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** Most games in the series feature classic costumes of returning characters as [[AndYourRewardIsClothes unlockables]]. The remake of the first game instead has costumes for Chris and Jill that they wear in later games, with Jill getting her casual clothes from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3'' while Chris has his uniform from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica''. The remaster released a decade later also added Chris and Jill's BSAA uniforms from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5''.

* ''Manga/GTOTheEarlyYears'' was published before its sequel ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka''[[note]]though it's published overseas as ''[[SequelDisplacement GTO: The Early Years]]''[[/note]], but the 2020 live-action series of SJG has several call-forwards:

* In ''Manga/SoulEaterNot'', the prequel to ''Manga/SoulEater'', Kim is called the "witch of the girls' dormitory" because she is mean to the other students in the girls' dormitory. It was revealed around chapter 50 of ''Soul Eater'' proper that [[spoiler: Kim is actually a witch]].

** Arcee questions if Euphemia isn't the kind of person to [[spoiler: start a massacre]], especially after their scuffle with Clovis. [[spoiler: Not only does Arcee become really wrong when considering canon, but the SAZ Massacre also happens in the fic itself, doubling as {{Foreshadowing}}.]]
** This exchange between Shockwave and Megatron right after the newly-arrived scientist [[spoiler: learns of Lelouch's identity as Zero]].
--> '''Shockwave''': Lord Megatron, Soundwave has informed me of all that has transpired here on this planet: such as our control over the Britannian Empire, including Zero and the Autobots, as well as [[spoiler: Zero's true identity]].

--> '''Shockwave''': And I must ask; [[spoiler: what is the purpose of keeping his identity a secret? Surely, [[Recap/CodeGeassR2E19Betrayal as the Black Knights are mostly consisting of Elevens, they would logically abandon their leader as he is the prince of the same Empire they despise so much]].]]

** Also, towards the climax, Colonel Rhodes briefly considers taking one of the Iron Man suits, before shaking his head and saying "Next time, baby." [[spoiler: As in the comics, Rhodes takes one of the suits, and becomes War Machine, in [[Film/IronMan2 the very next movie.]]]]

** Remember ''Literature/CityOfFallenAngels'' when Jace sleeps in the Silent City and sees initials scratched onto the wall? [[spoiler: ''Clockwork Prince'' reveals that those stood for "Jessamine Gray."]]
** Magnus says to a probable ancestor of [[spoiler: Alec]] “All Lightwoods look the same to me—”.

* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': In "Meet Kevin Johnson", Sayid becomes violently angry at Michael because he is working for Ben. Of course, we learned five episodes earlier that in the future [[spoiler: Sayid himself will be working for Ben]].

*** On day 224, Axel suggests to Roxas and Xion that they should go to the beach the next time they have a day off. [[spoiler: ''Days'' ends with Roxas in the simulated Twilight Town running to meet the Twilight gang and wondering aloud if they can finally go to the beach, implying that, even with his memories erased, the desire to visit the ocean during the prologue of ''KHII'' was subconsciously left over from his time with Axel and Xion.]]

*** Another case like this is at the end of the first game, where John tells Abigail and Jack to "run and don't look back" before [[spoiler: Edgar Ross and his army kill him]]. That's pretty much inspired by Arthur when he urges John to take Abigail and Jack and leave the gang while they had a chance.

--->'''Arthur:''' And, there ain't no way Dutch is gonna just... [[spoiler: [[HarsherInHindsight hide away in a cave somewhere.]]]]

** The fourth case of ''Investigations'' is practically made of this, due to being a flashback to four years before the beginning of the series. References range from Miles commenting on the fire extinguisher used to clonk Phoenix over the head in 2-1 to more serious matters such as [[spoiler: the crimes and execution of Manfred von Karma.]] It turns to {{Tearjerker}} when Franziska mentions that she can't imagine what she'd do [[spoiler: if her father died.]]

** Speaking of [[spoiler:Arthur's past life coming back to haunt him]], one of the major plot twists of the novel gets foreshadowed in an original scene that occurs before the ClassTrip to Widow's Crypt. In said scene, Arthur and Elijah are sparring in the former's private training facility when the former knocks out the latter. As Arthur reaches out to help him up, Elijah is able to [[spoiler: recognize Arthur as his past self King Grey, followed by him being overwhelmed with violent emotions towards Grey. In this moment, Elijah's emotions have come into conflict with those of his true self: Nico Sever, the former childhood friend of King Grey who has also been [[ReincarnateInAnotherWorld reincarnated in the same world]] and who has been working with the BigBad Agrona to exact his revenge on Grey. Nico as a character and the reveal he had been reincarnated as Elijah would not be revealed until the start and end of the War Arc respectively, which occurs much later in the novel]].

** Mike is shown to have won a skating award, has a photo of Ayers Rock on his mantle, mentions that he can be scrappy if needed and inadvertently lets slip that he’s seeing a psychiatrist, [[spoiler: All hinting at his Multiple Personality Disorder]].

** Zoey’s mentions that her worst fear is [[AbsurdPhobia getting voted off by a jock]], [[spoiler: Her fate at the hands of Lightning]].

** In an original scene, Arthur and Claire end up meeting the Lances Alea and Bairon, characters who would not be named until much later in the novel, when they go to report to Director Goodsky about Arthur's altercation with Marcois. After the meeting's conclusion, Alea remarks to Arthur that "Maybe we'll run into each other again" before the Lances leave. The next time Arthur runs into her in the webcomic (or rather, the first time he does in the novel), it's when [[spoiler:he finds her dying in Widow's Crypt after she and her team were slaughtered by the Vritra Retainer Uto]].
** One of the major plot twists of the novel gets foreshadowed in an original scene that occurs before the ClassTrip to Widow's Crypt. In said scene, Arthur and Elijah are sparring in the former's private training facility when the former knocks out the latter. As Arthur reaches out to help him up, Elijah is able to [[spoiler: recognize Arthur as his past self King Grey, followed by him being overwhelmed with violent emotions towards Grey. In this moment, Elijah's emotions have come into conflict with those of his true self: Nico Sever, the former childhood friend of King Grey who has also been [[ReincarnateInAnotherWorld reincarnated in the same world]] and who has been secretly working with the BigBad Agrona to exact his vendetta on Grey. Nico and the reveal he had been reincarnated as Elijah would not be revealed until the start and end of the War Arc respectively, which occurs much later in the novel]].

* Chapter five of [[https://https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12946203/5/Nothing-Is-Impossible "Nothing is Impossible"]], set before the events of [[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar Civil War]], sees Vision asking Wanda why Tony's files have Thor listed as "[[CallBack Point]] [[Film/TheAvengers2012 Break]]". [[Film/ThorRagnarok Years later]], Thor is dismayed to discover that the only passcode a Quinjet's onboard computer will accept from him is this nickname.

** Lance is mentioned to have a cousin who is a gym leader in a faraway region.

* ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'': Mari's flashback in Chapter 31 regarding the early days of the Earth Sciences Club's merger ends a little bit before Mira and Moe enter the clubroom in Chapter 1. Specifically, it ends by an explanation of why Ao is already there at that scene--she arrived at the clubroom minutes after school ended and immediately filed a membership application that she already filled out. Since Japanese schools usually give new students about a week to "experience" different {{Japanese School Club}}s before committing to one, Ao's committing to their club ''that'' early surprised Mari, if not the other members Mikage and Mai.

* In ''Fanfic/{{Fragmentation}}'', Captain-General Janos Marik confronts a minor [=ComStar=] functionary about several 'rumors' that have been given to him about the organization (All of them actually describing actual [=ComStar=] plots in the present or past). One of them he mentions was human experimentation to produce {{Super Soldier}}s, which in the canon future would eventually become the Word of Blake's Manei Domini.
* In ''Fanfic/FantasyOfUtterRidiculousness'', the loud rock music blaring from Megas during its fights is hinted to have been Mystia's inspiration for forming Choujuu Gigaku years later.
* In ''The Lumberjack and the Tree-Elf'' from ''Fanfic/TheVictorsProject'' series, a two-year old Johanna is seen toddling around and trying to practice axe-throwing after Katniss had speculated that she'd been throwing axes since she could toddle in the original novels.
* At the end of ''Fanfic/WellMatched'', a prequel to ''Fanfic/CadetScrap'', Kate and Sophie briefly discuss having an unofficial rematch, which is the premise of the latter story.
* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'': Trip's {{flashback}} of his time in the Infinity Train has him tell [[spoiler:Grace and Simon]] that karma will catch up to them. As the fanfic takes place right when Book 3 is starting, he's right.
* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainKnightOfTheOrangeLily'' is the {{prequel}} to ''Blossoming Trail'' and hints to some of the events to that story.
** Ash being an observer to Gladion and Lillie's argument will foreshadow Goh and Chloe and how Ash would have been unaware of how many problems Chloe had.
** The prologue starts with a PlotParallel with a dark fantasy story where the protagonist suffers a FateWorseThanDeath, just like how Chloe pens a story about an {{expy}} of Goh and a Wish-Granter.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMissingLink'': A book in the Monktown Valley library mentions how warriors [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie can end up becoming stalfos when they die]], [[spoiler:which is exactly what happened to Link by the time of ''Twilight Princess'']].

** The ''WesternAnimation./spin-off, ''WesternAnimation/KampKoral'', which serves as a prequel to the original series, has these sometimes. For example, Plankton works as a chef in the Krusty Kanteen to save money for college. Guess what the character's second words in the main show are?

* The Webcomic version of ''Literature/TheBeginningAfterTheEnd'' has one towards one of the major plot twists of the novel. In an original scene that occurs before the ClassTrip to Widow's Crypt, Arthur and Elijah are sparring in the former's private training facility when the former knocks out the latter. As Arthur reaches out to help him up, Elijah is able to [[spoiler: recognize Arthur as his past self King Grey, followed by him being overwhelmed with violent emotions towards Grey. In this moment, Elijah's emotions have come into conflict with those of his true self: Nico Sever, the former childhood friend of King Grey who has also been [[ReincarnateInAnotherWorld reincarnated in the same world]] and who has been secretly working with the BigBad Agrona to exact his vendetta on Grey. Nico and the reveal he had been reincarnated as Elijah would not be revealed until the start and end of the War Arc respectively, which occurs much later in the novel]].

* The Webcomic version of ''Literature/TheBeginningAfterTheEnd'' has a major one occur during the Xyrus Academy Arc. In an original scene that occurs before the ClassTrip to Widow's Crypt, Arthur and Elijah are sparring in his private training facility when the former knocks out the latter. As Arthur reaches out to help him up, Elijah is able to [[spoiler: perceive Arthur's past self King Grey, which is followed by him being overwhelmed with violent emotions. This serves a major nod to who Elijah really is: Nico Sever, the former childhood friend of King Grey who has also been reincarnated into this world and who has been secretly working with the BigBad Agrona to exact revenge on Grey]].

* In ''The Lumberjack and the Tree-Elf'' from ''Fanfic/TheVictorProject'' series, a two-year old Johanna is seen toddling around and trying to practice axe-throwing after Katniss had speculated that she'd been throwing axes since she could toddle in the original novels.

* S1E07 of the ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'' anime starts with a flashback to when Atsuko and "the monkey girl"[[note]]The girl who would [[NextLifeAsAFictionalCharacter reincarnate into]] Catarina.[[/note]] first met, which happened because she landed butt-first onto Atsuko, causing her to worry that she accidentally killed somebody with her butt, exactly like what would happen "later" between Catarina and Keith.

** At the end of "To Boldly Go, Part 2", Spock has a discussion with Kirk with about emotions, as he blames himself for [[spoiler:death of Dr. McKennah]], believing that the whole unfortunate thing happened because he was thinking emotionally and not logically, and that he needs to do something about it. This, of course, ties into Spock's subplot from the ''Motion Picture'', where he was attempting to undergo a ritual to purge all emotion from himself.

** A lot of the areas the Taranis goes through are all based off of some of the locations in ''Solatorobo'', such as Dale (nicknamed "Airedale"), Basset, Mau, and Shetland. [[spoiler:This isn't just referential, as those ''are'' the same locations as the ones in ''Solatorobo''.]]

** John Peel's novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E3ThePowerOfTheDaleks The Power of the Daleks]]" opens shortly after "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E2TheTenthPlanet The Tenth Planet]]", with Sergeant (now Lt.) Benton, Sarah Jane Smith and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks Alison Williams]] arriving after the TARDIS leaves to do the clean-up. It also makes the company behind the Vulcan colony IMC from "[[Recap/DoctorWho8E4ColonyInSpace Colony in Space]]".

** In "The One With All The Thanksgivings", there's a flashback where a teenage Monica has a crush on Chandler and makes him som mac'n'cheese for Thanksgiving dinner. Afterward she asks if he liked it, and he somewhat sarcastically remarks, "Yeah, it was great. You should be a chef." Monica giggles and says, "Okay!"

** Malt and Socks' Link Events have the latter discuss the possibility of a bipedal tank, [[spoiler:which will eventually become the [=DAHAK-AZI03=] that his descendant Merveille will build and give to her son, Red. Alternatively, his research may even become the basis for the general Robo design the Caninu may begin to use in the next few hundred years.]]