Flashback (trope): Difference between revisions

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Can be subverted with a flashback to something that didn't actually happen.

Often provides the added bonus of getting actors into period costumes.

<big>'''Specific types of flashbacks include:'''</big>

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* A lot of these show up in [[Yu-Gi-Oh!]], even to the point where they actually had a Flashback ''within'' a Flashback.

* ''[[The Idolmaster (anime)|THE iDOLM@STER]]'' - Chihaya gets a ton of flashbacks foreshadowing her past, before things hit the [[A Worldwide Punomenon|fan.]]

* [[Axis Powers Hetalia]]: America admits to always getting these when he begins to clean his storage room, and never being able to finish or throw anything out. Might overlap with [[It Was a Gift]] since two of the three objects he gets flashbacks over (a house with a set of wooden soldiers and a 3-piece suit) were in fact presents from England. Might overlap with [[Troubled Backstory Flashback]] several times- both the soldiers and the suit bring back bittersweet memories, which he lampshades by exclaiming there HAS to be something cool that doesn't bring bad memories with itself. Cue him finding a scratched musket from the Revolutionary War, bringing one of the biggest [[Tear Jerker]] moments in the entire series.

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== Fan Works ==

* The ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater]]'' [[Fanfic]] ''[[The Joy of Battle]]'' uses flashbacks in the same way that ''[[Lost]]'' does to tell [[How We Got Here|how the characters ended up at the point of the story's beginning]] and also to reveal [[Backstory]] through characterizing scenes.

* The ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]'' [[Fanfic]] ''[[The Joy of Battle]]'' uses flashbacks in the same way that ''[[Lost]]'' does to tell [[How We Got Here|how the characters ended up at the point of the story's beginning]] and also to reveal [[Backstory]] through characterizing scenes.

* [[Flash Back]]: Several in [[The Tainted Grimoire]]:

** Vaticus when explaining his [[Backstory]].

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* Crop up at random intervals as "Reg's Lost Years" in ''[[Regular Guy]]''

* Lampshaded in [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-03-05 this] ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' strip.

* Lampshaded in [http://booksdontworkhere.thecomicseries.com/comics/69/ this] ''[[Books Don't Work Here]]'' strip which starts a [[Flash Back]] which took place before the Flashback they are already in started.

* [[Evil Diva (webcomic)|Evil Diva]] The trial sequence was littered with them, such as [http://www.evildivacomics.com/?p=815 here].

* [[Strays]] [http://www.straysonline.com/comic/77.htm One panel Meela-induced flashback]