New Old Flame: Difference between revisions

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Compare to [[Remember the New Guy]], [[Romantic False Lead]].

== Anime and Manga ==

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* Sheridan's ''real'' first wife in the fifth season of ''[[Babylon 5]]''.

** Interestingly, in this case the "former wife" angle wasn't used for any of the normal reasons, but to explain why Sheridan knew he could trust {{spoiler|Locksley, even though she'd fought on the opposite side of Sheridan during the war}}.

** This is brought up again in ''[[~~Crusade (TV)|~~Crusade]]'', just to tease Gideon about his hero.

** This is brought up again in ''[[Crusade]]'', just to tease Gideon about his hero.

* ''[[MacGyver]]'', at least twice, in "Flame's End" and "Jericho Games".

* The same plot mechanism is put to different use (with shades of "[[Luke I Am Your Father]]") in ''[[The Pretender]]'' episode "At the Hour of Our Deaths", which revolves around Miss Parker's adoptive sister -- never hinted at before, dead by the end of the episode, and never referred to again. The series also included several straight instances.

* Lucille in the last two episodes of ''[[Chef (TV)|Chef]]'' served this purpose.

* Reconstructed in River Song from ''[[~~Doctor Who (TV)|~~Doctor Who]]''. She is most likely a new old flame from the Doctor's personal future. When the Tenth Doctor meets her for the first time, she is extremely intimate with him right from the start, even knowing his true name and calling him sweetie and pretty boy. Then she {{spoiler|sacrifices herself to save 4400 people, including the Doctor, and dies in front of him.}} After he regenerates into the Eleventh Doctor, they spend several episodes flirting, during which Amy Pond decides she must be the Doctor's future wife. By the end of the fifth series, he may or may not have proposed to her. (He seems unsure himself whether he just did or not.)

* Reconstructed in River Song from ''[[Doctor Who]]''. She is most likely a new old flame from the Doctor's personal future. When the Tenth Doctor meets her for the first time, she is extremely intimate with him right from the start, even knowing his true name and calling him sweetie and pretty boy. Then she {{spoiler|sacrifices herself to save 4400 people, including the Doctor, and dies in front of him.}} After he regenerates into the Eleventh Doctor, they spend several episodes flirting, during which Amy Pond decides she must be the Doctor's future wife. By the end of the fifth series, he may or may not have proposed to her. (He seems unsure himself whether he just did or not.)

** And now, as of the end of the sixth series {{spoiler|we see on-screen Eleven and River Song getting married.}}

* Jack Harkness and John Hart on ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]'', John is also Jack's [[Evil Counterpart]].

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** Not only that, but Garibaldi essentially inherits Edgars's financial empire, quitting as security chief and moving to Mars Dome.

* ''[[Mad Men]]'' introduces an old flame of Roger Sterling's, whom he dated in [[Gay Paree|Paris]] before [[World War Two|the war]].

* Subverted in ''[[Earth Final Conflict]]'': William Boone's old flame appears after several years of absence and, in spite of Boone's wife recent death, he's unusually inflamed with passion, something extremely out of character for him. It's later revealed that the Boone's memories of their life together are false and were included in his cyberviral implant as a loyalty test by the Companions, and they had recruited an FBI agent to play the part of the former girlfriend.

* Subverted in ''[[Earth: Final Conflict]]'': William Boone's old flame appears after several years of absence and, in spite of Boone's wife recent death, he's unusually inflamed with passion, something extremely out of character for him. It's later revealed that the Boone's memories of their life together are false and were included in his cyberviral implant as a loyalty test by the Companions, and they had recruited an FBI agent to play the part of the former girlfriend.

** It's also unclear if she really is working against the Taelons or was just saying that to test Boone.

* An oft-ignored season one episode of ''[[Supernatural]]'' introduces us to [[Casanova|Dean]] [[The Charmer|Winchester]]'s ex-girlfriend Cassie. We get a glimpse of what Dean looks like in love, and it turns out he's kind of a sap. Sam has fun needling him about it until he realizes who dumped whom and why, and how badly [[The Woobie|Dean]] actually got hurt.