The BBC website called the episode " One of the most memorable episodes, if not one of the greatest – the satire on youth counterculture is well handled, and Homer's flashback to his youth is fabulous.

The story opens in flashback, ten years before the ( at the time ) current continuity of the Green Lantern comic books, showing an extraterrestrial Barin Char, the Green Lantern of Sector 1522, dying when a xenomorph bursts from his chest.

Much of the Shade's past is revealed through journal entries included in the Starman comics, including the flashback issues called " Tales of Times Past ".

In this adaptation, a flashback during the Ghost of Christmas Past sequence shows that Ebenezer's sister died while giving birth to his nephew, Fred.

The planet makes its first appearance in the revived series in " The Sound of Drums ", where the Citadel, enclosed in a glass dome ( as described by the Doctor in " Gridlock "), is seen in flashback as the Doctor describes it.

Unnatural History contains a flashback in which the Doctor sees himself as a child in the House of Lungbarrow playing under the watchful gaze of his father.

He works mainly in the music hall tradition, although, in the past, has occasionally appeared in drama, including as Malvolio in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night on stage in Liverpool in 1971 ; on television in the cameo role of ' The Tollmaster ' in the 1987 Doctor Who story Delta and the Bannermen ; and as Yorick ( in silent flashback ) in Kenneth Branagh's film version of Shakespeare's Hamlet in 1996.

* The Time Lords, apart from a brief flashback in " The Sound of Drums ", would not be shown again until the 2009 Doctor Who special The End of Time.

The subsequent novel World Game elaborates on this flashback by looking at the circumstances that lead to the Time Lords offering the Doctor a pardon and his known sentence of regeneration and exile in exchange for helping them deal with various problems that they could not be officially involved in ( His original sentence would have been execution ).

* During the Brigadier ’ s flashback he sees Yeti ( The Web of Fear ), Cybermen ( The Invasion ), the Second Doctor ( The Three Doctors ), the Axons ( The Claws of Axos ), Daleks ( Day of the Daleks ), the Third Doctor ( Spearhead from Space ), the First Doctor ( The Three Doctors ), the K1 robot ( Robot ), a Zygon ( Terror of the Zygons ), the Fourth Doctor, and finally himself from The Three Doctors.

Susan appears twice during the course of IDW Comics ' " Doctor Who: The Forgotten " series, first in a flashback to the First Doctor's lifetime, then at the end, as the TARDIS ' matrix takes her form at The Doctor's request.

A brief clip of the Third Doctor taken from Terror of the Autons appears in " The Next Doctor ", another appears in The Sarah Jane Adventures story " The Mad Woman in the Attic " as a flashback, and visions appear in " The Eleventh Hour ", " The Lodger " and The Sarah Jane Adventures story " Death of the Doctor.

Starting with The Catalyst, which is primarily a flashback to an adventure before Horror of Fang Rock, elderly Leela is being interrogated by a Z ' Nai warrior ( a race encountered by the Third Doctor ).

* Drax also features in the novels Divided Loyalties ( in a flashback sequence to the First Doctor's school days ) and The Quantum Archangel ( in an alternate timeline where he is working with the Master, the Rani and Mortimus to destroy Earth ), as well and in Search for the Doctor, a " Make Your Own Adventure " book by Dave Martin.

A flashback in Action Comics # 838 ( June 2006 ) reveals that Doctor Light and The Ray, heroes possessing solar-based powers, took part in an unsuccessful attempt to re-activate Superman's powers.

The Fourth Doctor also appears in Sarah Jane's flashback in The Mad Woman in the Attic, via footage taken from The Hand of Fear.

He is shown only in a flashback detailing Doctor Strange's origin.

The second-to-last issue continued a story ( involving a power struggle between villains Doctor Doom and Magneto ) from the title Super Villain Team-Up, and the last issue's storyline involving an attack by pseudo Sentinels is referenced in the title Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man, which explains in flashback how the team disbanded.

This group is led by Red Hood ( this reality's Joker ) and had alternate versions of Black Manta, Clock King, Doctor Polaris, Gentleman Ghost, Gorilla Grodd, and Sinestro ( the alternate versions of Brain and Kite Man appear in a flashback ).

The three flashback sequences are the first adaptations of original A. A. Milne stories since The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore.

It would later be revisited in " The Bad Guy Club For Villains ," a flashback episode of a classic Adventures of Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy episode called " The Secret Meeting " though it was referred to in this instance by a slight variation as the International Justice LODGE of Super Acquaintances instead with Captain Magma appearing drastically different from the costume worn by Squidward in " Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy V ."

He next appears in a retold flashback story in Professor Xavier and the X-Men ; and outside of continuity in Marvel Adventures.

A variant of this device is a flashback within a flashback, which was notably used by the Japanese film Rashomon ( 1950 ), based on the Japanese novel In a Grove ( 1921 ).

The flashback complete, the rest of the novel takes place after Saccard has made his fortune, against the backdrop of his luxurious mansion and his profligacy and is concerned with a three-cornered plot of sexual and political intrigue.

This spin-off was not based on the novel or the original film, as its only connection with the original is the death of Patrick Bateman ( played by Michael Kremko wearing a face mask ), briefly shown in a flashback.

The rest of the novel is narrated mainly in flashback.

The novel uses numerous flashback scenes and parallel storylines.

The novel is framed by the literary device of an extended flashback.

* In the Stephen King novel It, in the lengthy flashback to the main characters ' lives during the 1950s, Ben Hanscom hears the song in his head every time he sees his crush, Beverly.

The novel is narrated effectively by flashback " in the seconds it takes to die " by Fish Lamb, or the ' spiritual ' omniscient Fish Lamb, free of his restricting retarded state.

The film utilized the same style of the comic, although there are a handful of scenes in the present day that are shown in color, while the rest of the flashback events are illustrated in black and white, as in the novel.

The novel Hannibal firmly states in a flashback that he was six years old when his sister died ; in Hannibal Rising, his age is changed to eight years old for unknown reasons.

Based on Mark Twain's 1872 autobiographical novel, this made-for-cable film is presented in flashback form, as aged humorist Mark Twain ( James Garner ) is invited as the keynote speaker for the Bryn Mawr College graduation ceremonies of 1891.

Much of the novel is a protracted flashback, during which Cantwell reminisces about a young Venetian woman, Renata, and his life as a soldier during the war.

The plot of the novel shifts to flashback of Mary Turner's past life till her murder

Most of the novel is a rather long flashback detailing David and Merrick's adventures.

2005's All the Flowers Are Dying, the sixteenth title in the series, seemed to have been written as a possible final chapter, but a new Scudder book, titled A Drop of the Hard Stuff, -- a second " flashback " novel -- was published in 2011.

Much of the rest of the novel is told in flashback, following Stavia's life from childhood to adulthood.

A flashback scene in the novel shows his father pretending to be drunk so as to brutally bash Jack's mother with a cane.

As originally constructed, Part 1 was an extensive flashback which followed Part 2, but the order of the sections was changed at the request of editor David Hartwell, who felt that the novel worked better in chronological order.

As the novel progresses, both in the present and in flashback, the character is more fully identified as Elwood P. Dowd and said to look very much like actor James Stewart, who played a character of the same name in Harvey.