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** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E18TheLastFlight The Last Flight]]": During UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, a British Royal Flying Corps pilot passes through a strange looking cloud and ends up in 1959. He eventually figures out that he needs to pass through the cloud again to return to his own time and does so.
** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E54TheOdysseyOfFlight33 The Odyssey of Flight 33]]": The plane flies into an [[NegativeSpaceWedgie effect]] that puts them into the Jurassic period. They return to the effect and instead end up 30 years before their own time. The episode ends with them low on fuel and heading for the effect once more.

** Jokingly referred to on ''Series/TopGearUK'', after Richard Hammond's high speed crash: Jeremy Clarkson remarks that it would have set the world record for the fastest car-accident... [[CatchPhrase in the world]]. Only he has to do it again the other way.

* In an episode of ''Series/FraggleRock'', Gobo causes a cave-in by using a riddle-solving spell on something that isn't a riddle. He undoes the cave-in by saying the spell in reverse.

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* ''Series/RedDwarf'' "Demons and Angels". This is how Kryten reconstitutes the RD from its triplicator-created Light and Dark copies.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959''
** "The Odyssey of Flight 33". The plane flies into an [[NegativeSpaceWedgie effect]] that puts them into the Jurassic period. They return to the effect and instead end up 30 years before their own time. The episode ends with them low on fuel and heading for the effect once more.
** "The Last Flight". During UsefulNotes/WorldWarI a British Royal Flying Corps pilot passes through a strange looking cloud and ends up in 1959. He eventually figures out that he needs to pass through the cloud again to return to his own time and does so.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' parodied this trope in the episode "Roswell That Ends Well."

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* In the Creator/DisneyChannel movie "Film/{{Halloweentown}} 2: Calibar's Revenge", the villain put a spell on Halloweentown's denizens, making them gray and boring, and the only way to reverse it is to say the spell backwards. They can't find Aggie's spellbook, so they don't even know what the spell is, but Marnie accidentally figures it out when she was "trap a" in a sentence: the original spell was "apart".

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* In ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk,'' Banner's [[GirlOfTheWeek Girlfriend Of The Week,]] Kate Waynesboro, gets dumped into some wacky gizmo and comes out the other end as an [[TranshumanTreachery evil]], female version of MODOK, complete with [[{{Cephalothorax}} giant head and hoverchair.]] Naturally, sending her through the machine again backwards returns her to normal.

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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' #66, "Rain, Rain, Go Away," has a sea monster making everyone do a rain dance from a pop song that everyone (except Buttercup) likes that makes Townsville flooded. To make the flood recede, the girls play the recording of the song backwards and blare it from two large speakers.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' with brain-breakingly bad physics had them going so fast that relativity started working backward and they ended up in the future. Then they somehow got back by going just as fast in the other direction.

* [[ThatOneLevel Cold Hard Crash]] from ''Videogame/CrashBandicoot2CortexStrikesBack'' takes this concept UpToEleven to the point of almost cruelty. To get [[OneHundredPercentCompletion 100% completion]] of the game Crash must break every box in the current level he is in and collect a gem that only appears when he does so. To get all the boxes in this level you have to play through the first half without dying to activate and reach the death course, a difficult, checkpoint-free path covered in crusher traps and nitro mines, almost entirely on [[SlippySlideyIceWorld slippery ice]]. When you reach the end of the death course, you need to activate a switch and do the course BACKWARDS to get the new crate the switch spawns at the beginning of the level, at which point you take the platform back to the main level and complete it

* ''[[{{ComicBook/Lanfeust}} Trolls de Troy]]'': One story has a man able to teleport trolls away from their homes. To fix this, the trolls decide to have him do it "à l'envers" (Meaning both "backwards and upside-down" in French) by hoisting him up by his legs while he casts the spell. It works, to the man's shock.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone''

* This was Albert's logic in regards to the rite of Ashk-Ente, in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''. The rite would bring [[TheGrimReaper Death]] to you (And supposedly bound to a circle). Albert wanted to live forever, so in performing the rite he thought it'd keep Death away from him. Nope, instead it brought ''him'' to Death. And in Death's realm [[GoneHorriblyRight Albert will live forever]].

* ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' has experiment 624 "Angel". She can sing a song which turns anyone who hears it evil, except 625 and Stitch, because they're later experiments. Listening to the song backwards reverses the effect.

* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': It pops up in the episode "[[Recap/StargateAtlantisS05E04TheDaedalusVariations The Daedalus Variations]]", where in order to get back to their own reality, Sheppard and the team have to fly the alternate reality Daedalus back through all the other parallel realities encountered during the episode in reverse order.

* This was Albert's logic in regards to the rite of Ashkente, in Discworld. The rite would bring [[TheGrimReaper Death]] to you (And supposedly bound to a circle). Albert wanted to live forever, so in performing the rite he thought it'd keep Death away from him. Nope, instead it brought ''him'' to Death. And in Death's realm [[GoneHorriblyRight Albert will live forever]].

It's a subtrope of the ResetButton. Sometimes you can even deal with magical or even [[LaserGuidedAmnesia memory]] issues this same way-- by repeating the spell (or blow to the head) backwards. See also LevelInReverse.

** And thus will only really cure a mild thirst.

* ''Series/RedDwarf'' "Angels and Demons". This is how Kryten reconstitutes the RD from its triplicator-created Light and Dark copies.

* HoylesRulesOfDragonPoker has a particular fondness for this trope, with around 10 of the games 240 or so rules changes involving changing the order of something, be it the cards, the suits, the betting or the dealing.