History Foreshadowing / AnimatedFilms

* In ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'', the opening line is Flynn saying, [[spoiler: "This is the story of how I died." Sure enough, he dies at the end, but he gets [[DisneyDeath revived]], which gives this the new meaning of Flynn dying, but Eugene living on.]]

* ''Disney/TheLionKing'': "A king's time as ruler rises and falls like the sun. The sun will set on my time here and will rise with you." [[spoiler: The guy who says that has his reign end at sundown, and in the end, his son ascends to the rock in the sunrise]].
** At the end of "I Just Can't Wait to be King", the tower of animals collapse. It can be interpreted as PlayedForLaughs or foreshadowing how Simba's whole self-esteem is going to come crashing down due to Scar's frame up.

-->'''Simba:''' Yeah, so you have to do what I tell you.
-->'''Zazu:''' Not yet, I don't. And with an attitude like that, I'm afraid you're shaping up to be a pretty pathetic king indeed.

** When [[spoiler: the mayor]] orders his men to call Rattlesnake Jake, they warn him specifically that Rattlesnake Jake is a "grim reaper" and "never leaves town without taking a soul". He doesn't listen and orders Jake to be contracted anyways. [[spoiler: After betraying Rattlesnake Jake, the mayor is dragged out of town by an angry Rattlesnake Jake.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'', Hogarth shows the titular giant a few comics, like ''Superman'' and Atomo, [[spoiler: later in the film, we learn the giant can fly, and Atomo bears an incredibly eerie resemblance to the titular robot's combat mode]].

* Near the very beginning of ''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}'', while inside Kekata the Medicine Man's wigwam, Kekata actually tells Chief Powhatan about a dream he had of the settlers from England. As Kekata starts talking about his dream, he waves his staff around over a fire, causing the smoke rising from it to turn into a ghostly pack of wolves, which surround Kocoum. [[spoiler: This foreshadows Kocoum being killed by one of the settlers, which is represented by the wolves.]]

-->'''Frollo:''' Remember, Quasimodo, ''this'' is your sanctuary.
* ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'': The first scenes show [[spoiler: a little child who does a perilous thing trying to get the attention from his oblivious father]]. Later, we will see the [[FreudianExcuse real reason why Gru wants to steal the moon]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'', in an argument with her mother, Merida tells her that [[spoiler: "You're a beast!"]]
** At the abandoned castle, [[spoiler: Bear!Elinor]] knocks over a large rock to [[spoiler: protect her daughter from Mor'du. In the final battle, she does this again, crushing him this time.]]

* Midway through ''Disney/TheJungleBook,'' the orangutan King Louie kidnaps the [[RaisedByWolves human orphan]] Mowgli and demands the secret of fire, which Louie believes is the only thing separating him from being a man. At the film's end, [[spoiler: Mowgli uses fire to drive off his nemesis, the tiger Shere Khan, and shortly thereafter leaves the jungle to claim his human heritage.]]

** King Candy immediately assumes Ralph is in ''Sugar Rush'' to steal his game, and goes crazy over the very thought. [[spoiler: It turns out that King Candy is actually Turbo and has stolen the ''Sugar Rush'' game, explaining his irrational outburst.]]
** When Vanellope first meets Ralph, she jokes about [[spoiler:using the "royal we"]] and later on, she has Ralph [[spoiler:kneel and appoints him like a knight, saying he was her "royal chump"]]. There is also the fact that she is the only character [[spoiler: with "Von" in her name which is associated with nobility]].
** When Ralph first enters the palace, he remarks to King Candy that it is oddly pink for a male character. King Candy insists that it's clearly ''salmon''. [[spoiler: Turns out the palace originally belongs to Princess Vanellope.]]
** King Candy's age and cartoony appearance in contrast to the {{animesque}} child racers shown that [[spoiler:he's not part of the game.]]

** When attacked by Ralph near Diet Cola Mountain, King Candy is genuinely scared and tries to dodge his strikes, not out of sheer fear, but because of the fact that [[spoiler:characters that die outside their own games don't regenerate; he doesn't really belong in that game, and he knows it.]]
** During the time-lapse sequence at the beginning of the movie, the Sugar Rush console is placed to the right; Vanellope can be seen on the console, [[spoiler:spoiling the fact she's an actual character in the game.]] In the same photo, she's driving King Candy's kart, [[spoiler:hinting she's the game's true ruler.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'': Po's dream about fighting alongside mighty warriors actually occurs in the end of the film.

** A ronin is a samurai without a lord to serve. [[spoiler:Fittingly, Ronin goes through most of the film without a queen to command him]].

-->'''Mike:''' It would never have gotten out if you hadn't been caught cheating last night!
-->'''Randall:''' Cheating!? I--''(catches himself)'' Cheating...

-->'''Mike:''' Just think about a few names, will ya? Loch Ness, Bigfoot, the Abominable Snowman. They all got one thing in common, pal: banishment! We could be next!

** When Mike [[spoiler:enters the human world to prove he is scary, he fails to make the child scared at all]] who then tells Mike that he "looks funny". It's a subtle reference to how [[spoiler:he and Sulley solved the energy crisis]] in the first movie.

** Dean Hardscrabble tells Sulley that his only method of scaring would cause the child in his scenario to cry instead of scream, which is what happens in the first film when [[spoiler:Sulley indirectly scares Boo during his scare demonstration.]]

** Wilbur bumps into a little girl carrying frogs. [[spoiler:That little girl was Fanny, Wilbur's mother, who teaches frogs how to sing]].
** Just before Bud introduces Lewis to Fanny, he tells Lewis that he would like her. [[spoiler:Fanny is Lewis's future wife]].
* A subtle and very clever foreshadowing happens in ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie'': A circus train is taken over by monkeys when their owners leave the locomotive to get coffee, and they end up crashing it somewhere in the forest. The audience starts thinking "I'm pretty sure this'll become plot relevant real soon" [[spoiler:and it does, with the Rugrats finding the wrecked circus train and the monkeys while lost in the woods.]]

** When La Muerte and Xibalba take the forms of mortals to interact with Joaquin and Manolo during the AMinorKidroduction part, [[spoiler:they rather resemble Mary Beth and the security guard at the start, giving the hint as to who's ''really'' telling the story to the school children.]]

* Early in ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}'', [[WellIntentionedExtremist 1]] claims "sometimes one must be sacrificed for the good of many". [[spoiler: Though he means it in a TheNeedsOfTheMany context, ''1'' does just that near the finale and [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices]] [[RedemptionEqualsDeath himself]] so 9 can defeat [[BigBad The Machine]] once and for all.]]

** During Riley's first day of school, Sadness accidentally causes Riley to cry in front of the whole class; after she and Joy accidentally get sucked up the memory tube along with the core memories rendering Riley apathetic, the teacher says she understands how she feels after moving. [[spoiler: This foreshadows Sadness's true mission in headquarters: empathy.]]

** Monkey has a scar under her eye [[spoiler:similar to Kubo's mother, hinting at her true identity.]]

** In the beginning, Kubo's mother faces two giant waves when trying to make it to the island. This foreshadows the two sisters and [[spoiler: that the '''Moon''' King is the main antagonist (waves are created by the moon).]]

** Finnick, while laughing his head off after Judy manages to hustle Nick into helping her, puts the badge sticker onto Nick's shirt and tells his partner to "have fun working with the fuzz". [[spoiler:Nick's CharacterDevelopment inspires him to become the first fox officer on the ZPD force at the end of the film and officially become Judy's partner in the process]].

** After Judy's [[spoiler:press interview regarding the 14 missing predator animals she found -- which was ''obviously'' bad and kicked off the predator/prey "racial" tensions that harmed Zootopia -- Bellwether tells her she did fine.]]

** When Judy is parked in front of the about-to-be-robbed florist shop, [[spoiler: sheep]] can be seen examining it off to the right. As Judy approaches, one is whispering to the other shielding his mouth as he glances warily at her.
** Doug, [[spoiler: who creates the Night Howler-based PsychoSerum]], and his lackeys, are all rams which are sheep, [[spoiler: foreshadowing the identity of the Big Bad]].

** When we first see Nick, he is getting yelled at by [[spoiler: Doug]]?
** There are several details that cumulatively foreshadow that Nick and Judy [[spoiler: are running a BatmanGambit against Bellwether during the climax and have swapped the Night Howler pellet with blueberries. Predators that go savage have their CartoonyEyes revert to glowing AnimalEyes yet Nick's eyes remain his normal shape and color. In the flashback of Doug shooting Manchas we see that the Night Howler extract is immediately absorbed into the skin with no residue, but when the pellet hits Nick, a blue splatter is clearly visible. When Judy is young and being attacked by Gideon, he comments that Judy's nose twitches whenever she is scared; Judy's nose doesn't twitch when Nick is apparently "savage" cause she knows what they are doing and that Nick isn' actually going to hurt her. Finally, as Nick says "we'll think of something" he can be seen glancing over the blueberries he accidentally dropped and they are gone from the floor by the time they set up their decoy to escape.]]
** When Nick and Judy are reviewing the Jam Cam footage, Nick sardonically bets that [[spoiler:one of the kidnapper wolves will howl moments before one does and the other joins in.]] Later, at [[spoiler:Cliffside Asylum, Judy distracts the wolves by inciting a howl, allowing them to slip in unnoticed.]]
** It's subtle, but [[spoiler:when the unnamed badger doctor suggests to Lionheart that the savage cases might be caused by predator biology, Judy seems to consider it while Nick looks offended. This foreshadows Nick becoming ''extremely'' upset at Judy for repeating the theory during the press conference and leads to their temporary PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure.]]

** Early in the film, Clawhauser watches Judy walk off to the bullpen and says wistfully "That poor little bunny's going to get eaten alive." Later, during the press conference, when Nick calls out Judy for her biased remarks about predators he asks if she thinks he'll go savage and eat her. During the climax as part of the duo's BatmanGambit, [[spoiler:Nick pretends to go savage, hunts Judy and pretends to eat her.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBossBaby'', when Tim and the Boss Baby are panicking about the idea that the Boss Baby might end up being fired from Baby Corp and become a real baby and be Tim's brother forever, Boss Baby comments that it [[spoiler:feels right. At the end of the film, this is what happens [[FamilyOfChoice by the choice of both of them]] .]]

** During Andy's playtime, Woody has to choose whether a captive Bo Peep gets eaten by a shark or thrown to the evil monkeys. Woody resolves this by [[TakeAThirdOption taking a third option]]. [[spoiler:Later he's forced into a choice between leaving Andy and his friends to live a long and honoured but artificial existence as a museum exhibit, or leaving Jessie and co. to go back to Andy who will inevitably outgrow him. If you're wondering if this is a parallel with the [[WhoWantsToLiveForever question of mortality vs. immortality]], then yes, that's because it is. Woody settles on going back to Andy ''and taking Jessie and co. with him''. Unfortunately, [[EvilAllAlong Stinky Pete]] has other ideas.]]

** Doubles as a Meaningful Background Event: When Woody first sees the "Woody's Finest Hour" tape, it's stopped in the middle of a cliffhanger, with Stinky Pete saying "Woody's Roundup" was cancelled before airing the conclusion. This is the very same tape Woody plays for the others when they come to rescue him, except he failed to pause it. [[spoiler:If you listen to the background after Buzz delivers his Armor-Piercing Question and leaves, you can hear the conclusion to "Woody's Finest Hour" before it goes into the "You've Got a Friend in Me" number]]. Or, in other words, [[spoiler:Stinky Pete lied to Woody and Jessie, and before his villainy comes out proper you get a little clue that he's trying to manipulate them.]]

** In ''Toy Story 2'', the defeated [[spoiler:Stinky Pete]] spitefully rants that the the toys will end up in a landfill somewhere by going with Andy, [[spoiler:[[PropheciesAreAlwaysRight and they indeed end up there]], only getting saved by [[BigDamnHeroes the LGMs]] in the nick of time.]]
** At the poker night, the veteran toys predict the new toys (Andy's) are headed for the "landfill", and are "toddler fodder". Obviously the former proved correct, [[spoiler:and you could interpret the latter as the toys [[EarnYourHappyEnding eventually joining Bonnie]].]]

** When Spink and Forcible read Coraline's tea leaves and declare she's in danger, Spink sees a hand while Forcible claims it's a giraffe. [[spoiler: Both are right. The Other Mother's hand comes after Coraline near the end and the Other Mother's true form resembles a giraffe with a long neck and long, thin limbs.]]

** There's also a minor one that foreshadow's Metro Man's [[spoiler:desire to no longer be a hero.]] During his speech at the Metro Man museum while claiming it's a great honor to serve and protect Metro City, he looks absolutely ''miserable'' when he says he [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTswFDgOqso&feature=youtu.be&t=36s wonders where he'd be in life]] had he not taken up the mantle of hero.

* When Lightning [=McQueen=] and his pit crew arrive at Tokyo, Japan to meet Miles Axlerod in ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Cars}} Cars 2]]'', while they are all talking to Axlerod Sarge is frowning while everyone else is smiling, suggesting that he is thinking that Axlerod is up to no good, and he ends up being in the right.

** Lightning and Cruz's training session on the beach [[spoiler:heavily foreshadows him becoming her mentor, as despite his frustration with having to teach her how to drive on sand, he keeps at it. And by the end, Cruz is able to keep up with him]]. The same thing happens at the demolition derby [[spoiler: as Lightning spends over half the race yelling instructions to Cruz on how to survive the onslaught. This is even when he gives her the same advice Doc gave him all those years ago of "turning right to go left".]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBossBaby'', when Tim and the Boss Baby are panicking about the idea that the Boss Baby might end up being fired from Baby Corp and become a real baby and be Tim's brother forever, Boss Baby comments that it [[spoiler:feels right. At the end of the film, this is what happens [[FamilyOfChoice by the choice of both of them.]]

** Doubles as a Meaningful Background Event: When Woody first sees the "Woody's Finest Hour" tape, it's stopped in the middle of a cliffhanger, with Stinky Pete saying "Woody's Roundup" was cancelled before airing the conclusion. This is the very same tape Woody plays for the others when they come to rescue him, except he failed to pause it. [[spoiler:If you listen to the background after Buzz delivers his Armor-Piercing Question and leaves, you can hear the conclusion to "Woody's Finest Hour"[[note]][[/note]] before it goes into the "You've Got a Friend in Me" number]]. Or, in other words, [[spoiler:Stinky Pete lied to Woody and Jessie, and before his villainy comes out proper you get a little clue that he's trying to manipulate them.]]

** The Buzz Lightyear TV commercial mentions a place called Al's Toy Barn. [[BlatantLies This place absolutely does not]] [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory2 come up later]].

** Remember in ''2'' when the defeated [[spoiler:Stinky Pete]] had a spiteful little rant telling the toys that they'll end up in a landfill somewhere by going with Andy? [[PropheciesAreAlwaysRight Guess what happens!]]

** Also, the Other Mother referring to the Other Father as "Pumpkin". Guess what he really is.

* When Lightning [=McQueen=] and his pit crew arrive at Tokyo, Japan to meet Miles Axlerod in ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Cars}} Cars 2]]'', while they are all talking to Axlerod Sarge is frowning while everyone else is smiling, suggesting that he is thinking that Axlerod is up to no good. Guess who's actually right!
** Also, the line "But I ''never'' leak oil!" Guess who was with Mater when the tow truck saw a puddle of oil on the carpet!

* In ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'', the opening line is Flynn saying, [[spoiler: "This is the story of how I died."]] Who would take it seriously?

-->'''Zasu:''' Not yet, I don't. And with an attitude like that, I'm afraid you're shaping up to be a pretty pathetic king indeed.

* Near the very beginning of ''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}'', while inside Kekata the Medicine Man's wigwam, Kekata actually tells Chief Powhatan about a dream he had of the settlers from England. As Kekata starts talking about his dream, he waves his staff around over a fire, causing the smoke rising from it to turn into a ghostly pack of wolves, which surround Kocuom. [[spoiler: This foreshadows Kocuom being killed by one of the settlers, which is represented by the wolves.]]
** The smoke wolves then rush towards Powhatan, but are dissipated before they can surround him as they did Kocuom, foreshadowing [[spoiler:how Powhatan is also nearly shot by Radcliffe]].

** Also, pay attention to the scenes where Esmeralda is kicking, jumping, or performing some other action that would make her dress fly up, which reveals the lacy, tattered hem of a white dress underneath. Guess what color dress she wore at the end of the film!
*** I'm guessing the lacy stuff was just her underwear, and the white frock is something new that Frollo made her wear for her execution.
** During the song "Topsy Turvy", Esmeralda actually performed her infamous pole dance wearing a skimpy red dress, and this led to Frollo's obsession. Red is ironically considered as a sign of bad luck in real life according to G*psy culture.

** At the abandoned castle, [[spoiler: Bear!Elinor]] knocks over a large rock to [[spoiler: protect her daughter from Mor'du. Guess how she defeats him in the final battle?]]

** As Felix and Calhoun prepare to go into the game ''Sugar Rush'', there is a particular subtle piece of graffiti on the wall: [[spoiler: The word Turbo, and the 8 bit face of the man himself]].
** Several times it is shown that Vanellope's glitching extends to whatever she is in contact with, including people like Taffyta. [[spoiler: During the race, this exposes King Candy for who he really is.]]

** When Vanellope first meets Ralph, she jokes about [[spoiler: using the "royal we"]] and later on, she has Ralph [[spoiler: kneel and appoints him like a knight, saying he was her "royal chump"]]. There is also the fact that she is the only character [[spoiler: with "Von" in her name which is associated with nobility]].

** King Candy's age and cartoon-y appearance in contrast to the anime-esque child racers shown that [[spoiler: he's not part of the game.]]

** When attacked by Ralph near Diet Cola Mountain, King Candy is genuinely scared and tries to dodge his strikes, not out of sheer fear, but because of the fact that [[spoiler: characters that die outside their own games don't regenerate; he doesn't really belong in that game, and he knows it.]]
** During the time-lapse sequence at the beginning of the movie, the Sugar Rush console is placed to the right; Vanellope can be seen on the console, [[spoiler: spoiling the fact she's an actual character in the game.]] In the same photo, she's driving King Candy's kart, [[spoiler: hinting she's the game's true ruler.]]
** King Candy knows what "going Turbo" means but Sgt. Calhoun doesn't, despite their games both being relatively new. Why? [[spoiler: Because Candy is really Turbo himself!]]

** A flower kid idolizes Queen Tara and dreams of becoming queen like her. [[spoiler: She becomes the one to succeed Tara at the end of the film.]]
** A ronin is a samurai without a lord to serve. [[spoiler:Fittingly, Ronin goes through most of ''WesternAnimation/{{Epic}}'' without a queen to command him]].

** When Mike [[spoiler: enters the human world to prove he is scary, he fails to make the child scared at all]] who then tells Mike that he "looks funny". It's a subtle reference to how [[spoiler: he and Sulley solved the energy crisis]] in the first movie.

** Dean Hardscrabble tells Sulley that his only method of scaring would cause the child in his scenario to cry instead of scream, which is what happens in the first film when [[spoiler: Sulley indirectly scares Boo during his scare demonstration.]]
** Sulley suggested the idea of cheating to win the Scare Games though he realizes it's stupid. [[spoiler: It does show he's willing to cheat to win the Games, which he does.]]
** Mike tells Sulley that they are going to "change the world". [[spoiler: At the end of ''Monsters Inc'', that's exactly what they do by finding out that children are not toxic to monsters and that laughter is a more powerful resource than screams.]]

** Wilbur bumps into a little girl carrying frogs. [[spoiler: That little girl was Fanny, Wilbur's mother, who teaches frogs how to sing]].
** Just before Bud introduces Lewis to Fanny, he tells Lewis that he would like her. [[spoiler: Fanny is Lewis's future wife]].
* A subtle and very clever foreshadowing happens in ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie'': A circus train is taken over by monkeys when their owners leave the locomotive to get coffee, and they end up crashing it somewhere in the forest. The audience starts thinking "I'm pretty sure this'll become plot relevant real soon'' [[spoiler: And it does! the Rugrats while lost in the forest find the wrecked circus train and with it, the monkeys]]
** What's better that it does NOT fool the audience as being a BigLippedAlligatorMoment

* ''WesternAnimation/StrangeMagic'': Marianne comments that the Bog King should rethink his giant pointy teeth skull entrance as the two fly off [[spoiler: for a romantic evening]]. Cue it [[DisneyDeath seemingly killing]] the Bog King when the castle starts collapsing.

** Kubo lights a lantern in hopes that his deceased father's spirit will speak to him. When nothing happens, he gets angry and believes his father is ignoring him. [[spoiler: This is a hint that his father is not actually dead.]]
** Monkey has a scar under her eye [[spoiler: similar to Kubo's mother, hinting at her true identity.]]
** Beetle appears to have collected several items from Hanzo's men. [[spoiler: Because he was there at the final battle. Because he is Hanzo.]]
** When Kubo first meets Monkey, she tells him to get up before making him dinner, [[spoiler: like a mother]]. Beetle teaches Kubo how to fish. [[spoiler: like a father.]]

** Finnick, while laughing his head off after Judy manages to hustle Nick into helping her, puts the badge sticker onto Nick's shirt and tells his partner to "have fun working with the fuzz". [[spoiler:Nick's CharacterDevelopment inspires him to become the first fox officer on the ZPD force at the end of the film and officially becomes Judy's partner in the process]].

** There are several details that cumulatively foreshadow that Nick and Judy [[spoiler: are running a BatmanGambit against Bellwether during the climax and have swapped the Night Howler pellet with blueberries. Predators that go savage have their CartoonyEyes revert to glowing AnimalEyes yet Nick's eyes remain his normal shape and color. In the flashback of Doug shooting Manchas we see that the Night Howler extract is immediately absorbed into the skin with no residue, but when the pellet hits Nick, a blue splatter is clearly visible. When Judy is young and being attacked by Gideon, he comments that Judy's nose twitches, when ever she is scared; Judy's nose doesn' twitch when Nick is apparently "Savage" cause she knows what they are doing and that Nick isn' actually going to hurt her! Finally, as Nick says "we'll think of something" he can be seen glancing over the blueberries he accidentally dropped and they are gone from the floor by the time they set up their decoy to escape.]]

** When attacked by Ralph near Diet Cola Mountain, King Candy is genuinely scared and tries to dodge his strikes, not out of sheer fear, but because of the fact that [[spoiler: characters that die outside their own games don't regenerate; he doesn't really belong in that game, and he knows. it.]]

* In ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'', the titular character runs to catch up with the other girls throughout the song "Honour To Us All". At the end of the sequence, she opens her parasol slightly later than the other girls, foreshadowing the disaster of the matchmaker meeting that was to come.

** King Candy knows what "going Turbo" means but Sgt. Calhoun doesn't, despite their games both being relatively new. Why? [[Because Candy is really Turbo himself!]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBossBaby'', when Tim and the Boss Baby are panicking about the idea that the Boss Baby might end up being fired from Baby Corp and become a real baby and be Tim's brother forever, Boss Baby comments that it [[spoiler:feels right. At the end of the film, this is what happens [[FamilyOfChoice by the choice of both of them.]]]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'':
** In the beginning of the movie, we're first introduced to Dante after [[spoiler: Miguel passes a table full of Alebrije figurines]].
** Upon meeting Héctor, when Miguel asks him how he knows Ernesto, [[spoiler: Héctor says he used to play with Ernesto, and "taught him everything he knows". This turns out to be true. So true that Ernesto killed Héctor for his songs when Héctor was about to leave the life and go back to his family.]]
** When Miguel makes a big deal about how Ernesto de la Cruz is the best musician in the world, Héctor responds by acknowledging the songs Ernesto sings as pretty good while Ernesto's actual talent is only mediocre. [[spoiler: Of course Héctor would know this: he wrote all of the songs that Ernesto claims are his, and no doubt recognized Ernesto for what he was — a medium talent who couldn't cut it]].
** Héctor takes Miguel to visit a forgotten friend of his to get a guitar and serves a couple of drinks, but the friend becomes Deader Than Dead and as such, Héctor drinks a single glass and leaves it upside down on the table, next to the full one. [[spoiler: We learn later that Ernesto de la Cruz murdered him by slipping poison in a similar drink.]]
** When Miguel excitedly exclaims that he's going to play "Remember Me" in the battle of the bands, Héctor immediately and uncomfortably negates the idea, saying that it's too popular, so everyone will be singing it — which, since that's actually true, seems like a legit concern. But later it's revealed that Héctor has a likely ulterior motive for not wanting Miguel to perform it: [[spoiler: "Remember Me" is an extremely personal song to Héctor; he wrote it as a love song for his daughter Coco.]]
** Miguel tells Dante "We need to find my great-great-grandfather!" [[spoiler:The next thing Dante does is lead Miguel to a room adjoining the one Héctor is being interrogated in, and spends the rest of the movie pulling them together, foreshadowing both his own nature as an alebrije spirit guide and Héctor's nature as the true great-great-grandfather.]] Miguel is delighted when he figures it out and Dante gets lots of [[CutenessProximity praise]].
** Ernesto is very surprised that he has a great-great-grandson. [[spoiler: Since Miguel's great-great-grandfather had a family and knew his daughter, Ernesto shouldn't be this surprised he has descendants: the first clue that he and Miguel aren't related. He still goes with it, as it's possible that Miguel may be related to an unrecognized offspring... which given Ernesto's fame, might be a real possibility.]]
** [[spoiler: The marigold petal that Ernesto de la Cruz grabs to bless Miguel does not light up right after he starts the blessing. This gives away that Ernesto and Miguel are not related.]]
** The headstock of Ernesto's guitar has a detail of a skull with a single yellow tooth. [[spoiler: When Héctor first grins, it's hard not to notice that he, too, has a single yellow tooth, indicating that the guitar actually belongs to him.]]

** During the song "Topsy Turvy", Esmeralda actually performed her infamous pole dance wearing a skimpy red dress, and this led to Frollo's obsession. Red is ironically considered as a sign of bad luck in real life according to Gypsy culture.

* Near the end of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'', [[BigBad Stinky]] [[Creator/KelseyGrammer Pete]] [[NiceCharacterMeanActor the Prospector]] actually threatens Woody and his friends that "one day, they will all rot away in a dump." Guess where the climax of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' takes place!

** Dante's efforts to keep Miguel and Héctor together serves as foreshadowing for both [[spoiler: Dante being a spirit guide]] and, again, [[spoiler: Héctor being the real great-great grandfather.]]

* Near the end of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'', [[BigBad Stinky]] [[KelseyGrammer Pete]] [[NiceCharacterMeanActor the Prospector]] actually threatens Woody and his friends that "one day, they will all rot away in a dump." Guess where the climax of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' takes place!

** Forcible also mentions that she sees a "tall handsome beast" in Coraline's future, which may allude to the Cat who isn't tall but [[KeithDavid his voice actor]] certainly is.

** There are several details that cumulatively foreshadow that Nick and Judy [[spoiler: are running a BatmanGambit against Bellwether during the climax and have swapped the Night Howler pellet with blueberries. Predators that go savage have their CartoonyEyes revert to glowing AnimalEyes yet Nick's eyes remain his normal shape and color. In the flashback of Doug shooting Manchas we see that the Night Howler extract is immediately absorbed into the skin with no residue, but when the pellet hits Nick, a blue splatter is clearly visible. Finally, as Nick says "we'll think of something" he can be seen glancing over the blueberries he accidentally dropped and they are gone from the floor by the time they set up their decoy to escape.]]

** In the first film, [[JerkJock Chick Hicks]] is assigned with the number 86, which not only references the year Pixar was first established, but also a slang term for being fired. Which is exactly what happened to Chick at the end of the film for deliberately pushing Strip "The King" Weathers off the racetrack.

* ''Foreshadowing/{{Zootopia}}''

* ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'':
** Early on, when Anna sings about finding romance, she describes her fantasy man as "A handsome stranger, tall and fair". [[spoiler:Kristoff matches the description much more closely than Hans, foreshadowing the fact that Hans is not her true love.]]
** Much more obviously, the troll who heals Anna at the beginning comments that it was lucky her ''heart'' wasn't hit by the ice magic. Guess what happens later.
** ''Love is an Open Door'' is stuffed full of it. The first one is this: [[spoiler: at the beginning, Hans says that he's been searching his whole life to "find his own place", while gesturing towards Arendelle. It turns out that Arendelle, not Anna, was what he wanted.]]
*** Another subtle hint that [[spoiler: Hans is playing with Anna's feelings and is just leading her on is Han's line about the two of them finishing each other's - only for Anna to jump in to say "sandwiches," followed by Hans's "That's what I was gonna say!" showing that he's tailoring his acting to draw her in.]]
*** Also from that song is that when Anna and Hans sing the line "Our mental synchronization/can have but one explanation" [[spoiler: they dance robotically, showing that Hans at least was just going through the motions.]]
*** [[spoiler: The way the line "You and I were just meant to be" is sung foreshadows that Hans and Anna ''weren't'' meant to be. Hans sings the "you", and Anna sings the "I", meaning that both of them were referring to Anna, and Hans was not mentioned at all.]]
*** Throughout the song, [[spoiler: Hans and Anna are not quite in sync and have little scenes showcasing this, foreshadowing how their relationship was not perfect after all.]]
** The very first song in the movie, "Frozen Heart" forshadows the plot, singing about how powerful, beautiful and deadly ice is. Along with its title [[spoiler: foreshadowing the dangers of Anna's frozen heart]]. The best part foreshadowing though? During the song, the men chant the words "Let it Go".
** Elsa's words to Anna, "You can't marry a person you just met," not only refers to her immediate engagement with Hans, [[spoiler: but also warns her that Hans isn't what she expected him to be]].