Tropescilloscope: Foreshadowing

Vaguely hinting at upcoming events. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes The Casanova I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Suddenly SHOUTING! Badass Bookworm Bittersweet Ending Death of a Child Made of Iron Bare Your Midriff Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Knight Templar Properly Paranoid Depraved Bisexual Japanese Films The Ditz An Axe to Grind Stealth Hi/Bye Awesome, but Impractical Hope Spot Nothing Is Scarier Laughing Mad Blackmail Pyrrhic Victory Armor-Piercing Question Adorkable folderlabel Arranged Marriage Actually Pretty Funny Training Montage She's Got Legs Never Trust a Trailer Chewing the Scenery Tranquil Fury The Hero Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Neck Snap Cowboy Cop Kick the Son of a Bitch Author Avatar Let's Get Dangerous! Works Set in World War II Kubrick Stare In Name Only Funny Background Event Would Hit a Girl The Sociopath Motor Mouth Red Oni, Blue Oni Closed Circle Affably Evil Face Death with Dignity Serious Business Epic Fail Vomit Indiscretion Shot Framing Device Aside Glance O.O.C. Is Serious Business Slashed Throat World of Ham Genre Savvy Demonic Possession Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Logo Joke Cold-Blooded Torture Bolivian Army Ending Dutch Angle Needs Wiki Magic Love Hollywood Law Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Insult Backfire As You Know Famous Last Words Happily Married Redemption Equals Death Enemy Mine Artistic License – History Hypocrite Insane Troll Logic Fun with Acronyms Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Deliberately Monochrome British Films Exactly What It Says on the Tin The Ghost Disproportionate Retribution Martial Arts Movie Death Glare Epic Movie What Happened to the Mouse? Spell My Name with an "S" Suspiciously Specific Denial Dumb Blonde Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Adults Are Useless Adaptational Badass Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Superhero Eyepatch of Power The Chessmaster Not What It Looks Like Pay Evil unto Evil Plucky Comic Relief Fatal Flaw All for Nothing Dressing as the Enemy Big Bad Fake Shemp Driven to Suicide Undying Loyalty Narrator Hypocritical Humor Curse Cut Short Together in Death Toplessness from the Back Spiteful Spit Amusing Injuries Disappeared Dad Big Eater The Dog Bites Back Adaptational Villainy Same Language Dub Genre Shift Off with His Head! Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Real Life Early-Bird Cameo Smoking Is Cool Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Reckless Gun Usage Big Applesauce Empathic Environment Pragmatic Villainy Really Gets Around Mistaken for Gay Revenge Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Mr. Exposition The Faceless Ambiguous Disorder The Un-Reveal Gold Digger In Medias Res Improbable Aiming Skills All Just a Dream "The Reason You Suck" Speech More Dakka Freudian Excuse Kids Are Cruel Whole Plot Reference Leaning on the Fourth Wall The Lancer Deus ex Machina Dramatic Gun Cock Beware the Nice Ones Serial Killer Crazy Jealous Guy Gilligan Cut The Cameo Unwitting Instigator of Doom Dark Is Not Evil Accidental Misnaming Running Gag Rule of Symbolism Damsel in Distress Hooker with a Heart of Gold Yandere Face–Heel Turn Costume Porn Eldritch Abomination One-Word Title Stylistic Suck Rich Bitch Animal Motifs Beta Couple Ax-Crazy Attempted Rape Word of God Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Cluster F-Bomb The X of Y Interrupted Suicide Skewed Priorities Butt-Monkey Music Stories No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Madness Mantra BFG Big "NO!" Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Homage Anti-Villain "Well Done, Son!" Guy Beard of Evil Drill Sergeant Nasty For Want of a Nail Super Strength Due to the Dead Here We Go Again! The Mafia Dark and Troubled Past Five-Man Band Breaking the Fourth Wall Dull Surprise Oh, Crap! Shown Their Work Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Grievous Bottley Harm Call-Back Accidental Murder The '50s Public Domain Feature Films Military and Warfare Films Men Are the Expendable Gender All There in the Script Hair-Trigger Temper Jerkass Determinator aka: The Determinator Darkest Hour Parental Incest Lampshade Hanging Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Wrong Genre Savvy Scary Black Man Artistic License – Physics Femme Fatale Drowning My Sorrows Race Against the Clock Instant Death Bullet Eureka Moment Evil vs. Evil Meaningful Echo Chekhov's Gunman Bad Boss And Starring Police are Useless Implacable Man Pre-Mortem One-Liner Black Comedy Rape Four-Temperament Ensemble Lighter and Softer Early Installment Weirdness Bloody Hilarious Guile Hero Evil Is Petty "Shaggy Dog" Story Made of Explodium Only Known by Their Nickname Well-Intentioned Extremist Red Herring Rule of Cool Unspoken Plan Guarantee "Awesome McCool" Name Jerkass Has a Point Double Entendre It's Personal Documentary Get Out! Bald of Evil Dissonant Serenity Deal with the Devil Be Careful What You Wish For Jitter Cam Adult Fear Sassy Black Woman Did Not Get the Girl Manly Tears Easily Forgiven Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Immune to Bullets Brutal Honesty The Bully Retcon Age Lift Mercy Kill Cool Guns Video Credits Getting Crap Past the Radar The Alcoholic Sports Stories Dogged Nice Guy Didn't Think This Through Irony Psychological Thriller Adaptational Heroism Taking the Bullet Morality Pet Tempting Fate Sealed Evil in a Can How We Got Here Artistic License – Military Bavarian Fire Drill Mexican Standoff Heroic BSoD Drives Like Crazy Bound and Gagged Deadpan Snarker Book-Ends Jerk with a Heart of Gold Action Girl Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Determinator Playing Gertrude Bilingual Bonus Improvised Weapon Gorn Rousing Speech The '90s Big Damn Heroes And I Must Scream Never Found the Body Batman Gambit Precision F-Strike Not Even Bothering with the Accent From Bad to Worse Shell-Shocked Veteran Once More, with Clarity! Action Genre Ungrateful Bastard Sole Survivor Male Gaze Anti-Hero Earn Your Happy Ending Scenery Porn Badass Longcoat Truth in Television The End... Or Is It? Blatant Lies Combat Pragmatist Tap on the Head Fish out of Water The Place Last-Name Basis Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Country Matters Chase Scene Villain with Good Publicity No Ending The Hero Dies Big Fancy House Time Skip Black Comedy Villain Protagonist Sanity Slippage Mythology Gag Developing Doomed Characters Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Silent Movie Action Survivor Greater-Scope Villain Heterosexual Life-Partners Not So Above It All Deliberate Values Dissonance Crazy-Prepared Final Girl Malevolent Masked Men Annoying Younger Sibling Meaningful Background Event Central Theme Guns Akimbo Offscreen Teleportation Anyone Can Die I Just Shot Marvin in the Face War Is Hell Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Bring My Brown Pants The Dragon Cat Scare Death by Adaptation Exact Words Worthy Opponent Fiery Redhead Rule of Three Blood Knight Psycho for Hire Bunny-Ears Lawyer Suspiciously Similar Substitute Tagline There Is No Kill Like Overkill Does Not Like Shoes A God Am I French Films Contrived Coincidence Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Darker and Edgier Evil Sounds Deep Covers Always Lie Idiot Ball Wham Line Celebrity Paradox The Alleged Car Hell Is That Noise She Cleans Up Nicely Affectionate Parody Card-Carrying Villain Twist Ending Kill It with Fire Dwindling Party Recycled IN SPACE! Hidden Depths Humans Are Bastards Cloudcuckoolander Coming-of-Age Story MacGuffin Evil Cannot Comprehend Good "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Those Wacky Nazis Heroes Want Redheads Soft Glass Self-Deprecation Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Mad Scientist Arc Words Australian Movies Major Injury Underreaction Big Bad Duumvirate Laser-Guided Karma Police Brutality The Lost Lenore Auto Erotica Only in It for the Money The Starscream Fanservice Extra Fire-Forged Friends Pragmatic Adaptation Heroic Sacrifice Our Vampires Are Different Bullying a Dragon Conspicuous CG Shoot the Shaggy Dog Love at First Sight Red Eyes, Take Warning Big Brother Instinct Horror Comedy Animated Credits Opening All Girls Want Bad Boys Random Events Plot Translation Convention Bloodier and Gorier Unreliable Narrator Expy The Atoner Say My Name N-Word Privileges Line-of-Sight Name Sequel Hook Corpsing Dying Moment of Awesome Show Within a Show Adaptation Distillation Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience From Nobody to Nightmare Adaptation Dye-Job May–December Romance Peek-a-Boo Corpse Villain Ball One-Man Army Evil Laugh Naked People Are Funny Horror Films Evil Counterpart Killed Mid-Sentence Fantasy Films Title Drop Alas, Poor Villain Roaring Rampage of Revenge Credits Gag Bar Brawl Establishing Character Moment Fatal Family Photo Rule of Funny Fainting Wretched Hive Monumental Damage An Arm and a Leg Biopic Fanservice Mood Whiplash Agony of the Feet Badass in a Nice Suit Henpecked Husband Deconstruction Parental Abandonment Everyone Has Standards Cool Shades Slasher Movie German Films Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! What You Are in the Dark Not Quite Dead No Name Given Funny Foreigner Maybe Ever After Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Villain Song Non-Indicative Name Sadistic Choice Apocalypse How Danny Peary Cult Movies List You Killed My Father Evil-Detecting Dog Demoted to Extra Defrosting Ice Queen Heel–Face Turn Distracted by the Sexy Extremely Short Timespan Red Shirt Vampire Fiction Dirty Cop Foreshadowing Heel Realization Ambiguous Ending Scenery Gorn Cool Old Lady Scare Chord Vomit Discretion Shot Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Visual Pun La Résistance Animal Title Index Psychopathic Manchild Beauty Is Never Tarnished Fantastic Racism Rape as Drama Russian Films Continuity Nod Cool Car Black Best Friend Parental Neglect Comically Missing the Point Off-into-the-Distance Ending A Father to His Men Leitmotif Camera Abuse Anachronic Order Faux Affably Evil Dramatic Irony Abusive Parents Poor Communication Kills Plot Hole Good Is Not Nice Based on a True Story Stalker with a Crush Canadian Movies Offscreen Moment of Awesome Award-Bait Song Bury Your Gays Woman Scorned Pet the Dog Asshole Victim Broken Pedestal Catapult Nightmare Insistent Terminology Dual Wielding Took a Level in Badass Shout-Out Redshirt Army 20 Minutes into the Future Hong Kong Films Car Fu Thriller Sacrificial Lion Sequel Escalation Reality Ensues Cool Old Guy The Power of Love Expository Hairstyle Change Zombie Stories Mighty Whitey Shower Scene Historical-Domain Character Christmas Movies Index Very Loosely Based on a True Story Retirony Break the Haughty Moment Killer Handicapped Badass Big-Bad Ensemble Ghost Fiction Gender Flip Imagine Spot Bowdlerise No OSHA Compliance Shirtless Scene Disney Villain Death You Have Outlived Your Usefulness The Ace Reality Is Unrealistic Informed Ability For the Evulz Wounded Gazelle Gambit Hero Antagonist Loads and Loads of Characters Love Triangle You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Amoral Attorney Blonde, Brunette, Redhead I Have Your Wife The Musical Bait-and-Switch Important Haircut Not So Stoic Taking You with Me Mystery and Detective Films The Big Guy This Is Gonna Suck Badass Grandpa Stock Footage Back from the Dead Dies Wide Open My God, What Have I Done? My Beloved Smother Eye Scream Extreme Doormat Take That! Spiritual Successor Anguished Declaration of Love Reality Has No Subtitles Ass Shove Rated M for Manly Fate Worse than Death As Long as It Sounds Foreign Straight Gay Jerk Jock Never My Fault Hero of Another Story The Reveal Drugs Are Bad Even Evil Has Loved Ones Creator Cameo The Chick An Aesop The Great Depression Adapted Out Storming the Castle Ship Tease Film Noir The '80s Hollywood Darkness Noodle Incident Aluminum Christmas Trees Our Zombies Are Different Authority Equals Asskicking It Will Never Catch On Historical Hero Upgrade Failed a Spot Check The Smart Guy Manic Pixie Dream Girl Ripped from the Headlines Chekhov's Skill Fingore Male Frontal Nudity Soundtrack Dissonance Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Man on Fire Artistic License – Law Villainous Breakdown Nice Hat Cain and Abel Karmic Death Death by Irony Crapsack World Historical In-Joke Only Sane Man Brother–Sister Incest Romantic False Lead Intergenerational Friendship Dramedy A Minor Kidroduction Double-Meaning Title Up to Eleven The Vamp Overprotective Dad Groin Attack Green-Eyed Monster Boom, Headshot! The '60s Rasputinian Death Race Lift Berserk Button Artistic License – Gun Safety Kill 'em All I Need a Freaking Drink Pimped-Out Dress Throwing Your Sword Always Works Flipping the Bird The Smurfette Principle Grey and Gray Morality Crucified Hero Shot The Dreaded It's All About Me Left the Background Music On Shipper on Deck The Stoic Call-Forward Gory Discretion Shot Those Two Guys Manchild No Antagonist Obstructive Bureaucrat The '70s Overly Long Gag Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Corrupt Corporate Executive Anachronism Stew Silence Is Golden Make It Look Like an Accident After the End Index of Film Westerns B-Movie Only a Flesh Wound Almost Kiss Not Using the "Z" Word Artistic License – Biology Author Appeal Badass Boast Dirty Old Man Chekhov's Gun Nice Guy Bi the Way Posthumous Character The Remake Smug Snake Take a Third Option The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Adaptational Attractiveness Every Car Is a Pinto I'm a Humanitarian Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Catch-Phrase No-Sell Dirty Coward Setting Update Hoist by His Own Petard Older Than They Look Parental Substitute Air-Vent Passageway Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Mind Screw Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Not So Different Blood from the Mouth Hate Sink Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Protagonist Title Match Cut Gone Horribly Right Rewatch Bonus Dark Action Girl Children Are Innocent Advertised Extra Bloodless Carnage Diabolus ex Machina Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer timeperiod Brainless Beauty Politically Incorrect Villain Villain Opening Scene Bad "Bad Acting" Totally Radical Camp Gay Historical Villain Upgrade Riddle for the Ages Bottomless Magazines Cruel and Unusual Death Antagonist Title Punch-Clock Villain Daylight Horror Action Prologue Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Daddy's Girl All Men Are Perverts Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Your Head A-Splode Stepford Smiler Bitch in Sheep's Clothing The Voiceless Broken Bird Better to Die than Be Killed Bond Villain Stupidity Fan Disservice Meaningful Name The Oner Manipulative Bastard Death by Sex Artistic License – Geography Alpha Bitch Despair Event Horizon Genre Throwback Adaptation Expansion Small Name, Big Ego One Steve Limit Calling the Old Man Out Television Movie Index The Cavalry Science Fiction Films No Good Deed Goes Unpunished The Bad Guy Wins As the Good Book Says... Product Placement Punny Name Shut Up, Hannibal! Unusual Euphemism Stealth Pun Faking the Dead He Knows Too Much I Did What I Had to Do Curb-Stomp Battle Honor Before Reason Becoming the Mask Large Ham Too Dumb to Live Wham Shot Casting Gag Lock and Load Montage Cassandra Truth Evil Brit Unresolved Sexual Tension As Himself Put on a Bus Vitriolic Best Buds Evil Plan Obviously Evil Ironic Echo Bland-Name Product Broken Aesop Ascended Extra Stuff Blowing Up Refuge in Audacity Creative Closing Credits Re-Cut Domestic Abuse My Greatest Failure Mr. Fanservice Captain Obvious Eagleland Names to Run Away from Really Fast Romantic Comedy Meet Cute Alliterative Name Canon Foreigner A.I. Is a Crapshoot The Film of the Book Karma Houdini Character Development Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass What the Hell, Hero? Babies Ever After Sinister Minister Papa Wolf NO INDOOR VOICE Black Dude Dies First Loophole Abuse Pretty Little Headshots Brick Joke Betty and Veronica All There in the Manual Knife Nut Disney Death Even Evil Has Standards Unusually Uninteresting Sight Mooks Bond One-Liner Captain Ersatz Creepy Child Sci-Fi Horror No Celebrities Were Harmed Death Seeker Foregone Conclusion Department of Redundancy Department Slap-Slap-Kiss True Companions Fat Bastard You Have Failed Me Sexy Discretion Shot Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Ms. Fanservice Ominous Latin Chanting Badass Normal Decoy Protagonist Ugly Guy, Hot Wife In the Back The Load Naïve Newcomer Chiaroscuro Have a Gay Old Time Arch-Enemy Jump Scare Missing Mom Light Is Not Good Mama Bear Actor Allusion Market-Based Title Red Right Hand Reasonable Authority Figure Novelization He Who Fights Monsters Gainax Ending Mundane Made Awesome Facial Horror Pretty in Mink Does This Remind You of Anything? Italian Films Cat Fight Flashback A Date with Rosie Palms Freeze-Frame Bonus Break the Cutie Sir Swears-a-Lot Foil Vacation Films Film Series The Stinger Intrepid Reporter And the Adventure Continues Adaptation Name Change Abhorrent Admirer Evil Is Hammy '80s Hair Improbable Weapon User Dropped a Bridge on Him Kick the Dog The Mole The Brute Slasher Smile Spanner in the Works Wicked Cultured Star-Crossed Lovers The Quiet One Fourth Date Marriage Belligerent Sexual Tension Token Minority Frame-Up It Can Think Film Noir Index Real Life Writes the Plot Only One Name Composite Character Would Hurt a Child Leave the Camera Running Mugging the Monster The Stoner Downer Ending Your Cheating Heart Gratuitous English Disguised in Drag Destination Defenestration Black and Gray Morality Defiant to the End Woman in White Room Full of Crazy Took a Level in Jerkass Ambiguously Gay Those Two Bad Guys Victoria's Secret Compartment Spared by the Adaptation Body Horror Paper-Thin Disguise Outrun the Fireball Dark Reprise Neck Lift Eiffel Tower Effect Friend to All Children Trailers Always Spoil Married to the Job Retired Badass Half the Man He Used to Be Obfuscating Stupidity Humiliation Conga