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* VenusVersusVirus's anime begins with a flash forward to the climax of the show. Though it is more of an ActionPrologue.

* Chaos;Head begins with one of this/

* Chaos Head begins with one of this

* The final episode of ''MadAboutYou'' is a Flash Forward to the two main characters' baby daughter, now a grown woman (played by JaneaneGarofalo) following in her father's footsteps as a filmmaker, talking about their lives and hers since the penultimate episode, with specific scenes and clips which span the years in between shown to the audience.
* ''[[NipTuck Nip/Tuck]]'' has done this at least twice.
* Used in the finale of ''TheOC.''

* ArcherVice ends the first episode of the season with a montage of snippets from every crazy plot point that's going to happen through the season. Apparently it's all being imagined by Archer and it is awesome.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'''s "Act Your Age" is set ten years after the summer in which the principal narrative of the series takes place.

* ''FamilyTies'' had AnAesop episode when Alex "sees" his future as a bald, potbellied rich man visiting his family. They are pathetically grateful to see him, but he acts like a total RichBitch and afterwords is totally disgusted with his future greedy self and vows to change. Naturally, the joke is that he is at first mostly upset that he is bald.

* ''JacobsLadder''. [[spoiler: Jacob Singer projects himself into the early 1980's while dying in late 60's Vietnam.]]

* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "Love And Monsters" flashes forward to later in the same episode.

** The series finale of the SpinOff show, ''SavedByTheBell: The New Class'', actually contradicts that episode.

* ''Series/BreakingBad'' initiates almost every episode in this way.

* The last episode of ''{{X-Men Evolution}}'' ends with Charles Xavier's speech as he recalls a glimpse of the future (courtesy of Apocalypse's mind control). We learn that the anti-mutant sentiment will continue; Magneto reforms and teaches a new generation of mutants; The Brotherhood will become S.H.I.E.L.D operatives; and Jean Grey becomes the Phoenix. This is pretty much a DownerEnding to anyone whose read that story arc in the comics.

* ''TheBalladOfHaloJones'' featured a flash forward several centuries ahead of the main story's timeline. Here, in what appears to be a {{utopia}}, a history professor lectures his students on Halo's adventures back in the 51st century. It ends with him expressing his feelings and longing for the centuries-dead woman.

* Cleverly facilitated in ''MuppetBabies'' by the use of footage from ''TheGreatMuppetCaper''... which had introduced the Muppet Babies in a flashback, forming a sort of Muppet [[StableTimeLoop time loop.]]
** Except that they were introduced in ''TheMuppetsTakeManhattan''

* ''SplinterCell Conviction'' does this, showing what will happen some time later in [[spoiler: the White House.]]

* The Movie Film/{{Next}} was all about how Nicolas Cage could see two minutes into the future (unless certain conditions were met), and play it over and over again in his mind until he found the optimal path to take (typically one that didn't end up with him being shot or getting the crap beat out of him).

** Or maybe not, since [[spoiler:he meets another character who didn't see anything. She consequently gets killed in the same episode.]]

* One of the most famous story arcs in Marvel Comics, a series of stories in which various X-men and others get glimpses of a possible future where the USA has been conquered by the Sentinel mutant-hunting AIs, mutants are rounded up in concentration camps, and America has basically been reduced to a totalitarian nightmare. The storyline pivots around the activities of present day (fictional) U.S. Senator Robert Kelly, and it's left unclear whether or not that future has been prevented.

* The Movie {{Next}} was all about how Nicolas Cage could see two minutes into the future (unless certain conditions were met), and play it over and over again in his mind until he found the optimal path to take (typically one that didn't end up with him being shot or getting the crap beat out of him).

* OlderThanRadio: Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" with the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, could be considered this or TimeTravel.

* In the old ''Dark Shadows'' supernatural soap opera, at one point the vampire-hero Barnabas Collins and his sidekick Dr. Julia Hoffman, while crossing over between parallel time lines, are thrown forward from 1970 into the then-distant year of 1995, where they discover the family mansion wrecked, overrun by zombies, some relative dead, others insane, and a demonic ghost haunting the property.

* Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" with the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, could be considered this or TimeTravel. Which makes this trope at least OlderThanRadio.