History Foreshadowing / AnimatedFilms

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}}'': In the prologue after the Trolls escape the Bergens' Trollstice, Gristle asks his father, "What's gonna make me happy now?" Before Gristle Sr. replies "Nothing!", we get a brief close-up of Bridget.

** After [[spoiler:creating Titan/Tighten]], Megamind holds up [[https://i2.wp.com/caps.pictures/201/0-megamind/full/megamind-disneyscreencaps.com-4916.jpg a picture of Metroman with the head ripped off]], so [[spoiler:Titan's/Tighten]]'s head is in place instead. Later on, after [[spoiler:Titan/Tighten has revealed that [[FaceHeelTurn he prefers being evil]], he holds up the same Metroman picture, this time with [[https://i0.wp.com/caps.pictures/201/0-megamind/full/megamind-disneyscreencaps.com-7080.jpg Megamind's head in place]]. Not only does this hint to who the true hero will be in the film, it also gives a subtle clue as to who it ''really'' is when Metroman turns up during the final battle]].

** 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.

** 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]].

* ''Foreshadowing/TheIncredibles''

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'':

* ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'':
** The film gives subtle hints about the Wolf's true identity as [[spoiler:Death, as in [[TheGrimReaper the literal personification of death]],]] and what his intentions are:
*** The numbered cards during the DeathMontage have the wolf with his cowl up and his sickles on the four corners. [[spoiler:As he points out to Puss, he was there for every one of his deaths, but Puss' disregard of the consequences of dying due to having multiple lives meant he never recognized him when he appeared before him]].
*** He makes his very first entrance by suddenly appearing right next to Puss with ghostly silence, hinted at only by a candle nearby Puss blowing out. [[spoiler:The doctor who informed Puss he was on his last life similarly blew out a candle to emphasise Puss' mortality]].
*** When asking for Puss' autograph on his wanted poster, the Wolf asks him to sign "right here" while tapping the word "Dead" in "Dead or Alive".
*** There's a reason the Wolf's preferred weapons are a pair of sickles. And he shows up with a cowl. [[spoiler:Both are very common imagery relating to the Grim Reaper.]]
*** When meeting Puss for the first time, [[DoubleMeaning the Wolf notes that]] [[spoiler:"[[MortalityPhobia Everyone thinks]] they'll be [[ImmortalitySeeker the one to defeat me]]. [[WeAllDieSomeday But no one's escaped me yet]]."]]
*** When Puss claims he "laughs in the face of Death", the Wolf's claw slightly scratches the bar surface in what appears to be a momentary flash of anger before he removes his cowl, saying "So I've heard.", hinting that [[spoiler:he's death itself and is ''not'' happy with Puss' flippancy towards mortality.]]
*** When he manages to cut Puss with a blade for the first time in his life, forcing him to [[NotSoInvincibleAfterAll recognise his own mortality]] and how close he came to dying for good, he visibly relishes his opponent's fear and takes sadistic enjoyment out of prolonging Puss' terror. However, as he advances on him, he sarcastically asks the shaken Puss if his life is flashing before his eyes with an expression that mixes contempt with pity in an almost solemn manner. [[spoiler:As the Grim Reaper, he knows full well how valuable life is and how most people cherish the one single chance they're given, with Puss recognizing how valuable his was only right as he's about to lose it eliciting a small bit of sympathy for his quarry's foolishness]]. This also hints as to ultimately how Puss defeats him: [[spoiler:not by out-fighting as inexorable a foe as Death, but by recognizing and accepting the value of what life he has remaining, convincing Death to wait for his natural mortal ending instead of reaping him early for his arrogance]].
*** When Puss hides from the Wolf behind a locked door, Wolf's shadow impossibly creeps across the floor, as if the door wasn't there.
*** In Puss' second encounter with him, the Wolf places two stray coins over his eyes as he watches him leave. [[spoiler:Ancient Greeks buried their dead with coins over their eyes so they would have money for passage to the Underworld.]]
*** The Wolf keeps appearing out of thin air with seemingly no one but Puss (initially) able to see him, and during the TravelMontage of the parties heading to the Dark Forest in search of the Star, he is the only one not shown. Furthermore, whereas Goldilocks and the bears track Puss through his scent and Jack Horner tracks him by using a crystal ball, it is never shown how the Wolf manages to find Puss so quickly. [[spoiler:As Death is always close to you, he doesn't ''need'' to travel to reach his target, nor is his goal the Star]].
*** His image or name doesn't appear on the Wishing Star map. At first this, along with the fact that nobody else around Puss seems to react to or acknowledge his presence, seems to imply that his appearances are all in Puss' head after his first traumatic encounter with the fearsome hunter. [[spoiler:As the personification of Death itself, it makes sense he wouldn't appear on a map that marks the location of the living within the Dark Forest]].
*** The grey stripe on his facial fur is in the shape of a wolf skull, hinting at his sheer danger level [[spoiler:and true profession]], and when he appears [[RightBehindMe behind Puss]] at the riverside battle, [[spoiler:The surrounding rocks and the white mist that outline him line up in the shape of a skull, hinting as to what he truly is. In fact, given the Dark Forest is [[FisherKing affected by the heart of those who hold the map]], it's implied that the noticeably-darker and symbolic surroundings around him were Death's presence ''literally'' affecting the environment to spell out to Puss what he was]].
*** All the major characters are introduced in the film with a WantedPoster (although Perrito has an ''Un''wanted Poster), with the exception of the Wolf. This is an early hint that the character is more than a simple bounty hunter, because, after all, [[spoiler:who goes around wanting Death himself "dead or alive"?]]
*** During the battle against the Baker's Dozen, when Puss suffers ShellShockSilence when a unicorn horn-inflicted explosion of confetti occurs right next to him, he still somehow hears the wolf's whistle clear as day, despite being able to basically hear nothing else. This hints that he's [[spoiler:very much tied to something closer to Puss than just physical space]].
*** Following from the above, the confetti explosion that occurred before the Wolf's second appearance [[spoiler:was the ''death'' of a baker minion, courtesy of Jack's poor aim]]. And in the previous scenes where the Wolf appears, it's either before or after [[spoiler:a death has occurred onscreen: for the first, with Puss himself losing his eighth life by being crushed by the bell in the beginning; and for the second, after one of the Serpent Sisters is turned by an annoyed Jack Horner into a golden statue. In the climax, the Wolf arrives at the Wishing Star after the last of Jack's minions dies due to his callousness. He sees Puss' CharacterDevelopment and leaves him and the others in peace, but Jack dies shortly thereafter thanks to the interference of Puss and company. So while Death may not have gotten what he wanted in the first place, he isn't leaving empty-handed after all]].
** When the Bears break-in to Jack Horner's house, Baby crashes through the window and smashes another window that has a vanity portrait of Jack Horner. Then, when the family are all gathered together, they are in front of the same spot where said portrait was broken. [[spoiler:This foreshadows how the Bears' next venture would be to take over Jack Horner's pie business now that he's dead, and it was Baby who suggested the idea]].
** During the fight with the giant at the start of the movie, Puss is flung into a sign with the letters J and H, a thumb with a plum on it, and a pie - put together, they form a reference to the nursery rhyme "Little Jack Horner", which is the basis for the villainous Big Jack Horner.
** The town Puss saves from the giant is called Del Mar, implying it's near the ocean. [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, the heroes have stolen the governor's ship from Del Mar's docks.]]
** During the first chase with Jack Horner's henchmen, a flaming arrow shoot by one of them nearly sets the Magic Map on fire until Puss and Kitty manage to extinguish the embers. [[spoiler:In the climax, the map is ultimately destroyed when the Ethical Bug and the Phoenix burn one of the pieces before Jack can reassemble them]].
** When Goldie finally gets her hands on the map there are several hints that whatever Goldie is going to wish for, she already has it. [[spoiler: When Goldie and the bears start playing around and being happy, the map glitches showing that Goldie's wish isn't as concrete as the others, and then only gives her one obstacle, the bears family home. This all foreshadows Goldie's desire for a real family, while also showing she already has it]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'':
** [[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.
** 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.
%% ** Also, the line "But I ''never'' leak oil!"

** At the beginning, the Rust-eze logos on Lightning's hood, fenders, spoiler and bumper are in a more contemporary fashion instead of the traditional one. This foreshadows the arrival of Jackson Storm and the next-gens, who have high tech versions of their sponsors' logos. His paint job is also a desaturated red shade instead of the usual luminous vivid red, which shows he's being blindsided by the next-gens and foreshadows his horrible crash at the Los Angeles 500.
** When Lightning is meeting Jackson for the first time, this line comes up.

* ''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]] (he wants his mother's approval).

* During the acupuncture scene in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', Mantis has difficulty finding Po's nerve points because of his thick fat. Tai Lung's nerve attacks prove to be ineffective against him for the same reason.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'': There are several clues throughout the film that [[spoiler:Fiona is really an ogre]]:
** When the Mirror presents Fiona to Lord Farquaad, he tries to warn Farquaad about something that happens at night, but Farquaad is so excited to meet the beautiful princess that he cuts him off. [[spoiler:He finds out later near the end of the film what the Mirror was trying to warn him about. Shrek and the audience find out at the same time, but have a different reaction altogether.]]
** Fiona is ''really'' adamant to her privacy after sunset. [[spoiler:Much like Shrek.]] That same night, Shrek reveals his FreudianExcuse to Donkey and a brief shot shows Fiona eavesdropping on the conversation, [[spoiler:and you might notice her skin is tinged green.]]
** In a scene where Fiona prepares a cotton candy stick [[{{Squick}} made with spider webs and flies]] for Shrek, you might notice [[spoiler:that after she hands him the stick, she ''licks her fingers''. Later, she digs his roasted weed rat and wants to try his weed rat stew as well.]]

** When Ming reveals her talisman that seals her panda spirit, it's prominently Red-coloured, as opposed to the other Green-coloured jade items that Wu and the rest of Mei's family use to steal theirs. [[spoiler:This hints as to both Ming's panda form's sheer power and volatility compared to the others, as well as Ming's repressed emotional turbulence tied to it. When Ming's anger as Mei's rejection of the ritual and of her boils over, the cracked talisman is further damaged by the raging Panda spirit until it fully shatters and transforms Ming once more]].

** During the song "One Jump Ahead", Aladdin and Abu grab a rug, jump out a window and glide on the carpet down to the ground. Later on, Aladdin acquires an actual flying carpet.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'':

%%*** "Death by monkeys?"

* ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'':

** Skippy's youngest sister is always seen trailing behind him and his friends, asking them to wait for her. In the chaos of the prison escape, she is left behind again, to the horror of her mother.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Epic}}'':

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'': During the song "One Jump Ahead", Aladdin and Abu grab a rug, jump out a window and glide on the carpet down to the ground. Later on, Aladdin acquires an actual flying carpet.

** 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]].
** The very first scene has [[AMinorKidroduction young Merida]] playing with her family. Elinor plays at being a bear and chases Merida around the table, saying, "I'm goin' to gobble you up!"

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'', the Other Father's song when he sang to Coraline.

** The Other Mother referring to the Other Father as "Pumpkin".

* ''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/HelpImAFish'', Chuck is washed into [=MacKrill=]'s lab with a jellyfish stuck on his head, which is what he will turn into later. Similarly, while in the lab, Fly comes across a stuffed fish labeled "California ''Fly''fish", which looks exactly like the one he will turn into.
** Not to mention the meaningful name Stella (Star in Italian), who turns into a ''star''fish.

*** After Screenslaver is unmasked and arrested, he yell "What did you do to me?" and it appears he's trying to justify that society is to blame. [[spoiler:But rather, it hints that the pizza guy is just a pawn in the real mastermind's plans.]]

** Early in the movie's [[AMinorKidroduction opening montage]], we see Riley as a toddler drawing a picture of a pink elephant-like creature on the wall, while singing "Who's your friend who loves to play, Bing Bong, Bing Bong!" The elephant-like creature is later revealed to be Bing-Bong, Riley's childhood imaginary friend, who helps Joy and Sadness on their way back to Headquarters.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', whenever [[BigBad Oogie Boogie]] is talking, an insect will occasionally crawl out of the seams holding together his burlap body and all over him before finally disappearing back inside, annoying him as it does so.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'':
** The Coachman's warning that Pleasure Island is cursed: "They never come back... as BOYS."
** Also note that the chair Pinocchio sits in at the pool hall has a donkey's head on top.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', Grumpy refers to the queen as "an old witch".

*** "Death by monkeys?"

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Alma}}'': At the beginning of the short, Alma passes by several posters for missing children and multiple signs with the word peligro on them, Spanish for “danger.” [[spoiler:Those posters are for the children who got transformed into dolls in a magic toy shop.]]

** After [[spoiler:creating Titan/Tighten]], Megamind holds up a picture of Metroman with the head ripped off, so [[spoiler:Titan's/Tighten]]'s head is in place instead. Later on, after [[spoiler:Titan/Tighten has revealed that [[FaceHeelTurn he prefers being evil]], he holds up the same Metroman picture, this time with Megamind's head in place. Not only does this hint to who the true hero will be in the film, it also gives a subtle clue as to who it ''really'' is when Metroman turns up during the final battle]].