42 Brilliant Bits of Foreshadowing That You Didn’t Miss, But Lesser Film Nerds May Have

Consider this a little indication that instances of foreshadowing may or may not be on their way
42 Brilliant Bits of Foreshadowing That You Didn’t Miss, But Lesser Film Nerds May Have

Here’s to all those aha moments in movies. You know the ones. You’re sitting there in that musty old theater chair or on that musty old couch — can we all agree to start using upholstery cleaners once in a while? — when your eyes widen, your head nods and you let out an audible, “Oh! It’s like that one guy said back at that one place.” 

Well, that’s a little thing called foreshadowing, friendo! It’s a little indication that something bigger is about to go down. You probably missed it. Maybe it was hiding behind the fabric cleaner. 

Seriously, dude. It smells like a flea market in here.

Reservoir Dogs

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

The Last Jedi

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

The Others

CRACKED.COM THE OTHERS Grace scolds her sulking daughter, Anne, saying, 'Stop breathing like that... Stop breathing!' It is revealed at the end that Grace has murdered her children... ...by smothering them with a pillow.

The Dark Knight Rises

Miranda's Dark Knight Rises scar ... ... really should have looked familiar to Bruce. It's the League of Assassins brand from Batman Begins. We also get hints that she's connected to Ra's Al Ghul because she keeps quoting him. Both say they want to restore the balance and do what is necessary. CRACKED.COM

Deadpool 2

This screen is from a Deadpool 2 trailer. Production DesD DAVID SCHEUNEMANN Nice Juggs! 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

The Avengers

HTGH 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

Fight Club

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

Iron Man

IRON MAN When Tony Stark finds Obadiah Stane at his piano, the older man is playing a selection by Salieri. You know, the bitter old rival who killed talented upstart Amadeus out of jealousy? Sound familiar? CRACKED.COM

Guardians of the Galaxy

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Yondu was hired to deliver Peter Quill to his father, but the Ravager decides to keep him aboard his ship instead. Yondu gets a laugh when he calls Quill's dad a jackass, but the line proves true in Guardians 2. CRACKED.COM

Captain America

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER Bucky leads Steve away from a fight and Steve asks Where we going? Bucky's reply: The future. They had no idea. CRACKED.COM

Spider-Man

SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE Before Olivia Octavius is revealed to be Dr. Octopus, we get visual foreshadowing with her octagon- shaped glasses and office lights. Of course, the name was also a hint. CRACKED.COM

The Dark Knight

THE DARK KNIGHT CRACKED.COM Harvey Dent is flipping coins and wrestling with demons during an interrogation scene. As he screams at Batman, shadow falls across half his crazed face, predicting his transformation into Two-Face.

Watchmen

WATCHMEN CRACKED.COM Happy Retirement Sally In the opening credits of Zack Snyder's Watchmen movie, Sally's retirement dinner is set up like the Last Supper. Note the Comedian is in the Judas seat.

Wonder Woman

WONDER WOMAN CRACKED.COM As a young Amazon, Diana goes through many training exercises to develop her warrior skills. We'll see each of those lessons pay off in later battles throughout the film.

Batman

CRACKED.COM BATMAN JOKER and -7 The Joker In Tim Burton's film, Jack Napier consults his lucky deck and pulls a Joker with an ominous hole in the cheek. When he faces off with Batman in the chemical plant, his bullet ricochets and tears a similar hole in Napier's face.

Doctor Who

CRACKED.COM Doctor Who The Doctor was warned about his turn to darkness. If you could decide who lives and who dies, that would make you a monster, the Doctor is told In Voyage of the Damned. A full season later he proclaims himself Time Lord Victorious, who does get to decide who lives and who dies-one of his darkest moments.

Alien

CRACKED.COM Alien It just wasn't Kane's day. Kane's very first words in the movie are, I feel dead (to which Parker jokingly replies, Anybody ever tell you you look dead, man? - words we're sure he later regretted).

Men in Black

CRACKED.COM Men in Black The movie starts with a front crash into foreshadowing. Right after an insect splatters against a windshield, the very first words spoken in the movie are, goddamn bugs! Then a huge goodman bug turns out to be the villain.

Total Recall

Total Recall The entire plot is telegraphed early on. Doug Quaid's implanted memory is supposed to include blue sky on Mars, alien artifacts, and two-headed monsters (which sounds like a fair description of Quato). Regardless of where you stand on the dream/reality debate, this is all spot on. CRACKED.COM

Captain Marvel

CRACKED.COM Captain Marvel - Ministry - THE RIGHT STU FF I - Carol Danvers picks up just the right movie. While exploring the Blockbuster she just crashed into, Carol picks up The Right Stuff, a movie about test pilots who go into space - just like Carol herself, as we learn later on.

Us

Us In the beginning when we see a young Adelaide at the psychiatrist's office, she is placing a tiny rabbit toy in a long line of other animal toys. This foreshadows what happens when the underground or Tethered emerges. CRACKED.COM

Underwater

UNDERWATER Right in the beginning we see Norah spotting a spider in the bathroom of the underwater drilling station. The creators said it was a deliberate foreshadowing of a creature you would not expect to see at the bottom of the ocean. CRACKED.COM

Get Out

GET OUT Rod tells Chris about a suspicious old lady at the airport and says, Like you can't hide a bomb in a wheelchair? Watch, Chris, the next 9/11 is gonna be on Y some geriatric shit. S It's a foreshadowing of the nefarious ongoings between the senior citizens of the Coagula project. CRACKED.COM

The Big Lebowski

42 Brilliant Bits of Foreshadowing That You Didn’t Miss, But Lesser Film Nerds May Have

Shaun of the Dead

SHAUN THE OF DEAD GEBO You wanna live like an animal? Go live in the shed. At the end of the movie, Ed does in-fact end up living in a shed as a zombie. CRACKED.COM

T2: Judgment Day

42 Brilliant Bits of Foreshadowing That You Didn’t Miss, But Lesser Film Nerds May Have

Batman Returns

In Batman Returns the shadow from Selina Kyle's glasses foreshadows her later transformation into Catwoman. (1992) CRACKED.COM

Coco

Early in Coco, Miguel says he'll play guitar in the plaza if it Не then steals a kills forbidden guitar me. he intends to use at said plaza... ...and ends up in The Land of the Dead. CRACKED.COM

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Early in the movie, Ultron muses: Everyone creates the thing they dread... people create... children. Designed to supplant them, to help OF end of the AVENGERS AGE ULTRON them...end. And at the movie, it's ultimately Ultron's creation, Vision, that supplants and destroys him. CRACKED.COM

Monsters, Inc.

MONSTERS, INC. Roz's line I'm watching you, CRACKED.COM Wazowski. Always watching cleverly foreshadows the fact that she's the head of Monstropolis' security agency. OC112 02 1195 CDA 001

Magnolia

CRACKED.COM magnolia There are 8s and 2s everywhere Partly Cloudy, 82% Chance of Rain. in the film. These numbers are referring to Exodus 8:2 (...I will send a plague of frogs '82 on your whole country.). And during the climax of the film, the sky starts raining frogs.

Interstellar

INTERSTELLAR In the opening scene, Murph approaches her father who has woken up screaming from a nightmare and tells him: I thought you were the ghost. She is referring to the 'ghost' that keeps knocking down her books in her bedroom, which later turns out to be her father from another dimension. CRACKED.COM

007

CRACKED.COM 007F ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE A clue that James Bond would get married in this film: Не gets down on one knee in the opening gunbarrel sequence!

Jurassic Park

On the way to Jurassic Park, Dr. Grant discovers his seatbelt won't work because it has two female ends. Не improvises by tying them together. It perfectly foreshadows that the dinosaurs, who are all female, have found a way to reproduce. CRACKED.COM

Breaking Bad

Season 2 of Breaking Bad ends with a plane crash above Walt's house. There were four episodes that hinted at this titled (in order) Seven Thirty-Seven Down Over 35 ABQ Br eaking 56 Bad CRACKED.COM

The Incredibles

42 Brilliant Bits of Foreshadowing That You Didn’t Miss, But Lesser Film Nerds May Have

Game of Thrones

42 Brilliant Bits of Foreshadowing That You Didn’t Miss, But Lesser Film Nerds May Have

The Matrix Reloaded

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The Simpsons

42 Brilliant Bits of Foreshadowing That You Didn’t Miss, But Lesser Film Nerds May Have

Star Wars

42 Brilliant Bits of Foreshadowing That You Didn’t Miss, But Lesser Film Nerds May Have

Back to the Future II

42 Brilliant Bits of Foreshadowing That You Didn’t Miss, But Lesser Film Nerds May Have

Daenerys

GAME OF The very first time THRONES we meet Daenerys in the first episode... she goes to get into the bath, and is frantically followed by her servant telling her that she can't get into the tub because the water is too hot. Daenerys does not listen and descends into the scalding hot water without a flinch, perfectly alluding to her future unburnt legacy. CRACKED.COM

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