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Line 2: {{quote\|''"This is the past, and the past is in black and white. Get it?"''\|'''[[Bugs Bunny]]''', ''[[Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue]]''}} Ever since black and white photography, the past has been depicted as in black and white, sepia tone, or muted colors. Usually invoked for a [[Flash Back]]. Sometimes [[Parodied Trope\|made fun of]] by claiming that the real world was, in fact, black and white prior to the invention of color. Subtrope of [[Flashback Effects]]. See also [[Deliberately Monochrome]], for when the entire work is this way. {{examples}} Line 17: == Comic Strips == * In one [[Sunday Strip]] of ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', Calvin asks his dad why old photos are in black and white, and Dad explains that the world used to be in black and white. As to why the photos didn't turn to color with everything else, Dad explains that they're ''color'' photos of a black-and-white world. == Fan Works == * A brief comment on the [[Portal: ~~the~~The 4th Millennium Franchise ~~(Fanfic)~~\|first Portal: The 4th Millennium Wiki]], just preceding the timeline of 1910 to [[The Sixties\|1969]]: {{quote\| '''GL@DDA Magnet:''' I KNEW it. In this time the world was BLACK AND WHITE.}} Line 34: * ''[[Heroes (TV series)\|Heroes]]'' Done for flashbacks in the episode "Company Man". With an excellent [[Lampshade Hanging]]/pun in the first such flashback: {{quote\| '''Bennet:''' I'm comfortable with morally gray.}} And ''again'' in flashbacks during the Volume 4 episode "Cold Wars". Complete with a reprisal of above line. * ''[[Supernatural (TV series)\|Supernatural]]'': When Castiel sends Sam & Dean back to 1861, it's brown and sepia. * ''[[Cold Case]]'': If flashback is set in period where monochrome footage was widespread, flashback will be monochrome. One episode subvert this, by beginning in full old-photo sepia and appearing to take place in the early 1800s. {{spoiler\|Then a car full of people pull up. It is 2006, in Amish country.}} * In ''[[Eureka]]'''s season 4 time-travel episodes, the 1940s are sepia-toned. * ''[[Hustle]]'' has an episode centered on the grandson of a legendary American grifter. It includes a number of flashbacks and [[Imagine Spot~~\|Imagine Spots~~]]s featuring the grandfather, played by Mickey as a [[Charlie Chaplin\|Chaplinesque]] silent film hero. * All flashbacks in ''[[Babylon 5]]''. * In the ''[[War of the Worlds (TV series)\|War of the Worlds]]'' episode "A Time to Reap", the scenes set in 1953 are in black and ~~white -- despite~~white—despite the fact that the 1953 film whose time they are visiting ''was originally filmed in color''. * The opening flashback scene of Toby's father being a gangster in 1952 in one of ''[[The West Wing]]'' Christmas episodes ("Noel"). * ''[[Angel]]'' has a flashback to 1950s Italy, lasting some three seconds or so, in black and white, with Angel and his pals in black turtlenecks looking like they were in a mid-century cool movie. Line 53: * ''[[Plok]]'' has a dream flashback where you play as Grand Pappy Plok, with monochrome graphics and silent film-style text and piano music. * The flashback sequences in ''[[XIII]]'' are monochrome. * In ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Brawl'', flashbacks in the Adventure mode cutscenes are black and white. * [[Flash Back\|Flashbacks]] in ''[[Chibi-Robo!]]'' are in sepia. Additionally, when the titular robot and his sidekick go [[Time Travel\|back in time]], everything is sepia except for them. [[Lampshade Hanging\|Lampshaded]] by the sidekick, who says that they ''must'' be in the past since everything's all sepia. Line 70: * ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'''s prequel books are in black and white. * The [[Backstory]] of ''[[Trying Human]]'' is set in the 1940s and colored sepia. * ''[[Something Positive]]'' in [[Flash Back\|Flashbacks]]. In ''[[Goblins]]'', once the comic starts to be colored, grayscale is used as a [[Flashback Effects]]. * ''[[Queen of Wands]]'' has a sepia-toned flashback, with a black and white flashback [[Nested Story\|nested]] inside it. Line 83: * Played straight in the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic\|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode "A Friend in Deed". * In one episode of ''[[Kim Possible]]'', the picture turns sepia when we are shown in flashback (sort of) how Ron invented the Naco (a nacho/taco hybrid). * In ''[[Code Lyoko]]'', some flashbacks of Aelita's previous life are sepia-~~colored -- including~~colored—including in the usually brightly-colored world of Lyoko during her first virtualization. And the final episode consists entirely of flashbacks done in this manner. The sepia-toned [[Stock Footage\|tower deactivated sequence]] in particular invoked many [[Manly Tears]]. * ''[[The Simpsons (animation)\|The Simpsons]]'', Treehouse of Horror XVII segement, "The Day the Earth Looked Stupid" was done this way since it took place in Springfield 1938. It was even [[Lampshaded]] by Lenny. {{quote\| '''Lenny:''' I like that everything's sepia-toned; makes me feel all nostalgic.}} {{reflist}} [[Category:Flashbacks and Chronology]] [[Category:~~Monochrome Past~~{{PAGENAME}}]]