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  • 5 Centimeters per Second:
    • You know the tune of the background music in the scene where Takaki and Akari part ways when they're 13 after meeting for the first time in years? Sure is pretty, ain't it? It's actually taken from a pop song, which supposedly pretty much everyone in Japan has heard about. It's about a man who persistently longs for his doomed love. If you know what the song is about beforehand, then you probably had a pretty good idea of where the plot of the movie was going.
    • When his train is caught in the snowstorm in the first act, Takaki hopes that Akari went home rather than wait for him out in the cold. And while she does wait for him this time, by the time of the third act, she doesn't bother any longer.
  • Early in 9, 1 claims "sometimes one must be sacrificed for the good of many". Though he means it in a The Needs of the Many context, 1 does just that near the finale and sacrifices himself so 9 can defeat The Machine once and for all.
  • Aladdin:
    • During the song "One Jump Ahead", Aladdin and Abu grab a rug, jump out a window and glide on the carpet down to the ground. Later on, Aladdin acquires an actual flying carpet. The flying carpet is also forshadowed in the line "Hop a carpet and fly" in the first song.
    • Also during "One Jump Ahead", Aladdin sings "Next time, I'm gonna use a nom-de-plume", or a fake name, he later does this when he becomes Prince Ali.
  • Alma: At the beginning of the short, Alma passes by several posters for missing children and multiple signs with the word peligro on them, Spanish for “danger.” Those posters are for the children who got transformed into dolls in a magic toy shop.
  • Arlo the Alligator Boy:
    • There are several vague hints that Arlo's dad Ansel is a bird-man, especially throughout his song "Better Life". Specifically he says he rose "like a phoenix from the ashes," stands atop a chandelier without ladder access while saying "on my perch," and even places a feather on Arlo's bowler hat. Multiple aspects in his penthouse are associated with birds; even the cape he wears to the Met Gala has feathers on it.
    • Arlo saying "The birdies hardly miss me" while being pecked by egrets in "More More More" not only foreshadows his dad is a bird-man, but also being disowned by him.
    • Ansel says "You gotta make yourself, or else you're gonna break yourself!" in "Better Life"; being confronted by Arlo and seeing him held hostage by Ruff and Stucky is what makes him finally break down.
    • A more visible hint of foreshadowing is done at the very end of "Wash the Hurt Away", in which Ansel's silhouette appears on a wave and gains wings before it crashes.
    • In the final scene of the Good-Times Montage of Arlo and his crew checking out New York, Arlo sees a shadow of what appears to be an adult alligator (supposedly Ansel), but it turns out to be a bongo player with a funny hairstyle; said bongo player cheers him up by entertaining guests with him near a subway leading to Brooklyn. Ansel turns out to be a Half-Human Hybrid like Arlo; in addition, Brooklyn is where Seaside by the Seashore, Ansel's childhood neighborhood, is located, and Arlo ends up there following the BSoD Song.
  • Near the beginning of Atlantis: The Lost Empire, while Milo and Whitmore are talking to each other, Whitmore presents several photographs to Milo showing the explorers he will be travelling with to Atlantis. Commander Rourke's photograph shows only half his face.
  • The Bad Guys:
    • Diane has a lot of very detailed criticisms about the gang's latest heist that foreshadow her identity as the Crimson Paw. Additionally, despite this and even knowing they are there, they manage to outsmart her and nearly get away with Golden Dolphin due to her complacency. This, alongside her non-stop bragging upon The Reveal she is the Crimson Paw, foreshadows Diane's overconfidence will come back to bite her against Marmalade.
    • When Marmalade is introduced, he responds to a comment comparing him to Mother Theresa that they'd tie in the goodness department. This hints that he's not as altruistic as he paints himself as, and that his goodness is just for show. Later, as he's dressing to meet with the Bad Guys, he puts on a ring with a large jewel, the most likely purpose of which is to show off how wealthy he is, indicating that he cares more for appearances than actual philanthropy.
    • When Wolf gives Marmalade the idea to rehabilitate the Bad Guys, Marmalade calls him "a savage beast" and "walking garbage" and immediately apologizes and justifies it by saying he's "making a point". For such a saintly figure, such a venomous choice of words is very jarring, with "making a point" not excusing it. It doesn't help that when Marmalade says "walking garbage", he gets a very smug expression on his face. Indeed, Marmalade is evil and doesn't believe anyone can change. Also when the chief of police accuses Wolf of manipulating Marmalade, Marmalade replies in confusion "but it was my idea". Later on, we learn that it was literally his idea as he'd manipulated Wolf first so he could use their "reformation" in his own scheme.
    • The old lady's purse at the award ceremony is full of easily-stolen items seemingly meant to lure Wolf into noticing her.
    • At the start of the film, Mr. Wolf deliberately takes the high-speed car chase right to the police station's front door. Mr. Wolf justifies this as him wanting to prolong the chase because it's his "favorite part", but this also implies the existence of the self-destructive streak that Diane later calls him out on. In the same moment, his friends were not in on Wolf's decision and call him out for it. This would foreshadow their Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure after Wolf decided on his own to not steal the Golden Dolphin and not inform his gang.
    • When talking to a disguised Mr. Wolf outside the museum, Diane takes him by the arm and shows him how the trash sculpture has a hidden, beautiful meaning. This foreshadows her role in helping Mr. Wolf reform for real later on.
    • After Wolf and Diane steal the meteorite, they notice the guinea pigs are still hypnotized, hinting that the meteorite they stole isn't the real meteorite after all.
    • When the Bad Guys are listing off all the past people who have ever attempted to steal the Golden Dolphin, one such person is the Crimson Paw, the only person who isn't given a face to go with a name. Between this and the fact she wasn't caught, it sets up that she's actually a fox named Diane who turned good and became a public servant.
    • Marmalade's training exercises for the Bad Guys are as simple as sharing a push pop, helping an "old lady" across the street, and rescuing a cat out of a tree. His follow-up idea is committing eco-terrorism on an animal testing lab with a detailed course of action and knowledge of the building's layout. Not exactly the kind of thing that says "Good Samaritan of the Year."
  • The Book of Life:
    • When La Muerte and Xibalba make the bet, Maria has gotten into trouble and her father sends her off to study abroad. Manolo gives her the pig she rescued as a parting gift. Joaquin races to catch her bonnet as the wind blows it off. Both call farewells to her as the train pulls away. When Manolo opens the gift Maria gave him, it's a guitar, engraved with a message from Maria.
    • While playing, young Joaquin has fashioned a pretend moustache. After the Montage, he has grown a real one.
    • When Manolo dies, his soul is shown leaving his body. No such effect was shown for Maria during her apparent death. Also, when he checks in with the attendant in the Land of the Remembered, he accidentally gives Maria's name instead of his, and the attendant doesn't see her name on the list. A few scenes later, it's revealed that she's still alive.
    • When La Muerte and Xibalba take the forms of mortals to interact with Joaquin and Manolo during the A Minor Kidroduction part, they rather resemble Mary Beth and the security guard at the start, giving the hint as to who's really telling the story to the school children.
    • La Muerte, Xibalba and the Candlemaker are the only characters in the story that are not depicted as wooden carved dolls. This is because that's what they really look like, as shown when La Muerte and Xibalba reveal themselves in the end.
  • In The Boss Baby, when Tim and the Boss Baby are panicking about the idea that the Boss Baby might end up being fired from Baby Corp and become a real baby and be Tim's brother forever, Boss Baby comments that it feels right. At the end of the film, this is what happens by the choice of both of them.
  • In Brave:
    • In an argument with her mother, Merida tells her that "You're a beast!" In addition, the very first scene has young Merida playing with her family. Elinor plays at being a bear and chases Merida around the table, saying, "I'm goin' to gobble you up!" This foreshadows Elinor turning into a bear later in the movie.
    • At the abandoned castle, Bear Elinor knocks over a large rock to protect her daughter from Mor'du. In the final battle, she does this again, crushing him this time.
  • In the Cars movies:
    • Cars:
      • Chick Hicks is assigned with the number 86, which not only references the year Pixar was first established, but also a slang term for being fired. Which is exactly what happened to Chick at the end of the film for deliberately pushing Strip "The King" Weathers off the racetrack.
      • Doc challenging Lightning to a race around Willy's Butte and giving him advice afterwards foreshadows Doc's racing past as The Hudson Hornet, which Lightning himself finds out the following day.
      • After Mater's demonstration of driving backwards, Lightning sarcastically remarks that he may use it in his big race. He does, after Chick rams him and he ends up facing backwards. He simply reverses past him. He also uses it in the final lap, as he reverses out of the way of Chick trying to ram him again, and Chick hits the wall instead.
      • At the race around Willy's Butte, Luigi tells Lightning that Guido's dream is to give a racecar a pit stop. At the final race in California, Guido fulfills that dream in the best way possible, changing all four of Lightning's tires, by himself, in about four seconds. This even makes the moustaches of Chick's pit crew drop off in amazement.
      • There are a few unnoticeable hints at Lightning's Heel–Face Turn throughout the film:
      • When Harv calls him while on the way to California, he is reminded if he has any friends he can give the extra tickets to but can't think of any; when Harv hangs up, he slumps forward in sadness.
      • He is immediately lovestruck the moment Sally first appears, not through manipulation like he tried to do with Mater at the impound, but through true, genuine feelings.
      • Sally says to Lightning that she and Sheriff "siphoned his gas" while he was in the impound, foreshadowing the film's aesop that it's nice to slow down and enjoy life, which he says word per word after their drive together.
      • While trying to fix the road, Bessie spits some tar on his right lightning bolt sticker which he has for most of his stay. This symbolizes that his ego has become slightly "darkened".
      • When Lightning flirtatiously teases Sally about her pinstriping tattoo on her back, he is serious and actually being nice to her.
      • Just before his departure, he is shown shedding tears as he talks with Sally. When he first arrived he wanted to go immediately, but now he's so sad he doesn't want to leave his new friends.
    • Cars 2:
      • When Lightning McQueen and his pit crew arrive at Tokyo, Japan to meet Miles Axlerod, while they are all talking to Axlerod, Sarge is frowning while everyone else is smiling, suggesting that he is thinking that Axlerod is up to no good, and he ends up being in the right.
      • Also, the line "But I never leak oil!" Guess who was with Mater when the tow truck saw a puddle of oil on the carpet!
      • At the same time when the leaking occurs, the oil has a rather jagged and pointed area which points in the direction of Axelrod, foreshadowing who really leaked.
      • A blink-and-you-miss when the leaking occurs. Axelrod flinches and reverses away from the oil, but Mater does not. Also, he sounds nervous as he backs away, and seems to grunt slightly before the oil is released.
      • Three words. "Rear view mirrors." You can see Axlerod's rear view mirrors on the Lemon Kingpin while he's making his speech.
      • A minor one; during the Travel Montage, Lightning and Mater pass a billboard of Lightning being advertised as a vacuum cleaner called "Lightning McClean". This happens to come into big detail in Cars 3 when Sterling wants to take Lightning off the racing circuit to become a merchandise brand.
    • Cars 3:
      • One of the biggest themes in the movie is Master-Apprentice Chain. Doc and Lightning were both injured during a racing tournament and both end up becoming coaches to a newer model car.
      • There were subtle hints that Cruz would become a racer:
      • During a demolition derby competition, one of the workers spray paints the number "20" on them for the competition.
      • When Smokey brings up how Lightning wasn't injured in the above demolition derby the viewer may also notice that neither was Cruz, despite her being a rookie. Also Smokey fails to point out that Lightning did damage himself a little, losing a tire, but Cruz came out completely undamaged.
      • Cruz's golden paint job is almost the same shade as Lightning's lightning bolt motif.
      • When Lightning announces he will go to Thunder Hollow to compete with real racers, Cruz slumps worryingly as Luigi talks. This foreshadows her Dark and Troubled Past when she lost her only chance to become a racer herself.
      • Lightning and Cruz's training session on the beach heavily foreshadows him becoming her mentor, as despite his frustration with having to teach her how to drive on sand, he keeps at it. And by the end, Cruz is able to keep up with him. The same thing happens at the demolition derby as Lightning spends over half the race yelling instructions to Cruz on how to survive the onslaught. This is even when he gives her the same advice Doc gave him all those years ago of "turning right to go left".
      • At the beginning, the Rust-eze logos on Lightning's hood, fenders, spoiler and bumper are in a more contemporary fashion instead of the traditional one. This foreshadows the arrival of Jackson Storm and the next-gens, who have high tech versions of their sponsors' logos. His paint job is also a desaturated red shade instead of the usual luminous vivid red, which shows he's being blindsided by the next-gens and foreshadows his horrible crash at the Los Angeles 500.
      • When Lightning is meeting Jackson for the first time, this line comes up.
  • In Cinderella II: Dreams Come True, the first story has Prudence shooing away commoners from the castle gate. One of them is the baker who Anastasia falls in love with in the third story.
  • In Coraline, the Other Father's song when he sang to Coraline foreshadows the fact that they want to sew buttons onto her eyes.
    She's a peach, she's a doll, she's a pal of mine/ She's as cute as a button in the eyes of everyone who's ever laid their eyes on Coraline/ When she comes around exploring/ Mom and I will never ever make it boring/ Our eyes will be on Coraline!
    • The Other Mother referring to the Other Father as "Pumpkin" foreshadows his true form, which is a cross between a pumpkin and a human.
    • When Spink and Forcible read Coraline's tea leaves and declare she's in danger, Spink sees a hand while Forcible claims it's a giraffe. Both are right. The Other Mother's hand comes after Coraline near the end and the Other Mother's true form resembles a giraffe with a long neck and long, thin limbs.
    • Forcible also mentions that she sees a "tall handsome beast" in Coraline's future, which may allude to the Cat who isn't tall but his voice actor certainly is.
    • In the Other House, there are three frames, each with the silhouette portrait of a child in them. Coraline will meet them as the three Ghost Children whose souls were eaten by the Other Mother.
  • Despicable Me: The first scenes show a little child who does a perilous thing trying to get the attention from his oblivious father. Later, we will see the real reason why Gru wants to steal the Moon (he wants his mother's approval).
  • Encanto: "We Don't Talk About Bruno" has a ton, which is unsurprising, since it's about a character who can see the future:
    • Isabela was seemingly the only person to get a good prophecy from Bruno, since he foretold that she would have "the life of [her] dreams," and that her power would grow incredibly strong. This foreshadows her arc in the latter half of the film, when she stops trying to be "perfect" and learns to Be Yourself.
    • Dolores was told that the man of her dreams would get betrothed to someone else. She's in love with Mariano, who gets engaged to Isabela. However, Isabela doesn't love him, and Bruno never said that the engagement would lead to marriage.
    • Dolores also has several lines about hearing Bruno in the present tense, hinting that she knows he's still living in the house.
  • Epic (2013):
    • A flower kid idolizes Queen Tara and dreams of becoming queen like her. She becomes the one to succeed Tara at the end of the film.
    • A ronin is a samurai without a lord to serve. Fittingly, Ronin goes through most of the film without a queen to command him.
  • In Extinct (2021), when Clarence first sees Op and Ed, he barks at them angrily. It is later revealed that he had engineered the Flummels' extinction.
  • In Help! I'm a Fish, Chuck is washed into MacKrill's lab with a jellyfish stuck on his head, which is what he will turn into later. Similarly, while in the lab, Fly comes across a stuffed fish labeled "California Flyfish", which looks exactly like the one he will turn into. Not to mention the meaningful name Stella (Star in Italian), who turns into a starfish.
    • When Fly is trying to trick Joe into giving him the antidote, Chuck warns Fly not to drink it underwater because he'll drown when he turns back into a human. Guess how Joe is finally defeated. In a more subtle one, when Joe first drinks the antidote and becomes sapient, he grows fingers, but also eyebrows and a human-looking nose.
  • Hot Wheels: AcceleRacers: During Vert's heart-to-heart talk with his dad, as Jack packs his bag, a car key that have the same purple shading as the Silencerz cars is visible, although not focused on. Jack is the leader of the Silencerz field team.
  • Rather blatantly done in How to Train Your Dragon 2. After Stoick reunites with his long-lost wife and dances with her, he remarks, "I thought I'd have to die before we'd have that dance again." A few scenes later, he faces Drago and says, "It takes more than a little fire to kill me!" Guess what happens.
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame:
    • Near the end, as Judge Frollo is destroying Quasimodo's model of Paris, at one point he grabs the wooden figure of Esmeralda and throws it, knocking down a wooden figure of himself in the process. This works on two levels: how Frollo will ransack Paris and attack the cathedral to get what he wants, but also how his all-consuming mania and lust for Esmerelda will ultimately be his downfall.
    • During the song "Topsy Turvy", Esmeralda actually performed her pole dance wearing a skimpy red dress, and this led to Frollo's obsession. Red is ironically considered as a sign of bad luck in real life according to Gypsy culture.
    • After Frollo's part of "Out There", this particular line comes up:
      Frollo: Remember, Quasimodo, this is your sanctuary.
    • This line from Quasimodo, where he's mocking the idea he can save Esmerelda:
      What am I supposed to do? Go out and rescue the girl from the jaws of death and the whole town will cheer like I'm some kind of a hero?! She already has her Knight in Shining Armor, and it's not me!
  • Incredibles 2:
    • The Outer Limits (1963)' Do Not Adjust Your Set line foreshadows the Screenslaver's M.O.
    • During the climax, when the Incredibles and Frozone are freeing the heroes from their hypno-goggles, one screen stays on. This tells us that there's one hero unaccounted for, that being Krushauer, who is freed a few scenes later.
    • There are a few hints in the movie that the masked Screenslaver that Helen fights is a decoy:
      • Screenslaver gives a monologue condemning people's addiction to letting entertainment do things for them rather than taking the effort to experience it themselves, preferring simulation over reality. It turns out that the decoy Screenslaver is literally a simulated villain, being orchestrated by the real Screenslaver giving that speech.
      • After Screenslaver is unmasked and arrested, he yells, "What did you do to me?" and it appears he's trying to justify that society is to blame. But rather, it hints that the pizza guy is just a pawn in the real mastermind's plans.
    • There are several hints that point to the Screenslaver's real identity, for those looking hard enough:
      • In many of the scenes in which Winston and Evelyn appear, Evelyn is shown in the background, often slightly out of focus, foreshadowing her later reveal as The Chessmaster working behind the scenes.
      • It seems obvious in hindsight that the Screenslaver turns out to be Evelyn Deavor since her name broadcasts her interest in Evil Endeavors.
      • At one point Evelyn states "I'm the genius behind the genius."
      • Evelyn is often seen with unkempt hair and Exhausted Eye Bags, suggesting they've been busy with other things beyond their normal duties.
      • The video that the Screenslaver uses to hypnotize people is a series of black and white shapes forming an interweaving geometric pattern. Throughout the film, Evelyn's outfits are predominately black, white or grey.
  • Inside Out:
    • Early in the movie's opening montage, we see Riley as a toddler drawing a picture of a pink elephant-like creature on the wall, while singing, "Who's your friend who loves to play, Bing Bong, Bing Bong!" The elephant-like creature is later revealed to be Bing-Bong, Riley's childhood imaginary friend, who helps Joy and Sadness on their way back to Headquarters.
    • During a quick montage of toddler Riley crying over random things, two scenes in particular show her having dropped her ice cream and ripped up her teddy bear. Despite Joy snubbing aside that Sadness makes Riley cry for no reason, those scenes have reason behind them — Sadness is trying to alert Riley's parents that she needs a new ice cream cone and her teddy bear needs to be repaired or replaced, foreshadowing her job at Headquarters.
    • During Riley's first day of school, Sadness accidentally causes Riley to cry in front of the whole class; after she and Joy accidentally get sucked up the memory tube along with the core memories rendering Riley apathetic, the teacher says she understands how she feels after moving. This foreshadows Sadness's true mission in headquarters: empathy.
  • In The Iron Giant, Hogarth shows the titular giant a few comics, like Superman and Atomo, later in the film, we learn the giant can fly, and Atomo bears an incredibly eerie resemblance to the titular robot's combat mode.
  • Midway through The Jungle Book (1967), the orangutan King Louie kidnaps the human orphan Mowgli and demands the secret of fire, which Louie believes is the only thing separating him from being a man. At the film's end, Mowgli uses fire to drive off his nemesis, the tiger Shere Khan, and shortly thereafter leaves the jungle to claim his human heritage.
  • Several occur in Kubo and the Two Strings:
    • Kubo lights a lantern in hopes that his deceased father's spirit will speak to him. When nothing happens, he gets angry and believes his father is ignoring him. This is a hint that his father is not actually dead.
    • Monkey has a scar under her eye similar to Kubo's mother, hinting at her true identity.
    • Beetle appears to have collected several items from Hanzo's men. Because he was there at the final battle, and he is Hanzo.
    • When Kubo first meets Monkey, she tells him to get up before making him dinner, like a mother. Beetle teaches Kubo how to fish. Like a father.
    • In the beginning, Kubo's mother faces two giant waves when trying to make it to the island. This foreshadows the two sisters and that the Moon King is the main antagonist (waves are created by the Moon).
    • Monkey and Beetle never get an official romance but they do hit it off pretty well and even bicker Like an Old Married Couple. That's because they are married.
  • Kung Fu Panda:
    • When Shifu sends Zeng to Chorh-ghom Prison to verify Tai Lung's security, Oogway accurately warns him, "One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it." Sure enough, Tai Lung manages to escape, all because Zeng left him a feather. In a more minor example, when Shifu sends Zeng the goose to Chorh-Ghom, Zeng briefly hits a pillar and a few feathers fall off showing that he is molting. Tai Lung uses one to pick the lock of his imprisonment.
    • The acupuncture scene. While mostly there for comedy, it gives an early hint about Po's nerve points being hard to hit under all his "Fat?" "I was going to say fur." Tai Lung's nerve attacks prove to be ineffective against him for the same reason.
    • When Po plummets at the ground after being rocketed into the sky, he only loses consciousness for a few seconds, having suffered no further injuries even though falling from that height should at least have fractured some bones. This is another implication of how resistant his chubby body is to damage.
    • When Po is serving noodle soup to the Five, they remark that it tastes great, to which Po disagrees, saying it's nothing like his dad's soup that contains a secret ingredient, but the Five insist that it's amazing. Po later finds out his dad in fact doesn't use a secret ingredient, but "to make something special, you just have to believe it is", prompting him to realize his strength lies within himself.
    • Oogway briefly mentions that he feared he wouldn't live to see the Dragon Warrior selection day. He does, luckily, but later dies, as in ascends to the Spirit Realm, in a storm of petals.
    • Shifu mentions that the key to kung fu is turning your opponents' strength against them — foreshadowing how in the final battle, Tai Lung's blows cause Po to bounce back and hit him with equal force.
    • A clever hint that Po is actually far more agile and coordinated than his form might suggest comes during the dinner scene, when he pulls off a perfect Stealth Hi/Bye on Shifu while standing next to him.
    • After Shifu thought he successfully got rid of Po one morning, he and the Five return to the palace to resume their training in hopes that, in Shifu's words, "the true dragon warrior will be revealed". Guess who he sees when he opens the doors?
  • Kung Fu Panda 2: Po's dream about fighting alongside mighty warriors actually occurs at the end of the film.
  • The Lion King (1994):
    • A subtle one but, at the beginning, Zazu tells Scar "Didn't your mother ever tell you not to play with your food?", something an adult would tell a child rather than another adult. This implies Zazu knows how childish Scar can really be underneath his charming facade, which is shown once he takes power.
    • "A king's time as ruler rises and falls like the sun. The sun will set on my time here and will rise with you." The guy who says that has his reign end at sundown, and in the end, his son ascends to the rock in the sunrise.
    • At the end of "I Just Can't Wait to be King", the tower of animals collapse. It can be interpreted as Played for Laughs or foreshadowing how Simba's whole self-esteem is going to come crashing down due to Scar's frame-up.
    • This bit foreshdaows Scar's reign.
      Simba: Yeah, so you have to do what I tell you.
      Zazu: Not yet, I don't. And with an attitude like that, I'm afraid you're shaping up to be a pretty pathetic king indeed.
    • Considering the meaning behind the idiom, this quick exchange foreshadows Scar's plans to overthrow Simba as King.
      Simba: Hey Uncle Scar, when I'm King, what'll that make you?
      Scar: A monkey's uncle.
  • Meet the Robinsons:
    • Wilbur bumps into a little girl carrying frogs. That little girl was Fanny, Wilbur's mother, who teaches frogs how to sing.
    • Just before Bud introduces Lewis to Fanny, he tells Lewis that he would like her. Fanny is Lewis's future wife.
  • In Megamind:
    • After creating Titan/Tighten, Megamind holds up a picture of Metroman with the head ripped off, so Titan's/Tighten's head is in place instead. Later on, after Titan/Tighten has revealed that he prefers being evil, he holds up the same Metroman picture, this time with Megamind's head in place. Not only does this hint to who the true hero will be in the film, it also gives a subtle clue as to who it really is when Metroman turns up during the final battle.
    • In the final fight shortly after Metroman (Megamind in disguise) says his death was greatly exaggerated, he strikes a grand pose and the tassels on his boots straighten and flare out as if Metroman is even able to flex his tassels. This frightens Tighten who immediately takes off trying to get away. Metroman can't flex his tassels, the tassels were being blown around by the jets as Megamind powered up his flying suit.
    • There's also a minor one that foreshadows Metro Man's desire to no longer be a hero. During his speech at the Metro Man museum while claiming it's a great honor to serve and protect Metro City, he looks absolutely miserable when he says he wonders where he'd be in life had he not taken up the mantle of hero.
    • Early in the film, Hal tells Roxanne: "I'll be watching you like a dingo watches a human baby!", an oddly creepy metaphor. This is the first major hint that he's an Evil All Along Yandere.
  • In Monsters, Inc. as several lines foreshadow that Waternoose and Randall are the villains, who are building a machine to extract children's voices for profit.
    • This line comes up:
      Waternoose: James, this company has been in my family for three generations. I would do anything to keep it from going under.
    • While Mike, Sulley and Boo are hiding in the bathroom from Randall and Fungus, they overhear them talking about a machine, which Sulley wonders why would they be talking about such a thing.
    • And this brief moment:
      Mike: It would never have gotten out if you hadn't been caught cheating last night!
      Randall: Cheating!? I—(catches himself) Cheating...
    • When Mike and Sulley are trying to sneak Boo into the factory and Mike worries about what might happen if they're caught.
      Mike: Just think about a few names, will ya? Loch Ness, Bigfoot, the Abominable Snowman. They all got one thing in common, pal: banishment! We could be next!
  • Monsters University has plenty of foreshadowing that would come later in the film and in the next one.
    • When Mike enters the human world to prove he is scary, he fails to make the child scared at all, who then tells Mike that he "looks funny". It's a subtle reference to how he and Sulley solved the energy crisis in the first movie.
    • Worthington's remark that "they're always hiring in the Mail Room".
    • Dean Hardscrabble tells Sulley that his only method of scaring would cause the child in his scenario to cry instead of scream, which is what happens in the first film when Sulley indirectly scares Boo during his scare demonstration.
    • Sulley suggested the idea of cheating to win the Scare Games though he realizes it's stupid. It does show he's willing to cheat to win the Games, which he does.
    • Mike tells Sulley that they are going to "change the world". At the end of Monsters Inc, that's exactly what they do by finding out that children are not toxic to monsters and that laughter is a more powerful resource than screams.
  • In Mulan, the titular character runs to catch up with the other girls throughout the song "Honor To Us All". At the end of the sequence, she opens her parasol slightly later than the other girls, foreshadowing the disaster of the matchmaker meeting that was to come.
    • During the same song, Mulan is told that eventually, boys will gladly go to war for her. While this is in the context of her being a bride, the soldiers she befriends while pretending to be a man do gladly fight alongside her at the Emperor's palace in spite of basically impossible odds, having come to respect her whatever her gender.
  • In My Little Pony: A New Generation when Zipp is first introduced you notice she's flying from wall to wall of the canyon rather than in a straight line. It's a major hint that she's not flying, and in fact none of the royals can, but simply jumping from cliff to cliff to fake it much like her sister and mother do in front of crowds with hidden wires.
  • In The Nightmare Before Christmas:
    • Whenever Oogie Boogie is talking, an insect will occasionally crawl out of the seams holding together his burlap body and all over him before finally disappearing back inside, annoying him as it does so.
    • After Jack throws a rib for Zero to fetch, Zero's jack-o-lantern nose briefly flashes to help him find it, setting up its use to guide Jack's reindeer through the fog Ruldoph-style.
    • During Jack's first visit to Christmas Town, he unintentionally smashes a snowflake, destroys a snowman and scares a sleeping elf - a taste of the unwitting destruction Jack's curiosity of Christmas would bring.
    • During the town meeting when Jack tries to explain Christmas to the citizens, the Mayor cheerfully exclaims, "How horrible our Christmas will be", thinking this is a good thing. Of course, their version of Christmas goes badly.
  • Pinocchio: The Coachman's warning that Pleasure Island is cursed: "They never come back... as BOYS." Also note that the chair Pinocchio sits in at the pool hall has a donkey's head on top. This foreshadows that the curse will turn the boys into donkeys.
  • Pocahontas:
    • After the British make landfall, the Powhatans meet in the great longhouse to discuss the invaders' motives. The shaman Kekata sprinkles a powder into the fire, and then conures images of the invaders in the smoke, proclaiming, "These are not men like us, but strange beasts with bodies that shine like the sun, and weapons that spout fire and thunder. They prowl the earth like ravenous wolves, consuming everything in their path." As he speaks the latter line, the smoke wolves surround Kocoum, foretelling Kocoum's death at the hands of Thomas.
    • The smoke wolves then rush towards Wahunsenecah, but are dissipated before they can surround him as they did with Kocoum, foreshadowing how the chief is also nearly shot by Ratcliffe, but is saved thanks to John Smith's intervention.
  • Puss in Boots:
    • Humpty Dumpty, upon finding the Golden Goose's "nest", remarks that he feels like he belongs there, and later remarks that he didn't feel like he belonged in San Ricardo much less anywhere. He turns out to be a golden egg given life.
    • When Jack and Jill say that "it's their cue" after finding Humpty's telescope, things feel like Humpty was the one responsible for the whole thing.
  • In Rango:
    • Before reaching the town of Dirt, Rango has a bizarre dream that foreshadows things to happen later in the movie. The dying cactus moving. The rattlesnake tails. The shadow of the hawk flying. The voice of Roadkill asking him "Where are your friends now, amigo?" Rango being submerged in water.
    • When the mayor orders his men to call Rattlesnake Jake, they warn him specifically that Rattlesnake Jake is a "grim reaper" and "never leaves town without taking a soul". He doesn't listen and orders Jake to be contracted anyways. After betraying Rattlesnake Jake, the mayor is dragged out of town by an angry Rattlesnake Jake.
  • Ratatouille:
    • As Remy is running through the walls, he passes by an arguing couple with the woman holding the man at gunpoint. The gun goes off, the man forces the gun from the woman's hand and they start kissing. Colette and Linguini start like this with Linguini being intimidated by Colette and Remy creates a similar situation between them as Linguini pulls an accidental "Shut Up" Kiss on Colette just as she was about to pull mace spray on him.
    • Linguini gets Distracted by the Sexy by Colette when she passes him by on his first night at Gusteau's. The two end up falling in love later in the film.
    • After Linguini traps Remy in a jar, Skinner says that if anyone finds out the restaurant has a rat in kitchen, they would be shut down. When word does get out that Gusteau's had a rat colony in it, the restaurant does close.
    • When he was drunk, Linguini mentions ratatouille to Skinner. When Ego comes to Gusteau's, Remy cooks the dish for him. It also forms the name of the new bistro that Remy, Colette and Linguini now work at.
    • During the dream sequence involving Ego, Linguini asks Ego what he would like and is dressed as a waiter, not a chef. In the climax, Linguini hastily takes on the role of the waiter while Colette and Remy prepare Ego's dish. He also becomes a waiter at the new bistro rather than a chef.
    • One of Colette's cooking instructions to Linguini is the decree, "You cannot be Mommy", indicating that haute cuisine have to be more high-end than the cooking that mothers at home usually make. In the end however, what wins Ego over is a meal that reminds him of a dish that his mother used to make for him.
    • When giving his order at Gusteau's, Ego snarkily tells the waiter that he will order "perspective". Remy's dish causes him to rethink his position and drastically shattered his preconceptions. Ego indeed got the "perspective" he wanted.
  • Rise of the Guardians: After Jack hits him hard for killing Sandy, Pitch remarks that Jack is "someone who knows how to have a little fun." "Fun" turns out to be Jack's center.
  • Robin Hood (1973):
    • The kids worry when they accidentally shoot an arrow into Prince John's courtyard and how he would react. Maid Marian and Lady Kluck reassure them nothing will happen. Later in the movie, Prince John throws the children in jail if they cannot pay taxes and has archers fire at them during the prison escape.
    • Skippy's youngest sister (known as Tagalong Rabbit) is always seen trailing behind him and his friends, asking them to wait for her. In the chaos of the prison escape, she is left behind again, to the horror of her mother; Robin risks his life to save her.
    • During the "Phony King of England" song, Little John sings the lyrics, "we'll find a way to make him pay and steal our money back". That is exactly what happens in the jailbreak - Robin steals the money from Prince John's bedroom, sending the bags over to Little John who hands them to the townspeople.
  • A subtle and very clever foreshadowing happens in The Rugrats Movie: A circus train is taken over by monkeys when their owners leave the locomotive to get coffee, and they end up crashing it somewhere in the forest. The audience starts thinking "I'm pretty sure this'll become plot relevant real soon" and it does, with the Rugrats finding the wrecked circus train and the monkeys while lost in the woods.
  • Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island has a gag during the goddamned awesome It's Terror Time Again where Shaggy is frantically looking for a vine to swing across a crocodile-infested swamp and one of the zombies taps his shoulder from behind and hands him one. Since a villain helping one of the heroes as a Jump Scare Oh, Crap! joke is a Running Gag with villains from the series, viewers think little of it. Then comes The Reveal that the zombies are the good guys who have been cursed by the true villains, and the fact that the only thing a zombie who caught one of the heroes did was quietly help him and then stand by while he escaped becomes a lot more significant in hindsight.
  • Shrek:
    • There are several clues throughout the film that Fiona is really an ogre:
      • When the Mirror presents Fiona to Lord Farquaad, he tries to warn Farquaad about something that happens at night, but Farquaad is so excited to meet the beautiful princess that he cuts him off. He finds out later near the end of the film what the Mirror was trying to warn him about. Shrek and the audience find out at the same time, but have a different reaction altogether.
      • Fiona is really adamant to her privacy after sunset. Much like Shrek. That same night, Shrek reveals his Freudian Excuse to Donkey and a brief shot shows Fiona eavesdropping on the conversation, and you might notice her skin is tinged green.
      • In a scene where Fiona prepares a cotton candy stick made with spider webs and flies for Shrek, you might notice that after she hands him the stick, she licks her fingers. Later, she digs his roasted weed rat and wants to try his weed rat stew as well.
    • Several elements of the sequels are hinted at through the film. In the scene after Shrek rescues Fiona, he notes her reaction to being saved by an ogre and sarcastically asks if she was expecting Prince Charming, and her reaction is a Blunt "Yes"; in the sequel, we meet Prince Charming and find out he was actually coming to rescue Fiona, and he's miffed when he finds out Shrek beat him to it. Also, Fiona refers to Donkey as his "noble steed"; in the sequel, Donkey temporarily becomes a beautiful white stallion.
  • Shrek 2:
    • At the beginning of the film, Donkey mentions that Dragon has been "acting kind of moody lately". The Stinger implies that this is because she was pregnant or feeling violently protective of her eggs. It also foreshadows Fiona becoming pregnant next movie.
    • Many scenes set up the end reveal of King Harold's true form as a frog:
      • It's mentioned that King Harold's first date with Queen Lillian was a peaceful walk by the lily pond, a place frogs are fond of hanging out at.
      • King Harold's bedroom mostly has green colors, from the bedsheets to the tapestry depicting himself watching the lily pond.
      • And at the Poison Apple, a female frog asks if they know each other.
      • The Fairy Godmother threatens Harold by talking about how she "made his Happily Ever After" possible. Harold later mentions to Fiona that "people change for the ones they love," and that she'd be surprised "just how much [he'd] changed for [Queen Lillian]." Of course, he means quite literally changing, from a frog into a human.
      • King Harold's more crude and cartoony face design compared to those of Lillian and other Far Far Away residents gives a visual hint that he's really the Frog Prince-turned-human.
      • Queen Lillian's name. It can be shortened to "Lily" and Harold loves her dearly. Lilies are often connected with ponds. Where the couple had their first date and frogs.
    • The mysterious assassin that Harold hires is shown in shadow during their meeting. All that's visible is his boots, his sword, and his eyes. Say, what kind of creature has eyes that glow in the dark?
    • Midway through the film, Shrek, Donkey and Puss encounter the Fairy Godmother in the middle of creating what appears to be a Love Potion. On top of that, she's doing this with a maniacal demeanour. Sure enough, she not only reveals her villainous ways the next scene, but later scenes reveal her real plan to have Fiona drink the potion in order to have her fall in love with Charming.
  • Shrek the Third:
    • At the beginning, Prince Charming is performing at the theatre when the cardboard castle comes crashing down, narrowly missing him. And, at the end, Dragon tips over the castle, this time made of bricks, which lands on Prince Charming, presumably killing him.
    • Bird-watchers will be able to anticipate Snow White's intentions for her Friend to All Living Things ability when they notice some of the birds she's calling, as the Evil Tree guards watch in puzzlement, are woodpeckers.
  • In Sleeping Beauty, during the scene where Maleficent is yelling at her goons, if you listen very closely when she hits her staff on the ground, it makes the same sound effect as her eventual dragon form's biting sound at the end of the film.
  • In Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Grumpy refers to the queen as "an old witch". Later on in the movie, she uses sorcery to create a poisoned apple.
  • Strange Magic: Marianne comments that the Bog King should rethink his giant pointy teeth skull entrance as the two fly off for a romantic evening. It seemingly kills the Bog King when the castle starts collapsing later on.
  • In The Swan Princess, when Derek first meets the baby Odette, he gives her a locket with a swan on it. And when they reunite again as adults, Derek refers that Odette is as beautiful as a swan. Later on in the film, Odette is cursed by Rothbart to become a swan each time the moon sets.
  • In Tangled:
    • The opening line is Flynn saying, "This is the story of how I died." Sure enough, he dies at the end, but he gets revived, which gives this the new meaning of Flynn dying, but Eugene living on.
    • One of Flynn's first lines is how much he wanted a palace. He's joking, but that's what he gets in the end.
    • At the very beginning of the film, the mobile dangling above Rapunzel's crib is decorated with cutouts shaped like a chameleon, a duck, a horse, and a cherub. All four things would appear in some shape or form throughout the movie: Pascal the chameleon was Rapunzel's faithful companion, there was the "Snuggly Duckling" bar, Maximus the stallion helps Rapunzel on her journey, and Shorty the barkeep dressed as Cupid during "I've Got A Dream".
  • In TMNT, when Leonardo is fighting the Nightwatcher (This is just before he discovers it’s really Raphael in disguise), he says this particular choice of words: “Funny thing about anger: Let it consume you, and soon enough...you lose sight of everything.” This almost happens during a brutal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown between him and Leo, when Raph loses his temper and comes close to killing his brother before realizing what just happened.
  • Toy Story:
    • Toy Story:
      • The first scene with Sid shows him blowing up a toy with a firecracker in his back garden. An indignant Buzz says he wishes he could have stopped him. Sure enough, this sets up the famous conclusion to the story where Buzz has to be rescued from being blown up and Woody and the Mutant Toys work together to stop him.
      • The large fire rocket from the finale is mentioned in an early scene with Sid and Hannah, where he asks her if a big package came in the post.
      • The Buzz Lightyear TV commercial mentions a place called Al's Toy Barn. This place happens to be a major setting of Toy Story 2.
    • Toy Story 2:
      • During Andy's playtime, Woody has to choose whether a captive Bo Peep gets eaten by a shark or thrown to the evil monkeys. Woody resolves this by taking a third option. Later he's forced into a choice between leaving Andy and his friends to live a long and honored but artificial existence as a museum exhibit, or leaving Jessie and co. to go back to Andy who will inevitably outgrow him. If you're wondering if this is a parallel with the question of mortality vs. immortality, then yes, that's because it is. Woody settles on going back to Andy and taking Jessie and co. with him. Unfortunately, Stinky Pete has other ideas.
      • The Buzz Lightyear video game guide Rex reads gives the advice: "The secret entrance is to the left, hidden in the shadows." This provides a handy entrance into Big Al's apartment thanks to a vent hidden in the bushes.
      • Stinky Pete is the only Woody's Roundup toy whose voice does not match his TV counterpart; the TV Prospector's voice is high-pitched, cartoony and giddy, while Toy Prospector's voice is deeper, slower and more mellow-sounding.
      • Doubles as a Meaningful Background Event: When Woody first sees the "Woody's Finest Hour" tape, it's stopped in the middle of a cliffhanger, with Stinky Pete saying "Woody's Roundup" was cancelled before airing the conclusion. This is the very same tape Woody plays for the others when they come to rescue him, except he failed to pause it. If you listen to the background after Buzz delivers his Armor-Piercing Question and leaves, you can hear the conclusion to "Woody's Finest Hour" before it goes into the "You've Got a Friend in Me" number. Or, in other words, Stinky Pete lied to Woody and Jessie, and before his villainy comes out proper you get a little clue that he's trying to manipulate them.
      • Of course, the prospect that Andy will eventually grow up and leave the toys without an owner or a home comes up again much later.
    • Toy Story 3:
      • In Toy Story 2, the defeated Stinky Pete spitefully rants that the the toys will end up in a landfill somewhere by going with Andy, and they indeed end up there, only getting saved by the LGMs in the nick of time.
      • At the poker night, the veteran toys predict the new toys (Andy's) are headed for the "landfill", and are "toddler fodder". Obviously the former proved correct, and you could interpret the latter as the toys eventually joining Bonnie.
      • In the daycare centre, Buzz greets another toy with "Buzz Lightyear, at your service!" He does.
      • "Death by monkeys" features in the game Andy plays at the beginning. Later, there is a minor villain who is a monkey toy.
    • Toy Story 4:
      • In one of early Bonnie's play session, she takes Woody's badge and places it on Jessie to make her the Sheriff instead. In the ending, Woody gives up his badge to Jessie, essentially promoting her to be the leader of the toys, while he stays with Bo Peep and her lost toys gang.
      • Harmony, the granddaughter of the antique shop's owner, takes Woody with her to the carnival. She later shows up at the shop again and apparently forgets all about Woody. This shows that she doesn't seem to be invested in toys (or at least, toys like Woody) or care for them very much, which foreshadows that she will reject Gabby Gabby, another toy similar to Woody.
      • When he and Forky first pass by the antique store, despite Woody's previous urgency to get Forky back to Bonnie, as soon as he spots a chance to see Bo again, he takes it. He chose Bo over Bonnie in that moment, just like he does at the end.
  • Trolls:
    • In the prologue after the Trolls escape the Bergens' Trollstice, Gristle asks his father, "What's gonna make me happy now?" Before Gristle Sr. replies "Nothing!", we get a brief close-up of Bridget.
    • Much earlier, all the Bergens (Gristle especially) are showing genuine happiness and positivity even before eating the Trolls; this is a clue that they don't need to eat a Troll to be happy and they had with them the whole time.
  • Turning Red:
    • During the photograph montage at the opening, Mei is shown along with Ming and Jin after some type of small business/entrepreneur course. While this is how Ming learns how to make running the temple a profitable business, this is also how Mei picks up the means to profit from the students by merching out her panda form, and by the family in augmenting the usual temple profits with even more panda merch.
    • Tyler tends to wear a lot of blue in his clothing. This fits in perfectly with the colour-coordination between Mei and her friends, foreshadowing how he'll join their gang at the end of the film. His usual outfit of a tank top/jersey and sweatband looks a lot like the outfit worn by Aaron Z., his favorite member of 4*Town, foreshadowing the fact that he's a Four-Townie too.
    • During Mei's panicked rush home in panda-form after her first transformation, she leaps over the head of Mr. Gao, who doesn't seem surprised or shocked at all, but happy to see it instead. He later turns out to be the one who's sealed away the panda-spirits of what seems to be her entire family minus grandma, explaining why he wasn't phased at all.
    • During the montage as Mei and her friends raise money, one of the recorded frames shows Mei dancing in and out of panda form. In one case, she switches to her red panda form which the sudden appearance of her tail launches her accidentally at the camera. She come to learn to use this both to traverse the rooftops to get to the concert quickly as a form of double jumping, as well as to propel herself during her fight with Ming.
    • There are several hints to Ming's red panda form, particularly about its size. When one of the aunts brings up Ming's panda and how much trouble it was for her, all the aunties and Wu shudder. Jin mentions that when he saw Ming's red panda form, it was really big. And that turns out to be a huge understatement when it's revealed that Ming's red panda is the size of a skyscraper.
    • When Ming reveals her talisman that seals her panda spirit, it's prominently Red-coloured, as opposed to the other Green-coloured jade items that Wu and the rest of Mei's family use to seal theirs. This hints as to both Ming's panda form's sheer power and volatility compared to the others, as well as Ming's repressed emotional turbulence tied to it. When Ming's anger as Mei's rejection of the ritual and of her boils over, the cracked talisman is further damaged by the raging Panda spirit until it fully shatters and transforms Ming once more.
  • Wreck-It Ralph:
    • As Felix and Calhoun prepare to go into the game Sugar Rush, there is a particular subtle piece of graffiti on the wall: the word Turbo, and the 8 bit face of the man himself.
    • Several times it is shown that Vanellope's glitching extends to whatever she is in contact with, including people like Taffyta. During the race, this exposes King Candy for who he really is.
    • King Candy immediately assumes Ralph is in Sugar Rush to steal his game, and goes crazy over the very thought. It turns out that King Candy is actually Turbo and has stolen the Sugar Rush game, explaining his irrational outburst.
    • When Vanellope first meets Ralph, she jokes about using the "royal we" and later on, she has Ralph kneel and appoints him like a knight, saying he was her "royal chump". There is also the fact that she is the only character with "Von" in her name which is associated with nobility.
    • When Ralph first enters the palace, he remarks to King Candy that it is oddly pink for a male character. King Candy insists that it's clearly salmon. Turns out the palace originally belongs to Princess Vanellope.
    • King Candy's age and cartoony appearance in contrast to the animesque child racers shown that he's not part of the game.
    • In Felix's flashback, Turbo's voice sounds very much like King Candy's.
    • When attacked by Ralph near Diet Cola Mountain, King Candy is genuinely scared and tries to dodge his strikes, not out of sheer fear, but because of the fact that characters that die outside their own games don't regenerate; he doesn't really belong in that game, and he knows it.
    • During the time-lapse sequence at the beginning of the movie, the Sugar Rush console is placed to the right; Vanellope can be seen on the console, spoiling the fact she's an actual character in the game. In the same photo, she's driving King Candy's kart, hinting she's the game's true ruler. During said sequence, you can also see Turbo Time itself right next to the Fix It Felix cabinet at the start. If you’re smart about arcade games, you might recognize that this game doesn’t exist in real life, and thus it will be important later.
    • King Candy knows what "going Turbo" means but Sgt. Calhoun doesn't, despite their games both being relatively new. That's because Candy is really Turbo himself.
    • King Candy claims Vanellope cannot race because her actions could cause the game to malfunction and eventually become unplugged. She indeed does just that.
  • Zootopia:
    • The very first scene in the movie foreshadows how the story will get resolved, with Judy getting mauled to "death" by a "savage" predator. The first time is when she was a child performing a play, the second time is when Nick pretends to be savage and attacks Judy while she tricks Bellwether into revealing her plan.
    • The play also foreshadows Judy's subconscious prejudice toward predators, as she talks about their "uncontrollable, biological urge to maim and maul".
    • When Judy is scolding Nick after she discovers his con, he takes a handful of blueberries from a street vendor as he walks by, foreshadowing his enjoyment of them later in the movie.
    • Before Judy departs for Zootopia, her parents bring up the biological nature of foxes as predators and the time Gideon Gray beat her up when she was nine as an example of their anti-fox views. Judy plays it off as him being a jerk who just happened to be a fox. However, her decision to carry the fox repellent around with her (even after initially leaving it on the table at her apartment) and her Profiling Nick the instant she first sees him makes it clear that her childhood trauma with Gideon has affected her and her views on foxes more than she realizes.
    • Finnick, while laughing his head off after Judy manages to hustle Nick into helping her, puts the badge sticker onto Nick's shirt and tells his partner to "have fun working with the fuzz". Nick's Character Development inspires him to become the first fox officer on the ZPD force at the end of the film and officially become Judy's partner in the process.
    • A blink and you'll miss it can be found in Bellwether's office. A sticky note with the telephone number of Doug, her lackey who's been making predators go savage.
    • Nick's flashback which shows just how nasty prey animals can be toward predators because of their prejudice, when coupled with how dismissive Lionheart is to Bellwether and how often she helps Judy with her case, makes who the mastermind is even more obvious in retrospect.
    • After Judy's press interview regarding the 14 missing predator animals she found — which was obviously bad and kicked off the predator/prey "racial" tensions that harmed Zootopia — Bellwether tells her she did fine.
    • The fact the missing mammal who gets Judy involved in the case turns out to be a florist combined with the earlier florist robbery by Weaselton foreshadows the eventual cause of the animals going savage.
    • When Judy is parked in front of the about-to-be-robbed florist shop, sheep can be seen examining it off to the right. As Judy approaches, one is whispering to the other shielding his mouth as he glances warily at her.
    • Doug, who creates the Night Howler-based Psycho Serum, and his lackeys, are all rams which are sheep, foreshadowing the identity of the Big Bad.
    • When Judy goes to work on her first day, several sheep officers are visible in the lobby of Precinct One. Foreshadowing the existence of ZPD sheep that are part of Bellwether's conspiracy.
    • When Judy attempts to arrest Nick for his pawpsicle hustle, she discovers that he has the necessary permits to operate legitimately. By running a scam that technically doesn't break any laws, it's the earliest sign that Nick does want to be an honest member of society but he is living up to fox stereotypes because he believes that's what society expects from him.
    • When we first see Nick, he is getting yelled at by Doug.
    • There are several details that cumulatively foreshadow that Nick and Judy are running a Batman Gambit against Bellwether during the climax and have swapped the Night Howler pellet with blueberries. Predators that go savage have their Cartoony Eyes revert to glowing Animal Eyes yet Nick's eyes remain his normal shape and color. In the flashback of Doug shooting Manchas we see that the Night Howler extract is immediately absorbed into the skin with no residue, but when the pellet hits Nick, a blue splatter is clearly visible. When Judy is young and being attacked by Gideon, he comments that Judy's nose twitches whenever she is scared; Judy's nose doesn't twitch when Nick is apparently "savage" cause she knows what they are doing and that Nick isn' actually going to hurt her. Finally, as Nick says "we'll think of something", he can be seen glancing over the blueberries he accidentally dropped and they are gone from the floor by the time they set up their decoy to escape.
    • When Nick and Judy are reviewing the Jam Cam footage, Nick sardonically bets that one of the kidnapper wolves will howl moments before one does and the other joins in. Later, at Cliffside Asylum, Judy distracts the wolves by inciting a howl, allowing them to slip in unnoticed.
    • It's subtle, but when the unnamed badger doctor suggests to Lionheart that the savage cases might be caused by predator biology, Judy seems to consider it while Nick looks offended. This foreshadows Nick becoming extremely upset at Judy for repeating the theory during the press conference and leads to their temporary Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure.
    • During the scene at the subway, Jesse (the ram wearing an eye patch) informs his boss what Judy and Nick are doing. This allows Bellwether and her dirty cops to head them off at the museum but it also causes Judy to wonder how she knew where to find them and realize she's the Big Bad.
    • Judy's training montage at the police academy includes scenarios that help her to survive events later in the movie. Developing a strong grip to avoid a "thousand foot fall" in the simulated rainforest district saves her from falling off the Skytram platform. Her experience with the oversized toilet gives her the idea of how to escape the locked cell at Cliffside Asylum.
    • In Nick's Break Them by Talking speech to Judy he says "Hey look at me, I'm gonna move to Zootopia where predators and prey live in harmony and sing 'Kumbaya'. Only to find, whoopsie, we don't all get along." Kumbaya is traditionally associated with the scouting movement, and it's reference here foreshadows Nick's traumatic experience of being humiliated by the all-prey Junior Ranger Scout troop as a child because he was a predator and a fox.
    • Early in the film, Clawhauser watches Judy walk off to the bullpen and says wistfully "That poor little bunny's going to get eaten alive." Later, during the press conference, when Nick calls out Judy for her biased remarks about predators he asks if she thinks he'll go savage and eat her. During the climax as part of the duo's Batman Gambit, Nick pretends to go savage, hunts Judy and pretends to eat her.


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