Millar Gough Ink

Background
Millar Gough Ink is a production company by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar.

1st Logo (October 12, 1999-November 10, 2011)
Nicknames: "Orange-Red Ink", "Ink Bottle Gets The Banhammer"

Logo: In an office setting, at the forefront we see a bottle filled with orange red ink in it labeled "MILLAR GOUGH INK" in a -white gradient. After a while, a split-second before the logo ends, a hammer (which can be seen coming down in the bottle's reflection if the viewer looks very closely) swings down and smashes the bottle, causing the orange red ink in it to fly everywhere and cover up the screen. One second later, it abruptly poorly transitions to the next or split-screen logo.

Variant: There exists an open-matte version of the logo.

FX/SFX: Entirely live-action.

Cheesy Factor: How could there be so much ink in that one, tiny bottle? Also, the transition to the next or split-screen logo is really poorly done.

Music/Sounds: Music/Sounds Variants: Availability: Common. First seen on The Strip. Also later seen on Smallville and the 2011 reboot of Charlie's Angels. It also appeared on the 2006 television pilot of Aquaman, known as Mercy Reef, so please don't expect to see this on the company's films, though.
 * October 16, 2001-February 12, 2002: Just the sound of a bottle breaking.
 * February 26, 2002-May 21, 2002: An odd, three-note piano tune with a scary noise.
 * September 24, 2002-November 10, 2011: A reverberating cartoon ditty.
 * A silent variant exists. In this one, the bottle breaking sound in the logo is absent.
 * On early season 2 episodes of Smallville, the reverberating cartoon ditty is somewhat slightly quieter before the shatter sound appears.
 * Original airings use a generic theme and a voice over.
 * On The Strip, the closing theme of the show before the splattering sound.

Scare Factor:


 * October 16, 2001-February 12, 2002: Medium to high. The bottle suddenly breaking with no warning can be jarring to many people, especially after the long silence during both this logo and the one before such as the Tollin/Robbins Productions logo.
 * February 26, 2002-May 21, 2002: Medium, the piano tune can be disquieting and ominous, also creepy.
 * September 24, 2002-November 10, 2011: Low to medium, the music playing can be pleasant, also less-scary.

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

FX/SFX: None.

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

Availability:

Scare Factor: Low, though the logo can creep out some people.
 * Seen on the 2015 AMC series Into the Badlands.
 * This can also be seen on the 2016 MTV series The Shannara Chronicles.
 * The 2022 Netflix series Wednesday has this logo also.
 * In films, it has a different company's logo instead; so please don't expect to see this on the company's films, though.