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Stylistic Callback

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Somewhere between Mythology Gag, Development Gag, Continuity Nod and Production Throwback. This is when a work references stylistic changes since prior works in the same series.
When this is used to refer to events that happened at the time of the referenced style, it's a Retraux Flashback. Compare Nostalgia Level.
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In Runaway Brain, after the mind swap, Julius finds some photos in Mickey's wallet. One of them is of Mickey as he looked in Steamboat Willie.
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There is an Alley Oop story arc a few years ago where Alley's no-good cousin Early Oop shows up in Moo and makes trouble by impersonating Alley, despite Alley's insistence that they look nothing alike. Early is designed to look like Alley's original appearance.
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The Timeless River in Kingdom Hearts II is one big one to black and white Disney shorts. Also in the same game, at the start as well as in the Timeless River Sora wears his outfit from the original game.
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In The Simpsons episode "Homerazzi" there is one scene where Marge is taking a picture of Homer, Bart, and Lisa as they appeared on The Tracey Ullman Show' under a banner saying "Happy 1987". After the picture is taken, they fix their hair to become the normal versions.
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The final level in Kirby's Adventure is an abridged recreation of the original Kirby's Dream Land complete with the Game Boy's black and grey color pallet.
The Kirby Fighters sub-game in Kirby: Triple Deluxe features mostly retro inspired stages. However 3 in particular really stand out. First is Butter Building, which even retains its NES graphics for the stage itself and the enemies on it. Second is Coo's Forest, which emulates the coloring book style of Kirby's Dream Land 3. Finally the Fountain of Dreams takes on it's GBA visuals if played on the hardest difficulty.
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Jessica gives an in-universe one. After Jessica leaves for Celestial Tower and bids Cameron to follow her, all of the Pokémon sprites in Cameron's Pokémon Black game become static, 8-bit ones, just like in Pokémon Yellow.
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The 2017 Tamagotchi short film Eiga Tamagotchi: Himitsu no Otodoke Dai Sakusen!, being made to celebrate the Tamagotchi franchise's 20th anniversary, features a few throwbacks to earlier installments of the franchise. In particular, the short has a unique art style combining the original virtual pets' modern blue-outline art style introduced in 2004 and the more detailed art style of the 2009 TV show (OLM Incorporated animated both the TV show and the short).
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Garfield marked its 25th anniversary with a Story Arc where 2003 Garfield meets 1978 Garfield.
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Many of the structures used throughout the original World of Warcraft were deliberate callbacks to equivalent buildings featured in the previous RTS games, and occasionally a zone will make a stab at depicting the old-school units as well. For instance, in the Swamp of Sorrows a short quest chain stars the WC2 armies with Footmen, Knights, and Mages stacked up against Grunts and Ogres (and WC1 Warlocks subbing for Death Knights), while the Krasarang Wilds have references to WC units, heroes, and even tactics and metagame terms.
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A Luann strip that ran several days before its 25th anniversary has the 2010 main characters commenting on their 1985 designs. "I'm glad WE never looked that dumb..."
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There's a similar curtain that does this in Super Mario RPG.
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At one point in the original Paper Mario, there's a pot Mario can jump into. If he does, he comes back out as his sprite from Donkey Kong.
There's a similar curtain that does this in Super Mario RPG.
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, There's a curtain in an area near the end of the game that does this to Mario and all of his partners.
Mario's blue-clothes-red-overalls Palette Swap in the Super Smash Bros. games is the color scheme he used in his first Video Game appearance as the protagonist in Donkey Kong which was also famously featured on the cover of the first issue of Nintendo Power.
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The "1st gen ring" from The Legend of Zelda: Oracle Games.
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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, There's a curtain in an area near the end of the game that does this to Mario and all of his partners.
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"Without Me" from The Eminem Show was intended by Eminem to sound like a track that could have been on The Marshall Mathers LP. It's less Classic Rock in sound than the rest of the album, Eminem performs it in a higher-pitched voice than he uses elsewhere (pastiching his older delivery), and the lyrical content follows MMLP themes of the moral panic around Eminem, dissing pop stars, and Slim's drug abuse (the rest of The Eminem Show is Kinder and Cleaner). It also contains the album's only non-quoted use of a homophobic slur.
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In the Homestar Runner cartoon No Hands On Deck!, Homestar undergoes a brief shift in art and voice when Bubs brings up "melonade".
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The Kirby Fighters sub-game in Kirby: Triple Deluxe features mostly retro inspired stages. However 3 in particular really stand out. First is Butter Building, which even retains its NES graphics for the stage itself and the enemies on it. Second is Coo's Forest, which emulates the coloring book style of Kirby's Dream Land 3. Finally the Fountain of Dreams takes on it's GBA visuals if played on the hardest difficulty.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

 Eiga Tamagotchi: Himitsu no Otodoke Dai Sakusen! / int_5b39eb90
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