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Often a show will have a situation that is a repetition of something that happened previously within the show's history. Almost always used as either a Running Gag or a tragic Vicious Cycle. There are some films where they deal with the world repeating over and over, e.g. Groundhog Day, the similar film 12:01, and the Eternal Recurrence phenomenon. But this trope happens when history repeats itself without a "Groundhog Day" Loop. A common example will be for a show about kids to have the children experience something, and then have the adults in the show respond by reminiscing about when the exact same thing happened to them at that age. Sometimes there is a flashback. If the adults are the main characters and the same thing occurs, this becomes Generation Xerox. Or it can happen in an adult show where the characters have had flashbacks to show some of the older characters' backstories, and then you have an episode that focuses on the younger characters who experienced the same thing. Can also be used just with a character repeating the exact same experience as another character did previously (sometimes in an earlier episode). The new victim might have boasted about how much better he would have handled it, expect An Aesop on how we should be less critical of "The Man in The Arena". Or he might just handle it perfectly, making the first victim hate him even more. When it applies only to a Stock Phrase it's probably an Ironic Echo. See also Here We Go Again! and Plot Parallel. Contrast May It Never Happen Again. Should not be confused with His Story Repeats Itself, which is when a character's arc repeats itself in a similar manner to this trope. |
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In The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, Lorule started to gradually crumble away after they destroyed their Triforce. Ravio kicks Hilda into a Heel Realization after telling her that taking Hyrule's Triforce away from them would simply cause them to go through the same decay that is now affecting Lorule. | |
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Much of the circumstances surrounding the release and reception of 2011's Ōkamiden would end up paralleling that of 1999's Chrono Cross. Both games were long-awaited sequels to beloved games that were released late into their respective systems' lifespans and commercially underperformed; both sequels were also released on record-breakingly popular systems themselves, with Chrono Cross coming out on the highest-selling home console of its time and ÅŒkamiden coming out on the highest-selling handheld system of all time (which is also currently the second-best-selling game system overall). Both ÅŒkamiden and Chrono Cross were critically acclaimed and are considered good games in their own right, but whether or not they were good sequels remains a controversial topic among fans, both due to their predecessors being tough acts to follow and because their attempts to connect themselves to said predecessors were perceived by many as overreaching to the point of invalidating much of the accomplishments made in the first games. | |
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Adventure Time: The end of "Lemonhope" implies that the Land of Ooo will eventually destroy itself just like humanity did. "Evergreen" shows that the time before the mass extinction of the dinosaurs was not unlike "modern"-day Ooo. This is actually touched upon during Marceline's confrontation with the Vampire King in "Checkmate". The Distant Finale of the final episode shows that one-thousand years after the events of the show, long after Ooo as we known it has disappeared, another adventurous duo will appear to |
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In the Sly Cooper games, at least two generations of Cooper Gang members had one of them turn rouge and back-stabbed them. For Sly's father, that would be Dr. M, who wanted to steal the contents of the Cooper Vault as revenge, and is implied to have sold out his former friend to Clockwerk and the Fiendish Five. For Sly himself, that would be Penelope, who went insane from greed and power and plotted to murder Sly out of envy. | |
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In Thunder Force V's bad ending, the Guardian begs Cenes to self-destruct her ship, the Vambrace, which is a Sealed Evil in a Can like its predecessor, the Vasteel, warning her that the Vambrace has the potential to cause the same degree of global catastrophe as Vasteel did and that "the tragedy of Vasteel" will repeat. It is implied that this trope happens, as the Vambrace is too crippled to self-destruct. | |
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Control Z: The first two seasons ended with a confrontation after the identities of the hacker and the avenger were exposed/revealed and with a victim who got in the middle of the fight. After that, we get an aerial shot of those endings before the screen cuts to black and the credits start rolling. Season 1. After Raúl succeeds in leaking all of the students' secrets at the NONA party, Gerry confronts him at gunpoint upon finding out he's the hacker, blaming him for what happened to Luis, who was unable to make it out alive, and demands an explanation over his actions, with SofÃa and Javier unsuccessfully trying to calm him down. Raúl reveals to Gerry that Luis had feelings for him. Furious, Gerry tries to shoot him as revenge, but Javier is accidentally shot trying to intervene. The noise attracts the students' attention as they witness Javier's accident and SofÃa yells at them to call an ambulance. By the beginning of the second season, Javier is later revealed to have survived the gunshot and Luis' death has been confirmed. Season 2. After SofÃa manages to talk Alex out of continuing her revenge plans to seek justice for Luis, Javier picks up a gun that Raúl had brought earlier and Alex snatched from him to threaten Gerry. Javier aims it at Raúl, demanding that he give him his money to save Natalia, who got kidnapped by the drug dealers who intend to kill her if their owed debt isn't payed by tonight. Raúl goes insane and defiantly refuses him the money because it was stolen from him. Coincidentally, MarÃa and Claudia (who found out about Natalia's kidnapping beforehand) arrive at the school to steal back the money from Luis' locker but are caught by Susana. The situation is further worsened when the trio, alongside SofÃa, Javier and Raúl fight over the money bag, while Gerry and Alex watch in horror. This ends with Susana accidentally falling hundreds of feet off the roof to her death. Pablo, who was waiting outside for MarÃa and Claudia, witnesses this. Wailing in sadness, he looks up the roof to see SofÃa, Raúl and MarÃa staring emotionlessly. After MarÃa nods her head, Pablo snatches the money and drives off to rescue Natalia, leaving Susana to bleed out in the sidewalk. |
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Five Nights at Freddy's: Five Nights at Freddy's and Five Nights at Freddy's 2. Night guard fends off killer robots, something happens to shut down the pizzeria, then management tries to revive the pizzeria, starting the cycle again. However, FNAF 2 came first. Five Nights at Freddy's 3 deconstructs this, as by now everyone knows the horrible atrocities that happened at the pizzerias. Nonetheless, from a certain point of view, this trope is still in play, as they reopen it as a horror attraction, with another killer animatronic in it. There's also one more thing that also keeps happening: The Murderer, or Purple Guy as he is depicted in cutscenes, always comes back to the pizzeria if only to kill more kids. And, true to form, he's come to Fazbear's Fright...as ''Springtrap", the aforementioned animatronic. The fifth and sixth games invoke this to a degree: in Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location, Circus Baby is revealed to be a product of the Murderer's actions, and the animatronics themselves were going to use the place as a murder house, while in Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator, Cassette Man deliberately set the pizza place up to lure the killer animatronics in, including the aforementioned Springtrap, then starts his own "accident" to kill them all and free their souls (or in Springtrap's case, give him a taste of Hell). |
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Star Trek Online: The Klingons make the exact same mistake in the lead-up to the Federation-Klingon War that they made in the lead-up to the Dominion War. They unilaterally invade the Gorn, insisting that the Gorn have been infiltrated by shapeshifters (unlike with the Cardassians, the Gorn actually have been), and then when the Federation doesn't believe them, instead of trying to back up their claims they withdraw from the Khitomer Accords. And just like with the Dominion, this resulted in a Federation-Klingon War that only weakened the quadrant for the inevitable bigger fish. Once again, the Klingons' Honor Before Reason tendencies play right into the hands of a Manipulative Bastard adversary. In-game, this exact scenario repeats itself again on a small scale in the mission "Diplomatic Orders". A Klingon cruiser commander gets information that a Federation diplomat is really an Undine. Does he submit his findings to the Federation? No! He leads a deep-strike into Federation territory to kill the ambassador himself, and instead of coming out firing, he sacrifices the element of surprise to high-handedly demand that the Federation PC hand over the ambassador. The Fed PC reacts surprisingly well to this: instead of just blasting the idiot out of space on sight (remember, the Feds and Klinks have now been at war for four years), he asks to see the Klingon's evidence, and the Klingon instead takes umbrage and attacks, and because he's up against a Plot Armored Player Character he dies completely pointlessly and Starfleet makes the kill against the Undine. |
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The Funniest Minecraft Videos Ever: In both the "Dragon Morph" and "Wither Morph" videos, the group tries to take the boss ally to the End to achieve their goal (Keith to find his wife, Wimothy so he can die to the Void), only for said effort to be unsuccessful. The boss ally then turns on the group, forcing them to kill the boss in self-defense. | |
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Tree of Aeons: Throughout the millennia of recorded history, every ten years a demon king will appear, and the gods summon a batch of heroes to fight it. Sometimes the heroes win, but infight and kill each other afterward; sometimes the demon king wins, and a new batch of heroes is summoned; sometimes there's a mutual kill. On a few occasions, the heroes even survive long enough to kill a second demon king. But sooner or later, they die, and the cycle happens again. As a sapient tree, Matt has a long-term perspective on this, having seen many generations of heroes and demons come and go, and he wants to stop the destruction and havoc that it causes. | |
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The fifth and sixth games invoke this to a degree: in Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location, Circus Baby is revealed to be a product of the Murderer's actions, and the animatronics themselves were going to use the place as a murder house, while in Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator, Cassette Man deliberately set the pizza place up to lure the killer animatronics in, including the aforementioned Springtrap, then starts his own "accident" to kill them all and free their souls (or in Springtrap's case, give him a taste of Hell). | |
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Homeland begins with CIA ops officer Carrie Mathison investigating a recently-freed captive whom she suspects has been compromised by his captors. The final season has another recently-freed captive coming under the same suspicion — only this time, it's Carrie herself. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL: A more realistic scenario is Yuma's signature "Double Up Chance" combo with his Kibou'ou Hopenote aka Utopia (or another form of Hope), where he negates his first attack of Hope to double Hope's ATK and then attack again. Yuma wins more than half a dozen times with this combo, even against the same opponents (Gauche, Shark/Nasch). Notably, when Yuma uses this combo in his final duel against Shark/Nasch, Yuma stops his second attack, which actually secures his victory in this duel because Nasch was prepared for Yuma's combo, but it backfires on Nasch in the end. Normally, a Yu-Gi-Oh! protagonist doesn't win with the same combo more than once. | |
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X-Men: Post-Avengers vs. X-Men Marvel tried to replicate the old Professor X/Magneto dynamic with Wolverine and Cyclops, with "Professor Wolverine" running a school for mutants, and Scott as a Well-Intentioned Extremist supervillain. Fans did not respond to the new status quo due in large part to fans largely agreeing with Scott or just finding him to be far less villainous than Marvel were saying he is, and eventually, the pair were killed off and resurrected to wipe the slate clean. Mutants are dying en-masse due to a cataclysmic event that puts them at risk of extinction. The first time it was the Legacy Virus, which wiped through mutant populations with deadly efficiency until a cure was developed. The second time, it was Decimation after House of M, depowering most mutants and leaving the 300 remaining targets for the now emboldened Fantastic Racism motivated hate groups. The third time was after All-New, All-Different Marvel which saw the Terrigen Mist of the Inhumans cause an "M-Pox" among mutants, painfully gassing them to death and sterilising those who survived while slowly rendering the earth inhospitable to mutants. Then it happened again after Disassembled during Age of X, as a vaccine is developed that will prevent mutant births and, with the X-Men seemingly dead after being trapped in a Pocket Dimension, the few remaining are trying to protect mutants from being rounded up and killed en-masse. The similarities of all these events are strangely not brought up, even though X-Men Disassembled directly follows on from plot points introduced at the end of the Decimation period. |
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This is actually one particularly bleak interpretation of the events seen in John Carpenter's The Thing (1982). The theory here is that the alien spaceship that brought the Thing was deliberately crashed in Antarctica in order to keep it from getting out. Fast forward 100,000 years later and a group of Norwegians finds it, examine it, and then it gets out and kills all but two who end up dying in the process of trying to keep it from getting further. Then the remainder of an American expedition destroyed by the Thing destroys their camp in an effort to keep the Thing from being found by a rescue team — whether they succeed is left for the viewer to decide, but an alternate ending shown in some TV broadcasts implied that it escaped. | |
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In Magic Knight Rayearth, High Priest Zagato fell in love with Emeraude, the Pillar of Cephiro. Zagato's younger (and identical) brother Lantis would also fall in love with the girl who would become the Pillar, Hikaru. The irony is not lost on either. | |
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The Talos Principle: At the entrance of World B, you can find a terminal with a document telling about the Library of Alexandria and the Oxyrhynchus Papyri: many important documents were lost forever when the former was destroyed, while many trivial documents were recovered intact in the latter. The document points out the importance of ensuring our important documents are preserved. Immediately after that, the first terminal you find has a transcription of a song's extremely silly lyrics, and is even completely readable, as opposed to most others documents in the archive, which are either lost to corruption or with missing fragments. | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, both Mipha and her father were both well aware of the story of the Zora princess who fell in love with a Hylian swordsman (Ruto from Ocarina of Time), citing it as a reason they believed Mipha's love for Link made sense. It ended up being more appropriate to the current situation than they would have liked, as Ruto Did Not Get The Guy either. | |
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Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey "The Clean Room" devotes a lot of time to Clair Patterson's struggle to have Congress act on the dangers of leaded gasoline, while the oil companies try to cut his funding and discredit him with their scientist-for-hire Robert Kehoe. The subtext to the modern day is very clear. A heartening example in "The Electric Boy". Young Michael Faraday got the attention of Humphry Davy by sending a book of notes he'd made on Davy's scientific demonstrations to the Royal Institute. Decades later, Faraday remembers standing in Davy's office, which now belongs to him, as he's about to open a dissertation by his own young fan: James Clerk Maxwell, who's developed mathematical evidence for Faraday's ideas. |
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Polandball: This comic is about the decline and fall of empires. All of them end up in the same way - they beat the enemy, becoming an unchallenged superpower but also becoming fat and decadent, then get defeated in a battle. | |
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Like a Dragon: In the first game, Kiryu takes the heat for a murder he didn't commit, coming out of prison ten years later to find most of his friends and colleagues from the past have moved on or are now openly hostile to him. In the seventh game, Kasuga Ichiban takes the heat for a murder he didn't commit, coming out of prison eighteen years later to find most of his friends and colleagues from the past have moved on or are now openly hostile to him. Bonus points: both of the real culprits were men the two heroes considered blood brothers, though Ichiban didn't learn that Masato was the killer until well after the fact while Kiryu knew from the start Nishiki killed Dojima. Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth: In the previous game, following his release from prison, Kasuga found himself up a creek without a paddle, jobless (on account of the Tojo Clan's apparent disappearance) and homeless in Yokohama. In this game, Kasuga once again finds his life upended when internet slander costs him and his friends their jobs and they find themselves, once again, at rock bottom. The one silver lining this time around is that Kasuga at least has his own home in a cramped apartment, but aside from that, he's forced to rebuild his life from scratch. It's also the result of another conspiracy whose Japanese leadership have a personal vendetta against the yakuza as a whole, and have found a way to profit of of getting rid of them. Eventually, they even take on Bleach Japan's name. Also Discussed at a key plot point in Infinite Wealth: Lani is a poor girl who is being hunted by the criminal underworld in Hawaii, just like how Haruka was hunted by the criminal underworld in Kamurocho. Because of the similarities between the two, Kiryu is driven to save Lani, even has he pushes himself to the breaking point while struggling with cancer. It takes a near-death experience for Kiryu to finally concede that he should step back and let Kasuga handle the matter of saving Lani. |
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The plot of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty hinges on the military attempting to mold Raiden into a successor to Solid Snake, just like Snake was for Big Boss. This eventually leads to The Reveal that Raiden's mission on the Big Shell is actually an elaborate recreation of the Shadow Moses Incident staged by the Patriots to force Raiden to relive the major events of Snake's life, making it more likely that he would turn out just like him. Appropriately, the game ends with Raiden turning his back on the military after discovering that his superiors lied to him and treated him as a pawn—just like Snake and Big Boss before him. | |
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In Horizon Forbidden West, the ruins of Las Vegas remain filled with relics and automatic lightshows even centuries after the extinction of its inhabitants. Those relics attract a group of salvagers, who- falling in love with the ruins' beauty and potential tourism value- eventually deciding to build a settlement there. By the time the game ends, "Hidden Ember" has added such things as fireworks and hot air balloons to its attractions, showing Vegas is so ubiquitous that it exists even in a distant mecha-prehistoric future. | |
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In A Simple Survey, one film takes place 20 Minutes into the Future when natural resources are all but exhausted. Critical shortages have been prevented with the use of time lodes, a limited form of time travel used to prevent people in the past squandering natural resources so they can be harvested in the future instead. However, making a change in the past locks any further changes to that point in time and misuse of lodes has locked out most of the prime time lode opportunities. In addition, overuse of the time lodes has resulted in the fabric of time becoming increasingly resistant to change, to the point that altering the past will soon be impossible. Just as humnaity squandered the planet's natural resources in the past, the future managed to squander the one resource it had left. | |
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Vampirella: This trope is illustrated beautifully by Vampirella, or more specifically, by her costume. The famous sling bikini was created by artist Trina Robbins, a vocal feminist, as an example of open female sexuality without shame, and was criticised as being overly sexualized. Then in 2017, when the comic entered its fourth relaunch, writer Black Northcott, a vocal feminist, brought back the sling bikini (the earlier, and less successful, 2016 volume has the character in a more conservative outfit) as an example of open female sexuality without shame...and was criticized as being overly sexualized. Vampy can't win, it seems. | |
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In The Trial of the Flash, Reverse-Flash invokes this by planning to kill Fiona in the same way he killed Iris. | |
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The skateboard chase in 1955 in Part I, the Hover Board chase in 2015 in Part II, and the horseback chase in 1885 in Part III. All involving Marty McFly being chased by a Tannen. Notably, though, they all work out entirely differently. The first time, Marty easily beats them because he's the only one with a skateboard. The second time, they've all got hoverboards, in fact, they've got better hoverboards, and he narrowly escapes them. The third time, they're all on horseback, and he's on foot, and they catch him easily. | |
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When first introduced, Jason Todd's pre-crisis backstory was the same as Dick Grayson's: an acrobat who parents are killed by a criminal (in this case, Killer Croc). | |
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Grey's Anatomy Seen with the season 6 episode "Give Peace a Chance" and the season 11 episode "The Distance". The focus of both episodes is a Shepherd operating on a challenging, previously thought to be an inoperable tumor. In the former, it's Derek; in the latter, it's his sister Amelia. Referenced in-canon when Richard Webber mentions it to Amelia during "The Distance". |
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Post-Avengers vs. X-Men Marvel tried to replicate the old Professor X/Magneto dynamic with Wolverine and Cyclops, with "Professor Wolverine" running a school for mutants, and Scott as a Well-Intentioned Extremist supervillain. Fans did not respond to the new status quo due in large part to fans largely agreeing with Scott or just finding him to be far less villainous than Marvel were saying he is, and eventually, the pair were killed off and resurrected to wipe the slate clean. | |
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Diablo IV: Timue initially refuses to help the Wanderer find the Tree of Whispers because she has seen the same tragedy play out before: A bargain struck, a life lost, and Timue forgotten by all save the Wanderer. Diablo (1997) ended with Aiden becoming a lone traveler carrying the soulstone of a Prime Evil, Diablo. IV ends with Neyrelle dawning a similar cloak and traveling alone with the soulstone of Mephisto, another Prime Evil. In Diablo III, Belial in the guise of Emperor Hakan II sealed the gates of Caldeum and left the rest of Kehjistan at the mercy of demons and cultists. The only force fighting on behalf of the abandoned people were the Iron Wolves who had been exiled from Caldeum. In IV, the actual Hakan has once again sealed Caldeum and left the rest of Kehjistan at the mercy of demons and a different but equally vile cult. The exiled Iron Wolves are again the last force trying to protect the people. During Lilith's first return to Sanctuary, Inarius had founded an organization called the Cathedral of Light to pursue his agenda. The conflict of the demon and angel set off a series of events that decimated the Cathedral, saw Inarius bound in Hell's torments, and Lilith banished from Sanctuary. At the end of IV, the second Cathedral of Light is greatly weakened, Inarius is killed in Hell, and Lilith is banished. |
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Naruto has this due to the Cycle of Revenge, primarily between the Uchiha and Senju/Uzumaki clans. This all began a millennium ago when the clans' ancestors, Asura and Indra ÅŒtsutsuki began a rivalry over who will become the successor of their father Hagaromo ÅŒtsutsuki, the Sage of the Six Paths. | |
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The Flash: In The Trial of the Flash, Reverse-Flash invokes this by planning to kill Fiona in the same way he killed Iris. Wally West got his powers from a repeat of the Flash's Freak Lab Accident. Wally's uncle Barry arranged the chemicals that empowered him in the shelf as a demonstration for Wally, but there also happens to be a lightning storm outside, so... Later, when the Speed Force concept is introduced, it is all but outright said Barry had unconsciously called upon that bolt of lightning due to having wanted a companion in his super speed. |
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In Fullmetal Alchemist, different regions of Amestris seems to keep experiencing the same series of events throughout the country's history; a controversial leader gains influence in a region and stokes tensions, which quickly explode due to military incompetence and result in large-casualty military conflicts. This keeps happening because Father and his followers keep arranging for it to happen. It's their way of acquiring sacrifices for the production of Philosopher Stones. Their Evil Plan is to make another bit of history (the destruction of Xerxes in a massive-scale human sacrifice) repeat by using Amestris as a giant transmutation circle. | |
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Dragon Age: Inquisition reveals that the end of Dragon Age II was not the first time that the Templar Order illegally performed the Right of Annulment on a Circle of Magi. Centuries before the series started, the Knight-Commander of the Antiva Circle of Magi used a fake demon infestation and the Right of Annulment to prevent anyone from finding out that his Knight-Captain was a Serial Killer who had murdered over a hundred mages out of pure bigotry. While the Seekers of Truth eventually hunted down and killed the Knight-Captain, they participated in the cover-up and there is no mention of them punishing the Knight-Commander for his actions. Background chatter in II also reveals that Knight-Commander Meredith had petitioned the Divine directly, bypassing the local Grand Cleric, for permission to carry out the Right; she threw off all pretenses of going through the legal channels after Anders destroyed the local Chantry. While it is not known if Anders knew about the historical similarities, it is implicitly the reason that he went to such extreme measures to prevent the Chantry and the Seekers from performing another cover-up. | |
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Yandere Simulator appears to have this going on: Yandere-chan's mother is also a yandere. Tapes from a former journalist found scattered across the school reveal that a yandere had committed murder at Akademi High while stalking her senpai in the '80s, but managed to escape justice. The basement tape reveals that after the murder trial, the yandere (who shares the same family name as Yandere-chan) kidnapped her senpai and tied him to a chair in her basement, claiming that it was the same chair her mother used for her father... | |
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Cross Ange: Commander Jill, or Alektra, as she was known back then, was seduced by Embryo who preyed on her feelings of unrequited love to manipulate her into betraying Libertas, resulting in the deaths of all her loved ones. Embryo later did the same with Salia, Alektra's protegé, preying on her feelings of jealousy, envy and desire for approval, and made her the leader of his personal knights. The finale has the two of them fighting each other, and Alektra warns Salia that Embryo will ditch her as soon as she's no longer of use for him, just like he'd done to everyone else including herself. | |
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Attack on Titan: Discussed by Eren and Armin when Eren sees children who remind him of himself, Armin, and Mikasa, and notes that the kids will probably see what they saw when the Colossal Titan broke the wall. It's then averted, as Armin says that this time there are soldiers on the wall who are ready to fight and that those soldiers are them, and they succeed in stopping the Titan and saving the people inside the wall. The Season 2 finale has Hannes getting eaten by the very same titan that ate Eren's mother years before, in the same manner, while again Eren and Mikasa are Forced to Watch. Eren can only laugh in despair at the cruel irony. The manga's ending basically confirms history is doomed to repeat itself as the tree where Mikasa buried Eren's head has grown enough to resemble the tree Ymir Fritz stumbled into when she obtained the power of the Titans. The last couple pages show Paradis first thriving until it starts to resemble modern times, but then blown to bits as the result of a devastating war. Then a child discovers the tree, implying the power of the Titans will return. |
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The original film and Jurassic World both have the dinosaur park built and then end in chaos when dinosaurs escape. Both also have the T. Rex taking out another dinosaur antagonist. | |
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Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F': Upon being revived, Frieza decides to train himself so he can exact his revenge on Goku, making a beeline for Earth after achieving his new Golden Super Mode. However, just like on Namek, he ends up running out of stamina before Goku since, just like before, he didn't master his new form and learn how to regulate his energy output. Goku shows him mercy and, just like before, Frieza throws it back in his face (this time more successfully, with the help of an underling). When Vegeta steps in to fight Frieza, Frieza destroys the Earth, just like before on Namek, but thanks to Whis's ability to reverse time, Goku kills him before he can destroy the Earth and sends Frieza right back to hell. | |
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In the pilot of Supernatural, Sam and Dean's mother Mary is murdered by a demon, who pins her to the ceiling of Sam's nursery and lights the house on fire. Four-year-old Dean carries his baby brother to safety. Twenty-two years later, Sam attends Stanford and has a beautiful girlfriend named Jessica who even somewhat resembles his mother. A demon kills Jessica by pinning her to the ceiling and lighting the room on fire, and Dean must rescue his distraught adult brother from the fire. | |
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The sequel has Elastigirl having to deal with a Runaway Train like Mr. Incredible did in the first movie. It's a painful blow to Mr. Incredible's ego, since she was able to safely stop the train without major damage or causing harm to the passengers, whereas Mr. Incredible's efforts resulted in injuries and lawsuits that led to the Super Relocation Act being enacted. | |
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Final Fantasy XIV has a variation with Eorzea's cycling Astral and Umbral eras: civilization enters into golden age during the Astral eras, then enters decline into a dark age during the Umbral eras. While the timing and length of the eras can vary widely from over thousands of years to less than a decade, the cycles remain constant. Endwalker shows that history repeats even further than the recorded history of Hydaelyn: The civilization of the Ancients from the unsundered world of Etheirys was brought down by Meteion, a unique construct that manipulated a form of energy known as "Dynamis" to drive the Ancients to despair as part of her plan to destroy all life in the universe. Her manipulation of Dynamis caused several Ancients who had succumbed to the Despair Event Horizon to mutate into monsters, causing a domino effect of others fearing the monsters becoming monsters themselves until Venat became the goddess Hydaelyn and sundered the world to halt Meteion's plan. By the time of the Endwalker expansion, her plans have resumed, and the exact same phenomenon that lead to the Ancients' destruction are beginning again. It is also revealed that she had done the same thing to innumerable other worlds in the past, and the world of Hyadelyn is next on her list. |
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Seen in Warcraft III and World of Warcraft with Grom and Garrosh Hellscream. Grom was the first orc to drink Mannoroth's blood, cursing nearly his entire race with an endless bloodlust and enslaving them to the Burning Legion, all for the sake of more strength. Faced with defeat at the hands of Cenarius, Grom drank from a fountain that he believed would grant him strength, only to learn it was in fact filled with Mannoroth's blood, completely enslaving him and his clan to the demon. Years later Garrosh tried to use the Sha and then the heart of Y'shaarj to empower himself and his True Horde. | |
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Five Nights at Freddy's and Five Nights at Freddy's 2. Night guard fends off killer robots, something happens to shut down the pizzeria, then management tries to revive the pizzeria, starting the cycle again. However, FNAF 2 came first. | |
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Five Nights at Freddy's 3 deconstructs this, as by now everyone knows the horrible atrocities that happened at the pizzerias. Nonetheless, from a certain point of view, this trope is still in play, as they reopen it as a horror attraction, with another killer animatronic in it. There's also one more thing that also keeps happening: The Murderer, or Purple Guy as he is depicted in cutscenes, always comes back to the pizzeria if only to kill more kids. And, true to form, he's come to Fazbear's Fright...as ''Springtrap", the aforementioned animatronic. | |
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Beast Wars: Uprising: The story begins with a Cybertronian becoming dissatisfied with the status quo, forming a rebellion that breaks out into full-blown war, three centuries after the end of the last one. Several characters make note that it's another war, with the supercomputer The Oracle quoting the Battlestar Galactica example. In the backstory, the inhabitants of the planet Rebirth fled Cybertron to get away from the war. Over time, a trio calling themselves the Optimus took control, and became utterly fascistic, stamping down on any dissent, leading to the rise of a violent rebellion identified as the Malignus. Then, during the 21st century the Decepticons showed up, and the planet got involved in the war again. The end result was the entire population of Master were forced off their world by humans and made to live on Cybertron, under the thumb of a different autocratic, oppressive regime. |
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The bad ending of Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow sees this happen. In the past, after the death of his beloved wife, Dracula ended up declaring war on humanity and becoming the villain we know today. In the present, after the (supposed) death of his girlfriend, Soma is driven to claim his inheritance as Dracula's reincarnation and continue his war on humanity. | |
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Used so often in Homestuck that the concept is almost weaponized by the various textual and visual callbacks. Many of these instances, such as stairs, are subject to memery both in-story and out. | |
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The Decline of the West: German philosopher Oswald Spengler claimed in his Non-Fiction book in every major culture, a culture emerges among the barbarian peoples, and fuses them together into nations. The great myths, art styles, and religions develop. In the beginning, strong kings rule, but their power soon is weakened by their noble vassals. A great movement reforms the religion. Meanwhile, in the cities a somewhat privileged middle class has risen, replacing the feudal economy slowly but steadily by capitalism. By cooperating with them, the crown can weaken the nobility and the church, forming an absolutist state. Science and capitalism develop further, and an enlightened philosophy spreads, weakening the hold of religion. Then, the middle class will decide to get rid of the old system, usually in the form of a revolution-which starts civilization. This marks the fall of the culture-wars will get worse and worse (The Napoleonic Wars -> The American Civil War -> World War I -> World War II), art will become more and more offensive, and capitalism runs rampant (not without provoking counter movements). In the end, one state will conquer/control all other states, and one man will rise to the top of this state-voila, The Empire. | |
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Diablo (1997) ended with Aiden becoming a lone traveler carrying the soulstone of a Prime Evil, Diablo. IV ends with Neyrelle dawning a similar cloak and traveling alone with the soulstone of Mephisto, another Prime Evil. | |
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Used as a plot point in Tomb Raider: Legend. Lara notes that many myths and legends share similarities to the legend of King Arthur and his knights. There's a sword in a stone, a heroic leader figure, a mystical advisor and so on. Lara hypothesizes that these myths were actually real, and that that they are all connected in some manner, possibly through the same people (or things) that made the Excalibur swords. | |
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Dracula Unleashed is this to the famous novel which it purports to be a sequel to. In the book, Dracula claimed Lucy Westenra as his first victim and was on his way to claiming Mina Murray, Jonathan Harker's fiancée. In the game, Dracula claims Juliet Adams as his first victim and is on his way to claiming Annisette Bowen, Alexander Morris's fiancée. Once Alexander meets Professor Van Helsing and they begin to take the situation seriously, the characters even note how closely events are resembling their previous encounter with the Count. | |
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The Tales of Phantasia and Tales of Symphonia timeline has this going on. Periodically, mankind invents magitechnology, culminating in a Mana Cannon, the use of which kills large numbers of people and depletes so much mana as to threaten the life of the Mana Tree. Things progress too far, the Mana Cannon causes too much destruction, and civilization is cast back into the Dark Ages for a while. Then somebody starts exploring ruins and finding out about this thing called "magitechnology"... | |
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The Metal Gear games deal heavily with this idea. Since legacy is one of the series' core themes, many of the games focus on characters living through the same experiences as their predecessors and forebears, often unwittingly. As we learn in Metal Gear Solid, much of the series' plot was kicked off by the US military secretly cloning in-universe Living Legend Big Boss to ensure that his knowledge and skills wouldn't be lost after his death. Saddled with the task of upholding his legacy, his "sons" end up retracing many of the steps of his life: Liquid Snake and Solidus Snake both hatch terrorist plots against the US government that mirror the original Outer Heaven uprising, Solidus Snake coincidentally loses an eye just like his "father" did, and series protagonist Solid Snake turns his back on the military after discovering that his superiors lied to him and treated him as a pawn—mirroring Big Boss' original Start of Darkness. The plot of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty hinges on the military attempting to mold Raiden into a successor to Solid Snake, just like Snake was for Big Boss. This eventually leads to The Reveal that Raiden's mission on the Big Shell is actually an elaborate recreation of the Shadow Moses Incident staged by the Patriots to force Raiden to relive the major events of Snake's life, making it more likely that he would turn out just like him. Appropriately, the game ends with Raiden turning his back on the military after discovering that his superiors lied to him and treated him as a pawn—just like Snake and Big Boss before him. "Video Game/Undertale", the protagonist is a child sporting bangs and a striped shirt. At the end of the neutral route it's revealed that the first human to fall was a child who appears in the sepia flashbacks to look largely identical to the protagonist. At the end of the pacifist route the big revelation is that the first human is in fact the Fallen Human who the player, believing they were naming their player character, named at the start of the game. There are many parallels between the Fallen Human and the player character, enough so that the Fallen Human's best friend repeatedly mistakes you for them. Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, a prequel where the player takes on the role of a young Big Boss, takes the intergenerational theme a step further. It turns out that Big Boss turned his back on the military after his own mentor "The Boss" was betrayed by her superiors, who framed her for treason and forced her to take the fall for a nuclear attack. Big Boss' discovery of this fact, which leads to his disillusionment with the military, foreshadows Snake's own disillusionment with the military after learning Big Boss' full story. For bonus points, we also learn that Snake inherited his code name from Big Boss: he was previously known as "Naked Snake" before rechristening himself. Dr. Hal "Otacon" Emmerich is first introduced in Metal Gear Solid as the Chief Engineer of Metal Gear REX, having been duped by the military into believing that REX is a purely defensive safeguard against nuclear warheads. Upon learning that it's actually a nuclear-armed battle tank, he's absolutely devastated—since he's spent his entire life haunted by the fact that his own grandfather worked on the Manhattan Project, and he swore to use his scientific skills to help mankind because he was determined not to follow in his grandfather's footsteps. In Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, his stepsister Emma "E.E." Emmerich is similarly placed in charge of the AI system of Arsenal Gear, yet another incarnation of Metal Gear. And as we learn in the prequels, Otacon's father Huey Emmerich was designing nuclear-armed superweapons long before he was: he helped develop REX's precursors Peace Walker, Metal Gear ZEKE, and Metal Gear Sahelanthropus. He lampshades this shortly after his introduction: |
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Tomorrow Town: The story is set in a camp of futurists who are deeply contemptuous of the past and those who they see as trapped within it, but find themselves repeating certain historical patterns about how society develops and people interact within them without even realizing it. Furthermore, their efforts to predict the future are inept at best and doomed to failure. Just as the past will repeat itself, the future can't be forced no matter how hard you try. | |
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In Turning Red, Jin tells Mei that her mother Ming and Grandma Wu had a fight when Ming went through her red panda phase. The climax has Mei fight her mom during her phase, the same way Ming fought her mom. Both fights dealt with the daughters wanting to live their lives, and both mothers were hurt as a result. Although the horror of what she did drove Ming to fall in line, Mei breaks the cycle by seeing her mother is neither infallible nor out to ruin her life, just another "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl struggling with impossible expectations. | |
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Warcraft: Seen in Warcraft III and World of Warcraft with Grom and Garrosh Hellscream. Grom was the first orc to drink Mannoroth's blood, cursing nearly his entire race with an endless bloodlust and enslaving them to the Burning Legion, all for the sake of more strength. Faced with defeat at the hands of Cenarius, Grom drank from a fountain that he believed would grant him strength, only to learn it was in fact filled with Mannoroth's blood, completely enslaving him and his clan to the demon. Years later Garrosh tried to use the Sha and then the heart of Y'shaarj to empower himself and his True Horde. In Battle for Azeroth, the Horrific Vision of Orgrimmar shows a future where Thrall is driven mad by N'Zoth and convinced that the only way to save Azeroth is by drinking the Old God's blood. Those who obey his order are twisted by the Void into slaves of N'Zoth while those who refuse are executed. |
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Schlock Mercenary: various groups, including the Oafaan Freehold, have figured out that Galactic Civilization rises and falls on an almost regular schedule; but even ordinary characters (such as Landon) have wondered "where is everyone?" Book 19 is starting to answer that question. | |
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In Jurassic World Dominion, Dodgson was killed in the same way Nedry was 30 years earlier, by the exact same species of dinosaur no less. | |
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One of the core concepts of Sire. The Binding is a mystical force that forces characters descended from characters from classic literature into following their Sire/Dam's fate, complete with consequences set up for those who try to run away from their story. The conflict of the comic is not about avoiding the fates handed to their forebears, but learning from their mistakes and being prepared for when history swoops back around again. | |
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Hitting any of the loss conditions in Yggdra Union state that history repeats itself by Yggdra's army falling to the hands of Bronquia, her territory of which she's been trying to re-conquer after her father fell to them. On a greater scale, as happened through Yggdra Unison, Nessiah succeeds in building an army to take on Asgard, which results in another (implied) failure to defy the gods. | |
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The Tomb Raider series features a few examples. For instance, in the Russia chapters during Tomb Raider Chronicles, Lara learns about an artifact called the Spear of Destiny, which is supposed to give its bearer and its armies untold power. A group of Nazis who claimed the spear were subjected to the spear's extremely unstable power and the artifact created an explosion that sunk the group's U-boat. Flash forward to the present where Lara finds the spear, is forced to hand it over to Russian mob boss Sergei, and the history repeats from there as the artifact's powers go haywire. Luckily, Lara manages to escape before the submarine explodes and sinks to the ocean bed. Used as a plot point in Tomb Raider: Legend. Lara notes that many myths and legends share similarities to the legend of King Arthur and his knights. There's a sword in a stone, a heroic leader figure, a mystical advisor and so on. Lara hypothesizes that these myths were actually real, and that that they are all connected in some manner, possibly through the same people (or things) that made the Excalibur swords. |
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This is a likely outcome in Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg. The First Weltkrieg ended with the signing of the Peace With Honor in 1921 when the German Empire managed to defeat all the Entente members in mainland Europe but was unable to successfully invade the British Isles. The Second Weltkrieg could end in a similar way, at least on the Western Front, if the German Empire defeats the Commune of France but again fails to land in Britain. In this case, the Union of Britain and the German Empire will sign the Second Peace With Honor. The in-game message to this will directly refer to this trope: "Is history doomed to repeat itself?". | |
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Fire Emblem Fates has a case. Corrin's step-father Sumeragi first met and fell in Love at First Sight with his/her mother Mikoto by a lake. Corrin him/herself meets his/her best friend Azura by a lake, and if male and romancing her, is also suggested to have fallen in Love at First Sight with her. | |
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The anime continuity of Love Live! has the Childhood Friends trio of Honoka, Umi, and Kotori starting μ's to save their school. In the sequel series Love Live! Sunshine!!, it's revealed in episode 8 that another trio of childhood friends, Kanan, Dia, and Mari; also formed an idol group called Aquors in their First Year after hearing rumors of their school closing in a few years. However, they weren't as successful at first and Poor Communication Kills caused them to break apart. This lasted until two years when Chika helped them open up and reconcil, with the trio joining her iteration of Aquors. It's also revealed at the end that Dia deliberately had Chika, You, and Riko finding the name as part of her way to help them out. | |
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In A Brother's Price this is used as a source for drama. There was a civil war between two branches of the royal family not so long ago, and the royal family is genre-savvy enough not to risk a repetition by splitting the family again. This means that all the princesses have to marry one husband. However, there is the additional problem that their now-deceased ex-husband was evil, and they married him against the warnings of Princess Trini. They do not want that one to repeat itself either, but Trini, who was hurt most, is understandably reluctant to marry anyone. | |
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Dwarf Fortress being its darkly humorous self, its Video Game Cruelty Potential is very, very high and usually combined with exploits. So here's probably the best fan theory on the origin of the Hidden Fun Stuff. The gist of the argument goes like this: if you start with a bunch of emotionally numb dwarves, burrow them underground, invoke Body Horror, and cover the whole complex in lava... wouldn't the logical end result count as Physical Hell? | |
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In the first game, Kiryu takes the heat for a murder he didn't commit, coming out of prison ten years later to find most of his friends and colleagues from the past have moved on or are now openly hostile to him. In the seventh game, Kasuga Ichiban takes the heat for a murder he didn't commit, coming out of prison eighteen years later to find most of his friends and colleagues from the past have moved on or are now openly hostile to him. Bonus points: both of the real culprits were men the two heroes considered blood brothers, though Ichiban didn't learn that Masato was the killer until well after the fact while Kiryu knew from the start Nishiki killed Dojima. | |
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In 2014, CM Punk had a massive falling out with WWE which culminated in him leaving and eventually joining AEW. In 2023, CM Punk had a massive falling out with AEW which culminated in him leaving... and eventually returning back to WWE. | |
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The Klingons make the exact same mistake in the lead-up to the Federation-Klingon War that they made in the lead-up to the Dominion War. They unilaterally invade the Gorn, insisting that the Gorn have been infiltrated by shapeshifters (unlike with the Cardassians, the Gorn actually have been), and then when the Federation doesn't believe them, instead of trying to back up their claims they withdraw from the Khitomer Accords. And just like with the Dominion, this resulted in a Federation-Klingon War that only weakened the quadrant for the inevitable bigger fish. Once again, the Klingons' Honor Before Reason tendencies play right into the hands of a Manipulative Bastard adversary. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: The series at large has this at its core, connecting all the games. Ganon is an eternal threat, but every time he rises to endanger Hyrule, there is — and will always be — a Link and a Zelda to oppose him. Only the circumstances change. In The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, Lorule started to gradually crumble away after they destroyed their Triforce. Ravio kicks Hilda into a Heel Realization after telling her that taking Hyrule's Triforce away from them would simply cause them to go through the same decay that is now affecting Lorule. In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, both Mipha and her father were both well aware of the story of the Zora princess who fell in love with a Hylian swordsman (Ruto from Ocarina of Time), citing it as a reason they believed Mipha's love for Link made sense. It ended up being more appropriate to the current situation than they would have liked, as Ruto Did Not Get The Guy either. |
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The Ninja Warriors Again's ending explicitly says that because history repeats, the new government you were fighting for will eventually become as bad as the one you overthrew. | |
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Red Dead: John Marston pulls a Heroic Sacrifice at the end of Red Dead Redemption so his wife and son can live a normal life all for his wife to die not too soon after and for his son to throw it away to avenge him. Its Prequel Red Dead Redemption 2 ends with its protagonist Arthur Morgan also sacrificing himself for the Marstons to live a normal life. This time, it's John who throws it away by avenging Arthur by killing The Mole in the gang. His doing this puts the proto-FBI on his tail, which causes the events of the first game. In the final mission before the epilogue of both games, Edgar Ross leads an army of government men to kill members of the Van der Linde gang at their respective home/hideout. In the first game, it's the U.S. Army attacking Beecher's Hope to kill John with Uncle being an added collateral casualty. In the second game, it's the Pinkerton Detective Agency attacking Beaver Hollow to kill any gang members that haven't already fled or haven't been executed already. |
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Batman: When first introduced, Jason Todd's pre-crisis backstory was the same as Dick Grayson's: an acrobat who parents are killed by a criminal (in this case, Killer Croc). In Batman: Curse of the White Knight, it is revealed that The Joker was inspired by Lafayette "Laffy" Arkham (who the Joker actually bears a resemblance to), who has a long-standing conflict and was killed by Bruce's ancestor Edmond Wayne who wielded a whip made from bat-leather. |
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In Batman: Curse of the White Knight, it is revealed that The Joker was inspired by Lafayette "Laffy" Arkham (who the Joker actually bears a resemblance to), who has a long-standing conflict and was killed by Bruce's ancestor Edmond Wayne who wielded a whip made from bat-leather. | |
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In the past, Chrono of Chrono Crusade (the manga version) was in love with a woman called Mary Magdalene, who was possessed by Pandaemonium, the demon's Hive Queen. This kicked off the events which led to her death. When Rosette is placed in a frighteningly similar situation, Aion feels the need to point out that history is repeating itself. | |
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Castle in the Sky's opening credits show this wordlessly: it begins with a shot of the wind powering a simple fan-based forge, through an industrial revolution and humans taking to the skies in ever-more-complex machines and culminating in the creation of floating continents. Then, after a great war, humans leave the fallen cities and we see the same shot of the wind powering the fan, this time in a water pump. (The rest of the movie shows that humans have once again created Those Magnificent Flying Machines and is about preventing them from making the same mistakes as last time.) | |
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This is also specifically the point of the ideological debate in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing's movie, Endless Waltz. The villainess argues that war is an inevitable part of human nature (the titular "endless waltz" of war, peace, and revolution), while the female lead says that lasting peace can happen if people are willing to put forth the effort to end the Vicious Cycle. Needless to say, at least in the ∀ Gundam version of events, she doesn't succeed in spreading that idea. | |
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Maison Ikkoku has an example where Kyoko romantically pursued her teacher, and when Godai gets a teaching job at her old school not only is he also romantically pursued by a student, but the several of the methods used are very similar. (Tagging the teacher with a heart on the back when he's not looking). | |
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Life SMP: On Day 5 on the third season, Jimmy becomes the first to be Killed Off for Real on the server. Since his character was the first to permanently die during the prior two seasons as well, this is naturally lampshaded by everyone, including his content creator counterpart in the episode it happened. Six minutes into the fourth season, Grian makes a bet that the character in question will be the first to (permanently) die in this season as well; sure enough, this eventually comes to pass on Day 7. The fifth season ends with Breaking Old Trends, with Jimmy being the second to be Killed Off for Real instead at the end of Day 6. | |
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Super Mario Bros. is a famous example of this trope as almost every game on the series consists of Bowser always kidnapping the same princess over and over and over again. | |
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Final Crisis: Geo-Force tries this gambit against Deathstroke in Final Crisis: Last Will and Testament by luring him to the location where Deathstroke's son had his throat slit. Deathstroke claims that Brion isn't the first one to try this, but Brion is the first to slit his own throat for full effect. | |
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Trail of Lightning takes place in the wake of the Big Water, global floods likely triggered by climate change. According to Ma'ii this has happened at least four times previously. | |
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In the Star vs. the Forces of Evil fan comic Echo Creek: A Tale of Two Butterflies, the friendship between main characters Meteora and Mariposa is very similar to the one Star and Marco had years before them, with Meteora as the thrill-seeking princess and Mariposa as the more cautious human. | |
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The Gundam series, according to ∀ Gundam, is all one timeline with this going on. Mankind keeps making space colonies, having a civil war with them, getting a bit too violent and inventing gundams that are too powerful, and destroying said colonies, forgetting about it, then sending out new colonies, only to have a civil war with them. Then gundams get too powerful... and each time, they progress a little further, with the destruction and casting back of mankind going further each time. By the time of ∀ Gundam, they're at an early-1900s level of technology. And history repeats again anyway, using Lost Technology. This is also specifically the point of the ideological debate in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing's movie, Endless Waltz. The villainess argues that war is an inevitable part of human nature (the titular "endless waltz" of war, peace, and revolution), while the female lead says that lasting peace can happen if people are willing to put forth the effort to end the Vicious Cycle. Needless to say, at least in the ∀ Gundam version of events, she doesn't succeed in spreading that idea. Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn applies this to the Universal Century in general. Despite all the lofty aspirations made by humanity, from uniting Earth under the Federation to the space colonies and even the Newtype ideal, the same mistakes they've supposedly overcome keep getting repeated...albeit on a much larger scale as shown by the One Year War and subsequent conflicts. Audrey wonders at one point whether an answer to that age-old question even exists. Gundam: Reconguista in G meanwhile, taking place in the same timeline as the Universal Century albeit long after the calendar itself was abolished, has the Capital and SU-Cordists and their Spacenoid masters attempting to keep the UC's events from happening again. While this has in the process led to mankind becoming reminiscent of the pre-Earth Federation days, it'll all be for naught given that the anime also takes place in the same continuity as ∀ Gundam. |
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The Empire blew up the planet of Alderaan with the Death Star in A New Hope. Years later, the First Order uses a similar superweapon to destroy the entire Hosnian system. | |
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Lost starting in the Season 5 finale. It's implied that people have been coming to the island only to be wiped out over and over again as part of Jacob and the Man in Black's grand morality test. Taken to an extreme in "Across the Sea" where it's revealed that Jacob isn't even the original protector of the island and that there had probably been many previous protectors before he was born. | |
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Superman: Superman: Truth in the New 52 has Clark Kent's Secret Identity revealed to the world, which received widespread attention across comic book news media. A few years later (during which Superman was killed and replaced with his much preferred previous timeline incarnation, who then got merged with the history of his New 52 self, thus regaining his Secret Identity), Brian Michael Bendis took over Superman (Brian Michael Bendis) and had a story where Clark...has his Secret Identity exposed. Willingly this time, though. This received similar widespread attention across comic book news media who hyped it up as "for the first time ever" despite it being less than five years since Truth. Both storylines are largely disliked by the fandom, for what it's worth. | |
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''Back to the Future': The skateboard chase in 1955 in Part I, the Hover Board chase in 2015 in Part II, and the horseback chase in 1885 in Part III. All involving Marty McFly being chased by a Tannen. Notably, though, they all work out entirely differently. The first time, Marty easily beats them because he's the only one with a skateboard. The second time, they've all got hoverboards, in fact, they've got better hoverboards, and he narrowly escapes them. The third time, they're all on horseback, and he's on foot, and they catch him easily. Lampshaded by old Biff in 2015: "There's something very familiar about all this." Also it seems that a Tannen is fated to crash into horse manure at Marty's hand. In 1955, Marty twice tricks Biff into crashing his car into the back of a manure truck, causing him to get buried in horse manure both times. In 1885, Marty knocks out Buford Tannen in a fistfight, causing him to collapse into a cart of horse manure. |
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Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn applies this to the Universal Century in general. Despite all the lofty aspirations made by humanity, from uniting Earth under the Federation to the space colonies and even the Newtype ideal, the same mistakes they've supposedly overcome keep getting repeated...albeit on a much larger scale as shown by the One Year War and subsequent conflicts. Audrey wonders at one point whether an answer to that age-old question even exists. | |
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In Cars 3, Lightning McQueen ends up experiencing the same problems that had happened with his late crew chief and mentor, Doc Hudson. He is outmatched by a rookie and suffers a horrible crash that puts the future of his career in doubt, and he worries that he might have to retire as Doc did. Unlike Doc, however, he doesn't but still becomes a mentor to rookie Cruz Ramirez, who just started her racing career, and like what happened with Strip "The King" Weathers, a former legend from his rookie season, she helps him finish the race. | |
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The first game has this happen twice: Case 3 has a rather ironic example: While working on a movie, action star Jack Hammer kills note and whether or not it was accidental is never specified, the lover of his director, Dee Vasquez, by impaling him on a nearby fence. Five years later, Hammer is found dead - Vasquez had been blackmailing him over the incident for half a decade, and so Hammer plotted to murder Vasquez, dressing up as his co-star, Will Powers, to frame him. Unfortunately for Hammer, Vasquez fought back and ended up impaling Hammer on the very same fence. One of the most prominent factors present in case 4 is the DL-6 Incident; the murder of Miles Edgeworth's father, defense attorney Gregory Edgeworth in an earthquake-stricken elevator - a murder that Miles witnessed. The prime suspect is the other man in the elevator, bailiff Yanni Yogi, who is testified by Miles to have been fighting Gregory before the attorney's death. However, he is acquitted by his lawyer, Robert Hammond, by reason of insanity. This ruins Yogi's life - he is made a laughingstock, fired from his job, and his fiance, Polly, commits suicide. He exiles himself at a boat shop, with only his parrot to keep him company. 15 years later, Hammond is murdered, and Edgeworth is arrested and prosecuted by his mentor, legendary prosecutor Manfred von Karma, who has not lost a case for 40 years. Phoenix defends his rival, and discovers that Yogi was the true culprit, having discovered the boat shop near the crime scene, and deducing his identity by the name of his parrot: Polly. However, it doesn't end there: [[spoiler:For fifteen years, Edgeworth had believed that he was the one who killed his father, and so he confesses it to the court moments after his acquittal for Hammond's murder. Another trial is held, during which it is revealed that von Karma was the one who murdered Edgeworth's father - before his death, Gregory Edgeworth had been the defense attorney for a trial prosecuted by von Karma. Though he lost the case, he managed to blemish von Karma's perfect record by exposing his corrupt ways. After the trial and ensuing earthquake, von Karma found the elevator in which Edgeworth senior had passed out, and was shot in the shoulder by Miles, who had fired Yogi's gun in defense of his father. Understandably pissed off from being shot in the shoulder, he terminated Edgeworth and took a several-month-long holiday because he refused to have the bullet taken out.note (After all, having it removed would create an evidence trail.) Ironically, this led to his downfall, as Phoenix reasons that the bullet that hit von Karma is still in his shoulder, and uses a metal detector he acquired earlier to confirm his theory. Thus, after 15 years, the DL-6 Incident finally concluded. |
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Daredevil (2015): In Seasons 1 and 3, Wilson Fisk is taken down because Nelson & Murdock flip a corrupt cop that Fisk ordered to do dirty acts that said cop drew a line at doing. In Season 1, it's Carl Hoffman, a corrupt NYPD detective who Fisk threatened into killing his own partner and best friend Christian Blake. In Season 3, the honor goes to Ray Nadeem, an FBI agent who has been manipulated by Fisk into releasing him from prison and later harassing Nelson & Murdock after Fisk "accuses" Matt of being an accomplice of his, and then gets strong-armed into being Dex's getaway driver as he tries to go public with what he knows. In both cases, Fisk makes efforts to kill the cop in question. His efforts to get rid of Hoffman fail as Matt shows up right as other corrupt cops are about to finish off Hoffman. Fisk makes a similar attempt to get rid of Nadeem in Season 3 by having men ambush him while Matt is escorting him to the courthouse to testify before a grand jury, but Matt and Nadeem fight off the assassins, prompting Fisk to pull a backup plan and intimidate the grand jury. Then Vanessa makes the decision for Nadeem to be killed, which is carried out by Dex but not before Ray makes a confession video that is admissible as evidence against Fisk due to a loophole. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: In the very first episode, Jaden win against Crowler for his Duel Academy entrance exam by boosting Elemental Hero Flame Wingman with the field spell Skyscraper, giving it enough attack to defeat Ancient Gear Golem and win thanks to Flame Wingman's burn effect. Much later, in Season 4, Crowler is struck with sentimentality for the upcoming graduating class and tries to get them held back by refusing to teach the classes they need to graduate, leading to Jaden to rematch him in order to get him to teach. After a heated back-and-forth battle, Jaden ends up closing out the duel by using the same combo he won their first duel with, which helps Crowler comes to terms with his students graduating. | |
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Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth: In the previous game, following his release from prison, Kasuga found himself up a creek without a paddle, jobless (on account of the Tojo Clan's apparent disappearance) and homeless in Yokohama. In this game, Kasuga once again finds his life upended when internet slander costs him and his friends their jobs and they find themselves, once again, at rock bottom. The one silver lining this time around is that Kasuga at least has his own home in a cramped apartment, but aside from that, he's forced to rebuild his life from scratch. It's also the result of another conspiracy whose Japanese leadership have a personal vendetta against the yakuza as a whole, and have found a way to profit of of getting rid of them. Eventually, they even take on Bleach Japan's name. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: The current generation of Starks seem to repeat the same fate that befell the last generation of Starks. Eddard is the patriarch trying to maneuver the game of thrones, and gets executed upon false charges, like his father, Rickard. Robb is a young prodigy challenging the authority of the king, but gets killed before he can achieve much, like his uncle Brandon. Jon is the second son with no dreams of being in power but ends up inheriting it, like his father, Eddard. Sansa is a Princess Classic forced to play the pawn in political marriages, like her mother, Catelyn. Arya is a Tomboy Princess and runaway who forms a relationship with a Baratheon, like her aunt Lyanna. Bran is an outsider who ends up going north of the Wall, like his uncle Benjen. Once Daenerys Targaryen resolves to conquer the Seven Kingdoms using her newly-hatched dragons, people are quick to point out that her destiny is repeating that of her distant ancestor, Aegon I, who conquered the Seven Kingdoms using three dragons. The dragons even echo the past ones; Drogon is black-colored like Balerion, Rhaegal is green and bronze like Vhagar, and Viserion is gold/cream like Meraxes. There are parallels of Cersei Lannister and Alicent Hightower. They are both the highborn daughter from the richest House in their region, whose father become Hand of the King. They marry the king and want to secure the succession of their eldest son to the Iron Throne, which end up causing a catastrophic civil war. Alicent outlived all of her children; Cersei was prophesied to receive the same fate (she's already outlived Joffrey). Alicent ultimately lost the war and died a broken woman; Cersei is arrested by the Faith Militant and publicly humiliated, though her downfall is not yet set. |
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In Beautiful Losers, F. says that the British did to the French what the French did to the Indians back in the 1600s, creating a cycle of oppression and cultural dissociation. | |
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In The Murder on the Links, the crime that Poirot and Hastings encounter is very similar to the Beroldy Scandal which took place 20 years before. | |
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In The Girl Who Drank the Moon Xan is separated from her parents at an early age, adopted by a magic-user, and then loses her adoptive parent in her teenage years. The book documents the same events happending for Xan's granddaughter Luna. | |
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Myth: The Fallen Lords is set in a dark fantasy world locked in an endless cycle. A hero rises and starts a golden age. After a thousand years, and a transient divinity called The Leveler arises, usually using the Hero as his mortal body, and destroys civilization, ushering in a dark age...until a new Hero rises up to defeat him. The events of the game look to have broken the cycle at last, perhaps destroying The Leveler for good. | |
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In Code Geass, Lelouch lost his mother to an assassin, which shattered his cozy, comfortable worldview and inspired him to change the world with Well Intentioned Extremism in order to give his beloved sister a better life. His father the Emperor, who is the biggest obstacle on his quest, went through pretty much the exact same thing in his lifetime and is himself trying to change the world — along with his wife, who's Not Quite Dead. You can imagine Lelouch's shock when he learns all this... | |
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In "Me and the Cockroach" by Hobo Johnson, humanity evolves, discovers it's going to die, invents religion and government, and conflict accelerates until humanity destroys itself in a nuclear war. The cockroaches survive, become intelligent, and the whole cycle repeats itself. | |
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Scooby-Doo: At the end of the Gold Key story "The Star Spangled Spectre" (issue #27), Fred is at an archivist office in New Lichfield, Massachusetts trying to find some information about his ancestors. The clerk tells that Fred is related to the town hero Jacob Richfield. | |
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Dr. Hal "Otacon" Emmerich is first introduced in Metal Gear Solid as the Chief Engineer of Metal Gear REX, having been duped by the military into believing that REX is a purely defensive safeguard against nuclear warheads. Upon learning that it's actually a nuclear-armed battle tank, he's absolutely devastated—since he's spent his entire life haunted by the fact that his own grandfather worked on the Manhattan Project, and he swore to use his scientific skills to help mankind because he was determined not to follow in his grandfather's footsteps. In Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, his stepsister Emma "E.E." Emmerich is similarly placed in charge of the AI system of Arsenal Gear, yet another incarnation of Metal Gear. And as we learn in the prequels, Otacon's father Huey Emmerich was designing nuclear-armed superweapons long before he was: he helped develop REX's precursors Peace Walker, Metal Gear ZEKE, and Metal Gear Sahelanthropus. He lampshades this shortly after his introduction: | |
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Mega Man X5 has the space colony Eurasia on a crash course to Earth as part of Sigma’s latest scheme, even working alongside Zero’s creator Dr. Wily, who also created the Maverick Virus to calm Zero down into a more obedient servant, but instead made various Reploids into Mavericks and even merged with Sigma’s programming to become the dreaded Sigma Virus. After Sigma’s latest final form body designed by the Doctor himselfnote Resembling Gamma from Mega Man 3 is defeated by X and Zero, he tries one last time to attack them, but Zero sacrifices himself to stop Eurasia from completely devastating the world. In 22XX, Area Zero, the first real fertile region since the carnage of the Elf Wars, is threatened by Ragnarok, a plan involving a space station that can destroy an entire region, which Dr. Weil plans to use to force humanity to stay in Neo Arcadia, though his latest right hand man, Craft, turns it on him and destroys Neo Arcadia instead, though Weil himself survives to drop the whole station into Area Zero, thinking he can survive the crash with his regenerative armor, which allowed him to survive said attack on Neo Arcadia, forcing Zero, who’s in a new body, to sacrifice himself again to defeat Weil and save Area Zero. One of the bosses in the game, Pegasolta Eclair, even lampshades this during the Boss Rush aboard Ragnarok itself. | |
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At the end of Fatal Fury, Geese Howard dies when he is defeated by Terry Bogard and falls from the top of his tower... or so it seems. In truth, Geese had a magic scroll, one of three that was said to grant immortality, that allowed him to survive the fall. He arranges another tournament later in Real Bout: Fatal Fury after finding and destroying the scrolls so that their power could never be used against him. Once more, Terry and Geese square off at the top of Geese's tower, and once again, Terry defeats Geese. This time, however, Terry tries to save Geese from falling, only for Geese to defiantly refuse and allow himself to fall. | |
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Your Name: When Sayaka says that a meteorite splitting off from comet Tiamat and striking Itomori is just a what-if, Tessie points out that Lake Itomori is not only also a meteor crater, but was formed 1,200 years ago — the orbital period of comet Tiamat... | |
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In both Sakura Wars (1996) and Sakura Wars (2019), a demonic menace that threatens to destroy Tokyo leads to the imperial government giving the authorization for one of the Imperial Combat Revue members to lay down their life to perform a ritual that will stop the demons. Both times, the leader of the Revues tells the government where they can shove their authorization and fight to defeat the demons without sacrificing anyone. For bonus points, the would-be sacrificed members are both named Sakura. | |
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Game of Thrones: Jon Snow points out that multiple times in the past Wildlings have raised an army under a chosen King Beyond The Wall, in an attempt to make their way south past the wall. They always crumbled when faced with a proper army though, due to their lack of organized cooperation and military discipline. Jon's insistence that they will meet the same fate despite their passion and numbers is flippantly dismissed. Completing the cycle, Stannis utterly crushes the Wildling Army with a surprise cavalry attack. Ned promising to take care of the dying Robert's children. He did the same for his sister Lyanna. Subverted in how Littlefinger tries to play Sansa and Arya against each other just as he manipulated their mother Catelyn and her own sister Lysa. Littlefinger fails to understand Sansa and Arya's dynamic is much different than their mother and aunt and pays for it with his life. Aerys Targaryen's first Hand of the King was Tywin Lannister. Before departing for Westeros, Aerys' daughter chooses Tywin's son as her Hand, in what constitutes his second stint at the post. Coincidentally, both Tyrion and Dany are the youngest children of their families and were bullied by Smug Snake older siblings who were spiteful that they lost their mothers due to their births. Stannis Baratheon: A king who gets advice from both a woman with Black-and-White Insanity who uses sex as a weapon and his rational best friend, while more often than not ignoring the latter. Yup, Stannis is Robert's brother alright. In addition, Stannis shares with Robert the hardships of controlling the North, even with a Stark by his side, as he points out to Jon Snow, whom he tries to legitimize to help win the North over, but Jon refuses out of a sense of duty. Though he would likely bristle at the comparison, his burning of dissenters is remarkably similar to Aerys Targaryen at the end. There are several parallels to the events of the Dance of Dragons and the War of the Five Kings that's highlighted House of the Dragon: The death of a monarch causing a historical succession war? Viserys and Robert to a T. Legitimacy of the parentage of said king's heirs? The children of Rhaenyra and the children of Cersei, the Queen Regent. Both times, their bastard status is true and both times it is the reason war is sparked, but only Rhaenyra's become known to the public. Greedy politics taking reign of the realm and causing even more chaos and strife? Look no further than both generations of the Small Council, Otto Hightower and Roose Bolton or Cersei Lannister. A sneaky and unsuspecting lord looking to further his place in the world by any means necessary? We have Larys Strong and Littlefinger (Petyr Baelish). A foreigner with a network of spies that works for the greater good of people? Mysaria and Varys. Both Joffrey and Aegon II are fine examples of a Royal Brat who inherits the throne while being completely undeserving of it. The Lord Commander of the Kingsguard (an Older and Wiser man) removing his cloak (and himself) after a sketchy regime change - Harrold Westerling or Barristan Selmy? |
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Spider-Man: Marvel Knights: Spider-Man has this with the Green Goblin bringing Mary Jane to the same bridge where Gwen Stacy died. | |
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My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!: In Katarina's previous life, she first met her best friend Atsuko after falling out of a tree and the two would end up bonding over their shared love of otaku culture. Her first interaction with Atsuko's reincarnation Sophia happened after she jumped down from a tree and the two would bond over their shared love of romance novels. Before meeting Katarina's previous life, Atsuko was ostracized for her social awkwardness and sought solace by self-inserting into relationships in manga and light novels. Before meeting Katarina, Atsuko's reincarnation Sophia was ostracized for her albinism and sought solace by self-inserting into relationships in romance novels. |
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Love Hina has parallel scenes at the beginning of the series and the beginning of the epilogue. | |
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In Debt of Honor, quite a few parts of the military side of the plan mirror similar events from back in World War II, all the way up to starting the violence by using the same code phrase that started the attack on Pearl Harbor. This does not go unnoticed. | |
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The first film begins with Mr. Incredible's heroics inadvertently causing property damage and injuring civilians as the bad guy responsible gets away. The sequel starts off with Frozone and the Incredibles trying to stop the Underminer's heist and inadvertently causing severe property damage in the process, complete with the bad guy responsible getting away. | |
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Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, a prequel where the player takes on the role of a young Big Boss, takes the intergenerational theme a step further. It turns out that Big Boss turned his back on the military after his own mentor "The Boss" was betrayed by her superiors, who framed her for treason and forced her to take the fall for a nuclear attack. Big Boss' discovery of this fact, which leads to his disillusionment with the military, foreshadows Snake's own disillusionment with the military after learning Big Boss' full story. For bonus points, we also learn that Snake inherited his code name from Big Boss: he was previously known as "Naked Snake" before rechristening himself. | |
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Ghost of Tsushima: In Ishikawa's quest line, he notes similarities between Jin and his former student Tomoe as both are ruthless in dealing with their enemies and he is initially concerned that Jin will end up like her. Fortunately, Jin has much better reasons to fight than Tomoe, who turned on her own people, and he only directs his ruthlessness towards the invading Monguls. Ishikawa also notes this is not the first time a former student of his used his techniques for evil. He previously taught the heir of another clan, who used the skills to assassinate his lord. |
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There are several parallels to the events of the Dance of Dragons and the War of the Five Kings that's highlighted House of the Dragon: The death of a monarch causing a historical succession war? Viserys and Robert to a T. Legitimacy of the parentage of said king's heirs? The children of Rhaenyra and the children of Cersei, the Queen Regent. Both times, their bastard status is true and both times it is the reason war is sparked, but only Rhaenyra's become known to the public. Greedy politics taking reign of the realm and causing even more chaos and strife? Look no further than both generations of the Small Council, Otto Hightower and Roose Bolton or Cersei Lannister. A sneaky and unsuspecting lord looking to further his place in the world by any means necessary? We have Larys Strong and Littlefinger (Petyr Baelish). A foreigner with a network of spies that works for the greater good of people? Mysaria and Varys. Both Joffrey and Aegon II are fine examples of a Royal Brat who inherits the throne while being completely undeserving of it. The Lord Commander of the Kingsguard (an Older and Wiser man) removing his cloak (and himself) after a sketchy regime change - Harrold Westerling or Barristan Selmy? |
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The Incredibles: The first film begins with Mr. Incredible's heroics inadvertently causing property damage and injuring civilians as the bad guy responsible gets away. The sequel starts off with Frozone and the Incredibles trying to stop the Underminer's heist and inadvertently causing severe property damage in the process, complete with the bad guy responsible getting away. The sequel has Elastigirl having to deal with a Runaway Train like Mr. Incredible did in the first movie. It's a painful blow to Mr. Incredible's ego, since she was able to safely stop the train without major damage or causing harm to the passengers, whereas Mr. Incredible's efforts resulted in injuries and lawsuits that led to the Super Relocation Act being enacted. |
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Doctor Who: In-universe, humanity can't seem to resist the lure of slave labor, no matter how much it corrupts and backfires. The Daleks likewise are trapped in an eternal cycle of evolving to improve their situation and then turning on themselves for failing to remain pure. Meta-example with the Time War and destruction of Gallifrey: Elements of this story had been bouncing around since the early 1980s, usually with the intention of curing the series of a lot of its Continuity Lockout. However, none of the attempts to actually depict it ever got off the ground. The 4D War intended by Alan Moore in the Doctor Who Magazine strips never made it fully to print, as he left early. "Gallifrey" was a proposed Sixth Doctor story to be written by Pip and Jane Baker rumoured to destroy the titular planet and shake up the status quo, but it was part of a cancelled season. "Doctor Who: The Last of the Time Lords" was the title for one draft of what eventually became the TV Movie. The Eighth Doctor Adventures range of BBC Books came closest with a story arc about "The War", a time-active conflict in the future, which was eventually prevented from happening by Gallifrey's premature destruction. In fact, from 1981's 4-D War to 2013's "The Day of the Doctor", no Time War was ever actually depicted, and given the setting of the aforementioned anniversary special, that arguably still remains the case. Series 8 was essentially a variation on this: an elderly Doctor in his fifties, his two first companions being teachers from Coal Hill School (kinda), and a new regeneration cycle were all elements from the very beginning. Another meta-example is the various incarnations of the Doctor in Classic and New Who. A Doctor who presided over a major retool (Three and Nine) gets replaced by someone who becomes the most popular Doctor in his respective era (Four and Ten). This Doctor gets replaced by the youngest actor to play the role at the time (Five, played by 29-year-old Peter Davison, and Eleven, played by 26-year-old Matt Smith) and his replacement is a Doctor designed to hark back to the earlier, darker side of the Doctor. Said replacement is also played by an actor who appeared on the show before being cast in the role (Six and Twelve, with said prior appearances being Commander Maxil and Caecilius). He is then succeeded by a Doctor who uses a British accent that the Doctor has never used before (Seven, Scottish; and Thirteen, Yorkshire). "Spyfall" resets the Doctor's situation back to the way things were at the beginning of the new series with The Reveal that Gallifrey has been destroyed (apparently by the Master), leaving the Doctor and the Master as the last of their kind again. |
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In A Canticle for Leibowitz, the readers know the world had had a great nuclear war sometime in the past (our present) followed by a worldwide backlash against science known as the Simplification. After 1,800 years, humanity is once again locked in a Cold War between two superpowers that eventually goes nuclear. The book ends with what's left of humanity moving on to a new planet, probably to keep the cycle of stupidity going. | |
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In the series finale of The Wire, several characters end up in situations that harken back to the beginning of the show (in tandem with call backs). The "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue insinuates that Baltimore is a cyclical place and that characters will always end up in certain roles. Leander Sydnor goes to Judge Phelan and asks his help investigating a major case, like Jimmy McNulty did, in a conversation with the exact same character, five seasons prior). Bodie's fate is quite reminiscent of Wallace's. He also becomes disillusioned by The Game's casual violence and decides to talk to the cops, only to be killed before he can cooperate. Namond takes elements from two figures. First, he comes from a family noted for their connection with the drug trade and it's assumed that he will take up that mantle as well despite having no heart for the game. Sounds like D'Angelo, but he gets a rare happy ending because Wee-Bey realizes the drug trade isn't right for him and allows Namond to be adopted by Colvin instead. On the other hand, he uses the exact same line as Clay Davis "I'll take any motherfucker's money if he's giving it away!" and shows an interest in politics and debate after being adopted by Colvin. Randy loses his mother figure early in life, his talents go mostly overlooked and unappreciated, is repeatedly screwed over by the system, and winds up adopting a thug attitude. Sounds like Bodie, although we don't see if he ends up the same way. In Homicide, Kima Greggs becomes the new McNulty On a more positive note, the formerly irresponsible Ellis Carver is implied to be on his way to becoming the new Cedric Daniels. Michael Lee becomes the new Omar Little. In fact, the last thing we see him do is shooting someone in the knee during a robbery, just like we saw Omar do during Omar's first robbery in Season 1. Dukie Weems becomes the new Bubbles. Kenard shows the textbook signs of being a sociopath. Has dreams of becoming a great street legend like Omar. Sounds like Marlo Stanfield, who himself, is a sociopath that had dreams of becoming a street legend and saw his chance to act on it after the Barksdale crew was brought down. Kenard saw his chance by killing Omar Little, knowing the Stanfield crew was looking for him. It's suggested Crutchfield arrests him for Omar's murder, but it's not known if he'll get charged as an adult and convicted. Given that he's very young, there's a chance he might just get sent to a behavior correctional center, which in a way is a Karma Houdini example, just like Marlo. Valchek becomes the new Burrell/Frazier after being promoted to Commissioner. |
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In a couple of filler episodes of Yu-Gi-Oh!, a girl named Rebecca shows up and claims that Sugoroku Muto stole his copy of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon and demands it back. Aside from doubting this claim, the Blue-Eyes White Dragon was ripped up by Kaiba in the first episode, and they don't want to reveal that to her, so she challenges Sugoroku to a duel for it, with Yugi playing in his grandfather's stead since he just got out of the hospital. As the duel goes on, Sugoroku recognizes the deck that Rebecca is using, which leads to the reveal that her own grandfather is Arthur Hawkins, Sugoroku's old archeology friend and the original owner of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon. It turns out that the two of them ended up trapped in a tomb due to a cave-in and to pass the time, they played Duel Monsters against each other for the last of the water. The duel going on in the present proceeds exactly according to the duel their grandfathers played in the past, even ending the same way: the Muto ends up forfeiting the duel despite having drawn the exact card needed to win. Sugoroku did it because Arthur needed the water more than him. Yugi does it to teach Rebecca two lessons: first, to treat her cards with more respect (her deck revolved around sacrificing monsters to power up her ace monster, but while Arthur respected each monsters' sacrifice, Rebecca only saw them as cannon fodder), and second, that there's more to life than winning. | |
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A recurring motif in Legend of the Galactic Heroes is how despite thousands of years of supposed progress, the past keeps returning. Indeed, one of the taglines is "In every time, in every place, the deeds of men remain the same." | |
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Scarily, the more Vince McMahon continues to be at the helm of the WWE, the more its ongoing problems are starting to mirror the problems that killed its chief rival. An over-reliance on past stars, a heel faction at the top that many feel has long exhausted its welcome, neglecting everything else in favor of the main event, either involving the world title or past stars (or both) and what seems to be an outright refusal to make a new star. The one new star he's trying to make isn't allowed to play to his strengths and get over that way, with Vince doing everything in his power to mold him into HIS star, to an almost stubborn degree. It's begun to alienate fans, with the WWE having lost a million viewers over the span of one year. The parallels are becoming obvious to everyone, especially to those who read the aforementioned book (which might as well be nearly every hardcore fan in the last decade), that fans are either demanding his retirement or wishing he'd keel over and die already before the damage gets any worse. The career of Roman Reigns parallels The Rock's career in the sense that they're both trying to get over as white meat babyfaces only to be completely rejected by fans. The fact that they're cousins is just icing on the cake. In fact, the parallels are so eerily strong that many are beginning to wonder if fate is trying to tell Vince something. As it turns out, it was: Roman finally turned heel in 2020 and proceeded to spend the next year becoming as mega-over as The Rock was. |
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The Criminal Minds episode "Birthright" ends with the villain being killed by his pregnant wife, just like his father (also a serial killer) was. | |
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Jurassic Park: The original film and Jurassic World both have the dinosaur park built and then end in chaos when dinosaurs escape. Both also have the T. Rex taking out another dinosaur antagonist. In Jurassic World Dominion, Dodgson was killed in the same way Nedry was 30 years earlier, by the exact same species of dinosaur no less. Ellie has to reboot a power grid with someone talking her through it in both films. |
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In Ikki Tousen, the fighters (who are reincarnations of the various generals of Romance of the Three Kingdoms) are destined to fight and die in the same battles, in similar ways. | |
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Those well versed in wrestling history note that the problems that plague TNA today are what killed WCW. Nonsensical storylines, younger, homegrown talent being pushed down the card for older, more recognizable names, a money mark for a boss — those problems were always there, but the fan base didn't take any note of them because the talent was having great matches and doing great segments. The shortcomings weren't as strongly pronounced. Then, due to a Love Triangle of all things, Jeff Jarrett lost control of the company to Dixie Carter who, evidently having not read The Death of WCW, brought in two of the guys on the cover: Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff. Practically overnight, TNA went from "a growing promotion with some similarities to WCW", to "WCW-lite". The Death of WCW discussed this throughout its tenth-anniversary edition, including an epilogue which lists the utterly boneheaded decisions the company has made since the original publication. | |
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In season 13 of The Amazing Race Toni & Dallas got their passports stolen in Moscow when their cab driver drove off with their bags. They were given a Mercy Kill. The same thing happened to James & Abba in season 21 but they were allowed to run another leg because they weren't leaving Russia. The show hasn't been back since (season 21 was filmed in 2012) presumably for this reason. | |
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In 2099: Manifest Destiny, we find out Captain America's fate: he once again ended up in a block of ice at the end of the Heroic Age as he'd done at the end of World War II and is revived in the 2099 time period. Amusingly, during the "One Nation Under Doom" event, a clone of Steve Rogers created to be a puppet had this as a cover story. Hell, it happens a third time in Manifest Destiny as the conflict in that story sees Steve go into suspended animation yet again and revive to see an old Miguel in the year 3099! | |
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Battlestar Galactica (2003): "All of this has happened before. And all of it will happen again." The series ends on an uncertain note as to whether or not humanity is destined to fight yet another Robot War. | |
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Power Rangers RPM began with a Child Prodigy (Doctor K) creating a sentient computer virus that destroyed almost 80% of the human population. Come Power Rangers Beast Morphers episode "The Source Code", when another scientist (Nate Silva) tampered with Ranger technology with Morph-X and animal DNA. The real kicker? Said scientist used snake DNA plus Morph-X on a Cell Shift Morpher, the end result creating Evox. Want another kicker? The aforementioned episode reveals that Evox is in fact, Venjix! And that Cell Shift Morpher that Nate experimented on, he had no idea that Venjix was dormant at the timenote as shown in the season finale of RPM, and his actions caused him to be reborn as Evox. | |
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In Diablo III, Belial in the guise of Emperor Hakan II sealed the gates of Caldeum and left the rest of Kehjistan at the mercy of demons and cultists. The only force fighting on behalf of the abandoned people were the Iron Wolves who had been exiled from Caldeum. In IV, the actual Hakan has once again sealed Caldeum and left the rest of Kehjistan at the mercy of demons and a different but equally vile cult. The exiled Iron Wolves are again the last force trying to protect the people. | |
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The Sandman (1989): When Morpheus first met Hob Gadling in 1389, the other people in the tavern were grumbling about the poll tax, seeing signs of the apocalypse, discussing whether Black Death was judgement from God, and making dirty jokes about the clergy. When they meet again in 1989, discussion topics include the poll tax, signs of the apocalypse, AIDS as divine punishment, and dirty jokes about clergy. | |
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Veronica Mars: The fourth season of the show has Matty (Izabela Vidovic), a teenage girl whose father is killed in the first episode (when a bomb explodes at the motel he owns), and who channels her grief into anger, snark, and a desire to investigate to find out what she thinks the sheriff's department can't, just like Veronica did with Lily's murder in season one. She even asks a boy who has a crush on her for a favor the same way Veronica would ask favors of Wallace, even titlting her head the same way Veronica did (Wallace, who hears Matty ask the friend, is amused). | |
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The Maverick Wars in Mega Man X series ultimately started when Dr. Cain found Dr. Light's final creation, X, studied the robot to find that he's self-aware, and then mass-produced robots built based on X's designs, called Reploids, without preparing any contingency with regards to such self-aware robots unlike Dr. Light who subjected X to 30 years of morality tests before his activation. Then many reploids, including the series' overarching Big Bad Sigma, became Mavericks who threaten the world, initially because of The Virus that turn them hostile, but later we also have antagonists who oppose the heroes for their own reasons. Mega Man Zero starts with the same problem: After that same X, who had been leading the humans for centuries, secretly retired, human government commissioned a replica of X, with Child Prodigy Ciel successfully creating Copy X. However, Copy X was soon thrown into authoritative position with practically no testing and preparation, ultimately turning him into a Tautological Knight Templar who ordered the deaths of many innocent Reploids, forcing Ciel to find Zero in hopes of overthrowing Copy X's tyranny. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds: Before the story of the series began, Jack dueled and defeated Dragan. However, it turns out that Dragan was bribed to lose on purpose in order to receive financial support for his hospitalized father, which is how Jack's career was built. Jack, however, wasn't aware of this, and Dragan confronted him in the present that he would have won if he used the card that would have secured his victory, but he refrained from using it for the money. When they have finally their rematch in the WRGP, the two of them draw the exact same starting they had during their first duel. Realizing it, they recreate the same scenario that led to Dragan's defeat, except this time, Dragan uses the card he hold back, to see if he really would have defeated Jack, thus summoning his Nordic God Card, Thor, with said card. Jack barely wins this time, and luckily for him, Jack already obtained Scar-Red Nova Dragon to match Dragan's Thor, something Jack didn't have in their first duel. | |
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In The Wave (1981), a High School history teacher is trying to show his class just how easily the Nazis came to power, only to be met with disbelief by students who think that "it can't happen here." So he shows them otherwise by starting a fascist movement in the class. | |
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Gundam: Reconguista in G meanwhile, taking place in the same timeline as the Universal Century albeit long after the calendar itself was abolished, has the Capital and SU-Cordists and their Spacenoid masters attempting to keep the UC's events from happening again. While this has in the process led to mankind becoming reminiscent of the pre-Earth Federation days, it'll all be for naught given that the anime also takes place in the same continuity as ∀ Gundam. | |
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Fire Emblem: Three Houses: In Part I, you fight the Battle of the Eagle and Lion, an annual mock battle between the houses which takes place on Gronder Field and celebrates the war that led to the Holy Kingdom of Faerghus winning its independence from the Adrestian Empire. After a five-year Time Skip, the house leaders, now the rulers of their respective nations, meet once more on Gronder Field. This time, however, they are not holding a mock battle — they are in the midst of an all-out war. In Fódlan's ancient history, two major battles took place on the Tailtean Plains: the final battle of the War of Heroes, where Seiros slew Nemesis, the wielder of the Sword of the Creator, and brought peace to Fódlan, and the final battle of the War of the Eagle and Lion, where the King of Lions Loog defeated the Adrestian emperor of the time to earn independence for the nascent Holy Kingdom of Faerghus. On the Crimson Flower route, Dimitri and Rhea intercept the invading Adrestian army at the Tailtean Plains both hoping to pull a repeat performance against the current emperor Edelgard and the current wielder of the Sword of the Creator, Byleth. Particularly resonant for Rhea because she is Seiros. Sadly for them, it doesn't work out; Dimitri is cut down, while Rhea is driven back to Fhirdiad and slain in the final siege after she refuses to surrender. |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: A rather dark example comes from "Consequences," where Faith had accidentally killed a human, tries to dispose of the body, then becomes a rapist (damn near enough in Xander's case, then using Buffy's body to seduce Riley.) In "Dead Things" Buffy has essentially raped Spike, then she thinks she killed a human and Spike tries to dispose of the evidence (although she was genuinely planning to turn herself in before she learned the identity of her 'victim' and realised what had really happened). The way she's acting bothers her so much she looks into whether she Came Back Wrong, then she finds out she didn't. Buffy's season-long funk after being resurrected in Season 6 comes as no surprise after the effects of her revival in the Season 1 finale, after which she spent the summer, as well as the Season 2 premiere, emotionally distant and much meaner than she usually is. In season 5's "Tough Love", Tara is driven insane by Glorificus, which sends Willow on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge preceded by a pit stop at Magic Box, which doesn't end well for her. Exactly a season later, Tara is accidentally killed by Warren Mears, which sends Willow on another Roaring Rampage of Revenge preceded by a pit stop at Magic Box. However, this time she is successful and goes on to take the spot as the season's Big Bad. |
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Mutants are dying en-masse due to a cataclysmic event that puts them at risk of extinction. The first time it was the Legacy Virus, which wiped through mutant populations with deadly efficiency until a cure was developed. The second time, it was Decimation after House of M, depowering most mutants and leaving the 300 remaining targets for the now emboldened Fantastic Racism motivated hate groups. The third time was after All-New, All-Different Marvel which saw the Terrigen Mist of the Inhumans cause an "M-Pox" among mutants, painfully gassing them to death and sterilising those who survived while slowly rendering the earth inhospitable to mutants. Then it happened again after Disassembled during Age of X, as a vaccine is developed that will prevent mutant births and, with the X-Men seemingly dead after being trapped in a Pocket Dimension, the few remaining are trying to protect mutants from being rounded up and killed en-masse. The similarities of all these events are strangely not brought up, even though X-Men Disassembled directly follows on from plot points introduced at the end of the Decimation period. | |
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Happens all the time in the Ace Attorney franchise, usually with events resembling an incident from several years before the setting of the game. The first game has this happen twice: Case 3 has a rather ironic example: While working on a movie, action star Jack Hammer kills note and whether or not it was accidental is never specified, the lover of his director, Dee Vasquez, by impaling him on a nearby fence. Five years later, Hammer is found dead - Vasquez had been blackmailing him over the incident for half a decade, and so Hammer plotted to murder Vasquez, dressing up as his co-star, Will Powers, to frame him. Unfortunately for Hammer, Vasquez fought back and ended up impaling Hammer on the very same fence. One of the most prominent factors present in case 4 is the DL-6 Incident; the murder of Miles Edgeworth's father, defense attorney Gregory Edgeworth in an earthquake-stricken elevator - a murder that Miles witnessed. The prime suspect is the other man in the elevator, bailiff Yanni Yogi, who is testified by Miles to have been fighting Gregory before the attorney's death. However, he is acquitted by his lawyer, Robert Hammond, by reason of insanity. This ruins Yogi's life - he is made a laughingstock, fired from his job, and his fiance, Polly, commits suicide. He exiles himself at a boat shop, with only his parrot to keep him company. 15 years later, Hammond is murdered, and Edgeworth is arrested and prosecuted by his mentor, legendary prosecutor Manfred von Karma, who has not lost a case for 40 years. Phoenix defends his rival, and discovers that Yogi was the true culprit, having discovered the boat shop near the crime scene, and deducing his identity by the name of his parrot: Polly. However, it doesn't end there: [[spoiler:For fifteen years, Edgeworth had believed that he was the one who killed his father, and so he confesses it to the court moments after his acquittal for Hammond's murder. Another trial is held, during which it is revealed that von Karma was the one who murdered Edgeworth's father - before his death, Gregory Edgeworth had been the defense attorney for a trial prosecuted by von Karma. Though he lost the case, he managed to blemish von Karma's perfect record by exposing his corrupt ways. After the trial and ensuing earthquake, von Karma found the elevator in which Edgeworth senior had passed out, and was shot in the shoulder by Miles, who had fired Yogi's gun in defense of his father. Understandably pissed off from being shot in the shoulder, he terminated Edgeworth and took a several-month-long holiday because he refused to have the bullet taken out.note (After all, having it removed would create an evidence trail.) Ironically, this led to his downfall, as Phoenix reasons that the bullet that hit von Karma is still in his shoulder, and uses a metal detector he acquired earlier to confirm his theory. Thus, after 15 years, the DL-6 Incident finally concluded. |
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Negima! Magister Negi Magi is shaping up to be this, with Negi and his Generation Xerox crew facing more or less the same scenario and villains that the last generation did. | |
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Yuri is My Job!: When Hime and Mitsuki are in elementary school, Hime agreed to play alongside Mitsuki in a piano recital, which resulted in students spreading rumors that the very unpopular Mitsuki bullied Hime into doing it. In response, Hime quits the recital to spare Mitsuki, causing Mitsuki to believe that Hime betrayed her, and resulting in their friendship falling apart. Years later, Hime ends up working at the same salon as Mitsuki (whom she doesn't recognize), in which both girls roleplay as students at an all-girls school, with Hime becoming Mitsuki's "Schwester." When Mitsuki reveals herself to Hime, the resulting tensions between them result in people claiming that Mitsuki forced Hime to be her Schwester. This time, Hime makes an emotional outburst saying that she is Mitsuki's Schwester because she wants to be. | |
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For instance, in the Russia chapters during Tomb Raider Chronicles, Lara learns about an artifact called the Spear of Destiny, which is supposed to give its bearer and its armies untold power. A group of Nazis who claimed the spear were subjected to the spear's extremely unstable power and the artifact created an explosion that sunk the group's U-boat. Flash forward to the present where Lara finds the spear, is forced to hand it over to Russian mob boss Sergei, and the history repeats from there as the artifact's powers go haywire. Luckily, Lara manages to escape before the submarine explodes and sinks to the ocean bed. | |
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Queen Millennia: Just like Maetel and Emeraldas, the twins try to take down La-Metal's tyranny, with Yayoi using a young Earthling to sabotage it from the inside while Selene forms a ruthless band of rogues and opposes it openly. They share similarities in the designs as well. | |
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In Third Watch, Ty's father is murdered years before the series starts. His partner Sully finds out the truth behind the murder (that the murderer was paid by a corrupt cop, CT Finney) but says nothing in order to protect Ty's family's police pension. Fast forward to 2004, where CT Finney is exposed and commits suicide. Ty ends up helping Finney's son to make it look like an accident-so that Mrs. Finney can still get her police pension. | |
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In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Living Witness", Voyager's presence accidentally triggered a long-gestating war between the two species native to a planet. Centuries later the race which lost the war has grown increasingly resentful of the victors. When a copy of the Doctor tells his side of the story which clearly contradicts the history written by the victors, it nearly triggers another war between the two species. | |
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Mega Man: The Maverick Wars in Mega Man X series ultimately started when Dr. Cain found Dr. Light's final creation, X, studied the robot to find that he's self-aware, and then mass-produced robots built based on X's designs, called Reploids, without preparing any contingency with regards to such self-aware robots unlike Dr. Light who subjected X to 30 years of morality tests before his activation. Then many reploids, including the series' overarching Big Bad Sigma, became Mavericks who threaten the world, initially because of The Virus that turn them hostile, but later we also have antagonists who oppose the heroes for their own reasons. Mega Man Zero starts with the same problem: After that same X, who had been leading the humans for centuries, secretly retired, human government commissioned a replica of X, with Child Prodigy Ciel successfully creating Copy X. However, Copy X was soon thrown into authoritative position with practically no testing and preparation, ultimately turning him into a Tautological Knight Templar who ordered the deaths of many innocent Reploids, forcing Ciel to find Zero in hopes of overthrowing Copy X's tyranny. Mega Man X5 has the space colony Eurasia on a crash course to Earth as part of Sigma’s latest scheme, even working alongside Zero’s creator Dr. Wily, who also created the Maverick Virus to calm Zero down into a more obedient servant, but instead made various Reploids into Mavericks and even merged with Sigma’s programming to become the dreaded Sigma Virus. After Sigma’s latest final form body designed by the Doctor himselfnote Resembling Gamma from Mega Man 3 is defeated by X and Zero, he tries one last time to attack them, but Zero sacrifices himself to stop Eurasia from completely devastating the world. In 22XX, Area Zero, the first real fertile region since the carnage of the Elf Wars, is threatened by Ragnarok, a plan involving a space station that can destroy an entire region, which Dr. Weil plans to use to force humanity to stay in Neo Arcadia, though his latest right hand man, Craft, turns it on him and destroys Neo Arcadia instead, though Weil himself survives to drop the whole station into Area Zero, thinking he can survive the crash with his regenerative armor, which allowed him to survive said attack on Neo Arcadia, forcing Zero, who’s in a new body, to sacrifice himself again to defeat Weil and save Area Zero. One of the bosses in the game, Pegasolta Eclair, even lampshades this during the Boss Rush aboard Ragnarok itself. |
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Revenge of the Sith features the rise of the Galactic Empire and the near-total genocide of the Jedi with Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader's assistance. In the thirty years between their defeat and The Force Awakens, Luke Skywalker's efforts to rebuild the Jedi Order are undone by Kylo Ren's massacre, who allies himself with the fledgling First Order. Even worse, Kylo Ren is Anakin's grandson. | |
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In a rare cross-series example, the third season of the 2018 reboot of Charmed ends with the eldest sister Macy dying. 20 years prior, the eldest sister from the original series died at the conclusion of its third season. | |
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The ending of Resident Evil Village turns out to be this for the BSAA, as they are starting to deploy tyrants garbed in BSAA gear, slowly becoming a rebirth of the deeply reviled Umbrella Corporation... | |
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In Babylon 5, the various incarnations of the Shadow/Vorlon War, up until the point where Sheridan punches History in the face and throws it out of the galaxy. | |
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Sailor Moon: The Moon and Earth Kingdoms were originally destroyed by Princess Serenity and Prince Endymion's forbidden love. When they are resurrected (as Usagi and Mamoru respectively), they fall in love again and history is doomed to repeat unless they take actions about it. This is taken further in the live-action adaptation. Quite fittingly, in the manga Queen Beryl, responsible for summoning the Eldritch Abomination that destroyed the Silver Millennium, dies Gutted Like a Fish by Sailor Venus both in the Silver Millennium and the modern-day. |
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The Last Podcast on the Left: Towards the end of the episode on Howard Unruh, who perpetrated one of the earliest known mass shootings in 1949 New Jersey, the hosts mention that one of the attack's survivors went on to have a grandchild that also survived a mass shooting, this one the Parkland, Florida school shooting of February 2018. | |
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Captain America: In 2099: Manifest Destiny, we find out Captain America's fate: he once again ended up in a block of ice at the end of the Heroic Age as he'd done at the end of World War II and is revived in the 2099 time period. Amusingly, during the "One Nation Under Doom" event, a clone of Steve Rogers created to be a puppet had this as a cover story. Hell, it happens a third time in Manifest Destiny as the conflict in that story sees Steve go into suspended animation yet again and revive to see an old Miguel in the year 3099! Mark Waid's 2010s Captain America run also featured this, with Steve being frozen by a Right-Wing Militia Fanatic group in order to keep him out of the way so they could nuke the planet and rule over what remains. Steve is thawed out and leads the resistance against them, but despite their defeat, he's unable to do anything to fix their damage, despite trying to rebuild society. So, time travel is used to send Steve back in time so he can pull off a Heroic Sacrifice to stop them from freezing him in the first place and defeat them before they can rise. |
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Gunstar Super Heroes is a sequel that covers the events of the original game happening again in the distant future. | |
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