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* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': During Episode 3, Homura arrives to help Mami defeat a Witch, resulting in Mami -- who had previously told her they'd fight if they ever met again -- tying Homura up with her ribbons. [[NotSoStoic Homura's reaction is the first time she ever shows emotion in the series]]. In Episode 10 we learn that Homura was tied up once before, [[spoiler:in an AlternateTimeline by Mami, who was about to pull off a [[MurderSuicide triple murder suicide]] after learning the AwfulTruth]].

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* ''Series/CobraKai'': A misunderstanding between Daniel and Johnny takes place when Daniel is looking for his daughter and arrives at Johnny's house. The two begin to fight each other as the scene repeatedly cuts back to their original final match in ''Film/TheKarateKid'', highlighting how their rivalry is still strong after all these years and even their more recent positive interactions.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'': In "[[Recap/NinjagoS9E92SavingFaith Saving Faith]]," [[spoiler:Harumi finds her way out of a building in danger of being destroyed by Garmadon's stone giant when she hears a child in the building crying for his parents. Harumi runs inside to see a family about to be separated, and she flashes back to the moment her parents were also killed by a collapsing building after being separated from her. Realizing the harm she's caused, Harumi goes to the family to get them all out of the building together before it collapses.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'': In "Saving Faith," [[spoiler:Harumi finds her way out of a building in danger of being destroyed by Garmadon's stone giant when she hears a child in the building crying for his parents. Harumi runs inside to see a family about to be separated, and she flashes back to the moment her parents were also killed by a collapsing building after being separated from her. Realizing the harm she's caused, Harumi goes to the family to get them all out of the building together before it collapses.]]

An event taking place in the present triggers a {{Flashback}} of a very similar event that happened in the past. Resembles an IronicEcho or MeaningfulEcho except that the viewer often sees the current event first and the meaningful or ironic past event is only shown through the flashback. A series of these becomes a version of FlashbackBPlot.

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* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' had Rakan going into a (one panel) flashback to show how closely [[GenerationXerox Negi's group of friends paralleled his father's group]].

* ''Manga/SangatsuNoLion'' has a Type 1. While Rei is treating Momo's arm for some bruises she received from falling down, he recalls the sight of the injuries and internal bleeding of the arm of his deceased sister's corpse and begins crying in response.

* When [[spoiler: Five successfully hacks into Nine's computer]] in ''Anime/TerrorInResonance'', Nine has a somewhat traumatic flashback of Five playing hide-and-seek with him in the institution. For a friendly game of hide-and-seek, Nine seems to be running away rather desperately, as if his life were in danger.
* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': During Episode 3, Homura arrives to help Mami defeat a Witch, resulting in Mami -- who had previously told her they'd fight if they ever met again -- tying Homura up with her ribbons. [[NotSoStoic Homura's reaction is the first time she ever shows emotion in the series]]. In Episode 10 we learn that Homura was tied up once before, [[spoiler:in an AlternateTimeline by Mami, who was about to pull off a [[MurderSuicide triple murder suicide]] after learning the AwfulTruth]].

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* In ''FanFic/{{Mutant}}'', this is combined with HappyFlashback to wrench all the pain she feels out for the reader.

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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': Dealing with Flack's injuries from the explosion in 'Charge of This Post' take Mac back to the 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut:

* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' flash-cuts back to the moment Harry found Dexter more than once - most notably, at the end of season four.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' likes playing with this one. In ''PastTense'', there was even a fight scene that flashback echoed to a fight scene that played out in the exact same way (the [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown winner]] was Brock in both fights; the other four characters involved were different).

An event taking place in the present triggers a {{Flashback}} of a very similar event that happened in the past. Resembles an IronicEcho or MeaningfulEcho except that the viewer often sees the current event first and the meaningful or ironic past event is only shown through the flashback. A series of these becomes a version of TwoLinesDifferentTimes.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' likes playing with this one. In ''PastTense'', there was even a fight scene that flashback echoed to a fight scene that played out in the exact same way (the [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown winner]] was Brock in both fights; the other four characters involved were different).
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An event taking place in the present triggers a {{Flashback}} of a very similar event that happened in the past. Resembles an IronicEcho or MeaningfulEcho except that the viewer often sees the current event first and the meaningful or ironic past event is only shown through the flashback.

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* ''Literature/SecretsNotMeantToBeKept: "I'll let you feed the rabbits ... if ..." Throughout the novel, seventeen-year-old Adri repeatedly hears this phrase in her head. [[spoiler:It turns out that she is remembering a time when, as a toddler, she was offered the opportunity to feed rabbits as an incentive to cooperate with the people who were molesting her.]]

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* During the third episode of WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} Season 4, Yang accidentally drops a glass and ends up flashbacking to [[spoiler:the horrible battle with Adam Taurus when she lost her arm]], which leaves her hyperventilating and visibly struggling to calm herself down.

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* In Webcomic/GiftsOfWanderingIce the memories in Elie's head can be triggered by the sight of ice gifts from the old world, and sometimes by discussions of ancient events. The sight of [[spoiler: a child's body retrieved from an escape pod in the ice]] pulls her into a vivid flashback [[spoiler: really Ash's memory]] of a tsunami that destroyed much of the old world.
* Kid Katydid from Webcomic/TheBugPond. While she was on a mission to save a silk worm from a blue jay, she has a flashback of her first rescue in which she meets her to-be sidekick, Totter Tate.

* A staple of Webcomic/LastRes0rt:

* In ''Webcomic/{{Nefarious}}'' [[FaceHeelTurn Princess Foxglove]] flashes back to when she was a good guy and asked Princess Mayapple for help only to be put on hold, cut to the present where [[http://nefariouslair.com/comic/prism-p-7/ Mayapple is calling for a ceasefire only for Foxglove to put her on hold.]]

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* '''Type 1.''' If a character sees a large fire and starts having a FreakOut because it triggers a traumatic flashback of when they were a kid and almost got trapped and killed in a fire. Flashbacks of forgotten or repressed traumas may be incomplete, mysterious and foreboding.
* '''Type 2.''' As above, but with nostalgic or otherwise meaningful events.
* '''Type 3.''' A person reminds someone of a different person they used to know, and they flashback to memories of that person, sometimes represented by visually superimposing the old person's image over the new person's.
* '''Type 4.''' A flashback to ThatOneCase or an event that was [[MyGreatestFailure someone's Greatest Failure]] brought on by a similar event, may lead to MyGreatestSecondChance.
* '''Type 5.''' Any flashback to an event because HistoryRepeats.

And so on.

* In [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/Nefarious Nefarious]] [[FaceHeelTurn Princess Foxglove]] flashes back to when she was a good guy and asked Princess Mayapple for help only to be put on hold, cut to the present where [[http://nefariouslair.com/comic/prism-p-7/ Mayapple is calling for a ceasefire only for Foxglove to put her on hold.]]

* In ''Videogame/PersonaQ2NewCinemaLabyrinth'', Hikari had such a thing [[spoiler:when her father asked her "Why you are like that," which caused her to hear and see visions of the people who abused her in the past asking her nearly identical questions, turning her into the EmptyShell we see at the start of the game. In reality, her father was just expressing genuine concern over her deteriorating sanity. The problem? Just as mentioned, that ''exact'' phrase was her TraumaButton phrase since each of her tormentors asked that when they heaped in abuse, so she actually thought that her father was joining in too. And if this isn't depressing enough, remember that she is also a DaddysGirl who uses him as her LivingEmotionalCrutch. NiceJobBreakingItHero]]

* In ''Videogame/PersonaQ2NewCinemaLabyrinth'', Hikari had such a thing [[spoiler:when her father asked her "Why you are like that," which caused her to hear and see visions of the people who abused her in the past asking her nearly identical questions, turning her into the EmptyShell we see at the start of the game. In reality, her father was just expressing genuine concern over her deteriorating sanity. The problem? Just as mentioned, that ''exact'' phrase was her TraumaButton phrase since each of her tormentors asked that when they heaped in abuse, so she actually thought that her father was joining in too. And if this isn't depressing enough, remember that she is also a DaddysGirl who uses him as her EmotionalCrutch. NiceJobBreakingItHero]]

* In ''Videogame/PersonaQ2NewCinemaLabyrinth'', Hikari had such a thing [[spoiler:when her father asked her "Why you are like that," which caused her to hear and see visions of the people who abused her in the past asking her nearly identical questions, turning her into the EmptyShell we see at the start of the game. In reality, her father was just expressing genuine concern over her deteriorating sanity. The problem? Just as mentioned, that ''exact'' phrase was her TraumaButton phrase since each of her tormentors asked that when they heaped in abuse, so she actually thought that her father was joining in too. And if this isn't heartbreaking enough, she is also a DaddysGirl who uses him as her EmotionalCrutch. NiceJobBreakingItHero]]

* In ''Videogame/PersonaQ2NewCinemaLabyrinth'', Hikari had such a thing [[spoiler:when her father asked her "Why you are like that," which caused her to hear and see visions of the people who abused her in the past asking her nearly identical questions, turning her into the EmptyShell we see at the start of the game. In reality, her father was just expressing genuine concern over her deteriorating sanity. The problem? Just as mentioned, that ''exact'' phrase was her TraumaButton phrase since each of her tormentors asked that when they heaped in abuse, so she actually thought that her beloved father was joining in too. NiceJobBreakingItHero]]

* In ''Videogame/PersonaQ2NewCinemaLabyrinth'', Hikari had such a thing [[spoiler:when her father asked her "Why you are like that," which caused her to hear and see visions of the people who abused her in the past asking her nearly identical questions, turning her into the EmptyShell we see at the start of the game. In reality, her father was just expressing genuine concern over her deteriorating sanity. The problem? Just as mentioned, that ''exact'' phrase was her TraumaButton phrase since her tormentors asked that when they heaped in abuse, so she actually thought that her beloved father was joining in too. NiceJobBreakingItHero]]

* In ''Videogame/PersonaQ2NewCinemaLabyrinth'', Hikari had such a thing [[spoiler:when her father asked her "Why you are like that," which caused her to hear and see visions of the people who abused her in the past asking her nearly identical questions, turning her into the EmptyShell we see at the start of the game. In reality, her father was just expressing genuine concern over her deteriorating sanity. The problem? Just as mentioned, that ''exact'' phrase was her TriggerPhrase since her tormentors asked that when they heaped in abuse, so she actually thought that her beloved father was joining in too. NiceJobBreakingItHero]]

* In Webcomic/Nefarious Princess Foxglove flashes back to when she was a good guy and asked Princess Mayapple for help only to be put on hold, cut to the present where [[http://nefariouslair.com/comic/prism-p-7/ Mayapple is calling for a ceasefire only for Foxglove to put her on hold.]]

* In the ''Franchise/{{Batman}} Confidential'' storyline "The First League", various events trigger Bruce Wayne having flashbacks to a meeting with a Chinese superhero group when he was travelling the world before taking the Batman identity. His first encounter with the JusticeLeagueOfAmerica leads to a LetsYouAndHimFight situation that exactly parallels a training exercise with the Chinese team.