Line #22 CallForward/StarWars


1	As a successful science fiction franchise covering multiple forms of media, the creators of the works contained within the ''Franchise/StarWars'' franchise are bound to bring up moments in the later films in the timeline.
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4	* ''CallForward/ThePhantomMenace''
5	* ''CallForward/StarWarsTheCloneWars''
6	* ''CallForward/RogueOne''
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9	[[AC:Prequel Trilogy]]
10	* ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'':
11	** Obi-Wan asks Anakin, "Why do I get the feeling you're going to be the death of me?" [[Film/ANewHope How could something like that ever happen?]]
12	-->'''Anakin:''' [[DramaticIrony Don’t say that, Master]]. You’re the closest thing I have to a father.
13	** 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 (who was with his dad at the time) sees through it, hides in the garbage himself, and pursues Solo to Bespin.
14	** 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 of the Sith''.
15	** The remix of the Imperial March that plays as the clone army is assembling for the first time.
16	** When Anakin tells Padme that he killed all the Tusken Raiders after his mother's death, Darth Vader's theme music plays for a second or two. This moment, along with the previous night when the massacre happened, could be considered the day Darth Vader was conceived.
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18	* ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'':
19	** When escaping Grievous' flagship, Palpatine attempts to convince Anakin to leave Obi-Wan behind to die. Anakin refuses and says "his fate will be the same as ours." All three characters will eventually die in battle aboard a Death Star.
20	** The murder by Force Lightning that happens during Anakin's FaceHeelTurn gives Force Lightning a big emotional weight for him, which may have helped Darth Vader's HeelFaceTurn in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''.
21	** Obi-Wan's BondOneLiner after killing General Grievous with a blaster: "So uncivilized", a nod to his introduction of the lightsaber as an ElegantWeaponForAMoreCivilisedAge in ''Film/ANewHope''.
22	** Darth Vader claims to Padmé that he's so powerful that he can overthrow Palpatine. From a certain point of view, he literally does this to Palpatine come Episode VI to save his son; Anakin grabs the Emperor and throws him into the elevator shaft of the Second Death Star.
23	*** Technically, Vader ''does'' kill Palpatine with an [[{{Pun}} over throw]].
24	** 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 ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', he strongly believes the same thing, and that Vader can be saved from the Dark Side. He turns out to be right.
25	** The climactic duel between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker ends when Obi-Wan seizes the high ground. And what happens thirty years later (or before, from a certain point of view) when Luke evades Vader and leaps to the high catwalk?
26	--->'''Darth Vader:''' Obi-Wan has taught you well...
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29	[[AC:Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse]]
30	* ''Literature/ANewDawn'': The main plot revolves around the threat of the planet Gorse's moon Cynda being blown up. Kanan and Hera, as well as Imperial officer Captain Sloane, find it difficult to believe that it's possible to deliberately destroy a moon. Readers, on the other hand, will be well aware that not only is it possible, but the Empire is already working on the construction of a planet-killer superweapon.
31	* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' has its fair share.
32	** Lothal is the proving ground for the TIE 2.0 that Vader would later use during the Battle of Yavin.
33	** [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS1E13FireAcrossTheGalaxy "Fire Across the Galaxy"]]: Tarkin is forced to evacuate his ship in his moment of triumph.
34	** The entirety of [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS2E01TheLostCommanders "The Lost Commanders"]]/[[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS2E02RelicsOfTheOldRepublic "Relics of the Old Republic"]] is filled with visual call forwards, especially to the Hoth sequence from ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.
35	** [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS2E15TheHonorableOnes "The Honorable Ones"]]: The ''Ghost'' crew is sent to Geonosis to investigate reports by Rebel intelligence, where they find three Imperial construction modules and a large debris field in orbit. Sabine points out that the debris field is the largest she's ever seen, so the Empire must have been building something ''[[ThatsNoMoon massive]]''...
36	** [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS3E01TheHolocronsOfFate "The Holocrons of Fate"]]: A vision granted to Ezra by the Jedi and Sith holocrons reveals that the solution to defeating the empire has something to do with twin suns. [[note]] Tatooine, the planet on which Luke Skywalker is living at the time of ''Rebels'', has twin suns.[[/note]]
37	* ''Literature/LeiaPrincessOfAlderaan'': There's a particularly tragic one at the end of the book, at the ceremony officially confirming Leia as Crown Princess. She reminisces about her parents, and wonders about when she will be queen. We all know that will never happen.
38	* ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'':
39	** Obi-Wan defeats Darth Vader in a duel, bringing to mind a line from ''Film/ANewHope'' -- "When I left you, I was but the learner. Now ''I'' am the master." Then Obi-Wan calls him "Darth", as he would in their final duel on the Death Star.
40	** Obi-Wan's "Hello there!" to Luke is both an AscendedMeme and a call forward to the day they will meet again after the Tusken attack on Luke.
41	* ''Series/{{Andor}}'':
42	** Luthen predicts that whenever and however Cassian dies, it's going to be while spitting in the Empire's face. The audience already knows from ''Film/RogueOne'' that this is true.
43	** Jung and Partagaz mention security arrangements for shipments of construction materials headed for Scarif, the location of the climax of ''Film/RogueOne'' and Cassian's eventual final resting place.
44	** Mon Mothma mentions how some of the guests invited to her and her husband's FancyDinner were responsible for starving the peoples of other worlds, with the Ghormans being one of them. Later on in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'', the Imperial attacks against the Ghormans would ultimately be the impetus for Mon Mothma resigning from the Imperial Senate and joining the Rebel Alliance full-time.
45	** Nemik says that it's easier for the Empire to hide behind forty atrocities than a single incident. As it would happen years later, the beginning of the end for the Empire would happen not after two decades of constant degradation into a totalitarian and tyrannical regime, [[Film/ANewHope but when the Empire commits planetary genocide on Alderaan]].
46	** Nemik's last words are to tell Cassian to "climb"- the same command a dying [[Film/RogueOne K-2SO]] would tell him years later.
47	** When Mon Mothma figures out Luthen pulled the Aldhani heist as part of a BatmanGambit to get the Empire riled up and start clamping down on everyone's rights to give the Rebels more reason to fight back, she's horrified at such a dubious tactic. Come ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'', this will be her same position on Saw Gerrera and his partisans for their more extremist methods in fighting The Empire.
48	** Admiral Yularen is shown as the head of the ISB, the same position he occupies during ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'', which takes place at roughly the same time as this show.
49	** In "[[Recap/AndorS1E9NobodysListening Nobody's Listening]]" when Dr. Gorst is torturing Bix, there is a shot of the door shutting and an Imperial officer walking away, with the camera focusing on the officer's boots. It is shot to be reminiscent of the similar scene in ''Film/ANewHope'' when Darth Vader tortures Princess Leia.
50	** In "[[Recap/AndorS1E10OneWayOut One Way Out]]" Cassian tells Kino that he would rather die attempting to take the Empire down than not. He will meet his end helping to deal the Empire their biggest blow prior to their own end in ''Film/RogueOne''.
51	** A TIE Reaper like the one that deployed the Death Troopers at the [[Film/RogueOne Battle of Scarif]], where both Andor and Melshi will die, is patrolling while the same pair are fleeing and hiding from it on Narkina.
52	** The last shot of the episode "[[Recap/AndorS1E11DaughterOfFerrix Daughter of Ferrix]]" is Cassian standing on a beach on Niamos alone with the sun gleaming on the horizon before him, shot in such a way that is very similar to [[Film/RogueOneAStarWarsStory the massive explosion caused by the Death Star firing on Scarif, with Cassian and Jyn awaiting their final fate together on a beach there.]]
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55	* The ''Literature/FateOfTheJedi'' books got 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]]).
56	* The ''Literature/JediApprentice'' 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.
57	* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'':
58	** In the first volume of the miniseries, Anakin is pursuing Ventress’s fighter over Muunillnst and at one point gets a lock on her, prompting him to say:
59	---> [[Film/ANewHope I have you now.]]
60	** At the end of the second volume of the miniseries, Anakin thrusts his broken mechanical hand at an alien MadScientist. The alien seizes up, and his breathing apparatus is crushed...
61	** Earlier, Anakin is in a cave, and sees an image of a hero choking his own wife and falling to darkness, then Vader's helmet, in the visions he has.
62	* Creator/MichaelStackpole ''loved'' doing these in the Literature/XWingSeries, mostly to Creator/TimothyZahn's [[Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy Thrawn Trilogy]]. Just a few of them:
63	** The lost ''Katana'' fleet is mentioned in a "[[HoldYourHippogriffs might as well wish for the moon]]" phrase.
64	** Talon Karrde appears, along with his right-hand man Quelev Tapper (who suffers DeathByOriginStory in his first written appearance, set after Stackpole's books).
65	** Ysanne Isard and Kirtan Loor briefly mention Thrawn being out in the Rim.
66	** 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 Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy Mara mentions, while taking one from a different library, that keeping hold-out blasters in the "Corvis Minor" box is standard procedure.
67	** Ch'hala trees are mentioned; Corran wonders if they're passive weapon scanners. Those who've read the Thrawn Trilogy know they're actually [[spoiler:listening devices, neatly explaining how the BigBad knows so much about the Rogues' activities on Coruscant]].
68	* Zahn makes references too. In ''Literature/StarWarsAllegiance'', [[Literature/HandOfThrawn Disra has connections to criminals]], Vader is suspected of [[Literature/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.
69	* Several in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'', as might be expected.
70	** 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. [[MetaphoricallyTrue Kreia is like that sometimes]].)
71	** 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 ''Film/ANewHope''. ''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 Literature/DarkNestTrilogy.)
72	* In ''Literature/LabyrinthOfEvil'', set just before ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'':
73	** Obi-Wan casually mentions to Anakin that he could think of far worse places to live than Tatooine, a few months before he spends 18 years there.
74	** While infiltrating an AsteroidMiners' 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.
75	** From the mouth of Nute Gunray's protocol droid, captured and set to aiding in the hunt for Darth Sidious, to a clone commando:
76	--->'''Commando:''' Consider yourself lucky. Now you're on the side of the good guys.\
77	'''TC-16:''' Good guys, bad guys ... who can say anymore? What's more, you won't be so quick to say that should someone compel you to shift loyalties at a moment's notice.
78	* The novelization of ''Literature/RevengeOfTheSith'', in addition to those from the film, has a few more Call Forwards.
79	** Obi-Wan, facing possible defeat at the hands of General Grievous, reflects that he always expected Anakin would be with him when he died.
80	** In the opening battle, Anakin and Obi-Wan lead the tri-fighters pursuing them [[Film/ANewHope through a trench in a larger enemy ship]]. Anakin's call sign for the space battle is also Red Five according to Odd Ball, the same as Luke's will be during the Battle of Yavin.
81	** [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Captain Needa]] appears as a mere lieutenant commander during the battle of Coruscant, trying to parley with General Grievous. It predictably fails. In a [[HarsherInHindsight harsher way]], he also provides information for the rescue team sent to retrieve Anakin, Obi-Wan and Palpatine from the wreckage of their ship, thus helping the man who will kill him twenty years later.
82	* Acting as a sort of epilogue for ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', ''Literature/DarkLordTheRiseOfDarthVader'' sets up many of the Original Trilogy's plot points.
83	** In his introductory scene, Roan Shryne has a Force vision of a battle on a forest world, with a lone figure tearing down darkness and an enormous explosion in the sky--{{foreshadowing}} the Battle of Kashyyyk at the climax of the book, and also an apt summary of the end of ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''. [[spoiler:As he lies dying, the vision returns to Shryne and he perceives that Vader will be at the center of it all--and that the Force will never fall to darkness forever.]]
84	** Mon Mothma appears as a young Senators and ally of Bail Organa. In ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' and subsequent Legends works, she is a leader of the Rebellion. Garm Bel Iblis is another such Senator; in ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'' he returns to the Rebellion after forming a splinter group.
85	** Bail Organa himself is a supporting character, reluctant to openly defy Palpatine along with Mon Mothma because of his duty to safeguard his adopted daughter Leia--still an infant, but carrying the hope of the galaxy.
86	** Darth Sidious, goading Vader, points out that if they were to come to blows, Sidious could easily short out Vader's suit with Force Lightning--exactly how Vader will eventually die.
87	** Vader forms a VillainousFriendship with one Wilhuff Tarkin, newly promoted to Moff and already in charge of portions of the secret construction project that will become the Death Star.
88	** Chewbacca happens to be one of the Wookiees that Starstone's group of Jedi meet with on Kashyyyk. When the planet falls under attack, he winds up piloting their shuttle and escaping with them, explaining how he got into the smuggling business before meeting Han Solo.
89	** As Vader looks down at [[spoiler:Shryne's dying body]], he anticipates looking down on a defeated Sidious the same way--he certainly will, but not for the reasons he thinks. He also plans to take on an apprentice with a "rebellious spirit" to aid him in that quest.
90	** The Emperor gives Moff Tarkin a bit of advice that informs his worldview and makes him the sort of person who, in ''Film/ANewHope'', will blow up a peaceful, heavily populated core planet as an intimidation tactic.
91	--->'''Palpatine:''' What is one world, more or less, when the galaxy is being reordered?\
92	'''Tarkin:''' ...I will bear that in mind, my lord.
93	** In the final chapter, we see Obi-Wan Kenobi learn of Vader's survival in his vigil on Tatooine. His SpiritAdvisor, Qui-Gon Jinn, advises him not to tell Luke the truth about his father before the boy is ready.
94	* ''Literature/StarWarsKenobi'':
95	** Sarlaccs are rare, but the one at the Pit of Carkoon from ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' isn't unique, just especially large.
96	** Ben's first lines (after the prologue) include "Hello, there," and "You're in one piece," just as in ''Film/ANewHope''.
97	** Ben learns that the Sand People fear krayt dragons and can be scared off using an artificial krayt dragon roar, which he puts to good use in ''A New Hope''.
98	** Annileen tells a story to Ben about an actor who decided to live in the desert for six months and came back looking incredibly aged. In ''A New Hope'', old Ben looks far older than he should after an 18-year gap between Episodes III and IV.
99	** Ben gives similar advice to [[spoiler:Jabe Calwell]] that he'll say to Han Solo: Only a fool follows another fool.
100	* ''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."
101	* ''Literature/StarWarsScoundrels'':
102	** Han calls Mazzic, who's one of Talon Karrde's smuggling associates in Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy, to ask him for help with the job. Mazzic sends two of his employees, Winter and Kell.
103	** Winter, also from the Thrawn Trilogy, is in the midst of her mission of procurement for the Rebellion, which she tells Mara Jade about in ''The Last Command''. As such, she's working undercover for Mazzic, helping him identify warehouses to steal from; after he takes what he wants, the Rebels come in and gather up the rest. She's a bit annoyed that this side job for Han has nothing to do with the war, but to maintain her cover she gives it her all--and she's probably planning to donate her share to the Alliance anyway. Meanwhile, her homeworld of Alderaan has just been destroyed, she has no idea whether her close friend Princess Leia was on-planet at the time, and news from the Rebel leadership trickles down to the agents very slowly. After she spots some clues that Han is also involved with the Rebellion, he is able to reassure her regarding Leia's survival.
104	** Kell (Tainer, though he never gives his last name in this book) is part of Wraith Squadron in the Literature/XWingSeries, and the more-or-less main character of the book ''Wraith Squadron'', which takes place seven years after ''Scoundrels''. Also an Alderaanian, he's a bit adrift after the loss of his homeworld and his father (in a separate incident), and has fallen in with Mazzic. He already knows droids and explosives, and a bit of piloting. Since he's not in charge of anyone, he only shows a hint of the performance anxiety that dogs him later. If his biography in ''Wraith Squadron'' is accurate, his share of the take probably goes towards mechanic's training at the Sluis Van shipyards before he joins the New Republic as a commando and later a fighter pilot.
105	** The final layer of security on Villachor's vault is the vault itself: a block of Hijarna stone inside a sphere of duracrete. Hijarna stone, an incredibly dense material resistant to damage from everything up to and including lightsabers, is ''also'' from the Thrawn trilogy: on the planet Hijarna, it makes up the ruined fortress where Talon Karrde has one of his hideouts.
106	** The power struggle between Darth Vader and Black Sun's leader Prince Xizor is in the background of Villachor and Qazadi's actions on the Black Sun side, and Intelligence agent Dayja's on the Imperial side. It will come to a head, and the Rebellion will get involved, in ''Literature/ShadowsOfTheEmpire''.
107	* ''Literature/StarWarsHonorAmongThieves'':
108	** Plans for a Rebel base are scrapped due to the detection of Imperial probe droids in the system, and Hoth is among the candidates for a replacement. No one is especially ''excited'' about the prospect of building a base on that ice ball, but the other possibilities are at least as bad.
109	** The ''Millennium Falcon'' takes quite a beating over the course of the story, and Han grouses that eventually his and Chewie's patchwork repairs aren't going to be enough and the ship will just refuse to work right, which is the situation they find themselves in during ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.
110	* ''Literature/ShadowsOfTheEmpire'' features Dash Rendar as a smuggler and Rebel operative. ''Shadow Games'', set shortly before the Battle of Yavin but written years after ''Shadows'', ends with him mulling over the possibility of joining the Rebellion. He snarks that he'll only join when Han joins, which could ''absolutely'' never happen. His droid Leebo even states that Han would rather be frozen in carbonite before joining.

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