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%% * In the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' episode "Doctor Who and the Pirates, Dr. Evelyn Smythe tells Sally a story about pirates. As it goes on, Sally recalls an uncomfortable memory in which someone dear to her was killed in a car crash, and she was driving.
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* A variant occurs in a ''ComicStrip/Crankshaft'' arc: A flash-''forward'' shows Crankshaft as catatonic, confined to a wheelchair, and living in a nursing home. His nurse takes him to see a ballgame, though it was rained out. A flashback occurs within the flash-forward and showed a much younger Crankshaft watching a ballgame, suggesting that he retreated to memories of happy times and was unaware of what is going on now. Later on, the creator would reveal future!Crankshaft to be someone else entirely, leaving readers wondering whether there was misdirection or a retcon.

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* "[[Literature/OctopussyAndTheLivingDaylights Octopussy]]", the Creator/IanFleming ''Literature/JamesBond'' short story, opens with the central character reflecting on events earlier that day, when Bond came to his Jamaica home to arrest him for murder, where he recalls the circumstances in the last days of WWII where he did the deed.

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* ''Film/GhostsOfMars'': The movie opens with the lone survivor of a mission to transport a dangerous prisoner from a mining colony being found by Mars authorities, then she tells what happened to the government council in flashback. During the mission, after splitting up to investigate, one of her comrades suddenly shows up with three survivors from the colony, and he explains how he found them in another flashback. When he asks them what happened to the colony, this triggers ''another'' flashback where they explain how they inadvertently dug up the Martian ghosts.

* The events of VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth all take place in little more than a day: I-1 and I-5 are the only ones happening [[InMediaRes story wise]]. Cases I-2 and I-3 are flashbacks, but case I-4 takes place in a flashback within I-3's flashback.

* ''Film/{{Julia}}'', which is based on a memoir by Lillian Hellman, thus making it a WholeEpisodeFlashback, has used flashbacks to illustrate the long friendship between Lillian and Julia.

Can be used in {{Whole Episode Flashback}}s, as a character may recount an earlier episode in which he had an {{Epiphany Comeback}} or {{Heel Realization}}, usually leading to a scene of {{Fridge Horror}}. Can also be used to clarify certain instances of {{Offscreen Inertia}} scenes that were skipped in previous episodes.

These types of flashbacks are used primarily in popular anime/manga to build suspense or burn episode time. ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', in particular, uses this trope almost religiously.

Can be used in {{Flashback Episode}}s, as a character may recount an earlier episode in which he had an {{Epiphany Comeback}} or {{Heel Realization}}, usually leading to a scene of {{Fridge Horror}}. Can also be used to clarify certain instances of {{Offscreen Inertia}} scenes that were skipped in previous episodes.

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* ''{{Octopussy}}'', the Ian Fleming JamesBond short story, opens with the central character reflecting on events earlier that day, when Bond came to his Jamaica home to arrest him for murder, where he recalls the circumstances in the last days of WWII where he did the deed.

Also known as "Inception Flashback", a flashback within a flashback occurs when a character recounts an event in which he/she also flashbacks into an ''even earlier'' event within the flashback. Confusing, I know.

These types of flashbacks are used primarily in popular anime/manga to build suspense or burn episode time. ''{{Bleach}}'', in particular, uses this trope almost religiously.

Can be used in {{Flashback Episodes}}, as a character may recount an earlier episode in which they had an {{Epiphany Comeback}} or {{Heel Realization}} usually leading to a scene of {{Fridge Horror}}. Can also be used to clarify certain instances of {{Offscreen Inertia}} scenes that were skipped in previous episodes.

Can be used in "{{Flashback Episodes}}", as a character may recount an earlier episode in which they had an "{{Epiphany Comeback}}" or "{{Heel Realization}}" usually leading to a scene of "{{Fridge Horror}}". Can also be used to clarify certain instances of "{{Offscreen Inertia}}" scenes that were skipped in previous episodes.

Can be used in "{{Flashback Episodes}}", as a character may recount an earlier episode in which they had an epiphany comeback or "{{Heel Realization}}" usually leading to a scene of "{{Fridge Horror}}". Can also be used to clarify certain instances of "{{Offscreen Inertia}}" scenes that were skipped in previous episodes.

Also known as "Inception Flashback", a flashback within a flashback occurs when a character recounts an event in which he/she also flashbacks into ANOTHER event within the flashback. Confusing, I know.

These types of flashbacks are used primarily in popular anime/manga to build suspense or burn episode time. Bleach, in particular, uses this trope almost religiously.