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A story told in reverse order, from end to beginning, revealing effects first, and working towards a climax which reveals cause and motive. Difficult to do, but very effective when done well. An interesting thing to ask yourself when you see this is whether or not the story would have been interesting forwards. May be used as a framing device to portray a Non-Linear Character or one suffering from Merlin Sickness. This allows the audience to connect cause and effect without knowing any more about prior events than the character. Also see How We Got Here, where the last scene comes first and everything else is in order; Anachronic Order, where scenes are presented out of any chronological order at all, aka Non Linear Storytelling. This is similarly implemented with In Medias Res, where the middle of story precedes the start. Compare Unstuck in Time. Examples |
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The musical The Last Five Years chronicles the doomed courtship/marriage of Jamie and Cathy, employing this trope selectively: her songs and side of the story go backward in time, while his go forward. They only sing two duets in the entire show. The first is at their wedding when their timelines meet, and at the end, where Cathy is saying goodbye at the end of their first date while Jamie says goodbye for good. | |
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Issue #71 of Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) did the entire issue like this, with the letters page coming first, then the backup story, and then the main story. Incidentally, this was the issue where they provided an explanation for Sonic's makeover for Sonic Adventure. | |
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Retro/Grade is a rhythm game framed as a 2d shmup played backwards: the player plays through the levels in reverse, dodges backwards enemy fire and "unfires" his shots, all which are in beat with the music. | |
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At one point, in Tom Ray's Tom and Jerry cartoon "Shutter Bugged Cat" (from Chuck Jones' SIB-Tower 12 studio), Tom plays footage from "Heavenly Puss" backwards. Not a bad idea for a Clip Show. | |
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The CSI: NY episode "Nothing for Something" opens with footage of the victim-to-be getting together with a guy from a bar, with the footage run in reverse. It actually doesn't look that odd until the spooning couple start putting their clothes on in bed. | |
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The Investigation Discovery series Redrum (referring to The Shining and possibly to The X-Files episode "Redrum") starts out with the murder in question. | |
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Kevin & Kell once did a Memento parody. Starts (or ends) here. | |
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Check, Please!: 3.26 — "Cup V". The chapter starts with the events of the following noon with Eric's mom calling his phone and follows backwards (following morning, 11PM of the day, 10:26PM) until 10:25PM, the moment in which Bitty and Jack kissed on the ice in national television. | |
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"Little Motel" by Modest Mouse. Good god... It starts off as if a mother is tucking her child into bed, but as the reverse story reveals everything, it is revealed that the child is dead. | |
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Although Battlefield 3's single-player campaign is told in the form of flashbacks during the interrogation (just like Call of Duty: Black Ops) of Staff Sergeant Blackburn, the interrogation itself is set before the final level, "The Great Destroyer." Likewise, Dima's playable levels are in reverse chronological order; the penultimate level "Kaffarov" is played mostly as Dima (the last portion has the player as Blackburn being confronted by Dima) and is set after, while the first level where you play as Dima is set between "Kaffarov" and the interrogation / "The Great Destroyer." Coincidentally, just like Ace Combat: Assault Horizon, the first level "Semper Fidelis" is a partial (dream sequence) version of the final level "The Great Destroyer". | |
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Whose Line Is It Anyway? has a game called "Backwards Scene," where the actors would improvise a scene backwards. | |
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And Ricky Martin's "Private Emotion", displaying him and his love interest first coated in ice, then the ice melting back to water, which returns to the sprinkler heads, so that the fire ignited by their passion reappears before un-igniting. It's quite something. | |
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In the 1931 Kaufman & Hart play Merrily We Roll Along, each scene takes place in an earlier year than the previous one, opening in 1934 and ending in 1916. Merrily We Roll Along was loosely adapted into a musical by Stephen Sondheim and and George Furth in 1981, with a Setting Update; voices from the Greek Chorus count the years of The '70s and The '60s going backwards during the scene changes. | |
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The 2016 Japanese movie My Tomorrow Your Yesterday has half its story told this way. It Makes Sense in Context. | |
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The Outer Limits (1995): The episode "Zig Zag" starts In Medias Res in the middle of an armed standoff between a group of cyber-terrorists threatening to blow up a Mega-Corp and the police, then goes backwards chronologically to explain how they got in this situation before jumping back to the present for the climax. | |
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The Secret Life of Us has this in "The End is the Beginning", which jumps back one day at a time. | |
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How you usually experience the chapters in Return Of The Obra Dinn. You have to find out what happened aboard the titular ship, and the primary way to do that is to see the moment a crew member died. In this memory there often will be another corpse who died earlier, and you can see the moment that person died, tracing back the chain of deaths from the last to the first. Chapters V and IV in particular are experienced entirely in reverse, with the (chronologically) first death of V connecting to the last death of IV in one long session of memory probing. | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal does this frequently. | |
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The whole plot of Rellik occurs like this, making it the only show that takes place over its entire runtime backwards. | |
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Zannablù and the Smartness Serum starts right at the climax, with the protagonist barricated inside his house while people from different factions are trying to get in and get hold of said serum. The story is unveiled in a series of flashbacks, each probing a little further in the past, as Zannablù tells How We Got Here to his friend Crazy Pig. Parodied when Zannablù overdoes it and starts recounting his birth. | |
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The film Memento, which spawned a number of parodies/homages/ripoffs. The Back to Front scenes (in color) alternate with shorter front-to-back scenes (in black and white), until they meet mid-timeline at the climax. It's lampshaded as well: the protagonist Leonard at one point has a flashback to his wife reading a book which she had read so many times the cover had fallen off. He mocks her for this, observing that "I always thought the pleasure in a book was wanting to know what happened next." This, in a movie for half of which the viewer knows what is coming next but not what preceded it. The DVD contains an Easter Egg which lets you watch the movie in chronological order. |
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There was a Krazy Kat strip that started with Ignatz in jail, proceeded through Officer Pupp dragging him there, arresting him, Pupp hearing the brick impact, Ignatz throwing the brick at Krazy, and ending with a brick. | |
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An in-universe example from Making Money; Moist admits to the Patrician that putting mongooses in the post boxes was a bit much. Why were there mongooses in the post boxes? Well, to control the snakes. Why were the snakes there? Because of the toads. Why were the toads there? To keep the snails under control. Why were the snails there? Well, the Post Office had introduced cabbage-flavoured stamps... | |
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The titular ruminant of the Popeye cartoon "The Hungry Goat" tells the projectionist to run the film back to the title card so he can examine it. | |
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The video for "Kolshik" by Leningrad runs backwards, starting with spectators running from a burning circus full of dead performers and ending with the innocuous event that started the whole chain of disasters; a little girl in the audience blowing bubbles. | |
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Rebecca Stead's When You Reach Me has Miranda telling the story starting in early April 1979 of what happened during the events of October 1978 through February or March 1979, the climactic event that the story led up to. The past events were told in past tense while the present events, which last through April, are told in the present tense. | |
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Lampshaded in an episode of Home Movies, when the kids make a movie in reverse because Brendon insists it's the hip thing to do. | |
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Despite being called the "Grand Theft Auto III Era", the actual sequence of the GTA games in the sixth generation is (release year in parentheses): Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (2006) > Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002) > Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004) > Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (2005) > Grand Theft Auto Advance (2004) > Grand Theft Auto III (2001). | |
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A variation on the theme was Red Dwarf's "Backwards", in which the characters encounter a world where time moves backwards. A mysterious ache in Lister's ribcage and back, which appears when he first lands on the planet, is explained when a backwards Bar Brawl — or more accurately a barroom tidy — breaks out. Cat hides in the bushes near the end, for the sort of purpose cats do that for. Quite what happens isn't shown but it clearly isn't something he enjoys very much. | |
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Midnighter #7 tells the story backwards. Apparently it makes sense and is still good whether you read it front-to-back or back-to-front. | |
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Tōka Gettan keeps this up over the course of a full 26-episode anime series, airing the episodes in reverse order. | |
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Biter Comics: Here's a nice little backwards story about a man getting a corpse hurled at him. | |
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The X-Files: The central character of the episode "Redrum" is aware of this. He wakes up in prison, not understanding how he got there. He goes to sleep that night, and wakes up the next morning to discover that he is going to trial, for the crime he was incarcerated for "yesterday". | |
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Unwinder's Tall Comics: "The Accident". | |
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In The Venture Bros. episode "Blood of the Father, Heart of Steel", all of the Brock scenes are shown front to back, but are intercut with the scenes at the Venture compound that run back to front. The point in time is monitored unusually; rather than following time, it follows the resale value of an original copy of Marvel Comics # 1, which gets progressively more abused as the Venture household doesn't realize its value. | |
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The Harry Potter fanfic Snapshots in Serendipity. Part 1, "Recto", has a series of scenes from Hermione's perspective showing how she and Luna went from strangers to friends; Part 2, "Verso", retells all the same scenes in reverse order from Luna's perspective. Which makes a kind of sense, given she's a character known to read things upside-down. | |
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The entire The Tale of ALLTYNEX trilogy is told in reverse. | |
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The Smallville episode "Abyss" has Chloe losing all of her memories except Davis Bloome due to a computer virus in her mind, where they flashed back all here memories in reverse order. | |
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La Maison en Petits Cubes: Sort of. The cartoon as a whole is not told this way. But as the old man dons scuba gear and descends into older and older levels of his home, the flashbacks that tell his life are staged in reverse order, starting with the old man feeding his dying wife, and ending with a flashback where they meet as children. | |
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The backwards episode of Seinfeld entitled "The Betrayal". The episode's title is a Shout-Out to the play Betrayal, as is the fact that one of the characters mentioned in the episode is named Pinter. This even extended to the closing logos (or opening logos in this case). | |
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The Phineas and Ferb episode "Remains of the Platypus" opens at a wild party being held by Dr. Doofenshmirtz, where various weird things are going on and Doof has somehow brainwashed Perry into becoming his servant. The episode works backwards scene by scene to explain How We Got Here, and even includes a few nods to Memento. | |
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Gunnerkrigg Court does this in Chapter 40, the Stone, a telling of Jones' backstory. | |
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There was a Simpsons comics story that did just this, opening with the family driving over a bridge, flashing back through the kids' exploration of the Kwik-E-Mart to investigate an urban legend, and closing with a flashback to decades earlier, which confirms the myth was true. The bottom right corner of the last panel of the last page read, "The Beginning". | |
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The Inside No. 9 episode "Once Removed" is narrated in reverse chronology, in instalments of ten minutes from end to beginning. | |
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NEO: The World Ends with You: Week 3, Day 3 starts at the end, with a Brainwashed and Crazy Fret standing over Kanon's body and wiping out the rest of the Twisters. Rindo, suffering from amnesia, has to jump back in time through the day to figure out what happened. | |
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In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind the story is told backwards through the Lacuna memory erasing machine, since it erases the newer memories first and the old ones last. | |
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This happens twice in-universe in The Wheel of Time. Both times, it's because the character is being tested by the strange ter'angreal in Rhuidean. The first time, it's Rand in Book 4, who sees the Aiel people's past. The first vision he sees is just a few hundred years before the present day; the last vision is the start of the War of Power in the Age of Legends. The second time, it's Aviendha in Book 13, who sees the future of the Aiel. The first vision she sees is scavengers hundreds of years in the future; the last vision is her daughter. Both times, this leads to shocking revelations for both the character and the reader. | |
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In the Sliders episode "As Time Goes By", one of the worlds has time going (kind of) backwards for the sliders. Quinn abuses this to prevent a murder, which causes a hole to appear in the sky. | |
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An episode of Malcolm in the Middle showed an escalating prank war between Reese and Malcolm in reverse, each time showing the provocation for the last scene, and ending with the predictably inoffensive spark that ignited the whole thing. | |
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A video artist took The Andromeda Strain and cut it so every shot appears in reverse order. The resulting piece was entitled Strain Andromeda The. | |
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The one act play Extra Pulp plays with this. It starts at the end of the story, with the next scenes progressing backwards in time until the last scene picks up where the first one left off. | |
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In OFF, the Room tells a story in reverse order, from chapter 5 to chapter 0. | |
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Nightwish's Dark Passion Play from the album with the same name begins with a boy whispering "The End" and ends with the boy whispering "The Beginning". | |
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The Serenity comic "A Shepherd's Tale" uses the back to front device like peeling an onion, moving progressively back through Book's life to reveal his long-awaited origins. | |
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The campaigns of Left 4 Dead 2 were first shown during pre-release previews in the reverse order in which they take place chronologically, with the exception of "Hard Rain". "The Parish" was the first campaign to showcase the game, demonstrating that it would primarily take place in the southern states of the USA (specifically New Orleans), and is where the game ends chronologically. "Swamp Fever" and "Dark Carnival" would be revealed next, both of them taking place before "The Parish", and "Dead Center" and "Hard Rain" would be shown just before the game's release (Dead Center is the first campaign while Hard Rain takes place between Swamp Fever and The Parish). The post-release campaign "The Passing" takes place between Dead Center and Dark Carnival. | |
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The video for Alt-J's "Breezeblocks" depicts a violent domestic confrontation with the action occurring backwards. At the end the physical destruction to objects like bottles and furniture has been undone, but the emotional damage is clearly not. | |
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In Hitherby Dragons, the legend Hard And Cold. Margaret wakes up in a prison yard after being stabbed with a shiv, gets put in prison awaiting trial for three years, then gets told that she's going to kill a man. | |
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Ju-Rei, a no-budget Ju-on ripoff, is split into eleven "chapters" shown in reverse order. | |
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The first three chapters of The Outbound Ghost are presented chronologically, but Chapter 4 focuses on the amnesiac Adrian, who's forced to relive his Core Memories starting from the most recent and ending with what he was doing before the game's opening scene. During the process, he even compares it to watching a movie with all of the scenes in reverse order. | |
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In Guy Haley's Warhammer 40,000 novel Baneblade, roughly half the chapters tell the current war story chronologically while the other half are flashbacks from the protagonist's past, going each further back in time. | |
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In Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!, the sidestory, "The Times They Are A-Changin'" begins with Peacemaker assassinating All Might to install Melissa as the Symbol of Peace and ends with Melissa being caught in the accident that turned her into Atom Shield. | |
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Peterpan's "Ada Apa Denganmu" is about wondering what makes the singer's lover angry, so its music video (intro and outro aside) goes backwards from Ariel trying to calm down his girlfriend to the arguing that started the whole thing. | |
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The French film Irréversible. Hard to notice, though, when you're choking on your own vomit (partially thanks to the Infrasound on the first half of the movie)... | |
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Just about everything in Martin Amis' Holocaust novel Time's Arrow happens in reverse. | |
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Doctor Who: River Song's arc up until "Let's Kill Hitler" was this, since due to time travel her meetings with the Doctor aren't in the right order, and of the three times we've seen her they've been steadily earlier in her own timeline. Since then, it's become Anachronic Order. | |
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Sealab 2021, the "Shrabster" episode. It also parodied the Superfriends narrator, who would describe the temporal relationships of the scenes with glib prepositions. "Meanwhile!" | |
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CSI: An episode started at the end of the shift and kept showing one case being worked, then jumping backward to the case just prior to it, showing how incidental characters in the later case were affected by the prior one, and at the end tying all the cases together in various ways. | |
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The twelve issue miniseries, Marvel: The Lost Generation, gave snippets of the history of the First Line (a team of superheroes retconned into the Marvel Universe), with each issue taking place earlier in time. The first issue showed the final fate of the team, while the last issued showed how the it formed. The series is unique, however, in that it was written to be read either way; by proper numerical order (starting with issue #1 and ending with #12) or published order (#12 to #1). You end up getting the whole story no matter what "direction" you chose to take it in, but the concept is fairly novel. | |
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One of Louis Sachar's Wayside School books has a chapter whose sentences are in reverse order. To bring it full circle, when read back-to-front (the only way it makes sense) the story ends with the main character being told to read the story backwards. | |
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In one Pearls Before Swine strip, Rat complains about that day's strip being printed in reverse order. The punchline is in the first panel, the setup in the last. | |
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Braid begins with "World 2". World 1 is actually the final world, and only accessible after you complete the other worlds. In World 1 the flow of time apart from the main character is inverted. The final level is actually the beginning of the game chronologically, and its revelation allows one to make sense of the rest of the story, not to mention that the second half tells the story of the first half backwards, and shows the true intent of the main character and the princess: She was actually running away from Tim. | |
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ER: A backwards-running episode "began" with a defenestration from a hospital window. Subsequent scenes showing earlier and earlier events revealed the reason for the suicidal character's desperation. An episode began with two staff members being rushed to the hospital following a car accident. As it turns out, this is the culmination of an incredibly bad day for one of them. The scenes showing earlier events explain how things got to this point. |
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The episode of China Beach with Ricky Lake's character getting pregnant and having an abortion. | |
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thirtysomething used the device to good effect to dramatize a character's pregnancy. | |
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Casey and Andy does a variant here. | |
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Robbie Williams' Greatest Hits Album In And Out Of Consciousness starts off with two original singles, then the singles from his (at the time) most recent album Reality Killed The Video Star, then works it way backwards through his discography until it finishes with "Everything Changes", a Take That! single from before Robbie launched his solo career. | |
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Just like the movie it riffs on, the Honest Trailer for Memento is told in reverse chronological order (with the exception of the comment reading, which is done at the end like always). (But you can also watch the chronological version) | |
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Marilyn Singer's Mirror, Mirror and Follow, Follow books are collections of "reverso" poems based on fairytales that read one way with its lines in a normal order, then its lines' orders are reversed with some punctuation changed in a way that completely changes the meaning of the poem. For example, the poem based on "The Tortoise and the Hare'' first reads as the prideful thoughts of the hare denigrating the tortoise: But then we get the "reverso" version of this poem, which instead reads as the tortoise's thoughts while beating the prideful hare: |
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In To the Moon, Eva and Neil (and consequently the player) see Johnny's life in reverse. | |
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In the Family Guy episode "Yug Ylimaf" Brian messing with Stewie's time machine's odometer causes the entire world to run backwards, and only they know it's happening. Brian has to figure out how to stop it once Stewie gets unborn (aka shoved up his mother's uterus). | |
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The first Durarara!! OVA is told this way opening with a mysterious UFO sighting, then flashing back an hour or so at a time to eventually reveal that the "UFO" was just a bunch of punks covered in glow-in-the-dark paint who got punched really hard. | |
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The Star Trek: Voyager episode "Before and After" has Kes living her life backwards. It even foreshadows episodes in the next season (specifically "Year of Hell"), though events proceeded differently since Kes had left the ship by then. | |
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The main story of Planetarium is relatively straightforward, but some of its subplots are told in this style: the Major Puzzle's answer can be deciphered only by entering the parts of it in backwards numerical order, and the contents of the love letter are revealed to be made up of the first letter of each different animal that was on a mission in each part starting with the Iguana in part XI and ending with the Weasel in part I. | |
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The Grayson tie-in to The New 52: Futures End opens with Dick being hanged by Helena, then each page is captioned "Earlier". As the story goes on, the gaps between the pages get longer, first explaining the immediate reason this is happening, then the situation that led up to it, and then stretching back through his careers as Nightwing and Robin to the moment of his parents' death, for an implied explanation of what really happened. | |
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While the main part of the movie in normal order, the flashbacks to Jason Todd's tenure as Robin in Batman: Under the Red Hood are in reverse order, beginning with him as a moody, rebellious teen sidekick and the final scene of the movie showing the first day the exuberant boy first donned the costume. | |
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The children's book The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash opens with a little girl named Meggie telling her mother about a class trip to the farm, and how things didn't get interesting until the cow started crying... because the farmer knocked a hay bale onto it... because he was distracted by the sight of his pigs climbing onto the school bus to eat the kids' lunches... and so on. There were three sequels, Jimmy's Boa Bounces Back, Jimmy's Boa and the Big Splash Birthday Bash, and Jimmy's Boa and the Bungee Jump Slam Dunk that featured the same girl telling similar backwards stories about a string of Disaster Dominoes started by Jimmy and his pet snake. | |
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