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* WebVideo/AtunSheiFilms. In "Frozen 50's Man", the eponymous HumanPopsicle is shown catching up on history by reading newspapers. He shrugs in indifference over headlines about the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, then recoils in horror over how segregation has ended.
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* In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', Steve is still adjusting to the modern era (though pleased with a lot of the advancements) and has been making a list of all the things that he needs to catch up on. The exact items on the list varied depending on the international market in which the movie was playing, as [[https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Captain_America%27s_To-Do_List this article]] illustrates. It also notes that ''Franchise/StarWars,'' ''Franchise/StarTrek,'' ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'', ''Music/{{Nirvana}}'', Music/MarvinGaye's ''Trouble Man'' soundtrack and Thai food are on every iteration of the list.
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* In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', Steve Rogers is still adjusting to the modern era (though pleased with a lot of the advancements) advancements, especially The Internet which is useful for this trope) and has been making a list of all the things that he needs to catch up on. The exact items on the list varied depending on the international market in which the movie was playing, as [[https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Captain_America%27s_To-Do_List this article]] illustrates. It also notes that ''Franchise/StarWars,'' ''Franchise/StarTrek,'' ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'', ''Music/{{Nirvana}}'', Music/MarvinGaye's ''Trouble Man'' soundtrack and Thai food are on every iteration of the list.
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* ''Series/{{Angel}}''. Sahjhan brings Daniel Holtz, a VampireHunter from [=18th=] Century England to [=20th=] Century Los Angeles to kill Angel. Holtz is shown binge-watching news videos on OminousMultipleScreens. On first arriving he asks if England has changed much.
-->'''Sahjhan:''' It went through a [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII rough patch about sixty years ago]], but it's mostly unchanged. Warm beer, boiled meat, [[BritishTeeth bad teeth]]. That's why I moved to LA.
-->'''Sahjhan:''' It went through a [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII rough patch about sixty years ago]], but it's mostly unchanged. Warm beer, boiled meat, [[BritishTeeth bad teeth]]. That's why I moved to LA.
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* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode ''Space Seed'', Khan Noonien Singh is released from suspended animation and learns about the 23rd century by reading through the Enterprise's computer records. His genetically-enhanced brain allows him to [[SuperSpeedReading read through them at super speed.]]
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** Lampshaded when the library employees gossip about his strange habits and choice of books, including instruction manuals, and jokingly suggest he's a time traveler. Little do they know it's true.
** Lampshaded when the library employees gossip about his strange habits and choice of books, including instruction manuals, and jokingly suggest he's a time traveler. Little do they know it's true.
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* In ''Film/{{Superman}}'', Jor-El leaves his son Kal-El a hologram to be watched when he turns eighteen years old that explains his Kryptonian origins. The hologram is also full of information about Earth's history to better explain why Jor-El sent the child to Earth: he wants Kal to serve as a HopeBringer to humanity. Unfortunately, this opens up a PlotHole, as it's never explained exactly how Jor-El knew so much about Earth's history when Krypton was billions of miles away in the first place.
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* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs|2020}}'' (2020), the Warner siblings sing about what they missed in the past 22 years such as smartphones, rising sea levels, the recession, Uber, Webiste/{{YouTube}}rs, Pluto as a dwarf planet, online shopping, and the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations. They lampshade that since the show is written in 2018 due to AnimationLeadTime, they sing predictions about the next two years such as chips in their brains, further climate disasters, living underground, living on Mars, and a movie about a time-travelling talking police car.
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* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs|2020}}'' (2020), the Warner siblings sing about what they missed in the past 22 years such as smartphones, [[GlobalWarming rising sea levels, levels]], the recession, Uber, Webiste/{{YouTube}}rs, Website/{{YouTube}}rs, [[PlutoIsExpendable Pluto as a dwarf planet, planet]], online shopping, and the Bush, Obama, [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush Bush]], [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Obama]], and Trump [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump Trump]] administrations. They lampshade that since the show is written in 2018 due to AnimationLeadTime, they sing predictions about the next two years such as chips in their brains, further climate disasters, living underground, living on Mars, and a movie about a time-travelling talking police car.
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* In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', Steve is still adjusting to the modern era (though pleased with a lot of the advancements) and has been making a list of all the things that he needs to catch up on. The exact items on the list varied depending on the international market in which the movie was playing, as [[https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Captain_America%27s_To-Do_List this article]] illustrates. It also notes that, as the current page illustration shows, that ''Franchise/StarWars,'' ''Franchise/StarTrek,'' ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'', ''Music/{{Nirvana}}'', Music/MarvinGaye's ''Trouble Man'' soundtrack and Thai food are on every iteration of the list.
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* In ''Film/TheMatrix'', a variation occurs where Neo (and, presumably, every other human rescued from the Matrix) learns that history as he knows it was just a deeply immersive virtual reality simulation (albeit one based on real history) and learns via another such simulation that the ''actual'' present world is a bombed-out radioactive wasteland ruled by The Machines with the vast majority of humanity now ''grown'' in pods and plugged into an artificial dream world.
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* ''Series/{{Timeless}}'': After Rittenhouse saved him from his death in World War II, Nicholas Keynes decides to learn about what he missed by reading Wikipedia. Except instead of using a computer, he has it printed out for him so that he can read it on paper.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic ''Fanfic/Progress'', Princess Luna has to catch up with all the inventions and developments that happened during her thousand-year exile to the moon.
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* Many ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfics staring Princess Luna often feature her catching up with all the inventions and developments that happened during her thousand-year exile to the moon.
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* The Temporal Displacement Division in ''Literature/StarTrekDepartmentOfTemporalInvestigations'' is tasked with helping those who end up being flung (either by accident or deliberately) into the 24th century get acclimated to their new home. Two of the more notable cases they handle are [[WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries Lts. M'Ress and Arex]], who both found their way there via very different means of time travel.
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* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTalesTheMovieTreasureOfTheLostLamp'': When the Genie is released from the lamp, he catches up on the 20th century by going through Scrooge's entire encyclopedia set in ''seconds''.
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* ''[[Series/AgentsOfShield Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.]]'': After returning from his [[CapturedSuperEntity imprisonment on another world]], [[AncientEvil Hive]] is taken in by Gideon Malick. While he does know about modern society through the [[MindHive memories of his hosts]], Hive still decides to research humanity on his own through [[OminousMultipleScreens multiple screens]] playing news broadcasts.
* ''Series/TheFlash2014'': After being trapped in the [[PlaceBeyondTime Speed Force]] for 6 months, Barry decides to catch up on all the TV/news that he missed. Luckily, being a [[SuperSpeed speedster]], he had [[GadgeteerGenius Cisco]] put all the shows play at an extremely fast speed so that he could finish it all in only a few hours.
* ''[[Series/AgentsOfShield Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.]]'': After returning from his [[CapturedSuperEntity imprisonment on another world]], [[AncientEvil Hive]] is taken in by Gideon Malick. While he does know about modern society through the [[MindHive memories of his hosts]], Hive still decides to research humanity on his own through [[OminousMultipleScreens multiple screens]] playing news broadcasts.
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* ''Anime/ZombieLandSaga'': Most of [[Characters/ZombieLandSagaFranchouchou Franchouchou]] has been dead for over a decade and are all varying degrees of FishOuOfTemporalWater. Ai takes advantage of their producer's computer to catch up on phenomena from the years she's been away, specifically on the idol trends that have come and gone, to gain a better advantage for the group to progress in popularity.
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* ''Film/AustinPowers'': After being [[HumanPopsicle frozen for 30 years]], Austin Powers spends some time watching TV to try and learn about what he missed, including the moon landings.
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* In ''Literature/TalesOfTheMagicLand'', evil sorceress Arachna wakes up after a five thousand year-long enchanted sleep and spends many days afterwards reading the chronicle of the Magic Land to find out what the country is like at present and especially if there are any strong witches and wizards she should be wary of. The chronicle is immediately available to her because it's been written by the dwarves, Arachna's faithful servants who live right by the side of her cave and have taken care of her in her sleep as well.
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* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTalesTheMovieTreasureOfTheLostLamp'': When the Genie is released from the lamp, he catches up on the 20th century by going through Scrooge's entire encyclopedia set in ''seconds''.
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So you're a FishOutOfTemporalWater who's just come back to the world either through TimeTravel, [[HumanPopsicle cryosleep]], or maybe you've just been away for a while. You've surely missed out on a lot, so you better study up! Whether through intense reading, television, the internet, or other means, this trope is when a character catches up on history through some sort of means.
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* ''Manga/UshioAndTora'': The demonic Tora likes sitting in on Ushio's school classes because it lets him find out about things that had happened and been discovered after he was {{sealed|EvilInACan}}.
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* ''Film/AustinPowers'': After being [[HumanPopsicle frozen for 30 years]], Austin Powers spends some time watching TV to try and learn about what he missed, including the moon landings.
* In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', we see that Steve is still adjusting to the modern era (though pleased with a lot of the advancements) and has been making a list of all the things that he needs to catch up on
* ''Film/TheFifthElement'': When the [[UltimateLifeForm Supreme Being]] Leeloo is regenerated FromASingleCell, she catches up on the last 5000 years of human history by speed-reading the encyclopedia. This causes [[HeroicBSOD some difficulty]] when she gets to [[HumansAreBastards the entry on War]].
* ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': {{Hand Wave}}d with En Sabah Nur's {{mutant|s}} power of [[ExpositionBeam knowledge absorption]]. When he wakes from a 5000-year slumber, he gains an in-depth understanding of the modern age just by touching a television screen and making it cycle rapidly through various shows.
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* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': In ''Megamorphs 3: Elfangor's Secret'', when the Animorphs travel through time to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, Tobias reads a history textbook to find out what changed in that timeline (the most major changes being the failure of the American Revolution and Nelson losing the Battle of Trafalgar).
* In ''Literature/TheDeadZone'', when John Smith wakes up from a coma he has been in for several years, he starts reading a backlog of old newspapers and magazines to catch up on what happened while he was in a coma (including Watergate and the end of the Vietnam War). At one point, he notes that one morbid aspect of this reading is finding out who died in the intervening years.
* ''[[Literature/TheCornersvilleTraceMythos Extraordinary*]]'': In the DistantFinale, Mutual is mentioned to have spent a lot of time catching up on what he missed, since he spent seven years on his parents' farm in Alaska with no contact with the outside world. At one point he managed to get his hands on a couple music and celebrity gossip magazines, which helped a little, but after he escapes he has to spend a lot of time using the internet and TV to catch up on the pop culture and history he missed. As his girlfriend Jen puts it, "The week he discovered ''Maxim'' magazine was not my favorite week."
* In ''Literature/TalesOfTheMagicLand'', evil sorceress Arachna wakes up after a five thousand year-long enchanted sleep and spends many days afterwards reading the chronicle of the Magic Land to find out what the country is like at present and especially if there are any strong witches and wizards she should be wary of. The chronicle is immediately available to her because it's been written by the dwarves, Arachna's faithful servants who live right by the side of her cave and have taken care of her in her sleep as well.
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* ''[[Series/AgentsOfShield Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.]]'': After returning from his [[CapturedSuperEntity imprisonment on another world]], [[AncientEvil Hive]] is taken in by Gideon Malick. While he does know about modern society through the [[MindHive memories of his hosts]], Hive still decides to research humanity on his own through [[OminousMultipleScreens multiple screens]] playing news broadcasts.
* ''Series/TheFlash2014'': After being trapped in the [[PlaceBeyondTime Speed Force]] for 6 months, Barry decides to catch up on all the TV/news that he missed. Luckily, being a [[SuperSpeed speedster]], he had [[GadgeteerGenius Cisco]] put all the shows play at an extremely fast speed so that he could finish it all in only a few hours.
* Jarod from ''Series/ThePretender'' has to read up on current information since he had been locked up by the Centre since 1963.
* In season 11 of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', [[TheAntiGod the Darkness]], aka Amara, is forced to possess the body of a newborn baby, and slowly ([[OvernightAgeUp though much quicker than usual]]) grow up into an [[ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty appropriate age]] for world domination. While doing this, Crowley, who raises her in an attempt to gain her favor and use her power, sets about teaching her about what she's missed since being sealed away before the universe through various videos on a laptop.
* ''Series/{{Timeless}}'': After Rittenhouse saved him from his death in World War II, Nicholas Keynes decides to learn about what he missed by reading Wikipedia. Except instead of using a computer, he has it printed out for him so that he can read it on paper.
* In ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'', when Claudia's brother Joshua is rescued from being stuck in interdimensional limbo, he catches up on what he missed by watching Website/YouTube.
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* ''VideoGame/WingsOfLiberty'': Tychus is seen looking up archive footage of Kerrigan. When an irritated Matt shows up to ask why he's going through their database without permission, Tychus (who recently escaped from prison) says he's "just catching up on current events". [[spoiler:He was freed on the condition that he kill Kerrigan, and was locked in a suit of PowerArmor that will kill him if he tries to escape.]]
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In the first episode of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs|2020}}'' reboot, the Warner siblings sing about what they missed in the past 22 years such as smartphones, rising sea levels, the recession, Uber, Youtubers, Pluto as a dwarf planet, online shopping, and the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations. They lampshade that since the show is written in 2018 due to AnimationLeadTime, they sing predictions about the next two years such as chips in their brains, further climate disasters, living underground, living in Mars, and a movie about a time-travelling talking police car.
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTalesTheMovieTreasureOfTheLostLamp'': When the Genie is released from the lamp, he catches up on the 20th century by going through Scrooge's entire encyclopedia set in ''seconds''.
-->'''Genie:''' Well, what do you know? Las Vegas must be some place if Caesar moved his palace there!
* In the pilot of ''WesternAnimation/SherlockHolmesInTheTwentySecondCentury'', the newly resurrected Holmes is given a VR headset of some kind to help him catch up on the last two hundred years.
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So you're a FishOutOfTemporalWater who's just come back to the world either through TimeTravel, [[HumanPopsicle cryosleep]], or maybe you've just been away for a while. You've surely missed out on a lot, so you better study up! Whether through intense reading, television, the internet, or other means, this trope is when a character catches up on history through some sort of means.
The BunkerWoman might also do this, along with the CultDefector. May be a part of NotUsedToFreedom for some.
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* ''Manga/UshioAndTora'': The demonic Tora likes sitting in on Ushio's school classes because it lets him find out about things that had happened and been discovered after he was {{sealed|EvilInACan}}.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/AustinPowers'': After being [[HumanPopsicle frozen for 30 years]], Austin Powers spends some time watching TV to try and learn about what he missed, including the moon landings.
* In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', we see that Steve is still adjusting to the modern era (though pleased with a lot of the advancements) and has been making a list of all the things that he needs to catch up on
* ''Film/TheFifthElement'': When the [[UltimateLifeForm Supreme Being]] Leeloo is regenerated FromASingleCell, she catches up on the last 5000 years of human history by speed-reading the encyclopedia. This causes [[HeroicBSOD some difficulty]] when she gets to [[HumansAreBastards the entry on War]].
* ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': {{Hand Wave}}d with En Sabah Nur's {{mutant|s}} power of [[ExpositionBeam knowledge absorption]]. When he wakes from a 5000-year slumber, he gains an in-depth understanding of the modern age just by touching a television screen and making it cycle rapidly through various shows.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': In ''Megamorphs 3: Elfangor's Secret'', when the Animorphs travel through time to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, Tobias reads a history textbook to find out what changed in that timeline (the most major changes being the failure of the American Revolution and Nelson losing the Battle of Trafalgar).
* In ''Literature/TheDeadZone'', when John Smith wakes up from a coma he has been in for several years, he starts reading a backlog of old newspapers and magazines to catch up on what happened while he was in a coma (including Watergate and the end of the Vietnam War). At one point, he notes that one morbid aspect of this reading is finding out who died in the intervening years.
* ''[[Literature/TheCornersvilleTraceMythos Extraordinary*]]'': In the DistantFinale, Mutual is mentioned to have spent a lot of time catching up on what he missed, since he spent seven years on his parents' farm in Alaska with no contact with the outside world. At one point he managed to get his hands on a couple music and celebrity gossip magazines, which helped a little, but after he escapes he has to spend a lot of time using the internet and TV to catch up on the pop culture and history he missed. As his girlfriend Jen puts it, "The week he discovered ''Maxim'' magazine was not my favorite week."
* In ''Literature/TalesOfTheMagicLand'', evil sorceress Arachna wakes up after a five thousand year-long enchanted sleep and spends many days afterwards reading the chronicle of the Magic Land to find out what the country is like at present and especially if there are any strong witches and wizards she should be wary of. The chronicle is immediately available to her because it's been written by the dwarves, Arachna's faithful servants who live right by the side of her cave and have taken care of her in her sleep as well.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Live-Action TV]]
* ''[[Series/AgentsOfShield Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.]]'': After returning from his [[CapturedSuperEntity imprisonment on another world]], [[AncientEvil Hive]] is taken in by Gideon Malick. While he does know about modern society through the [[MindHive memories of his hosts]], Hive still decides to research humanity on his own through [[OminousMultipleScreens multiple screens]] playing news broadcasts.
* ''Series/TheFlash2014'': After being trapped in the [[PlaceBeyondTime Speed Force]] for 6 months, Barry decides to catch up on all the TV/news that he missed. Luckily, being a [[SuperSpeed speedster]], he had [[GadgeteerGenius Cisco]] put all the shows play at an extremely fast speed so that he could finish it all in only a few hours.
* Jarod from ''Series/ThePretender'' has to read up on current information since he had been locked up by the Centre since 1963.
* In season 11 of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', [[TheAntiGod the Darkness]], aka Amara, is forced to possess the body of a newborn baby, and slowly ([[OvernightAgeUp though much quicker than usual]]) grow up into an [[ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty appropriate age]] for world domination. While doing this, Crowley, who raises her in an attempt to gain her favor and use her power, sets about teaching her about what she's missed since being sealed away before the universe through various videos on a laptop.
* ''Series/{{Timeless}}'': After Rittenhouse saved him from his death in World War II, Nicholas Keynes decides to learn about what he missed by reading Wikipedia. Except instead of using a computer, he has it printed out for him so that he can read it on paper.
* In ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'', when Claudia's brother Joshua is rescued from being stuck in interdimensional limbo, he catches up on what he missed by watching Website/YouTube.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/WingsOfLiberty'': Tychus is seen looking up archive footage of Kerrigan. When an irritated Matt shows up to ask why he's going through their database without permission, Tychus (who recently escaped from prison) says he's "just catching up on current events". [[spoiler:He was freed on the condition that he kill Kerrigan, and was locked in a suit of PowerArmor that will kill him if he tries to escape.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In the first episode of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs|2020}}'' reboot, the Warner siblings sing about what they missed in the past 22 years such as smartphones, rising sea levels, the recession, Uber, Youtubers, Pluto as a dwarf planet, online shopping, and the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations. They lampshade that since the show is written in 2018 due to AnimationLeadTime, they sing predictions about the next two years such as chips in their brains, further climate disasters, living underground, living in Mars, and a movie about a time-travelling talking police car.
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTalesTheMovieTreasureOfTheLostLamp'': When the Genie is released from the lamp, he catches up on the 20th century by going through Scrooge's entire encyclopedia set in ''seconds''.
-->'''Genie:''' Well, what do you know? Las Vegas must be some place if Caesar moved his palace there!
* In the pilot of ''WesternAnimation/SherlockHolmesInTheTwentySecondCentury'', the newly resurrected Holmes is given a VR headset of some kind to help him catch up on the last two hundred years.
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