Tropescilloscope: Foreshadowing

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

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