37 Artful Instances of Foreshadowing That Completely Change Your Experience During a Re-Watch

Some huge plot twists wouldn’t have been so shocking if you just paid attention!
37 Artful Instances of Foreshadowing That Completely Change Your Experience During a Re-Watch

There’s always a small part of us that wants to give a spoiler alert before a list like this. But in this case, you really should’ve seen these huge TV and movie moments coming. Every spoiler here is a lesson learned the hard way. 

Maybe next time you’ll be a little more eagle-eyed when it comes to foreshadowing.

Scream

SCREAM A couple of songs warn about the boyfriends in the movie. Billy is introduced while (Don't Fear) The Reaper plays, and before Tatum dies in the garage scene, she's hanging out with Stu while Republica's Drop Dead Gorgeous plays, the chorus being: I know my ex-boyfriend lies/Oh, he does it every time /It's just his permanent disguise/Yeah, yeah, but he's drop-dead gorgeous. CRACKED.COM

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

CRACKED.COM Close Encounters of the Third Kind A musical clue gives away the big moment. During the initial UFO chase, someone is heard whistling, She'll be Coming 'Round the Mountain. When the mothership finally arrives, it does, indeed, come 'round a mountain.

Star Wars

The Last Jedi Kylo Ren foreshadows two plot points at the same time. You're not doing this, he tells Rey. The effort would kill you. He's right - it's Snoke connecting Rey and Kylo through the Force, and the effort does kill Luke when he projects himself to save the Rebellion later on. CRACKED.COM

Back to the Future

Back to the Future 12 1 9 AXIS 5 7 6 Doc Brown is apparently a fan of Harold Lloyd. Не owns a recreation of the iconic image of Lloyd hanging from a clock in Safety Last! - as Doc himself will end up doing. CRACKED.COM

Star Trek

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan The Kobayashi Maru should be named U.S.S. Foreshadowing. Spock plays dead during the Kobayashi Maru test. Aren't you dead? Kirk jokingly asks him afterwards. We don't need to remind you what happens at the movie's end, do we? CRACKED.COM

Guardians of the Galaxy

CRACKED.COM Guardians of the Galaxy Meredith wasn't speaking figuratively. A dying Meredith Quill tells her son Peter that his dad was an angel composed out of pure light. In the sequel, we learn that Peter's dad really isn't from Earth, and light is indeed a big part of him. (He's far from an angel, though.)

Batman Returns

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

Frozen

The background of the song For the First Time in Forever foreshadows who Anna's love interests really are. First, it's a SINISTER NOBLEMAN. Then, an AMIABLE COUNTRYMAN. FROZEN 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 1 CDA 001

The Big Lebowski

37 Artful Instances of Foreshadowing That Completely Change Your Experience During a Re-Watch

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

Captain America

CRACKED.COM In Captain America: The First Avenger, Steve asks Bucky where they're going, to which he replies: The Future. A Ain't that the truth.

Bronn and The Mountain

In Game of Thrones, Bronn refuses to fight against the Mountain, noting that he could: Dance around until he's so tired of hacking at me he dropped his sword. Get him off his feet somehow. But one misstep and I'm dead. Exactly what eventually happened to Oberyn Martell when he fought the Mountain, word for word. CRACKED.COM

The Good Place

The Good Place hints at its big season one twist in episode two. YOGURT, ACRES THE SUGGESTION CA YOGURT Michael's villainous nature should've been obvious to us when he literally kicked a dog. CRACKED.COM

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

37 Artful Instances of Foreshadowing That Completely Change Your Experience During a Re-Watch

Game of Thrones

37 Artful Instances of Foreshadowing That Completely Change Your Experience During a Re-Watch

The Simpsons

37 Artful Instances of Foreshadowing That Completely Change Your Experience During a Re-Watch

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse

In Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse, the reveal that the scientist is Doctor Octopus is foreshadowed by how her glasses are octagons... Her lab is lit by octagonal lights... ٨ ...And there's a Doctor Octopus tentacle sitting right there in plain sight on her desk. CRACKED.COM

The Virgin Suicides

THE VIRGIN SUICIDES The photo Mr. Lisbon takes before the prom telegraphs the way each of the remaining sisters will commit suicide. From left to right: Lux looks like she's holding a cigarette; Lux will be found dead with a cigarette in her hand. Therese's eyes are closed, as if she is asleep; Therese will overdose on sleeping pills; Mary coughs just after the photo is taken; Mary will stick her head in the gas oven. Bonnie is adjusting something behind her neck; Bonnie will hang herself. CRACKED.COM

Back to the Future II

37 Artful Instances of Foreshadowing That Completely Change Your Experience During a Re-Watch

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

Arrival

Arrival Louise Banks goes in circles. During the opening scene, Louise walks down a curving corridor - a visual representation of the circular perception of time she will acquire (or already has). CRACKED.COM

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.

The Matrix Reloaded

CRACKED.COM The Matrix Reloaded The Merovingian can't keep spoilers to himself. You know, your predecessors had much more respect, the Merovingian chastises Neo, before Neo (or anyone in the audience) knows that there have been other Ones before.

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

Willy’s Wonderland

WILLY'S WONDERLAND William Wonderland It's never stated what exactly the Janitor (Cage) does for a living or how he learned to kick butt like that. But a quick shot in his car at the beginning of the film shows dog tags hanging from his rearview mirror, hinting at his fighting ability (and arguably his affinity for discipline and routine). CRACKED.COM

Shaun of the Dead

SHAUN OF THE DEAO In the beginning Pete yells at Ed, You want to live like an animal? Go live in the shed! That's exactly where Ed lives by the end of the movie. CRACKED.COM

Ready or Not

READY OR NOT SECRET COUNCIL LE BAIL'S THE GAMBIT LD - - ai FAMILY RITUAL FAMILY Take thickink Gabs - | RITUAL The Centre Love / - Homema and - THE - - CLASSIC POINTS - ID ages PLAYERS 6+ 3+ - SUN ADVENTURE SAME There's a shot of various board games at the CRACKED.COM beginning of the movie, each with their own significance. Family Ritual and Secret Council are obvious ones, but it's the bottom one titled Sunrise that foreshadows what Grace will have to do to activate the curse.

It Follows

IT FOLLOWS Ch Mot Don't 1 In the beginning the kids play Old Maid, a game about passing on cards in the hopes of not getting stuck with the old maid card.. LIM mu It represents the entity in the movie that cannot be destroyed but can only be passed along, and foreshadows it appearing as an old woman. 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

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