15 Stellar Cases of Foreshadowing in Sci-Fi
![15 Stellar Cases of Foreshadowing in Sci-Fi](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/3/0/791330_320x180.jpg)
We’re a simple website. We love shocking facts, bizarre stories, and little known secrets. But, lets face it, we’re also huge nerds who love science fiction. We’ve written about the bizarrely specific tropes you can find in nearly every science fiction movie. We’ve covered all of the promises that science fiction has made us over the years. We’ve even written about the played out and cliche scenes in science fiction.
Science fiction is often about the future -- going to the future, or being in the future, or knowing the future. And like any other genre, science fiction movies and shows often give you hints about the future. You don’t need psychic powers or devices that can see through the space-time continuum and break the laws of causality. Just pay a bit of attention, like these cases illustrate. (Warning: spoilers abound.)
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![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.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/2/0/791320.jpg)
Source: Movie scene on YouTube
![Captain Marvel for 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.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/1/8/791318.jpg)
![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 -headed monster (which sounds like a fair description of Quato). Regardless of where you stand on the /reality debate, this is all spot on.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/1/3/791313.jpg)
Source: Movie scene on YouTube
![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.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/1/7/791317.jpg)
Source: Movie scene on YouTube
![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).](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/2/5/791325.jpg)
Source: Movie scene on YouTube
![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.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/2/6/791326.jpg)
Sources: The Humanism of Doctor Who, by David Layton, Doctor Who on YouTube
![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).](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/2/1/791321.jpg)
Source: Movie scene on YouTube
![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.)](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/2/3/791323.jpg)
Source: Movie scene on YouTube
![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?](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/1/4/791314.jpg)
Source: Movie scene on YouTube
![Back to the Future Doc Brown is apparently a fan of Harold Lloyd. He owns a recreation of the iconic image of Lloyd hanging from a clock in Safety Last! - as Doc himself will end up doing.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/2/7/791327.jpg)
Sources: HaroldLloyd.com, Movie Scene on YouTube
![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.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/2/2/791322.jpg)
Source: Movie scene on YouTube
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/1/5/791315.jpg)
Source: Movie scene on YouTube
![The X-Files Fox Mulder's true parentage was long foreshadowed. We used to have so many things to say to each other, the Cigarette-Smoking Man reminisces to Mulder's mother in a Season 3 episode - implying that they had an affair four full seasons before the CSM is revealed to be Mulder's real father.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/2/4/791324.jpg)
Sources: ”Talitha Cumi” (transcript) on X-Files Wiki, The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati on X-Files Wiki
![Terminator 2: Judgment Day The dog knows that that cop is bad news. Before we learn the truth about that friendly police officer, we can hear a dog barking in the background as he questions John Connor's foster parents. Dogs can sense Terminators, remember?](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/1/9/791319.jpg)
Source: Movie scene on YouTube
![Black Mirror The name San Junipero tells you it's not the real 1980s. Junipero Serra was canonized in 2015, so in the '80s there was no St. Junipero the town could be named after.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/1/6/791316.jpg)
Source: Catholic Online