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7	->''"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery."''
8	-->-- ''Literature/TheDivineComedy''
9	A Happy Flashback is pretty much ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, a {{Flashback}} to a happy time in a character's past. Frequently they have a drastically different color palette from the rest of the film/tv show [[FlashbackEffects in keeping with]] most {{Flashback}}s. It'll be very bright, warm, and colorful (possibly even supersaturated with color) or almost completely white from the brightness, or in simple [[DeliberatelyMonochrome sepia tones]] with blurriness added. Then again, it might be drawn in crayon to ''really'' invoke the "good old days" feel.
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11	The Happy Flashback is often used as a mood counterpoint in a scene that is decidedly dark. It especially helps when the entire story is very sad or even [[{{Tragedy}} tragic]] because it provides a "breather" for the audience and helps avoid TooBleakStoppedCaring. It's similar to comic relief, with the benefit of adding BackStory and helping to breathe some [[HopeSpot hope]] back into a character or plot. The emotional counterpoint is especially useful for storytellers since it serves to show that the character(s) aren't walking bags of {{Angst}}, they ''can'' feel other emotions, and the pain they feel now is all the more keen because they once were happy.
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13	Point in fact, the Happy Flashback is almost a necessity for the TroubledBackstoryFlashback to work as well as it does; transitioning from a SugarBowl into a SugarApocalypse.
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15	Compare HappyPlace and HappierHomeMovie.
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17	!!Examples:
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21	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
22	* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Sui-Feng has one, during her fight with her sempai/possible love interest, Yoruichi. During their time together, we see a younger, happier Sui-Feng. Until Yoruichi betrayed her trust and devotion by running off with [[spoiler: Urahara Kisuke]]. [[WomanScorned Which caused Sui-Feng to become bitter and angry]]; for which the fans dubbed her "Captain Bitch-Ninja".
23	* This happens ''twice'' in ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'', both times leading into a TroubledBackstoryFlashback. Early in the series there's a flashback that shows Rosette's childhood with her brother, Joshua, as well-taken care of orphans who spend their days picnicking and playing before Joshua is kidnapped by the BigBad. The second time it happens is when Chrono flashes back to when he met [[spoiler:Mary Magdalene, whom he fell in love with but accidentally killed when he made a contract with her after he betrayed Aion.]] In the manga version, Rosette even wonders to herself if Chrono attempts to go back to those happy memories in his dreams.
24	* ''Manga/FoodWars'': After tasting Megumi's food, [[spoiler:Koujirou]] starts remembering when he was a child and got in a lot of fights with the other kids at school. After his mother reassured him that he was a nice kid deep down, he cried a little and went back home to have dinner. This may be a ShoutOut to the ''Ratatouille'' scene mentioned below.
25	* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'' dedicates an episode to establishing Shinn's carefree civilian life in Orb and how he really wasn't interested in politics and war, featuring one of these...followed immediately with the Battle of Orb.
26	* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' has one of these in a flashback of [[NationsAsPeople England's]]. The viewer briefly gets a glimpse of America's childhood, with England taking the younger nation's hand and them going home together. It serves to contrast [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution the current situation]] with how happy they used to be.
27	* The ''AudioPlay/SaintBeast'' [=OVAs=] as a whole are meant to be this, although they are tinged with hints of [[CallForward darker things to come]].
28	* In ''Manga/Brave10'', Isanami has this on two occasions, once during the arc where she returns to Izumo, remembering how the temple was before the ninja attack, and in the sequel when she and her adoptive brother Seikai reminisce about playing hide and seek in the temple, [[spoiler:right before Seikai is killed by Susanoo.]] Anastasia also gets one about her happy childhood [[spoiler:in the middle of fighting Jinpachi.]]
29	* ''Manga/LuckyStar'' gets in on this when Soujirou tells his memories to Konata about his late wife, Kanata, when she visits as a spirit. The flashbacks show the times when Soujirou and Kanata were childhood friends, and even the time when Konata was born.
30	* Near the end of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' we see a flashback to when [[LoveMartyr Fate's]] [[AbusiveParents mother]] [[EvilMatriarch Precia]] was a sane, loving parent. [[spoiler: Subverted at the end of the episode when we learn that [[GeneticMemory they aren't Fate's memories]].]]
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34	* ''ComicBook/LesInnommables'': A flashback of people burning alive (thrown into locomotive furnaces) turns out to belong to [[PsychoForHire Colonel Lychee]], who's smiling happily at his wartime memories.
35	* In the ''ComicBook/RedRobin'' and ''ComicBook/{{Batgirl 2009}}'' crossover, Red Robin gets a couple of himself and Batgirl. Just as an assassin named Prudence, who's life he saved, and who he neglected to immediately incapacitate, is pointing a gun at Batgirl's head and saying she was ordered to kill her. The flashbacks include a nice one with a pink background of him and Stephanie kissing, and Tim blaming himself for getting someone else killed. Of course, Bat-Steph then proceeds to hand Prudence her ass, and Pru's gun is revealed to have not been loaded so the tragic contrast is subverted two seconds later.
36	* ''ComicBook/{{Robin\|1993}}'': After Jack Drake bankrupts Drake Industries and sequesters himself in his room refusing to speak to his wife or son Tim reminisces about spending time with his mom while she was still alive and going to the opera with both his parents on the rare occasions they were home in Gotham.
37	* ''ComicBook/SecretPath2016'': [[TheProtagonist Chanie Wenjak]], early in the book, thinks back to when he was living happily with his family.
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40	[[folder:Fan Works]]
41	* In ''Fanfic/{{Mutant}}'', this is combined with FlashBackEcho to wrench all the pain she feels out for the reader.
42	* In ''Film/TheMatrix'' {{Slashfic}} ''Bringing Me To Life'' Smith has a few about Neo. The moonlit picnic in a field with star-gazing, being one example.
43	* ''Fanfic/ToAbsentFriends'': Eleya remembers her, T'Var, Birail, and Tess going on vacation [[BeachEpisode at the beach]] and somehow getting onto the subject of sex and of how T'Var is apparently a virgin. When queried by Gaarra, Eleya insists that she has absolutely no idea how they got on the subject. Tess theorizes:
44	-->“Some combination of booze and the natural tendency of soldiers to turn roughly anything sexual if you leave them alone long enough.”
45	%%* Opens chapter 20 of ''Fanfic/NotAsSimpleAsAHappyEnding''.
46	* In ''Fanfic/UnderTheBigTop'', there is a flashback to the first time Dean and Castiel kissed, and when Dean promised that they would run away together.
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49	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
50	* ''WesternAnimation/Cars3'' does this twice with Lightning [=McQueen's=] memories of Doc Hudson. The first is during his pre-race meditation at the beginning of the movie and remembers Doc giving him advice. It happens again when he sees all the various newspapers of Doc in Smokey's garage, triggering a series of flashbacks to the two hanging out together, showing that Lightning himself was the best part of Doc's life.
51	* ''WesternAnimation/CharlottesWeb'': During the reprise of "Mother Earth and Father Time", as Charlotte is thinking about Wilbur during her final moments, we are treated to a series of Wilbur's wonderful times over the course of the movie, such as being saved by Fern, first meeting Charlotte, having fun with the farm animals, becoming famous thanks to the words in the web, and especially receiving a medal at the fair.
52	* ''Anime/PatemaInverted'': About 2/3 into the film, Patema finds a notebook belonging to Age's father, while they're [[spoiler: stranded on the ceiling structure in the "sky"]]. While Age reads through it, the audience is treated to a flashback sequence which showed how Age's father met and befriended [[spoiler: Lagos]]. The two spent their time together sharing information from their societies, while jointly working on a flying machine to explore the sky. The final entry is a scribbled note summing up their elation: "We are alive". [[spoiler: Which becomes [[HarsherInHindsight a downer]], since his father and Lagos were both killed by the Agian government, as a result, under Izamura's orders]].
53	* ''Anime/TheFumaConspiracy'' has Goemon [[SeparateSceneStorytelling reminiscing to the gang]] about how he met Murasaki while they're on their way to make the HostageForMacGuffin switch. The happy story is then ended with Inspector Zenigata's arrival, and the trio have to escape.
54	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'': When Ego takes a bite of ratatouille, it triggers a childhood memory of when he scraped his knee after falling off his bike, and his mother made the dish for him to cheer him up.
55	* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', during the red moon ritual, Mei has flashbacks to all the experiences she had as a giant red panda.
56	* ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'': Sergeant Calhoun has one right alongside a TroubledBackstoryFlashback, after Fix-It-Felix accidentally presses her TraumaButton by telling her that she is "one dynamite gal". Which are the exact same words her deceased fiancé used when they first met, on their dates (one of which serves as this page's picture) and right before a giant alien bug ate him alive at their wedding.
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59	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
60	* This happens twice in ''Film/BatmanBegins,'' with Bruce Wayne reflecting on times with his father in at least two separate scenes from the movie. [[spoiler:The first is long before Bruce takes on the Batman identity, when he is planning to take revenge against the murderer of his parents. The second is after the climax of the movie, in the second-last scene of it. This is done to contrast the attitude Bruce had at the former time with that he had at the latter time.]] The first leads into a TroubledBackstoryFlashback.
61	* ''Film/TheMissingPicture'': Many flashbacks of the life of the Pan family before the Khmer Rouge came and sent everyone to hellish labor camps. Rithy's father was a teacher, his brother played in a rock band, and Rithy liked to hang out on film sets and watch the actresses dance.
62	* In ''Film/{{Pandorum}}'', Bower has happy flashbacks to his life with his wife back on Earth. Subverted when it turns out that [[spoiler: she left him and stayed on Earth which disappeared.]]
63	* ''Film/TheRoad'' contains a few flashbacks to the pre-apocalyptic family life of the protagonists.
64	* ''Film/{{Rosenstrasse}}'': Most of the film is a bunch of 1943 flashbacks set within a FramingDevice, as Lena, a Gentile woman married to a Jewish man in Nazi Germany, frantically tries to save him from deportation to a concentration camp. But there's one flashback to before the Nazi takeover, showing Lena and Fabian as happy young lovers, deciding to get married.
65	* Happens in ''Film/ShutterIsland.'' Some of the flashbacks have a more surreal, symbolic value and far from all of them are happy (but some are).
66	* ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'':
67	** There are numerous flashbacks to Jigsaw's comparatively joyful life before his StartOfDarkness, the first one being hallucinated by him in ''Film/SawIII''.
68	** In a more depressing example, Jill hallucinates a series of these (involving her times with John before their divorce) [[spoiler:just before her death]] in ''Film/Saw3D''.
69	* ''Film/TheGodfather'':
70	** ''Part II'' ends with a somewhat happy scene showing the Corleone family sitting around the dinner table, as Michael tells them he is joining the Marine Corps and going off to fight in World War II. This represents the end of the happier, together times in the Corleone family's life, and Michael's transition to the lonely, ruthless man we see him as at the end. This is counterpointed by the final shot of Michael sitting alone in the Lake Tahoe compound.
71	** The final scene of the saga is preceded by a montage reprising Michael's happy moments with the women of his life.
72	* In ''Film/HisOnlySon'', Abraham's immediate preparations to kill Isaac are intercut with a flashback of Sarah and Abraham cuddling him as a newborn. In a particularly heart-wrenching moment, a shot of Abraham supporting little Isaac's head is immediately followed by a shot of him doing the same to bigger Isaac as he lays him on the altar.
73	* ''Film/ShallowGrave'' ends with [[spoiler:one flatmate dead, another stabbed and uncertain about his fate and a third discovering they've been cheated out of the loot]]. Cue ''Happy Heart'' rolling over a repeated sequence of the three flatmates earlier in the movie, laughing and hugging. [[TearJerker Wham]].
74	* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
75	** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': 1973 Charles briefly reminisces about the first time he met Raven, which was a much happier and more innocent period of his life than his current state of abject misery and self-destruction. One notable difference between his memory of the event and what we saw in ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' is that Charles as a kid didn't say, "And that's a promise" right after he told Raven that she would never have to steal again.
76	** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'':
77	*** Magneto recalls a couple of cherished moments that he had shared with [[spoiler:Charles in 1962. One line which wasn't featured in ''First Class'' is Xavier telling him, "And it needs you, Erik."]]
78	*** When Charles restores the memories that he took away from Moira, there's greater emphasis on the cheerful times they had spent together.
79	* Several happy flashbacks throughout ''Film/IvansChildhood'', depicting Ivan together with his mom and other kids. The peaceful childhood scenes build a stark contrast to the shadow-filled war environment Ivan finds himself in.
80	* The main story of ''Film/OtherHalves'' is intercut with reverse flashbacks. As the horror ramps up in the A Plot, the flashbacks take us toa happier time, when the team all got along.
81	* ''Film/FourDaysInNovember'': This UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy assassination documentary ends, after Kennedy's funeral, with a montage of Kennedy during his presidency, mostly with his little children.
82	* ''Film/TheNastyGirl'': When Sonya's husband leaves her, there's a brief flashback to their honeymoon.
83	* ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'' opens with a home video of Superman being [[CutenessProximity interviewed by children]] at the scene of his heroics. We then get a montage showing the worldwide mourning and DespairEventHorizon caused by his death in the [[Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice previous movie]].
84	* ''Film/AintThemBodiesSaints'': The film ends with a flashback to Bob detailing his grand plans for himself and Ruth to their unborn child.
85	* ''Film/TrainToBusan'' have [[spoiler:Seok-woo dies remembering the joy he felt holding newborn Su-An for the first time.]]
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89	* In Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{Firestarter}}'' this happens when the protagonist suddenly discovers the dead body of his wife. The feel of emotional pain is in contrast with the memories of their happy life together which start popping up in his mind at that moment.
90	* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' is rife with these, especially with regards to the Stark family. Very often a TearJerker.
91	--> '''Sansa''': "She had last seen snow the day she’d left Winterfell. That was a lighter fall than this, she remembered. Robb had melting flakes in his hair when he hugged me, and the snowball Arya tried to make kept coming apart in her hands. It hurt to remember how happy she had been that morning."
92	* ''Literature/NeverWipeTearsWithoutGloves'' frequently flashes back to moments from Rasmus' and Benjamin's childhoods, often playing in contrast to the tragic things that are happening to them in the present.
93	* ''Literature/TheGirlFromTheMiraclesDistrict'' establishes that Nikita UsedToBeASweetKid by having her flash back to happier moments of her childhood before returning to her current unpleasant life.
94	* In ''Literature/TheMachineriesOfEmpire'', in the middle of the siege, when having to deal with the untrustworthy and possibly insane Shuos Jedao, Cheris has a flashback to a time from her youth when she had a Shuos girlfriend.
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98	* In ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer,'' used extremely effectively in season 7 by going back to a scene we didn't see from the beloved MusicalEpisode from the previous season.
99	* In ''Series/CriminologistHimuraAndMysteryWriterArisugawa'', Akemi has to revisit her family's vacation home as part of a case. She flashes back to two years ago when her family (including her now-dead friend and uncle) welcomed her into the house, with the colours being much brighter and more saturated to contrast her gloomy present.
100	* In ''Series/{{Elementary}}'' episode "Déja Vu All Over Again" we see Watson's life before she met Franchise/SherlockHolmes. She is happy, laughing and hanging out with her friends. When the scene moves to current time, we see her breaking into cars with Alfredo. {{Subverted}} in that overall, Watson actually enjoys working with Holmes.
101	* A variation in ''Series/TheHead'' which shows a montage of the psychological evaluation of the future winter crew of Polaris VI. The audience has seen them [[TenLittleMurderVictims turning on each other in mutual suspicion]], but here they are all cheerful and looking forward to serving there.
102	* In ''Series/Jericho2006'', a decidedly dark episode about a [[spoiler:war with nearby town New Bern]] has multiple flashbacks from Jake to the day of his brother's wedding.
103	* ''Series/JessicaJones2015'' has one at the beginning of ''[[Recap/JessicaJones2015S1E8AKAWWJD AKA WWJD?]]'', of her now dead family leaving for vacation from her childhood home...[[spoiler:right when she's going back to her childhood home with her stalker/former rapist ([[MindRape mental]] and physical) in order to both hopefully record a confession and stop him from hurting and killing people around her.]]
104	* ''Series/KamenRiderBuild'': Kazumi was a farmer before the Sky Wall Disaster rendered his farmland infertile. Now he is the cold Kamen Rider Grease, yet he is also obsessed with the internet idol Mii-tan. When Kazumi tells Ryuga of Mii-tan’s significance to him, he has a flashback to when it was just him and his employees working on his farm together, and watching Mii-tan’s newest videos as they are uploaded as a bunch of cheerful idiots.
105	* In ''Series/{{Monk}},'' all of his flashbacks with his wife Trudy. Averted with his childhood memories, which are awful.
106	* ''Series/TheMusketeers''. Whenever Athos returns to Pinon he has flashbacks of his life with Anne (who would become Milady de Winter), including the two of them frolicking in the meadows.
107	* ''Series/NeverWipeTearsWithoutGloves'' frequently flashes back to moments from Rasmus' and Benjamin's childhoods, often playing in contrast to the tragic things that are happening to them in the present.
108	* ''Series/PersonOfInterest'' starts this way, showing John Reese relaxing in bed with [[TheLostLenore Jessica]], then cutting to John as a homeless alcoholic with a BeardOfSorrow. Later flashbacks show this was the moment before 9/11, when John said [[TenMinuteRetirement he was going to leave the military and marry Jessica.]] Until he turns on the television.
109	* ''Series/{{Rome}}''. Vorenus is having a dream where he's sharing a loving moment in bed with his (deceased) wife Niobe. Suddenly Niobe starts shouting in a foreign language and he wakes up in the squalid room of a bald Egyptian prostitute.
110	* ''Series/SchittsCreek'': The ChristmasEpisode begins with a rare glimpse of the Rose family's former life, as Johnny flashes back to one of their lavish Christmas parties. They are in their BigFancyHouse, surrounded by admirers and Moira and David perform a Christmas medley, known as The Number, for their guests.
111	* In the ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' episode "[[Recap/SmallvilleS08E09Abyss Abyss]]", Chloe starts to forget everything due to Brainiac's interference. She is rushed to a hospital in which the doctor tells her to focus on her happiest memories while they scan her brain. [[spoiler:They are ''all'' intimate moments with Clark. Including their FirstKiss. ''Aww''.]]
112	* ''Series/StrangerThings'': In the episode "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS4E4ChapterFourDearBilly Dear Billy]]" [[spoiler: Max gets these as Vecna starts the process of killing her and then subverts the trope as they give her the strength to break her bonds and escape.]]
113	* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': PlayedWith when the Winchester brother are killed and sent to Heaven, and Heaven manifests as flashbacks to their happiest moments. For Dean, this is when Sam and he set off Roman candles by themselves when they were young and when his mother cut the crusts off his sandwich when he was four. For Sam, he experiences moments from his childhood when he got away from his father and Dean, which hurts Dean when he realizes this is what happiness was to his brother.
114	* In ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "Piper Maru", Scully is grieving for her murdered sister Melissa. Coincidentally, she goes to visit her old father's colleague at the naval station where the Scullys used to live. At one moment as she's driving, she sees kids playing outside, especially two girls playing hopscotch. She flashes back and she sees herself and her sister playing the same game.
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118	%%* Music/KeithUrban's "Somewhere in My Car"
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121	[[folder:Video Games]]
122	* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'', Ike remembers [[spoiler:sparring with his dad]].
123	* This happens in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII''. After Selphie's [[spoiler:home is destroyed by a missile]], the main characters take time to realize that all but one of them [[spoiler:grew up in the same orphanage]]. Although this is a plot-heavy part of the game, the flashbacks are generally happy, with comforting music playing while they happen.
124	* ''VideoGame/{{Loopmancer}}'' have this happening after your first "death", where your mind [[GroundhogDayLoop loops backwards]] to before your wife and daughter died.
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128	* ''WebAnimation/FallenKingdom'': All of "Fallen Kingdom" shifts between the King's happy memories of his kingdom… and wandering through the mob-infested wreck it is now.
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132	* In ''Webcomic/BlueYonder'', Jared remembers fighting as part of the family team, and also incidents from his childhood.
133	* ''Webcomic/{{Daniel}}'' ends on a flashback of Daniel and Christine happily going to a movie together sometime before he was [[MurderIntoMalevolence turned into a murderous vampire]].
134	* It happens during [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/10302006/ Fumbles's torture scene]] in ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'', when he thinks back to the beginning of his adventures.
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138	* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': "Simon and Marcy" is basically an episode-long version of this for [[spoiler: Marceline and Ice King, [[LossOfIdentity though of course he doesn't know it.]]]]
139	* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons,'' Bart and Lisa are on opposing hockey teams. While staring each other down during an overtime shootout, they each have one of these, remembering good times when they were ''friends,'' and not just siblings. They end up hugging and skating off the rink arm-in-arm, [[MoodWhiplash causing a riot in the stands]].
140	* Used to great effect in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': brief still images appear of Iroh playing with children, accompanied by happy laughter, as Zuko wanders through his family's abandoned house.
141	* Used in a ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' episode when Pluto has a dilemma on whether or not to save Figaro and has flashbacks of them playing with each other.
142	* ''WesternAnimation/ObanStarRacers'' has Molly's flashbacks with her parents when she was a little girl. The flashbacks show her that she was UsedToBeASweetKid, but this trope was later subverted when her mother died in a race accident.
143	* ''WesternAnimation/RandyCunninghamNinthGradeNinja'': The Sorcerer had this in ''Stank'd to the Future'' to the 1985. [[spoiler: It just showed him sitting annoyed in his prison, as a different rat did the moon walk.]]
144	** Hannibal [=McFist=] had one in ''[=McOne=] Armed and Dangerous''. [[spoiler:It was similar to the one Anton Ego had in ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}''.]]
145	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' {{parodie\|dTrope}}s this in "[[Recap/SouthParkS7E7RedMansGreed Red Man's Greed]]". When the Native Americans buy the whole town and plan to level it for a twelve-lane superhighway, Stan has a moment of relection to himself, saying, "We'd had such great times here." The flashbacks that follow, however, depict scenes of destruction in previous episodes (specifically, "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E7Pinkeye Pinkeye]]", "[[Recap/SouthParkS4E12TrapperKeeper Trapper Keeper]]", "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E8StarvinMarvin Starvin' Marvin]]", "[[Recap/SouthParkS7E2KrazyKripples Krazy Kripples]]", "[[Recap/SouthParkS2E8SummerSucks Summer Sucks]]", "[[Recap/SouthParkS5E1ItHitsTheFan It Hits The Fan]]", "[[Recap/SouthParkS3E10KornsGroovyPirateGhostMystery Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery]]", "[[Recap/SouthParkS7E4ImALittleBitCountry I'm a Little Bit Country]]", "[[Recap/SouthParkS3E14TheRedBadgeOfGayness The Red Badge of Gayness]]", "[[Recap/SouthParkS2E9ChefsChocolateSaltyBalls Chef's Salty Chocolate Balls]]", and "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E12MechaStreisand Mecha-Streisand]]").
146	* ''WesternAnimation/ElenaOfAvalor'' uses a gold filter with some blurriness for some of its flashbacks:
147	** In "King of the Carnaval" when Elena and her family remembers Elena's late mother Lucia wearing her tiara during a Carnaval parade.
148	** In its second Dia de Los Muertos episode during the segment where Elena sings "Make Them Proud" as she looks back on fond childhood memories she had with her deceased parents.
149	** Also used in "The Return of El Capitan" when Francisco and the ghosts of his old friends remember their glory days as swashbuckling vigilantes.
150	** And for completion's sake, the unhappy flashbacks (Elena's PTSD flashbacks of watching Shuriki kill her parents, the flashback of Esteban and Victor helping Shuriki invade Avalor) are shown in a cold greyish-blue filter.
151	* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' did this in its SeriesFinale, when [[spoiler:Ezra sees a time portal (or an illusion by Palpatine?) in his house, showing his parents doing normal things and calling him to come to the kitchen.]]
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