===
 <gallery mode="packed" heights="200">
 The Behemoth (2004) (From - Alien Hominid for GameCube).png
-</gallery>
-{{YouTube|id=hVcsMp1MyWg}}
-'''Logo:''' After the [[Newgrounds]] logo appears, we see the company's mascot, a fat, white chicken that is entirely outlined in blue and is sitting down come down and crush the Newgrounds logo, causing tank parts to fly everywhere and the background to change from black to white. The company name "THE BEHEMOTH" appears below the rotund bird. The chicken then looks at us before it zooms in and fades away.
-'''Variant:''' On ''Castle Crashers'' and ''Castle Crashers Remastered'', after the chicken crushes the Newgrounds logo, it pulls out a sword before multiple arrows are rapidly fired from the right side of the screen.
-'''Technique:''' Entirely done in 2D animation.
-'''Music/Sounds:''' The intro theme of the game.
-'''Music/Sounds Variant:''' For the variant seen on ''Castle Crashers'' and its remaster, the added sounds of a sword being drawn and arrows flying.
-'''Availability:''' Seen on the GameCube and PlayStation 2 ports of ''Alien Hominid'' and ''Alien Hominid HD''.
-===2nd logo (February 3, 2006)===
-<gallery mode="packed" heights="200">
 The Behemoth (2005) (From - Alien Hominid for PAL Game Boy Advance).png
 </gallery>
-{{YouTube|id=FVp2fK_Xtto}}
+{{YouTube|id=K4SXXQ8u21o|id2=hVcsMp1MyWg|id3=YFa_regqeJY|id4=FVp2fK_Xtto}}
-'''Logo:''' We fade in from black to see, on a white background, the sitting chicken from the previous logo above "THE BEHEMOTH" before we fade back to black.
+'''Logo:''' A fat, white chicken that is entirely outlined in {{color|blue}} and is sitting down crashes into the ground, leaving behind a few feathers. "{{color|blue|THE BEHEMOTH COMPANY}}" appears below the rotund bird, which looks at us, then turns back before zooming away to the top left corner.
-'''Variant:''' On ''Super Soviet Missile Mastar'', the logo is rendered entirely in white and 1-bit on a red background.
-'''Technique:''' None.
+'''Variants:'''
+* On the console ports of ''Alien Hominid'', the chicken lands on the preceding [[Newgrounds]] logo and crushes it, causing tank parts to fly everywhere and the background to change from black to white. "{{color|blue|THE BEHEMOTH}}" appears below the rotund bird, which then looks at us before it zooms in and fades away.
+** On ''Castle Crashers'', after the chicken crushes the Newgrounds logo, it pulls out a sword before multiple arrows are rapidly fired from the right side of the screen.
+* On the Game Boy Advance port of ''Alien Hominid'', the logo is still.
+* On ''Super Soviet Missile Mastar'', the logo is rendered entirely in white and 1-bit on a {{color|red}} background.
-'''Music/Sounds:''' None.
+'''Technique:''' 2D Flash animation.
+'''Music/Sounds:''' A crush sound followed by chicken clucking.
-'''Availability:''' Seen on the GameBoy Advance port of ''Alien Hominid''.
+'''Music/Sounds Variants:'''
+* On ''Alien Hominid'' and ''Castle Crashers'', the opening theme of the game is heard. The latter game has this accompanied by the added sounds of a sword being drawn and arrows flying.
+* On the GBA port of ''Alien Hominid'' and ''Super Soviet Missile Mastar'', it's silent.
+'''Availability:''' Seen on the console (and later Steam) ports of ''Alien Hominid'', ''Castle Crashers'' and ''Super Soviet Missile Mastar''. It first appeared as an opener on the company's website.
-===3rd logo (April 3, 2013)===
+===2nd logo (April 3, 2013)===
 <gallery mode="packed" heights="200">
 The Behemoth (2013) (From - BattleBlock Theater for Xbox 360).png
 </gallery>
-'''Logo:''' In a dimly-lit room with a brick wall and red curtains with gold bordering and tassels, we see, on a white pedestal, a statue of the chicken above the blue, blocky and cartoonish text "THE BEHEMOTH". The chicken slightly jumps up as it clucks, and two cardboard puppets, one of the hominid from Alien Hominid and the Blue Knight from Castle Crashers, come up from the bottom of the screen before the lights cut out.
+'''Logo:''' In a dimly-lit room with a brick wall and {{color|red}} curtains with {{color|gold}} bordering and tassels, we see a statue of the chicken on a white pedestal above the blocky and cartoonish text "{{color|steelblue|THE BEHEMOTH}}". The chicken slightly jumps up as it clucks, and two cardboard puppets, one of the hominid from ''Alien Hominid'' and the Blue Knight from ''Castle Crashers'', come up from the bottom of the screen before the lights cut out.
-'''Technique:''' Entirely done in 2D animation.
+'''Technique:''' 2D animation.
 '''Music/Sounds:''' The intro theme of the game and the chicken clucking.
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 '''Availability:''' Seen on ''BattleBlock Theater''.
+===3rd logo (March 2, 2018)===
-===4th logo (March 2, 2018)===
 <gallery mode="packed" heights="200">
 The Behemoth (2018) (From - Pit People for PC).png
 </gallery>
-'''Logo:''' On a dark blue background with a lighter blue spot on the left side of the screen, we see the silhouette of a hand holding a grey chess piece of the chicken with a blue wattle above numerous other chess pieces, all of which are colored bronze. The hand makes the chicken piece knock over all the pieces, and on the right side of the screen, The Behemoth's logo, in blue, appears above the smaller, white text reading "WE MAKE GAMES".
+'''Logo:''' On a {{color|darkblue|dark blue}} background with a {{color|blue|lighter blue}} spot on the left side of the screen, we see the silhouette of a hand holding a {{color|grey}} chess piece of the chicken with a {{color|steelblue|blue}} wattle above numerous other chess pieces, all of which are colored {{color|saddlebrown|bronze}}. The hand makes the chicken piece knock over all the pieces, and on the right side of the screen, The Behemoth's logo appears in {{color|blue}} above the smaller white text "WE MAKE GAMES".
-'''Technique:''' Entirely done in 2D animation.
+'''Technique:''' 2D animation.
 '''Music/Sounds:''' None.
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 '''Availability:''' Seen on ''Pit People''.
+===4th Logo (January 30, 2020-)===
-===5th logo (January 30, 2020-)===
 <gallery mode="packed" heights="200">
 The Behemoth (2020) (From - Alien Hominid Invasion Announcement video on their YouTube channel).png
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 {{YouTube|id=YXmvNbJvBxg}}
 <center><small>(0:00) - (0:06)</small></center>
-'''Logo:''' On a light blue background, we see the chicken, now in full color with a white body, a yellow beak and feet and a blue wattle, comb and tail feathers, fall down to the center of the screen, leaving behind feathers and creating a blue ring with a light blue interior behind it when it lands. The chicken then pulls out a green laser gun and pretends to fire it before multiple green, square projectiles fire from the right side of the screen, surprising the bird. The chicken then puts the gun away, and The Behemoth's logo and motto appear under the chicken looks to the right and a white outline flickers around the bird.
+'''Logo:''' On a {{color|steelblue|light blue}} background, we see the chicken, now in full color with a white body, a {{color|gold|yellow}} beak and feet and a {{color|blue}} wattle, comb and tail feathers, fall down to the center of the screen, leaving behind feathers and creating a {{color|mediumblue|blue}} ring with a {{color|lightblue|light blue}} interior behind it when it lands. The chicken then pulls out a {{color|green}} laser gun and pretends to fire it before multiple {{color|green}} square projectiles fire from the right side of the screen, surprising the bird. The chicken then puts the gun away, and The Behemoth's logo in {{color|darkblue|dark blue}} and motto in {{color|mediumblue|blue}} appear under the chicken as a white outline flickers around it.
-'''Technique:''' Entirely done in 2D animation.
+'''Technique:''' 2D animation.
 '''Music/Sounds:''' A cartoony falling and landing sound, the chicken clucking when it pretends to fire the laser gun, sci-fi beam firing noises when the projectiles appear and a high-pitched, altered voice saying "Behemoth" at the end.
 '''Availability:''' Seen on The Behemoth's YouTube channel, specifically with some development updates with ''Alien Hominid Invasion'', starting with the game's announcement trailer.
 [[Category:American video game logos]]