Tropescilloscope: Foreshadowing

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

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