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6	->'''Orson:''' Roy, I have the strangest feeling that we've done this cartoon before.\
7	'''Roy:''' Maybe it's a rerun?\
8	'''Orson:''' No. When you get the feeling that you're doing things you've already done, do you know what that's called?\
9	'''Roy:''' The writer running out of ideas?\
10	'''Orson:''' No!\
11	'''Roy:''' Because that happened halfway through the second season.\
12	'''Orson:''' It's called déjà vu.
13	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', from the ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' segment "Déjà Vu"
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15	Déjà Vu, literally "already seen" in French, is a sensation of having already lived through what's currently happening. In real life, it's just a regular anomaly of memory recall. In fictionland, it's a sign that something isn't quite right.
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17	Commonly experienced by characters who are starting to realize they are part of a GroundhogDayLoop. Occasionally appears in TimeTravel plots. TruthInTelevision and a source of ParanoiaFuel in RealLife. Related to AGlitchInTheMatrix, Déjà Vu may be a symptom of encountering that trope. May be triggered by passing through a DoorToBefore. Sometimes used for an OhNoNotAgain gag.
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19	An inverse phenomenon, "Jamais Vu", meaning "never seen", also exists. It is the sensation of being in a situation that you logically know you should have experienced before, yet somehow seems unfamiliar and/or novel.
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21	If you are looking for the album, [[Music/DejaVu1970 go here]]. If you are looking for the film, [[Film/DejaVu2006 go here]]. If you are looking for the game, [[VideoGame/DejaVu1985 go here]].
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24	!!Examples:
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28	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
29	* ''Manga/{{Mushishi}}'': One chapter involves Ginko meeting a man who is lured by a mushi, that causes him to go through a GroundhogDayLoop over and over. The result being the man is constantly having a lingering feeling of déjà vu, but since the loop begins at his childhood he doesn't remember what is causing it.
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32	[[folder:Comedy]]
33	* Creator/GeorgeCarlin had a bit on what he called "[[InvertedTrope Vuja De]]," a sensation that what is going on has never happened before.
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36	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
37	* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide''. A hippie stops at a house to ask for directions; upon noticing that the person he's speaking with is an elephant-bird-giraffe-man, he says, "Oh, wow, déjà vu."
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40	[[folder:Fan Works]]
41	* ''Fanfic/ADiplomaticVisit'': In chapter 26, Twilight experiences a brief moment of this when her Equestrian friends unintentionally quote her Canterlot High friends (with Spike getting Rainbow Dash's line).
42	* In ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' ParodyFic "A Fistful of Mammary Gland," the Woman With No Name (just a number: 7 of 9) boards a spacecraft whose crew are split into two factions, Starfleet and Maquis, in a constant state of conflict. [[AFistfulOfRehashes She has the feeling that this scenario has been played out before.]]
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45	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
46	* In ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'', Bing Bong points out several parts of Riley's mind, saying "There's déjà vu!" after naming each one.
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49	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
50	* ''Film/CatWomenOfTheMoon'': Helen the navigator is able to guide the rocketship to the cave on the moon despite never having been there before, yet she feels otherwise because the evil Moon women are guiding her there.
51	* ''[[Film/DejaVu2006 Déjà Vu]]'': Despite lending the movie its title, this doesn't occur until the end of the film [[spoiler:when Denzel Washington's character seems to recall the memories of his temporal duplicate who died just before he showed up.]]
52	* Along with the more obvious usage throughout the film, ''Film/GroundhogDay'' also uses it as the basis for a quick gag:
53	-->'''Rita:''' "Do you ever have déjà vu?"
54	-->'''Phil:''' "... Didn't you just ask me that?"
55	** Also, on his first day in the loop, Phil asks the same question of Mrs. Lancaster, who replies, "[[IsItSomethingYouEat No, but I could check with the kitchen]]".
56	* ''Film/TheMatrix'': Neo experiences déjà vu after seeing the same cat go by twice. The rest of the cast go on alert, as déjà vu is a sign of a recent change made in the program, causing AGlitchInTheMatrix while the agents patched it.
57	* ''Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure'': Earlier in the film, Pee-wee tells Dottie, "You don't want to get mixed up with a guy like me. I'm a loner, Dottie. A rebel." Later, after messing up driving Mickey, the escaped convict, Mickey tells Pee-wee the same thing, and Pee-wee responds, "Déjà vu!"
58	* ''Film/TopSecret'' Our hero is introduces to several members of the French Resistance, one of whom is named Déjà Vu. Naturally he asks if they've met before.
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61	[[folder:Literature]]
62	* ''Literature/AlanAlone'': When Bai leads the group to a secret room inside the Stylol lab building, Alan realises the place is familiar and says that they aren't quite at the place yet, much to Bai's surprise, and leads them like he suddenly knows more than Bai. Stylol is Alan's father's company, but Alan can't place the familiarity to any specific memory, saying that he has been here before, but not in this world.
63	* ''Literature/MissMarple'': ''Sleeping Murder'' starts off with newlyweds Giles and Gwenda Reed buying a house that Gwenda picked out because it feels homely. However, Gwenda, a recent Kiwi immigrant who's never been to England before, finds the house uncannily familiar, and has a flash of seeing a dead body in the foyer from the top of the stairs. After a talk with Miss Marple, she and Giles realize this is because she actually ''has'' been to England before, as a small child, and lived in that house... where she witnessed a murder.
64	* The children of ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' experience this in the ninth book, having been forced in front of a large crowd like in the previous two books. The LemonyNarrator goes on to explain the concept of Dejá Vu on [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment three separate occasions in the one book]].
65	** In the eleventh book, we get a recursive description of the water cycle repeated for several paragraphs before the narrator slips in a letter to Beatrice, hoping that the previous tedious narrative caused readers to skip further or stop reading.
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68	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
69	* On ''Series/{{Fringe}}'', Walter claims that déjà vu is the result of alternate universes: it happens when an alternate version of yourself has been in the same situation as you are now in.
70	* A ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' sketch involves a show exploring the concept of déjà vu. Suddenly the sketch starts over, and by [[RuleOfThree the third time it happens]] the commentator starts to notice something is wrong.
71	* The ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' episode "My Déjà Vu, My Déjà Vu" was used to parody the ClipShow format, where instead of reusing clips from old episodes, they actually had the actors reenact scenes from previous episodes.
72	* On episode 3x01 of ''Series/OnlyConnect'', one of the categories in the final round is "French phrases used in English." Déjà vu is the both the first and the last answer in the category.
73	* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E18CauseAndEffect Cause And Effect]]", the crew are caught in a GroundhogDayLoop, Doctor Crusher begins to experience Déjà Vu and so do the other crew members when she brings up the issue. The feeling gets more intense each time they pass through the loop, to the extent that the officers find they know a poker hand before it's been dealt.
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76	[[folder:Music]]
77	* The singer in ''El Mismo'' by Music/SidMaudlin suggests that they are experiencing déjà vu as they watch their partner’s film, but they really just find the film unoriginal and boring.
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80	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
81	* Last Unicorn Games' ''Star Trek RPG'' supplement ''All Our Yesterdays: The Time Travel Sourcebook''. When people are caught in a temporal loop (a GroundhogDayLoop where no one remembers that they've gone through it before), they will sometimes get a feeling of déjà vu.
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84	[[folder:Video Games]]
85	* ''VideoGame/BioShock1'': One of Andrew Ryan's taunts over the radio hints at [[PlayerCharacter Jack]] experiencing this. [[spoiler:Rapture is oddly familiar to Jack because he's a LaserGuidedTykebomb grown in the city and sent to the surface, programmed to return and kill Ryan.]]
86	-->''"So far away from your family, from your friends, from everything you ever loved. But, for some reason you like it here. You feel something you can't quite put your finger on. Think about it for a second and maybe the word will come to you: nostalgia."''
87	* In the ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}'' trilogy, in the first game's manual, as the our Hero escapes into the escape pod he ponders this: "''Oddly, this is familiar to you, as if it were from an old dream, but you can't exactly remember...''". Not much comes of it until the third game, where the plot is centered around saving the reality from getting eaten by a CosmicHorror, and it involves dream-themed dimension jumping/time-travelling trying to prevent the release of said Cosmic Horror.
88	* Max experiences this in ''VideoGame/MaxPayne1'' while having a bad Valkyr trip. In his hallucinations, he enters a room with a ringing telephone. When he picks up, he hears only gibberish and puts it down. However, the next room he enters looks exactly the same, and the voice on the phone tries to tell him he has been drugged--to which he declares that he only hears gibberish and puts the phone down.
89	* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVGroundZeroes'' features a DLC episode named after the concept which is formed by a series of {{Call Back}}s to the original ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', even allowing you to play as the protagonist of that game.
90	* In ''VideoGame/{{Penumbra}}: Black Plague'', feelings of déjà vu are one of the early symptoms of infection by [[HiveMind the Tuurngait virus]]. The first time you learn this, this particular bit of info is repeated twice, presumably to [[ParanoiaFuel unnerve the player]]. [[spoiler:And it's fitting, as the player character is already infected.]]
91	* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4Remake'': In the last chapter of ''Separate Ways'', when Ada finds a rocket launcher for Leon to use against a mutated [[BigBad Saddler]], she'll comment on experiencng déjà vu. This is a CallBack to the [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake Raccoon City incident]] six years prior where she also found a rocket launcher to give to Leon to help him finish off the Super Tyrant.
92	* Claire starts off the beginning of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations2'' the same way she started ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica''. Getting knocked unconscious, then thrown in a jail cell and having no weapons.
93	* In ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', characters have déjà vu-like memories of the events that happened before the player reloaded the game. Except for Flowey, who can [[RippleEffectProofMemory fully remember them]]. [[spoiler:Sans has learned that someone is messing with the timeline using [=SAVEs=] simply by being very perceptive.]]
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96	[[folder:Webcomics]]
97	* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', this is a telltale symptom of entering a Dreambubble. The sense of Dejá Vu only increases until the dreamer realizes that they're merely recalling a memory.
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100	[[folder:Western Animation]]
101	* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'', after managing to get back from the dinosaur era, a baby t-rex that was brought back presses Jimmy's time remote that causes a ResetButton back to the start of the episode, ending with Jimmy saying déjà vu.
102	* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheBatmanS4E8Seconds Seconds]]", Batman faces off against Francis Grey, a recently paroled convict who can turn back time. Batman begins experiencing Déjà Vu every time Grey resets the timeline, which allows him to eventually predict what Grey will say and do.
103	* ''WesternAnimation/BrandyAndMrWhiskers'' discuss a situation that the rabbit had experienced before in a video game, but he is unable to know the term of it, much to the dog's annoyance.
104	* In ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', this occurs during Danny's fight with [[TimeMaster Clockwork]].
105	-->'''Danny:''' I'm going ghost!\
106	'''Clockwork:''' Time-Stop. ''[rewinds Danny]''\
107	'''Danny:''' I'm going ghost! ''[{{beat}}]'' Whoa... serious déjà vu.
108	* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', both ''ComicStrip/USAcres'':
109	** "Orson's Diner" had a gag where Orson kept taking out and putting away a book on Déjà Vu he found on his bookshelf.
110	** "Déjà Vu" was all about this, revolving around Orson, Roy, Wade and The Weasel reliving the same scene over and over.
111	* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': The episode "[[Recap/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandyS4E3TestOfTimeAKickInTheAsgard Test of Time]]" has Grim give Billy a remote control to travel back in time. Billy uses it on Mandy several times before the latter proclaims this trope.
112	* ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': Grandpa Nat experiences this in "[[Recap/MollyOfDenaliS1E1GrandpasDrumHaveCanoeWillPaddle Grandpa's Drum]]". When Molly and Tooey sing and drum together, [[spoiler:he starts seeing visions of himself and his old friend when they were younger, doing the exact same thing]].
113	* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', after Steven has another dream about Pink Diamond, Blue Diamond arrives and says the same words she said during the dream, making Steven mutter "déjà blue".
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117	->'''Orson:''' Roy, I have the strangest feeling that we've done this cartoon before.\
118	'''Roy:''' Maybe it's a rerun?\
119	'''Orson:''' No. When you get the feeling that you're doing things you've already done, do you know what that's called?\
120	'''Roy:''' The writer running out of ideas?\
121	'''Orson:''' No!\
122	'''Roy:''' Because that happened halfway through the second season.\
123	'''Orson:''' It's called déjà vu.
124	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', from the ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' segment "Déjà Vu"
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126	Déjà Vu, literally "already seen" in French, is a sensation of having already lived through what's currently happening. In real life, it's just a regular anomaly of memory recall. In fictionland, it's a sign that something isn't quite right.
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128	Commonly experienced by characters who are starting to realize they are part of a GroundhogDayLoop. Occasionally appears in TimeTravel plots. TruthInTelevision and a source of ParanoiaFuel in RealLife. Related to AGlitchInTheMatrix, Déjà Vu may be a symptom of encountering that trope. May be triggered by passing through a DoorToBefore. Sometimes used for an OhNoNotAgain gag.
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130	An inverse phenomenon, "Jamais Vu", meaning "never seen", also exists. It is the sensation of being in a situation that you logically know you should have experienced before, yet somehow seems unfamiliar and/or novel.
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132	If you are looking for the album, [[Music/DejaVu1970 go here]]. If you are looking for the film, [[Film/DejaVu2006 go here]]. If you are looking for the game, [[VideoGame/DejaVu1985 go here]].
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