History Main / Futureshadowing

** In the same film when Palptine pleads with Anakin to leave Obi-Wan behind to save themselves, Anakin chastises Palpatine saying that without Obi-Wan "His fate will be the same as ours". All three men would die on a Death Star nearly 20 years after the events of Revenge of the Sith

** In the same film when Palptine pleads with Anakin to leave Obi-Wan behind to save themselves, Anakin chastises Palpatine saying that without Obi-Wan "His fate would be the same as ours". All three men would die on a Death Star nearly 20 years after the events of Revenge of the Sith

** In another case, we [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E2TheShakespeareCode saw]] Queen Elizabeth I stark raving mad at the Doctor nearly three years before he or the viewers [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime found out why]]. Turns out that in her past/his future, he marries her, robs her of her title of the Virgin Queen, then abandons her.

* ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'' opens with an extended look at the ruins of the great ship on the ocean floor. We don't see the actual sinking until almost three hours later.

* ''Manga/PleaseSaveMyEarth'' has a very [[MindScrew weird]] occurence of this. Alice's first memory-dream of her previous life as Mokuren has Mokuren awaken from a dream herself, saying she dreamt of being a Japanese highschool girl with straight black hair (Alice's appearance). Much later in the series, we see [[spoiler: Mokuren's spirit leave her body as she dies and save Rin from his fall from the balcony in the beginning of the series. Though Mokuren died about 9 years before that occured and how can she be reincarnated as Alice, if Alice is already 16 at the time and would be alive when Mokuren dies...]]. How this [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble would have occured previously]] is anyone's guess.

** Tucker's final speech at the Court has him noting that the ability of large corporations to crush independent inventors and entrepreneurs will hold back American ingenuity and knowhow and that eventually Japan and Germany will surpass them in consumer electronics and cars. By the time Coppola made this film in the 80s, this became increasingly true, and its especially prescient in the 21st Century.

** The third season ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Before And After", in which Kes's conciousness is travelling back through time, futureshadows elements of the fourth season episode "Year of Hell", although the timeline has changed slightly by the time the events actually occur (not least because Kes isn't a member of the crew any more).

* The penultimate scene of ''Film/TheUnbearableLightnessOfBeing'' has Sabina on a beach in California reading a letter that tells her of Tomas and Tereza's death in a traffic accident. The final scene has the two driving off back in Czechoslovakia, where [[{{Irony}} in the last line he tells her he's thinking about how happy he is]].

** In "Signs and Portents", Lady Ladira shows Sinclair her vision of Babylon 5 being destroyed. [[spoiler:Ultimately this comes to pass... after the station is finally decommissioned and evacuated.]]

Can overlap with OnceMoreWithClarity. Compare DreamingOfThingsToCome.

* Given that the first trilogy made came chronologically ''after'' the second trilogy made, ''Franchise/Star Wars'' as a whole is full of this, from explicit statements like Obi-Wan's "Why do I get the feeling you're going to be [[MentorOccupationalHazard the death of me]]" to [[TheDragon Ana]][[TheParagonAlwaysRebels kin]] to subtler ones, like how General Grievous, a melodramatic cyborg with breathing problems, foreshadows Darth Vader, the original melodramatic cyborg with breathing problems.

* In ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', Palpatine tells Anakin the tragic story of the [[PredecessorVillain Sith Lord, Darth Plagueis the Wise]]. What he tells him is actually a ''very'' abbreviated story of his own mentor, which is later told in the ExpandedUniverse novel ''Literature/DarthPlagueis''.

* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'': After the failed mission to blow up a dinosaur scout, Dr. [=McNinja=] ended up bouncing in time and ended up [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p05 somewhere in the future.]] But no one knows when this will happen or how.

* The penultimate scene of ''Literature/TheUnbearableLightnessOfBeing'' has Sabina on a beach in California reading a letter that tells her of Tomas and Tereza's death in a traffic accident. The final scene has the two driving off back in Czechoslovakia, where [[{{Irony}} in the last line he tells her he's thinking about how happy he is]].

* The penultimate scene of ''Film/TheUnbearableLightnessOfBeing'' has Sabina on a beach in california reading a letter that tells her of Tomas and Tereza's death in a traffic accident. The final scene has the two driving off back in Czechoslovakia, where [[{{Irony}} in the last line he tells her he's thinking about how happy he is]].

* In ''SuikodenV'', you can let Oboro investigate something about Georg and he claims that he doesn't seem to be blind even with his EyepatchOfPower. Of course, if you ever played ''SuikodenII'', years after the former game, you find that Georg doesn't have an eyepatch at all. [[spoiler: He throws the eye patch at the end of SuikodenV.]]

* Given that the first trilogy made came chronologically ''after'' the second trilogy made, StarWars as a whole is full of this, from explicit statements like Obi-Wan's "Why do I get the feeling you're going to be [[MentorOccupationalHazard the death of me]]" to [[TheDragon Ana]][[TheParagonAlwaysRebels kin]] to subtler ones, like how General Grievous, a melodramatic cyborg with breathing problems, foreshadows Darth Vader, the original melodramatic cyborg with breathing problems.

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* Not surprisingly, the Doctor indulges on this on occasion in ''Series/DoctorWho'', especially where River Song is concerned.
** In other case, we saw Queen Elizabeth I stark raving mad at the Doctor nearly three years before he or the viewers found out why. Turns out that in her past/his future, he marries her, robs her of her title of the Virgin Queen, then abandons her.
*** Nearly four years later the full story is revealed. 10 married Elizabeth I, after proposing to her, thinking she was a [[ItMakesSenseInContext shapeshifting alien]]. After marrying her he left quickly, but due to the presence of his future self he forgets exactly what happened.
* The Series/StargateAtlantis episode "Tabula Rasa" shows scenes out of order so the audience sees the characters behaving in very out of character ways for a while before it is revealed what actually happened.
* Similarly there was an episode of ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' where the scenes were shown in reverse order, beginning with the resolution of the story and working back to Jerry's first meeting with Kramer.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'' examples:
** The third season ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Before And After", in which Kes's conciousness is travelling back through time, futureshadows elements of the fourth season episode "Year of Hell", although the timeline has changed slightly by the time the events actually occur (not least because Kes isn't a member of the crew any more).
** In ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'''s "Visionary", Chief O'Brien keeps getting previews of the future, each more disastrous than the last -- up to and including the station blowing up. Fortunately, he manages to avert the really bad ones when he notices them starting.
** In the ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Next Generation]]'' episode "Timescape", an away team returns to the ship to find it frozen in time, apparently locked in battle with a Romulan warbird. But the visual evidence is deceptive -- when they manage to rewind the disaster, we find out the two crews were cooperating.
* An extra episode on ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'''s season one DVD showed events ten years after the main series, after the mind-wiping technology leads to the collapse of civilization and the BrainwashedAndCrazy version of a ZombieApocalypse. Recorded memories allowed flashbacks hinting at how this happened, though events in the series did not work out exactly as depicted (something WordOfGod had mentioned beforehand, noting that the memories could have been faulty or deliberately altered).
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' had Crichton experience several of these in "Back and Back and Back to the Future".

* Given the framing of the show, ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' uses this a lot. The biggest example, of course, is that we see Ted's kids before he has them, and his house before he buys it. Also, things are sometimes shown or mentioned briefly in one episode (often paired with some variation of "But we'll get to that" or "But that's another story"), with the full story being told episodes or even seasons later. Examples of this could fill an entire page, but the most notable one is probably the story of the goat in Ted's bathroom. It's first mentioned in the first-season episode "Milk," more of the story is told in the third-season episode "The Goat," and the event actually occurs in the fourth-season episode "The Leap."

* Special mention goes to ''{{Achron}}'', a game which makes this a standard ''multiplayer game mechanic''.

* The first case of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney: Trials and Tribulations'' is Mia Fey's second case. The ''fourth'' case of the same game is Mia's ''first'' case. The former contains a few allusions to the latter, including [[spoiler:Mia and Dahlia Hawthorne commenting that they know one another]] and [[spoiler:references to the poisoning of Diego Armando]].

Can overlap with OnceMoreWithClarity.

* ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'' gives you the Monado, which at various points in and out of battle allow you to see things that will happen in the future, allowing you a chance to change the future.