Tropescilloscope: Foreshadowing

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

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