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* The ''Franchise/DanganRonpa'' fanfic ''Fanfic/FracturedFates'' begins with the protagonist, Hana, being woken up by one of her classmates after having passed out in a hallway. The reason she passed out is unknown, but it is implied to have something to do with her having found something in a nearby room with blood on the floor. Later, this scene is revealed to have been a flashforward to [[spoiler:the beginning of Chapter 1's Deadly Life]]. The scene is repeated word-for-word, only now with the context of [[spoiler:Hana having just discovered the body of Mikio Nakamura and passing out in the hallway due to the shock and horror]].

* The original ''VideoGame/FearEffect'' opens with an FMV depicting funeral procession, with numerus hooded mourners being led by a young girl, before a mysterious, one-armed person in the shadows suddenly kills the girl from behind via SlashedThroat. The game then starts and you later find out the young girl is Wee Ming, the daughter of a powerful triad boss you're supposed to abduct, only for the game's later events to reveal [[spoiler:Wee Ming to be an ApocalypseMaiden. Also, the one-armed assailant turns out to be Royce Glas, one of your player ''heroes'', trying to stop Wee Ming from completing a ritual by murdering her, and that the hooded mourners are actually demons from hell]].

* ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'': Issues #153-156 used this trope to recanonize, explain, and {{deconstruct|ion}} the "Commie Smasher" run. If Cap was a HumanPopsicle at the time and Bucky was presumed dead, then how were they running around fighting DirtyCommunists in TheFifties? A Captain America LoonyFan named William Burnside injected him and Jack Monroe, a kid who shared his obsession with Cap, with a recreated SuperSerum. Why was he so out-of-character? Again, because he isn't the real Steve Rogers, and doesn't share or understand the real Steve's values. The BlackAndWhiteMorality of these comics? The serum they used was [[PsychoSerum dangerously flawed]] and caused them to go insane and view anyone who wasn't a flag waving 'Murican nationalist as a commie. Those stories where [[DesignatedVillain the "villains" were civil rights protesters]]? These were racist violence; the SanitySlippage caused by the crappy serum exacerbated racist viewpoints, leading to them attacking innocent Hispanics and African-Americans.

* An [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8syQeFtBKc PSA]] by Sandy Hook Promise has a story of two students in school communicating via writing on a desk, continuing to do so until they meet in real life and share a romantically charged moment...right as an armed student enters abruptly and cocks a rifle. The ad then shows how [[MeaningfulBackgroundEvent he was in the background of every previous scene]], either being bullied or exhibiting signs of violent tendencies, ending with the message to always be alert to try and prevent gun violence.

** Early on, Simon recounts a story where he, Kamina, and some group mates fall victim to a cave-in. Simon explains that, though, everyone was panicked, Kamina's perseverance and can-do attitude is what gave Simon the strength to dig everyone a way out. Later on, after [[spoiler:Kamina dies]], Yoko recalls the same story as Kamina told it: Kamina had all but given up on their chances of making it out of the cave, and was only able to fake his confidence because he saw Simon's resolve to keep digging.

* Inverted with the opening sequence of ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', which actually makes ''less'' sense on a repeated viewing (since it looks like a HowWeGotHere opening, but doesn't actually happen in the series.)

** The rogue illithid called the Emperor will psychically reveal his backstory to the player and show him working as a hidden ally of Duke Stelman, one of the few aware of his true nature, who he speaks very fondly of. But if they later offend him he's provoked into showing the true version of events, [[spoiler: revealing that his "partnership" with Duke Stelmane was achieved by turning her into his mind-controlled thrall.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatNorth'': In "Slide & Wet-Judice Adventure," Wolf initially refuses to join his family on a trip to the water park as he believes he's cursed to always lose his trunks, as shown in three quick flashbacks of Wolf on a waterslide, in a wave pool, and at the concession stand. Later, when Wolf is discussing poor decision-making with [[ItMakesSenseInContext a trucker he's met]], he realizes that his own poor decision-making is what really caused him to always lose his trunks: he went down the waterslide headfirst (after being warned not to), he went into the wave pool when the wave power was on max (again, after being warned not to), and he wore a T-shirt that said "Pants me, I dare you!" at the concession stand.

* "WesternAnimation/YoungJustice": Being a covert spy thriller set in a DC universe, this trope is utilized extensively in the first three seasons. In the season 1 penultimate episode, "Auld Acquaintances" [[Spoiler:The three members of the team suspected as being moles, Artemis, Conner, and M'Gann all end up on Santa Prisca to join the Light and their respective handler/mentor who have dirt or influence on them, only for it to be revealed that they had come clean about these dealings to their team as a counterplay to the Light.]] In Season 2, the death of [[Spoiler:Artemis is shown at the beginning of the episode but then recapitulated later on as a ploy by Nightwing and Kaldur to facilitate her infiltration into Manta's troops with the same scenes showed at different angles]].

* ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'': Shadowheart is missing most of her memories, but what she does know is that she's an orphan adopted by the Temple of Shar. She can show the player a psychic flashback: she's a child alone in the woods at night, cornered by a growling wolf, when a comforting hand appears behind her, and a group of Sharrists advance on the wolf with spears. Later, [[spoiler:Dame Aylin can reveal some cruical details: the wolf transforming into a man lying on the ground, desperately reaching towards Shadowheart. The wolf was her father, and he was threatening the stranger beind her. Shadowheart wasn't abandoned; this was a Selunite rite of passage where children try to find their way home in the woods]].

Not to be confused with RashomonStyle, which is multiple tellings of one story from various (warped) perspectives, or CliffhangerCopout, in which the [[{{Retcon}} established facts are changed]] rather than reinterpreted. Again, compare with Rewatch Bonus, in which the same scenes have a different meaning on a second viewing of the work, perhaps because the TwistEnding [[TheEndingChangesEverything changed your perception of earlier events]]. Can overlap with FlashbackMontageRealization and NecroCam. [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant If you thought]] that this trope was about characters repeating exposition in a straighter way, see ToMakeALongStoryShort and LetMeGetThisStraight instead.

* ''VideoGame/WildArmsMillionMemories'' opens with [[spoiler: [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Filgaia being destroyed by the Yggdrasil System]] and the reveal that [[TheHero Rudy]] has betrayed your party leading to these events. The scene replays at the end of the penultimate chapter. Turns out it's Siegfried behind Rudy's betrayal. This is later subverted. Siegfried pushed him to betray everyone in exchange for a team up against Mother and returning the Tear Drop, knowing the Memory Maze can be used to bring the world back.]]
* Done ''three times'' with the same event in ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'': Neku starts having flashbacks about [[spoiler:his death]] that flip in meaning each time.[[spoiler:first, he sees his dead body in Joshua's mind, and thinks that he's the one who found his body. Then, he sees Joshua pointing a gun and firing at him, and thinks he killed him. Then, he sees Joshua firing at Sho Minamimoto who was standing behind him, and Sho firing back supposedly killing Neku. At last, he sees the full picture, including Joshua stopping Sho's bullets ''and'' eventually killing Neku.]]

* An issue of ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen'' shows the team reacting to ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}' plan to sacrifice himself covering the team's escape. In the next issue, we see that scene again, but this time [[spoiler: we get to see the secret telepathic discussion they were having at the same time, and what the ''real'' plan was]].
* In a comicbook tie-in to ''Film/GreenLantern2011'', the Green Lantern Corps decide to read an unconscious Hal Jordan's memories to see what kind of man he is. The first memory they see shows him punch out his superior officer and roar that he quits. Sinestro is disgusted and "pauses" the "footage", saying Hal is obviously unfit to be a Green Lantern before storming out of the room. Tomar Re has a little more faith and plays the memory again. It turns out that the superior officer was sexually harassing a girl. Hal stopped him and quit because he could not possibly work for such a scumbag.
* ''ComicBook/XMen'': A major part of Bishop's backstory is discovering a garbled tape of ComicBook/JeanGrey talking about a traitor within the X-Men's ranks. As a result of it being garbled, Bishop had assumed that ComicBook/ProfessorX was among the first to die and Jean was saying that the team shouldn't have trusted one of their own (Bishop suspected ComicBook/{{Gambit}} as a man called the Witness, who was the last person to see the X-Men alive, resembled and acted like him). The crossover, ''ComicBook/{{Onslaught}}'', [[ArcWelding incorporated this]] into the ''Onslaught: X-Men'' one-shot that kicked off the crossover, revealing that Jean was really talking about Xavier's dark side becoming the titular villain, that she suspected Juggernaut had died in Onslaught's rampage (he hadn't), that they should have realized that Xavier's mindwipe of Magneto in the ''ComicBook/{{Fatal Attractions|MarvelComics}}'' crossover might come back to haunt them (which it did, given it gave way to Onslaught), and that Jean wasn't actually killed when the tape ended.

* ''ComicBook/NewAvengers2015:'' Issue 3 has a scene where Songbird visits ComicBook/{{Sunspot}}, and informs him about a tracking device she has that she could barely notice even with her powers, only for them to pause awkwardly when ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}'s "secret" spy ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} enters the room. [[spoiler:Issue 15 reveals she and Roberto already knew about the devices, which they were going to use to spy on S.H.I.E.L.D., and the whole conversation was filled with double meaning, until Hawkeye's appearance required them to make stuff up.]]

* IDW’s ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' often uses this, with flashbacks or events from previous issues being replayed but from different perspectives. The most significant example is when [[spoiler:Onyx Prime is revealed to actually be a time-displaced Shockwave]]; the next issue is a WholeEpisodeFlashback recapping the backstory of the series, only this time we see it all from [[spoiler:Shockwave’s]] perspective in the StableTimeLoop, causing numerous events to take on new meaning.
* In ''ComicBook/XMen2019'', ''Powers of X'' #1 opened with a sequence taking place a decade ago, in which ComicBook/ProfessorX has his first meeting with [[Characters/XMenMutants Moira MacTaggert]], culminating with [[http://twitter.com/Marvel/status/1131954521977049090 what Marvel hyped up as "the most important scene in the history of the X-Men"]]. In the book, Xavier had never met Moira before, but Moira clearly knows all about him and invites him to read her mind. The true significance of the scene, however, wasn't apparent until ''House of X'' #2 was released the following week, which revealed that [[spoiler:Moira, previously thought to be [[{{Muggles}} an ordinary human]], was actually a mutant all along, having lived nine previous lives through BornAgainImmortality by this point]]. At the end of the issue, the last two pages of ''Powers of X'' #1's opening were rerun, the reader now having new context from what came before.
* Issues 153-156 of ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' used this trope to recanonize, explain, and {{deconstruct|ion}} the "Commie Smasher" run. If Cap was a HumanPopsicle at the time and Bucky was presumed dead, then how were they running around fighting DirtyCommunists in TheFifties? A Captain America LoonyFan named William Burnside injected him and Jack Monroe, a kid who shared his obsession with Cap, with a recreated SuperSerum. Why was he so out-of-character? Again, because he isn't the real Steve Rogers, and doesn't share or understand the real Steve's values. The BlackAndWhiteMorality of these comics? The serum they used was [[PsychoSerum dangerously flawed]] and caused them to go insane and view anyone who wasn't a flag waving 'Murican nationalist as a commie. Those stories where [[DesignatedVillain the "villains" were civil rights protesters]]? These were racist violence; the SanitySlippage caused by the crappy serum exacerbated racist viewpoints, leading to them attacking innocent Hispanics and African-Americans.
* The 2022 ''Comicbook/NightwingInfiniteFrontier'' annual opens with the death of the Flying Graysons, and a first person narrator saying he'd never forget the look on the boy's face as they fell. We then flash further back to establish that this narrator is Gerald Chamberlain, the butler to a rich couple and the confident of their withdrawn son, Sheldon, [[spoiler: who is a sadistic monster]]. We then flash back further than ''that'' to establish [[spoiler: he's ''actually'' a murderous identity thief, who gets on with Sheldon because he shares his sadism]]. All of which leads back to the death of the Graysons, with Chamberlain and Sheldon in the audience. [[spoiler: And Chamberlain means he'll never forget the look on ''Sheldon'''s face, which is one of sheer delight at seeing two people die and their son's life ruined, and which encourages him to help Sheldon explore his sadism even further.]]

* ''VideoGame/MarvelsAvengers'': Early in the story, [[ComicBook/MsMarvel Kamala Khan]] uncovers incomplete surveilance footage showing ComicBook/CaptainAmerica being sealed inside the Helicarrier's reactor room by a pre-ComicBook/{{MODOK}} George Tarleton before it exploded, suggesting he murdered Cap. [[spoiler:When more of the footage is deciphered, audio from the cameras reveal that Cap had voluntarily allowed himself to be sealed in the reactor room before destroying the reactor, himself: a revelation that nearly causes the Avengers to collapse. After Cap is found alive and rescued from AIM's clutches, he clarifies that he destroyed the reactor because the Terrigen powering it was reacting with something in the ocean that was threatening to set off a catastrophic earthquake: destroying the reactor saved countless lives that might've otherwise been lost.]]

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* ''WebVideo/DragonballZAbridged'':

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': PlayedForLaughs in "The One". We're treated to a montage of Tobias killing and absorbing all his classmates' "magic powers" a la ''Film/{{Highlander}}'' in a deranged attempt to become Gumball's best and only friend. We're later treated to a montage of what ''actually'' happened: Tobias publicly humiliating himself, screaming a lot and waving a plastic tube around, with what was shown before in the episode only being [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness from his questionable perspective]].

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': In "The Last Crash of the Sunchaser!", Scrooge reveals that [[spoiler:the triplets' MissingMom Della disappeared when she stole a rocketship he was planning to surprise her with, only to get lost after entering a dangerous space storm. The family calls him out on this, accusing him of not doing anything about it and caring only about himself, not knowing what happened after that: that Scrooge ''[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness nearly emptied his money bin]]'' trying to find and rescue her, only to be forced to give up by his Board of Directors when the search grew too expensive and futile]].

** The first episode has Nibbler's shadow visible on the floor of the cryotube room in which Fry is frozen. Nibbler himself doesn't appear until the fourth episode, and the reason why his shadow was on the floor isn't explained until the third season.

** In an episode, Twilight Sparkle gets a message from her future self. Future!Twilight keeps trying to warn Present!Twilight about some disaster, but keeps getting interrupted so she can't finish the message ("Whatever you do, don't--" ''[vanishes]''). Twilight freaks out because she doesn't know what the warning was about. She goes crazy until she realizes what the message her future self was trying to tell her: [[spoiler: [[{{Irony}} Don't worry about the future]]. There was no real danger or disaster beyond Twilight's own obsession over it. Future!Twilight was just going back in time to tell Past!Twilight to not freak out, [[StableTimeLoop but since she couldn't finish telling her, Past!Twilight freaked out]]]].

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': "Rickmurai Jack" does this to Rick's fabricated flashback from "The Rickshank Redemption". [[spoiler: While the flashback indeed played out as it was supposed to, it didn't exactly happen as Rick had shown the Federation. In the version he showed the Federation agent, he was acting laid-back and indifferent when he rejected the other Rick's offer; in reality, Rick acted openly annoyed and stand-offish towards the other Rick and gave him a much more firm and emphatic refusal. Then, rather than figuring out the portal gun equation instantly after his wife and daughter's deaths, Rick had gone into a deep depression for an unknown amount of time before eventually figuring out how to make the gun and going off in search of the Rick who had murdered his family.]]

-->'''Christopher Robin:''' Well, things can seem that way when we're alone, or afraid, or someone's hurt.

* ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'': Shadowheart is missing most of her memories, but what she does know is that she's an orphan adopted by the Temple of Shar. She can show the player a psychic flashback: she's a child alone in the woods at night, cornered by a growling wolf, when a comforting hand appears behind her, and a group of Sharrists advance on the wolf with spears. Later, [[spoiler:Dame Aylin can reveal some cruical details: the wolf then transforms into a man lying on the ground, desperately reaching towards Shadowheart. The wolf was her father, and he was threatening the stranger beind her]].