History Foreshadowing / PussInBootsTheLastWish

*** The wall behind Puss's wanted poster is covered with sword marks, including a group of eight tally marks, [[spoiler:one for each of Puss's live up to that point]].

** When meeting Puss for the first time, [[DoubleMeaning the Wolf notes that]] [[spoiler:"Everyone thinks they'll be the one to defeat me]]. [[WeAllDieSomeday But no one's escaped me yet]]."]]

** When meeting Puss for the first time, [[DoubleMeaning the Wolf notes that]] [[spoiler:"[[MortalityPhobia Everyone thinks]] [[ImmortalitySeeker they'll be]] [[TheProblemWithFightingDeath the one to defeat me]]. [[WeAllDieSomeday But no one's escaped me yet]]."]]

** There are also several hints about the over-all theme of the movie before we meet the Wolf for the first time.

*** The wall behind Puss's wanted poster is covered with sword marks, including a group of eight tally marks, [spoiler:one for each of Puss's live up to that point]].

** When the governor returns home to see it overrun with peasants, Puss is hanging from a drapery that has twisted around on itself several times. From a distance, it looks like a noose... and it's only compounded by how Puss gets down from the ceiling: cutting through the governor's portrait, that Puss had already vandalized, right through his own face.

** 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]]."]]

* Once Goldi gets her hands on the map, there are several hints that whatever Goldi is going to wish for, she already has it. [[spoiler:When Goldi and the bears start playing around and being happy, the map glitches showing that Goldi's wish isn't as concrete as the others, and then only gives her one obstacle, the bears' family home. This all foreshadows Goldi's desire for a real family, while also showing she already has it]].

* When the Bears break in to Jack Horner's pie factory, Baby crashes through the window and smashes another window that has a vanity portrait of Jack. 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's pie business now that he's dead, and it was Baby who suggested the idea]].

* During the fight against 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," the basis for "Big" Jack Horner, who runs a thriving baked goods enterprise (with the possibility of the sign belonging to a store part of said entreprise).

* During the fight against 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, who also runs a thriving baked goods enterprise (with the possibility of the sign belonging to a store owned by him).

** 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 makes it crystal-clear that he isn't leaving empty-handed after all]].

* Once Goldi gets her hands on the map, there are several hints that whatever Goldi is going to wish for, she already has it. [[spoiler:When Goldi and the bears start playing around and being happy, the map glitches showing that Goldi'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]].

** 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's disregard of the consequences of dying due to having multiple lives meant he never recognized him when he appeared before him]].

** When asking for Puss's autograph on his wanted poster, the Wolf asks him to sign "right here" while tapping the word "Dead" in "Dead or Alive". The noise when he does it is also similar to the sound of a ticking clock, a common metaphor for mortality.

** When Puss claims he "laughs in the face of Death", the Wolf's claw slightly scratches the poster 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's flippancy towards mortality.]]

** In Puss's 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.]]

** 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's 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]].

** 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"?]] An alternate interpretation is that he ''did'' have a wanted poster introduction all along—he just used Puss's own poster to do it.

* During the fight against 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 int 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, who also runs a thriving baked goods enterprise (with the possibility of the sign belonging to a store owned by him).

* 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.

** 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]].