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9	->'''Professor Snape:''' Can anyone tell me what a portkey is? Yes, Miss Granger?\
10	'''Hermione:''' A portkey is an enchanted object that when touched will transfer the one or ones who touched it to anywhere on the globe decided upon by the enchanter.\
11	'''Professor Snape:''' Very good. Now, can anyone tell me what foreshadowing is? Yes, Miss Granger?\
12	'''Hermione:''' Foreshadowing is a dramatic device in which an important plot point is mentioned early in the story to return later in a more significant way.
13	-->-- ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical''
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15	A clue or allusion embedded in the narrative that predicts some later event or revelation. It could be a wayward comment or action, an event that doesn't make sense until later, a MeaningfulName, a rare blood type... so many things can warn us of the future. The foreshadowing may be [[Administrivia/InternalSubtrope ominous]], or mildly suggestive, or it could merely be obvious in hindsight.
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17	Good foreshadowing doesn't spoil the surprise, yet seems an obvious clue in retrospect. Bad foreshadowing either [[CaptainObviousReveal deflates the suspense]] or is too obfuscated (such as an IceCreamKoan) to predict anything, and [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools capable of being overused]]. Foreshadowing may establish something to avoid an AssPull. Or it may put a viewer off as introducing a needless supernatural element to the story.
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19	In literature, foreshadowing is commonly done when a possibility is mentioned, but almost immediately dismissed or disproved. Some readers will dismiss the suggested possibility just as the unsuspecting characters do. More experienced readers will immediately call the author's bluff and know what to expect.
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21	DreamingOfThingsToCome often foreshadows. ChekhovsGun is often used as a foreshadowing tool. If it makes no sense, it may be StrangeMindsThinkAlike. If this is done in a {{Prequel}}, it's a CallForward. CracksInTheIcyFacade can foreshadow a DefrostingIceQueen or other CharacterDevelopment.
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23	Two specific variants are {{Futureshadowing}}, where the shadowing comes ''after'' the actual event chronologically but is still seen before it, and ForeseeingMyDeath, where a character has foreseen, prophesied or predicted thier own demise.
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25	When there's only a tiny gap between the foreshadowing and the actual foreshadowed event, that's FiveSecondForeshadowing.
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27	Contrast PlotPoint. Compare AND contrast HarsherInHindsight (where something comes off as an unfortunate foreseeing of a real-life tragedy) and HilariousInHindsight (where something becomes funnier or more relevant due to appearing to be prescient to more recent events). Contrast {{Fauxshadow}} and TemptingFate. ProductionForeshadowing is this trope's meta version. ThisIndexWillBeImportantLater covers foreshadowing tropes. This trope is a good RewatchBonus.
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29	Please do not misuse this trope to refer to a series installment having something that appears to reference franchise installments that couldn't have been planned until years after the fact. The more recent event is more likely to be an InternalHomage.
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31	See also TropeTelegraphing.
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33	JustForFun/NotToBeConfusedWith TheShadowKnows.
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35	'''Naturally, the examples are ''full'' of spoilers. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Consider yourself warned]].'''
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37	!!Example subpages:
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39	[[index]]
40	* Foreshadowing/AnimeAndManga
41	* Foreshadowing/ComicBooks
42	* Foreshadowing/FanWorks
43	* [[Foreshadowing/AnimatedFilms Films — Animated]]
44	* [[Foreshadowing/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]]
45	* Foreshadowing/{{Literature}}
46	* Foreshadowing/LiveActionTV
47	* Foreshadowing/{{Theatre}}
48	* Foreshadowing/VideoGames
49	* Foreshadowing/VisualNovels
50	* Foreshadowing/{{Webcomics}}
51	* Foreshadowing/WebOriginal
52	* Foreshadowing/WesternAnimation
53	[[/index]]
54
55	!!Other examples:
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57	[[foldercontrol]]
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59	[[folder:Art]]
60	* ''Art/TheLastSupper'': Peter, the second apostle from Jesus's right, is seen holding a knife. As Literature/TheFourGospels depict events, Peter will cut off the ear of a Roman centurion within a day.
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63	[[folder:Asian Animation]]
64	* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': In the final episode of Season 8, a television comes out of nowhere to save Sweet S. Said television has the color scheme of Kalo, who had died in Season 7 - implying that Kalo isn't truly dead after all. Season 10 confirms this.
65	* ''Animation/{{Mechamato}}'': In "The Legend of Sumorai", Mr. Gobi points Amato to the broken wall of his store that Sumorai broke through after robbing him. An attentive look at the scattered aisle shows cat products on the shelves. It's later revealed that Sumorai is taking care of a cat, but he got startled by Mr. Gobi's panicking and crashed through the wall, a clue to his not so violent nature.
66	* ''Animation/Momo2022'': Momo's father warns his daughter that if her teacher were to see her deserted from school, she would remind her to immerse into school or she'll ''flush'' her future down the drain. Momo curiously leaves the underwater exhibit and ultimately gets flushed down by an unwitting janitor.
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69	[[folder:Card Games]]
70	* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'':
71	** The Infernoid archetype's existence has been mentioned in Qliphort Monolith's flavor text. They're known as the Fire Flood in the OCG text and as the Scourge in the TCG text.
72	** Qliphort Scout's flavor text explicit mention of Infernoid Tierra (the Infernoid's boss monster) and mentions "C:sophiazefra.exe." "Sophia" refers to Sophia, Goddess of Rebith, a monster that can be summoned when you have [[AllYourPowersCombined Ritual, Fusion, Synchro and Xyz]]. "Zefra" refers to the Zefra archetype released two sets later, which are a Pendulum-based deck that works on bringing out all the summoning methods in a similar vain to Sophia.
73	* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': The ''Future Sight'' set, as the name suggests, featured many cards from potential futures of the game, differentiated by a different frame. Many of these cards have since been printed in other sets.
74	** Notably, the group of Planeswalkers called the Lorwyn Five[[note]]Ajani Goldmane, Jace Berelen, Lilliana Vess, Chandra Nalaar, and Garuuk Wildspeaker[[/note]] were originally meant to debut here, but appeared in the next set, Lorwyn, because [=WotC=] wanted to take the time to develop the new card type correctly. The five have nothing to do with the story, the cards are just there as, well, this trope.
75	** A particular note is [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=243486 Ghostfire]]. Seemingly a red anti-protection spell, it never has technically seen a reprint. It has, however [[spoiler: been a major plot point in that it was the key to the lock sealing away the Eldrazi, and the card itself foretells of Ugin, a major figure revealed later.]]
76	** Happens with individual cards in other sets, too. For example, [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=380440 Interpret the Signs]] from Theros block displays the set symbol for Dragons of Tarkir, which was released about a year later.
77	* ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse'': Hints about [=OblivAeon=] were popping up from the start: his Aeon Men minions appear in multiple decks getting beaten up, for example, [[spoiler:and the "Villainous Weaponry" card in Wagner Mars Base shows Grand Warlord Voss's Scion form, years before the actual set was released and contained Rainek Kel'Voss as the last of [=OblivAeon's=] ten Scions]].
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80	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
81	* Two 1989 ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'' strips foreshadowed the ending of the strip later that year, in which Bill the Cat with Donald Trump's brain fires all the characters. In the first, Milo says to Binkley that he has been feeling really secure around here and that around Bloom County, he feels a real sense of...permanence. Binkley responds "[[LampshadeHanging Dabbling in a little bit of ironic foreshadowing, are we?]]". In the second, Opus spots a shooting star, and after wondering what to wish for, he then says "I wish I knew if I'll have meaningful employment after August 6th" (August 6th was the day the strip ended).
82	* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'': Some Natives are bidding farewell to a group of European explorers, when one of them turns to the man just to his right and asks: "Did you detect something ominous in the way they said 'See you later'?"
83	* Subverted in ''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse''. Elly, discussing her daughter Elizabeth with a policeman, says "I suspect it will be a few more years before she meets Mr. Right!" [[http://catalog.fborfw.com/indexid.php?q=9686&Submit=Search A caption]] points out the MeaningfulName on the policeman's office door: "Constable Paul Wright." Paul and Elizabeth do begin a romance within a few weeks after that -- but he doesn't turn out to be Elizabeth's Mr. Right and she winds up marrying someone else.
84	* Discussed in ''{{ComicStrip/Foxtrot}}'', when one arc focused on Jason and his excitement at the upcoming ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', including his acquiring a poster with the page image.
85	--> '''Jason:''' Note the ominous Vader-like shadow he casts.\
86	'''Andrea:''' I'm noting more [[SelfInsert your school photo glued over his face.]]\
87	'''Jason:''' [[RootingForTheEmpire A boy can dream, can't he?]]
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90	[[folder:Fairy Tales]]
91	* Creator/FranzXaverVonSchonwerth's "Literature/TheTurnipPrincess": The first lines of the story establish that the king went missing several years ago, "as if he'd vanished into thin air or been turned into a wild beast into the forest". off-handily the king disappeared because he went turned into a wild beast. At the end of the story, the bear who helps the prince turns out to be the king.
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94	[[folder:Jokes]]
95	* "Barkeep, another beer before the shit starts again!" He gets his beer. Later: "Barkeep, another beer before the shit starts again!" The barkeeper doesn't ask. [[RuleOfThree Still later:]] "Barkeep, another beer before the shit starts again!" Another beer. Midnight. "We're closing! Here, your bill!" "The shit starts again..."
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98	[[folder:Multiple Media]]
99	* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'''s various tie-in media loved doing this, as the toyline's story was planned ahead about a decade in advance.
100	** The names and positions of the Mata Nui island's landmarks corresponded to facial features. Even the name itself meant "Great Face" in Maori, and one of the primary promotional posters featured half of the island enveloped by an Infected Mask representing [[BigBad the evil Makuta]]. All of this was to be taken literally at face value: in 2008, eight years into the storyline came the revelation that Mata Nui, the PhysicalGod whom the island was named after, was slumbering below the island, which acted as a sort of face mask for him.
101	** From the 2001 ''Mata Nui On-Line Game'':
102	*** The game's later events as well as Mata Nui's identity were foreshadowed at numerous points. The base of the Great Telescope contained tablets and symbols hinting at what was to come, one of which bore an eerie resemblance to Mata Nui's face.
103	*** Numerous hints are made toward the Bohrok Saga, which begins after the game's conclusion. One of the prophecies placed under the Great Telescope shows the silhouette of a Bohrok. A rock in the jungle area has "Wake one and you wake them all", the Bohrok Saga's TagLine scribbled on it in ''Bionicle'' writing. Similarly, the message "Beware the swarm" is engraved into one of the rocks in the snowdrifts, which triggers a cutscene about the player seeing a vision, during which the text and the Bohrok symbol appear on screen.
104	*** When you talk to Turaga Vakama, he says something vague about "expecting the arrival of another...". At the end of the game, he compares the player's (who we then learn is called Takua) adventures to those of the Toa heroes. Takua, two real-life years after the game's story, becomes a Toa himself.
105	*** The Onu-Koro miners talk about hitting an impenetrable rock strata that has organic properties. This plot point went unresolved until seven years later, when we learned that the miners had reached Mata Nui's face.
106	** The ''MNOG II'' also had a few. When you (this time controlling Hahli) talk to a scholar in Ko-Koro, he says something about her losing her loved one and reuniting the island. One of the game's puzzles also involves a comically convoluted calculation that requires you to account for seven rather than six Toa, hinting at the appearance of a [[SixthRanger seventh member]]. These all happen in the ''[[WesternAnimation/BionicleMaskOfLight Mask of Light]]'' movie, although Jaller's death was undone by the end.
107	** From the movies:
108	*** Two tremors happen at different points in ''[[WesternAnimation/BionicleMaskOfLight Mask of Light]]'', one when Takua obtains the titular mask and one when Jaller muses about his future. The quakes signalled the coming awakening of Mata Nui from beneath the island.
109	*** ''WesternAnimation/BionicleMaskOfLight'': It's said that Great Kanohi is TheChooserOfTheOne that shines to show the one who can deliver it to the Toa of Light. [[spoiler:Makuta also can sense that the Toa of Light has "started the crusade". Turns out Takua ''is'' the Toa of Light]].
110	*** In ''Legends of Metru Nui'', Makuta putting Mata Nui to sleep is represented by the twin suns over the city closing like eyes. Turns out they were indeed Mata Nui's eyes as seen from the characters' perspective, as the movie took place within the giant's head.
111	*** Vakama's visions throughout ''Legends of Metru Nui'' foreshadow that Dume is an impostor, that the Matoran are being rounded up and mind-wiped, and that they won't be able to save Metru Nui, the island will be ruined and evacuated.
112	*** Easy to miss, but the stone representing Makuta in the ''LOMN'''s opening narration is very briefly colored blue before it turns to red. In the film proper, when Makuta reveals himself as the mastermind behind the Matoran folk's disappearance, Lhikan calls him out that he had an oath to protect the Matoran. Both of these foreshadowed the twist that Makuta used to be a good guy whom Lhikan had known, setting up an origin movie that was ultimately scrapped. Makuta's origin and ill-fated role as a guardian were later told in books and online story serials.
113	** The entire 2003 novel ''Tales of the Masks'' is about the Turaga elders discussing whether to reveal their secret past on Metru Nui, which set up the {{prequel}} arcs of the following two years.
114	** Vakama's forced vision in the 2005 book ''Time Trap'' built up the events of the 2006-07 stories, namely that he would have to send six heroes on a deadly mission to a faraway island.
115	** The promotional poem from 2006 (''Where Evil’s Afloat, A Secret Brings Hope. Where a World has Gone under, Comes Lightning and Thunder. What Darkness Divides, A cut will unite. Ignite the Flame of the Heart, For the Future to Start.'') summed up the entire Ignition Trilogy of stories for the following three years: the floating island Voya Nui, the electrical-powered Toa Inika heroes, the sunken city Mahri Nui and the destruction of the Cord that anchored Voya Nui in place, and the giant cavern Karda Nui, the literal heart of the universe that had to be reignited for Mata Nui to awaken.
116	** The insect-like Bohrok swarms and the Bahrag queens of the 2002 story were originally thought to be under Makuta's control despite originating from within the Mata Nui island. When the Toa defeated the Bahrag and by extension their swarms, they accused the heroes of opposing their "brothers". In the 2008 story, it turned out the Bohrok and Bahrag weren't evil at all, nor where they allied with Makuta. They were serving the will of Mata Nui just like the Toa, Makuta had just turned them against each other. The whole 2002 Bohrok saga was basically an elaborate buildup to Mata Nui's true nature and his awakening and the eventual destruction of the island that bore his name. The connection between the Toa and Bohrok was further elaborated with the revelation in one of the 2008 novels that many Bohrok were originally Matoran, the same species as the Toa.
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119	[[folder:Music]]
120	* Music/DanielAmos's ''The Alarma Chronicles'' was a series of four {{Concept Album}}s, with an ongoing story (about an apocalyptic vision) in the liner notes linking them together. The first album, ''Music/{{Alarma}}'', has a scene where a one-eyed giant threatens the narrator; the third album, ''Music/VoxHumana'', reveals the giant is a symbol for the dehumanizing effects of the modern world, which serves as that album's major theme. ''Alarma'' also has one song, "Shedding the Mortal Coil", written from the perspective of a dying man; the final album, ''Music/FearfulSymmetry'', reveals that the entire series was the narrator's DyingDream.
121	* In ''Music/TheHamiltonMixtape'', the conclusion of "Cabinet Battle #3," where Washington's hope that the next generation will [[UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar find a solution to the slavery problem]] is punctuated by cannon fire.
122	* In "Set the Controls For the Heart of the Sun" from ''Music/ASaucerfulOfSecrets'' by Music/PinkFloyd, one line foreshadows ''Music/TheWall'' (which came out eleven years after the former album).
123	-->"Witness the man who raves at the wall"
124	* At the beginning of the video for "Music/HoldingOutForAHero" by Bonnie Tyler, the singer asks, "Isn't there a white knight upon a fiery steed?" Minutes later, her question is answered... in the form of a [[KnightInShiningArmor white-clad hero cowboy]] on a {{white st\|allion}}eed.
125	** Also, his appearance is portrayed in a {{p\|reciousPhoto}}icture frame foreshadowing his arrival about a second before she takes it.
126	* Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "Trapped in the Drive Thru", a parody of R. Kelly's "Trapped in the Closet," has Al and his wife sitting in a drive thru trying to order dinner, a mundane affair that becomes more and more emotionally fraught. When Al asks the fast food employee to read his order back, she doesn't mention he wanted onions on his burger. In the final line of the song, Al learns to his dismay that they forgot the onions. Presumably he got distracted by her super-sizing his drink at no additional cost.
127	** the ending actually gets foreshadowed twice: earlier in the song, the fast food worker asks him if he wanted onions on his burger when he had already started out his order by asking for a hamburger with onions - she might have gotten distracted because he'd started out ordering two burgers, then changed it to one burger and one chicken sandwich.
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130	[[folder: Music Videos]]
131	* Music/FosterThePeople: The video for "Music/{{Best Friend\|2014}}" is about a Supermodel who devours other women to gain their beauty. Almost every time she does, she coughs up something the woman was wearing when she got eaten. About halfway through the video, the Supermodel [[SpitOutAShoe vomits up a shoe]] from her most recent victim. [[spoiler:Vomiting up a dress is what ultimately kills her.]]
132	* Music/NanowarOfSteel: PlayedForLaughs in "And Then I Noticed That She Was a Gargoyle" with the hints given about the main character's date -- before it's revealed (as if the title doesn't do it) she's a literal gargoyle: Her online nickname is "Sharon ''Stone''", she's into medieval architecture and dressing up in ''Gothic'' Lolita fashion, and her ''statuesque'' beauty takes his breath away [[FailedASpotCheck before he notices]].
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135	[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
136	* ''Literature/TheBible'': ''Literature/BookOfGenesis'' 3:15 'he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.' If you're Christian, this is foreshadowing to UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} punishing Satan (the snake) long before he was born.
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139	[[folder:Podcasts]]
140	* A subtle example occurs in the ''Podcast/EscapeFromVaultDisney'' episode discussing ''Film/ANewHope''. The episode opens with the typical opening line saying they're covering movies, tv shows and short films on Disney+ chosen completely at random. [[spoiler:When there is a special shortlist, such as this ''Franchise/StarWars'' one done for the episode coming out on May the 4th, Tony will say ''mostly'' completely at random instead. This clues in that this episode takes place in a universe where ''Star Wars'', as a massive franchise, does not exist]].
141	* Two moments in ''Podcast/InterstitialActualPlay'' foreshadow the reveal that Roxanne is actually the Nobody of Ennora.
142	** Near the start of the series the group jokes that Roxanne must be a Nobody because she has an X in her name. This wasn't meant to be foreshadowing, but afterwords Jo and Riley discussed the idea and [[ThrowItIn worked it into the plot]].
143	** When Larxene tells the group what [=DiZ=] is doing gathering people like her, she gestures to Roxanne and says "not like you".
144	* ''Podcast/MomCantCook'': In the ''Film/PhantomOfTheMegaplex'' episode, Andy notes there is a massive PlotHole which almost every watcher will spot, then later takes time to emphasise that because [[spoiler:Shawn got tied up by the Phantom, they couldn't ''possibly'' be the same person]]. No prizes for guessing where the plot hole is.
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147	[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
148	* Any mention of the SpanishAnnouncersTable during a live Wrestling/{{WWE}} show is a pretty sure sign that someone will go through it before the show ends.
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151	[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
152	* ''Series/PiliFantasyWarOfDragons'': Lord 100 Years of Statecraft comments with his friend Half-foot Sword that the Tenth Bodhisattva seal isn't necessarily CastFromHitPoints or a lethal DangerousForbiddenTechnique. Someone who can transfer their Chi/breath to another body could survive it, but only one person has mastered that ability, [[spoiler: Yin Shih-jen as part of his "liquification" technique]], and he has no idea of his ability's "dark side." Same character has, coincidentally, received the manuscript detailing the technique.
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155	[[folder:Web Animation]]
156	* In ''WebAnimation/{{ENA}}'', “Power of Potluck”, during the opening, you can see ENA’s hand pressing a button upon the screen, and then a loud chime is heard, but if you can listen closely through the noise you could hear the voice of Moony yelling “RUN! RUN! ENA. RUN!”, this foreshadows the truth of the episode that [[spoiler: Ena had just been in a trance after messing up a doorbell prank with Moony.]]
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158	* In ''WebAnimation/InanimateInsanityInvitational'', in “Blue Buried”, there were a few hints surrounding the mystery of Blue Berry’s death, [[spoiler: being that he staged his death.]]
159	** First off, as he was walking off the boat, he had to push Goo out the way, although he was at the front of the boat, there was plenty of space for him to just pass through him
160	** And if you account, Blueberry was the first person to walk off the boat, so he could have enough time to stage his death.
161	** And to top it off, Blueberry walks across the island he says “Sweet, sweet land! I’ve never felt so alive!”
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163	* ''WebAnimation/EtraChanSawIt'':
164	** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z3rCH0oyEI&ab_channel=Etrachansawit%21 this video]], Yuzuriha claims to have dated Akamatsu, only for him to suddenly dump her and disappear. Throughout her explanation, Akamatsu's face is never properly shown, and his hair is noticeably a lighter color than normal. It's later revealed that the Akamatsu Yuzuriha knows isn't the normal Akamatsu (who's Karin's husband in this video) and they merely have the same name, causing her to get confused.
165	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frDfG64-UZ8 Tsutsuji]] inexplicably has a mole under her left eye, then it's revealed that [[spoiler: she is actually Yuzuriha who took facial surgery after being bullied by Akane and Azami.]]
166	** When [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlhZ6td7JMI Akane]] tells Yuzuriha that she dated a man and got dumped by him after she told him about her real age. It all makes sense when Akane's ex-boyfriend turns out to be [[spoiler: Yuzuriha's fiancé Akamatsu who is revealed to be [[PaedoHunt lusting on younger girls]].]]
167	** When [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftyTRN6dJLk Kuroki]] is talking to Akane about how she reminds him of his daughter and how he wants her to remember her workplace if something happens, there is a shot of two people on a boat. These two people turn out to be Karin and her father Akamatsu who witness Tachibana beat up Kuroki and the two of them get him arrested.
168	** When [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq1vzNWuGo0 Yuri]] becomes a high-schooler, she starts styling her hair in a sidebraid just like her mother Yuzuriha. Akamatsu has a very unsubtle [[StacysMom crush on her mother.]] [[spoiler:It's revealed at the end that she was hoping that if she made herself look more like Yuzuriha, Akamatsu would become attracted to her.]]
169	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt1BplxPxCA Tsutsuji]] has black eyes instead of her usual light brown, then it's revealed that [[spoiler:she is actually Kuroki [[{{Crossdressing}} crossdressing]] as a girl.]]
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171	* Foreshadowing is commonly discussed trope in ''WebAnimation/TerribleWritingAdvice''.
172	** Usually, J.P. Beaubien recommends to avoid foreshadowing whenever possible, whether it is for the future plot twists, characters' decision to make sense, or for other purposes. After all, foreshadowing would ruin the surprise. In addition, it would take effort to properly foreshadow something.
173	** In a few times he does recommend foreshadowing, he suggests using it in absolute excess.
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175	* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'': In [[Recap/HelluvaBossS1E1MurderFamily the first episode]], Moxxie is upset that I.M.P. has been hired to kill an entire family when their client really only needed revenge against the mother, but admits he’d be totally fine with it if it was a mob family and/or the father is shitty. Season 2 would later reveal that Moxxie comes from a mob family and fled it to get away from his horribly [[AbusiveParents abusive father]].
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178	[[folder:Web Videos]]
179	* In ''WebVideo/CrittersANewBinge'', the Crite leader at one point uses a dog whistle-like device on his fellow Crites to keep them in line, which is also shown to affect the seemingly human Christopher. This foreshadows the fact that Christopher is [[HalfHumanHybrid half-Crite]] and the missing Crite that the Crites have been sent to Earth to look for.
180	* ''{{WebVideo/Gameboys}}''
181	** Gavreel's Ex, Terrence can be seen liking Pearl's posts, and in Gavreel's Vidgram photos before he is properly introduced in the story.
182	** Cairo's Childhood Friend, Wesley, seems a little too enthusiastic about [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/HarryPotter Snape's childhood crush on Lily Potter]]. If there was any doubt, there a FreezeFrameBonus in Episode 12 where you can read "Be With Me" on his shirt while on a call with Cairo.
183	* ''WebVideo/NightmareTime'': In the episode "Honey Queen", Zoey and Sam smoke a joint of a strain called "perky's buds," which Zoey mentions she got from her coworker, Emma. The very next episode focuses on Emma and her pot farm.
184	* ''WebVideo/ShortsWars'': "[[https://youtu.be/GfLN2cU1E_0 CAN WE CLONE HUMANS?]]" has Danno say that cloning humans may be possible, but it would be impossible to create a perfect copy. Then, "[[https://youtu.be/5J0HvqWuU6s clones]]" has [=RoyalPear=] talk about "clones" of content creators such as himself appear on [=TikTok=], and every time he says the word clone the video glitches out. Some time after that video came out, clones were created to replace the original creators, but they weren't exactly the same as the original creators.
185	* WebVideo/TheUnluckyTug: At the end of the characters section in his ''Thomas & Friends'' season 5 retrospective, he says Percy will win an MVP award[[note]]Most Valuable Player; Tug gives it to the character who had the most development that season[[/note]] soon. He gets it in the next season.
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