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12	''This page is about the trope. For the 1996 series, [[Series/FlashForward1996 go here]]. For the 2009 series, [[Series/FlashForward2009 go here]]. For the 2019 Creator/DCComics mini-series starring [[ComicBook/TheFlash Wally West]], [[ComicBook/FlashForward go here]].''
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14	Opposite of a {{Flashback}} and different from a DistantFinale and not quite TimeTravel or a DreamSequence. The Flash Forward is a look ahead at what may be a possibility in the characters' futures. When it occurs once at the very start of a work, it's HowWeGotHere.
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16	Not to be confused with {{Seers}} - characters who can view the future (or a possible future) inside the context of the story. Compare {{Futureshadowing}} and CallForward.
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23	%%* ''VisualNovel/ChaosHead'' begins with one of these.
24	* In ''Manga/DGrayMan'', the Alma Karma arc begins with a flashforward to the attack of the North American Branch by The Earl. It then cuts back to the events some hours earlier.
25	* ''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets'' has several of these to five years in the future, where male lead Fuutarou Uesugi [[MarriedInTheFuture is getting married]] to one of the Nakano Quintuplets. However, the identity of the quintuplet in question remains obscured for the most part until near the end of the story, [[spoiler:eventually revealed to be Yotsuba, the fourth sister]].
26	* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' starts out with a flash-forward to the cast preparing to face off against "all the lights in the heavens". However, nothing like this ends up happening; WordOfGod admits that this plot thread got discarded at some point, and eventually declared that the scene was an alternate-universe BadEnding.
27	* ''Manga/VenusVersusVirus'''s anime begins with a flash forward to the climax of the show. Though it is more of an ActionPrologue.
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31	* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'': ''Archie Marries Veronica'' is stated to be a flashforward story arc, set after Archie and the gang have graduated from college.
32	* ''ComicBook/TheBalladOfHaloJones'' featured a flash forward several centuries ahead of the main story's timeline. Here, in what appears to be a {{utopia}}, a history professor lectures his students on Halo's adventures back in the 51st century. It ends with him expressing his feelings and longing for the centuries-dead woman.
33	* ''ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast'', in which various X-men and others get glimpses of a possible future where the USA has been conquered by the Sentinel mutant-hunting AIs, mutants are rounded up in concentration camps, and America has basically been reduced to a totalitarian nightmare. The storyline pivots around the activities of present day (fictional) U.S. Senator Robert Kelly, and it's left unclear whether or not that future has been prevented.
34	* In the ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' comics, the infamous Adult Legion story from Adventure Comics #354-355, which even depicted the deaths of members who hadn't joined yet. Stories were written for almost two decades that seemed to work towards the future shown here (and other earlier Adult Legion stories) until it was finally revealed as an alternate reality.
35	* The final issue of ''ComicBook/MegaManArchieComics'' had Dr. Light seeing visions of the future from ''VideoGame/MegaMan4'' all the way to ''VideoGame/MegaManLegends''
36	* ''ComicBook/{{Rai}}'' #0, written by Jim Shooter, who also wrote the Adult Legion story.
37	%%* ''ComicBook/{{Powers}}'', episode "Future Box".
38	* In ''ComicBook/TarotWitchOfTheBlackRose'', starting from Issue 39 the narrative has proposed a potential good future for Tarot, Jon and Raven; that original peek already warned variations to that potential outcome may happen, and indeed before that point in time ever took place new peeks of the future over the years implemented a few differences to that narrative:
39	** Issue 39: Tarot has completed her task of unifying the world of mankind and magick, with that she starts a family with Jon, having a daughter with him; with their marriage being a little different in her traditions Tarot has Jon accept her sister Raven as well, bearing a daughter with Jon as well, all of them are a happy family.
40	** Issue 80: While seeking refuge from a rainstorm Raven humorously teases Jon of their future together, the fact he will give Raven and Tarot children is reinforced, but this time their gender is not mentioned, and a new party is brought to that future, Raven and Tarot’s own mom somehow would also hook up with Jon, bearing a child with him. [[spoiler:Years later, however, in issue 115, Tarot and Raven’s mom dies, effectively closing that part of the future Raven once saw]].
41	** Issue 114: As Raven records her then current turmoil over being courted by a dragon prince who wanted her hand in marriage but Raven rejected his ongoing advances, yet she felt a little conflicted because the prince was genuinely kind, managing to pierce her heart just a little bit due Raven starting to feel the need of building a family her own, and that’s when she thinks of Jon whom she now says will give her a child, now a son, not a daughter.
42	* ''ComicBook/{{Witchblade}}'' #500 (which was a Wizard mail-in offer that depicted a future #500 issue of the comic).
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46	* ''ComicStrip/{{Sovisa}}'' jokes with this in a trapped in the past style filler story, in which Ryn murders a bartender who's [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe faux olde English]] is annoying her (Also because [[BloodKnight It's Ryn]]). The next part shows a vision of the present with a "[[MeanwhileIntheFuture MEANWHILE 3400 years in the future]]..." [the scene remains unchanged] "Nothing whatsoever happened. Not every [[ButterflyOfDoom butterfly inspired Shakespere]]"
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50	* In ''FanFic/TheBugTypeQueen'', a ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' x ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' crossover, the interludes take place six years ahead of the current story, after Taylor has returned to Brockton Bay years later. However, because of the time-shenanigans, she returns back at the moment she left.
51	* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12037108/1/A-different-fight A Different Fight]]'', being an alternate version of ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' Season 4, also had one of these near the beginning. Barry visits Oliver DrowningHisSorrows in his apartment and asks about Laurel. Oliver replies that physically she should be fine, but they haven't told her about "the other thing" yet, and he says he's going to kill the one responsible. It later turns out, [[spoiler:the attempt on her life caused her to have a miscarriage.]]
52	* The ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' story "Days Of Future Smurfed" starts in the distant future of the Smurfs (circa 2005) where the only Smurfs alive are Great-Grandfather Smurf [[spoiler:(a.k.a. Empath)]] and his grandson Polaris Smurf, who eventually becomes Traveler. The story alternates between that time period and the present time period of the story series, where the younger Empath experiences "flash forwards" into the future at various points leading up to the starting point of the story. In those "flash forwards", he sees himself and Smurfette getting married and having a child, Papa Smurf dying, Smurfette dying, and eventually [[SugarApocalypse the village itself being destroyed]].
53	* In the ''Fanfic/MotionPractice'' series, which recasts various Marvel superheroes as lawyers, the story "Judicial Conduct" ends with a flash-forward to a scene several years after the rest of the series, in which Assistant District Attorney Coulson has become a judge.
54	* Chapter 14 of ''Fanfic/WhatIfTheYeerksWereTheGoodGuys'' ends with Tom feeling glad he's safe with his little brother... followed by a future-tense scene where [[spoiler:Jake has Tom tied up in the woods.]]
55	* ''Fanfic/AsNApproachesInfinity'' opens with a HowWeGotHere, as [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Homura]] meets the ''{{Manga/Bleach}}'' cast and reveals that they've met in a previous timeline, with the main narrative detailing their previous interactions. When the story eventually cuts forward again, [[spoiler:Homura admits that this is the ''fifty-fourth'' time she's told them about what's going on]].
56	* The coda at the end of Pat's chapter in ''[[Fanfic/SixesAndSevens The Haunting of Villa Layla]]'' is set a few years later in 1950, on the night [[spoiler: Rahne Sinclair, aka [[Characters/NewMutants Wolfsbane]], was born]].
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60	* In ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers'', Elrond warns Arwen what will happen if she stays in Middle-Earth and marries Aragorn, and there is a scene of Aragorn's funeral, after he has become king and has died of old age, while Arwen lives on in grief and loneliness.
61	* ''Film/{{Next\|2007}}'' revolved around the ability of Nicolas Cage's character to see two minutes into the future (unless certain conditions were met), and play it over and over again in his mind until he found the optimal path to take (typically one that didn't end up with him being shot or beaten).
62	* In ''Film/{{Parenthood}}'', after putting Kevin on second base at a baseball game, [[Creator/SteveMartin Gil]] has two of these to Kevin's college graduation: in the first Kevin is confident and successful, but in the second (after Kevin failed to make a catch), he is at the top of a tower [[SchoolShooting shooting at everyone in sight with an assault rifle]].
63	* In ''Lola Rennt'', a.k.a. ''Film/RunLolaRun'' in the US, an encounter with another pedestrian sometimes triggered a {{Blipvert}} showing what would happen to that person.
64	* In ''Film/SweetCountry'', brief glimpses of the characters' futures are scattered through the film. Several of them have context missing such that [[OnceMoreWithClarity it's not clear what they signify until the story catches up with that moment]], and because the flashforwards are not marked out by any visual or sonic cues there are a couple where it's not even obvious that they weren't contemporary events until they come around again.
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68	* In ''Literature/BraveNewWorld'', one of the doctors creating test-tube babies is interrupted, and can't recall if she added one of the components to a specimen. She decides that she has, and moves on. The scene then flashes forward twenty-two years to show the aforementioned person suddenly dropping dead.
69	* ''Literature/BreakfastOfChampions'' provides a few glimpses into Kilgore Trout's later life.
70	* OlderThanRadio: Charles Dickens' ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' with the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, could be considered this or TimeTravel.
71	* ''Flashforward'' by Creator/RobertJSawyer centers around people all over the world having a glimpse of their lives twenty years in the future, and the subsequent consequences of this.
72	* In ''The Future of Us'' by Carolyn Mackler and Jay Asher, this happens. In 1996, neighbors Josh and Emma install AOL on their computers and are immediately logged on to Website/{{Facebook}}. Obviously, Facebook hasn't been invented yet, so they are viewing their futures. In fact, every time they log on, their page changes.
73	* Elie Wiesel's ''Literature/{{Night}}'' has this at one point, to show him meeting a woman he met in the concentration camps again, in Paris.
74	* In ''Literature/TheSecretsOfDrearcliffGrangeSchool'', Amy has one at the climax of the novel, when [[spoiler:she dives into the Purple to save Dora Paule]], seeing what will become of herself and her friends as adults.
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78	* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'':
79	** The first episode of the fourth season has a scene set 6 months in the future [[spoiler:with Oliver and Barry standing by a [[TonightSomeoneDies grave of an unknown Team Arrow member,]] and an [[ManlyTears openly weeping]] Oliver vowing to kill the one responsible.]] The Midseason Premier picked up where that left off, and had Oliver join Felicity in a car where she told him "You need to kill that son of a bitch." The episode ''[[Recap/ArrowS4E18ElevenFiftyNine 11:59]]'' ends on [[spoiler:the death of Laurel Lance, confirming that she's the one in the grave]], and [[Recap/ArrowS4E19CanaryCry the following episode]] finally catches up to the flash-forwards.
80	** Season 7 has regular flashforwards to a BadFuture in place of the island flashbacks from seasons 1-5.
81	* ''Series/BabylonFive'':
82	** The finale of the fourth season, "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars", consists of a series of flash-forwards, the last of which takes place one million years(!) after the series.
83	** In the season 3 two-parter, "War Without End", Sheridan himself flashes forward in time 18 years to see a devastated Centauri Prime, followed by the events of the dream/premonition Londo spoke to Sinclair about in the very first episode. We don't get to find out what was really going on there until the arrival of a spin-off trilogy of novels.
84	* The first episode of season 4 of ''Series/{{Being Human\|UK}}'' starts with a jump to a few decades in the future - a future in which the vampires have apparently taken over the world, with only a small resistance movement fighting them.
85	* In the ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' episode "Seven the Hard Way", the gang has gotten into a fight that has tested all of their friendships. There is a flash forward to a potential future where the gang has broken up, and takes place when they reunite for the first time at Mr. Feeny's retirement party seven years later. In this future, Cory and Topanga have had a baby, Shawn and Angela are both traveling journalists, Jack is a "captain of industry" ([[RidiculouslySuccessfulFutureSelf in his late twenties]]), Rachel moved back to Texas, and Eric became an insane [[TheHermit hermit]] who calls himself "Playswithsquirrels". However, when the episode returns to the present everybody reconciles and this future is averted. [[spoiler:[[Series/GirlMeetsWorld 15 years later]], not so much for Shawn and Angela]].
86	* ''Series/BreakingBad'' initiates almost every episode in this way. This was taken even further at the beginning of Season 5, in which a flash-forward glimpsed at events that wouldn't happen until the next half of the season (which occurred nearly a year later).
87	* ''Series/{{Charmed\|1998}}'': The nature of Phoebe's power of premonition is that she sees visions of what might happen, and sometimes what had already happened. Then there are spells that have been cast by others to see scenes from both the past and the future.
88	* ''{{Series/The Chosen\|TVSeries}}'': The first episode of Season Two begins with John writing his Gospel while interviewing the disciples [[spoiler: after Big James's execution in Literature/ActsOfTheApostles]]. The rest of the episode and the season takes place during the era of the Gospels when Jesus and His disciples are still alive.
89	* In the old ''Series/DarkShadows'' supernatural soap opera, at one point the vampire-hero Barnabas Collins and his sidekick Dr. Julia Hoffman, while crossing over between parallel time lines, are thrown forward from 1970 into the then-distant year of 1995, where they discover the family mansion wrecked, overrun by zombies, some relative dead, others insane, and a demonic ghost haunting the property.
90	* ''Series/DoctorWho'': [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature "Human Nature"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood "The Family of Blood"]] has two of these moments, both courtesy of the [[GadgetWatch Chameleon Arch]]:
91	** After {{psychic\|Powers}} teenager Tim Latimer steals the watch, a comment by Headmaster Rocastle about one day having a "just and proper war in which to prove [himself]" leads him to have a vision of himself and the boy who bullies him struggling through a [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI muddy battlefield]] at night, and then apparently getting hit by an artillery shell. This vision eventually saves Tim's life when he experiences it for real.
92	** When John Smith, the Doctor's human personality, is struggling with whether or not to let himself die to bring back the Doctor, the watch shows him and his LoveInterest Joan Redfern a vision of a potential future where the two of them get married, have children and generally live happily ever after, with John dying peacefully in bed after being reassured that his family is all right. This one, sadly, never happens, as John makes the decision to open the watch and become the Doctor again as it's the only way to stop the villains.
93	* In ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'', the unaired thirteenth episode, Epitaph One, shows several of these that will seemingly happen in the next five years of the Dollhouse future. After a tease that this could have been a computer simulation, the series ended with Epitaph Two, which continued from that episode.
94	* ''Series/FamilyTies'' had AnAesop episode that adapts "A Christmas Carol" when Alex "sees" his future as a bald, potbellied rich man visiting his family. They are pathetically grateful to see him, but he acts like a total RichBitch and afterwords is totally disgusted with his future greedy self and vows to change. Naturally, the joke is that he is at first mostly upset that he is bald.
95	* ''Series/TheFlash1990'', a short-lived 1990 series about the titular DC superhero, had a Flash Forward episode, which had the name [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Flashforward"]].
96	* The season one finale of ''Series/TheFlash2014'' had Barry glimpsing scenes from the future as he enters the Speed Force.
97	* The ABC series ''Series/FlashForward2009'', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as can logically be expected]], has this as its premise. Everyone in the world blacks out at the same time and sees a glimpse of their future.
98	** Well, not everyone. One character did not see anything during his blackout and seems to think that means he won't be alive on the date in question (all flashforwards seem to be to the same date and time). Apparently, the more likely possibility that he'll simply be asleep and not in REM at the crucial time point hasn't occurred to him.
99	** Or maybe not, since [[spoiler:he meets another character who didn't see anything. She consequently gets killed in the same episode. He is also contacted by someone who saw information relating to his death during her own blackout.]]
100	* There have been a couple of flashforwards in ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', ranging from short (about a week, to Lily and Marshall's wedding) to long (21 years, when Marshall open Lily's death letter).
101	* ''Series/{{Lost}}'':
102	** The typical FlashBack story in the Season 3 finale is revealed to be a Flash Forward at the very end, when Jack meets Kate outside an airport.
103	** Ji Yeon appears to show a flashforward with Sun and Jin-Sun is giving birth while Jin is trying to get there in time...until, at the end, Jin's story is revealed as a flashback when Hurley and Sun visit Jin's grave.
104	** The Season 5 premiere opens with a flashforward to Daniel in [[spoiler:DHARMA]]. Strange, since this is a flashforward to [[spoiler:an event that occurred 30 years prior to the present]], but that wouldn't happen until [[spoiler:towards the end of the season]].
105	* The final episode of ''Series/MadAboutYou'' is a Flash Forward to the two main characters' baby daughter, now a grown woman (played by Creator/JaneaneGarofalo) following in her father's footsteps as a filmmaker, talking about their lives and hers since the penultimate episode, with specific scenes and clips which span the years in between shown to the audience.
106	* In the ''Series/{{Merlin\|2008}}'' episode "Queen of Hearts" we get a glimpse (though Morgana's [[DreamingOfThingsToCome dreams]]) of the future of Camelot, in which Arthur has become king and is crowning Guinevere his queen. She ain't happy about this...
107	* ''Series/MyFamily'': The episode "2039: A Christmas Oddity" takes place 30 years after the airing of the episode (the episode in question first airing in 2009) and gives us a glimpse at what the family has been up to since then.
108	* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' routinely uses flash-forwards of the final image of an upcoming scene. These shots generally show insufficient information to the viewer to understand the scene until it occurs in the normal flow of the story.
109	%%* ''Series/NipTuck'' has done this at least twice.
110	%%* Used in the finale of ''Series/TheOC.''
111	* The framing story for the Christmas episode of ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'' shows an elderly Tommy and his wife, Kat, telling a story to their grandchildren. Arguments as to whether or not this marriage is Tommy's canonical destiny (since his continued bachelorhood in later seasons suggests otherwise) persist to this day.
112	* ''Series/RadioEnfer'': In a Season 2 episode, Dominique tries to predict what will happen to the then-current main characters when they will become adults. This is used as a framing device for a high school reunion set in the future. Although, considering some of the things that happened to the characters in the following seasons, that high school reunion will likely not happen the way it was portrayed in that episode.
113	* ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' featured an episode set in 2003 (then 10 years in the future), where an aged Mr Belding watched a video from the gang in 1993. However, it was an excuse for a ClipShow.
114	* In ''Series/SixFeetUnder'' the last episode flashes forward to the various death's of all thee main characters.
115	* In ''Series/StargateSG1'', Daniel got a flashforward to one possible path after Shar'e died in ''Forever in a Day''. That future never really happened, though. He did this ''again'' in ''Absolute Power,'' when Shar'e's ''son'' showed him what would happen if they accessed the genetic memory of the Goa'uld. That didn't happen either.
116	* The entire final episode of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', "These Are The Voyages" is both a FlashBack ''and'' a Flash Forward. The main story is set some six years after the rest of the series, and is told as a holodeck reenactment. The framing story takes place two centuries later during the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "The Pegasus", which aired over a decade earlier. As the entire episode is recreated on the Holodeck of the Enterprise D circa 2370 and the only real people we see are Riker and Troi the rest being holographic recreations, it's really only a Flashback episode as we are viewing an historical event.
117	* ''Series/That70sShow'':
118	** There is a Flash Forward showing where the kids will be at their 10-year high school [[ClassReunion reunion]] -- in the 1980s, including big hair and New Wave Music.
119	** There's an episode when Eric imagines his future with Donna as 1950s style with her at home and him at work and she's rather upset and then comes back at him with her working and him at home with the kids. Both times it was shown to the audience.
120	* Episode 1 of documentary series ''Series/TheVietnamWar'' concentrates on Vietnamese resistance to their French colonial overlords, but uses Flash Forwards to underline the similarity between the French war and the later American war. One example quotes a French soldier's despairing letter home to his mother, about how the war is going badly. The scene then cuts forward 20 years, to have an American vet talk about his despairing phone call home when he told his mother that America was losing the war.
121	* Season 7 of ''Series/TheWestWing'' opens with a Flash Forward of most of the cast in the future, waiting for Bartlet's successor (who we don't see the face of).
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125	* In the original ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAge'' roleplay, flashes of a potential future were shown to the players at periodic intervals. In ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues'' this was modified so that the character Finn gained the power of [[{{Seers}} pre-cognition]], allowing both him and the players to see glimpses into the future. As said future is [[MultipleChoiceFuture malleable]], what is seen is only ever a potential future based on the actions of other characters at the time.
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129	* ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'' uses AnachronicOrder and {{Flashback Cut}}s, so that, for example, Anthony (chapter 3, 818 AD) has Flash Forwards of Ellia (chapter 2, 1150 AD). [[MindScrew Try not to think about it too hard...]]
130	* ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' uses this from time to time. The story is set over the span of roughly 18-19 days, and while the player begins to play from day 1 where nothing has happened yet, cutscenes between some missions visit day 18 where the main character is explaining to a military commander what the hell happened in New York over the course of said 18 days.
131	* ''VideoGame/SplinterCellConviction'' does this, showing what will happen some time later in [[spoiler: the White House. Grim will supposedly betray, capture, and hand over Sam to the enemy for execution.]]
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135	* In ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'' Black Mage gets pinned to the front of an airship while it's traveling at high speed. While pinned there we see a conversation between him and another character years in the future as Black Mage finally turns against the Heroes and asks why they left him pinned to the ship. The same conversation occurred in-story much later.
136	* At the beginning of the "Futures Trading" arc of ''WebComic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', while Doc is caught up in the TimeyWimeyBall, he ends up in a scenario where he's [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p05/ injured and trapped in a building, being ordered to surrender or be bombed]]. Doc doesn't recognize the incident, and Chuck Goodrich reveals Doc's gone a little too far ahead in his own timeline before pulling him back in and stabilizing their time-jump. [[spoiler: In "The End, Part 2", while fighting [[PresidentEvil King Radical]] in his Presidential Warehouse, Doc begins to realize [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/33p95/ he's been there before.]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/33p126/ Sure enough...]] (though it turns out it's [[DragonAscendant Frans Rayner]] making the threat)]].
137	* A moderately common device in ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace''. Whole-strip flashforwards are signalled by the page having a red background (just as [[WholeEpisodeFlashback whole-strip flashbacks]] have a blue background), but more common are strips that flash forward in the last panel, usually using the Lancelot/Guenevere relationship for HypocriticalHumour.
138	* In TheRant below [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=474 this page]] of ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'', there are links to a series of pictures showing John and Margo later that same day. Then the final picture is of Margo, 21 years later.
139	* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' has one from [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/2118 here]] to [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/2120 here,]] showing to readers in advance how Tavros got a pair of robotic legs, weeks after the events shown prior.
140	* Frequently appears in ''Webcomic/{{Sunstone}}'' showing that even at the comics low points everything works out for the better...eventually.
141	* Happens quite frequently near the end of ''Webcomic/YumisCells''.
142	** This glimpse of the future is first seen when Babi proposes to Yumi and the scene shifts to an event three years later where Yumi mentions her husband while Babi is out shopping while carrying a toddler, presumably his child. This doubles as a [[spoiler:RedHerring, as Yumi ends up rejecting Babi's proposal and they part ways for good. Then the future scene of Babi pans sideways to show that the one he eventually marries is Da-Eun, not Yumi.]]
143	** Another flash forward happens when Yumi gives Shin a massage because he has a stomach ache while they're on a trip. [[spoiler:The scene shifts to the day of their wedding, and Shin returns this favour because Yumi is nervous.]]
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147	* The ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' version of ''Anime/SuperAndroid13'' does this when Goku gets [[GroinAttack punched in the dick]] so hard that it flashes forward to the Buu saga and shows [[RetGone Goten getting erased from existence.]]
148	* The revivals of ''Series/OneLifeToLive'' & ''Series/AllMyChildren'' are set one and five years in the future, respectively.
149	* ''WebVideo/TheVampireDiariesADarkerTruth'': The show regularly cuts back to the events after Vickie's attack in the pilot which takes place after this show.
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153	* Possibly (or just a dream) in the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "Lemonhope" at the very end, flashing forward 1000 years to see Lemonhope reach the end of his journeys and return home, just as he was, even after the Candy Kingdom has withered away...
154	* ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Archer}} Archer Vice]]'' ends the first episode of the season with a montage of snippets from every crazy plot point that's going to happen through the season. Apparently it's all being imagined by Archer and it is awesome. Although only about half the plot points actually appear in the actual season.
155	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': Occasionally, the 3rd grade cast will be shown older, usually at the end of an episode.
156	** The end of "Muffy's Soccer Shocker" shows an adult Muffy as the coach of a soccer team, using her dad's soccer methods (which she initially disapproved of).
157	** At the end of "And Now Let's Talk to Some Kids", set when the characters have reached old age, Brain has become a famous professor with a television show dedicated to his discoveries. Arthur and Francine watch a tape of themselves on the ''Magic Tool Box'' show and talk about their old classmates.
158	** "Background Blues" has a flash-forward for its ColdOpen, with a futuristic family who looks like Arthur's. Future Arthur and D.W. are playing around when their mother invites them to watch a "datagram"... which turns out to be the episode itself. At the end, they wonder if the world really was like that a long time ago.
159	** "The Contest" ends with a segment of Arthur and his friends as teenagers, five years into the future. They reminisce on the results of the titular contest (writing a story for a TV show), realizing that while none of them won, they still had fun writing their stories.
160	** At the end of "The Curse of the Grebes", Buster is shown as an old man telling an exaggerated recount of the baseball game to his grandchildren.
161	** "Brain and the Time Capsule" ends with a time skip from 2018 to 2118. Buster, who still looks as he did in 3rd grade but now wearing a space suit, digs up the time capsule and finds that the "[[BlandNameProduct Winkie]]" he left is still edible.
162	%%* The end of the series ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' features this. The episode in question, "The Wedding Frame", is on DVD.
163	* ''WesternAnimation/BigMouth'' has "Nick Starr", which focuses on the characters' lives thirty years later, though it might be a case of OrWasItADream.
164	* Two episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}}'' end this way.
165	** "Camping", after a speech from her mum about how friends come and go, finishes on a glimpse in the future to a teenage Bluey finally seeing her camping buddy Jean-Luc again after several years.
166	** "Daddy Dropoff" ends with Bingo befriending a new kindy classmate Lila, followed by a brief slideshow of pictures that show the two remaining friends up through the end of high school.
167	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Clarence}}'' has "Pilot Expansion", which has the show's pilot set up with a frame story of Clarence, Sumo and Jeff in a retirement home 78 years afterward trying to remember the first time they met.
168	* Used in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', which showed the three now-elderly Eds still together and still bickering in a delapidated house. Some have taken to mean the entire series was the three [=old!Ed's=] flashbacks. WordOfGod states this was originally how the series was supposed to end, before another season and a movie were put onto production.
169	%%* Facilitated in ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies'' by the use of footage from ''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper''.
170	* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'''s "Act Your Age", set ten years after the summer in which the principal narrative of the series takes place, has Phineas and Isabella finally engaging in a romantic relationship.
171	%%* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' uses Flash Forward in its finale.
172	* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' 10th anniversary episode "All Growed Up", showing life for the main characters ten years on, was a PoorlyDisguisedPilot for a SpinOff show, ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'', featuring these older versions.
173	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
174	** "Lisa's Wedding" is almost entirely Flash Forward (in spite of her advanced age, Maggie [[TheVoiceless never gets the chance to speak, or sing as the case may be]]).
175	** "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie" ends with Homer taking Bart to see the movie he banned him from seeing forty years before.
176	** Lisa as the first straight female president of the United States in "Bart to the Future."
177	** Generally the Flash Forward episodes have NegativeContinuity with each other, but "Holidays of Future Passed" contains several {{Continuity Nod}}s to the others - Bart married (and then divorced) Jenda (his future girlfriend according to "Future-Drama"), Lisa ended up with Milhouse and Maggie became a famous singer as "Lisa's Wedding" predicted.
178	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
179	** "The Great Patty Caper" ends with a scene 75 years into the future where an elderly [=SpongeBob=] tells the events of the episode to his grandson.
180	** "[=SpongeHenge=]" ends 3,000 years into the future where aliens are visiting the stone [=SpongeBob=] formation, unable to determine why they exist other than they attract jellyfish.
181	* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars''; in the final episode of the Mortis arc, the Son (the physical embodiment of the Dark Side) shows Anakin his future, that he will fall to the Dark Side, betray the Jedi and become Darth Vader. Anakin accepts the Son's offer of an alliance to stop the visions from coming true and turns to the Dark Side until [[BigGood the Father]] wipes the visions from his mind.
182	* The last episode of ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' ends with Charles Xavier's speech as he recalls a glimpse of the future (courtesy of Apocalypse's mind control). We learn that the anti-mutant sentiment will continue; Magneto reforms and teaches a new generation of mutants; The Brotherhood will become S.H.I.E.L.D operatives; and Jean Grey becomes the Phoenix. This is pretty much a DownerEnding to anyone whose read that story arc in the comics.
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