Millar Gough Ink

Background
Millar Gough Ink is an American production company founded by Miles Millar and Alfred Gough.

1st Logo (October 12, 1999-November 10, 2011)
Logo: In the office setting, we see a bottle with scarlet ink. A black label covers the bottom half, containing the company name in Impact,, and a stacked format. "INK" has a bottom white gradient. A split-second before the logo ends, a hammer swings down and smashes the bottle, causing the ink to spread everywhere, including covering up the whole screen.

Variant: The logo exists in both a full-screen and wide-screen format.

Technique: Live-action.

Music/Sounds: It varies, but they usually end with the glass breaking sound.
 * October 12, 1999-July 7, 2000: The ending theme of the show, followed by the splattering sound.
 * October 16, 2001-February 12, 2002: None.
 * November 6, 2001, February 5, 2002: On the Smallville season 1 episodes "X-Ray" and "Hug", the logo is entirely silent.
 * February 26, 2002-May 21, 2002: An odd, three-note piano tune with an eerie sound effect was heard.
 * September 24, 2002-present: On Smallville starting with the episode "Vortex", a 13-note synth tune in D major was heard, with the 7-note orchestral theme playing in the logo's theme, ending with a bass and the orchestrated note when the bottle breaks. In this variant, the music is officially called the cartoon ditty.

Music/Sounds Trivia: The last two music variants shown in the above were composed by Mark Snow, who composed music for Smallville from the first six seasons. Louis Febre now composes music for Smallville starting with season 6. The last music variant was reused on the 2011 Charlie's Angels revival.

Music/Sounds Variants:


 * A variant of this logo exists on The CW airings of Smallville: the music and the glass breaking sound were both replaced with the general theme and the voiceover.
 * An early version exists only seen on The Strip: The glass breaking sound was replaced with a splattering sound when the bottle gets hit, representing the ink spreading.
 * On some prints of Smallville for season 1, a rare short version usually has the ending theme of the show before the glass breaking sound.
 * PAL prints, as well as international prints (e.g Paramount Network, Syfy or UK airings), have the logo in high pitch.
 * Sometimes, the music might have been delayed slightly while we can possibly hear the theme for the Tollin/Robbins Productions logo or silent. It can be found on some episodes of Smallville, where the cartoon ditty variant occured on the season 6 episodes "Zod" and "Wither".
 * A very rare variant of the logo exists, where the logo's audio is low toned. It recently appeared on such Russian prints of some episodes of Smallville.

Availability: Common. It first appeared on The Strip, then later seen on Smallville, the 2006 pilot film Aquaman and the 2011 remake of Charlie's Angels.

2nd Logo (November 15, 2015-present)
Logo: On a black background, we see the stacked words "MILLAR GOUGH". To the right of it is a beaker with a big black water-drop in it. Inside the water-drop is the text "INK".

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: None, or the ending theme of the show.

Availability: Seen on Into the Badlands and The Shannara Chronicles and the 2022 Netflix series Wednesday.