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** ''ComicBook/WorldsFinest1941'': Issue #71 -the point when the series became a Superman/Batman team-up rather an AnthologyComic- opens with a flashback to the time both heroes discovered each other's identity in ''ComicBook/Superman1939'' #76 (published two years earlier).
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* ''Literature/TheBookOfMormon'':
** Large parts of the book of Mosiah are a flashback, first to the people of Zeniff, who split from the main body of the Nephites about 70 years earlier, then to the people of Alma, who split away from ''them'', making the chronology quite confusing.
** About ten chapters of the book of Alma do the same, recounting the sons of Mosiah and their 14-year proselyting mission among the Lamanites, immediately after having recorded the ''end'' of their mission.
** Also [[WholeEpisodeFlashback the book of Ether]], which records the history of the Jaredites, starting from thousands of years earlier.
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* ''Literature/TheBookOfMormon'':
** Large parts of the book of Mosiah are a flashback, first to the people of Zeniff, who split from the main body of the Nephites about 70 years earlier, then to the people of Alma, who split away from ''them'', making the chronology quite confusing.
** About ten chapters of the book of Alma do the same, recounting the sons of Mosiah and their 14-year proselyting mission among the Lamanites, immediately after having recorded the ''end'' of their mission.
** Also [[WholeEpisodeFlashback the book of Ether]], which records the history of the Jaredites, starting from thousands of years earlier.
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* Chapter 18 of ''Super Fanfic/PaperMarioX'' starts with [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]], as always, scared of going in the water ([[SuperDrowningSkills since he can't swim and will drown in the water, after all]]). When he is informed that this was not the first time the group had to go through water, Sonic says to "name the times", followed by a flashback to the first Paper Mario X ({{lampshade|Hanging}}d by Mario). When Sonic says there was no way it happened twice, a flashback to Paper Mario X 2 follows.
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* Chapter 18 of ''Super Fanfic/PaperMarioX'' starts with [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]], as always, scared of going in the water ([[SuperDrowningSkills since he can't swim and will drown in the water, after all]]). When he is informed that this was not the first time the group had to go through water, Sonic says to "name the times", followed by a flashback to the first Paper Mario X ({{lampshade|Hanging}}d by Mario). When Sonic says there was no way it happened twice, a flashback to Paper Mario X 2 follows.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
** ''ComicBook/TheLastDaysOfSuperman'': As he is dying, Superman flashes back to his childhood in Smallville, meeting Lana Lang and later Lois Lane, and ''[[ComicBook/SupermansReturnToKrypton going back in time to pre-destruction Krypton and meeting Lyla Lerrol]]''.
** ''ComicBook/TheLastDaysOfSuperman'': As he is dying, Superman flashes back to his childhood in Smallville, meeting Lana Lang and later Lois Lane, and ''[[ComicBook/SupermansReturnToKrypton going back in time to pre-destruction Krypton and meeting Lyla Lerrol]]''.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
** ''ComicBook/TheLastDaysOfSuperman'': As he is dying, Superman flashes back to his childhood in Smallville, meeting Lana Lang and later Lois Lane, and ''[[ComicBook/SupermansReturnToKrypton going back in time to pre-destruction Krypton and meeting Lyla Lerrol]]''.''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'':
** ''ComicBook/TheLastDaysOfSuperman'': As he is dying, Superman flashes back to his childhood in Smallville, meeting Lana Lang and later Lois Lane, and ''[[ComicBook/SupermansReturnToKrypton going back in time to pre-destruction Krypton and meeting Lyla Lerrol]]''.
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** ''ComicBook/TheLastDaysOfSuperman'': As he is dying, Superman flashes back to his childhood in Smallville, meeting Lana Lang and later Lois Lane, and ''[[ComicBook/SupermansReturnToKrypton going back in time to pre-destruction Krypton and meeting Lyla Lerrol]]''.
** "ComicBook/LuthorUnleashed" The story starts with the aftermath of a battle between Superman and Luthor, followed by the latter's flashback showing how it went down.
** ''ComicBook/TheLastDaysOfSuperman'': As he is dying, Superman flashes back to his childhood in Smallville, meeting Lana Lang and later Lois Lane, and ''[[ComicBook/SupermansReturnToKrypton going back in time to pre-destruction Krypton and meeting Lyla Lerrol]]''.
** "ComicBook/LuthorUnleashed" The story starts with the aftermath of a battle between Superman and Luthor, followed by the latter's flashback showing how it went down.
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*Discussed in ''WebAnimation/TerribleWritingAdvice''. J.P. Beaubien suggests using flashbacks in various ways such as making a filler episode. He also suggests to use flashbacks in intrusive and pace-breaking manner.
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*Discussed in ''WebAnimation/TerribleWritingAdvice''. J.P. Beaubien suggests using flashbacks in various ways such as making a filler episode. He also suggests to use flashbacks in intrusive and pace-breaking manner.
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* ''Literature/DarcyAndGranDontLikeBabies'': When Gran says that she thinks what Darcy's mother said about her being just like the baby when she was one, we see an illustration of Darcy's own infancy.
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* Used regularly in ''Literature/UnlimitedFafnir'' to reveal important events, such as Yuu first making a contract with Yggdrasil for PowerAtAPrice way to defeat a dragon attacking his hometown.
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* ''Literature/UnlimitedFafnir'': Used regularly in ''Literature/UnlimitedFafnir'' to reveal important events, such as Yuu first making a contract with Yggdrasil for PowerAtAPrice way to defeat a dragon attacking his hometown.
** ''ComicBook/SupergirlAdventuresGirlOfSteel'': One story opens with Superman and Supergirl holding a funeral for Kara's family and retrieving one piece of equipment of Kara's mother's lab. Then it is shown that Kara is reminiscing while the Kents are gathered for dinner on Mother's Day.
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* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: "The Legend of Rainbow and Stardust!" starts with the framing device of sitting around a campfire with Hard Candy telling how Rainbow went from circus performer to local Texan legend, with Rainbow's final performance and escape with Stardust shown in flashback. The last half of the story involves Rainbow and Stardust helping Wondy, the Heyday triplets and the Candy family and ranch hands fight off some hustlers in the present.
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* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: 'ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': "The Legend of Rainbow and Stardust!" starts with the framing device of sitting around a campfire with Hard Candy telling how Rainbow went from circus performer to local Texan legend, with Rainbow's final performance and escape with Stardust shown in flashback. The last half of the story involves Rainbow and Stardust helping Wondy, the Heyday triplets and the Candy family and ranch hands fight off some hustlers in the present.
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* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' has an large number of flashbacks. Protagonists, antagonists, and bystanders alike will go into flashback after flashback, explaining their tragic back-stories, lives, and motives. Entire episodes will consist two characters talking while they exchange flashbacks. An example: Hinata's confession to Naruto during the Pein arc took a couple pages in the manga, while in the anime it took an episode because roughly 3/4 of the episode was a montage of flashbacks going through her childhood and her interactions with Naruto. This used to be different with this series in its early days, when it didn't have much to recount, but the anime OvertookTheManga and went into a {{Filler}} marathon until the manga picked back up again. Then the producers of the anime developed a strategy to add {{Padding}} to almost all canon episodes so they would be as drawn out as possible, barring extended fight scenes, lest this happen again. Many times these flashbacks really accentuate a moment or decision by a character. Example: Sasuke's Tragic Backstory at the Valley of the End, to which we get new meanings of hundreds of chapters later. In the case of Hinata's flashbacks in the anime episode of the Pain arc, the flashbacks were not mere filler but an elaboration of Naruto and Hinata's characters, or an expansion on what is canon.
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* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' has an large number of flashbacks. Protagonists, antagonists, and bystanders alike will go into flashback after flashback, explaining their tragic back-stories, lives, and motives. Entire episodes will consist two characters talking while they exchange flashbacks. An example: Hinata's confession to Naruto during the Pein Pain arc took a couple pages in the manga, while in the anime it took an episode because roughly 3/4 of the episode was a montage of flashbacks going through her childhood and her interactions with Naruto. This used to be different with this series in its early days, when it didn't have much to recount, but the anime OvertookTheManga and went into a {{Filler}} marathon until the manga picked back up again. Then the producers of the anime developed a strategy to add {{Padding}} to almost all canon episodes so they would be as drawn out as possible, barring extended fight scenes, lest this happen again. Many times these flashbacks really accentuate a moment or decision by a character. Example: Sasuke's Tragic Backstory at the Valley of the End, to which we get new meanings of hundreds of chapters later. In the case of Hinata's flashbacks in the anime episode of the Pain arc, the flashbacks were not mere filler but an elaboration of Naruto and Hinata's characters, or an expansion on what is canon.
* ''ComicBook/TheSimpsonsFuturamaCrossoverCrisis'': In the first issue of the second miniseries, Farnsworth explains to his employees how the ''Simpsons'' characters ended up in New New York. He gives to his employees flashback pills that will allow them to see his story while he's telling. However, Bender has no tongue, so he hides his pill under Fry's tongue. Fry then ends up seeing double flashbacks as a result.
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** Parodied in "Doof Dynasty", an {{Elseworlds}} episode set in ancient China, where this discussion occurs about "Master Perry".
-->'''Phineas''': What's he doing?
-->'''Ferb''': [[NoFourthWall That's a ripple dissolve]]. He must be having a flashback.
-->'''Phineas''':...does he know we can't see it? Should we give him some privacy? I don't know the protocol for flash-backs.
-->'''Phineas''': What's he doing?
-->'''Ferb''': [[NoFourthWall That's a ripple dissolve]]. He must be having a flashback.
-->'''Phineas''':...does he know we can't see it? Should we give him some privacy? I don't know the protocol for flash-backs.
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** Parodied in "Doof Dynasty", an {{Elseworlds}} episode set in ancient China, where this discussion occurs about "Master Perry".
-->'''Phineas''':Perry":
-->'''Phineas:''' What's hedoing?
-->'''Ferb''':doing?\\
'''Ferb:''' [[NoFourthWall That's a ripple dissolve]]. He must be having aflashback.
-->'''Phineas''':...flashback.\\
'''Phineas:'''...does he know we can't see it? Should we give him some privacy? I don't know the protocol for flash-backs.
-->'''Phineas''':
-->'''Phineas:''' What's he
-->'''Ferb''':
'''Ferb:''' [[NoFourthWall That's a ripple dissolve]]. He must be having a
-->'''Phineas''':...
'''Phineas:'''...does he know we can't see it? Should we give him some privacy? I don't know the protocol for flash-backs.
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* The questionable reliability of flashbacks is PlayedWith in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Mobius Dick", when Farnsworth recalls the earliest days of Planet Express.
--> '''Amy:''' Zoidberg had hair?
--> '''Farnsworth:''' I never said he had hair! If you chose to imagine him that way, that's your business!
--> '''Amy:''' Zoidberg had hair?
--> '''Farnsworth:''' I never said he had hair! If you chose to imagine him that way, that's your business!
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* The questionable reliability of flashbacks is PlayedWith in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Mobius Dick", when Farnsworth recalls the earliest days of Planet Express.
--> '''Amy:'''Express:
-->'''Amy:''' Zoidberg hadhair?
-->hair?\\
'''Farnsworth:''' I never said he had hair! If you chose to imagine him that way, that's your business!
--> '''Amy:'''
-->'''Amy:''' Zoidberg had
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'''Farnsworth:''' I never said he had hair! If you chose to imagine him that way, that's your business!
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* ''Manga/AharenSanWaHakarenai'': The final chapters of the manga reveal that [[spoiler:the events presented thus far are a big flashback, which is why the manga's pages have black borders overall.]]
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Happens a lot in the manga. They often happen during a significant fight in which one character is going to lose or die or if the fight helps defines a character that's won. The anime, via AdaptationExpansion, can go to town with this making episodes out of what's sometimes nothing more than a few panels in the manga.
* Episodes of the ''Manga/CaseClosed'' anime adapted from the manga, especially multi-part episodes, frequently employ flashbacks and in-dialogue recaps to pad out the run time (as well as occasionally replaying the last several minutes of the previous episode as the beginning of the current one), since otherwise there wouldn't be enough material to fill the full episode length. It's not uncommon to have seen the same footage 3 or 4 times (counting the first time it was shown) by the end of a multi-part episode. (It's especially noticeable when viewing all parts of multi-part episodes in one sitting.)
* ''Anime/CelestialMethod'' consistently uses flashbacks to when the main cast were 8 years old to drive the targedy of the ongoing drama present throughout the series.
* ''Anime/ClusterEdge'' uses this ''constantly'', to the point it conquers the series.
* Happens multiple times in ''Anime/CodeGeass'' where characters' childhoods are shown to better explain their motivations and behavior. Usually it leads to a TearJerker.
* In ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'', after [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Impmon]] does his HeelFaceTurn, the series constantly flashes back to [[spoiler: Leomon's death, which Impmon caused as Beelzemon and comes to deeply regret]]. Impmon and Jeri have other flashbacks to show how they became what they are. Jeri's mother died when she was little, her father became distant and she could never really connect with her step-mom, and Impmon gained a hatred of humans because of his abuse at the hands of his young Tamers.
** Series [[Anime/DigimonAdventure one]] and [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 two]] also had flashbacks. Most of the Digidestined have flashbacks of family deaths, such as Izzy and Cody, who have flashbacks about their parents' deaths, Ken has his brother Sam's death, and Tai has the time that he almost was responsible for his sister Kari's demise. Owikowa also had flashbacks, to show how and Hiroki (Cody's dad) were friends, and how alone he felt after Hiroki died. TK often has flashbacks about Angemon's sacrifice to stop Devimon, and Ken has flashbacks of his time as the Digimon Emperor.
* ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' has quite a few, since we need to see how each character's DarkAndTroubledPast has caused them to be the wreck they are now.
* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' is not the typical shounen series where characters grow and get stronger as the story progresses. Instead they start strong and stay strong, and goofy, and vulgar, and undignified. The majority of the funny stuff happens in the present. It's in the flashbacks, however, that the serious pasts of the main characters come out (with some funny moments) to show what happened to bring these characters here to the present. Eventually, the drama of the past catches up to the drama of the present.
* ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' uses flashbacks to explain some parts of a few character traits, then [[spoiler:spends an arc to build up a new character and ready the story to be thrown into a much more serious arc]], before toning things back down.
* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': America admits to always getting these when he begins to clean his storage room, and never being able to finish or throw anything out. Might overlap with ItWasAGift since two of the three objects he gets flashbacks over (a house with a set of wooden soldiers and a 3-piece suit) were in fact presents from England. Might overlap with TroubledBackstoryFlashback several times- both the soldiers and the suit bring back bittersweet memories, which he lampshades by exclaiming [[TemptingFate there HAS to be something cool that doesn't bring bad memories with itself.]] Cue him finding a scratched musket from the Revolutionary War, bringing one of the biggest TearJerker moments in the entire series.
* ''[[Anime/TheIdolmaster THE iDOLM@STER]]'' - Chihaya gets a ton of flashbacks foreshadowing her past, before things hit the fan.
* The beginning of episode 9 of ''Manga/IsTheOrderARabbit'' shows Chino's grandfather [[spoiler:while he was still human]] sitting on a park bench with his pet rabbit Tippy. He then sees a young Cocoa who sits next to him while hugging Tippy, and her older sister Mocha can be seen as she leaves the bench a short while later.
* ''Anime/KiddyGrade'' starts doing frequent {{Flashback Cut}}s around episodes 9-12 when Eclair [[spoiler:struggles with her repressed memories and the numerous times she's come back from the dead]]. This is followed by episode 16, appropriately titled "Look/Back" which combines a RecapEpisode with expository flashbacks and episode 20 which is again largely based around a series of flashbacks.
* Used many times in ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'', may it be to reveal the {{Anti Villain}}s StartOfDarkness or to simply show what drives the characters. Played with in regards to Fate, who had a FlashBack of her days when her mother loved her to show why she's such a LoveMartyr, only for her to [[spoiler:eventually realize that [[GeneticMemory those memories]] [[ReplacementGoldfish were not hers]]]].
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' has an large number of flashbacks. Protagonists, antagonists, and bystanders alike will go into flashback after flashback, explaining their tragic back-stories, lives, and motives. Entire episodes will consist two characters talking while they exchange flashbacks. An example: Hinata's confession to Naruto during the Pein arc took a couple pages in the manga, while in the anime it took an episode because roughly 3/4 of the episode was a montage of flashbacks going through her childhood and her interactions with Naruto. This used to be different with this series in its early days, when it didn't have much to recount, but the anime OvertookTheManga and went into a {{Filler}} marathon until the manga picked back up again. Then the producers of the anime developed a strategy to add {{Padding}} to almost all canon episodes so they would be as drawn out as possible, barring extended fight scenes, lest this happen again. Many times these flashbacks really accentuate a moment or decision by a character. Example: Sasuke's Tragic Backstory at the Valley of the End, to which we get new meanings of hundreds of chapters later. In the case of Hinata's flashbacks in the anime episode of the Pain arc, the flashbacks were not mere filler but an elaboration of Naruto and Hinata's characters, or an expansion on what is canon.
* ''Manga/NinjaNonsense'' parodies this. When asked to explain how he got stuck on Miyabi's chest, Onsokumaru promptly goes into a flashback covering various events from the previous week, even though the only ''relevant'' event (Miyabi tripping and falling on top of him) occurred about five minutes earlier. The ninja are quick to [[LampshadeHanging point this out]].
* ''Manga/OnePiece'' uses these like there's no tomorrow. Mostly for the background stories of the main cast, but other characters get plenty of them, too.
** [[spoiler:Flashbacks are carefully crafted to be the only place where people die. [[WhamEpisode Just to then have Ace, and soon after Whitebeard, die in the present...]]]]
* The ''Anime/RaveMaster'' dub as a truly epic flashback. The first time they use it it's a little fitting; It shows when Elie first meets Sieg after developing amnesia and he attempts to kill her, leading to her present actions. The second time they play it is right after she meets Sieg again. Right before it starts he questions her with (voiced very well) "How did you survive?" Then it goes to the flashback, where he says the exact same thing... in the exact same tone, with the exact same expression (not that he has [[TheStoic that many expressions]])
* ''Manga/SoulEater'' - Used mostly in the conventional manner of revealing backstory, but Maka's one during the Clown chapters is particularly twisted. It ''looks'' like an ordinary flashback until everyone falls down dead and little!Maka wants to know why her daddy isn't getting up...
* ''Manga/TenjhoTenge'' has a flashback arc, which takes up a large chunk of the anime. While it is important for establishing the backstories of many of the show's characters, unfortunately the anime didn't get far enough to really do anything with those newly fleshed-out characters before it was cancelled.
* Used regularly in ''Literature/UnlimitedFafnir'' to reveal important events, such as Yuu first making a contract with Yggdrasil for PowerAtAPrice way to defeat a dragon attacking his hometown.
* A lot of these show up in ''Anime/YuGiOh'', even to the point where they actually had a Flashback ''within'' a Flashback.
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* ''Manga/AharenSanWaHakarenai'': The final chapters of the manga reveal that [[spoiler:the events presented thus far are a big flashback, which is why the manga's pages have black borders overall.]]
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Happens a lot in the manga. They often happen during a significant fight in which one character is going to lose or die or if the fight helps defines a character that's won. The anime, via AdaptationExpansion, can go to town with this making episodes out of what's sometimes nothing more than a few panels in the manga.
* Episodes of the ''Manga/CaseClosed'' anime adapted from the manga, especially multi-part episodes, frequently employ flashbacks and in-dialogue recaps to pad out the run time (as well as occasionally replaying the last several minutes of the previous episode as the beginning of the current one), since otherwise there wouldn't be enough material to fill the full episode length. It's not uncommon to have seen the same footage 3 or 4 times (counting the first time it was shown) by the end of a multi-part episode. (It's especially noticeable when viewing all parts of multi-part episodes in one sitting.)
* ''Anime/CelestialMethod'' consistently uses flashbacks to when the main cast were 8 years old to drive the targedy of the ongoing drama present throughout the series.
* ''Anime/ClusterEdge'' uses this ''constantly'', to the point it conquers the series.
* Happens multiple times in ''Anime/CodeGeass'' where characters' childhoods are shown to better explain their motivations and behavior. Usually it leads to a TearJerker.
* In ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'', after [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Impmon]] does his HeelFaceTurn, the series constantly flashes back to [[spoiler: Leomon's death, which Impmon caused as Beelzemon and comes to deeply regret]]. Impmon and Jeri have other flashbacks to show how they became what they are. Jeri's mother died when she was little, her father became distant and she could never really connect with her step-mom, and Impmon gained a hatred of humans because of his abuse at the hands of his young Tamers.
** Series [[Anime/DigimonAdventure one]] and [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 two]] also had flashbacks. Most of the Digidestined have flashbacks of family deaths, such as Izzy and Cody, who have flashbacks about their parents' deaths, Ken has his brother Sam's death, and Tai has the time that he almost was responsible for his sister Kari's demise. Owikowa also had flashbacks, to show how and Hiroki (Cody's dad) were friends, and how alone he felt after Hiroki died. TK often has flashbacks about Angemon's sacrifice to stop Devimon, and Ken has flashbacks of his time as the Digimon Emperor.
* ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' has quite a few, since we need to see how each character's DarkAndTroubledPast has caused them to be the wreck they are now.
* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' is not the typical shounen series where characters grow and get stronger as the story progresses. Instead they start strong and stay strong, and goofy, and vulgar, and undignified. The majority of the funny stuff happens in the present. It's in the flashbacks, however, that the serious pasts of the main characters come out (with some funny moments) to show what happened to bring these characters here to the present. Eventually, the drama of the past catches up to the drama of the present.
* ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' uses flashbacks to explain some parts of a few character traits, then [[spoiler:spends an arc to build up a new character and ready the story to be thrown into a much more serious arc]], before toning things back down.
* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': America admits to always getting these when he begins to clean his storage room, and never being able to finish or throw anything out. Might overlap with ItWasAGift since two of the three objects he gets flashbacks over (a house with a set of wooden soldiers and a 3-piece suit) were in fact presents from England. Might overlap with TroubledBackstoryFlashback several times- both the soldiers and the suit bring back bittersweet memories, which he lampshades by exclaiming [[TemptingFate there HAS to be something cool that doesn't bring bad memories with itself.]] Cue him finding a scratched musket from the Revolutionary War, bringing one of the biggest TearJerker moments in the entire series.
* ''[[Anime/TheIdolmaster THE iDOLM@STER]]'' - Chihaya gets a ton of flashbacks foreshadowing her past, before things hit the fan.
* The beginning of episode 9 of ''Manga/IsTheOrderARabbit'' shows Chino's grandfather [[spoiler:while he was still human]] sitting on a park bench with his pet rabbit Tippy. He then sees a young Cocoa who sits next to him while hugging Tippy, and her older sister Mocha can be seen as she leaves the bench a short while later.
* ''Anime/KiddyGrade'' starts doing frequent {{Flashback Cut}}s around episodes 9-12 when Eclair [[spoiler:struggles with her repressed memories and the numerous times she's come back from the dead]]. This is followed by episode 16, appropriately titled "Look/Back" which combines a RecapEpisode with expository flashbacks and episode 20 which is again largely based around a series of flashbacks.
* Used many times in ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'', may it be to reveal the {{Anti Villain}}s StartOfDarkness or to simply show what drives the characters. Played with in regards to Fate, who had a FlashBack of her days when her mother loved her to show why she's such a LoveMartyr, only for her to [[spoiler:eventually realize that [[GeneticMemory those memories]] [[ReplacementGoldfish were not hers]]]].
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' has an large number of flashbacks. Protagonists, antagonists, and bystanders alike will go into flashback after flashback, explaining their tragic back-stories, lives, and motives. Entire episodes will consist two characters talking while they exchange flashbacks. An example: Hinata's confession to Naruto during the Pein arc took a couple pages in the manga, while in the anime it took an episode because roughly 3/4 of the episode was a montage of flashbacks going through her childhood and her interactions with Naruto. This used to be different with this series in its early days, when it didn't have much to recount, but the anime OvertookTheManga and went into a {{Filler}} marathon until the manga picked back up again. Then the producers of the anime developed a strategy to add {{Padding}} to almost all canon episodes so they would be as drawn out as possible, barring extended fight scenes, lest this happen again. Many times these flashbacks really accentuate a moment or decision by a character. Example: Sasuke's Tragic Backstory at the Valley of the End, to which we get new meanings of hundreds of chapters later. In the case of Hinata's flashbacks in the anime episode of the Pain arc, the flashbacks were not mere filler but an elaboration of Naruto and Hinata's characters, or an expansion on what is canon.
* ''Manga/NinjaNonsense'' parodies this. When asked to explain how he got stuck on Miyabi's chest, Onsokumaru promptly goes into a flashback covering various events from the previous week, even though the only ''relevant'' event (Miyabi tripping and falling on top of him) occurred about five minutes earlier. The ninja are quick to [[LampshadeHanging point this out]].
* ''Manga/OnePiece'' uses these like there's no tomorrow. Mostly for the background stories of the main cast, but other characters get plenty of them, too.
** [[spoiler:Flashbacks are carefully crafted to be the only place where people die. [[WhamEpisode Just to then have Ace, and soon after Whitebeard, die in the present...]]]]
* The ''Anime/RaveMaster'' dub as a truly epic flashback. The first time they use it it's a little fitting; It shows when Elie first meets Sieg after developing amnesia and he attempts to kill her, leading to her present actions. The second time they play it is right after she meets Sieg again. Right before it starts he questions her with (voiced very well) "How did you survive?" Then it goes to the flashback, where he says the exact same thing... in the exact same tone, with the exact same expression (not that he has [[TheStoic that many expressions]])
* ''Manga/SoulEater'' - Used mostly in the conventional manner of revealing backstory, but Maka's one during the Clown chapters is particularly twisted. It ''looks'' like an ordinary flashback until everyone falls down dead and little!Maka wants to know why her daddy isn't getting up...
* ''Manga/TenjhoTenge'' has a flashback arc, which takes up a large chunk of the anime. While it is important for establishing the backstories of many of the show's characters, unfortunately the anime didn't get far enough to really do anything with those newly fleshed-out characters before it was cancelled.
* Used regularly in ''Literature/UnlimitedFafnir'' to reveal important events, such as Yuu first making a contract with Yggdrasil for PowerAtAPrice way to defeat a dragon attacking his hometown.
* A lot of these show up in ''Anime/YuGiOh'', even to the point where they actually had a Flashback ''within'' a Flashback.
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* A variation in ''Literature/{{Hurog}}'', where POV character Ward can't actually see Oreg's PTSD flashback, but can hear the sounds of [[ATasteOfTheLash Oreg being tortured]] and [[NightmareFuel see the injuries open back up on his body]]. The second book notes that this is a fairly regular occurrence.
