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The opposite of this is the [[Call Forward]]. See also [[Chekhov's Gun]], [[Brick Joke]], and [[Book Ends]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
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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 (Manga)/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 One Half½ (Manga)|Ranma One Half]]'' -- where [[Tsundere|Akane]] runs into [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold|Ranma]] as he's just coming out of the bath -- was referenced twice, in relatively serious instances, by each of the characters:
** [[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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{{quote| '''Orihime:''' Don’t you remember what you told Kuchiki-kun -- the person who’s being saved doesn’t get any say in the matter...}}
* The ''[[Harry Potter (Literature)|Harry Potter]]''/''[[Justice League]]'' crossover ''Terminal Justice'' contains numerous references to Rorschach's Blot's stories ''Make a Wish'', ''The Hunt for Harry Potter'' and ''Back in Black'', in which Harry went around disguised as one "Mr. Black," in addition to several scenes from and references to ''Justice League'' episodes.
* ''[[Marik Plays Bloodlines (Let's Play)|Marik Plays Bloodlines]]'', a spin-off of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: theThe Abridged Series (Web Video)|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'', has a call back to the episode where Marik meets Joey and Tea. His vampire character is named "Malik Blishtar," the [[Sue Donym]] he made up.
* ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged]]'': A ''lot'' of the humor in later episodes comes from stuff like this.
** Notably featured are three uses of the Solar Flare attack to blind an enemy. In the first instance, Vegeta shouted it was like "walking in on Frieza in the shower"; the second victim several episodes later saw a brief image of a showering Frieza when hit with the attack. The third victim is Frieza himself, who sees a brief image of the second victim posing.
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* The 2nd half of ''[[Shaun of the Dead]]'' is made of Call Backs. Every line in the 1st half comes back in radically different context. ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'' too, to a lesser extent.
* ''[[Terminator]]''
** All of the ''Terminator'' movies have these in spades. ''"Come with me if you want to live"'' is right up there with ''"I'll be back"''. And ''"[[Get Out!]]"''. Then Connor picks up that scar over his eye. Come to think of it, most of these are [[Call Forward]] as well.
** Also Dr. Silberman, a character who appears in all of the first three movies for essentially this purpose.
** An awesome one in ''Terminator Salvation''. When John is about to {{spoiler|try and rescue Kyle Reese from a Skynet camp, alone}}, Kate asks him what she should tell his troops. He answers, {{spoiler|"[[Catch Phrase|I'll be back]]."}}
** Another ''Salvation'' example: when John is trying to lure a Terminator to his location, he starts playing music. The song? The same Guns n Roses song he was listening to in T2.
* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]''
** In ''At World's End'', when the Pirate's Code is brought out, the first thing [[Anti -Hero|Captain Jack Sparrow]] looks up is whether the rule of parley (a [[Running Gag]] throughout the films) exists. It does.
** "Parley" is used as a Call Back twice more in the series. In ''Curse of the Black Pearl'', Pintle says, "Damned to the depths with him who thought up parley!" ("That would be the French."), and "If any of you so much as ''thinks'' the word parley...". But at the end of the film (after the titular curse is broken), the first thing Pintle does is ask for parley in an obviously frightened tone. And then in ''At World's End'', upon seeing the size of the East India Company's armada, Pintle again reacts with a frightened, "Parley?"
** In the first movie, Captain Barbossa says that the thing he hates most about being undead is not being able to taste anything, holding an apple as an example. When the curse is lifted at the end of the movie, he dies and the apple falls out of his hand before he can taste it. The next movie ends with him appearing at the end, finally taking a bite out of an apple.
** When asked how he returned, [[The Hero|Will Turner]] sarcastically commented he used a couple of sea turtles lashed together to make a raft. [[Anti -Hero|Jack]] quipped "it's not so easy, was it?" This is more humorous if you remembered that [[Anti -Hero|Jack]] supposedly used this method before the events of the first movie.
** When Pintel and Raggetti are looking for Elizabeth in the first film they call her "poppet" a couple of times mockingly. At the end of the third film when Elizabeth is saying goodbye to all the pirates, Pintel says "goodbye, poppet" affectionately.
** Half-barrel hinges... leverage.
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** In fact, there are at best a small handful of episodes of Buffy that either don't feature a Call Back or are not called back to in a future episode.
* ''[[Everybody Loves Raymond]]'' In the pilot episode, Marie and Raymond have a discussion of the 'Fruit of the Month' club that Raymond has bought a membership for his parents. His parents see it as a cult that continually gives them more fruit than they know what to do with. This is referenced often throughout the series.
* ''[[MashM*A*S*H (TV)|Mash]]'' does this often with one of the more serious characters complaining about all the things Hawkeye, Trapper, and B.J. had done to them. [[Mood Whiplash|More seriously]], references to [[McLeaned|Col. Blake]], Trapper, and Radar after they left the show.
* ''[[Firefly (TV)|Firefly]]''
** In the first two episodes, [[Wrench Wench|Kaylee]] tells [[The Captain|Mal]] that they need a new compression coil or some such part for the ship's engine or they will be [[Space Is an Ocean|dead in the water]]. In the episode "Out of Gas", the failure of this part causes exactly that, thus giving us the [[Plot]] of the episode.
** And in the episode "Ariel", [[Non -Action Guy|Wash]] finds an apparently pristine compression coil in a junkyard, shows it to [[Wrench Wench|Kaylee]], and tosses it aside.
* In ''[[Heroes (TV)|Heroes]]'' "A Clear And Present Danger", Peter ends up as a passenger in Mohinder's cab and asks, "Do you ever get the feeling like you were meant to do something extraordinary?", echoing the first time they met.
* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]''
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* ''[[Star Trek the Original Series|Star Trek]]'' (not known for its continuity) has a moment in the "The Deadly Years" where [[The Kirk|Kirk]] references the Corbomite Self-Destruct Device from "The Corbomite Maneuver" in order to bluff some Romulans. Some of the Bridge Crew actually smile when he makes the broadcast. There's another one in "The Trouble with Tribbles" when the Klingon commander makes a reference to the Organian peace treaty. In "Errand of Mercy", the Organians intervened to stop the Klingons and [[The Federation]] trying to kill each other - apparently they're still watching.
* ''[[Star Trek the Next Generation]]''
** In the pilot episode, someone mentions "... [[Star Trek the Original Series|an Admiral]] who [[Running Gag|hates transporters]]." The importance of this can best be summed up in a quote from [[Wil Wheaton]]: [http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/03/star-trek-the-next-generation-encounter-at-farpoint-part-i/ "...and this is where we separate the Trekkies from the Trekkers, folks, because the hardcores know before they see or hear him that the Admiral is Dr. McCoy]." A nostalgic [[Tear Jerker]] promptly ensues as [[DeForest Kelley|DeForest Kelley]] proceeds to pass the torch from one series to the other.
** In the episode "Family", [[The Captain|Picard]] takes shore leave on the French vineyard where he grew up, and before he leaves, his brother gives him a bottle of homemade wine. Later, in the episode "First Contact", before Picard offers a toast to the new friendship between an alien species, he explicitly mentions that he got the wine back home.
* In 1976, Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz was forced to resign because he made a racist joke (cleaned up here): "What blacks want is good sex, loose shoes and a warm place to go to the bathroom." ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', in the News portion of the program, led with this story, stating the joke as given above. At the end of the "news" broadcast, 10 or 15 minutes later, they announced that Muhammad Ali was considering retiring from boxing. According to reader, all Ali wanted was good sex, loose shoes and a warm place to go to the bathroom.
* In the season 1 episode of ''[[Scrubs (TV)|Scrubs]]'', ''My Tuscaloosa Heart'', Elliot does the "I Told You So Dance" when her suspicion that a song on a tape was sung by Dr. Kelso turns out to be true (though, Dr. Kelso denies it). Then, in the season 8 episode, ''Their Story II'', we see it again when she's right about a decision.
* ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway? (TV)|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'' is excellent at this, and usually manages to slide in at least one inside joke at the end from a game earlier in the episode (After all, how can we forget Colin's famous Irish Drinking Song moments: "Meowwwwww" and "You can get poo from fud!"). The best example of this (a Brick Joke due to the time frame) started in the UK show where Greg and Colin did a piece where Greg was a Gremlin ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUK1CqoTigo Can be seen here, it's the first game played]). [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGyu-xeXUpw Later, in the US show,] Greg has to play a Gremlin again, and Colin makes the quiet comment "You should have never taken that shower" in reference to how Gremlin!Greg got wet in the first skit. (Actually, Colin's infamous Scottish accent keeps being called back to as well.)
* In an early episode of ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'', Rimmer tells Lister he can't escape death by hitting in the head and running. In the last episode, Rimmer escapes the Grim Reaper by [[Groin Attack|kneeing it in the groin]] and running.
* ''[[The Wire]]''
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* Although it could be far-fetched, [[Queen (Music)|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 throne -- a reference to the song "Seven Seas of Rhye" on their [[Self -Titled Album|first and second albums]].
* 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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* In Mariah Carey's "Fantasy", which [[Sampled Up]] Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love", she interpolates the first verse of the original song for the bridge.
* [[Cascada (Music)|Cascada]]'s cover of Nik Kershaw's "Wouldn't It Be Good" reprises the verse melody of "Everytime We Touch". Also, "Runaway" is melodically a Call Back to "Bad Boy", which in turn was a [[Suspiciously Similar Song]] version of a Groove Coverage song also titled "Runaway".
* Two versions of Joshi Kashimashi Monogatari, the [[Hello! Project (Music)|Morning Musume]] original and one of the Elder Club versions, contain references to the song Koi no Dance Site, also by Morning Musume during the part sung about or by Yaguchi Mari.
* [[The Beatles (Music)|The Beatles]]
** They liked this [[Trope]] a lot. "I Am The Walrus" references "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", and "Glass Onion" references "Strawberry Fields", "I Am The Walrus", "The Fool on the Hill", and "Lady Madonna".
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* In ''[[Dragon Age II (Video Game)|Dragon Age II]]'', assuming Leliana and the Warden had a [[Three Way Sex|threesome]] with Isabela in the first game, Leliana reacts with embarrassment to meeting Isabela again, prompting Varric to [[Deadpan Snarker|snark]] "Is there anyone in the Free Marches you ''haven't'' slept with?"
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts]]''
** In ''[[Kingdom Hearts: 358 Days Over 2 (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts 358 Days Over 2]]'', the fight with {{spoiler|Xion is full of these. The first stage is Sora's Valor Form with the Sonic Blade and Slide Dash attacks. The second stage is Wisdom Form with Ragnarok and Vortex. The third is Master Form with Ars Arcanum, Vortex, and Kurt Zisa's swords. The fourth stage is Final Form, with Trinity Limit, Vortex, Thundaga, and Graviga. All four forms use Sora's original three hit combo.}}
** In ''[[Kingdom Hearts II (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts II]]'', all of Genie's Limit attacks except Infinity are named after Sora's MP-consuming special attacks from the original ''Kingdom Hearts'': Strike, Sonic, and Arcana.
* ''[[Mario and Luigi Bowsers Inside Story (Video Game)|Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]'' makes reference to Bowser's Castle's ability to fly from ''[[Paper Mario (Video Game)|Paper Mario]]''.
* The ''[[Phantasy Star]]'' series often makes references to things that happened in the previous [[Video Game|games]] - the exception is ''[[Phantasy Star]] III'', which appears to have almost nothing to do with the rest of the series {{spoiler|until the end,}} and has only one reference in an optional dungeon in the fourth [[Video Game|game]].
* One of the NOD missions in ''[[Command and Conquer]]: Tiberium Sun'' features your armies uncovering an old NOD base that's been left over from the first game. When you reach it, you'll find that the buildings look exactly the same as the structure design from Tiberium Dawn.
* ''[[Jo JosJo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]] - Ogon no Kaze'' (based on the fifth series of the [[Manga]]) has you playing as Polnareff at one point. The music is a fully orchestrated version of... his music from the arcade fighting game based on the third series.
* ''[[Starcraft II (Video Game)|Starcraft II]]'' in a fairly literal way: a major [[Plot Point]] is the discovery of a recording of some of the mission briefings from the first [[Video Game|game]] (specifically {{spoiler|New Gettysburg and a crucial line from The Hammer Falls}}).
* ''[[Duke Nukem Forever (Video Game)|Duke Nukem Forever]]'': You can sign "Why I'm So Great," Duke's autobiography first mentioned in ''[[Duke Nukem II (Video Game)|Duke Nukem II]]''.
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* [http://www.th3rdworld.com/web-comic/Holiday-Wars/episode/Holiday-Wars-Episode-50 In this strip] of ''[[Holiday Wars]]'', [[Labor Day]] makes a reference to some sort event that happened ten years ago in Venice. It's the first time in the webcomic that really hints that there is a large history between all the main characters.
* ''[[Concerned]]'' has a lot of these. In one strip Frohman find out he can use the force (that's what he said, not me) to pick stuff up. For most of the rest of the comic, whenever he holds something it floats in front of him.
* ''[[Eight 8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]''
** One of Brian Clevinger's related blog posts read this: Anyone confused by [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/09/19/episode-1174-oh-thats-what/ today's comic] needs [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2006/01/21/episode-651-thief-of-time/ a history lesson]. Also counts as Foreshadowing...
** More recently, the aptly titled strip "Longest set up in webcomic history" has a [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2010/02/20/episode-1221-longest-set-up-in-webcomic-history/ Call Back] to a throwaway line over [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2001/03/20/episode-007-kamehameha-or-something/ 1200 pages ago].
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* ''[[Lonely Girl 15]]'' features multiple Call Backs to earlier points in the series, particularly towards the end of the third season, where details such as a broken clock seen in the background of a season 1 video suddenly became relevant to the [[Plot]].
* ''[[I Am Not Infected]]'' has Amanda repeating the phrase "I can't hear you through the door" to Hartley, who had originally told this to Handcuff Guy. Who could hear him perfectly.
* [[The Angry Video Game Nerd (Web Video)|The Angry Video Game Nerd]] used one in his review of ''Winter Games'' for the NES. When complaining about the unresponsiveness of the controls during the figure skating segment, he states "I wonder [[Who Writes This Crap?|who programmed this]]...maybe it was [[Unfortunate Names|Fred Fuchs]]...". Fuchs is the name of one of the producers of the film version of ''Bram Stoker's Dracula'', and whom the Nerd referenced in a review of that game after seeing his name in the credits.
* ''[[Zero Punctuation (Web Animation)|Zero Punctuation]]'': Yahtzee's review of the iPhone game ''Fruit Ninja'', whose developers are based in the same city as he is, featured a call-back to his [[Blatant Lies|subtle recommendation]] of Gametraders Robina in his ''[[Super Smash Brothers|Brawl]]'' review.
* [[The Nostalgia Chick (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Chick]]'s "NChick Labs" segment is full of these, referencing the Makeover Fairy, the scientists, Lord [[MacGuffin]] (and the confusion about MacGuffins) and [[Never Live It Down|rapping about]] [[Old Shame|rape]].
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* ''[[Cheap Arse Film Review]]'' has one in the Christmas Special:
{{quote| '''Ghost:''' Who makes important life decisions while wearing an animal costume?<br />
'''Cheapus:''' ''(looks uncomfortable)'' [[What Did I Do Last Night?|...]] }}
 
 
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* In the "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" two-parter on ''[[The Simpsons (Animation)|The Simpsons]]'', Smithers' throwaway comment in part one about never missing a particular TV show ended up providing his alibi for not having shot Mr. Burns in part two. Sideshow Mel [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this line, [http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?s=9a0c1b708edf6455860cc11e0e2b1f2d&showtopic=3134244&view=findpost&p=4240378 which is unfortunately] [[Edited for Syndication]].
* ''[[Gargoyles (Animation)|Gargoyles]]'' is juicy with them.
** When Demona's plan to betray the humans of her castle so that the gargoyles would have it to themselves went wrong and resulted in the deaths of most of her clan and the rest being frozen as stone for good, she says "[[My God, What Have I Done?|What have I]]... [[Ignored Epiphany|what have they done?!!]]" At the very end of the show, John, a human hunting gargoyles, accidentally shoots his brother while attempting to shoot Goliath, and says the exact same words.
** "Hunter's Moon" is full of Call Backs to previous episodes, especially in "Awakening" and "City of Stone." For example, in the very beginning of "Awakening", Elisa is investigating the battle on top of the Eyrie Building and comes across a stone with claw marks in it, to which she muses, "What could be strong enough to leave claw marks in solid stone?" Then, in "Hunter's Moon," Elisa and her partner are investigating a crime scene in which a gargoyle tore a steel door off of its hinges, and Elisa's partner asked "What could be strong enough to leave claw marks in solid steel?"
** In "The Edge" Owen mentions a meeting with an Emir to Xanatos. Later, in "Grief" the Emir is actually a character.
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** Another example is when Peter becomes a redneck he starts chewing tobacco. Brian tells him to spit in a cup. Later Stewie comes along and takes the cup and is about to drink it. Brian starts to warn him, but flashes back to the episode "Patriot Games" (where Stewie horribly beat Brian for not immediately paying a gambling debt) and changes his mind, letting Stewie drink it.
** Likewise, Peter's attempt to integrate into Southern "good old boy" culture is derailed when he reveals that he is legally retarded, which was a major plot point in a previous episode.
** Brian's novel is a particularly long-running example. He mentioned writing one in the early seasons; after the show was revived, there was a brief [[Running Gag]] of Stewie mocking him for not having gotten any work done in three years. Later we hear excerpts from the novel, which the family mocks for being a [[ClicheCliché Storm]]; later still it's finally published and is a total flop, owing to being a cheap ripoff of the ''[[Iron Eagle (Film)|Iron Eagle]]'' series. The final twist of the knife comes when Brian learns that the only people who enjoy his book are mentally retarded.
** "Tales of a Third Grade Nothing" in which Peter blows up a Children's hospital and ends up losing his promotion.
** Season 9 episode "Brian writes a Bestseller": Stewie says "[[Tempting Fate|At least it's not raining]]" [[Subverted Trope|and get's stabbed by a random guy]]. One Season later in episode "Stewie goes for a Drive" he says "[[Bait and Switch|At least I'm not getting stabbed by some random guy on the street]]". It starts raining and he says "[[No Fourth Wall|See? It's the exact opposite.]]" {{spoiler|He than gets stabbed anyway.}}
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