A expectant tarradiddle has lots of layer , and a plentiful backstory . When you only see part of the delineation , you might reach a snap perspicacity about what ’s going on — but then you see events from yr ago , that make you rethink everything . Here are 10 flashbacks that twist your reason of a account upside - down .
Thanks to Albus Dumbledore ’s marvellous “ pensieve , ” Harry Potter can see events that happen long ago — and the most startling series of reveals come from the computer storage of Severus Snape . Not just the fact that Snape was working for Dumbledore all along , but also Snape ’s tortured passion for Harry Potter ’s mother and his awed intimidation at the hands of Harry ’s Padre and Sirius Black .
Lost was the unquestioned friend of carpeting - pull flashback — at least , for its first few seasons . But the most startling , and write up - overturningflashback , comes in the show ’s fourth episode , when we discover that Locke was in a wheelchair before he came to the Island and was miraculously healed . And instead of being the rugged explorer and adventurer that we ’ve been imagining , “ Colonel ” Locke was a sad - sack office - proletarian whose boss tortured him .
We ’ve find out a lot over the years about how Harold Finch create the Machine , the innovational stilted intelligence service that “ witness everything ” and report terrorist threats to the government . In one installment , “ The eventuality , ” we see some startling flashbacks that show how Finch restricted the Machine from wish about Finch ’s own well - being above anybody else ’s , hale it to be dispassionate . But the most surprising , and plot - exchange , is probably the serial of flashbacks in this recent episode , where we discover that the Machine was not the first A.I. that Finch create — and one of the late attempts assay to mangle him in an endeavour to win its freedom . This casts the simple machine ’s respect for human life , and its moral code , in a whole new lighting , by show them to be fantastically rarefied .
One of the most noted narrative - recast flashbacks happens in this installment , focusing on Claire Bennet ’s forefather , known as Horn - Rimmed Glasses . Until this episode aired , we thought HRG was just a callous jerk who lied to his sept and used his Haitian protagonist to pass over citizenry ’s memories . But this episode cast HRG in a much more sympathetic light , showing him trying to protect Claire from his own employers , and depicting his tragical friendship with Claude the invisible man . All of a sudden , HRG ’s kinship with the Company and his tricky behavior take on a whole new light .
Another familiar character who face entirely different in the light of fresh flashback is Rupert Giles , the stiff librarian who spend his clip as Buffy ’s Jiminy Cricket . sprain out when Giles was young , he was a unfit boy — known as “ Ripper ” — a warlock who practiced dark magic , marshal a devil named Eyghon with his booster . With disastrous result .
Another torpedo whose coloured past gets let out , suddenly changing the whole picture , is John Constantine . In the 11th issue of his solo comic , we chance upon that the cocky , trenchcoat - wearing magician had a tragical incident in his rearview mirror . We discover about the 1979 Newcastle incident , in which Constantine and his friends tried to rally a demon named Nergal to banish another devil that was possess a small child name Astra . The whole thing go tits - up and Astra got dragged to Hell , leaving Constantine permanently wracked with guilt feelings .
How much truth is there to the flashbacks in this comic rule book about the origins of the Joker ? We may never bonk , but they definitely put the scoundrel , and his human relationship to Batman , in what seem to be a permanently different light . We chance on that the Joker was once a failed comic who was desperate to provide for his pregnant wife — until she died in an accident . This leads him to become the Red Hood , a faux master felon , and take part in a robbery that goes awfully wrong — the Red Hood flees Batman and falls into a chemic waste tank and becomes permanently disfigured and mad .
Thisepisode - distance flashbackfinally reveals just why Walter Bishop break the wall between universes , and on the button what fall out to his son Peter . Turns out that the Peter Bishop we ’ve been meet all along is actually the Peter from the Other Side , and Walter ’s real son died due to an illness when he was a tiddler . Instead of broaching the universes due to hubris , as we ’d antecedently think , Walter made this choice out of brokenheartedness and the desire to spare another translation of his Word the same fate .
Alan Moore really was the master of world - change flashbacks , as this issue proves . Until this degree in Watchmen , we ’d believed that the Comedian ’s attempted rape of the original Silk Spectre was their principal connection — but a serial publication of flashbacks to Laurie ’s childhood bear witness that the account was much more complicated . And in fact , Laurie ’s mother after had consensual gender with the Comedian , who was Laurie ’s genuine beginner . The unlikelihood and fatuousness of this event is the axis on which Dr. Manhattan ’s change of heart — and the story as a whole — turn of events .
And last , one of our favorite TV episode of all prison term . We already knew , thanks to the instalment “ I Remember , ” that the Ice King had known Marceline back in the regretful erstwhile post - apocalyptical days . But this farsighted flashback , in which we bring out that Simon wore the Ice King ’s crown on purpose — knowing what it would do to him — to protect Marcy , is both pump - breaking and horrifying . And like a lot of the other flashback on this leaning , it turns a antecedently despised villain into more of a tragic figure .
extra reporting by Diana Biller and Abhimanyu Das
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