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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. |
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. |
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Common types of |
Common types of '''Flashback Echoes''' include: |
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* '''Type 1.''' If a character sees a large fire and starts having a [[Freak-Out]] because it triggers a traumatic flashback of when they were a kid and almost got trapped and killed in a fire. Flashbacks of forgotten or repressed traumas may be incomplete, mysterious and foreboding. |
* '''Type 1.''' If a character sees a large fire and starts having a [[Freak-Out]] because it triggers a traumatic flashback of when they were a kid and almost got trapped and killed in a fire. Flashbacks of forgotten or repressed traumas may be incomplete, mysterious and foreboding. |
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] == |
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] == |
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* In ''[[ROD the TV]]'', the youngest of the Paper Sisters has a breakdown during a book-burning, since it gives her a very keen flashback to the incident that gave her a phobia against books in |
* In ''[[ROD the TV]]'', the youngest of the Paper Sisters has a breakdown during a book-burning, since it gives her a very keen flashback to the incident that gave her a phobia against books in general—being trapped in a burning library. |
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* During the first half of ''[[Space Pirate Mito]]'', Aoi keeps having fractured flashbacks (maybe that should be a trope) from 11 years ago, when his mother took him into space and they were attacked by [[Big Bad|Ranban]]. The flashback is finally shown in full when he witnesses Mito and Ranban fighting in a similar fashion, and ends up subconsciously wounding Mito, due to not recognizing her true form all those years ago. |
* During the first half of ''[[Space Pirate Mito]]'', Aoi keeps having fractured flashbacks (maybe that should be a trope) from 11 years ago, when his mother took him into space and they were attacked by [[Big Bad|Ranban]]. The flashback is finally shown in full when he witnesses Mito and Ranban fighting in a similar fashion, and ends up subconsciously wounding Mito, due to not recognizing her true form all those years ago. |
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* [[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]]. |
* [[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]]. |
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