Tropescilloscope: Foreshadowing

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

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