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* In the ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' storyline "Balance Part 3", Tedd has a flashback to when he met Arthur about getting a lab. In the middle of it, something his dad says triggers a one-panel flashback to their first meeting in "Catspaws Part 23: The Fate of Magic".

* ''Film/{{Homecoming}}'' is structures as a WholeEpisodeFlashback from Lee's perspective as his troop transport approaches New York harbor after returning from UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Yet somehow we still get a flashback-within-a-flashback from his wife Penny, as she remembers how they first met.

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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. And later still, he was revealed[[note]]In ''ComicStrip/FunkyWinkerbean'', which is set ten years in ''Crankshaft'''s future, although [[ComicBookTime they're both set in the present]].[[/note]] to be future!Crankshaft after all, leaving readers totally confused.

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* Chapter 48 of ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'' is a WholeEpisodeFlashback, taking place before the beginning of the series. During that chapter, Sakura recalls her first meeting with Nozaki about a year before that.

* Episode 4 of ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' (chapter 21 in the manga) starts the second half with Kobayashi viewing the aftermath of an incredibly violent dodgeball game before she flashes back to how they got to that point. During the flashback Kanna tells everybody how Saikawa had challenged a group of boys to a game of dodgeball even earlier in the day.

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* The ''Anime/BloodPlus'' fic ''Fanfic/SympathyForTheDiva'' uses this and standard {{flashback}}s to explore major events in the characters' backstory.

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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.

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. Yep, it's confusing.

%% * In ''Film/TheMatrix'' SlashFic ''Fanfic/BringingMeToLife'', this occurs in the later chapters.

* "[[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.

* Episode 4 of ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' starts the second half with Kobayashi viewing the aftermath of an incredibly violent dodgeball game before she flashes back to how they got to that point. During the flashback Kanna tells everybody how Saikawa had challenged a group of boys to a game of dodgeball even earlier in the day.

-->--'''WebVideo/NerdCubed''', ''VideoGame/RideToHellRetribution''

-->--WebVideo/NerdCubed, ''VideoGame/RideToHellRetribution''

* Episode 4 of MissKobayashisDragonMaid starts the second half with Kobayashi viewing the aftermath of an incredibly violent dodgeball game before she flashes back to how they got to that point. During the flashback Kanna tells everybody how Saikawa had challenged a group of boys to a game of dodgeball even earlier in the day.

* In ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'', when [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1270.html Luke asks Bobba Fett]] why he seeks revenge on Han Solo, Fett has a flashback to meeting Solo on Cloud City, at which time he had a flashback to his father's death during the Clone Wars.

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* In ''Literature/HaloNewBlood'', Buck spends most of the novella telling stories of past events. He occasionally goes off on tangents; in one case, he recalls meeting Spartan-[=IVs=] led by Sarah Palmer at the end of one chapter, while the next chapter begins with another flashback to a previous mission where he met Palmer when she was still an ODST.

* In ''Literature/HaloNewBlood'', Buck spends most of the story telling stories of past events. He occasionally goes off on tangents; in one case, he recalls meeting Spartan-IVs led by Sarah Palmer at the end of one chapter, while the next chapter begins with another flashback to a previous mission where he met Palmer when she was still an ODST.

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