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->''"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery."''
-->-- ''Literature/TheDivineComedy''
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* A variation in ''Series/TheHead'' which shows a montage of the psychological evaluation of the future winterers, given that the audience has seen them all [[TenLittleMurderVictims turning on each other in mutual suspicion]].

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* A variation in ''Series/TheHead'' which shows a montage of the psychological evaluation of the future winterers, given that the winter crew of Polaris VI. The audience has seen them all [[TenLittleMurderVictims turning on each other in mutual suspicion]].suspicion]], but here they are all cheerful and looking forward to serving there.
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* A variation in ''Series/TheHead'' which shows a montage of the psychological evaluation of the future winterers, given that the audience has seen them all [[TenLittleMurderVictims turning on each other in mutual suspicion]].
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* ''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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* 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''.]]
* 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.
* In ''Series/{{Monk}},'' all of his flashbacks with his wife Trudy. Averted with his childhood memories, which are awful.



* 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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* In ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "Piper Maru", Scully is grieving for ''Series/CriminologistHimuraAndMysteryWriterArisugawa'', Akemi has to revisit 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 family's vacation home as she's driving, she sees kids playing outside, especially two girls playing hopscotch. part of a case. She flashes back to two years ago when her family (including her now-dead friend and she sees herself uncle) welcomed her into the house, with the colours being much brighter and more saturated to contrast her sister playing the same game.gloomy present.



* ''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.
* ''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.
* ''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.

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* ''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.
* ''Series/{{Rome}}''. Vorenus is having
In ''Series/Jericho2006'', a dream where he's sharing decidedly dark episode about a loving moment in bed [[spoiler:war 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.
* ''Series/TheMusketeers''. Whenever Athos returns to Pinon he
nearby town New Bern]] has multiple flashbacks from Jake to the day of his life with Anne (who would become Milady de Winter), including the two of them frolicking in the meadows.brother's wedding.



* In ''Series/{{Monk}},'' all of his flashbacks with his wife Trudy. Averted with his childhood memories, which are awful.
* ''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.
* ''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.



* ''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.



* 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''.]]



* 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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* 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]] [[CloningBlues Fate's memories]].]]

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* 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]] [[CloningBlues aren't Fate's memories]].]]
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* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': 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.

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* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': ''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.
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* ''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.
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* ''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.
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* ''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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** There are numerous flashbacks to Jigsaw's comparatively joyful life before his StartOfDarkness, the first one being hallucinated by himself in ''Film/SawIII''.
** In a comparatively depressing example, Jill hallucinates a series of these (involving her times with John before their divorce) [[spoiler:just before her death]] in ''Film/Saw3D''.

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** In a comparatively 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''. ''Film/Saw3D''.
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** In a comparatively depressing example, Jill hallucinates a series of these [[spoiler:just before her death]] in ''Film/Saw3D''.

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* Jill Tuck has one in ''Film/Saw3D: The Final Chapter''

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** There are numerous flashbacks to Jigsaw's comparatively joyful life before his StartOfDarkness, the first one being hallucinated by himself in ''Film/SawIII''.
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Jill Tuck has one hallucinates a series of these [[spoiler:just before her death]] in ''Film/Saw3D: The Final Chapter''''Film/Saw3D''.
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* 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.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', during the red moon ritual, Mei has flashbacks to all the experiences she had as a giant red panda.
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* ''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.
* ''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.
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* ''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.]]

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