Flashback
Flashback noun - A transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story.
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Present and flashback are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Present" instead a noun "Flashback".
Nearby Word: flash
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Yet, in both the flashback and present episodes, aliens and characters are all redesigned to the point some of them bear few similarities to their model.
Source: You Don't Look Like You - Happens simultaneously in both the present and the flashback in "Last Man." The Cossack has come to get revenge on Jayne in the present, while in the flashback the Six Rifles are trying to kill him as a teenager.
Source: Fan Fic / Forward - The Cossack in "Last Man" gradually becomes more and more unhinged as Jayne kills his team one by one, both in the present and the flashback.
Source: Fan Fic / Forward
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