History Foreshadowing / LiveActionTv

** In the first episode, Louis asks Lestat "That's your thing, then? You like to watch?" when he notices that Lestat is ogling at him while Lily unbuttons Louis' shirt and later performs oral sex on him. In the third episode, Jonah does the same thing to Louis when they're at the bayou, and Louis is enraged when he finds out that Lestat had spied on them and "[[ThePeepingTom watched the whole thing like some creeper]]."

** In the first episode, Louis asks Lestat "That's your thing, then? You like to watch?" when he notices that Lestat is ogling at him while Lily unbuttons Louis' shirt and later performs oral sex on him. In the third episode, Jonah does the same thing to Louis when they're at the bayou, and Louis is enranged when he finds out that Lestat had spied on them and "[[ThePeepingTom watched the whole thing like some creeper]]."

** In the second episode, Lestat stealthily checks out a prostitute who exposes her breast while Louis is talking to Finn. It foreshadows Lestat's wandering eye, and he fools around with Antoinette in the next episode.

** In "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS03E11CeremoniesOfLightAndDark Ceremonies of Light and Dark]]" Susan and Garibaldi ask Sheridan how long he'll be out of uniform after the station's secession from the Earth Alliance. Sheridan replies that he'll put it on once Clark is kicked out of office but it'll be the last time. Outside of a heart attack induced dream that Londo would have, this indeed becomes the case as Sheridan [[Recap/BabylonFiveS04E21RisingStar wore his uniform one last time when announcing his resignation]] after Clark is kicked out of office.

** In "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS03E11CeremoniesOfLightAndDark Ceremonies of Light and Dark]]" Susan and Garibaldi ask Sheridan how long he'll be out of uniform after the stations secession from the Earth Alliance. Sheridan replies that he'll put it on once Clark is kicked out of office but it'll be the last time. Outside of a dream that Londo had, this indeed becomes the case as Sheridan [[Recap/BabylonFiveS04E21RisingStar wears his uniform one last time when announcing his resignation]] after Clark is kicked out of office.

** At the Eye of the World there's a large Aes Sedai symbol on the floor. Moiraine later says it's made of supposedly indestructible cuendillar. [[spoiler:This looks a lot like the seals holding the Dark One, as described in the books, only much larger.]] Ba'alzamon taunts Moiraine that she doesn't know, if Dragon Reborn is going to break his chains or strengthen them. Then Dragon Reborn hits him so hard, the symbol breaks.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E1WhereIsEverybody Where is Everybody?]]". When he finds himself in a diner, the man accidentally knocks over a clock and the glass breaks. Later, he breaks the clock inside the small box where he's confined.

*** In "Rivals", Bashir says he won the sector championship in racquetball by beating out, among others, a Vulcan, something that would be very difficult for an ordinary human.

*** When Kate is held hostage by Ari in the first season finale, Gibbs suddenly imagines her dead via headshot for a moment. [[spoiler:Exactly one season later in the second season finale, Ari snipes Kate dead, and she falls to the ground in an identical scene to the one Gibbs imagined.]] This however, actually wasn't preplanned as [[spoiler:Kate was only killed because the actress decided to leave,]] which wasn't known until the second season was already underway, making this an aftershadow of sorts.

** Londo refers to his three hated wives as "Famine", "Pestilence" and "Death". By exclusion that leaves himself as "War". [[spoiler: Guess who ends up escalating the simmering Narn-Centauri conflict]].

* In ''Series/TheBoys'' they cleverly foreshadow the kind of person Stormfront is simply with her name. It's certainly a fitting name for a heroine who can fly and shoot lightning, but [[spoiler:it's also the name of a heavily antisemitic racist hate site. She's soon revealed to be a sadist racist serial killer]].

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' is laced with foreshadowing, because of Creator/JossWhedon's long-term planning:
** In a truly epic bit of foreshadowing in the Season 3 premiere "Anne", Lily (from "Lie To Me") tells Buffy about how she used to follow around this "loser preacher." Could she mean [[spoiler: Caleb in Season 7]]?
** "I'm so evil and skanky. And I think I'm kinda gay." -- Willow Rosenberg about her vampire {{doppelganger}}, a year before she ''did'' come out -- and three before she almost destroyed the world. It results in something of a terrifying echo, especially if you watch the second season again after knowing what happens. When Willow first utters "Bored now" as a vampire, it actually gives you chills.
*** This example is particularly hit home by the exchange that takes place immediately after.
---->'''Buffy:''' Willow, just remember--a vampire's personality has nothing to do with the person it was.\\
'''Angel:''' (who is a vampire) Well, actually... (Buffy gives him a DeathGlare) ...[[ShuttingUpNow that's a good point!]]
** WordOfGod says they hadn't planned to make Willow gay as of "The Wish" let alone even earlier in "Phases", but then there's this exchange:
--->'''Buffy:''' What guy could resist your Willow charms?\\
'''Willow:''' At last count? All of them, maybe more.
** Similarly, Dawn Summers' arrival was foreshadowed by dream dialogue in two different episodes in Season 4: In "This Year's Girl", Faith and Buffy are making a bed in Dawn's future room when they have this exchange:
--->'''Faith:''' Little sis coming. I know.\\
'''Buffy:''' So much to do before she gets here.
*** And in the season finale "Restless", one episode before Dawn's appearance, Tara urged Buffy to "be back before Dawn."
*** There's also a remark somewhere about "trying on big sister's clothes".
** Faith's mention of counting down from "seven-three-oh" [[WordOfGod foreshadows the fifth season finale]], exactly 730 days later. The end of Season 4 also makes reference to the scene with Faith while foreshadowing Season 5, and mentions that [[CallBack a clock showing 7.30]] is now "way out".
** Want to get even creepier? Faith steals Buffy's credit card and reads out the expiration date as May 2001. Now watch "The Gift", airing May 23rd 2001.
** Xander dresses as a pirate in the Season 6 episode, and then in the seventh season he loses an eye and has to wear an eye patch.
** There's a very subtle one during the first season where Buffy is hanging out with her friends and she says bite me. Cue Angel looking all weird at Buffy.
** At the end of "The Harvest" Angel appears to be standing next to a sign saying WATCH YOU -- appropriate enough for his MysteriousWatcher role. But when he walks away we see the sign actually reads WATCH YOUR STEP, foretelling his FaceHeelTurn into Angelus. Similarly at the end of "After Life" Buffy's other vampire LoveInterest, Spike, is standing next to a discarded door with a BEWARE OF DOG sign, hinting at the DestructiveRomance to follow.
** A ''very'' subtle, blink-and-you'll-miss-it example from the fourth season premier, foreshadowing Buffy's mother's death: Buffy tells Willow, "I can't wait until my mom gets the bill for these textbooks; ''I hope it's a funny aneurysm''."
** In Season 5's "Crush", while Buffy and Xander are investigating the train massacre, Buffy sits down in one of the seats which has the chalk outline of a body drawn around it, foreshadowing her death in the Season 5 finale.
** WordOfGod is that they originally considered making ''Xander'' gay, in which case his meetings with Larry in ''Phases'' and ''Earshot'' would have been this.
** Any dream Buffy has involving Little Miss Muffet.
*** Anytime Little Miss Muffet is referenced, at all.
** In the Season 7 episode "Sleeper", Aimee Mann sings a song called "Pavlov's Bell." During the next episode "Never Leave Me" the Scooby Gang discusses the possibility that Spike is being controlled by means of Pavlovian conditioning.
** In Season 7, when we first see Amanda, she mentions having confusing feelings for a boy that bullies her, and the fact that she retaliates quite physical and effectively. Next episode we see her we find out she is a potential slayer, which is fitting considering the obvious parallels with Spuffy and the natural physical prowess of slayers.
** In the Season 9 comics there is "Where's Willow?" on the cover of "Apart (Of Me)" part III. Later, she shows up at Giles' house.
** The depths of Warren's misogyny were alluded to from his first appearance, where he specifically programmed April to feel pain whenever the two of them weren't together, and then ultimately proceeded to ditch her anyway.
** In the episode of Warren's death, Rack tells him that Buffy is the last thing he needs to worry about (Willow being the first), Warren quips "Yeah, let's talk about my skin troubles!" And we all know [[FlayingAlive what happens to him later.]]
** Before the Wishverse, Buffy and Willow discuss how in different circumstances she might have become Faith. Later Wishverse Buffy shows up (who is who Buffy would have been had she not been loved). Turns out without her friends, she's even worse.
** Wishverse!Buffy is foreshadowing for Spike's BreakingSpeech in "Fool for Love", where he tells Buffy that without her connections to the world (family and friends) she'd be a DeathSeeker.
** One of Faith's first scenes is with a poster prominently displayed warning about rape. Depending on how you count them she has at least three rape victims to her name.
** Giles' conversation with Willow after the latter resurrects Buffy has Willow displaying both a very cavalier attitude towards seriously dark magic as well as arrogance that "only she could do it". She brushes off Giles' warning that plenty of others could do it but "you wouldn't want to meet them" as the others being "the bad guys", and ends the conversation with threatening Giles not to piss her off. All of which foreshadows that she'll be the eventual BigBad of the series.

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