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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); }) A specific Sub-Trope of Dark and Troubled Past, Flash Back, and Tragic Hero. When a movie starts after The Hero suffers a great personal tragedy that motivates them to go on a quest for justice or revenge, the audience will be curious about what exactly happened to this guy or gal to make them such a nigh unstoppable badass. An Opening Scroll may work for a Space Opera, but not here, where it would trivialize such a personal hurt. So directors instead use a Flash Back to deliver this Exposition. It'll begin with a Happy Flashback, a snapshot of a happier time with the people who have since been killed. The flashback will be bright, much brighter than the drowning-in-dark main cinematography, and use a non-desaturated (or even super saturated) lively color palette. It will sometimes use softened edges and warm gold tones, when not in sepia, and have a sweet but slightly jarring melody (preferably a music box) or obviously sad fare. Then the disastrously happy loved ones will be killed as the happy flashback suffers a Sugar Apocalypse into a gory bloodfest. For extra pathos, the hero will be helpless to save them or Forced to Watch. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })We aren't being over-dramatic here, these flashbacks run the risk of portraying the hero's pre-tragedy life as more nauseatingly happy than a Norman Rockwell painting on distilled Glurge. This may be intentional, since the net effect is the hero's life effectively goes from living in a Sugar Bowl to a Crapsack World. Not all Troubled Backstory Flashbacks are given all at once though. A director may space out the flashback in order to keep the exact nature of the tragedy a suspenseful secret. To this end it will be be shown in snippets that get progressively longer, until near the end of the movie when the hero breaks down and narrates the entire flashback to a friend or Love Interest. For extra creepy factor the flashback will be a garbled mess mixing the happy memory and the bloody aftermath. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })See also Happier Home Movie and You Remind Me of X. Examples: |
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Certain issues/chapters of Watchmen are devoted to the backstories of specific characters: Issue #2: The Comedian Issue #4: Doctor Manhattan Issue #6: Rorschach Issue #9: Silk Spectre Issue #11: Ozymandias Doomsday Clock continues the tradition by devoting Issue #4 to Rorschach II. |
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There's a specific instance in Newheimburg, where it's revealed that Mort is a suicide attempt survivor. | |
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Episode 10 of Puella Magi Madoka Magica is an episode-long Troubled Flashback for Homura Akemi. To this point the viewer has mainly seen her as a ruthless, cynical Dark Magical Girl who seems to only antagonize the other characters; the revelation that she was once a meek, sickly, self-hating Meganekko who had learned the Awful Truth about the Magical Girl shtick through repeatedly trying and failing to save Madoka puts her in a significantly more sympathetic light, to say the least. | |
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Bleach: There's one of these early in the story when we see how happy Ichigo was with his mother, and then her death at the hands of Grand Fisher. Turn Back the Pendulum went into Urahara's backstory as a captain and how he turned into an exile, as well as those of the Visoreds. Everything but the Rain goes into the back story of Isshin and Masaki. Being quirky, bubbly personalities, the back story was anticipated to be a Meet Cute tale. It wasn't. While Isshin and Masaki have their Meet Cute and heroic tale, Ryuuken not only has a Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl deal with Kanae, it's also shown why he's so determined to be Heroic Neutral in the current storyline. |
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Leif & Thorn: Rowan's teenage traumas are explored in the Time and Tides storyline. | |
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House does this in the episode "Three Stories", where House is holding a class and presents three cases of patients with various maladies to their legs. One of those cases is actually Dr. House's, with his case ultimately resulting in his chronic leg pain and compromised mobility. | |
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Many are provided throughout After Earth, all involving Senshi. | |
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In Fullmetal Alchemist, there are flashbacks of happy, young Ed and Alphonse with their mother. There's then a flashback of her dying right before their eyes. And the flashbacks of the Ishval Genocide, to most of the soldier main characters. And all the flashbacks of the failed human transmutation. |
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Medici zig-zags. Cosimo's flashbacks generally show a happier, more innocent time but one still tinged with serious regret as he betrayed several friendships, ruined lives, lost love and never wanted to become the family patriarch anyway. | |
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In Airplane!, pilot Ted Striker is haunted by horrific (and increasingly absurd) images of the tragedy he endured. | |
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Attack on Titan likes using this trope for the few characters who weren't already born into a terrible situation. Some examples of more prevalent characters that get this treatment are Mikasa, Reiner, Grisha Yeager, Eren's father and, by extension, his son Zeke (although only partially). | |
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Old West: When Rattlesnake Jake finds his lover Grace Glossy bruised and at the mercy of her estranged husband Benjamin Hares, he remembers how his mother laid bruised from the last beating her husband gave to her and his intoxicated father saying that Jake would grow to be like him. This amplifies to the bloody retribution Jake subjects Benjamin to. | |
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Guilded Age: Byron, upon seeing the ruins of Leafport. | |
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InuYasha: There are some flashbacks to Inuyasha's childhood (mostly anime filler). His memories aren't happy, including remembering how sad his mother was when he first heard the term "half-breed" and how he was forced to flee for his life from youkai. He was orphaned at an early age so raised himself and made his own place in the world so that the world could no longer hurt him. The canon mostly focuses on his tragic backstory with his first love, Kikyou, which was ruined by the Big Bad and led to them trying to kill each other in hatred. Anime filler also expands upon this. | |
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Mandatory for a character to join the main crew of One Piece. Most of the flashbacks took up one episode, others took three. Luffy's past, after nearly 500 episodes, actually gets expanded upon - which the anime is using to to fill up as much time as possible. Evne some of the villains have these, as Charlotte Pudding shows in 862. |
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Tiger & Bunny's Barnaby has a considerable number of these — usually in the form of his own nightmares or frequently recalled and re-analyzed memories. The number of inconsistencies that turn up during each repetition of a particular memory are a clue that they are, in fact, Fake Memories planted by his Parental Substitute, Albert Maverick. Episode 16 reveals Lunatic's past through these. |
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Po has a few of these regarding his biological family throughout Kung Fu Panda 2, starting with brief visions and culminating in an extended flashback, all shown in 2D animation. | |
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Lance from Gold Coin Comics has a flashback showcasing what happened to his hometown. | |
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Present in the prologue of Max Payne, as well as the start of the first major nightmare sequence which brings you back to the place where it all went to hell. | |
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Lupin III: Crisis in Tokyo: Maria keeps having these. They involve scientists, and experiments, and promises that "Daddy will protect you". | |
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The first six books of A Cruel God Reigns are a flashback to the six months prior to Greg and Sandra's funerals. | |
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A good chunk of Shadow's backstory in Sonic Adventure 2 is revealed in this way. | |
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Black Butler has flashbacks of Ciel when he's a happy little boy, laughing and smiling. Then one sees bits and pieces of the horrors he went through and witnessed (one of which actually causes him to vomit at the memory). This is more prominent in the manga. | |
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Crona's past in Soul Eater. Made worse by the simple, child-like style in which it is drawn/animated. Crona's is the stand-out example for known backstories in the series; the main cast has far more mundane, and (generally) less violent pasts. | |
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Chris has it again in Resident Evil 5, showing how Jill supposedly (but not really, because she lived) died saving him. | |
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In Resident Evil 6, Chris's campaign has this, but they're even more powerful because they're really not just flashbacks, but also Chris's memories about how his last unit died coming back to him after blocking them out. Chris has it again in Resident Evil 5, showing how Jill supposedly (but not really, because she lived) died saving him. |
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In Blue Yonder, as well as a Happy Flashback to a straightforward fight ending in So Proud of You, we get one to the fight gone very wrong, culminating in the opening scene where Blue Yonder and Maiden Flight are desperately fleeing without their parents. | |
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Wreck-It Ralph plays this for laughs, explaining Sergeant Calhoun's 'dark past' through a quick flashback of her wedding day when her husband-to-be is unexpectedly eaten by a Cy-Bug that came out of nowhere, and Calhoun responds to this by pulling a minigun out from her wedding skirt. Fitting with the film's video game setting, Calhoun's backstory was just 'preprogrammed' into the game and never strictly happened in her arcade game itself. | |
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Kaeloo explains Quack Quack's troubled backstory to Stumpy in the Harry Potter Parody Episode, which also explains how he got superpowers. Quack Quack's parents were shot and killed by a hunter when he was still in an egg. Afterwards, when he hatched, he was sent to a laboratory and had experiments performed on him. Stumpy being Stumpy, he misses the point and says he wishes something like that would happen to him too. | |
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Berserk - The Golden Age arc. It portrays Guts' crappy origin, how it got better and how in the end things went From Bad to Worse. | |
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In Weiß Kreuz, Aya Fujimiya's flashback to his younger sister's sixteenth birthday is all bright, cheerful images of the smiling girl having fun at a shrine festival - but then it starts raining on the way home. You can probably guess what happens to his happy, loving family next. | |
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Zuko from Avatar: The Last Airbender gets two of these that show his life before he became angry, bitter and obsessed with catching Aang. The first consists of Iroh telling the ship's crew how Zuko got his scar and was banished, and the second comes in the form of Zuko reminiscing about his family when he was a kid... and then his mom mysteriously disappears and his dad becomes Fire Lord. And it kind of went downhill from there. And then of course there are Aang's flashbacks about being revealed as the Avatar early, being pretty much shunned by his friends because of it, and his eventual running away from the Air Temple. Don't forget Jet's flashback to seeing his family burned in front of his eyes. And Katara's flashback to her mother's death. |
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The Yellow Handkerchief has Brett flashing back to his life before prison - where he had a relationship with a woman called May. These are spaced out over the film - showing how they met, fell in love and the reason Brett went to prison in the first place. | |
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This is all over the place in Max Payne, where it takes the better part of the movie to fully reveal how Max's wife died. | |
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In Endride, most of the Ignauts get one, but Demetrio's is particularly textbook, showing his growing friendship with Lucio until Lucio's murder, which prompts him to form the rebel army. | |
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Sunshine Cleaning has a scene where Norah goes trestlingnote Standing underneath the bridge as the train goes by and her initial euphoria segues into a flashback. When she was just a child, their mother committed suicide, and her two daughters found the body. | |
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When mad scientist Heinz Doofenshmirtz from Phineas and Ferb captures his secret agent nemesis and starts monologuing about his latest evil scheme, he often explains his motives with a troubled backstory flashback. (For example, "Back in Gimmelschtump in the days of my youth, the Doofenshmirtzes were a proud family. But those were lean times for my father, and our beloved lawn gnome was repossessed. Who would protect our ancient garden from witches, spells, and wood trolls? From a tender age, my father decided that it will be me. While the other kids played kick the schumptel and ate doonkelberries, I would stand for hours. All through the cold night, as the spitzenhounds howled... My only companion was the moon. And my neighbor Kenny. So, since my lawn gnome was taken from me, I will destroy every lawn gnome in the entire Tri-State Area!") | |
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Scream 3 features a scene where Sidney enters a movie set that's a reconstruction of her bedroom. As she sits down on the bed, audio from a conversation she had with Billy in the first movie plays. | |
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Manny has one in the first Ice Age movie, explaining what happened to his family. It was done as animated cave paintings. | |
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Give My Regards to Broad Street has one during "Wanderlust" and another on the car ride between that recording session and the EMI Thorn music video production lot. These are much closer in tone to the film's "present" than usually happens because the crisis itself is less visceral than usually happens. | |
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Kaeloo: Mr. Cat frequently gives flashbacks to his horribly abusive childhood to Kaeloo or the audience. Kaeloo explains Quack Quack's troubled backstory to Stumpy in the Harry Potter Parody Episode, which also explains how he got superpowers. Quack Quack's parents were shot and killed by a hunter when he was still in an egg. Afterwards, when he hatched, he was sent to a laboratory and had experiments performed on him. Stumpy being Stumpy, he misses the point and says he wishes something like that would happen to him too. Olaf explaining how he wound up in Smileyland to Kaeloo and Mr. Cat in Episode 104. |
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Lost has such a flashback for each character during their character spotlight episode. | |
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NCIS: We occasionally see flashbacks of Gibb's deceased wife and daughter. Usually they are of the happy orange-and-yellow-washed picnic variety, but just once we see glimpses of blood and broken glass and an implied bloodbath. | |
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In the "Light in the Black" arc of Dasien, while Michelle mourns the death of Energize, Parker confesses that her father was murdered in an alley, the police Never Found the Body of her brother, and her mother died during radiation treatments. | |
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Subverted in Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, where the title character asks the villain Halekulani why he's so obsessed with money. One of these begins as Halekulkani starts to explain his backstory... only for Bo Bo Bo to interrupt it by punching him in the face. | |
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In the Back to the Future fanfic Back to the Future Prequel, Doc spaces out several times, each time remembering either the accident or a subsequent encounter with Hank. | |
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Interlude 4 in The Reconstruction. It centers around Dehl, and starts off innocuously enough, with peaceful humans arriving on Dehl's island, and Dehl then going off to find his father. In the process, he discovers his father's secret 'laboratory', which is swathed in blood and has bloody Sikohlon corpses chained to the walls. Dehl's father rambles about how he killed everyone to try and isolate a cure for the Blue Plague, and Dehl is just barely able to come out alive through the manifestation of his pseudo-magic powers — which causes his father to be graphically impaled by a sword and die. Yeah. | |
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Crops up quite a lot in The Tarot Cafe, since Pamela needs to know about her clients' pasts before she can tell their futures. Thus, everyone who stops by her shop must explain the traumatic circumstances that lead to them seeking out her help. Pamela herself gets several, which show how she met a disguised Bellial as a child, how she was accused of being a witch because she could foresee the future, how her mother made a Deal with the Devil and was burned at the stake in her place, how she was abandoned in the woods, how a creepy priest tried to rape her when she grew up, and went on to kill the dragon she was in love with when she escaped, and how she ended up becoming immortal when she wanted nothing more than to join her lover in death. | |
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Xenogears has Fei's backstory including his happy early life, his mother turning into Miang and abusing him, and him eventually snapping and killing her, causing him to develop multiple personalities. | |
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In Heat Guy J, Clair has one of these in an early episode, triggered by a robot boy who was programmed to say "yes" to just about any command and ask if it was alright. It doesn't start with a happy memory, just a montage of Clair being pressured by his father, and being too afraid of him to disagree. He has another one later, when Daisuke calls him out on his Inferiority Superiority Complex (this time to being beaten by his father) and another when he's worried about his friend/bodyguard, Giovanni, who has been attacked by a rogue J. This flashback is to the deaths of his two other bodyguards, and the time he killed his father. Kia Freeborn has one of these, too. He flashes back to a happy life with his parents, but it quickly turns sour as his father lets fame go to his head and starts drinking, using drugs, cheating on his wife, and beating her while Kia cries in the other room. It ends with him going to inform his dad that his mom died, only for him to see how happy his father is with his new family. |
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In The Country Girl, the protagonist has a flashback to the day his son was run over. | |
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Tell No One has an interesting combination of this trope and a Happy Flashback; when Alexandre is drunk early in the film, we see his memories of his First Kiss with Margot, their wedding, and her funeral. | |
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Used frequently in Silent Hill: Homecoming, usually to demonstrate all of the tender moments that Alex and Josh shared. They eventually culminate in a flashback to the latter's accidental death. | |
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Several characters in But I'm a Cat Person. Chapter 4 is an extended one for Timothy and Reseda. Jany and Kara Lynn get a cute little one. As of chapter 8, one for Bennett is just starting to be touched on. | |
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Code Geass has a few, most notably for Lelouch, C. C., and even the Emperor and V. V.. | |
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Hell Girl has one for Ai and each of her minions except for Kikuri. | |
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street gives us one of these in the flashback/musical number "A Barber And His Wife," which shows Sweeney and his beautiful wife as they used to be before Judge Turpin came along. | |
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Faye from Questionable Content gives us one of these that extends over several strips. | |
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In The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Thorin's Dark and Troubled Past is shown twice: once in the Action Prologue that depicts the fall of Erebor and the exile of Thorin and his people, and again in the Battle of Azanulbizar when Thorin's grandfather Thrór is killed by Azog the Defiler. The flashbacks are used to explain Thorin's proud nature and his commitment to retake Erebor from Smaug, as well as his bitterness towards the elves who abandoned the dwarves at the fall of Erebor. | |
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Leverage did this for the first season or two for most characters. Parker's flashbacks were the most traumatic, disturbing and nonsensical. | |
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Black Narcissus shows Sister Clodagh flashing back to her pre-vocational life in Ireland. We discover that the reason she became a nun in the first place was because she became the Unlucky Childhood Friend to a man called Conn. When the village expected them to marry, he instead took off for a new life in America. | |
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The various flashbacks from Eric and Shelly's life together before it was all ripped apart in The Crow. May well be the codifier for the trope's use in horror movies. | |
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In Unsounded, glimpses of Sette's life at home are occasionally shown in dark, damaged, and obscured panels, suggesting that her dear ol' Da is not a great guy, contrary to what she claims him to be. | |
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The entire episode/s of Trigun that flashback to REM and show what happened with Vash and Knives aboard the SEED ship on their way to Gunsmoke. | |
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In the pilot episode of JAG we get to see the accident where Harm five years earlier crashed an F-14 on an aircraft carrier, which killed his RIO, grounded him as an aviator and put him on a different career track as a lawyer. | |
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Andromeda includes one of these in the Season 2 opener. Andromeda shows Beka the classified mission she was attempting to reenact. Under orders to find the source of the Magog invasion, they found the World-ship and her entire crew was killed. | |
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The first chapter of Final Fantasy Tactics named "The meager" is a flashback thrown to explain the start of darkness of both Delita and Wiegraf. | |
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Almost every character that's shown somewhat often in Fruits Basket gets one of these, even more minor characters like Kakeru and Machi. Subverted by Kimi, whose "troubled backstory flashback" wasn't so troubled. | |
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Kainen's backstory in Outlander is spread over several flashbacks. His family's death (or rather, Kainan's discovery of their death) is shown before the scenes of Kainan and his family, happy together. | |
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Arrival has Louise regularly flash on memories of her daughter, who died from cancer as a teenager. Sometimes they're general happy times, sometimes they're part of her thinking about the main plot, as when she remembers her daughter asking what "a zero-sum game" means at the opportunity. The Reveal is that these are not strictly flashbacks. | |
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The Season 9 Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic The Hero Of His Own Story. | |
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Elfen Lied at times is all but made up of this trope. | |
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In Goblins, Thaco has this every time he thinks of Goblinslayer. | |
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Doomsday Clock continues the tradition by devoting Issue #4 to Rorschach II. | |
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Quite a few Transformers characters have backstories like this owing to the 4 million war that frames the series' setting. Omega Supreme from The Transformers, Optimus Prime from Transformers Animated, and Arcee from Transformers Prime are among the best examples. | |
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Killer's motivation to kill promiscuous teens in Death Screams is vaguely explained by two short flashbacks to his childhood. | |
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