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== [[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.
* Chapter Two of ''[[All Fall Down (Comic Book)|All Fall Down]]'' revolves around heroes (and Sophie) remembering the last time the Pantheon was truly heroic, involving a mission on the moon.
 
 
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Fatal Instinct]]'', in a parody of ''[[Sleeping Withwith the Enemy]]''. Twice when Laura Lincolnberry sees some disarranged towels, she has a flashback to her [[Domestic Abuse|abusive husband]] getting angry at her because of his obsessive need for everything to be perfectly arranged, including towels.
* Played Straight in ''[[A Fistful of Dynamite]]''. John witnesses {{spoiler|Dr. Villega betraying the resistance and pointing out members for the firing squad. He instantly recalls a similar event involving his friend Sean Nolan betraying him in Dublin}}.
* The killings start in ''[[Pieces (Filmfilm)|Pieces]]'' when the killer witnesses a girl crashing through a mirror, as it reminds him of his mother breaking a mirror in the past before he killed her.
 
 
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* In ''[[Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets]]'', Dumbledore asks Harry, "Is there something you wish to tell me?" in such a way that it's suggested he knows whatever the "something" is and is trying to give Harry the opportunity to come clean himself. Later on he asks Tom Riddle the same thing in the diary flashback.
** Both Harry and Tom respond with the same "No, sir, nothing."
** [[Harry Potter (Filmfilm)|The film]] takes this further and makes the exchanges word-for-word identical:
{{quote| '''Dumbledore''': Is there something you wish to tell me?<br />
'''Harry/Riddle''': No, sir. Nothing.<br />
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]'' did this in the first episode where an odd looking knife sparks Gwen's memory and overrides the amnesia drug she was slipped earlier.
* ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]'' loves to do this. Nearly every episode of the first three seasons contains a flashback that usually has some relevance to what is currently going on in the episode, focusing on the central character for that episode.
* ''[[Forever Knight (TV)|Forever Knight]]'' does this [[Once an Episode]] (or more) with Nick flashing back to a situation earlier in his life which paralleled his current predicament.
* ''[[Kung Fu]]'' was all over this.
* In a season 4 episode of ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'', "Ground State", electro-girl Gwen Raiden electrocutes and kills Charles Gunn. She immediately flashes back to an event in her childhood in which she accidentally kills a boy she was making friends with. [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Shocked]] with herself, she revives Gunn within twenty seconds or so.
* ''[[Dexter]]'' flash-cuts back to the moment Harry found Dexter more than once - most notably, at the end of season four.
* Used often in ''[[Homeland (TV)|Homeland]]'' to contrast Brody's time in captivity against his life at home. Since he's a [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]], everyday events can trigger some very dark memories.
 
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Killer 7]]'', during the final phase of Chapter Smile, Garcian can stop by each floor of the Union Hotel and see bloodstains at the same places where {{spoiler|he, as Emir Parkeriner, killed (and assimilated as alternate personalities) the six people of the Smith Syndicate, who all happened to be staying there at the time}}, bringing back painful memories.
* In ''[[Xenogears (Video Game)|Xenogears]]'', Elly is speaking to a mob of mutated humans, offering to sacrifice her body to them in order to ease their pain. In the middle of her speech, the game flashes back to Sophia{{spoiler|, her previous incarnation,}} saying the same words.
* ''[[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}}.
** ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots]]'' has Snake dream about his mission in Shadow Moses from ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'', which is not only playable, but the sequence also doubles as a [[Nostalgia Level]] with gameplay elements and graphics directly used from the Playstation version!
* 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.
 
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* A staple of [[Last Res 0 rtRes0rt]]:
** 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!}}
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