History Main / ThirdPersonFlashback

* ''Manga/MariaNoDanzai'': Kiritaka's [[DeadManWriting diary entries]] as read and remembered by Maria are essentially this. Often combined with DeathByFlashback, since Kiritaka describes the specific horrors inflicted upon him by a character that Maria now targets.

** ''ComicBook/WorldsFinest1941'': In issue #166, Future Batman's flashback includes the Joker murdering his whole family during a public ceremony, even though Batman says he did not personally witness that tragedy because he was too young to be attend the event.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': It happens in every long flashback, but in several cases, the third person scenes are really only there to enlighten the viewer with the whole picture of the past events, because the main character in the flashback often doesn't understand the whole situation, and so it would be confusing and not very good {{Exposition}} to only tell the story through his/her eyes. In most cases, it's not that noteworthy because one character is simply flashing back without any other character knowing it. However, in a few cases, like Nojiko's and Jimbei's, the trope is played straight: here, the flashback is actually one character telling his/her recollection of times past, and the flashback is a ShowDontTell method preferable in manga instead of filling page after page with long speech bubbles. Still, the flashback should logically be told from Nojiko's and Jimbei's points of view, but there are still some scenes (especially in Jimbei's flashback) that they don't take part in and shouldn't realistically know about.

* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'': Frequently parodied:
-->[[LampshadeHanging "How did you know about the parts you weren't there for?"]]
* ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'': Lampshaded occasionally, even making fun of how Tèa was somehow able to remember something when she was unconscious.

* Justified in ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''. During the trial, all the flashbacks of what you did are in third-person, because they were actually coming from somebody else's descriptions.

* {{Lampshaded}} on ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim''. When Zim is captured by Sizz-Lor, we get a flashback to when Zim used to work for him and then escaped; it ends with Sizz-Lor seeing that Zim is missing and vowing to bring him back. When the flashback ends, Sizz-Lor wonders how Zim could remember the part that happened ''after'' he left. Zim has no answer.
* The first episode of ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'', "Super Special Sonic Search and Smash Squad" is a HowWeGotHere OriginsEpisode in which Sonic regales Scatch and Grounder about how they first met. The flashback includes events Sonic wasn't around to see, such as Dr. Robotnik actually creating Scratch and Grounder and Coconuts vowing to capture Sonic first.
* The ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS3E8MortysMindBlowers Morty's Mind Blowers]]" has a series of short vignettes, depicted as being Morty's memories, that have been physically stored and erased. One memory cuts to another set of people, that Morty hadn't even met at that point. Morty questions this, and Rick explains that he cut some things together to make it flow better.

The first episode of ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'', "Super Special Sonic Search and Smash Squad" is a HowWeGotHere OriginsEpisode in which Sonic regales Scatch and Grounder about how they first met. The flashback includes events Sonic wasn't around to see, such as Dr. Robotnik actually creating Scratch and Grounder and Coconuts vowing to capture Sonic first.

The first episode of ''AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'', "Super Special Sonic Search and Smash Squad" is a HowWeGotHere OriginsEpisode in which Sonic regales Scatch and Grounder about how they first met. The flashback includes events Sonic wasn't around to see, such as Dr. Robotnik actually creating Scratch and Grounder and Coconuts vowing to capture Sonic first.

* ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' lampshades this trope occasionally, even making fun of how Tèa was somehow able to remember something when she was unconscious.

* ''ComicBook/InvaderZimOni'': The Memory Visualizer device that Inquisitous "the Observer" uses on Dib, Zim, Gaz and GIR in Issue #39 works on this principle, projecting the memories of the person it's being used on via screen, which shows them from an outside perspective rather than through the eyes of the person the memories belong to. Dib [[LampshadeHanging questions why this is]], but Inquisitous hushes him.

--> "How do you remember the parts you weren't there for?"

* ''ComicBook/InvaderZimOni'': The Memory Visualizer device that Inquisitous the Observer uses on Dib, Zim, Gaz and GIR in Issue #39 works on this principle, projecting the memories of the person it's being used on via screen, which shows them from an outside perspective rather than through the eyes of the person the memories belong to. Dib [[LampshadeHanging questions why this is]], but Inquisitous hushes him.

* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'':

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Every long flashback has this, but in several cases, the third person scenes are really only there to enlighten the viewer with the whole picture of the past events, because the main character in the flashback often doesn't understand the whole situation, and so it would be confusing and not very good {{Exposition}} to only tell the story through his/her eyes. In most cases, it's not that noteworthy because one character is simply flashing back without any other character knowing it. However, in a few cases, like Nojiko's and Jimbei's, the trope is played straight: here, the flashback is actually one character telling his/her recollection of times past, and the flashback is a ShowDontTell method preferable in manga instead of filling page after page with long speech bubbles. Still, the flashback should logically be told from Nojiko's and Jimbei's points of view, but there are still some scenes (especially in Jimbei's flashback) that they don't take part in and shouldn't realistically know about.

* ''Every'' longer ''Manga/OnePiece'' flashback has this, but in several cases, the third person scenes are really only there to enlighten the viewer with the whole picture of the past events, because the main character in the flashback often doesn't understand the whole situation, and so it would be confusing and not very good {{Exposition}} to only tell the story through his/her eyes. In most cases, it's not that noteworthy because one character is simply flashing back without any other character knowing it. However, in a few cases, like Nojiko's and Jimbei's, the trope is played straight: here, the flashback is actually one character telling his/her recollection of times past, and the flashback is a ShowDontTell method preferable in manga instead of filling page after page with long speech bubbles. Still, the flashback should logically be told from Nojiko's and Jimbei's points of view, but there are still some scenes (especially in Jimbei's flashback) that they don't take part in and shouldn't realistically know about.

* ''ComicBook/TheStrangeRevengeOfLenaLuthor'': In Lex Luthor's flashback scene, ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} is seen checking several files to discover the identity of Lena's parents', an event which Lex did not witness personally.

* A frequently mocked in ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged''.

* In an episode of the anime ''Anime/SchoolRumble'', Yakumo has a flashback/dream to when she was a little kid that is from the first person perspective. Up to and including when the camera shakes up and down to indicate her nodding her head.