Tropescilloscope: Foreshadowing

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

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