History Main / Futureshadowing

** 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 know-ow 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 it's especially prescient in the 21st century.

* In the [[WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes2006 legion of Super Heroes]] cartoon, a teenage Clark Kent is brought to the future and operates as Superman at a time - from where he sits - not long before his Metropolis super-debut. There's an episode where Brainiac 5 is ill, and ranting and rambling. One thing he says, that sounds like a NonSequitur to everyone but the viewer, is "GreenRocks [[KryptoniteFactor kill]] [[LastOfHisKind the last son]]!"

* In the ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' cartoon, a teenage Clark Kent is brought to the future and operates as Superman at a time - from where he sits - not long before his Metropolis super-debut. There's an episode where Brainiac 5 is ill, and ranting and rambling. One thing he says, that sounds like a NonSequitur to everyone but the viewer, is "GreenRocks [[KryptoniteFactor kill]] [[LastOfHisKind the last son]]!"

* In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'' it is made clear pretty early that Princess Odelia is looking for a husband, as she and [[ExoticExtendedMarriage her sisters]] aren't married. We also learn that Princess Ren has some sexual experience. (Something unusual for an unmarried woman ''or'' man in that world) The fact that they were married, and their husband was a jerk whose death was a relief, is only revaled, and shown in a nightmare-scene later. Likewise, it is known pretty early that he did something horrible to Princess Trini, and she's shy and misanthropic as a result. However, the reader (and the younger princesses) are only told later [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil what]], [[ColdBloodedTorture exactly]].

Can overlap with OnceMoreWithClarity Compare DreamingOfThingsToCome and FlashForward. This is ''very'' easy to confuse with, but is ''not the same as'', CallForward, which is simply a nod in a {{prequel}} to something that happens in the work it's a prequel ''to''.

->'''Babe:''' You've got a lot of nerve coming back here, Roger Wilco! After leaving me the way you did, you male scum! This is the last woman you'll ever dump on! Right girls?!\\

'''Babe:''' You said ya had to be free to roam the galaxy.\\
'''Roger:''' Was that me?\\
'''Babe:''' Said ya couldn't be tied down...\\
'''Roger:''' I said that?
-->-- ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestIVRogerWilcoAndTheTimeRippers''

* Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/{{Providence}}''
** Issue 3 includes several references to UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust, the Swastika that Robert Black runs into on the road and a dream where he sees several of the fish-folk executed in the Gas Chamber. He also sees J. Edgar Hoover with a HumanoidAbomination, which is depicted in ''The Courtyard'' in a photo dated a few years after this series.
** Issue 7 has O'Brien complaining about Governor UsefulNotes/CalvinCoolidge, predicting he'll use the RedScare and militia suppression of the riots and parlay that into a political career where he'll ruin things even more. Coolidge, who once proclaimed "the only business in America is business", is regarded as a President whose policies paved the way for TheGreatDepression, scheduled for arrival 9 years later.

* Special mention goes to ''VideoGame/{{Achron}}'', a game which makes this a standard ''multiplayer game mechanic''.
** It's really more of a "whole game" mechanic and is actually required in certain missions in the singleplayer campaign, simply due to the game's habit of forcing you to watch the cutscenes while units you NEED march to their deaths.
* Just about any game which involves [[SimultaneousArcs multiple playable characters along separate storylines]], such as the below-mentioned ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'', can dabble in this, depending on the order in which you play through said storylines. For example, while playing as character A you may encounter character B someplace you never expected them to be, but you won't find out how they got there and what they were doing there until you play as character B and get to the same point.
** Oh, you'll definitely encounter this no matter what order you play them in, though the extent does depend on the order. The first time you control Sonic, he's fighting Chaos 0... whose first present-day appearance ''chronologically'' is in Knuckles's story, when he [[spoiler:breaks out of the Master Emerald into which he's been sealed]]. And you have to play Sonic's story first, and can't play another character's story until you encounter them in the story you're playing.'

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland'' episode "Paintball Deer Hunter," [[ExtravertedNerd Cody]] is in a full-body cast and wheelchair during all his {{Confession Cam}} segments. Apparently he recorded them ''after'' he gets [[BearsAreBadNews mauled by the bear]].

* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya''. It's all over the place in the anime (by season 1 broadcast order), and to a lesser extent in the light novels, due to the AnachronicOrder. But even when watched/read in chronological order, this trope is still in place due to TimeTravel.

* Franchise/{{DCAU}}:

* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' has the "time windows", where some characters seem to be coming back from the future using some strange device.

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'' has a hidden CODEC scene where Big Boss, having recruited the man who will be Otacon's father, notes he gets a bad feeling when he looks at the water. [[spoiler:Otacon's father is revealed to have drowned himself in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2''.]]

** Shin Getter Robo is a prequel to Getter Robo Go, and its events are the cause for the end of Getter Robo Go.
** Ryoma's meeting with Getter Saint Dragon is a futureshadowing to the events of both Shin Getter Robo and Manga/GetterRoboArc. Additionally, the Dragon says: "It shall be in the far future when you and I meet!", which possibly foreshadows that they will meet at an even further point in the future.
** Ryoma's visions of Getter Emperor. Getter Robo Arc strongly implies that Getter Emperor was created by the events that take place at the end of Getter Robo Go, in which Ryoma was yet to partake.

** Ryoma's meeting with Getter Saint Dragon is a futureshadowing to the events of both Shin Getter Robo and Getter Robo Arc. Additionally, the Dragon says: "It shall be in the far future when you and I meet!", which possibly foreshadows that they will meet at an even further point in the future.

-> '''Babe:''' You've got a lot of nerve coming back here, Roger Wilco! After leaving me the way you did, you male scum! This is the last woman you'll ever dump on! Right girls?!\\

* ''Manga/PleaseSaveMyEarth'' has a very [[MindScrew weird]] occurrence of this. Alice's first memory-dream of her previous life as Mokuren has Mokuren awaken from a dream herself, saying she dreamed of being a Japanese high-school 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 occurred 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 occurred previously]] is anyone's guess.

* From the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' [[AlternateUniverseFic AU]] ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5250596/1/The-Prince The Prince]]'':

* Happens a ''lot'' in ''Film/FrequentlyAskedQuestionsAboutTimeTravel''. The best example is when Ray goes up and buys a round of drinks. The first time around it looks boring and irrelevant but [[spoiler: later in the movie we discover the guy in the red hoodie standing next to Ray is actually a future version of Ray.]]

** ''Investigations'' dabbles in the trope as well; the first case is actually the ''fourth'' case chronologically (and vice versa), and so there is appropriate foreshadowing. The cameo by [[spoiler: Manfred von Karma]] also gives futureshadowing to the first game.

* In ''VideoGame/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 ''VideoGame/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 ''VideoGame/SuikodenV''.]]

* In a mid-Chapter 2 mission in ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'', Arthur takes little Jack Marston fishing on the river near camp. While they're out the two PinkertonDetective agents pay Arthur a visit telling him that they'll cut him a deal if he gives them Dutch van der Linde. What's interesting is that one of the detectives is the BigBad of the [[VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption first game]], Edgar Ross. When Arthur leaves with Jack, Ross tells him, "Enjoy your fishing, kid. While you still can." Fifteen years later in the epilogue of ''I'', [[spoiler: Jack kills Ross]] while '''he's''' duck-hunting on a river.
* ''VideoGame/BorderlandsThePresequel'' has a number of these, due to being a {{Midquel}} with a FramingDevice that takes place after ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'', but a main story that takes place before it.

** ''Homestuck'' also has an in-universe example as a '''major''' plot point. [[spoiler: Jade is semi-precognitive, and sees John upset at something in the future. So she sends him a powerful weapon that will help him to fight against the BigBad (and, obviously, cheer him up). Said weapon falls into the enemy's hands ''first'', allowing him to become the BigBad. The subsequent destruction that the BigBad creates is what causes John's sadness in the first place. NiceJobBreakingItHero.]]

* [[http://www.andrew-may.com/asf/prophecy.htm The Science Fiction Prophecy]] mixed this trope with SelfFulfillingProphecy.

* In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', Charles Xavier is hilariously fond of the hair he [[BaldOfAwesome loses by the time of the other films]].

* ''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. It still manages to be surprising though, as due to the lack of context most lines you hear in flash forwards don't end up meaning what you think they mean.

A specific variant on {{Foreshadowing}} where the viewer sees the consequences of actions before seeing the actions themselves, via TimeTravel or via future sight, or just via [[AnachronicOrder seeing the scenes]] out of [[BackToFront chronological order]].

** In one mission, obsessed Jack fan Nakayama tries to make an AI duplicate of Jack's personality by asking him questions about himself. When asked how he would like to die, Jack answers "somewhere warm, with a hot chick nearby". He dies in 2 in a volcanic cave with Lilith present, who previously went by the alias "The Firehawk". Nakayama's attempts to resurrect him are also the plot of a DLC, and the AI itself eventually shows up in ''VideoGame/TalesFromTheBorderlands''.

** In one mission, obsessed Jack fan Nakayama tries to make an AI duplicate of Jack's personality by asking him questions about himself. When asked how he would like to die, Jack answers "somewhere warm, with a hot chick nearby". He dies in 2 in a volcanic cave with Lilith present. Nakayama's attempts to resurrect him are also the plot of a DLC, and the AI itself eventually shows up in ''VideoGame/TalesFromTheBorderlands''.