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Sometimes as a person recalls an event, we get to see what happened then... but wait, why is this person's memory showing the person who remembered it? For example, if Bob remembered a date with Alice, and we see in his memories: Alice at table, waiting... then Bob appears late and in such a messy state! If it's Bob's memory, we should be seeing it though his eyes...or at least, we certainly shouldn't see anything from before the point when he showed up. Usually an acceptable break from reality as it's usually hard to convey events through someone's viewpoint, and sometimes because the stage cannot be recreated with the remembering character's viewpoint if it was filmed much earlier. Another reason this could be an acceptable break from reality is for some nice visual cues or adding a Rewatch Bonus into the Third-Person Flashback. A Third-Person Flashback could be perfect for placing a Chekhov's Gun of some kind, a Brick Joke, Funny Background Event, or a bit of Foreshadowing. For example, Bob had lost something and he remembers where it was, but it was right behind him - this would be lost in a first person flashback but by showing it third-person, the viewer can observe where the item Bob was looking for is, allowing for some comedy or drama. Anything transmitted through an Exposition Beam is likely to be this. A sign of an Unreliable Narrator. As this is very common, only list examples that are subversions or aversions, or otherwise unusual. |
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The Strange Revenge of Lena Luthor: In Lex Luthor's flashback scene, Supergirl is seen checking several files to discover the identity of Lena's parents', an event which Lex did not witness personally. | |
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Sluggy Freelance: When Torg flashes back to a secret mission he sent Zoë on, most of the action is naturally from Zoë's point of view. Even if we assume she briefed him on the details afterward, though, there's still a short scene occurring after Zoë had left the building, which the author, noting that it's "unknowable to Torg", helpfully dubs a "flashbatical meanwhile". | |
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Fear Street's second film is told entirely in flashback by C Berman to Josh and Deena. This is used to disguise the twist that she is actually an older Ziggy and not Cindy, showing events that neither sister would possibly know about. This does admittedly make it unclear just how much of what is shown she is actually telling, and some fans like to joke that she told the entire story in the third person. | |
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In The Death of Luthor, Jerro recounts via flashback the story of the battle between the Atlantean hero Garr Rindaz and a sea monster, which took place long before Jerro was born. | |
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Invader Zim (Oni): In issue #39, the Memory Visualizer device that Inquisitous "the Observer" uses on Dib, Zim, Gaz and GIR works on this principle, projecting the memories of the person it's being used on via screen, which shows them from an outside perspective rather than through the eyes of the person the memories belong to. Dib questions why this is, but Inquisitous hushes him. | |
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In Flash Gordon, as Doctor Klytus and General Kala are draining Hans Zarkov's mind, historical events are seen in third person (things Zarkov watched on television, for example), but his personal memories (like when he was fired from the university, or meeting and marrying his wife) are all shot from first person. | |
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The Rick and Morty episode "Morty's Mind Blowers" has a series of short vignettes, depicted as being Morty's memories, that have been physically stored and erased. One memory cuts to another set of people, that Morty hadn't even met at that point. Morty questions this, and Rick explains that he cut some things together to make it flow better. | |
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Cracked mocked The Eternal Mind usage of this trope. | |
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The Plague of the Antibiotic Man: As he chases Nam-Ek over the ocean, Superman has a flashback showing the events which led the Kryptonian scientist to become an immortal monster five hundred years ago... no one of which were witnessed by Superman. | |
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In Supergirl's Three Super Girl-Friends, Brainiac 5 narrates his infamous ancestor's final defeat, which happened ten centuries ago, via a flashback. | |
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Death & the Family: As Supergirl tells the story of the Silver Banshee, a montage shows scenes of Banshee's past which Kara never witnessed. | |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged: Frequently parodied: | |
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The Mansion of E: All flashbacks are shown with all characters blackened out with, sometimes with vague background. At one point, the author stated that it is possible that person doing flashback may have misremembered or imagines what have happened. Example. | |
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Wasted Away: Radon's memories are third-person, and represented as video tapes in his mind. | |
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Farscape: As Bialar Crais is forced to recall events on the memory probing chair operated by Scorpius, the screen shows Crais snapping his executive officer's neck when she found out that he was committing barratry. | |
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Unintentionally hilarious in The Star Wars Holiday Special, when Chewbacca's memories are all film clips from A New Hope. Noted by Rifftrax: | |
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Pulp Fiction's flashback to when Butch is given his father's watch, with Christopher Walken telling him the story, starts in first-person but then goes third. | |
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Superman: The Strange Revenge of Lena Luthor: In Lex Luthor's flashback scene, Supergirl is seen checking several files to discover the identity of Lena's parents', an event which Lex did not witness personally. Death & the Family: As Supergirl tells the story of the Silver Banshee, a montage shows scenes of Banshee's past which Kara never witnessed. The Phantom Zone: During the initial flashback sequence, Charlie Kweskill sees the memories of the criminals sent into the Phantom Zone. Justified, since they were telepathically projecting them into his mind. The Plague of the Antibiotic Man: As he chases Nam-Ek over the ocean, Superman has a flashback showing the events which led the Kryptonian scientist to become an immortal monster five hundred years ago... no one of which were witnessed by Superman. The Leper from Krypton: After being infected with an alien virus, Superman remembers what happened the last time that plague hit Krypton, several centuries before he was born. In The Death of Luthor, Jerro recounts via flashback the story of the battle between the Atlantean hero Garr Rindaz and a sea monster, which took place long before Jerro was born. In Supergirl's Three Super Girl-Friends, Brainiac 5 narrates his infamous ancestor's final defeat, which happened ten centuries ago, via a flashback. The Life Story of Superman: As telling his life's story, Superman's flashbacks include Jor-El's failed meetings with Krypton Science Council, Argo City's being hurled into space when Krypton exploded, and Supergirl facing a common criminal. Neither of those events were witnessed by Superman himself. "The Super Steed Of Steel": When Comet tells his origin, his flashback includes his enemy Maldor's reaction to his transformation, and Maldor devising a new scheme against Comet. |
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Dragon Ball Super: In the "Granolah the Survivor Arc", Monaito's flashback includes Bardock meeting Granolah and his mother Muezli, an event which was not witnessed by the Namekian elder. | |
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The Rifftrax gang also mocked this back in Mystery Science Theater 3000: | |
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Averted in all flashbacks in Silent Hill: Homecoming as flashbacks are in first person. | |
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One Piece: It happens in every long flashback, but in several cases, the third person scenes are really only there to enlighten the viewer with the whole picture of the past events, because the main character in the flashback often doesn't understand the whole situation, and so it would be confusing and not very good Exposition to only tell the story through his/her eyes. In most cases, it's not that noteworthy because one character is simply flashing back without any other character knowing it. However, in a few cases, like Nojiko's and Jimbei's, the trope is played straight: here, the flashback is actually one character telling his/her recollection of times past, and the flashback is a Show, Don't Tell method preferable in manga instead of filling page after page with long speech bubbles. Still, the flashback should logically be told from Nojiko's and Jimbei's points of view, but there are still some scenes (especially in Jimbei's flashback) that they don't take part in and shouldn't realistically know about. | |
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The Life Story of Superman: As telling his life's story, Superman's flashbacks include Jor-El's failed meetings with Krypton Science Council, Argo City's being hurled into space when Krypton exploded, and Supergirl facing a common criminal. Neither of those events were witnessed by Superman himself. | |
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An episode in Touched by an Angel used this in the episode where a student was accused of plagiarizing. The flashback started with what the person remembered, and it was then extended to include something the person didn't see (his own submission being modified by a person he helped). That caused a negative reaction from the person, who wasn't present during the extended portion. | |
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Justified in Chrono Trigger. During the trial, all the flashbacks of what you did are in third-person, because they were actually coming from somebody else's descriptions. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: Lampshaded occasionally, even making fun of how Tèa was somehow able to remember something when she was unconscious. | |
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The Phantom Zone: During the initial flashback sequence, Charlie Kweskill sees the memories of the criminals sent into the Phantom Zone. Justified, since they were telepathically projecting them into his mind. | |
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The Leper from Krypton: After being infected with an alien virus, Superman remembers what happened the last time that plague hit Krypton, several centuries before he was born. | |
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt: As Geralt follows in Ciri's footsteps, he has witnesses recount when they last saw her, which the player experiences as gameplay in control of Ciri during the events. | |
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How I Met Your Mother: Lampshaded in an episode when, while Barney and Robin are discussing something within a closed room, Robin says how hard it is to measure any men since she and Ted broke up. Future Ted then says "I wasn't there but this is how I imagine it happened." During his quest for a perfect week (7 women in 7 nights), Barney is largely narrating by being interviewed by Jim Nantz. During this he does exactly the same thing, assuming that each of his friends were in love with him in various ways. |
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In the Babylon 5 Pilot show, this is notable averted when Kosh got poisoned and a telepath saw the events as seen from Kosh's eyes. | |
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The 2002 remake of Carrie restores the book's Scrapbook Story structure, but also uses this to build to a new twist ending. Sue is giving testimony to the police investigating the case, and the flashbacks are mostly from Carrie's perspective. Because Sue revived Carrie with CPR and is now hiding her from the police. Her knowing more information is justified when Carrie's psychic powers gives Sue access to her thoughts and memories. | |
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Cold Case, a series which uses flashbacks heavily, usually plays this straight in terms of showing it from a third-person perspective, but generally sticks to only showing the parts of the scene that the character could have witnessed. More than that, it's frequently significant that they do it that way, because the thing that the witness missed ends up being an important twist later. | |
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