History Main / FORESHADOWING

* In ''Comicbook/AvengersAcademy'' #13, Veil states that CasanovaWannabe Striker only ever seems to hit on girls who are sure to spurn his advances. Not much is made of it at the time, but near the end of the story, Striker [[ComingOutStory comes out of the closet]] and reveals that [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeteroSexualToday his constant attempts at picking up women were a desperate ploy to hide the fact that he was gay]].

* In a ''Comicbook/{{Batman}}'' one-shot, a museum owner meets two female members of a rock star's entourage, and states that the musician is probably unable to keep track of all his groupies. Turns out he's right; the women from the entourage are Comicbook/HarleyQuinn and Poison Ivy in disguise, and the real groupies are BoundAndGagged somewhere else.

** Also, somewhere in the middle of the first film, Master Shifu is chanting about Inner Peace.

** ''BatmanReturns'':

*** Which is a stellar case of RightForTheWrongReason, as a major part of Hitler's rise to power was being able to use the dissatisfaction the Treaty (which piled pretty much ''all'' of the debt for the war on Germany) to catapult himself into the spotlight. If the treaty had either been harsher, or less severe, it might not have happened at all.

* In the ''Film/TheAvengers'', when Loki arrives on the SHIELD airship, he briefly smirks at Bruce. Guess what or who his plan for escaping is?

* ''Film/{{Spider-Man 3}}'': Early on, after Peter and Mary Jane visit Harry Osborn in the hospital, a nurse comments to him how they really seem like good friends. Harry proudly states they're the best, and that he'd die for them. [[spoiler:Guess what happens to him during the final battle?]]

* One episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/AvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes]]'', "The Masters of Evil," begins with a taxi driver reading a newspaper with a headline promoting a Baxter tenant's recollections of the time he got replaced by an alien. At first, this seems like just another of several {{Mythology Gag}}s featured in the paper (which also contained references to ComicBook/ThePunisher and the ComicBook/{{X-Men}}), but it later turns out that the second season of the show contains a ''SecretInvasion'' adaptation.

* ''FanFic/RacerAndTheGeek'' is chock full of foreshadowing from quite literally the first paragraph! [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/81159/racer-and-the-geek Hell, even the description contains foreshadowing.]] If you thought that it was just going to be another ho-humm OC x Rainbow Dash romance fic, then you are mostly like blind and definitely have another thing coming.

*** ''BatmanForever'': "It just raises too many questions." This line is spoken by Bruce Wayne to Edward Nygma, who eventually becomes the Riddler. Nygma drives the point home by [[MadnessMantra angrily repeating the "too many questions" part to himself over and over]].
*** ''BatmanAndRobin'': Alfred tells Bruce, "[[TearJerker I shan't be around forever.]]"

** There's also an IncrediblyLamePun example when, while he and his men are tailing the title character in a park, Kellaway, the police lieutenant, remarks: "We're gonna have a full dance card" (i.e., we're going to have a lot to deal with). That sequence ends with The Mask starting up a spontaneous Latin-themed dance party in the streets and persuading everyone within earshot (including the cops who have shown up to arrest him) to join the fun. The action is captured by TV news cameras, and a later scene has Kellaway's partner informing him that a few of those cops have been offered jobs as professional dancers in Las Vegas.

* ''Film/TheMask''. Early on Stanley orders his dog Milo to "Get the keys" (his car keys which he lost). Later, after Stanley is arrested he tells Milo to "Get the keys" again - the keys to his cell.

** The 1989 film: Jack Napier (soon to become TheJoker) wears a purple suit, carries around a deck of cards for good luck...and when we first see him, he's watching television in a room hung with glamour portraits of young women with [[DeathlyPallor snow-white skin]] and ruby-red lips, just like the Joker's later female victims. He's also called a "psycho" by one character, even though we haven't yet seen him do anything particularly evil.

** Oswald Cobblepot (the baby who will grow up to become the Penguin) picks a fight with a cat in one of the film's opening scenes, foreshadowing his later adversarial relationship with Catwoman.
** Catwoman herself is (unintentionally) foreshadowed in a scene showing Selina Kyle working in her office at night: light from a lamp on her desk distorts the shadow of her spectacles, making it appear to be a Catwoman mask. (This happened purely accidentally, and the filmmakers decided to leave it in because it was so fortuitous.)
** The Mayor: "You don't have an issue, Max - [[TemptingFate and you sure as hell don't have a candidate]]."
** Max Shreck provides two: one that turns out to be especially ominous ("[[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor I wish I could hand out world peace, and unconditional love]]...[[ExactWords wrapped up in a big bow]]") and one that foreshadows his own death ("[[KarmicDeath I am the light of this city...]]").
** ''BatmanForever'': "It just raises too many questions." This line is spoken by Bruce Wayne to Edward Nygma, who eventually becomes the Riddler. Nygma drives the point home by [[MadnessMantra angrily repeating the "too many questions" part to himself over and over]].
** ''BatmanAndRobin'': "[[TearJerker I shan't be around forever.]]"

** ''BatmanReturns'': Oswald Cobblepot (the baby who will grow up to become the Penguin) picks a fight with a cat in one of the film's opening scenes, foreshadowing his later adversarial relationship with Catwoman. Catwoman herself is (unintentionally) foreshadowed in a scene showing Selina Kyle working in her office at night: light from a lamp on her desk distorts the shadow of her spectacles, making it appear to be a Catwoman mask. (This happened purely accidentally, and the filmmakers decided to leave it in because it was so fortuitous.) Finally, Max Shreck provides two - one that turns out to be especially ominous ("[[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor I wish I could hand out world peace, and unconditional love]]...[[ExactWords wrapped up in a big bow]]") and one that foreshadows his own death ("[[KarmicDeath I am the light of this city...]]").