Flashback Echo: Difference between revisions

An event taking place in the present triggers a [[Flash Back]] of a very similar event that happened in the past. Resembles an [[Ironic Echo]] or [[Meaningful Echo]] except that the viewer often sees the current event first and the meaningful or ironic past event is only shown through the flashback.

 

 

* '''Type 2.''' As above, but with nostalgic or otherwise meaningful events.

* '''Type 3.''' A person reminds someone of a different person they used to know, and they flashback to memories of that person, sometimes represented by visually superimposing the old person's image over the new person's.

 

 

Compare [[Visions of Another Self]], where the "Echo" part can be conveyed through a dream, an alternate reality side trip, a holodeck or other such literary device, usually in a way that teaches the character or the audience some lesson relevant to the present.

 

Could be considered having some [[Truth in Television]], because people with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) have this type of flashback activated by a trigger. For instance, if a war veteran with PTSD heard gunfire, he could have a flashback to a traumatic event with the same weapon.

 

* [[Mahou Sensei Negima]] had Rakan going into a (one panel) flashback to show how closely [[Generation Xerox|Negi's group of friends paralleled his father's group]].

* During the Conviction arc of ''[[Berserk]]'', Guts has a combination of Type 1 and Type 4 when {{spoiler|a horse that has turned into a demon bears down on Farnese and tries to rape her}}, reminding him strongly of {{spoiler|the rape of his lover Casca at Griffith-turned-Femto's hands during the Eclipse}}. This proceeds to [[Berserk Button|set Guts off]] in a ''[[Unstoppable Rage|serious]]'' way, and needless to say, {{spoiler|it doesn't end well for the once-helpful steed}}.

== [[Comics]] ==

* In the ''[[Batman]] Confidential'' storyline "The First League", various events trigger Bruce Wayne having flashbacks to a meeting with a Chinese superhero group when he was travelling the world before taking the Batman identity. Most notably his first encounter with the [[Justice League of America]], which leads to a [[Let's You and Him Fight]] situation that exactly parallels a training exercise with the Chinese team.

 

 

 

 

** Both Harry and Tom respond with the same "No, sir, nothing."

'''Dumbledore''': Very well, then. Off you go. }}

 

 

* ''[[Kung Fu]]'' was all over this.

* ''[[Dexter]]'' flash-cuts back to the moment Harry found Dexter more than once - most notably, at the end of season four.

 

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker]]'', around 85% through the main storyline, after {{spoiler|Snake attempted to chase down the Peace Walker whilst riding the Boss's horse, said horse breaks it's back after being thrown off an extremely steep hill, Snake (i.e. The Player) is then forced to euthanize said horse, before (or after, depending on how long the player takes to pull the trigger) Snake has flashbacks to the climax of Operation: Snake Eater, in which he was forced to finish off the Boss, whom was helplessly suffering from wounds attained in her previous battle with Snake, with a single round from her Patriot}}.

* In ''[[Metro 2033]]'', Artyom has incidents of hearing voices and seeing things that are not actually there. At some point while walking through the ruins of the surface, he comes across an old and rusty playground where he experiences a freaking flashback echo. After a couple of seconds, the vision vanishes as quickly as it came and Artyom notices a Dark One who was stalking him for a while who was likely behind all that crazy stuff.

 

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

 

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

** Veled has a [http://www.lastres0rt.com/2008/11/showering-is-honestly-very-important/ flashback to Cypress's mother], which (apprently) convinces Veled to spare Cypress.

** Cypress [http://www.lastres0rt.com/2010/11/bowling-for-bozos/ has one herself] ([http://www.lastres0rt.com/2011/06/i-think-johnny-cash-wrote-a-song-about-this/ explained here]), but backfires given that instead of jumping into a pool of ''water'' ([[Wrong Genre Savvy|ala the flashback]])... {{spoiler|she jumps into some flesh-dissolving nanotech!}}

 

 

* A common symptom in dramatic portrayals depicting war veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

** Really, anyone with PTSD could suffer the first and third points.

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