14 Glowing Cases Of Foreshadowing In Animated Movies & Shows
![14 Glowing Cases Of Foreshadowing In Animated Movies & Shows](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/7/8/817378_320x180.jpg)
What is it about foreshadowing that just drives our simian brains wild? is it the idea of an omnipotent creator carefully crafting and stitching a world together? Is it our endless need to find patterns and order amidst chaotic information? Or is it just kind of neat to catch a little predictive easter egg once in a while. Maybe its a blend of everything.
Whatever the reason, we love some good foreshadowing--can't get enough of the stuff. With that in mind, we scoured our favorite animated movies and shows for some of the best examples.
Can you believe that movies spoil themselves? Unthinkable! What are filmmakers thinking? That is, other than narrative structure, setup-and-payoff, rewatch value, and all that kind of stuff. Not even animated movies and shows are free from this “foreshadowing” thing -- just take a look at these examples we have found. (Oh, and beware of the inevitable spoilers.)
Frozen
![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.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/6/7/817367.jpg)
Source: Scene on YouTube
Arcane
![Arcane When Silco takes Powder in, her eye glows with reflected firelight- foreshadowing her transformation into Jinx.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/8/0/817380.jpg)
Source: Scene on YouTube
Avatar: The Last Airbender
![Avatar: The Last Airbender In the Season 1 episode The Northern Air Temple, the mechanist is working on a design for the Fire Nation that looks kind of drill-like. It turns out, that's the huge drill the Fire Nation uses in Season 2 to breach the walls of Ba Sing Se.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/7/3/817373.jpg)
Source: Avatar Wiki
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).](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/6/9/817369.jpg)
Source: Scene on YouTube
The Lego Movie
![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.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/7/9/817379.jpg)
Source: Scene on YouTube
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
![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.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/6/5/817365.jpg)
Source: Scene on YouTube
Cowboy Bebop
![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.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/7/1/817371.jpg)
Sources: Scene on YouTube, Cowboy Bebop Wiki
Aladdin
![Aladdin and Abu were riding floor coverings even before finding the magic carpet — like here, when they escape the guards on a rug.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/7/6/817376.gif)
Source: Scene on YouTube
Princess Mononoke
![Princess Mononoke
Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite, says Lady Eboshi — who ends up being undone by the bite of a dying wolf god’s head.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/7/5/817375.gif)
Source: Villains Wiki
Akira
![Akira Tetsuo's psychic hallucinations briefly flash to future events, like his own mutation and Kaori's death.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/7/4/817374.jpg)
Source: Scene on YouTube
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.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/7/2/817372.jpg)
Source: BoJack Horseman Wiki
Coraline
![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.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/7/0/817370.jpg)
Source: Screen Rant
Futurama
![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.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/6/8/817368.jpg)
Source: Futurama Wiki
Invincible
![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.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/6/6/817366.jpg)
Sources: Scene on YouTube, Scene on YouTube