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A reference to an event taking place earlier than the timeline of the present story. One type of call back is a [[Running Gag]]. This is often used to remind viewers that there ''is'' an ongoing storyline. More or less a [[Shout-Out]] to
Alternately, in comedy: tying a later, seemingly unrelated, joke to one earlier in the show.
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'''Actor:''' Aaaachoo! }}
Sometimes a
The opposite of this is the [[Call Forward]]. See also [[Chekhov's Gun]], [[Brick Joke]], and [[Book Ends]].
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** A hilarious one occurs in the Fishman Island arc where Luffy states he doesn't want to be a hero because a hero has to share meat and he wants the meat all to himself. Later, Zoro makes the same statement except with beer instead of meat [[Strange Minds Think Alike|despite having never heard Luffy's earlier comment.]]
** There are plenty more Call Back examples in [[One Piece/Tropes C-D|One Piece's articles]]. [[Eiichiro Oda]] ''loves'' them more than he loves [[Inelegant Blubbering]].
* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|Akane and Ranma's]] [[Naked First Impression|fateful first encounter]] in ''[[Ranma ½]]''
** [[Tsundere|Akane]], climbing out of the outdoors bath, runs into Shinnosuke, a very forgetful boy. Like before with [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Ranma]], [[Tsundere|Akane]] preserves her modesty with a towel, but the guy is completely naked. Notable in that Shinnosuke was, for a brief while, the only serious contender for [[Tsundere|Akane's]] heart.
** While spending the night at a Chinese inn, [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Ranma]] is in the bath. [[Tsundere|Akane]] ({{spoiler|really a villainous impersonator}}) walks into him; both of them look at each other in the exact same pose as during their very first meeting, right down to the towel.
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* In ''[[Naruto]]'', Sasuke having received [[The Corruption|the Cursed Seal of Heaven]] rises up after noticing his teammates in danger from the Sound nin, and declares: "I understand now. I am an avenger!" before showing then uncharacteristic violence and ruthlessness against them. In Part II, Sasuke has gone into full-blown villainy, with other characters noting he has become colder than ever, even when compared to him under the Cursed Seal. When Naruto is confronted by Tobi, and the latter tells him that even after having achieved his goal of {{spoiler|killing Itachi}}, he is still focused on revenge by attacking the summit, Naruto refuses to believe it, to which Tobi replies: "Sasuke is a true avenger!"
** Much like the above. Kabuto once he reveals {{spoiler|Dragon sage mode}} starts using {{spoiler|sound}} ninjutsu. A style which hadn't been brought up in several years and hundreds of chapters.
* In ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'', [[The Messiah|Ash's]] Staravia evolves in a Pokéringer
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''
** Chapter 253 has multiple Call Backs to the reverse [[Wife Husbandry]] plan as several characters inwardly debate forming a Pactio, coming up against the [[Adorably Precocious Child|age barrier]] around Kotarô and Negi and then remembering Asakura's [[Plot]].
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* Despite the separate continuities across seasons, the ''[[Digimon]]'' dub pulls this off nicely. The 1st episode of ''[[Digimon Adventure|Adventure]]'' is called "And So It Begins", and the last episode of ''Frontier'' features the line "And so it ends!" In terms of the franchise as an [[Anime]], it doesn't.
* In the Throne arc of ''[[Kinnikuman]]'', Meat finishes off an opponent with the Back Drop, specifically choosing it because it was a move Kinnikuman himself favored and struggled to master in the earliest parts of the series.
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' is jam-packed with Call Backs, [[Ironic Echo
* In ''[[Bakuman｡]]'', while the main characters are working with Hattori early on, Takagi mentions an idea he had of a story in which a boy tries to cheat on as many girls as he can as possible, and Hattori says it's a good example of a potential cult hit that most wouldn't be interested in, but a few might consider their favorite. In Chapter 113, while talking about what they should do next now that {{spoiler|PCP will not get an anime and Mashiro's romance one-shot did poorly}}, the characters discuss the idea again.
* Every incarnation of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' adores Call Backs to a point that borders on fetishism. Expect everything that happens to be referenced in a later chapter/episode.
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* ''[[Good Omens]]'' is particularly fond of these. One ''footnote'' joke near the beginning becomes a major plot element near the end.
* A number of authors in the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] dabble in this and [[Call Forward]].
** Timothy Zahn is particularly adept at
** ''Survivor's Quest'' and ''[[Outbound Flight]]'', very different novels with 50 years between them, were written together, so there are calls between them. ''Survivor's Quest'' also has at least two Call Backs to the Original Trilogy. "I want to go with you", a young untrained Force-Sensitive who wants to help an older Jedi, and Dean Jinzler, brother of a Jedi, who'd been passing as an ambassador.
{{quote|'''Jinzler:''' I'm not an ambassador, Guardian. I'm an electronics technician. Like my father before me.}}
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{{quote|'''Jerry:''' You look like a ''pirate!''
'''Kramer:''' I ''wanna'' be a pirate! }}
** In the same "puffy shirt" episode, there's a Call Back to the masturbation
* In ''[[Young Blades]]'', when the main character says that killing the guard who killed her father is not murder, she is told, "No; it's satisfaction." In the final episode, {{spoiler|she kills the guard who killed her brother}}; his last words are, "You have your satisfaction."
* When aired on TV, the theme song for the show ''[[Dawson's Creek|Dawsons Creek]]'' was "I Don't Wanna Wait" by Paula Cole. In the show within a show at the end of the series finale, a show based off the lives of the characters, one of the characters said, "I don't wanna wait for my life to be over what will it be?" Which is a Call Back to one of the lyrics often heard in the show's opening over the last six years.
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** The second season's finale, "The One That got Away", has an in-universe video montage, supposedly for Jay's birthday, showing all the characters either dressed or holding a prop in such a way as to indicate a particular episode from the season as they say they're too busy to say something.
** Two second season episodes got callbacks in the third season: the events of "Bixby's Back" (itself a [[Sequel Episode]]) were brought up by Clare's opponent ([[Arrested Development (TV series)|David Cross]]) during a political debate in "Little Bo Bleep", and the outcome of "Caught in the Act" is cited by Mitchell as a reason not to hold a party at a certain restaurant in "Leap Day".
* In an episode of the TV version of ''[[Hello Cheeky]]'', the second part of the show begins by showing "edited highlights"
* An episode of [[Power Rangers RPM]] had characters walk by Jungle Karma Pizza, which was the headquarters of the team from [[Power Rangers Jungle Fury]].
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* Although it could be far-fetched, [[Queen]] could count as well:
** In terms of videos, "One Vision" begins similarly to "Bohemian Rhapsody", which itself is based on the cover of their second album; in terms of lyrics, "These Are the Days of Our Lives" (1991) ends with "I still love you" -- "Love of My Life" (1975) had the lyric: "when I grow older, I will be there at your side to remind you how I still love you."
** And in "Lily of the Valley" on their third album ''Sheer Heart Attack'', the lines: Messenger from seven seas has flown, To tell the king of Rhye he's lost his
* Beirut's song "Cherbourg" has the same chorus as the earlier song "Nantes," only sang in a different sense, suggesting his longing for the events portrayed in the former.
* It is pretty usual for music in [[Progressive Rock]] genres and concept albums to Call Back at least once. Often, a lot.
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** Also shows up in the form of an [[Old Save Bonus]]: many of the emails in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' and War Assets in ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' are references to quests and conversations from previous games.
* ''[[Quake (series)|Quake]]'' has the Well of Wishes in the Crypt of Decay, where you find the [[Easter Egg|Dopefish]] from ''[[Commander Keen]]''.
* ''[[Dark Souls]]'' is littered with
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== Web Animation ==
* Practically every good joke in ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'' eventually gets a Call Back.
** The longest gap between joke and Call Back - which would probably be a [[Brick Joke]] if not for the [[Memetic Mutation]] of the
{{quote|'''Church:''' I guess we have... two bases in the middle of a box canyon now.
'''Tucker:''' Whoopdee-fucking-doo. }}
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* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]''
** An example has Nanase making a reference to a spontaneously changing hair-color gag from ''six years ago''.
** Remember [http://www.egscomics.com/bg/egs_bg_0038_thumb.gif that background] with dejected Susan and critters, a bunny sitting on her head, back from 2006? In Jule 2010 [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-07-07 a scene in the continuity brought it back]
* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]''
** At one point, Belkar suggests selling a captured female antagonist into slavery because he "knows a guy who knows a guy". Several plot-arcs later, the party runs into said guy-his-guy-knew, Buggy Lou, as he's out catching slaves in the desert.
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** Andrew Hussie discusses it [http://www.formspring.me/andrewhussie/q/898135176 here.]
** According to Doc Scratch, Call Backs are a rule of Paradox Space.
** And [[Meta Guy|uu]] ''hates'' the frequent
* ''[[Bittersweet Candy Bowl]]'', [http://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c56/p24.html This] [[Continuity Nod|most definitely shows]] Justin remembers [http://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c33/p1.html David].
* A ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' strip from [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/you-got-that/ December 2009] featured a reference to the dialogue in the [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/09092001/ very first strip] back in 2001.
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* The most recent, and furthest one in ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'': [http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/0p1/ The McNinja Burger] [http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p32-2/ is back]! Complete with [[Flat What]].
* [http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus50.html This strip] of ''[[Minus (Webcomic)|Minus]]'' mentions several previous one-off gags.
* ''[[Bob and George]]'': Overlooking all the [[Running Gag
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