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* In ''[[AceAttorney Ace Attorney Investigations]]'' the opening scene of the fifth case makes use of this trope

* In ''{{Monster}}'', we see repeatedly in Nina's memories an image of Franz Bonaparta reaching towards her saying menacingly, "Humans can become anything." We later see that it was Bonaparta reaching out out to Nina telling her that she and Johan must not become monsters.

See [=~Chekhov's Gun~=] and its related tropes for the seemingly-unimportant details that are shown to be important the second time around. Also see FridgeBrilliance, the times you see these important points upon reviewing prior scenes without the author's help.

* An even better example from the 1994 Clint Eastwood movie ''{{A Perfect World}}''. First scene has an idyllic image of Kevin Costner lying on his back in a field in a sunny day. The last scene is the same - but with the addition of one or two important details that the first scene left out...

* In the ''StarTrek'' ExpandedUniverse novel ''Q-Squared'', the scene with Q entering another plane of existence very forcefully happened twice: The second time after Q spent a literal eternity trying to get out of a Trelane-induced suspended animation (which included causing Gary Mitchell's megalomaniacal madness and powers in the pilot of StarTrekTheOriginalSeries.)

* ''Lord Loss'', the first book in Darren Shan's ''[[TheDemonata The Demonata]]'' series, opens with a poem about the eponymous demon. At first, the poem just seems to be simple character exposition... [[MostTriumphantExample until the penultimate chapter of the final book in the series, nine stories later]], which repeats the poem after some startling new developments. Appropriately enough, the chapter is titled [[OnceMoreWithClarity Once More With Feeling]]

* In one of the opening episodes of ''{{Lost}}'', John Locke is shown amidst the wreckage of the plane crash. He stands up slowly and begins to walk around with absolutely none of the hysterical reaction to being in a plane crash experienced by the rest of the cast. The scene is shown again later, after it was revealed that Locke was a paraplegic before the crash, and it is clear that Locke's reaction (or lack of reaction) to the plane crash was caused by his amazement at suddenly being able to walk.

* ''[[BabylonFive Babylon 5]]'' showed Londo's vision of him and G'Kar dying with their hands around each other's throats in the very first episode, but it's not until the third season that we know what's really going on, and not until nearly the end of the fifth season that we know how they got there.
** The TimeTravel arc on B5 also did this: in the first season's "Babylon Squared", we see a mysterious masked figure doing mysterious things; in the third season's "War Without End", we see the same events, but now we're seeing them from the point of view of the folks in masks.

* Steven Moffat really enjoys doing this with his episodes of ''DoctorWho''. The Girl in the Fireplace, and more notably Silence in the Library and The Big Bang all open with scenes from later in the show which don't make seem to make any sense yet. The pre-titles sequence to The Big Bang, in particular, is thoroughly baffling until you see how it all pans out.
** In the episode 'Flesh and Stone' we see a dying and terrified Amy being comforted by the Doctor- which seemed a bit odd, considering how erratic and busy he'd been just moments earlier. He says to Amy to remember what he told her when he was seven...which makes no sense. Through the [[TimeyWimeyBall wibbly-wobbly-ness]] of the Big Bang we discover that was a future Doctor, whose time-line was being erased, and he was trying to tell Amy not to forget him.

* In ''GunnerkriggCourt'', Annie and Kat's first meeting is shown from Annie's perspective in chapter 2 and it doesn't seem a very big deal at the time. Subsequently, the girls become close friends and the readers learn that neither girl had any friends at the school before, that [[GenerationXerox both girls' parents had been friends years prior]], and that Kat's mum--knowing that Annie was the daughter of her old friend--had encouraged Kat to befriend her. So the scene of their first meeting has a bit more weight when it's revisited from Kat's perspective in chapter 18.

** In the episode 'Flesh and Stone' we see a dying and terrified Amy being comforted by the Doctor- which seemed a bit odd, considering how erratic and busy he'd been just moments earlier. He says to Amy to remember what he told her when he was seven...which makes no sense. Through the [[TimeWimeyBall wibbly-wobbly-ness]] of the Big Bang we discover that was a future Doctor, whose time-line was being erased, and he was trying to tell Amy not to forget him.

In a work, a specific scene is shown twice. The first time the audience experiences it, the scene seems to mean one thing. When the scene occurs again, it is shown to have a different meaning entirely. See [=~Chekhov's Gun~=] and its related tropes for the seemingly-unimportant details that are shown to be important the second time around. Also see FridgeBrilliance, the times you see these important points upon reviewing prior scenes without the author's help.

* Used in ''{{Memento}}''.

* In ''TheSixthSense'', there's a montage of flashbacks after Bruce Willis' character learns that he's been DeadAllAlong that puts the entire movie into a new perspective.

* in ''[[AceAttorney Ace Attorney Investigations]]'' the opening scene of the fifth case makes use of this trope

* The movie ''{{Clue}}'' devotes the entire last half of the movie to a protracted rehashing of the first half. It's [[strike:still]] even more awesome.
** Watch it on VHS or on the DVD with the "all endings" option, and they do the rehash three times, each time claiming that something different was "really" going on. It's still awesome.

* The movie ''{{Clue}}'' devotes the entire last half of the movie to a protracted rehashing of the first half. It's still awesome.

** "Expose" opens with a cryptic scene of Nikki charging out of the jungle, saying something incomprehensible and collapsing. The characters think she said "Paulo lied" and try to figure out why she and Paulo killed each other. Then we see the event from her perspective, and learn that she said paralyzed, as spider bites temporarily paralyzed them both...[[BuriedAlive but the survivors can't figure this out in time]].

* Done on {{Dollhouse}} well, plenty of times.

* Steven Moffat really enjoys doing this with his episodes of DoctorWho. The Girl in the Fireplace, and more notably Silence in the Library and The Big Bang all open with scenes from later in the show which don't make seem to make any sense yet. The pre-titles sequence to The Big Bang, in particular, is thoroughly baffling until you see how it all pans out.

* In {{Braid}}, this occurs in the last level. [[spoiler: The first time through, the princess appears to be running from a knight, with you helping her to escape. Then it goes into reverse and you realize that all along, she's been running from YOU.]]
* In CrossChannel, during Kiri's week, one of the questions he asks her after [[spoiler:Shinkawa's suicide]] is whether he was happy or not. She says no, and he drops the issue. Later, the same scene is repeated and he reveals that [[spoiler:he had been willing to forgive Shinkawa if he wasn't happy. However, whenever he had seen Shinkawa they had gotten along, so he HAD seemed so. Basically, he was hoping for him to be miserable and when he wasn't, he was [[strike:happy about]] indifferent to Shinkawa's death.]]
* in [[AceAttorney Ace Attorney Investigations]] the opening scene of the fifth case makes use of this trope

* ''The Three Apples'', one of the stories from ''1001 Arabian Nights'', is very possibly the ur-Example. Even if its not, it makes this trope OlderThanDirt.