History Foreshadowing / WebOriginal

* ''Website/{{Neopets}}'': The 2021 Festival of Neggs has Topsi look oddly different from usual and he once mentions "the creator". This foreshadows him being [[spoiler:secretly [[RoboticReveal a robot]].

* ''WebVideo/TheHappyVideoGameNerd'': Subverted for Halloween 2012 -- he mentioned after his ''VideoGame/ElementalGearbolt'' review that he had some unfinished business after which he turned his head to look at the ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'' game case present throughout the video. His next video: [[spoiler:VideoGame/IllBleed]].

'''[[CloningBlues Izzy]]''': Probably do well. \\

---> '''Snape''': No, that's absurd! Because then if a person were to...''[[ADateWithRosiePalms touch themselves]]'' they would be instantly transported. A person can, however, be a horcrux.

* LetsPlay/{{Pwnage}}: Unintentional. In their ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'' Let's Play where Damian and Kyle are on the same team for once, when Kyle is throwing flash bangs around in frustration at not killing anyone in a while, Damian ask if he's trying to flash bang him. [[spoiler: This actually ends up happening. And Damian, in his blindness, ends up shooting his own teammate, costing them both the match.]]

* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m-c2eOWAp8 Part 2]] of the ''WebVideo/BenMcYellow'' series, watch closely when JJ pulls out the map and you can see that he has a picture of the late [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Mr. Yat]] clipped to it. In Part 3, [[spoiler: JJ turns out to be Mr. Yat's brother.]]

** In ''Winter is WICKED!'', [[{{Nerd}} Eugene]] says that he's a warlock in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''. [[spoiler: Later, it turns out that he's a warlock in real life, too - he snaps his fingers, and makes it snow.]]

* During the season 5 finale of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', Church is infected by the Omega AI after it's passed through every other character in Blood Gulch. While everyone else turned into maniacal, psychopathic versions of themselves while possessed by Omega, ([[LazyBum except Grif, who was too lazy to act on those impulses]]) Church observes that he doesn't feel any different. While this seems to indicate that Church is already evil and being infected by Omega just didn't do anything to his normal disposition, it's later revealed that [[spoiler: Church himself is an AI, and all of the other AIs that appear in the series were made by splitting the original AI, Alpha, into many different ones, with Omega being one of these. Church didn't feel any different because Omega is just one of his split personalities back from whence he came.]]

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'':
** Blake's trailer has Adam and Blake raiding a train full of Dust sporting the Schnee logo, which is first seen in the White Trailer as being connected to Weiss Schnee. This sets up the show's plot of the Schnee corporation's monopoly on Dust mining and sales, the Dust-theft and hoarding by White Fang, and the direct history of violence between the Schnee and White Fang organisations. Events regarded by the villains as "Phase 1" of their end-game.
** In Blake's trailer, she and Adam discuss humans as if they're excluded from that race. The show itself quickly introduces Faunus as a human-like race that struggles with humans for equality. The end of Volume 1 reveals that Blake is a Faunus who is trying to pass for human.
** When Ozpin and Ruby first meet in "Ruby Rose", he comments that she has silver eyes and there's a scene in the Volume 2 opening credits that zooms into Ruby's eyes as the screen whites out. [[spoiler:In the Volume 3 finale, a massive blast of power bursts from Ruby's eyes that freezes the Grimm Dragon and whites out the scene to the next, where she regains consciousness at home. Qrow tells her that Ozpin once revealed to him that silver eyes are very rare; people with them are destined to become mighty warriors with strange powers who are rumored to be able to kill Grimm just with a glance.]]
** In "The Shining Beacon, part 2", Blake is reading a book about a man with two souls, each fighting for control of his body. [[spoiler:This foreshadows Volume 6, where Ozpin and Oscar, who become paired in the same body in Volume 4, briefly fight for control over Oscar's body because Oscar wants to tell the heroes what Ozpin is hiding.]]
** When Pyrrha pins Jaune to the lockers early on, pulling back her spear is accompanied by the sound of a magnetic hum, which is a clue to her later reveal that her Semblance is Polarity, the ability to control magnetism. Although a food fight reveals the full extent of her Semblance in a comedic situation, this is a set-up for her Volume 3 fight against Penny, who jokes to Ruby in Volume 3 about getting a magnet stuck to her head. [[spoiler:In their tournament fight, Pyrrha is manipulated by the villains into unleashing her full Semblance against Penny who is torn to shreds in front of millions.]]
** Jaune is obviously behind the others from the outset. He didn't design his weapons, which are low-tech family heirlooms. He doesn't know about Aura, the cornerstone of Huntsmen abilities, and has to have his Aura unlocked. Glynda comments that Jaune's application transcript does not match the reality of his abilities, which are too low for Beacon's entry requirements. He faked his transcripts. He has no combat history at all.
** As a bully-boy joke, Cardin shoves Jaune into a locker that is assigned to students to store their gear whenever they're in class. By entering co-ordinates into the locker, a rocket powers up, blasting the locker into the air and sending it off to an unknown destination. [[spoiler:This is foreshadowing for Pyrrha doing the same thing to Jaune in Volume 3 as a way of sending him to before she fights to the death with Cinder.]]
** In ''Breach'', it's easy to miss that Weiss conjures an ice blade during the fight. ''Lessons Learned'' makes a more obvious hint with reveal of the Schnee hereditary summoning semblance in the form of a tiny sword that neither Weiss nor Winter notice. It finally plays out in ''Heroes and Monsters'' where Weiss successfully summons a sword that easily cleaves an Atlesian Paladin but leaves her drained of energy.
** In the Volume 3 opening, Teams RWBY and JNPR are broken apart from their formation dive, and the camera focuses on Pyrrha falling into nothingness. At the end, Team RWBY is under the DramaticSpotlight and Ruby is the only one with her head up; everyone else has their head hung dejectedly. Both events foreshadow the fates of all five characters at the end of the volume.
** In Volume 3's first episode, Nora falls into a panicked rant while explaining what will happen if Team JNPR does poorly in the upcoming tournament, and undergoes ColorFailure as she's comforted by Ren. Toward the end of Volume 4, Ren's Semblance is revealed to allow him calm his and others' emotions to hide them from Grimm, which manifests as their colors fading and turning washed-out. So that earlier incident wasn't a sight gag, but Ren trying to calm Nora down.
** In "Welcome to Beacon" team RWBY is seen playing Remnant: The Game in the library. When Ruby's forces are destroyed, Yang comments that most of her forces were androids, giving more information on the nature of Atlas and also revealing the concept of Grimm allies (which Yang uses against Ruby's fleet). The game [[https://www.facebook.com/ashley.bowling.549/videos/865266950263354/?pnref=story foreshadows]] the Volume 3 finale. [[spoiler:Ruby deployed the Atlesian fleet which are defeated by Yang's Grimm allies, and at one point, Atlesian fleet turns on itself. The Volume 3 finale activates the Atlesian fleet, which are overwhelmed by Griffons. A Giant Nevermore attacks the tournament stadium and Roman steals an Atlesian ship, turning it on the Atlesian army. The robots turn on the humans and the White Fang ship in Grimm allies.]]
** In "Lesson Learned", when Qrow says "they don't give medals for ''almost''", Ruby replies that "They do, and it's called ''silver!''". [[spoiler:At the end of volume 3, Ruby arrives ''almost'' in time to save Pyrrha, and seeing her friend die activates her Silver Eyes.]]
** Volumes 3-4 hint at Qrow's permanently active bad luck Semblance. Examples include: the bartender knocking over his glass by accident in the Crow Bar; Ironwood coincidentally showing up at the worst moment to embarrass Winter during her fight with Qrow; the "good" luck Cinder feels she has when she realises Ironwood's scroll has been infected with her virus, giving her control access to the Atlesian cyber-army and Penny's schematics -- the infection occurs when Ironwood connects his phone to Ozpin's computer in Qrow's presence; during Qrow's fight with Tyrian, Tyrian lands on rotten wood and crashes through a building, and a loose beam falling when Ruby is underneath it.
** In Volume 3, Pyrrha gives the names of a few Remnant fairy tales in a conversation with Ozpin. The story focusses on the The Story of the Seasons, revealing the origin of four women who wield incredibly magical power, known as the Maidens. However, she also mentions the titles of several other fairy tales, including The Tale of the Two Brothers and the Girl in the Tower. Qrow tells Team RNJR the Tale of the Two Brothers in Volume 4, revealing the two gods are actually real, and created both the Grimm and humanity, and in Volume 6, Jinn explains where the fairy tale of the Girl in the Tower ends and the reality behind it begins. [[spoiler:Volume 5 confirms that the wizard in The Story of the Seasons who created the Maidens is Ozpin while Volume 6 confirms that The Girl in the Tower is the story of how Salem's life went horribly wrong, leading to her becoming the villain that now threatens the world.]]
** In the Volume 4, Tyrian's blows seem to be damaging Ruby's aura. In volume 7, it's clarified that Tyrian's Semblance is [[ArmorPiercingAttack cutting through his opponent's Aura]] to attack them.
** The Spring Maiden's fate is foreshadowed throughout Volumes 4 and 5, from Qrow telling Raven and Leo he knows the Spring Maiden is hiding out with Raven's tribe, to the way Vernal's voice is supernaturally enhanced and lightning strikes from a clear blue sky to prevent the tribe from brawling with Yang and Weiss; this includes Cinder demanding proof the Spring Maiden is who she says she is, Raven accusing Cinder of having a fake name to reflect her status as the Fall Maiden (Vernal's name means 'of spring'), and Raven revealing to the audience that she's spent years planning for the day Salem came after the tribe for the Spring Maiden. [[spoiler:Every time Vernal appears to use Maiden power, she never displays the fire around her eyes that accompanies a Maiden's power use, while Raven stands nearby wearing her face-hiding helmet. Raven publicly tells Vernal to fight Weiss without using her power, and when Cinder attacks Raven and Vernal in the vault to steal the Spring Maiden's power, she discovers that Vernal has no power: Vernal was a decoy; Raven is the real Spring Maiden.]]
** When the heroes first meet Robyn, she offers her hand to Clover when asking him to trust her, with the camera focusing on it and a faint shimmering sound in the background. Clover looks hesitant and doesn't take it. Two episodes later, the reason is revealed: Robyn is a LivingLieDetector who can automatically tell when someone is lying to her as long as they're holding hands.

* Commonly in Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos, whenever someone mentions childhood fears or something along the line of that, expect [[FanNickname Slendy]] to be intersected with those fears at some point. For a more specific variant, see Blog/JustAnotherFool, in which Josh mentions breaking an arm after some man in a suit refused to get off the road, so he swerved out of the way and fell off his motorbike. [[spoiler: It's heavily implied that the next time this happens, it's not just his arm that gets broken.]]

* Frequently lampshaded in ''Fanfic/FarceOfTheThreeKingdoms.'' Characters who foreshadow their own defeat or death generally receive facepalms and comments of WhatAnIdiot. In Chapter 91, Zhao Yun actually gets his way by threatening to foreshadow defeat for Shu.