History Foreshadowing / StarWars

** Qui-Gon Jinn notes that, despite the Trade Federation’s demands during their invasion of Naboo, there is no real logic behind it, and suspects there is something else behind their movements.

** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E3ShadowOfMalevolence "Shadow of Malevolence"]] has it mentioned that the Kaliida Shoals medical station is in the vicinity of Naboo, which sends ships to help with the evacuation. This becomes important in the [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E4DestroyMalevolence next episode]] when Naboo Senator Padmé Amidala is lured to the battle against the ''Malevolence'' in an attempt to engineer a hostage situation.
** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E5Rookies "Rookies"]]:

** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E9CloakOfDarkness "Cloak of Darkness"]]:

** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E11DookuCaptured "Dooku Captured"]]:

** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E12TheGunganGeneral "The Gungan General"]]: At the end, Obi-Wan warns Hondo that although Jedi don't take revenge, Sith ''do''... and Count Dooku knows where he lives.
** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E8BrainInvaders "Brain Invaders"]]:

** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E10TheDeserter "The Deserter"]] has Captain Rex encounter Cut Lawquane, a clone who deserted at the beginning of the war shortly after the First Battle of Geonosis. Rex chooses not to report Cut to the Republic. Ultimately, as revealed in ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]'' and ''[[Literature/StarWarsAhsoka Ahsoka]]'', Rex ends up deserting the military at the very end of the war, although under very, very different circumstances.
** In [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E13Monster "Monster"]], Nightsister leader Mother Talzin offers Count Dooku a warrior of the late Darth Maul's bloodline as his new apprentice. Then in [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E14WitchesOfTheMist "Witches of the Mist"]], Obi-Wan's first reaction upon seeing a recording of Savage's rampage on Devaron is "Darth Maul ''alive?!''" Naturally, guess who's revealed to not be dead in Talzin's crystal ball in the last scene?
** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E14WitchesOfTheMist "Witches of the Mist"]]: Of the four Jedi Council members waiting when Halsey and Knox's bodies are returned to the Jedi Temple, Adi Gallia is the first to speak out about the brutality of their deaths, which were at the hands of Savage Opress. [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS5E1Revival Later on]], she too will be killed by him.
** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E15Overlords "Overlords"]]: Ahsoka has a vision of a future version of herself who, warning her away from Anakin because of the darkness in him, has this to say:

** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS7E6DealNoDeal "Deal No Deal"]]:

** In the promo short [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsArtAttack "Art Attack"]], Sabine taunts the stormtroopers by claiming that she's "read [their] book. It's a short one!" It's later revealed she's a former Imperial cadet.
** In [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsSparkOfRebellion "Spark of Rebellion"]], Ezra says that the ''Ghost'' crew aren't going to come for him, because people don't do that. In [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS1E07GatheringForces "Gathering Forces"]], he tells Sabine that if he believed that his parents would save him he wouldn't have been able to survive.
** Sabine pretends to be an Imperial cadet in [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS1E01DroidsInDistress "Droids in Distress"]]. In [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS1E05OutOfDarkness "Out of Darkness"]], it's revealed that she is a former Imperial cadet.
** At the end of [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS1E02FighterFlight "Fighter Flight"]], it's implied through facial expressions and body language that despite what they claimed, Ezra and Zeb didn't destroy the stolen TIE fighter. It [[ChekhovsGun returns]] in the season finale, proving instrumental in the plan to rescue Kanan.
** [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS1E03RiseOfTheOldMasters "Rise of the Old Masters"]]:
*** The crew is tipped off about Luminara Unduli being imprisoned in the Spire by a broadcast from [[VoiceOfTheResistance Senator-in-Exile Gall Trayvis]], and it turns out to be a trap. When Trayvis appears in person in [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS1E10VisionOfHope "Vision of Hope"]], it's revealed he's [[TheMole an Imperial agent]].
*** The Grand Inquisitor offers to train Ezra in the Dark Side, and Ezra replies that he's never heard of it. In [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS1E07GatheringForces "Gathering Forces"]], Ezra taps into the Dark Side to hold him off. The hints that the Grand Inquisitor (and even the Seventh Sister at one point) might have viewed Ezra has a potential Dark Side apprentice become harsh and relevant when Maul gets the closest to even having Ezra as a Dark Side student.
** [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS1E05OutOfDarkness "Out of Darkness"]]:
*** Hera tells Sabine that the reason all intel is on a need-to-know basis is that, if captured, the crew members can't reveal what they don't know. After [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS1E11CallToAction "Call to Action"]], Kanan is captured and tortured for information, but it's ultimately pointless because he doesn't know anything about a larger rebellion. Hera also reassures Sabine that there is a greater movement going on, which is revealed in [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS1E13FireAcrossTheGalaxy "Fire Across the Galaxy"]] when several cells join forces to extricate our heroes, Bail Organa is revealed as a mover-shaker of the Rebels, and Fulcrum reveals their identity.

** A meta-example: A promotional slogan for the Season 1 finale, [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS1E13FireAcrossTheGalaxy "Fire Across the Galaxy"]], was "Who will fall?" It's the Grand Inquisitor, [[DisneyVillainDeath quite literally]].
** [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsTheSiegeOfLothal "The Siege of Lothal"]]:

*** Kanan at one point sarcastically addresses Hera as "General". Fast-forward a few years, and ''Film/RogueOne'' reveals via a namedrop that she's been promoted to that rank. She achieved it in-series in [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS4E07RebelAssault "Rebel Assault"]].
** In [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS2E12LegendsOfTheLasat "Legends of the Lasat"]], Chava tells Zeb of a prophecy involving the salvation of the Lasat race, where the Child saves the life of the Warrior. She later reveals Zeb is the Child and Agent Kallus is the Warrior. Sure enough, two episodes later, [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS2E15TheHonorableOnes "The Honorable Ones"]] involves Zeb saving Kallus' life as part of an EnemyMine situation, which ends up with Kallus beginning to genuinely question the Empire, opening the road to his redemption arc.
** [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS2E16ShroudOfDarkness "Shroud of Darkness"]]:

*** Kanan's interaction with the vision of the Temple Guard Sentinel becomes meaningful when he takes up an old Temple Guard mask to conceal his eye wounds. Also, in the first part of [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS2E19TwilightOfTheApprentice "Twilight of]] [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS2E20TwilightOfTheApprenticePartII the Apprentice"]], he briefly examines the petrified corpse of a masked Temple Guard.

** [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS2E18TheMysteryOfChopperBase "The Mystery of Chopper Base"]]:

** A cross-media example: In [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsStepsIntoShadow "Steps Into Shadow"]], Agent Kallus comments with restrained, but audible, disdain that Thrawn's most recent victory in the Battle of Batonn (which got him promoted to Grand Admiral) had a large number of civilian casualties. Governor Pryce in response states that the casualties were "within acceptable limits". Come the ''[[Literature/StarWarsThrawn Thrawn]]'' novel, it's revealed that the civilian casualties at Batonn were all Pryce's direct fault, not Thrawn's, and only he and Eli Vanto suspect the truth.
** The Visual Guide for ''Film/RogueOne'' (released prior to the second half of Season 3, around the time ''Rogue One'' came out) revealed that Saw would conduct an investigation on Geonosis in 2 BBY, but his lungs would be poisoned with Geonosian insecticide, hence why he has a respirator by the time of ''Rogue One''. As Season 3 takes place during this time, we get to see this happen in [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS3E10GhostsOfGeonosis "Ghosts of]] [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS3E11GhostsOfGeonosisPartII Geonosis"]]... though apparently the poisoning happens ''later''.
** Similarly, the same book revealed that Senator Mothma would become public enemy number one for publicly calling Palpatine a "lying executioner". The second half of Season 3 has [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS3E16SecretCargo "Secret Cargo"]], in which Thrawn is going after Mothma for committing treason, as well as Mothma personally helping the Rebellion become the Rebel Alliance.

** [[Recap/StarWarsResistanceS1E3FuelForTheFire "Fuel for the Fire"]]:

*** Kaz finds out that Yeager has a stash of highly-dangerous Corellian hyperfuel, was once a racer but no longer participates, and finds a photo of Yeager with his family in his office. All of these elements come together in [[Recap/StarWarsResistanceS1E8ThePlatformClassic "The Platform Classic"]].
** In [[Recap/StarWarsResistanceS1E4TheHighTower "The High Tower"]], when Kaz expresses his distaste about First Order personnel coming to the Colossus, Tam dispassionately points out that they're allowed to come there the same as anyone else. It turns out later in the season that she has a ''massive'' case of GenreBlindness regarding the First Order, not really seeing them as a problem and defending their presence after they occupy the station as being for security due to Captain Doza's wishes, when he was actually pressured into it. Ultimately, after finding out about Kaz and Yeager's Resistance ties and feeling betrayed, she is easily manipulated by [[TheCorrupter Agent Tierny]] into [[FaceHeelTurn joining the First Order]].
** [[Recap/StarWarsResistanceS1E9SecretsAndHolograms "Secrets and Holograms"]]: Captain Doza explains to Torra that the First Order, which most people in the galaxy underestimate to their detriment, are nothing like the pirates and marauders the Colossus is used to dealing with. Later, it's revealed that Doza is a former Imperial officer, explaining why he'd realize that.
** [[Recap/StarWarsResistanceS1E12DangerousBusiness "Dangerous Business"]]: Kaz, having agreed to mind the Office of Acquisitions while Flix and Orka are offworld for a day, gets an unpleasant customer named Teroj Kee, who is clearly surprised to find the store open for business. It turns out that Teroj was planning to burglarize the shop to steal a valuable phase connector that day because he was expecting it to be closed, and Kaz's presence derails his entire plan.
** In [[Recap/StarWarsResistanceS1E16TheCoreProblem "The Core Problem"]], while sneaking off the Colossus by having the ''Fireball'' latch on to the outside of a departing freighter, Poe expresses a concern that the racer's distinctive, gaudy paint job will get it spotted by the passing TIE fighter patrols. Although nothing happens, two episodes later, in [[Recap/StarWarsResistanceS1E18Descent "Descent"]], Commander Pyre leads stormtroopers to arrest Team Fireball because the First Order has recognized the ''Fireball'' as a Resistance ship being seen operating in restricted First Order territory, thanks to the mission Kaz went on with Poe in the earlier episode.

** Ciena's friend Berisse Sai is an Imperial officer from Lothal, who graduated from the planet's Imperial Academy one year before Ciena graduated from the Royal Imperial Academy. Berisse has similar views on the Empire as the fanatical Nash Windrider, and is blindly loyal to the Empire. Why? As revealed in the ''Rebels'' finale, [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS4E13FamilyReunionAndFarewell "Family Reunion]] — [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS4E14FamilyReunionAndFarewellPartII and Farewell"]], the Empire was run off the planet just months at the most after her graduation. As an Imperial fanatic, of course she would view this as a negative and rely on the Empire.

** In [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS7E6DealNoDeal "Deal No Deal"]], Trace Martez is visibly saddened when she tells Ahsoka that she inherited her repair shop after her parents... "split", and quickly cuts herself off. The [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS7E7DangerousDebt next episode]] quickly establishes that her parents are actually dead.

* ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'':
** When escaping Grievous' flagship, Palpatine attempts to convince Anakin to leave Obi-Wan behind to die. Anakin refuses, and says "his fate will be the same as ours." All three characters will eventually die in battle aboard a Death Star. Technically aftshadowing because the events that were foreshadowed [[ForegoneConclusion already happened]], but it still works in spirit.

** In [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsTheSiegeOfLothal "The Siege of Lothal"]], Kanan at one point sarcastically addresses Hera as "General". Fast-forward a few years, and ''Film/RogueOne'' reveals via a namedrop that she's been promoted to that rank. It was later confirmed by Filoni at Celebration 2017 that Hera would be promoted to General by the series finale.

*** Hevy gives a PreMortemOneLiner just before his HeroicSacrifice by blowing up the station in response to a battle droid wondering if they are supposed to take prisoners. Hevy's squadmate Echo will later become a prisoner of the Separatists after being presumed dead in an explosion.

!Franchise

* Any time, anywhere, canon or legends, film, book, or tv, any character utters the ArcWords "I've got a bad feeling about this..." what follows is never a good thing.

''Films with their own pages:''

!Canon
!!Films

** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E5Rookies "Rookies"]]: During the defence of the base from the Separatist reinforcements, clone trooper Fives wields two blasters. He later becomes an ARC trooper, who carry two blaster pistols as part of their standard equipment.

*** Barriss is much less careful than Ahsoka about not killing any of the mind-controlled clones, such as stabbing the possessed Trap through the torso. In season 5, she's revealed to have fallen to the Dark Side in the intervening time.

** Hera tells Sabine in [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS1E05OutOfDarkness "Out of Darkness"]] that the reason all intel is on a need-to-know basis is that, if captured, the crew members can't reveal what they don't know. After [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS1E11CallToAction "Call to Action"]], Kanan is captured and tortured for information, but it's ultimately pointless because he doesn't know anything about a larger rebellion. Hera also reassures Sabine that there is a greater movement going on, which is revealed in [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS1E13FireAcrossTheGalaxy "Fire Across the Galaxy"]] when several cells join forces to extricate our heroes, Bail Organa is revealed as a mover-shaker of the Rebels, and Fulcrum reveals their identity.

*** Barriss is much less careful than Ahsoka about not killing any of the mind-controlled clones, such as stabbing the possessed Trap through the torso. In season 5, she's revealed to have fallen to the Dark Side.

*** After Luminara leaves to fight Ventress by herself, Argyus is the one who encourages her to go help, leaving Gunray unguarded by any Jedi.

** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E8BrainInvaders "Brain Invaders"]]: The clone troopers of Tango Company are infected by [[PuppeteerParasite Geonosian brain worms]] and forced to attack others, including Jedi Ahsoka and Barriss. Not only is the situation reminiscent of [[ThePurge Order 66]], it later turns out that the true cause of the clones turning on the Jedi is because of mind-control chips implanted in their brains.

** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E13VoyageOfTemptation "Voyage of Temptation"]]: Traitorous Senator Tal Merrik is threatening to blow up Duchess Satine's ship, and has put TechnicalPacifist Obi-Wan and ActualPacifist Satine in a bind regarding how they'll deal with him, because as Merrik points out, if Obi-Wan kills him he'll be a hero to everyone on the ''Coronet'' except [[BelligerentSexualTension Satine]], and if Satine kills him she'll be considered a {{hypocrite}} who's abandoned all of her pacifist ideals. Then:
--->'''Merrik:''' Who'll strike first and brand themselves a cold-blooded killer?\\
''[Anakin's lightsaber emerges through Merrik's torso]''
** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E17GhostsOfMortis "Ghosts of Mortis"]]: The Son shows Anakin [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpmAVrikoaU his future]], although it is later erased from his memory by the Father.
** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E18TheCitadel "The Citadel"]]: Anakin meets and strikes up something of a friendship with Captain Tarkin, who of course will later become Grand Moff Tarkin. When they shake hands at the end of the three-parter, a few notes from the Imperial March play.

*** It should be noted that these cases of {{Foreshadowing}} regarding Anakin [[NewerThanTheyThink weren't meant to be foreshadowing his having become Vader at the time of release]], [[FlipFlopOfGod despite what Lucas has said after the fact]]. Originally, Vader and Anakin really WERE meant to be separate characters, and that Luke's father never turned to the Dark Side. It was only during the scripting process for [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesback the next movie]] that the [[ArcWelding two characters were made one]] to condense the cast and amount of plotlines, and in the process, create a more interesting one involving the two figures. Similarly, Luke's sister was originally a separate character from Leia, a rewrite that also happened between Episodes V and VI.

%%** ''Propaganda'' revealed that Sabine would create an artpiece depicting Hera and Phoenix Squadron as a gift to Hera, who would show it to Senator Mothma, who would then ask permission from Sabine to use it as a propaganda poster. WordOfGod confirmed this would happen in Season 3, so we get to see this happen.

* ''Literature/RevengeOfTheSith'' has a scene where Padmé and Anakin debate the sex of their unborn baby. Padmé believes it is a boy, citing a mother's instinct, but Anakin believes that it's a girl. Of course, as we later learn, they're both right: Padmé is carrying male/female fraternal twins.

* In the ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' {{novelization}}, after Zam, the assassin who tried to kill Padme, fails to shake off Anakin as he clings to her flyer, she thinks in desperation that "Whoever rids the galaxy of these meddling stubborn creatures indeed deserves the mantle of an Emperor." Well, what'd you know!

*** It should be noted that these cases of {{Foreshadowing}} regarding Anakin [[NewerThanTheyThink weren't meant to be foreshadowing his having become Vader at the time of release]], [[FlipFlopOfGod despite what Lucas has said after the fact]]. Originally, Vader and Anakin really WERE meant to be separate characters, and that Luke's father never turned to the Dark Side. It was only during the scripting process for [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesback the next movie]] that the [[CompositeCharacter two characters were made one]] to condense the cast and amount of plotlines, and in the process, create a more interesting one involving the two figures.

*** It should be noted that these cases of {{Foreshadowing}} regarding Anakin [[NewerThanTheThink weren't meant to be foreshadowing his having become Vader at the time of release]], [[FlipFlopOfGod despite what Lucas has said after the fact]]. Originally, Vader and Anakin really WERE meant to be separate characters, and that Luke's father never turned to the Dark Side. It was only during the scripting process for [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesback the next movie]] that the [[CompositeCharacter two characters were made one]] to condense the cast and amount of plotlines, and in the process, create a more interesting one involving the two figures.