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Troper48 Since: May, 2020
#1: Jun 18th 2020 at 10:51:03 AM

Edit: Never mind, I took care of the issue. See edits below

For Flashback with the Other Darrin, is it okay to put examples that are not flashbacks to other installments, but rather, new scenes from the same era or the era before the previous installments, but with the later installments's actor? I saw this was the case with the Avatar The Last Airbender example and I've added 2 more similar ones for Harry Potter and Ninjago. I get that it's not exactly the trope but there's not really anywhere else to put these types of examples, and it's similar enough that it would be silly to create a whole other page for it. Can we maybe edit the description to say something about this "common variation" of it?

Edit: I realized the examples I'm mentioning here may work better on Backported Development and Retraux Flashback, but still, I'm not sure about some of the exact differentiations, for example if actor/animation changes in flashbacks to non-previously-shown scenes fall under Backported Development.

Edit 2: I moved the Ninjago examples to those respective pages but left the Avatar and Harry Potter examples because they still more clearly have to do with actors than anyone else.

Edited by Troper48 on Jun 23rd 2020 at 3:51:19 PM

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#2: Jun 18th 2020 at 11:18:44 AM

~Troper48: Moved this to the Trope Talk forum which is more appropriate for this sort of question.

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#5: Jun 22nd 2020 at 1:57:58 PM

What do you mean by the new scenes aren't flashbacks?

Edited by Synchronicity on Jun 22nd 2020 at 3:59:09 AM

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#6: Jun 22nd 2020 at 3:41:29 PM

Presumably, "flashback" in this case refers to a scene that recycled footage from an older installment to remind the audience of something that already happened onscreen.

Troper48 Since: May, 2020
#7: Jun 22nd 2020 at 11:28:16 PM

That's right. So overall I'm talking about scenes in a series that turn back the clock and take place at an earlier time in the continuity, often framed by a character remembering it, but the scene is not one that's been shown before to the audience.

Edited by Troper48 on Jun 22nd 2020 at 2:29:34 PM

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