Claudia Wells in Back to the Future (top) and her replacement Elisabeth Shue in Back to the Future Part II (bottom).
"This is what my voice sounds like now. I don't care if it's jarring, get over it. And that voice changer ray had chronotons in it, so this is what I'm gonna sound like in flashbacks too. You got a problem with that? Then tough shit. It's called science."
— Korvo, Solar Opposites
It's time for a Flashback to a previous installment, but wait! That installment was made before you switched to The Other Darrin. What do you do? Why, refilm the old scene with the new actor, of course!
Sister Trope to The Other Marty. Sub-Trope of Flashback and The Other Darrin. See also Backported Development wherein it's a character's personality in a flashback that is inconsistent with their portrayal in that previous installment, and Retraux Flashback wherein a previous era's visual style is used again when flashing back to it. If the flashback is not a scene from a previous installment, it's a variation of Backported Development.
Examples:
open/close all folders
Anime and Manga
- Rukia's flashback with her days of training with Kaien Shiba in Bleach was first seen in Episode 49. Then Kaien comes back in another form nearly 100 episodes later, This is all fine and well in the Japanese version where Toshihiko Seki reprises his role as Kaien...but Kaien's original dub voice actor, Kim Strauss, had left the show at this point. As a result, Dave Mallow was given the role (Strauss' other role, Sajin Komamura, was also recast with J.B. Blanc) and when it came time for the flashbacks, Strauss' dialogue was dubbed over by Mallow.
- Digimon:
- In the English dub of Digimon Adventure, the episode "The Ultimate Clash" features a flashback to the first episode. In the brief clip, Koromon, who was voiced by MJ Lallo in the first episode, is instead voiced by Brianne Siddall, who took over the role later.
- A variation occurs in the Digimon Adventure 02 movie "Digimon Hurricane Landing!! Transcendent Evolution!! The Golden Digimentals". When Takeru is deaged, his voice is still provided by his 02 actor Taisuke Yamamoto, rather than his Adventure actor Hiroko Konishi, who had retired from voice acting by that time. The English dub version depicted in Digimon: The Movie avoids this, as it has him shift from his 02 actor Doug Erholtz to his Adventure actor Wendee Lee.
- During the English dubbing of Excel♡Saga, Excel actress Jessica Calvello blew out her voice and had to be replaced for the show's second half. During an episode late in the series, we flash back to the first episode, but Larissa Wolcott has recorded over Calvello's lines.
- Knight Hunters: The actors remained the same, but because legal issues prevented Weiß Kreuz Glühen from using the original character designs, flashbacks to the previous series (and two photographs supposedly taken around that time) had to be redone with the new character designs.
- An unusual example, partly combined with Orwellian Retcon, comes from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED CE.73: Stargazer. Mamoru Miyano was brought in to play Shams Couza for the third and final episode after Hiroshi Kamiya was injured in a car accident. The DVD release has Miyano playing Shams in all three episodes, having re-recorded Kamiya's dialog for the first two episodes as well.
- This all became Hilarious in Hindsight a couple of years later thanks to Mobile Suit Gundam 00, where the two actors play teammates, and Kamiya's character hates Miyano's at the start.
- In episode 343 of Naruto Shippuden, young Obito Uchiha's lines from the Kakashi Gaiden flashback episode are redubbed by Megumi Han, replacing Sosuke Komori as the character's voice. In addition, young Kakashi's lines are redubbed by Mutsumi Tamura.
- Many anime which go through an Art Evolution will redraw the flashbacks to match the updated art. For example, Pokémon the Series once flashbacks to a scene with Pikachu and Ash's Caterpie. When the scene was first drawn, Caterpie had a yellow mouth; however, the flashback redraws Caterpie with its now-accepted green mouth.
- The entire English cast was replaced in season 9 when another company took over. Thus many flashbacks have redubbed lines.
- Incidentally, in the much-hyped episode during the N arc of Black & White where Charizard rejoins, with the exceptions of Charizard (who used the Japanese voice both ways), Brock (who we already had for a while), and Damian (whose voice actress had died), most of the dialogue in the flashbacks was just short lines, if any. Koga retains his original VA, but between Misty just having exclamations and Jessie just yelling, the episode ended up being a Mandatory Line with the Other Darrin for some of the roles. The trope also applied in the Japanese version of the above-referenced episode, due to the fact that the original episodes were in 4:3 resolution, whereas Black & White is in 16:9. In addition, most of the Pokémon moves are re-drawn to match the way they are executed in the modern anime, with one exception: Clair's Dragonair is seen using Iron Tail simply by having its tail turn white before unleashing its attack, where in the then-modern anime Iron Tail was normally seen as the tail actually taking on an iron-like texture.
- When Journeys reintroduces the Greninja that fought with Ash back in XY, its "Ash-Greninja" Super Mode is Ret Conned out of existence, down to a Flashback to the climactic battle of that season being redrawn to show it as a normal member of its species. This corresponds to Greninja's "Battle Bond" ability in the videogames being altered to provide a simple stat boost rather than a transformation.
- Zigzagged with Ho-Oh. In its original appearance, Ho-Oh was pure golden due to it being a prototype that wasn't fully realized yet. In the Johto League Champions episode "A Ghost of a Chance", Ash flashes back to Ho-Oh. By this point, Ho-Oh was a fully realized Pokémon, but the flashback is simply a reused clip with the same colors. In the Diamond and Pearl episode "Dawn of a New Era!" he flashes back again, and this time Ho-Oh has its proper colors.
- Averted and played straight in the English dub of Ranma ½. There were two respective flashback episodes in Seasons 1 and 4. In the first, Female Ranma's English actress Brigetta Dau had only done her voice for the first six episodes and Venus Terzo had been voicing her since then, but any clips from the episode that took place in Episodes 1-6 kept Brigetta's dialogue. During the second one, Richard Ian Cox had recently taken over the role of Male Ranma from Sarah Strange, and this episode featured several flashbacks to Season 1, so Male Ranma's dialogue was notably redubbed with Cox.
- The first episode of Tenchi Muyo!'s third OVA featured a flashback episode explaining events from the previous two OVAs. However, the voice actress for Ryoko had been replaced for the new series, so the flashback clips had been dubbed over with the new voice actress, Mona Marshall.
- Mihoshi too where Rebecca Forstadt was redubbing Ellen Gerstell.
- Yu-Gi-Oh!:
- In Season 4 of the English dub, during the flashback to Season 1 when Mai Valentine giving Joey her Glory of the King's Hand card, she is voiced by Erica Schroeder, who took over for Megan Hollingshead after the latter moved out of New York.
- In early episodes of the English dub, Monster Reborn is referred to by its OCG name, "Reborn the Monster". This is because its TCG counterpart hadn't been released yet. Flashbacks to those episodes have the dialogue dubbed over with "Monster Reborn".
- Averted with Trunks in Dragon Ball Super. Alexis Tipton was taking over for Laura Bailey, but flashbacks to scenes in Dragon Ball Z Kai recycle Bailey's original dialogue.
- Played straight in the Italian dub, with Claudio Moneta, Luigi Scribani and Federico Zanandrea doing Goku, Crillin and Freezer in flashbacks instead of recycling Paolo Torrisi, Marcella Silvestri and Gianfranco Gamba's lines.
- Played straight in the flashbacks to the redrawn History of Trunks scenes, since they're both reanimated (to keep up the lie that Future Trunks has always had blue hair) and paced differently than the original version to be faster within the episode. The English dub has Kyle Hebert voice Future Gohan, who was originally voiced by Dameon Clarke in the dub of the special. Hebert has been voicing Future Gohan in the video games he appears in for years, so this was expected.
- Also, like Kai, kid Goku is voiced by Colleen Clinkenbeard in the English dub, who'd taken over the role at the same time as she took over Gohan from Stephanie Nadolny, in the flashbacks to the original Dragon Ball series. This was done for practical reasons, since these scenes were also reanimated from the ground up.
Comic Books
- In the comic book Fury's Big Week (the official prequel to The Avengers), there is a brief scene showing Bruce Banner working at the Brazilian soda plant during the events of The Incredible Hulk. Banner is drawn to look exactly like Mark Ruffalo, the actor who played him in The Avengers and all subsequent MCU movies, rather than Edward Norton, who actually played Banner in The Incredible Hulk.
Comic Strips
- In the Zits illustrated novel Zits: Chillax, a flashback shows Hector with his new character design, even though the scene takes place before the Posse gave him a makeover.
Fan Works
- Smash King 2Decades: At the end of Episode 2, King K. Rool (voiced by CrayZBrawlr), visits Kongo Jungle to instigate a fight with Donkey Kong, the latter of which is only voiced via grunts from Takashi Nagasako. Episode 4 starts with a brief prelude that shows the end of Episode 2 from Donkey Kong's perspective, where he hears K. Rool calling out to him, with DK voiced by Big Wes and K. Rool voiced by DrDark7/Broken Dark.
Films — Animation
- The The Fairly OddParents! TV movie Abra-Catastrophe! has flashbacks to the original Oh Yeah! Cartoons shorts. The major difference is that Timmy's lines have been redubbed by Tara Strong rather than Mary Kay Bergman, who voiced him in the shorts.
- Frozen II has Elsa and Anna's parents King Agnarr and Queen Iduna voiced by Alfred Molina and Evan Rachel Wood after being voiced by Maurice LaMarche and Jennifer Lee in the first film, likely due to them getting more focus as characters.
- The Lion King 1 ½: Edward Hibbert, who took over for Zazu in Timon & Pumbaa and The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, voices him during scenes set during the first film, where he was originally portrayed by Rowan Atkinson.
- Toy Story 4 begins with a flashback between the second and third films, with Slinky Dog voiced by his current actor Blake Clark as opposed to the late Jim Varney. In the same film, when revisiting the scene from the end of the third film where Andy gives his toys to Bonnie, Madeleine McGraw, who voiced Bonnie in this film, does her lines there as well, as her original voice Emily Hahn had aged out of the role.
Films — Live-Action
- Annabelle Comes Home: The film is an interquel set in 1972, a year after The Conjuring and 4 years before the start of The Conjuring 2, but the role of Judy Warren is recast with Mckenna Grace instead of Sterling Jerins due to the latter being too old to play Judy at that point in the timeline, though Jerins would return to the role in The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It.
- The 7th Company: The scene where the three French protagonist soldiers help the 7th Company prisoners to flee under the nose of the Germans at the end of the first film was redone for the beginning of the sequel, with Henri Guybet as Tassin instead of Aldo Maccione.
- Back to the Future:
- The ending scene of the original Back to the Future is also the opening scene of Back to the Future Part II. Since Elisabeth Shue had replaced Claudia Wells as Jennifer, the scene was refilmed for the sequel. The re-shot version is nearly identical, with the only significant difference being that Doc Brown now hesitates momentarily before responding to Marty asking whether he and Jennifer end up as "assholes" in order to provide some Foreshadowing to revelations later in the film, plus an additional scene of Biff seeing the DeLorean take off to set up him recognizing it later. Some footage was reused from the first movie, such as shots of the car and some shots where only Doc is on screen. You'll notice that Shue's and Wells' hairstyles don't match up. Marty's also looks a bit older as well. Sure, most people didn't notice at first because of the four-year lag in Real Life, but if you watch the two films back to back it can be pretty jarring.
- Crispin Glover also didn't return, so in all refilmed 1955 scenes in Part II, George McFly, now played by Jeffrey Weissman donning prosthetic makeup to make him more closely resemble Glover, is always seen from behind and/or is out of focus in the background (except a few shots of recycled/unused footage from the first film). The aforementioned opening simply reused the footage of Glover from the first movie for his one shot, though Weissman would later play 1985 George near the end of Back to the Future Part III. Afterwards, Glover sued the producers for recreating his likeness with prosthetic makeup on another actor, most prominently in the 2015 scenes, and this led to the Screen Actors Guild writing new rules about using stock footage of actors.
- The Spear Carrier couple ("Who is that guy?" "That's George McFly..."), one of whom was played by Shirley MacLaine's daughter Sachi Parker, also get replaced in Part II's 1955 scenes, as do most of the other 1955 extras (aside from Strickland, Biff's gang, Lorraine's friend Babs, and all of the Starlighters).
- Speaking of 1955 extras, the character Lester ("I think he took his wallet") was played by an unnamed extra in part one, who could be seen crouching over Biff. Obviously, as Lester became a marginally Ascended Extra thanks to Marty's interference in Part II, he was Other Darrin'd by Wesley Mann for the sequel.
- Captain America: Brave New World: Harrison Ford takes over the role of Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross from William Hurt in earlier movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe after the latter died in 2022. While Hurt portrayed Ross with his trademark mustache, Harrison doesn't. However, there is a short clip early in the movie that is chronologically set right after the events of The Incredible Hulk (2008), featuring Ford wearing the mustache.
- In The Dark Knight Rises, Bruce has a picture of his lost love Rachel Dawes. The picture is of Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Dark Knight) rather than Katie Holmes (Batman Begins).
- The prologue to Darkman II: The Return of Durant. Technically it's the same footage as the first movie, but Liam Neeson has been replaced with Arnold Vosloo via trick photography.
- The beginning of Desperado features a flashback to the end of El Mariachi, with Antonio Banderas replacing Carlos Gallardo as the mariachi. It's pretty convincing, unless you've just watched the original film and notice how much the guy playing the villain has aged.
- Doctor Sleep recreates some iconic moments from The Shining using recreated scenes with new actors, rather than using archive footage.
- Both the events that concluded Evil Dead 2 and the actress playing Linda changed in the flashback in Army of Darkness. This also applies to the events that concluded the original The Evil Dead (1981) in the flashback at the beginning of 2.
- In 2002 sequel Firestarter 2: Rekindled, Charlie McGee is played by Margeurite Moreau. When she has flashbacks to the experiments that The Shop forced her to do as a child, the scenes were specially-shot new scenes; instead of simply reusing footage of Drew Barrymore playing the 9-year-old Charlie in the original 1984 film Firestarter. There could be a couple of reasons for this - significantly better special effects in the intervening 18 years, or the higher picture quality of recording all-new scenes over reusing rather old footage. Or maybe it was cheaper to use a new actress than to pay Drew Barrymore for the reused footage.
- The Fly II shows video footage of Martin Brundle's father, and his mother's voice is heard from offscreen. The footage is a deleted scene from the first movie with Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle, but the voice is Geena Davis' replacement Saffron Henderson.
- In The Ghost of Frankenstein, there are flashbacks with footage from the original 1931 film with Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein, (even though the ghost of Henry is played by a different actor) yet, as Lon Chaney Jr. played the Monster in this film, new shots of Chaney were inserted into the old footage, replacing Boris Karloff.
- Gidget Goes Hawaiian. The original Gidget featured Sandra Dee in the title role, but she was replaced by Deborah Walley in the sequel. Therefore, Gidget Goes Hawaiian recreated scenes from the first film with the redheaded Walley in place of the blonde Dee.
- In Gladiator II, some flashbacks of Lucius' childhood have shots similar to the first film, with Alfie Tempest replacing Spencer Treat Clark.
- Godzilla vs. Megaguirus does an interesting take on this. The beginning uses footage from the first film, Gojira, as part of the film's timeline history, but the original Godzilla is replaced with the modern suit. Justified in that Godzilla wasn't defeated by the Oxygen Destroyer in this timeline, so it is the same Godzilla in both 1954 and 2001. At least, not completely destroyed. While the opening newsreel implies that Godzilla just wandered off after attacking Tokyo, there's a line later on where a character says that "this time" they must make sure there's nothing left of Godzilla, that they can't make the same mistake again. So perhaps the idea was that he was nearly destroyed (or Oxygen Destroyed) and then regenerated.
- Halloween II (2009): The opening scene is a flashback set after Michael's been institutionalized but before he commits the nurse murder that leads his mother to commit suicide, with the young Michael played by Chase Wright Vanek instead of Daeg Faerch due to the latter hitting a growth spurt since the last film's release.
- Howling II: Stirba: Werewolf Bitch: They don't even make Karen's on-air transformation remotely look like the scene from the first movie. Possibly lampshaded when Ben calls the footage he is shown fake and claims the Karen in the video looks nothing like his sister.
- Marvel Cinematic Universe: The Howard Stark memorial slideshow at the start of Iron Man (2008) has the 1970s-1980s version of Howard played by Gerard Sanders. Subsequent appearances of Howard in this time frame in Iron Man 2, Captain America: Civil War, Ant-Man (2015), and Avengers: Endgame has him played by John Slattery.
- Paddington in Peru: Emily Mortimer replaces Sally Hawkins in the role of Mary Brown from the previous movies. Near the end of the movie, when Mary remembers her first meeting with the titular bear as shown in Paddington (2014), Mary is only shown from behind, allowing Mortimer to redub Hawkins' text from that movie.
- The Phantasm sequels all begin by partially reprising the closing scene of the previous film. Between Phantasm II and Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead Michael Baldwin had reclaimed his role of Mike from James Legros, so some shots from Phantasm II were redone and edited into the existing footage.
- Terminator Genisys has scenes that revisit The Terminator before Timey-Wimey Ball creates a new alternate timeline. Aside from Arnold Schwarzenegger (whose 1984 de-aged face is placed over a body double), everyone else is played by other actors — Emilia Clarke in place of Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor, and Jai Courtney in place of Michel Biehn for Kyle Reese, etc.
- The sequel to Les Visiteurs, Les Visiteurs II: The Corridors of Time, starts with a Previously on… sequence showing events of the first film. Valérie Lemercier played both Dame Frénégonde and Béatrice in the first film. Both are played by Muriel Robin in this sequence, since she played both characters in the sequel.
Live-Action TV
- The pilot movie of Alien Nation featured Matt (played by Gary Graham) recalling events of the 1988 movie which preceded the series. The flashback included footage from the film, intercut with shots of Graham as Matt, who was played by James Caan in the film.
- All My Children reshot several old scenes after Rebecca Budig was replaced by Sabine Singh as Greenlee (only to bring back Budig months later and have the same problem again).
- Arrowverse:
- In Season 2 of Arrow, Sara Lance resurfaces with Caity Lotz replacing Jacqueline MacInnes Wood in the flashback set aboard the Gambit.
- On Supergirl, Laura Benanti portrayed Alura Zor-El (and by extension, her twin sister Astra) for the first two seasons, but theatre commitments in New York prevented her from returning for the third year, and the role was recast with Erica Durance. Alura's new likeness is introduced via a dream sequence in the season premiere, and the second episode's B plot involves Kara being forced to relive the trauma of being deployed from Krypton, flashing back to moments from the pilot with new footage to accommodate Durance's casting.
- The first time John Sheridan's wife Anna appeared on Babylon 5, she was played by Beth Toussaint. In future appearances, she was played by Melissa Gilbert, Bruce Boxleitner's actual wife; in a flashback scene to that original appearance, they reshot with Gilbert. J. Michael Straczynski suggested he'd wanted to edit the original episode, but never did.
- In Baywatch Season 2, Mitch's brother Buzz was played by Tim Thomerson, but when Buzz reappeared in Season 4, he was now played by John Beck. A flashback to a nighttime conversation from Buzz's first appearance had Thomerson replaced with Beck, but thanks to the show's notoriously lazy production values, the new scene took place during the day.
- Cobra Kai: A picture of John Kreese in the Cobra Kai dojo as shown in the original Karate Kid trilogy depicts him as already having the appearance of Martin Kove by the time he was finished his service in the army in the early 1970s, with a flashback in the first season to Johnny's introduction to Cobra Kai in 1979 having Kreese make a voice cameo via archive audio of Kove from his introduction in The Karate Kid (1984). However, flashbacks in Season 5 from the mid-70s to 1980 feature him being played by Barrett Carnahan, continuing from the 1960s flashbacks from Season 3.
- Season 5 of The Crown, which covers 1991-1997, has a flashback in the episode "Mou Mou" to Wallis Simpson's funeral in 1986, featuring Elizabeth, Phillip, Charles, Diana, the Queen Mother, and Margaret played by their new actors instead of the cast from the third and fourth seasons, the funeral taking place during the latter's timeframe.
- Dexter: Original Sin: The original show featured flashbacks to the early 1990s where Dexter and Deb were played by Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Carpenter, while this series recasts them with Patrick Gibson and Molly Brown. James Remar is also replaced by Christian Slater not just for the main storyline in the 90s, which takes place a year before his death, but also for the 70s flashbacks, with the role of Laura Moser being recast from Sage Kirkpatrick to Brittany Allen. Dexter's first victim Nurse Mary is also recast with Tanya Clarke, having been originally played by Denise Crosby.
- A variation in Doctor Who concerning hairstyles rather than actors - the opening shot of "Robot" is a reprise of the cliffhanger at the end of "Planet of the Spiders", but it had to be rerecorded due to Elizabeth Sladen, Nicholas Courtney and Tom Baker all having drastically altered their hairstyles since "Planet of the Spiders" (Sladen and Courtney's hair was now noticeably longer and Baker had grown out the relaxed hair he'd been given to make him resemble Jon Pertwee in the regeneration shot, as it was decided his natural hair texture worked better for his take on the character). The shot of the regeneration itself is recycled, but Sarah and the Brig have long hair and the Doctor's hair immediately doubles in length and volume as he sits up, justified by showing him messing up his hair with his hand immediately and obscured as best as possible by cropping his hair out in the shot and some hot ironing.
- Occurred on Dynasty (1981), in 1986, with the character of Fallon Carrington. The crew re-filmed a scene from a season 1 episode (originally featuring Pamela Sue Martin, the character's original actress) for a season 6 episode, which instead used Emma Samms (who replaced Martin, who left the show two years earlier), though still featured Wayne Northrop from the original episode.
- In February 2015, EastEnders did a Whole Episode Flashback depicting the killing of Lucy Beale ten months earlier. Her half-brother Bobby had been recast in the meantime, and changed from blond to brunette. And he was a major part of the episode because he was the killer.
- When ER recast several roles (Benton's ex's new husband, Mark's daughter), the establishing flashbacks were re-filmed with the new actor.
- Borderline example: In Farscape, D'Argo's appearance changed dramatically at the end of Season 1, but the makeup guys couldn't be bothered to recreate the original look for the flashbacks.
- It varies. Some flashbacks or "past" events shown via mind frell did use the old makeup style.
- In another hair-related example, Frasier spends his first two seasons sporting the same shaggy hairstyle he had throughout Cheers. Starting in season three he has a much shorter haircut that remains for the rest of the series. A later episode features flashbacks as Frasier reflects on his first day at KACL, which would've taken place very shortly before the start of the actual series. The flashbacks all feature his new hairstyle with no comment on it being different than it should've been.
- The original pilot of Gilligan's Island featured a different actor playing the Professor, a character named Ginger who bears no resemblance to the Ginger featured in the rest of the show and played by a different actor, and a character named Bunny in place of Mary-Ann. After re-casting/re-writing these roles, the producers decided that rather than re-shoot the pilot, they might as well just go on to episode two. In the first season's Christmas Special, the castaways remember their first days on the island, which uses footage from the pilot in scenes with just Gilligan, the Skipper, Mr. Howell and/or Mrs. Howell, but new footage for scenes with the Professor, Ginger, and Mary-Ann.
- Interview with the Vampire (2022): In "I Could Not Prevent It", a few scenes from Season 1 are revisited and now feature Claudia's second actress, Delainey Hayles.
- The opening scene of the second season of Leonardo is the confrontation scene from the final episode of the first season but with James Clyde replacing Alistair McGowan as Piero de'Medici.
- In Lost, Desmond's photograph of Penny. Originally, the photograph featured Desmond (Henry Ian Cusick) and who looked to be Lisa Fraser, but when Penny is introduced as a character to the show outside of the photograph, subsequent uses of the photograph have Penny's actress Sonya Walger Photoshopped in instead. The DVD version of the episode the original photograph was in, Orientation, has the photo digitally replaced with Sonya Walger's version.
- In season two of Martial Law, The One was originally only heard via radio with the voice of Tim Curry. When The One decided to come to San Francisco to deal with Sammo Law personally His Hamminess was recast with the somewhat more calorie-counting Christopher Neame, and the "Previously On Martial Law" recaps that featured Curry's voice were redubbed with Neame's.
- NCIS: Origins is a prequel series to NCIS.
- Flashbacks of the flagship's episode "Hiatus" is recreated in Origins' "One Flew Over", where Kyle Schmid replaces Muse Watson and Austin Stowell replaces Mark Harmon.
- "The Edge" takes place twelve years after the flagship's 400th episode "Everything Starts Somewhere". While Adam Campbell returned as young Ducky, Stowell replaced Mark's son Sean.
- In Neighbours, when Kim Taylor (now Kim Tanaka) was reintroduced after 32 years, her relationship with Scott Robinson was brought up when her son found yearbook photos of the two. The Scott pictured was Jason Donovan, who replaced Darius Perkins a year after Kim's departure.
- Hilariously and deliberately averted on One Life to Live with Blair. Initially played by Asian actress Mia Korf, she was soon recast with blonde, blue-eyed Kassie DePaiva. At the funeral of her ex-husband Asa, as she and his eight other wives flashed back to their respective weddings, she flashed back to when the Asian Blair exchanged vows with him. Cue a very confused present-day Blair whipping out a mirror to double-check what she looked like.
- But played straight when Blair first returned to town. All of her flashbacks of her failed relationship with Max Holden were indeed played out with blond Blair instead of the Asian one.
- Also very poignantly averted whenever the actor has died, often necessitating the death of the character. Numerous flashbacks clearly intended to celebrate both the character and the actor will feature other characters who have long since been recast.
- Variation in the season 2 premier of Peacemaker. The first season was produced in the waning days of the DC Extended Universe, and, as such, featured a cameo appearance from the Justice League in the finale, complete with closeups of Jason Momoa as Aquaman and Ezra Miller as the Flash. However, after production on the show wrapped, a series of behind the scenes shakeups occurred, which ultimately ended with the franchise being shuttered in 2023 before getting rebooted as the DC Universe the following year. When Peacemaker's second season premiered, the Previously on… segment replaced the Justice League with the Justice Gang, the new superhero team introduced in 2025's Superman, with the closeups now featuring Nathan Fillion as Green Lantern and Isabela Merced as Hawkgirl instead of Momoa and Miller.
- Power Rangers Beast Morphers had an episode where the villains watch footage of villains from previous seasons of Power Rangers. For all of the clips, however, the audio was rerecorded with New Zealand voice actors rather than use the audio from the previous episodes. In some instances, such as with Koragg/Leanbow from Power Rangers Mystic Force, the characters were revoiced by their original actors.
- The second and third installments of the Yang/Yin trilogy on Psych revolve around a picture of young Shawn with Yang. By the time the third episode of the trilogy was filmed, they had recast the "young Shawn" role due to the previous actor getting too old, so they retook the picture with the new actor for use in that episode.
- When Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman's Colleen was recast in Season 3, they re-shot the opening titles (originally scenes from Season 1) with a shot-by-shot redo using the new actress. However, various flashback episodes cropped the original Colleen out of the scenes entirely.
- Averted with Riding With Death, a TV movie edited from episodes of a failed 70's sci-fi series titled Gemini Man, which was later featured in Mystery Science Theater 3000. The first half of the "movie" features a flashback from the show's pilot in which Driscoll (the main character's boss) was played by Richard Dysart instead of William Sylvester (who played Driscoll in every other scene and in the series proper).
- Also averted by MST3K itself in the The Hellcats episode, with Tom Servo (played by Kevin Murphy) having a flashback to an episode from the previous season (played by J. Elvis Weinstein). Even lampshaded by Servo, saying it was before his voice changed.
- Seinfeld refilmed an episode after Frank Costanza was recast. The effect was quite disconcerting considering the fact that the version of the character played by John Randolph was very different to the version played by Jerry Stiller.
- Something similar happened with Newman. Originally The Voice, played by Larry David, the character later became an Ascended Extra played by Wayne Knight. In syndication the earlier episodes were redubbed by Knight due to him sounding nothing like David.
- The final scene of Series 1 of Silverpoint is recreated at the start of Series 2, but using the actual actors for the other teams rather than the stand-ins originally used.
- The Six Million Dollar Man featured, inverted and ignored this trope.
- After Martin Balsam refused to reprise the role of Dr. Rudy Wells after one appearance in the original pilot movie, Alan Oppenheimer was cast. For the opening credits of the second and third pilot films, one of Balsam's scenes was reshot for the flashback. Yet Balsam was still visible in surgery room footage.
- Alan Oppenheimer quit after Season 2's introductory "The Bionic Woman" two-parter. Martin E. Brooks took over the role, requiring some flashbacks in "The Return of the Bionic Woman" at the start of the next season to be reshot.
- However, the episode "The Bionic Criminal", another sequel to an earlier Oppenheimer episode, featured so many key flashbacks featuring Oppenheimer that, for one episode only, the actor replaced Brooks as the character.
- For syndication the first pilot movie was reedited into a two-part story. Martin Balsam was brought back to record new voiceover dialogue, however footage of Martin E Brooks as Rudy was also featured and Brooks is still featured in the opening credits. Confused yet?
- Same deal with Worf in the Star Trek: The Next Generation finale, which partially recreates the pilot.
- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles has a few scenes in which we see flashbacks, video recordings or hallucinations of Sarah from the era of the two original films, in which she is played by the show's Sarah Lena Headey rather than the films' Linda Hamilton.
- In The Thorn Birds midquel The Missing Years, Father Ralph flashes back to the one of the original series most iconic moments—Meggie's Grand Staircase Entrance at Mary Carson's birthday party. However, as every actor in the original film has been replaced for the new one, the scene does not feature Rachel Ward, but Amanda Donohoe.
- In Season 2 of The Tudors, Jane Seymour was played by Anita Briem. For Season 3 the role was recast with Annabelle Wallis, and most of the scenes with Jane from the recap of Season 2 were reshot.
- Twitch City initially did this when Mark McKinney took Bruce McCulloch's role, only to later have the talk show host character refer to his "on-air cranium transplant".
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer flashed back to the events of The Movie, but with Sarah Michelle Gellar replacing Kristy Swanson and Richard Riehle replacing Donald Sutherland. The spinoff comic book used the TV likenesses of the characters for its adaptation, since the movie is not exactly canon.
- The Waltons used a unique variant: using cuts from the made for TV movie The Homecoming, which featured the same child actors, but replacing the footage of the adults with new footage featuring the series actors.
- WKRP in Cincinnati did this in a flashback to the first episode, because Carol Bruce had replaced Sylvia Sidney as Mama Carlson after the pilot. The characters also acted a bit differently to support the Retcon of Venus Flytrap's name being a mistake now, rather than the original intent.
- The Witcher: Some flashback scenes of Henry Cavill's Geralt stretching as far as Season 1 were redone with Liam Hemsworth in Season 4.
- Averted in the series finale of Yonderland - When Elf and the Time Being are travelling back in time to save Debbie, the past versions of Elf are represented by his old puppets (the puppet used for him was changed at the start of every season). He even remarks that he can’t believe he used to look like that.
Puppet Shows
- Subverted in the Sesame Street song "Things That I Remember." The song, sung by Ernie (performed here by Steve Whitmire and formerly by the late Jim Henson) and Bert (then Frank Oz), features flashbacks to classic Ernie and Bert sketches with Henson and Oz as the duo.
Video Games
- Batman: Arkham Shadow features the "Echoes of the Past" unlockables, flashbacks to Batman's visit to Blackgate during Batman: Arkham Origins and Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate. While most still have the actors who played the role in the original games, two feature new actors.
- In Blackgate proper, Bronze Tiger has been reprised by his Batman: The Brave and the Bold voice actor, Gary Anthony Sturgis. Here, to make it fit with the role being recast with Zeno Robinson, Robinson also redid Sturgis's lines.
- The case of the one featuring Batman's fights with Bane at the end of Origins, this might as well be called "Flashback with the Original Darrin" as instead of keeping JB Blanc as Bane, Bane's lines were redone by his original voice actor from Asylum and City, Fred Tatasciore.
- At the start of Dead Space 2, there was a glimpse of Isaac's dead girlfriend, Nicole, right before she commited suicide. Nicole's dialogue and appearance was changed based on her new actress, Tanya Clarke, instead of her previous actress, Iyari Limon.
- Disney licensed games such as Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue!, A Bug's Life (Disney Interactive), Finding Nemo (THQ), The Lion King: Simba's Mighty Adventure and Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Disney Interactive) use scenes from their original films as cutscenes but some of the dialogue is dubbed over by the voice actors of the game.
- Played with in Final Fantasy IV: The After Years as flashbacks/events that take place before the game use the original Super Nintendo character models and sprites.
- In Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem, all flashbacks to Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light use the new character models. It's particularly noticable with Caeda/Shiida, who gets a lot of them.
- God of War (PS4) has a sequence where Kratos passes through Helheim and is confronted by visions of his past. Kratos' dialog in these scenes consists of lines from the older God of War games but newly recorded by Christopher Judge, as opposed to simply re-using old clips of his original actor TC Carson.
- Any flashback of a scene previously depicted in [.hack//Roots], in the .hack//G.U. games, is a case of this; the anime was dubbed in Canada, while the games were dubbed in California.
- In Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, one terminal featured Sesa 'Refumee (the Heretic leader), who was voiced in this instance by an unknown actor. in Halo 2: Anniversary, the same terminal appears again, but this time Sesa has been redubbed by John DiMaggio, who voices him for several of the game's terminals.
- In Harry Potter: Magic Awakened, Gellert Grindelwald's character design is based on the likeness of Mads Mikkelsen instead of on Johnny Depp, who originally played the character before being fired, even in scenes that take place in the film Depp starred in.
- Kingdom Hearts: This is somewhat common in the English dub:
- Roxas' dreams (Sora's memories) in Kingdom Hearts II used the new Final Fantasy-cameo voice cast, with the exception of Steve Burton as Cloud. Most egregiously, in Aerith's case, Mandy Moore's soft voice is replaced with Mena Suvari's hazy stoner voice.
- Billy Zane's voice as Ansem/Xehanort's Heartless was also redubbed with Richard Epcar in flashbacks to the first game.
- Very brief, but a small flashback from Kingdom Hearts I in Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days featuring Kairi (the "Be sure to bring it back to me!" scene) was also redubbed with Alyson Stoner. The clip is particularly jarring because Hayden Panettiere's version of the line was sarcastic, while Stoner's version is more serious. Depending on how you look at it, it could be Fridge Brilliance: Since it's a memory of Sora's, it could mean he took the promise very seriously, so he remembers her as being serious too.
- Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance] has Ben Diskin redub David Gallagher for a young Xehanort saying, "This world is just too small," from Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep. Diskin's version even replaced Gallagher's in the PlayStation 4 version of Birth by Sleep.
- Another flashback that's more like a case of Another Side, Another Story in Kingdom Hearts 0.2: Birth by Sleep -A fragmentary passage- has Mickey's quote "Now, Sora! Let's close this door for good!", originally provided by Wayne Allwine, redubbed by Bret Iwan.
- Kingdom Hearts III: ReꚚMind revisits old footage from the climax of Kingdom Hearts III, with Christopher Lloyd redubbing the late Rutger Hauer as Master Xehanort.
- A flashback in the Japanese version of The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III to the events of the second game has Altina's new voice actress, Inori Minase, dub over a line done by Altina's previous actress, Risa Taneda. This is, naturally, a non-issue in the English version, as Xanthe Huynh voices Altina in all of her Cold Steel appearances.
- The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night: The intro cutscene is a retelling of A New Beginning's final battle and ending. Billy West redubs Sparx's lines, which were performed by David Spade in the original. Oddly enough, this is averted with Cynder, whose lines by Cree Summer are recycled instead of being recast by Mae Whitman.
- Life is Strange: Double Exposure: Chloe is voiced by Rhianna DeVries (her voice actress from Life Is Strange: Before the Storm), including in (audio-only) flashbacks to the first game, where she was voiced by Ashly Burch.
- The final chapter of Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name shows the Great Dissolution of the Tojo Clan and the Omi Alliance from Kiryu's perspective. The english dub changes the scene by replacing the lines previously voiced by Kiryu's and Daigo's original dub actors Darryl Kurylo and Roger Craig Smith, with newly recorded ones voiced by the new actors Yong Yea and Tim Friedlander respectively.
- Combining with a Player Punch Wham Line, Mafia II sees one of its missions revisit the Downer Ending of the original Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven with the death of Tommy Angelo. In the original game, the Pre-Mortem One-Liner is voiced by Bill Buell. The thing that makes it a Player Punch Wham Line? The line in Mafia II is said by the Rick Pasqualone-voiced Vito Scarletta, who is the protagonist of that game, meaning this time around, the player's been playing as one of Tommy's killers all along! Mafia: Definitive Edition retroactively averts this by having Pasqualone voice the character, who now fully resembles Vito, providing full continuity between the games.
- Mega Man Battle Network 5: Team Colonel and Team ProtoMan manages to do this in a visual manner with a town. Lan's hometown of ACDC had been identical in the first three games of the series (the only major differences being which rooms and buildings were accessible), but the map changed in Battle Network 4. Flashbacks in Battle Network 5 from long before the events of the first game show the town exactly as it appears from Battle Network 4 onwards.
- Metal Gear:
- The flashbacks in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots were made up of about half-and-half dialogue from the PlayStation version of Metal Gear Solid, and the Nintendo GameCube remake (The Twin Snakes). The dialogue from The Twin Snakes was used for characters who had their accents changed (such as Naomi Hunter's Ivy League accent and Mei Ling's pseudo-Chinese accent being dropped for conventional American ones) and the recasting of Rob Paulsen as Gray Fox instead of the original's Greg Eagles. This was a non-issue in the Japanese version due to the lack of accents in the Japanese versions and the fact that The Twin Snakes never had a Japanese dub (the Japanese version featured subtitled English dialogue), meaning that all the voice clips from the original Metal Gear Solid used in the Japanese version of Metal Gear Solid 4 are purely from the original PlayStation version.
- After this, it was odd when it was averted (after a fashion) in Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes's "Déjà Vu" storyline, in which Kazuhira Miller's horrible impersonations are clearly based on the PlayStation voice cast. He affects Greg Eagles's distinctive accent and delivery when warning Snake about the mines, and performs Snake's line from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty in a clear imitation of David Hayter's voice (when Snake had been recast with Kiefer Sutherland in Ground Zeroes). He also performs Naomi and Psycho Mantis with the accents they had in the PS1 version which were removed in The Twin Snakes, and in the quiz at the end he performs Ocelot with the gravellier tone that he'd had in he original.
- Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones: Kaileena appeared previously in Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, looking a lot less Middle Eastern and showing a lot more cleavage. The intro of The Two Thrones takes up some clips from the ending scene of Warrior Within, but with the new Kaileena in it (who doesn't look like an exotic dancer this time).
- The tutorial in the Season 2 of Sam & Max: Freelance Police is the opening scene of the first episode of Season 1. As Max's voice actor had changed since then, Max's voice clips were rerecorded with the new actor.
- Space Channel 5: Part 2's intro shows several scenes from the original Space Channel 5. The dialogue in these scenes has been redone by the new voice cast. (Only applies to the English version, as the Japanese version used the same cast for both games.)
- Voice actress example in StarCraft II: all of Kerrigan's lines in the Battle of Tarsonis cutscene from the original, as recorded by the salvaged Confederate AI, were re-recorded by Tricia Helfer, as opposed to Glynnis Campbell who had provided the original voice; the other characters have kept their actors (or died, in Duke's case), and don't need changing.
- In the Syphon Filter series, in addition to Mara Aramov's appearance changing with her voice actors, her appearance also changed in the flashbacks of the third game.
- WarioWare: Move It!, the first WarioWare game released after Charles Martinet retired from voicing his characters in the series, features a recreation of the slide stages from Super Mario 64 DS as the boss microgame of 9-Volt's stage. Rather than reusing Martinet's voice clips from the original game, it features new voice clips recorded by Mario's (and in multiplayer, Luigi's) current voice actor Kevin Afghani.
- Averted in Wesker's Report, a fictional documentary that served as an in-universe retrospective of the first three Resident Evil titles. The documentary is narrated by Richard Waugh, Wesker's voice actor from Code: Veronica, but the footage taken from the first game still has Wesker voiced by his original actor.
- Happens somewhat regularly in World of Warcraft, in terms of spoken dialogue, owing to the original voice actors from the RTSes not being hired to reprise their role in the MMO. The finest example of this is The Culling of Stratholme, a temporal flashback dungeon that recreates an earlier RTS mission. All of Arthas' lines were lifted directly from Warcraft III, but rerecorded by the new voice artist.
- Happens a few times in Xenosaga Episode II, with both the voice cast and the character models.
Web Animation
- Inverted in Eddsworld. In the episode "Eddsworld Zombeh Attack", most of Tord's lines are delivered by a stand-in, Alex L'Abbé. When the events of said episode are revisited via time travel in "WTFuture", Tord makes a cameo and his line is redubbed by his original voice actor Tord Larsson.
- RWBY Chibi contains a flashback to Volume 2 of RWBY. Ren is voiced by his Volume 3 actor Neath Oum, who replaced his brother Monty Oum upon the latter's passing.
Web Original
- The Angry Video Game Nerd, in terms of settings: in real life, James Rolfe presumably moved into a family house with his wife, so the room where he does his reviews switched from an apartment to a basement. in one episode, Kyle Justin guest stars, and there are flashbacks of him writing down parts of the AVGN's rants hiding behind the couch. The rants in question came from reviews filmed in the old apartment, but you can clearly see that it's the basement that Kyle is in.
- Some Jerk with a Camera parodied the Back to the Future example once by re-recording his encounter with The Great Luke Ski, replacing the puppet with the same puppet, but wearing an Elisabeth Shue mask.
Western Animation
- The Amazing World of Gumball:
- In the episode "The Name", when Gumball's Superpowered Evil Side attempts a Split-Personality Takeover, he starts Internal Retconning Gumball's memories. One of them is from the season 1 episode "The Curse", and the voice of Gumball's first VA Logan Grove is redubbed with that of his second VA Jacob Hopkins.
- In the episode "The Extras", one of the clips shown is a flashback to the season 2 episode "The Sweaters", where Darwin's line, provided in the original episode by his first VA Kwesi Boakye, is redubbed by his second VA Terrell Ransom, Jr.
- The Arthur clip show "Best Day Ever" features clips from older episodes dubbed with the show's then-current voice actors.
- Avatar: The Last Airbender: Iroh's original voice actor Mako passed away following Book Two, so he is voiced by Greg Baldwin in Book Three. "The Western Air Temple" features two flashbacks set shortly after Zuko was banished, with Iroh voiced by Baldwin.
- Happens in Beforel Orel, in which Joe Unger plays Arthur Puppington, while Dino Stamatopoulos played him in the Moral Orel episode "Passing." Dino actually redubbed his line so Arthur now has Unger's accent.
- In the Ben 10: Omniverse episode "And Then There Was Ben", the scene from the original series where the 10-year old Ben found the Omnitrix is repeated. The major difference is that Heatblast is voiced by David Kaye (His Omniverse voice actor) rather than his original voice actor, Steve Blum. Even Ben's dialogue is rerecorded by his original voice actress Tara Strong, which is odd since for one, they had Steve Blum as Vilgax in literally the same episode and two, they could've just ripped the audio out of the original episode and used it with the new animation.
- The Chaotic season finale episode before M'arrilion Invasion ended with a Cliffhanger where hero Tom is accused of cheating and flees to Perim before an investigation can be launched. M'arrilion Invasion sported a completely different art style, and the "Last Time on Chaotic" segment at the beginning was done in the new style. (No change in voice actors, though, which probably just made it more surreal.)
- Dora the Explorer: The fifth season special "Dora's Big Birthday Adventure" featured a series of clips from the past four seasons; when those episodes were remembered through the wishing crystal, any scenes of them talking were redubbed by the Season 5-6 cast.
- The Fairly OddParents!: In the Lower-Deck Episode "The Big Scoop", which is "A Wish Too Far" from Chester's and A.J.'s perspective, they had to reanimate some scenes with the two boys. This was because in "A Wish Too Far" the original voice actors were Frankie Muniz and Haneef Ibrahim, but by this point in the series run Jason Marsden was the now the voice of Chester and Gary Leroi Gray was the voice of A.J. If one compares the two episodes, the difference between the voices can be pretty jarring.
- Averted and then some with Meg on Family Guy. Two episodes, "Back to the Pilot" and "Yug Ylimaf" revisited the show's first season, but not only did they continue to use Lacey Chabert's dialogue rather than Mila Kunis, but they even had Chabert return to record new dialogue as well. The latter episode even lampshades this. Subverted in the episode "Griffin Winter Games", as even though Meg claims she's been training for the Olympic Biathlon since she was voiced by Lacey Chabert, she was actually voiced by Mae Whitman, who plays the actual Lacey Chabert later in the episode.
- The Flintstones TV movie Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby, about a grown-up and married Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm expecting kids of their own, features a reanimated flashback to when they first met in the episode "Little Bamm-Bamm". Only Jean Vander Pyl (Wilma) and Don Messick (baby Bamm-Bamm) reprise their roles in the flashback, with Henry Corden, Frank Welker, and B. J. Ward voicing Fred, Barney, and Betty, respectively, instead of Alan Reed, Mel Blanc, and Bea Benaderet. Russi Taylor also provides Pebbles' infant voice instead of Vander Pyl.
- Michelle, Fry's ex-girlfriend in Futurama was voiced by Kath Soucie in her first appearance. In later episodes she is voiced by Sarah Silverman. When Fry re-lives her scene from the first episode in a dream sequence in the episode "Game of Tones", her single line has been dubbed over by Silverman.
- In Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie, while Helga is searching through her video collection of Arnold's good deeds, a reanimated version of a scene from Hey Arnold! episode "Field Trip" appears, complete with Arnold's voice actor for the movie, Mason Vale Cotton.
- Jackie Chan Adventures: Hak-Foo was voiced by Jim Cummings in his debut episode, but was replaced by John DiMaggio in all subsequent appearances, including the episode "Deja Vu" which has Jackie traveling back in time to his first encounter with Hak-Foo.
- Jurassic World: Chaos Theory: Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous ended with an epilogue set two years after the Nublar Six's return to civilization where Kenji and Brooklyn were still voiced by their original actors Ryan Potter and Jenna Ortega, while the premiere of this series has Darius watching an interview the Nublar Six did the day they returned with Kenji and Brooklyn being voiced by their new actors Darren Barnet and Kiersten Kelly. It's especially noticeable if you watch the episode right after watching Camp Cretaceous.
- A Looney Tunes sing-along video features several old scenes with Billy West and Joe Alaskey dubbing over Mel Blanc's original dialogue.
- Men in Black: The Series has a flashback to the end of the first movie in the episode that features Edgar's brother Edwin. It'd be really awkward to flash back to a live-action movie in an animated series, so it was an animated version of it, with the series' voice actors. Although it's very heavily implied the movies as we know them are fictional accounts of the real events of the show. So this may or may not be a true example.
- Although, ironically, Vincent D'Onofrio, who played Edgar in the movie, voiced all of Edgar's Bug relatives on the animated series.
- Moral Orel: In the Season 3 episode "Passing," Arthur Puppington (Clay's father) is voiced by series creator Dino Stamatopolous. In the special "Beforel Orel," an older Arthur appears, now voiced by Joe Unger. When a brief clip of "Passing" is used as a flashback, Arthur's line is dubbed over with Unger's voice.
- My Little Pony (G3): Near the end of its "run", Rainbow Dash had a voice swap (from Venus Terzo to Anna Cummer); and when "Rainbow Dash's Special Day", a Clip Show of the character with scenes from the previous movies, was released, Cummer redubbed all of Terzo's lines, thus making this Flashback with the Other Darrin: The Movie.
- In Winnie The Pooh and Christmas Too!, Christopher Robin was voiced by Edan Gross. When the special was presented as a flashback in the Direct-to-Video movie A Very Merry Pooh Year, Christopher Robin's lines were redubbed by William Green. Oddly averted with Tigger, as Paul Winchell's Tigger lines from Christmas Too were not redubbed by Jim Cummings.
- As part of getting kids interested in Pooh after the new film, Disney released some classic Pooh movie clips under the title "The Mini Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh." Most of the dialogue was redubbed by the current voice actors (except Kristen Anderson-Lopez for some reason). It's barely noticeable with Jim Cummings as Pooh and Travis Oates as Piglet, but very noticeable with the other voice actors. However, Roo kept his original voice in at least one clip from "The Tigger Movie." Christopher Robin kept Bruce Reitherman's singing voice (although all the speaking was still done by Jack Boultier) in one clip. Piglet and Rabbit also kept John Fiedler and Ken Sansom's voices in most clips from Piglet's Big Movie, and Gopher's voice hasn't been redubbed, which is odd because Gopher's previous actor, Michael Goughnote , is still alive and doing voice acting.
- The Phineas and Ferb episode "Meapless in Seattle" ends with a fake trailer for a follow-up episode called "Meap Me in St. Louis." Fifteen years, one Series Fauxnale and one revival later, the Un-Installment became an actual episode, which opened with a repeat of the trailer—now dubbed over by the new voice actors for Jeremy and Meap respectively.
- At least one Popeye Clip Show had the clips from the first few cartoons redubbed with the then-current actors.
- The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder episode "Father Figures" features the scene from the episode "Love Thy Neighbor" of the original series, where Michael says "Hey everybody, it's flipper" is shown. But it's re-recorded to have EJ Johnson voice him instead of Phil LaMarr.
- A flashback episode of The Raccoons showed scenes from Season 1, but replace any of Melissa Raccoon's speaking parts with her then-current voice actress, Susan Roman (Linda Feige was the first actress to portray Melissa on the series).
- This is averted with Pig One in season 5's "The Evergreen Election!". Because most of the flashbacks were from season 4, Nick Nichols' speaking parts for him were used. (Keith Hampshire was Nichols' successor.)
- Averted in ReBoot. During the Season 4 flashbacks, Bob has his Season 1 voice, while outside the flashbacks Bob has his Season 3 voice. This is because Bob's original voice actor became available again for Season 4 and the writers wanted a justifiable way to get him back in the role. The in-universe explanation for this is that the Web damaged Bob's voice.
- Zigzagged in the series finale of Samurai Jack: Aku's broadcast is a recreation of the original opening narration using the original audio of the late Mako Iwamatsu's performance, with Greg Baldwin seamlessly jumping in once those lines are finished. However, the final portion of the original battle in the past whence Jack returns to is recreated using Baldwin's voice for Aku.
- Madelyn Spaulding was still voiced by her original actress when she made her second appearance in Static Shock, but had a different character design. A flashback to her original appearance had Static in his Season Two outfit, but a younger version of "new" Madelyn, rather than original Madelyn.
- Solar Opposites: As the top quote states, Korvo's new voice (provided by Dan Stevens) is used in flashbacks as his original actor, Justin Roiland, was fired.
- Spider-Man: The Animated Series: The Season 4 episode "Partners" flashed back to the origin scene of the Scorpion, but with his second voice actor, Richard Moll, dubbing over Scorpion's original actor, Martin Landau.
- Averted in the "Lessons in Love" episode of Sym-Bionic Titan, after Kimmy comes over to the Lunis house, there's a flashback to "Showdown at Sherman High." It's the first episode where Kimmy is voiced by Kari Wahlgren, but the flashback still has her voice as performed by Cassie Scerbo.
- Averted in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) episode "Blast from the Past," which was a clip show flashing back to events of the first season. For the new material, Krang's regular voice actor Pat Fraley was unavailable and Townsend Coleman was filling in, but the clips used the original audio which included Fraley's dialogue as Krang.
- The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) episode "Lone Rat and Cubs" is a Whole Episode Flashback where the framing sequence takes place before the first episode. Seth Green still voices Leonardo in it rather than Jason Biggs or Dominic Catrambone (who filled in for Leo's voice actor for the rest of Season 2 after Biggs was fired), even though it takes place before the throat injury Leo receives that justified Green taking over as Leo's voice.
- Averted and played straight in the Italian dub of a pair of Season 3 episodes of Teen Titans Go!: In the episodes "Garage Sale" and "Bottle Episode" the flashbacks featuring songs keep the original audio featuring Mino Caprio as Cyborg, while the non-singing ones are redubbed with Luigi Ferraro's voice.
- The Thomas & Friends episode "Sidney Sings" uses a flashback from "The Missing Christmas Declarations" and redubbing both Percy's voices. The Japanese dub did this with Sidney's voice.
- The Wallace & Gromit film Vengeance Most Fowl opens with a flashback set during the ending of The Wrong Trousers (after Gromit captures Feathers McGraw in the milk bottle and before the Techno-Trousers are used to wheel him into the police station), in which Wallace calls the police to inform them of their capture of the villain. The scene has Wallace voiced by Ben Whitehead, who had replaced Peter Sallis (the original voice of Wallace) after his retirement and death.
- What If...?:
- "What If... The World Lost Its Mightiest Heroes?" revisits The Incredible Hulk, only the Bruce Banner there is clearly Mark Ruffalo instead of Edward Norton, though the Hulk retains the character design of Norton's version.
- "What If... Killmonger Rescued Tony Stark?" revisits the events of Iron Man 1, and has Rhodey being voiced by Don Cheadle instead of Terrence Howard. The same episode also revisits Tony's Heroic Sacrifice from Avengers: Endgame but Tony's last words are uttered by Mick Wingert instead of Robert Downey Jr..
