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* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' is full of these, starting with flashbacks to the UsefulNotes/PlayStation-era graphics of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', up to and including [[spoiler:a fully playable flashback sequence with graphics and gameplay straight out of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'']].

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'' is full of these, starting with flashbacks to the UsefulNotes/PlayStation-era graphics of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', up to and including [[spoiler:a fully playable flashback sequence with graphics and gameplay straight out of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'']].

* There is an ''ComicStrip/AlleyOop'' story arc a few years ago where Alley's no-good cousin Early Oop shows up in Moo and makes trouble by impersonating Alley, despite Alley's insistence that they look nothing alike. Early is designed to look like Alley's original appearance.

* In the WebAnimation/HomestarRunner cartoon [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/deck.html No Hands On Deck!]], Homestar undergoes a brief shift in art and voice when Bubs brings up "melonade".

** In "So Far...", while describing the harassment he's getting at his house, the beat switches briefly to "I'm Back" (to describe a dead cat someone left in his mailbox) and "The Real Slim Shady" (to describe [[BurgerFool Burger King workers]] spitting in his onion rings). Em also returns to an impression of the vocal delivery he used on those songs.

** "Key (Skit)" is Slim singing an [[SoUnfunnyItsFunny extremely stupid]] improvised song about hot chicks in the gurgling scream voice he used in parts of ''Encore'', like the intro to "Big Weenie" and the "''ah-ah-ah-ah-ah!''" adlibs in "Just Lose It". He then switches to a high-pitched voice with a silly accent reminiscent of the one used in the "my salsa" outro to "My Band".
** "Discombobulated" opens with Slim briefly rapping in his ''Relapse''-era accent and singing style, over a beat reminiscent of ''Relapse''. He also sings the hook as ''Relapse'' Shady.

** "Discombobulated" opens with Slim briefly rapping in his ''Relapse''-era accent and singing style, over a beat reminiscent of ''Relapse''.

* The 2017 ''VideoGame/{{Tamagotchi}}'' short film ''Anime/EigaTamagotchiHimitsuNoOtodokeDaiSakusen'', being made to celebrate the ''Tamagotchi'' franchise's 20th anniversary, features a few throwbacks to earlier installments of the franchise. In particular, the short has a unique art style combining the original virtual pets' modern blue-outline art style introduced in 2004 and the more detailed art style of [[Anime/{{Tamagotchi}} the 2009 TV show]] (Creator/OLMIncorporated animated both the TV show and the short).

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Homerazzi" there is one scene where Marge is taking a picture of Homer, Bart, and Lisa as they appeared on ''Series/TheTraceyUllmanShow''' under a banner saying "Happy 1987". After the picture is taken, they fix their hair to become the normal versions.
* In ''WesternAnimation/RunawayBrain'', after the mind swap Julius finds some photos in Mickey's wallet. One of them is of Mickey as he looked in ''WesternAnimation/SteamboatWillie''.

* This occurs in the WebAnimation/HomestarRunner cartoon [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/deck.html No Hands On Deck!]]
-->'''Homestar Runner''': Yeah, melonade! We haven't talked about that much lately! Maybe we can eat some (His head turns into his 2000 design's head)\\
'''2000 Homestar''': marshmallows (His head turns back to normal)\\
'''Homestar Runner''': too!\\

When this is used to refer to events that happened at the time of the referenced style, it's a RetrauxFlashback.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Homerazzi" there is one scene where Marge is taking a picture of Homer, Bart, and Lisa as they appeared on "The Tracy Ullman Show" under a banner saying "Happy 1987". After the picture is taken, they fix their hair to become the normal versions.

** In ''PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', There's a curtain in an area near the end of the game that does this to Mario ''and'' all of his partners.

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'' is full of these, starting with flashbacks to the {{Playstation}}-era graphics of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', up to and including [[spoiler:a fully playable flashback sequence with graphics and gameplay straight out of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'']].