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* ''Literature/TheGardenOfEveningMists'': Yun Ling, writing in the 1980s, describes how back in the 1950s she and Aritomo visited a temple, and Aritomo asked her about her experience in the camp. Yun Ling tells him, providing another flashback to the 1940s.
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* In chapter 5 of ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'', Nagito's undying faith in his own luck is brought up, prompting a flashback to the end of chapter 1 when Nagito is explaining how he pulled off his GambitRoulette... a scene which ''itself'' contained a flashback to the beginning of said plan.
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* The first chapter of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'' is a flashback relating Ramza's life in the nobility before becoming a mercenary; and within this flashback are multiple flashbacks to Ramza's childhood and friendship with Delita.
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* ''Series/{{Lupin|2021}}'': Every episode has flashbacks dramatizing Assane's backstory and troubled childhood. In the first episode of the third season a flashback to the 90s shows Assane, a teenager in boarding school, going back to his family's old apartment to retrieve some letters. Within that flashback teenaged Assane has another flashback, of his life with his father in the cramped apartment, before his father was arrested and everything went wrong.

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* PlayedForDrama at one point in ''Manga/FairyTail'' when Erza recalls her time as a slave in the R-System. She has another flashback of her sole parental figure Grandpa Rob explaining magic to her [[spoiler:just as he [[TakingTheBullet dies protecting her from a magic barrage]]]].

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* PlayedForDrama at one point in ''Manga/FairyTail'' ''Manga/FairyTail'': Played for drama when Erza recalls her time as a slave in the R-System. She has another flashback of her sole parental figure Grandpa Rob explaining magic to her [[spoiler:just as he [[TakingTheBullet dies protecting her from a magic barrage]]]].



* Use to the point of madness in ''ComicBook/BatmanOdyssey''. The whole story ''starts'' as a flashback of Batman recounting ''another'' flashback to Robin and it just keeps going from there. At one point there's near ''five flashbacks stacked on top of each other''. If not for the fact that it's all presented as serious you'd be forgiven for mistaking it as a parody of this trope.
* In ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' storyline ''ComicBook/TheUntoldStoryOfArgoCity'', Allura recalls ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'s childhood, which includes a scene Allura where recalls Krypton's destruction.

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* Use to the point of madness in ''ComicBook/BatmanOdyssey''. ''ComicBook/BatmanOdyssey'': The whole story ''starts'' as a flashback of Batman recounting ''another'' flashback to Robin and it just keeps going from there. At one point there's near ''five flashbacks stacked on top of each other''. If not for the fact that it's all presented as serious you'd be forgiven for mistaking it as a parody of this trope.
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In ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' storyline ''ComicBook/TheUntoldStoryOfArgoCity'', "ComicBook/TheUntoldStoryOfArgoCity", Allura recalls ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'s childhood, which includes a scene Allura where recalls Krypton's destruction.destruction.
** "ComicBook/TheUnknownLegionnaire": Superboy's flashback where he narrates the Legion's past adventure includes [[spoiler:Supergirl's]] own flashback where she explains [[spoiler:how she lost her memories and created a second secret identity]].
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* Issue three of ''ComicBook/BadGuys'' revisits the team's training period. During then, Hunter has several flashbacks to her own past. The artist uses a different style for Hunter's flashbacks to indicate which flashback is which.

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* Issue three of ''ComicBook/BadGuys'' ''ComicBook/GargoylesBadGuys'' revisits the team's training period. During then, Hunter has several flashbacks to her own past. The artist uses a different style for Hunter's flashbacks to indicate which flashback is which.
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* ''Theatre/ASoldiersPlay'': Capt. Peterson asks Captain Taylor about Taylor's interrogation of the white officers, Byrd and Wilcox, that confronted Waters just before Waters was murdered. That interrogation then plays out in a flashback, with Taylor questioning Byrd and Wilcox. Within that flashback there's another flashback in which the actual confrontation between Byrd, Wilcox, and Waters is shown.
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* ''Film/KuroidoGoroshi'': The first 3/5 of this movie is presented as a single extended flashback within a FramingDevice, as Dr. Shiba gives Suguro the detective his manuscript account of the case, and Suguro reads. So all the flashbacks within that part of the film, like when Dr. Shiba remembers his last meeting with Mrs. Karatsu before she committed suicide, are flashbacks within a flashback.

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* In ''Film/SawI'', a flashback occurs when Lawrence recalls being taken in for questioning by the police. While in the station, he watches Amanda, the only known survivor of one of Jigsaw's traps, tell the police about her kidnapping and torture. This in turn leads to a flashback from ''her'' perspective, after which we return to Lawrence in the present.

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In ''Film/SawI'', a flashback occurs when Lawrence recalls being taken in for questioning by the police. While in the station, he watches Amanda, the only known survivor of one of Jigsaw's traps, tell the police about her kidnapping and torture. This in turn leads to a flashback from ''her'' perspective, after which we return to Lawrence in the present.present.
** In ''Film/SawV'', the second flashback montage spawned from Strahm's solo investigation on Hoffman (specifically, during the Shotgun Chair scene) is juxtaposed with a series of brief scenes that visually detail how Hoffman's period of depression and Seth's murder went down (including a flashback from the previous montage).
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* ''Film/TheFatMan'': Among the film’s numerous {{flashback}}s, Ed Deets is recalling his prison time with Roy when Roy reminisces about how the robbery went down.
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* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' in the episode "Every Which Way But Ed"; each flashback eventually starts yet another flashback, until the Eds themselves are wondering just where they started.

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* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': Exaggerated in the episode "Every Which Way But Ed"; each flashback eventually starts yet another flashback, until the Eds themselves are wondering just where they started.
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* ''Film/DeepRiver'': Kiguchi's flashback to World War II shows his old CO, Captain Minagawa, looking at pictures of his family. Within that, there's a brief flashback of Minagawa's, where he's having fun with his wife and child in happier pre-war days.
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* Use to the point of madness in ''ComicBook/BatmanOdyssey''. The whole story ''starts'' as a flashback of Batman recounting ''another'' flashback to Robin and it just keeps going from there. At one point there's near ''[[UpToEleven five flashbacks stacked on top of each other]]''. If not for the fact that it's all presented as serious you'd be forgiven for mistaking it as a parody of this trope.

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* Use to the point of madness in ''ComicBook/BatmanOdyssey''. The whole story ''starts'' as a flashback of Batman recounting ''another'' flashback to Robin and it just keeps going from there. At one point there's near ''[[UpToEleven five ''five flashbacks stacked on top of each other]]''.other''. If not for the fact that it's all presented as serious you'd be forgiven for mistaking it as a parody of this trope.



* ''Film/RyansBabe'' somehow manages to take this trope UpToEleven, to the point that the flashbacks within flashbacks ''themselves'' have flashbacks.

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* ''Film/RyansBabe'' somehow manages to take this trope UpToEleven, ''Film/RyansBabe'', to the point that the flashbacks within flashbacks ''themselves'' have flashbacks.



* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' turns it {{Up To Eleven}} in the episode "Every Which Way But Ed"; each flashback eventually starts yet another flashback, until the Eds themselves are wondering just where they started.

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* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' turns it {{Up To Eleven}} in the episode "Every Which Way But Ed"; each flashback eventually starts yet another flashback, until the Eds themselves are wondering just where they started.
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* ''Film/RyansBabe'' somehow manages to take this trope UpToEleven, to the point that the flashbacks within flashbacks ''themselves'' have flashbacks.
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* PlayedForDrama at one point in ''Manga/FairyTail'' when Erza recalls her time as a slave in the R-System. She has another flashback of her sole parental figure Grandpa Rob explaining magic to her [[spoiler:just as he [[TakingTheBullet dies protecting her from a magic barrage]]]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' turns it {{Up To Eleven}} in one episode; each flashback eventually starts yet another flashback, until the Eds themselves are wondering just where they started.

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* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' turns it {{Up To Eleven}} in one episode; the episode "Every Which Way But Ed"; each flashback eventually starts yet another flashback, until the Eds themselves are wondering just where they started.
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* In the first ''Film/{{Saw}}'', a flashback occurs when Dr. Gordon recalls being taken in for questioning by the police. While in the station, he watches Amanda, the only survivor of one of Jigsaw's traps, tell the police about her kidnapping and torture. This in turn leads to a flashback from ''her'' perspective, after which we return to Dr. Gordon in the present.

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* In the first ''Film/{{Saw}}'', ''Film/SawI'', a flashback occurs when Dr. Gordon Lawrence recalls being taken in for questioning by the police. While in the station, he watches Amanda, the only known survivor of one of Jigsaw's traps, tell the police about her kidnapping and torture. This in turn leads to a flashback from ''her'' perspective, after which we return to Dr. Gordon Lawrence in the present.



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* ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'': In the episode "Sister, Sister", Gabe uses a flashback to remind Jake of how they use Toby's face for advertising to get some extra money. In that flashback, Gabe has another flashback to the events of "Take Mel Out to the Ball Game", where PJ and Gabe secretly had Charlie be a baby model for money. This was noticed, as Jake [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall lampshades how high his voice was back then]].
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* ''Film/Summerland2020'': The whole film is Alice reflecting on her life. Alice's past relationship with Vera is also shown by several of these within the first.

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