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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* This happens ''twice'' in ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'', both times leading into a [[Troubled Backstory Flashback]]. Early in the series there's a flashback that shows Rosette's childhood with her brother, Joshua, as well-taken care of orphans who spend their days picnicking and playing before Joshua is kidnapped by the [[Big Bad]]. The second time it happens is when Chrono flashes back to when he met {{spoiler|Mary Magdalene, whom he fell in love with but accidentally killed when he made a contract with her after he betrayed Aion.}} In the manga version, Rosette even wonders to herself if Chrono attempts to go back to those happy memories in his dreams.

* The ''[[Saint Beast]]'' OVAs as a whole are meant to be this, although they are tinged with hints of [[Call Forward|darker things to come]].

 

* In the Red Robin/Batgirl Collision crossover, Red Robin gets a couple of himself and Batgirl. Just as an assassin named Prudence, who's life he saved, and who he neglected to immediately incapacitate, is pointing a gun at Batgirl's head and saying she was ordered to kill her. The flashbacks include a nice one with a pink background of him and Stephanie kissing, and Tim blaming himself for getting someone else killed.

** Of course, Bat-Steph then proceeds to hand Prudence her ass, so the tragic contrast is almost hilariously subverted two seconds later.

* In ''[[Pandorum]]'', Bower has happy flashbacks to his life with his wife back on Earth. Subverted when it turns out that {{spoiler|she decided not to go with him to Tanis and left him.}}

* ''[[The Road]]'' contains a few flashbacks to the pre-apocalyptic family life of the protagonists.

* Jill Tuck has one in ''[[Saw|Saw: The Final Chapter]]''

* At the end of ''[[The Godfather|Godfather 2]]'', there is a somewhat happy scene showing the Corleone family sitting around the dinner table, as Michael tells them he is joining the Marine Corps and going off to fight in World War II. This represents the end of the happier, together times in the Corleone family's life, and Michael's transition to the lonely, ruthless man we see him as at the end. This is counterpointed by the final shot of Michael sitting alone in the Lake Tahoe compound.

* ''[[Shallow Grave]]'' ends with {{spoiler|one flatmate dead, another stabbed and uncertain about his fate and a third discovering they've been cheated out of the loot}}. Cue ''Happy Heart'' rolling over a repeated sequence of the three flatmates earlier in the movie, laughing and hugging. [[Tear Jerker|Wham]].

 

* In [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[Firestarter]]'' this happens when the protagonist suddenly discovers the dead body of his wife. The feel of emotional pain is in contrast with the memories of their happy life together which start popping up in his mind at that moment.

 

* ''[[Jericho]],'' in a decidedly dark episode about a {{spoiler|war with nearby town New Bern}}, has multiple flashbacks from Jake to the day of his brother's wedding.

* In ''[[Monk]],'' all of his flashbacks with his wife Trudy. Averted with his childhood memories, which are awful.

 

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[[Category:Happiness Tropes]]

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[[Category:Characterization Tropes]]

[[Category:Flashbacks and Chronology]]