Tropescilloscope: Foreshadowing

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

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