6 Sneaky Ways Movies Foreshadowed Huge Twists

Even more pointedly, Han's Crimson-Dawn-employed ex Qi'ra casually mentions that she's been trained in "Teras Kasi" -- which indoor kids likely recognized as a reference to the martial art invented for that Star Wars fighting game which finally allowed Luke and Chewie to act on years of unspoken hatred.

After fans theorized that Darth Maul's acrobatics may have been Teras Kasi in action, the novel Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter made it official, with the author specifically mentioning that Maul fought using Teras Kasi. Solo's screenwriters even admitted that the Teras Kasi detail was a "nugget" meant to hint at Qi'ra's connection to Maul. So your mom's insistence that you didn't spend your entire teenage years playing abysmal PlayStation games and reading Star Wars message boards ruined your chances at predicting a cool twist. Thanks a lot, mom.

What caused his family to go full Footloose? We're told that Miguel's great-great-grandfather abandoned his wife and child to pursue a musical career, and the family decided to lay all the blame on the medium of music in general. Soon, Miguel discovers an old photo in which his disgraced ancestor is seen wielding an unusual guitar, complete with a skull headstock, like some kind of mariachi Misfits cover band. And it's the same guitar Miguel's musical idol, the legendary Ernesto de la Cruz, played. It's kind of the Disney version of finding out you were sired by a member of Van Halen. (Ask your uncle with the mullet.)

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PixarThat guy looks about one head taller, though.

Miguel ends up travelling to the Land of the Dead (through Disney-friendly magic, not by being horribly killed), where he befriends a wacky skeleton named Hector. We eventually discover that Hector is Miguel's true great-great-grandfather, and was murdered by Ernesto, who then stole all his songs and even that cool guitar. Yup, Pixar's come a long way from chronicling the antics of sentient toys to full-fledged murder stories.

Perhaps we should have seen this twist coming, though. Remember de la Cruz's guitar? That skull headstock had one distinct feature: a gold tooth. Which bears a striking resemblance to Hector.

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PixarUh, not that all Latinx skeletons look the same.

It's the movie's way of telling us Hector's true identity before Miguel finds out. So audiences who noticed the gold teeth either figured all this out on their own or began putting together fan theories about how the burglar from Home Alone ended up dead in Mexico.

When K visits here, most of the kids have shaved heads like in his memory. But while it's never commented on, the girls are allowed to keep their hair.

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Warner Bros. PicturesPresumably, by this point humanity has finally found the cure to cooties.

Which should have tipped us off that the child we saw couldn't have been K, because only a girl wouldn't get the full Lex Luthor treatment in the Terry Gilliam Home for Wayward Children. Of course, we still think Deckard's real daughter was Jared Leto's terrifying henchwoman, but whatever.

Portman journeys inside a mysterious alien-infected zone dubbed "the Shimmer," where plants and animals are all Brundlefly-ing into crazy monsters. As she reaches the center of the Shimmer, Portman discovers that her husband is dead, but whatever alien organism landed on Earth is duplicating whoever it encounters like a drunken T-1000.

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Paramount PicturesThis is basically a gritty adaptation of when your brother apes your voice in a nasal tone.

That's a jarring reveal ... except they hint at this core concept from the very first scene of the movie. You know, the one in which Portman gives a lecture about how cancer cells spread through duplication. We even get some nice visuals of cells doubling up. This explains the movie's working title, Attack Of The Space Cancer.

And if you were paying close attention, you might have spotted another doppelganger before that trippy ending. Inside the Shimmer, Portman and company take shelter in an abandoned house...

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... which is almost an exact duplicate of Portman's house from back in the non-shimmery world.

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Paramount PicturesBut with a slight mold problem.

While you may not even have noticed this at the time, the implication seems to be that the aliens are somehow even duplicating things from people's memories. Either that or it's a comment on generic architecture. Or the production just didn't want to pony up the dough to rent a second house.

We eventually find out that all of these Sams are clones who are told they're human to maintain productivity, and who die off every three years, at which point they tee up a fresh clone. The movie winkingly hints at this from the very beginning. Sam's alarm wakes him up each morning with the song "I Am The One And Only."

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Sony Pictures ClassicsThe director couldn't get the rights to "Space Oddity" from his dad.

This seems like a funny meta joke in retrospect, but remember that everything aboard the station is controlled by the company, which may have chosen this track to subliminally reinforce the illusion that Sam is a real, unique human being. Sam also sports a tacky T-shirt that says "Wake me up when it's quitting time."

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Sony Pictures ClassicsHis "Totally Not A Clone" one was in the laundry.

Which also has a double meaning -- when one clone "wakes up" for the first time on the station, that means it was quitting time for the expired clone. All of this suggests the existence of deleted scenes wherein Sam wakes up to increasingly depressing songs with titles like "You're Not Unique At All, Actually" and "Hurry Up And Croak, You Soulless Piece Of Recycled Garbage."

Once she admits the truth, it seems obvious, partly due to her brand-new kimono-like outfit and sudden penchant for stabbiness. But we (and come to think of it, the World's Greatest Detective Batman) should have known all along. Why? Because she is incessantly quoting her dad as if his life was a Monty Python sketch, and somehow no one picked up on it. Like, remember how Ra's wanted to "restore the balance" of the world in Batman Begins?

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Warner Bros. PicturesC'mon, Batman & Robin was bad, but not mass murder bad.

Well, so does Miranda ...

Warner Bros. Pictures"I will look for you, I will find you, and- sorry, wrong line."

One of the big disagreements between Batman and Ra's al Ghul was that Bruce couldn't do what was "necessary" -- that is, kill people.

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Warner Bros. PicturesAnd presumably grow out an aggressively douchey goatee.

When Bruce tells Miranda he can't save her while trying to stop Bane, she ominously replies "Do what's necessary."

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Warner Bros. Pictures"But if I grow out a goatee, everyone will know I'm Batman!"

Also, after Miranda and Bruce get bat-busy, he notices a scar on her shoulder -- and, bizarrely, pokes at it.

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Warner Bros. Pictures"Boop."

Viewers might have noticed that it's the same shape as the fire poker the League of Shadows wanted to brand Bruce with in Batman Begins. And to make this connection even clearer, in the same scene, Miranda is literally using a fire poker.

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Warner Bros. PicturesNow that's a goatee.

Though she somehow resisted the urge to jab at Bruce with it, even after he groped her scar like a big weirdo. Seriously, who does that?

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