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She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Foreshadowing in this series.- Entrapta joining the Horde near the end of the first season is heavily hinted at in all her appearances prior to the event.
- The show's opening sequence shows her as a menacing, shadowy figure before lifting off her welding mask, being the last princess to pose before the shot of all the villains.
- When it comes time for her introductory episode, her kingdom is a dour and dreary location more aesthetically in-line with the Horde's Fright Zone than any princess location in the show, and the episode's main threat is Entrapta's own creations rather than the Horde.
- When she finally does interact with the Horde, her experiences are positive: from pleasantly chatting with villain Deuteragonist Catra before having to be taken aside and reminded she's the enemy, to the following episode having her constantly distracted and enraptured by Horde technology during a rescue mission.
- In the very first episode, Adora sees a vision of a spaceship crashing into the desert. It's not until Season 3 that we learn it was Mara's ship, and its wreckage is still in the Crimson Waste.
- In the first episode, Catra dramatically goes "betrayal" to Adora as a joke. This hints at how she ends up taking Adora's defection as a personal betrayal.
- In Episode 3, Razz says to Adora "It's the same old story. Wicked people destroy what they cannot control". It's later revealed that Razz's friend Mara died defying the First Ones, who were Evil All Along.
- In Episode 4, during a dressing down from Hordak, Shadow Weaver questions how he learned she was still devoting resources to recapturing Adora. She stops when she spots Imp in Hordak's lap, giving him a Meaningful Look, but not expounding. Later, when Entrapta, Catra, and Scorpia are discussing the Black Garnet's connection to the other runestones, the scene pans up to reveal Imp listening in on their conversation, leading to the reveal that he's capable of recording conversations.
- At the end of "Shadows Of Mystacor", Catra mentions that to get Adora, one has to go for her heart, referring to her brewing plan to capture Glimmer and Bow, the people Adora has come to view as family, to lure her into a trap. Cut to Season 5, when she's chipped by Horde Prime. Sure enough, Adora goes to her rescue and willingly throws herself into danger just to get Catra back.
- In "Princess Prom", Mermista claims that she's only come to the prom with Sea Hawk because he's her "ride." He also brings her to the Battle of Bright Moon aboard the ship she gave him at the end of their debut episode.
- In Season 1, when Shadow Weaver sends Catra to the Whispering Woods, she seems oddly distressed, panting heavily and generally seeming unnerved. Season 2 then reveals that Hordak has a tendency to asphyxiate minions who displease him.
- The Psychological Torment Zone in the Citadel drives Adora and Catra even further apart. Considering what we later learn about Light Hope, it hints that Light Hope was doing that intentionally to bring Adora further into her influence.
- Entrapta notes that "Etheria's not just a planet. Whatever the First Ones did to it, it went deep." It's later revealed that the First Ones turned Etheria into a giant superweapon, with their tech extending into the Heart of Etheria at the planet's core.
- When Frosta asks if the Whispering Woods will heal, Adora tells her that Light Hope said there's still much to do in order to balance the planet. As it turns out, Light Hope's definition of "balancing the planet" is completely separate from actually keeping it safe.
- In "White-Out," Catra willingly puts herself and everyone else in danger of getting attacked by First Ones' worm robots just so she can have control over Adora. Much like how in season three, she opens a world-ending portal just so she can beat Adora at something.
- In Season 3, when Entrapa enters Hordak's laboratory uninvited, she sees alien fetuses growing in glass vats, foreshadowing Hordak's unsuccessful attempts to clone a replacement body for himself and his own status as a clone of Horde Prime.
- Additionally, the fact that Hordak is trying to clone himself a new body foreshadows Horde Prime's Body Surf immortality.
- In "Remember" the 'Ideal World' created for both Adora and Catra does not involve Adora defeating the Horde and saving Etheria, or Catra leading the Horde or even being a Force Captain, but rather the two simply being back in the Horde as if Adora never found the Sword of Protection. In Season 5, we learn that what Adora and Catra really want deep down is simply to be with each other.
- Also in "Remember," Adora attends a Force Captain briefing where she learns that Salineas is next on the Horde's list for conquering. Indeed, Salineas goes down at the hands of the Horde in season four.
- When recalling the time Mara plunged Etheria into Despondos, Madame Razz says, "I remember it like it was yesterday. For Madame Razz, it was yesterday." This foreshadows how she experiences time.
- While in the illusion created by the portal malfunction, Entrapta has forgotten some of her memories of the real world. Hordak's name brings them back. This foreshadows a similar development in season 5, when Entrapta's LUVD crystal slowly brings back Hordak's memories.
- In the finale of Season 3, when Angella realizes the world is an illusion and has to leave to break it free, she comments that even though she now knows that Micah is an illusion, it's hard to say good-bye. Micah is confused but as she flies away he yells out "Wait, I'm not-" before getting cut off, hinting that Micah isn't part of the illusion. He's confirmed alive in "Beast Island" in Season 4.
- At the beginning of Season 4, a cake baked for Glimmer's coronation has cake-toppers of Glimmer and Hordak doing battle. At the end of the season, Hordak almost kills Glimmer after she sneaks into the Fright Zone.
- In "The Valley of the Lost", several of Entrapta's former servant-robots have gained free will and escaped to the Crimson Waste. This may have foreshadowed the reveal that Horde Prime's clones are fanatically obedient, except for Hordak (who developed free will and lived apart from the intergalactic Horde) and Wrong Hordak (who was disconnected from the Galactic Horde hive mind and eventually becomes an individual).
- In "Beast Island", Adora's Heroic Second Wind is achieved by a Good-Times Montage and accompanied by her eyes suddenly glowing with power even before she transforms into She-Ra. In Season 5 after breaking the Sword of Protection, both these things happen again when Adora taps into her True power as She-Ra.
- Double Trouble's departure from Bright Moon in Season 4 isn't shown, but revealed to Glimmer by a guard with no further information on how they escaped her enchantment. There's a reason this seems sudden: Glimmer let them go back to the Fright Zone as her spy.
- In Season 4, despite picking up Hordak's signal at the end of the Season 3 finale and Hordak's belief that his big brother will be arriving on Etheria "any day now", there isn't any sign of Horde Prime until the season finale when Etheria is pulled out of Despondos back into the wider universe. A telling indication that while Horde Prime did in fact receive the message, he does not have Etheria's location until its return.
- In the supplemental video "Entrapta Stole Bow's Tracker Pad"
, Entrapta asks Scorpia about her electrical conductivity. When Scorpia links with the Black Garnet in Season 4, she gains electrical powers. - In Season 4, Hordak tells Catra that he wants to show Horde Prime what he is capable of. In context, he's expressing his desire to prove himself worthy to Horde Prime by conquering Etheria. "Showing someone what you're capable of" can also mean intimidating them through violence, and in "Heart, Part 2", Hordak shows Horde Prime exactly what he's capable of when he attacks him.
- In "Destiny, Part 2", Horde Prime tells Hordak that he will be "reborn", right before mind-wiping the clone. In season 5, Hordak is indeed "reborn". After two mind wipes, Hordak eventually regains his memories, rebels against his master, and starts a new life with Entrapta at the end of the series.
- In the Season 1 title card (pictured on the main page), Hordak has white circles in his eyes. In Season 5, white circles appear in the eyes of clones and chipped Etherians when Horde Prime is possessing them. Horde Prime possesses Hordak at the climax of "Heart, Part 2", but is exorcised by She-Ra.
- During Hordak's "baptism" in "Corridors", the clones chant "CAST OUT THE SHADOWS!" In "Heart, Part 2", She-Ra casts Horde Prime's consciousness out of Hordak's body. It resembles a black shadow as it's ejected from Hordak's back.
- In Season 4, Razz reveals that the sword was created to control She-Ra, but She-Ra herself is more ancient than the First Ones. After she breaks the sword, Adora is still able to reconnect with She-Ra in Season 5, accessing even more power than before.
- In "Taking Control", Netossa asks where Spinnerella has been and Spinny just says that "Something weird happened" while moving her neck as if it aches. We later discover that she's been chipped on the neck by Horde Prime.
- When the heroes are on the verge of victory after defeating Hordak and his forces in "Destiny, Part 2", only to deliver themselves right at Horde Prime's doorstep, Etheria now rejoining the larger universe means its entire population witnessed a clone of himself act autonomously and lose. Horde Prime's response is to raze Etheria rather than allow his image as an Invincible Villain to be tarnished by his 'inferior' brother's actions, until Catra convinces him he's wasting an opportunity to secure control of his empire. Then, he implements a directive that prevents all clones from talking about his defeat at Krytis. This foreshadows his Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum during the Final Battle when he starts losing for real for the first time, willing to undo all of creation rather than suffer a defeat.
