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Flash Sideways

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Flash Sideways	comment	Just like a Flashback or deja vu, but the suddenly resurfacing memory comes from the character's Alternate Self in an Alternate Universe. Often caused by the fact that Love Transcends Spacetime. Just like a Flashback or Flash Forward, a Flash Sideways can be in a narrow or wide definition. The narrow definition is when a character has one of these three because of a resurfacing memory, some kind of supernatural connection or whatever. The wide definition is when a show or movie itself has one of the three. In the wide definition, they don't have to be justified — on the contrary, the entire point can be to give the viewers information that the characters don't have access to. Flashbacks and flashsideways have the same name both in the wide and in the narrow definition. Flash-forwards are so called in the wide definition only. In the narrow definition they are known as precogs or Seers. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })This has some overlap Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory, the difference being that in this case the characters have no awareness of the split between timelines or universes and are unable to figure out what exactly is going on. The trope codifier is the final season of Lost, which uses this trope extensively. Split Timelines Plot is a sub-trope where a single diverging event creates two (or more) timelines, which the work proceeds to jump between (a la Sliding Doors). Usually, the characters are unaware of any different timelines in that trope. Contrast with Allohistorical Allusion, where the reference to another universe (usually our own) is more of an in-joke by the writers than anything significant. Also see It's a Wonderful Plot, where the Alternate Universe they experience is one where they don't exist. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Examples:
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Flash Sideways / int_192c0bd6	comment	In The Dreamer Beatrice tends to get these a lot, especially in the 21st century timeline.
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Flash Sideways / int_1c34acd2	comment	Rocketship Voyager. In order that Voyager can get back to Earth, Captain Janeway surrenders herself to the Caretaker, who has her sealed inside a cargo missile and fired into the black star, where she has visions of alternate realities where she made different choices like settling down on a planet with Chakotay or Going Down with the Ship. There's also a vision of her being swallowed up by a giant cube-ship, but that turns out to be real.
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Flash Sideways / int_1f8462f7	comment	Spider-Man 2099: During the Spider-Verse event, Miguel O'Hara is able to witness and feel the deaths of his Alternate Selves. In the 2099 reboot, after a reality reset, Miguel has frequent flashbacks of the things that happened to him in the Alternate Universe where the original comics took place. This can range from minor stuff - like remembering the original ending of a movie despite that version being lost - to full-blown hallucinations. Combined with the old volumes' Time Travel, the fact he has no control over them, and no knowledge of the reset, Miguel becomes an odd case of Fish out of Temporal Water, as he's disoriented by his own era.
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Flash Sideways / int_28fe1376	comment	In one episode of Fringe, Olivia Dunham occasionally has visions of the Alternate Universe prominent in the series.
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Flash Sideways / int_3199e98a	comment	In A Practical Guide to Evil, Catherine experiences three of these due to the Fourfold Reflection, which demonstrate three potential versions of her which would have occurred as a result of different events in the first chapter of the series.
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Flash Sideways / int_40b99edc	comment	The Flashpoint timeline's Traci 13 gets glimpses of her life in the main DCU.
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Flash Sideways / int_43576f5	comment	In the Supernatural episode "What Is And What Should Never Be", Dean has flashes of what is going on in the real world, seeing the djinn's other victims, while he is in the Wishverse.
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Flash Sideways / int_44804398	comment	Tokyo Dark: New Game+ is this trope; Ito's hallucinations allow her to make lucid dreams of other timelines, ie other runs of the game. Also, the Collector and the Historian, both mysterious powerful characters, discuss the implications of multiple timelines after each ending and the results of that ending, all mentioning that they are side paths to the "inevitable end" (that being the Becoming ending).
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Flash Sideways / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld series: In Monstrous Regiment, a Black-Ribboner vampire suffering from serious coffee withdrawal while serving as a soldier in the Borogravian army suffers "flashsides" of the Vietnam war. As it gets worse people nearby start experiencing these hallucinations too. Invoked in Jingo, where Sam Vimes and his Alternate Self grab each other's "Dis-Organizers"; Main TL Sam keeps getting harrowing messages from the Alt-Dis-Organizer of repeated disasters from the Parallel Universe where he stayed in Ankh-Morpork. Happened to Granny Weatherwax in Lords and Ladies. Granny spends much of the story worried she's going senile when she keeps recalling false memories, but after a conversation with Ridcully about Ponder's ramblings on alternate universes, she realizes what's really going on. Due to "circle time" causing the "walls" between alternate realities to become thinner (and threatening Lancre with an invasion of The Fair Folk), she's actually picking up thoughts from alternate versions of herself.
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Flash Sideways / int_4b3b5cc9	comment	In Split Second (My Little Pony), Twilight and Sparkle (alternate versions of each other) can pull time sideways, allowing the two timelines to intersect and interact. Interesting, in that rather than being a narrative element, it is a physical phenomenon in-universe.
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Flash Sideways / int_4ce969a9	comment	The plot of Marathon Infinity sees the player-character continually flashing across multiple timelines until he finds one in which an Eldritch Abomination can be defeated. By defeating it in one timeline, it gets defeated in all of them. For bonus points, the game begins in a timeline in which the events of the previous game, Marathon 2: Durandal, never happened.
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Flash Sideways / int_4fc3c258	comment	In Donnie Darko, as suggested by the hand waving in the last scene, some characters retained vestigial memories of the parallel timeline.
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Flash Sideways / int_4ff8055d	comment	Murakoks from Labyrinths of Echo live like this — sometimes the contact with alternate selves intensifying to Hive Mind level. The drawback is that actual travel between the worlds is not an option, since moving from one's correct place in the network means immediate insanity. They also tend to see things in the different light from most humans: Koba from World of the Rod is a Beggars' Foreman who refused to join Secret Investigations in order to keep some sort of balance between his selves, Koba from World of the Spider... you know whose pseudonym it is, right?
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Flash Sideways / int_50e2e357	comment	In the Star Trek (2009) fanfic Written in the Stars, Fem!Kirk is shown flash backs of her counterpart's past, showing said counterpart's relationship with Spock. Halfway through the story both counterparts experience a Flash Sideways, showing what's happening in the Alternate Reality of the Mirror Universe.
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Flash Sideways / int_53a0bd8b	comment	The Twilight Zone (1985): In "The World Next Door", Barney Schlessinger has been having what he thinks are dreams in which he is a famous inventor who lives in a more technologically primitive age. After finding a doorway in his basement, he arrives in a Retro Universe which resembles the early 1900s. While there, he learns that he had in fact been seeing the life of his Alternate Self and vice versa. In "The Road Less Traveled", Jeff McDowell begins experiencing what he thinks are hallucinations about being attacked by the Viet Cong during The Vietnam War. He attributes them to Survivor's Guilt as a result of dodging the draft in 1971 but he later discovers that they are the memories of his counterpart from an Alternate Universe who fought in the war. The two Jeffs hold hands, allowing the alternate Jeff to experience the happy moments from his counterpart's life that he missed out on such as his wedding to Denise, their honeymoon and the birth of their daughter Megan. The Jeff of our universe is willing to receive further memories of Vietnam so that the alternate Jeff can see the life that could have been his.
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Flash Sideways / int_564115c7	comment	Happens repeatedly in Everworld, where the main protagonists have each been split into two people, one version living in Chicago and one trapped in the eponymous alternate universe. Whenever their Everworld-selves lose consciousness or fall asleep, their spirits return to their Earth-counterparts, giving a sudden and unexpected flash of memories. Which can be quite disturbing, considering the kinds of things that happen to them in Everworld...
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Flash Sideways / int_58808436	comment	In Higurashi: When They Cry, the nature of the arcs is revealed when a character briefly flashes back to the first arc, Onikakushi-hen, which was in an Alternate Universe.
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Flash Sideways / int_58d80a4a	comment	Invoked in Jingo, where Sam Vimes and his Alternate Self grab each other's "Dis-Organizers"; Main TL Sam keeps getting harrowing messages from the Alt-Dis-Organizer of repeated disasters from the Parallel Universe where he stayed in Ankh-Morpork.
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Flash Sideways / int_5d354f8	comment	In the Red Dwarf episode, Skipper, Rimmer uses a device called a quantum skipper to switch places with versions of himself from alternate universes.
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Flash Sideways / int_6abf16c2	comment	Another Big Finish Doctor Who episode, "Zagreus", has the Eighth Doctor, due to the influence of an Eldritch Abomination, mentally perceiving adventures by his analogue in an alternate timeline, heavily implied to be the Eighth Doctor Adventures. He is quite shaken by the experience.
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Flash Sideways / int_6f8c9279	comment	Near the end of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates, Galdes creates a Villain World in which he killed the king and seized the throne of Rebena Te Ra. Most of the townsfolk are either resigned to Lunite rule or trying to convince themselves they are, but a few of them whether the king's death in the Temple is really what happened.
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Flash Sideways / int_769da46e	comment	In Monstrous Regiment, a Black-Ribboner vampire suffering from serious coffee withdrawal while serving as a soldier in the Borogravian army suffers "flashsides" of the Vietnam war. As it gets worse people nearby start experiencing these hallucinations too.
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Flash Sideways / int_7c0f1317	comment	In the Diogenes Club story "Swellhead", Richard Jeperson gets tangled with an alternate reality in which he died taking down a supervillain in the 1970s. At one point, he starts having flashbacks to things that happened to the alternate Richard — and then a brief burst of flashbacks from a large number of other alternate Richards (most of them shout-outs to author Kim Newman's many other alternate history stories).
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Flash Sideways / int_7cf5a07	comment	In The Flash (2014), Cisco's first vibe is of him being killed by Eobard Thawne, which happened in a previous timeline, changed by Barry running back in time.
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Flash Sideways / int_7fbf9019	comment	In Steins;Gate, only Okabe has a fully-Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory, but others can start to gain memories from alternate timelines when traits of it are described to them.
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Flash Sideways / int_8d817ccb	comment	In the sixth season of Lost, the characters' Alternate Selves in the Alternate Timeline gradually start remembering the lives of their counterparts in the timeline of the first five seasons. Team Darlton coined the trope's name, although they used it in the wide definition, to describe the idea of intercutting events in different universes (à la flash-forwards and flashbacks). It turns out that it was a big subversion, though: The alternate timeline was, in fact, just the afterlife. Though it's debatable whether the alternate timeline being the afterlife and a parallel world are mutually exclusive.
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Flash Sideways / int_90c73dda	comment	In one of the Animorphs books, Jake asks the Reality Warper Drode to make it so that they never learned about the alien invasion and got their powers. It turns out Cassie is a temporal anomaly who can subconsciously remember the original timeline and whose very presence causes the altered one to fall apart. It's heavily implied that this was the reason that the Ellimist arranged for Cassie to become an Animorph in the first place, as the Drode accuses him/it? of "stacking the deck" by her being on the team.
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Flash Sideways / int_9b20c46e	comment	Happened to Granny Weatherwax in Lords and Ladies. Granny spends much of the story worried she's going senile when she keeps recalling false memories, but after a conversation with Ridcully about Ponder's ramblings on alternate universes, she realizes what's really going on. Due to "circle time" causing the "walls" between alternate realities to become thinner (and threatening Lancre with an invasion of The Fair Folk), she's actually picking up thoughts from alternate versions of herself.
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Flash Sideways / int_b38afc52	comment	In House of M: Spider-Man, Peter Parker, whose life is perfect, goes mad from the nagging feeling he doesn't deserve it, and obsessively writes an imaginary journal where everyone hates Spider-Man, Uncle Ben and Gwen Stacy are dead, and it's all his fault. Setting the self-loathing aside, he appears to be tapping into his "real" history somehow.
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Flash Sideways / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man: In Webspinners: Tales of Spider-Man #13, as Peter is pulled into the Negative Zone he not only has visions of his Alternate Self from Spider-Man Unlimited but mysteriously acquires his nanite-based anti-symbiote costume for the duration of his misadventures there.
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Flash Sideways / int_b704a08a	comment	In Reborn! (2004), Byakuran experiences this frequently as a special ability, allowing him to gain knowledge from other timelines where he's taken over the world and use that to conquer the reality that the manga/anime actually takes place in.
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Flash Sideways / int_bd310eaa	comment	In El Goonish Shive, Tedd's dream of himself as Lord Tedd during the "Sleepy Time" mini-arc may be this. Later, magically enforced to Ellen in "Second Life".
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Flash Sideways / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: In "Turn Left", an alternate universe gets built around Donna Noble, where because she turned right instead of left one day the Doctor is dead, the Earth has gone to Hell and all of reality is going to be destroyed. She doesn't remember the original time-line, but when she restores things to normal she has flashes of memory from the Turn-Left verse. After "The Big Bang", the Doctor, Amy, Rory, and River all seem to retain memories of the cracked universe. The next season finale "The Wedding of River Song" shows yet another alternate universe, where all of history happens at once. Some people are able to retain ideas of what reality should be like- for example, Amy draws pictures of all of the things she remembers. For example, she knows she has a husband she loves very much, she knows he's Roman...but she can't remember his name or what he looks like, so doesn't realise he's the soldier "Captain Williams".
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Flash Sideways / int_c9b98f4e	comment	In the Empath: The Luckiest Smurf story "Empath's Wedding", Empath has one right after he rescues the Smurflings, that he has performed the same rescue, but with Nat, Snappy, and Slouchy being adult Smurfs instead of Smurflings, recalling an event that happened parallel to this story's events, but was more disastrous, involving an infinite number of Smurfs appearing in the Smurf Village. Empath immediately dismisses it by telling the Smurflings that he was just imagining what the Smurflings would look like as older Smurfs.
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Flash Sideways / int_cba56284	comment	Summer Time Rendering: During the festival on July 24th, Shinpei is the only one who notices Ushio walking through the crowd in a pink yukata despite the fact that she should be dead. He chases after her, only to instead run into her shadow dressed in the swimsuit she died in. What he had caught a glimpse of was a vision of the real Ushio from an alternate timeline where she never died because shadows do not exist there.
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Flash Sideways / int_cd1550c5	comment	In The Dark Tower, saving the life of one of the characters creates a temporal paradox that causes two of the characters to suffer from chronic Flash Sideways to the original, unaltered timeline. This is a very negative condition which is slowly driving them both insane.
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Flash Sideways / int_d5c757ea	comment	Takopi's Original Sin: In the final timeline, all three kids still have some memory of Takopi despite him never meeting them. Marina makes fun of Shizuka for not wearing her usual head flower, and both girls tear up at a doodle of Takopi in Shizuka's notebook, imagining it would be an annoying but good friend if it was real. They even think a pen with a cat topper resembles the Saturn Cat Ball Pen, despite both considering it a case of Strange Minds Think Alike at the time. Azuma also starts a genuine relationship with his brother by fighting over something petty like he told Takopi to tell his past self.
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Flash Sideways / int_dc81bc62	comment	Before Watchmen says that Doctor Manhattan flashes between multiple realities. It was originally just two: One where he got superpowers and one where he didn't but they eventually split into dozens.
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Flash Sideways / int_ddad77ae	comment	In Astro City a character has visions of his wife who was erased when the timeline changed.
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Flash Sideways / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Averted in the Wishverse Universe where the Scoobies, split between vampire and human vigilante "White Hats", brutally slaughter each other without remorse. Most notably Wishverse!Buffy — an emotionless cold-blooded killer — meets her Star Crossed Lover Angel and is unimpressed, not even reacting when he gives his life to save her from Vampire!Xander.
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Flash Sideways / int_e7bb061c	comment	Everything Everywhere All at Once: Alpha Evelyn invented "verse jumping", the capability to temporarily possess your Alternate Self and obtain all their skills and memories. The characters we see in the film use verse jumping to obtain various abilities that help them in the heat of the moment. For example, Evelyn connects to a version of her who became a martial arts superstar and temporarily becomes a martial artist. Special earpieces are necessary to make and maintain the connection, and making the connection requires one to first do something really weird and unlikely, such as eating a tube of chapstick, to gather the probabilistic momentum necessary to catapult your mind into that alternate universe.
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