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34 Crazy Moments of Foreshadowing We Should Have Noticed

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34 Crazy Moments of Foreshadowing We Should Have Noticed

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Are we the brightest, most perceptive folks on the planet? Probably. However, somehow, we’ve still managed to miss some wild foreshadowing in television, film and other stories that frankly we should have caught. For example, the writing was literally on the wall that Annyong was the spy antagonist in Arrested Development. Turns out there’s more than money in the banana stand. This kind of clever foreshadowing has been happening for decades. So scroll down to see examples of foreshadowing that you totally should have picked up on…

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Describing her doppelgänger, Buffy's Willow says, I think I'm kind of gay. It seems like a one-time joke. But sure enough, years later, the formerly boy-liking Willow is openly gay. Kind of gay, anyway-modern audiences would more likely call Willow bi. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Movie And TV Brilliant Foreshadowing Moments (That Get Missed)

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get u BI one ZEM Arrested Development hinted early that Annyong was the spy fighting them. Graffiti on the vandalized banana stand read, I'll get u Bluth ... hello. Annyong, we were already told, is Korean for hello, meaning it was signed annyong. His actual name also turns out to be Hel-loh. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Movie And TV Brilliant Foreshadowing Moments (That Get Missed)

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Watch Leia in The Last Jedi. Then see what comes later. She cuts through a hologram of the Supremacy, the flagship of the First Order ... in pretty much the same place Holdo nails the real ship later on, with us viewing the ship at the same angle. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Movie And TV Brilliant Foreshadowing Moments (That Get Missed)

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Solo

This scene in Solo hinted we'd soon see Darth Maul. Dryden's weapon of choice is a two-bladed glowstick knife, essentially a miniature version of Maul's double-bladed lightsaber. Plus, the lines on his face vaguely recall Maul's KISS-Army-like mug. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Movie And TV Brilliant Foreshadowing Moments (That Get Missed)

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As Reservoir Dogs begins, Mr. Orange tattles on non-tipper Mr. Pink. So, who's the rat later on who informs on the gang to the police? Mr. Orange, of course. As you'd know if you paid attention to the opening scene, which defines everyone's character. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Movie And TV Brilliant Foreshadowing Moments (That Get Missed)

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CRACKED.COM Cowboy Bebop In Gateway Shuffle, Jet teases Faye for not paying attention during hyperspace physics class in school. We eventually learn that her school years were decades before Jet's, so she was never taught about hyperspace. — Source: 14 Glowing Cases Of Foreshadowing In Animated Movies & Shows

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Coraline During Coraline's first visit to the other house, one of the first signs that not everything is OK is a lightning bolt that forms a monstrous hand- which looks just like the hands of the Other Mother in her true, monstrous form. CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Glowing Cases Of Foreshadowing In Animated Movies & Shows

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Encanto

Encanto During the We Don't Talk About Bruno number, Dolores sings, I can always hear him sort of muttering and mumbling. I can, present tense-because Bruno is still in the house. (In fact, he's in the balcony behind Dolores and Mirabel at that very moment). CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Glowing Cases Of Foreshadowing In Animated Movies & Shows

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Futurama We eventually learn that Nibbler is responsible for Fry getting frozen in the first seconds of the year 2000-but if you pay attention during the first episode, you can see his shadow as that happens. CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Glowing Cases Of Foreshadowing In Animated Movies & Shows

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Frozen

CRACKED COM Frozen The opening song Frozen Heart foreshadows the entire movie-for starters, it's called Frozen Heart, which is a major plot development. The lyrics are about how the magic ofice can't be controlled, and even include the words, Let it go. — Source: 14 Glowing Cases Of Foreshadowing In Animated Movies & Shows

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CRACKED.COM Invincible Earth isn't yours to conquer, Omni-Man chillingly warns the invading Flaxans. And that's exactly right-as it's eventually revealed, he has claimed Earth as his own to conquer in the name of Viltrum. — Source: 14 Glowing Cases Of Foreshadowing In Animated Movies & Shows

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CRACKED.COM Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse Before she's revealed to be Doc Ock, Olivia is surrounded by octagons in her lab. Even her glasses are eight-sided. You should've paid attention, Peter В. Parker. — Source: 14 Glowing Cases Of Foreshadowing In Animated Movies & Shows

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Deadpool 2

This screen is from a Deadpool 2 trailer. Production DesD DAVID SCHEUNEMANN Nice Juzgs! This one's from the credits. That painting looked like surprise character Juggernaut, and the credits gag acknowledged the hint. Promos otherwise kept Juggernaut secret, even editing lyrics on the soundtrack release to avoid spoiling his appearance. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Movie And TV Brilliant Foreshadowing Moments (That Get Missed)

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My work is killing me, says Zoe in House of Cards. She writes for her her newspaper's metropolitan pages. She's saying the Metro is killing her. In the following season, Frank abruptly throws her under a metro train. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Movie And TV Brilliant Foreshadowing Moments (That Get Missed)

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Friends

Monica tries on a wedding dress early in Friends. Chandler arrives, and Phoebe yells, The groom cannot see the bride! It's funny nonsense. Monica's not really a bride, Chandler's in no way a groom, and the two haven't even dated. But this foreshadows the pair hooking up at the end of the season and marrying a few years later. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Movie And TV Brilliant Foreshadowing Moments (That Get Missed)

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The X-Files

Scully gets brain cancer in The X-Files. This uncharacteristically grounded plot was foreshadowed earlier. A nutjob who lobotomized women to free howlers from their brains kidnapped Scully. Не points out where her howler is, and it's where the tumor later appears. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Movie And TV Brilliant Foreshadowing Moments (That Get Missed)

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Mad Men

Mad Men's Lane jokes on his office phone, I'll be here the rest of my life! Не would be. Не hangs himself there. In a different episode, Pete comments that their company's life insurance policy pays out even in the event of suicide. We guess Lane noticed that too. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Movie And TV Brilliant Foreshadowing Moments (That Get Missed)

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How I Met Your Mother

Marshall carves the Thanksgiving turkey in a quick How I Met Your Mother flash forward. His father Marvin later dies in another episode's twist ending. We should have guessed he would from the flash forward years earlier. Marvin's the only Eriksen missing (and as the head of the family, he'd normally do the carving). CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Movie And TV Brilliant Foreshadowing Moments (That Get Missed)

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Breaking Bad

MARTY to can - علد MARTY ROBBINS BIGGEST TUTS My How ، That TO A Dritter Pasive II adidas leardrent This song from OF the Breaking Bad finale tells us how the episode ends. A cowboy steals a ride, flees to New Mexico, then returns, as My love is stronger than my fear of death. A stray bullet hits him. Не dies in the arms of Felina, his true love. Just like Walt dies accompanied by his true love. No, not anyone in his family. Chemistry. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Movie And TV Brilliant Foreshadowing Moments (That Get Missed)

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Arcane

CRACKED.COM Arcane When Silco takes Powder in, her eye glows with reflected firelight - foreshadowing her transformation into Jinx. — Source: 14 Glowing Cases Of Foreshadowing In Animated Movies & Shows

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CRACKED.COM DAS - DON'T RANT touce MY ALL STUFF NITE The Lego Movie Some of Lord Business signs early in the movie convey such un-presidential messages as, Don't touch my stuff or, Don't stay up all night -which sound rather like things a child's parent would say. — Source: 14 Glowing Cases Of Foreshadowing In Animated Movies & Shows

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34 Crazy Moments of Foreshadowing We Should Have Noticed — Source: 14 Glowing Cases Of Foreshadowing In Animated Movies & Shows

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34 Crazy Moments of Foreshadowing We Should Have Noticed — Source: 14 Glowing Cases Of Foreshadowing In Animated Movies & Shows

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Akira Tetsuos psychic hallucinations briefly flash to future events, like his own mutation and Kaori's death. CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Glowing Cases Of Foreshadowing In Animated Movies & Shows

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BoJack Horseman

BoJack Horseman Sarah Lynn shoots a music video in a planetarium, and then dies in one-this is commented on in the show. Not commented on is the fact that this music video is the very first we see of her, as her life starts spinning out of control. CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Glowing Cases Of Foreshadowing In Animated Movies & Shows

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Blade Runner

Blade Runner 2049 hints that Deckard's child was a girl, not a boy like K. In a memory, we see the mop-haired child chased through an orphanage by a group of boys with shaved heads. к visits the place, and only the girls keep their hair, so he couldn't be the grown-up child. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Movie And TV Brilliant Foreshadowing Moments (That Get Missed)

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Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park's Alan makes a faulty seat belt work by tying two buckles. Не needs to create something new and all he has are receiving, or female, parts. So he improvises. This is exactly what ends up happening with the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, who reproduce despite no males being available. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Movie And TV Brilliant Foreshadowing Moments (That Get Missed)

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When you rewatch Coco... Look for gold teeth. The guitar in the photo of Miguel's disgraced ancestor has a gold tooth. Miguel thinks the ancestor is Ernesto de la Cruz, but Ernesto has no gold tooth. Hector does. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Movie And TV Brilliant Foreshadowing Moments (That Get Missed)

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Check out this T-shirt from the start of Moon. WAKE WHEN ME T'S QUITING TIME Wake me up when it's quitting time has a double meaning. We later learn that when one clone wakes up for the first time on the station, that means it was quitting time for the expired clone. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Movie And TV Brilliant Foreshadowing Moments (That Get Missed)

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TELNEX PUB Squint at the text on this Fight Club pay phone. This phone that rings with a call from Tyler Durden has a hard-to-read notice saying: No Incoming Calls Allowed. Which means the phone didn't ring at all, hinting that the narrator was really talking to himself. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Movie And TV Brilliant Foreshadowing Moments (That Get Missed)

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HASII SCORE 36610 36610 Tony spots an agent playing Galaga in The Avengers. In Galaga, you play as a fighter against seemingly endless waves of alien invaders that pour down. That's exactly what the film's climax turns out to be. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Movie And TV Brilliant Foreshadowing Moments (That Get Missed)

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Annihilation's first scene hints at the twist. Natalie Portman's character gives a lecture about how cancer cells spread through duplication. Turns out that what happened to her MIA husband: an alien duplicated him. By the end, aliens even duplicate a house from her memory. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Movie And TV Brilliant Foreshadowing Moments (That Get Missed)

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