History CallForward / StarWars

** Obi-Wan asks Anakin, "Why do I get the feeling you're goin to be the death of me?"

* ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'':
** The Droid Control Ship (at least it's center sphere) is similar to the Death Star in appearance.
** There's a deleted scene in which Greedo is warned he'll meet a sticky end...
** C-3PO tells R2-D2, "I can assure you they will never get me onto one of those dreadful starships."
** At the end, Senator Palpatine congratulates little Anakin on his heroics and says that he'll be "watch[ing] [his] career with great interest."
** It's easy to miss, but Augie's Municipal Band is secretly a very upbeat arrangement of the Emperor's theme.
** During the end credits, Darth Vader's breathing respirator can be heard.

* ''Series/StarWarsRebels'' has its fair share.

** Obi-Wan escapes Jango Fett by cutting his engines and hiding on an asteroid. When Han Solo attempts a similar trick in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', hiding on the back of a Star Destroyer and then floating away with its garbage, Jango's son Boba Fett see through it, hides in the garbage himself, and pursues Solo to Bespin.

** C-3PO tells R2-D2 "I can assure you they will never get me onto one of those dreadful starships."
** At the end, Senator Palpatine congratulates little Anakin on his heroics and that he'll be "watching [his] career with great interest."

** Obi-Wan asks Anakin "Why do I get the feeling you'll be the death of me?" In the novelization of ''Literature/RevengeOfTheSith'' he reflects that he always expected Anakin would be with him when he died.

* At the end of the second volume of the ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'' miniseries, Anakin thrusts his broken mechanical hand at an alien MadScientist. The alien seizes up, and his breathing apparatus is crushed...

* There's also one in the earlier ''Clone Wars'' cartoon, which was made before the later series of the same name. Anakin is in a cave, and sees an image of Vader in the visions he has.
* ''WesternAnimation/LEGOStarWarsTheYodaChronicles'' has a scene set during the prequel era where Yoda and someone else crash land on Dagobah. Yoda looks around and says "Like this place I do. Live here someday I could."

* ''WesternAnimation/LEGOStarWarsTheYodaChronicles'' has a scene set during the prequel era where Yoda and someone else crash land on Degobah. Yoda looks around and says "Like this place I do. Live here someday I could."

** The appearance of the young Uncle Owen (who happens to be Anakin's stepbrother, and who completed C-3PO) and Aunt Beru.[[note]]Owen's interaction with C-3PO in ''Film/ANewHope'' shows that he at least remembers having a protocol droid, even if he doesn't recognize C-3PO. The lack of recognition is understandable seeing as C-3PO is not a unique droid, was refitted with a gold exterior after ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', and got a memory wipe at the end of ''Revenge''.[[/note]]

** Obi-Wan says to Anakin "You'll be the death of me." In the novelization of ''Literature/RevengeOfTheSith'' he reflects that he always expected Anakin would be with him when he died.
** C-3PO tells R2-D2 "I can assure you they will never get me onto one of those dreadful starships."

** While infiltrating an asteroid mining facility in pursuit of a lead on Sidious, Anakin and Obi-Wan's ship is held in place by a powerful tractor beam. Obi-Wan watches while a Republic Intelligence agent disables it, learning a skill he will put to good use on [[Film/ANewHope the Death Star]], and distracts a few guards with the same Force trick he will use then. The agent declares that such powerful tractor beams will be prominent on future warships, which will be [[PlanetSpaceship large enough]] to support them.

* The ''Franchise/StarWars'' prequel trilogy is loaded with these, especially ''[[Film/RevengeOfTheSith Episode III]]'':
** Obi-Wan says to Anakin "You'll be the death of me." In the novelization of ''Revenge of the Sith'' he reflects that he always expected Anakin would be with him when he died.

** Obi-Wan escapes Jango Fett by cutting his engines and hiding on an asteroid. When Han Solo attempts a similar trick in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' Jango's son Boba Fett uses the same trick, which allows him to pursue Han Solo when ''he'' uses the trick.
** The murder by Force Lightning that happens before and after Anakin's FaceHeelTurn. These give Force Lightning a big emotional weight on him, which may have helped Darth Vader's HeelFaceTurn in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''.
** And then there's the deleted scene from ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' in which Greedo is warned he'll meet a sticky end...
** At the end of ''The Phantom Menace'', Senator Palpatine congratulates little Anakin on his heroics and that he'll be "watching [his] career with great interest."
** The appearance of the young Uncle Owen (who happens to be Anakin's stepbrother, and who completed C-3PO) and Aunt Beru in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''.[[note]]Owen's interaction with C-3PO in ''Film/ANewHope'' shows that he at least remembers having a protocol droid, even if he doesn't recognize C-3PO. The lack of recognition is understandable seeing as C-3PO is not a unique droid, was refitted with a gold exterior after ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', and got a memory wipe at the end of ''Revenge''.[[/note]]

** In ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', Padmé's dying words to Obi-Wan are that there is still good in Anakin, despite all he has done. This is one thing that Luke Skywalker inherits from his mother — in ''Return of the Jedi'', he strongly believes the same thing, and that Vader can be saved from the Dark Side. He turns out to be right.
** The ''Literature/FateOfTheJedi'' books are getting into this, with regard to ''ComicBook/{{Legacy}}''. Example: In ''Outcast'', Jag recommends that Jaina train [[PraetorianGuard a Jedi organization]] for TheRemnant (it turns out that [[spoiler:Tahiri founds the Imperial Knights, instead of her]]).
* The ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'' has this down to an art form. The books about Obi-Wan's own Padawan years have a particularly cruel example with a planet that is turned into a Stalinist nightmare because their leaders had visions of "Darkness covering the galaxy" coming from the Jedi and the Republic. After considering this ridiculous Qui-Gon himself then has a vision of Obi-Wan as an old man living on a backwater planet with "only his sad memories as company". Nice.
* In the 2008 StarWars: TheCloneWars series, in one episode, Anakin had to interrogate the Geonosian leader Poggle to learn how to get rid of a certain batch of mind-controlling worms. Poggle proved uncooperative, and Anakin used Force Grip on him; cue Imperial March, foreshadowing Anakin's impending transformation into Darth Vader.
** An easily overlooked one early in the second season of the same series: Anakin remarks that they tore apart a bounty hunter's ship in search of vital information on board. One of Vader's first lines in ''A New Hope'' is "Commander, tear this ship apart!"

* Before that, at the end of the second ''Clone Wars'' miniseries, Anakin thrusts his broken mechanical hand at an alien MadScientist. The alien seizes up, and his breathing apparatus is crushed...
* Michael A Stackpole ''loved'' doing these in the XWingSeries, mostly to TimothyZahn's (written earlier but set chronologically later) TheThrawnTrilogy. Just a few of them:
** The lost ''Katana'' fleet being mentioned in a 'might as well wish for the moon' phrase.
** Talon Karrde appears, along with his right-hand man Quelev Tapper (who suffered DeathByOriginStory in his first written appearance, set after Stackpole's books)
** Brief mentions of Thrawn being out in the Rim by Ysanne Isard and Kirtan Loor.
** Thanks to [[SentientCosmicForce The Force]] making him very lucky, Corran finds a hold-out blaster [[BookSafe hidden in a datacard box]] in an Imperial library; in TheThrawnTrilogy Mara mentions, while taking one from a different library, that keeping hold-out blasters in the "Corvis Minor" box is standard procedure.
** Ch'hala trees are mentioned; Corran wonders if they're passive weapon scanners.
* Zahn makes references too. In ''Literature/{{Allegiance}}'', [[HandOfThrawn Disra has connections to criminals]], Vader is suspected of [[ShadowsOfTheEmpire snooping through records related to Prince Xizor]], and Leia mentions in the narration that her father taught her to breathe deeply and deliberately to calm herself. Though that last might not have been deliberate.
* Several in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'', as might be expected. For instance, Kreia's prediction that the Mandalorians will eventually be reduced to "a shell of a man, too easily slain by Jedi", i.e. Jango Fett. (Although this technically stops neither the Mandalorians nor the Fett bloodline. [[FromACertainPointOfView Kreia is like that sometimes]].)
** Since Mandalorians are a culture, not a single species, there's no reason why someone can't call himself a Mandalorian and follow this way of life. EU has plenty of non-human Mandalorians.
** Some of the names are also references to famous characters from the primary era. For instance, the Republic leader in the first game, Admiral Dodonna, is a nod to the Rebel general of the same name in ''A New Hope''. ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' keeps up this grand tradition, most notably on Alderaan, which is famous for its feuding noble houses -- Organa and Thul. (One quest mentions a particular affinity between the Thuls and the Killik aliens, a tip to the Swarm War trilogy.)
* Series/StarWarsRebels has it's fair share.
** Lothal is the proving ground for the TIE 2.0 that Vader would later use during the Death Star Trench Run
** Tarkin is forced to evacuate his ship in his moment of triumph
** The entire episode of "[[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS2E02RelicsOfTheOldRepublic Relics of the Old Republic]]" is filled with visual call forwards, especially to the Hoth sequence from ''Empire Strikes Back''

** Some of the names are also references to famous characters from the primary era. For instance, the Republic leader in the first game, Admiral Dodonna, is a nod to the Rebel general of the same name in ''A New Hope''. ''VideoGame/TheOldRepublic'' keeps up this grand tradition, most notably on Alderaan, which is famous for its feuding noble houses -- Organa and Thul. (One quest mentions a particular affinity between the Thuls and the Killik aliens, a tip to the Swarm War trilogy.)

** In ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', Padme's dying words to Obi-Wan are that there is still good in Anakin, despite all he has done. This is one thing that Luke Skywalker inherits from his mother — in ''Return of the Jedi'', he strongly believes the same thing, and that Vader can be saved from the Dark Side. He turns out to be right.

** Obi-Wan says to Anakin "You'll be the death of me."

** The ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'' has this down to an art form. The books about Obi-Wan's own Padawan years have a particularly cruel example with a planet that is turned into a Stalinist nightmare because their leaders had visions of "Darkness covering the galaxy" coming from the Jedi and the Republic. After considering this ridiculous Qui-Gon himself then has a vision of Obi-Wan as an old man living on a backwater planet with "only his sad memories as company". Nice.