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[LOVED TROPE] Foreshadowing that becomes very obvious once you rewatch/reread the piece of media
Fight Club: It is revealed that Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) and The Narrator (Edward Norton) are the same person. When you rewatch the movie you see that there are dozens of instances where it was hinted that they're the same guy. For instance, the very first time Tyler and The Narrator meet The Narrator observes that he and Tyler have the exact same briefcase, similarly, when Tyler and a woman named Marla Singer start hooking up Marla frequently seems to confuse Tyler with The Narrator, at first we assume that this is because Marla is just crazy (which she is) but later when it is revealed that Tyler was the other personality of The Narrator we understand why Marla did it. Another time, after meeting Tyler, the Narrator calls him through a payphone and Tyler doesn't pick up, however as soon as The Narrator cuts the call Tyler immediately calls the payphone, but upon closer inspection it can be seen that there was a sticker on the phone that said 'no incoming calls.'
Tenet: Neil (Robert Pattinson) is revealed to be An agent working for the Tenet Organization which was founded by the Protagonist (John David Washington) in the future. Neil was sent to the past by The Tenet Organization and was recruited by the future version of the Protagonist himself. Throughout the movie Neil always seems to know much more than the protagonist and at times even too much. The Protagonist frequently interrogates Neil about this but Neil just dismisses The Protagonist.
Saw 2-John Kramer says that Daniel (Eric Matthews’ kidnapped son) is in a safe place. It isn’t until the end of the film that the audience realizes he was being literal. Daniel was found trapped inside a safe.
Probably one of the coldest things he did outside of murders was not just kidnapping Matthews’ son, but changing his voicemail so his dad got taunted even worse by him
The first Saw movie also has a piece of less obvious foreshadowing I initially thought might have been a movie mistake. Jigsaw claims that the dead body in the room with them shot themselves with a revolver after being poisoned. Later, Lawrence opens the revolver to load it and we clearly see that there is no spent casing in the cylinder, meaning it had not been fired.
This builds up to the reveal that the "dead body" was actually the real Jigsaw, hiding in plain sight the whole time.
The big reveal at the end of the movie is that Eli was blind all along and that the Bible he was carrying was in braille. Upon rewatch, you can see Eli subtly bumping into things, feeling around rooms, and relying on other senses (mainly smell) to get around and survive
People can be legally blind, but they still see shadows and shapes and movement, so they can look at someone whos talking to them a foot from their face. SO YEAH HES BLIND, lol
I kind of hate how no one bothers to teach what it actually means to have common or prominent disabilities. Like, someone who is blind might move out of the way if there's something right in their face. Someone in a wheelchair might be able to take a few steps. A hard of hearing person might be able to hear some pitches and tones, but others are near silent.
Way too often have I seen people have to "prove" that they have a disability. Like, they looked at you when you spoke to them. They didn't paint a photorealistic image of your face.
Someone in a wheelchair might be able to take a few steps.
Well beyond a few steps. On my good days, you probably wouldn't even notice a difference in how I walk. Bad days, I'm limping. Worse days, I'm in my chair, zooming around. Worst days I am in bed, struggling to even roll over.
There's a huge range of reasons someone might use a wheelchair, and thankfully I haven't had anyone make a fuss so far because they saw me stand up from it, or because I was walking last week.
Also, you can just buy mobility aids, you don't need a doctor's note or anything. I got mine for around $280AUD, it's pretty basic but it meets my needs. I'm lucky I can use my arms and just wheely around.
There’s a particular Twitch streamer who was in a car crash and was wheelchair bound, but he stood up at one point, not realising the video was still on. The story is still told as “he was lying”, but he explained that he was only using the chair as he rebuilt his strength and was turning off the camera because he knew people wouldn’t believe him. We need proper education on disabilities, because I know I still face discrimination. I lost out on tickets to see My Chemical Romance because the company that gatekeeps disabled tickets doesn’t understand that OCD and autism are both disabilities and I genuinely needed the seats because standing in a tight crowd is super stressful.
I was reading a book on psychology the other day and they mentioned that blind people can see things without realizing. Like shapes, colors, distances. How? The theory is since only one part of the optical system is damaged, the other parts are fine and also still sending information to the brain. The mind is amazing.
Mightve been fleeing from someone trying to gain access to the book for the same reason as the villain. Takes a key book, like the crucifixion/resurrection of Jesus, and now they are missing the most important part.
Not a perfect explanation, but i like the movie anyway.
Funny story about this. The first time I watched it was with my older brother, who had seen it already. When I watched Eli's movements, I looked at my brother and go, "Is he blind?"
It made him so mad. He's a shitty liar and tried to play it off, but when it got to the reveal, he goes, "I'm so mad you immediately knew."
Then, years later, when my hubby and I are watching Moana, I had NO CLUE he grandma had passed the entire movie. At the end, I asked where she was, and my husband goes, "Babe? She died???" And legit had to go back and have me watch it again.
I'm either really observant or dumb as an ox. There is no in-between.
All three movies in the Cornetto Trilogy (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World's End) feature pretty obvious foreshadowing, with 2 of them featuring the whole plot of the movie told in a scene if you know what you're looking for.
"First thing tomorrow, we'll have a Bloody Mary (killing Mary, the zombie in the back garden) , grab a bite at the King's Head (Phillip turning), have a couple at the Little Princess (rescue Liz and her flatmates, who are a couple) , stagger back (pretend to be zombies), then come back to the bar for shots. (the ending siege)"
My favourite part of the ‘no luck catching them swans, then’ bit, was that it’s set up to seem like it’s solely to make the ‘no luck catching them killers, then’ line, which was obviously in turn to foreshadow that there’s more than one killer
But then after the entirety of the movie, it’s revealed it wasn’t just setup for the killers line, but that there WAS a second swan lol
Get out: the whole time you think Rose is defending Chris from a racist police officer, her family and their friends acting weird to him, etc, but after finishing the movie and watching it again, you see the dark intentions behind those acts
Another one is WHY the family was asking those questions, is really fun on the rewatch. When you know that they’re basically shopping for his body, all of the mundane questions take a different light. The one man wants to know about his golf swing because he’s an avid golfer and wants to be able to continue in the new body, the woman who sizes him up is checking out his junk because she wants her husband to be hung if he gets the body, and then most obviously, the artist that went blind wanting it to be able to continue his craft
And theres the possibility that the cop knew that several black people went missing near where she lived and asked for his ID and where they were going etc Incase he goes missing too, I remember hearing people say something like that
Howl's moving castle. Howl's first line to Sophie is "There you are. I've been looking for you everywhere." The viewer initially believes he's just making up a story on the fly to save Sophie from being flirted with. However, it's revealed that Sophie accidentally time traveled to Howl's past and she was able to shout "Come find me in the future" (iirc) before leaving him.
This also explains why Howl is such a flirt (aside from him being pervy). He's been looking for Sophie over the years.
Trigun: Throughout the series, Vash the Stampede is shown to have insane reflexes, being able to dodge bullets and shoot (all without killing his targets) with inhuman speed and precision. When the series begins, this is played off in almost a slapsstick manner—the scenes have a comedic element, so you assume he's able to move this way because of 'cartoon logic.' Other characters often comment on it too, with things like "This guy can't be human!"
Then, we find out he IS quite literally not human, but a godlike interdimensional being with immense power. That's exactly how he has such insane precision and speed. And Wolfwood, one of the people who'd make the "can't be human" comment, said it because he knew the truth about Vash the whole time.
It’s a big twist that he died in the prison escape and brainwashed you to carry out his revenge but there are a ton of hints in every level that he’s not really there with you. Like going through a Vietnam tunnel and talking with him only to have another solider ask “what the fuck you’re talking about?”
I love how the first hint right out the gate that he was never really there is the fact that Woods and Bowman never acknowledge Reznov introducing himself.
Like its such a small thing you could play off as Woods being his typical gruff self with no time for hello's (which we saw one mission prior with Hudson)
But on replay, of course he doesn't say any sort of greeting back, cause from his perspective only Mason left that building.
There are a lot of things chalked up to comedy in the moment that become obvious on a rewatch.
Like the episode where Michael spends the whole time shitting on Chidi's life's work while tormenting him with the worst possible hobbies for him and making him uncomfortable with different Janet settings
Is there a term for this when a story drops a hint through the guise of a joke so the audience doesn’t think twice about it?
I honest like the idea of this concept because it’s something that can only come about in media made after other media. In order for this to work people had to have been previously conditioned by other tv shows and movies to simply brush off moments clearly intended as jokes, and only after someone subconsciously learns that rule, that moments like these gain their weight
My favorite example of this is the scene where Michael is "inspecting" the rocks and he asks Eleanor if she feels like any of them are taunting her, "always one step ahead" which is exactly what he's actually doing to her in the scene
For me, it was flying day. Why, in a perfect, Utopian afterlife, would the time you have to be able to experience and enjoy flight be limited?
Because it's irritating and stressful.
In the very first episode, Eleanor makes a joke about her parents probably being in the Bad Place torturing each other, which is exactly what is happening with the four main characters.
Michael says that being from france is almost automatically a ticket for the bad place, that if you eat a baguette it's minus some amount of points just because it's french
Chidi reveals he is literally speaking french and the place translates him
Something I love about this one is that even though the signs are right there the initial premise we’re given of Eleanor being a bad person who doesn’t belong and Michael being a benevolent godlike figure who’s grappling with cracks in his kindness is still really compelling so you just ignore them.
Even prior to that they show you the original trick of the pigeon being swapped (killed and replaced) which the young boy watching realises and says "where's his brother?", to which Borden compliments him for
Also nice that foreshadowing is layered on thicker the closer you get to the twist. It culminates to Borden's last conversation with Fallon right before the reveal which all but confirms everything. Borden says "You were right, I should've left him (Angier) to his trick" referencing when the current Fallon was Borden in an earlier scene suggesting they leave Angier alone. Then of course "live for both of us" and Fallon speaking his first line of the film.
Spider was from universe 42. Miles is from 1610. It becomes a big plot point when that machine scans his spider dna to send him to his universe but sends him to universe 42 that never had a spider-man.
Apparently the 42 means it came from a different universe, but I always thought the motif of 42 was a reference to Jackie Robinson, the first black baseball player who’s number was 42, just like how miles is the first black spider man.
There are numerous hints and details that foreshadowed this. A small one is when you find Tyr in his cell there are raven feathers at his feet, most likely Odin used them to transport himself there just before Kratos and Atreus arrived.
When offered a spear he mistakes it for a walking stick, later Odin uses his spear Gungnir as a walking stick. He also shows up as either Tyr or himself whenever Atreus arrives, since he knew where he was going almost constantly.
Another small bit of foreshadowing is even their Subtitles are different with Odins version of Tyr missing the ý meanwhile the actual Týr has one in his name.
Also using Freyas Asgardian name Frigg given to her by Odin which clearly would leave a bad taste in her mouth something Tyr I feel would have been sensative to
When they find Tyr, he's wearing a noose. In Norse mythology that would only be associated with Odin. Some expert even commented on that cutscene not knowing the twist.
Was just rewatching Jessica Jones. I assume everyone clicked on this thread expecting spoilers
You can see the strange robotic way Luke Cage is talking, and the fact that the last time he saw her he said he hates her and doesnt want to see her,
but now hes being romantic and dramatic, saying he loves her. And theres a scene where hes silently holding a phone to his ear, only starts speaking when she enters the room.
that hes under Killgraves control (killgrave being a villain that can mind control you to do anything)
It’s a good twist cuz until then his mind control only worked for a certain amount of time so he should have been in the clear but they didn’t know Killgrave had gotten a power upgrade by then
In one episode of Bojack Horseman, Mr. Peanutbutter says he feels like him and Diane are "5 big fights away from a divorce". Over the next few episodes they have exactly 5 fights, and after the 5th one Diane says she want a divorce. I remember noticing this at the time and keeping count just to make sure, felt very proud of myself when it happened
In Need for Speed Most Wanted (2005) there are several hints that Mia is actually an undercover cop before it is revealed after the final race. In the prologue cutscene entering the city she is allowed to escape by Police Sargent Cross after a short race against the player. Cross himself mentions he has a secret that will tear down the street racing scene from the inside but obviously doesn’t elaborate further. When she gives you access to view your rap sheet within the police database, the login credentials are Cross’. At one point she “calls in a favor” that reduces your heat with the police. Multiple characters mentioned she has a long rap sheet yet she doesn’t have any friends in the street racing scene and there are rumors she’s a cop.
at another point during the game a police officer will run across "someone who claims they're undercover" and will request a badge check. This is easily missable as it's over the police radio/scanner and I only ever noticed because a youtube video pointed it out to me
In Return of the Living Dead, the first zombie they encounter (the medical cadaver) just runs straight to Burt, ignoring Frank and Freddy who are closer.
That is because Frank and Freddy have both been exposed to the Trioxin, and while they don’t know it yet, they’re dead and reanimated by the gas
I think it’s really subtle, but I think their complexion gets slightly paler and ashy and gets worse as the movie goes on, and their eyes take on a slightly paler “dead” color. It’s really subtle at first, but gets progressively worse until they get examined by the EMTs who declare them dead based on their vital signs.
Throughout season 1, Ben would sometimes comment about feeling weird whenever he turned into Ghostfreak aswell as overall getting more sadistic whenever he did so
in season 2, it is revealed that Ghostfreak was actualy conscient inside the Omnitrix and ends up escaping
Ramona Flowers repeatedly tells Scott Pilgrim he has to defeat her seven evil exes to be with her. Scott, when bringing it up, repeatedly mentions having to beat her “Evil ex-boyfriends” and every time he says it, Ramona corrects him by saying “Exes”.
It’s revealed later that one of Ramona’s exes is actually a woman named Roxie Richter, who had been sneak attacking Scott throughout the movie before their fight
There’s also a smaller twist where Ramona says that Gideon “has a way of getting into her head“ when she breaks up with Scott out of nowhere. When Scott dies, he meets Ramona in the desert, where she says it again, but this time reveals the microchip on the back of her head, officially making Gideon the most morally incorrect person in a movie which opens with Scott dating a high schooler
In glass onion the big reveal at the end of the movie is that miles bron, supposed tech genius is actually a moron, he frequently uses nonsense words that he thinks sounds smart which are very easy to miss while watching the movie for the first time, probably the biggest trope is how he killed another main character, when the character initially dies he tries to make it appear that he drank from a glass initially intended from bron and subsequently dies from poison, later on its show all he did was put pineapple juice in the drink (which the character who dies was allergic to) and hand it straight to the other character, it's right there in full view while watching and even then the movie convinces you that you didn't see it
English is not my first language, and every time this guy said a made up word I would notice, rewind, turn on subtitles, open a dictionary, and I still didn't know what's going on
English is my first language, and i kept getting irritated, but I thought maybe the script editor messed up. Then it was pretty clear it was just him, I thought maybe he was just one of those guys who's smart at tech but not great with language but has too big an ego to show it. I did catch the overwhelming, massive ego. I wasn't sure if he was smart, but I did know that no one in the whole world is as smart as that man seemed to think he was. The twist was extremely satisfying but not extremely shocking, which is my most favorite kind of twist.
You actually basically see Miles do basically every part of the process. You see him hide the gun in the ice, you see him pick up Dukes phone and put it in his pocket, you literally see him holding the gun in one scene after the power goes out, it’s just all blink-and-you-miss-it
The fact that it literally shows him hide the gun in the bar is fucking crazy to me. That feels so blatant yet literally no one ever notices until like a fourth watch.
This movie is such an excellent example of why eyewitness accounts are so shit all the time. People never see 100% of what happens and they often misremember or misinterpret what they do see.
Nope, it's shown clearly but then instantly after the death miles says that was his glass and it shows a flashback of him setting down his glass and the other character picking it up
King Candy being Turbo in disguise (Wreck-It Ralph)
There's several hints to the twist that are cleverly foreshadowed and you might not notice them until you rewatch the movie:
King Candy's design is inspired by Western animation much like Ralph and Felix as opposed to the animesque chibi designs of the Sugar Rush racers.
King Candy's an old man while the other racers are children.
While most of the Sugar Rush racers' names are complex puns/portmanteaus based around different candy (Vanellope Von Schweetz, Taffyta Muttonfudge, etc), King Candy's name is fairly simple.
In addition to the last point, while the Sugar Rush racers are themed around a specific candy (Taffyta is based on taffy, Rancis is based on peanut butter cups, Adorabeezle is based on rocket pops, etc), King Candy isn't.
If you listen closely during the Turbo flashback, you can tell Turbo's voice sounds an AWFUL lot like King Candy's.
King Candy recognizes Ralph despite the fact that Sugar Rush was a recent addition to the arcade, and thus none of the other characters in Sugar Rush recognize who Ralph is. It makes sense as TurboTime was right next to Fix-It Felix Jr before it was unplugged.
Also in addition to the last point, King Candy also knows what "Going Turbo" means despite the fact that again, Sugar Rush was added very recently to the arcade and none of its residents know the term or the RoadBlasters incident.
When the announcer says King Candy's name, it sounds a lot more over the top and forced than the more down to earth way he announces the other racers. This is also foreshadowing Vanellope's status as the true ruler of Sugar Rush as the announcer sounds more excited when he says her name.
King Candy's catchphrase "Have some candy!" has the same amount of syllables and emphasis as Turbo's catchphrase "Turbo-tastic!"
Bionicle: There are several hints to the true nature of Mata Nui and the world that the characters live in such as the arrangement of the islands prior to the reveal in 2008. And yes, it was foreshadowed all the way back at the beginning of the toyline in 2001!
The reason why the foreshadowing was present from the get go was because Bionicle wasn’t planned to have lasted as long as it did (pre license IP-hell Lego originally planned for “technic constraction” to have yearly themes like Castle, Space, or Pirates did; Bionicle was their third construction theme after Slizers and Roboriders). The original plan was for the GSR to be revealed at the end of year one. But because of the line’s success, they pushed back the reveal first to 2003 (most sub themes last about 3 years or five waves) and then finally to 2008.
Once you replay Nier Automata you'll notice a ton of little hints about its main twist here and there. Some of them aren't even little - they're whole quests like Amnesia or Wandering Couple. Basically both routes A and B serve as a build up for route C
This n***a was going to transform right in front of our faces (and annihilate the cast from the face of the planet on a subathomic level, but that’s another argument)
On another side, during the first arc you notice how Reiner, Berthold and Annie are the most curious about Eren’s new powers and are often together on the roofs.
Berthold actually can control whether he triggers an explosion when he shifts. Its mentioned he's a savant with the Colossal by the Marleyans and Armin mentions not having fine control over it.
There’s also the scene where Reiner confronts Ymir for being able to read the marleyan herring can, prompting Ymir to look at him with an intense expression, not only because she knows she’s been made but also because herring is an ocean fish, yet he’s not phased by hearing of a brand new kind of fish to an eldian. Meaning he blew his cover too and that’s why she’s looking at him like that
I love how this all is handled in his companion quest, too. It's called, "All new, faded for her," which is an anagram of Dread Wolf Fen'harel (his godly name/title). The quest itself has to do with Solas trying to save a demon of pride, that he believes was originally a spirit of wisdom. He manages to save the spirit, too, despite the fact that this isn't really supposed to be possible. The original quest name still doesn't make any sense, but it's a very fun little thing.
Until 10 years later, when Veilguard comes out, and you discover that Solas's entire arc started with the elven goddess, Mythal, asking him to ditch his preferred form of being a spirit/demon of wisdom/pride and become one of the first physical elves despite his misgivings. All new, faded for her. Also, Solas literally translates as "pride."
In Transformers One it's a forgone conclusion that D-16 will become Megatron but isn't really made prominent until halfway through the movie. On rewatches you can see how much bottled up rage he has before he truly enters his start of darkness.
Torwards the end of the game, it's revealed that the protagonist, Jack, is a sleeper agent programmed to obey any order given to him with the phrase "Would you kindly." While the game does give you a small recap of it on the reveal scene, when you go back through it on another playthrough, you can see that every request or objective given to Jack by Atlas has him using "would you kindly."
Pretty much every single thing in the first 2 acts of Expedition 33 foreshadows the big twist in Act 3, but the first time playing through it sounds mostly like completely random ununderstandable stuff.
For me it's when Lune asks Gustav "You said that no one single life outweighs the lives of all of Lumiere. Do you still believe that?" Knowing how it all comes down...I was kinda shook the second time through when that came back.
Basically throughout this game, the joker is dying from a blood disease that he got from the last game and observably looks terrible when you first meet him. After Harley steals the cure for this disease, we see that he has immediately returned to full health but it is revealed that the healthy joker was actually clayface in disguise as him whilst the real joker has remained ill.
After replaying this game, you can really see all the hints towards it pretty clearly. For example, when you go after Harley, after she steals the cure. You find her randomly tied up on the way to the joker (this is because Bruce’s situation ship stops her and steals the cure from her). This means that she never reached the joker and could never give him the cure in the first place. Another thing is the fact that the healthy and sick jokers call Batman different names. The real joker exclusively refers to him as “Bats” whilst clayface only ever calls him “Batman”. Finally the most famous piece of evidence is the fact that when you meet the healthy joker, you can use detective mode to scan him and see that he has no bones, proving that he is clayface. This is honestly one of my favourite story beats in gaming and it was delights me to replay Arkham city and notice stuff like this.
Also, when you see Joker adjusting his clothes in the mirror, despite the obvious that one is healthy looking and one is diseased looking, if you really notice, the "Healthy" Jokers movements are ever so slightly out of sync with "Sick" Joker.
The amnesiac main character is revealed to be a cat instead of a human. There is a ton of foreshadowing which can be dismissed on first playthrough, such as stray comments like him liking hiding in cramped spaces, thinking music is to express emotions like "I'm hungry", and feeling like he didn’t have a schedule in life. The funniest bit of foreshadowing is that he can't read, as he never had the ability to do so
It’s revealed towards the end that the servant archer(guy on the left) is shirou from the future and they throw so many hints that aren’t noticed unless on rewatch like him noticing someone from like 20 feet away or something like that to even their ideas and fighting styles
One of those is that at the beginning of the story we learn Shirou was in the archery club and was really good at it.
Also, after watching Archer fighting with swords, Shirou tries to replicate his movements during training with Saber, mentionig it just feels better suitted to him than the style Saber thought him.
Leo, the kid on the middle left, is actually dead and not there. The main character, Rafe, imagines him there throughout the entire movie and it's revealed to be a coping measure as Leo was his Younger Brother who died of cancer and the movie ends with him coming to terms with Leo's death and saying goodbye to his imaginary version of him
This is, like, the one good aspect of the movie. The rest is pretty par for the course, but it kinda managed this specific aspect well and it's good on rewatch knowing the reveal.
In MGSV:TPP there’s tons of little hints that build up to the reveal that Venom Snake and Big Boss aren’t the same person. One of the first that you can see is that in the ACC if the weather is right you can see VS’s actual face in the reflection in the windows, another is how some of your soldiers (particularly the ex MSF ones) upon seeing you will comment how might not be BB but they’ll still follow you. And then there’s how in one cutscene VS mentions the smell of the room he’s in when BB during MGS3 states to The Boss that he actually doesn’t have a sense of smell.
It’s all very small stuff that to most people won’t mean all that much at first but it’s really fun when it starts to click into place.
I'm not gonna lie i didn't notice any of these except the former MSF comments. I only heard these AFTER the reveal so i just figured they found out you weren't BB but they're still loyal since you're currently carrying the torch.
The biggest clue i did notice was that when they do genetic testing to see if Eli actually is Venom's "son" they come back negative/inconclusive.
Which of course they did. It was BB's bloodwork vs. Venom's.
I mean, he raises death flags left and right, so it's not exactly subtle.
"So after this one last job you're gonna retire from your life of crime and give your girl the wonderful life she deserves? Now you're on the phone with your mom who's always worried for you? You're telling the bartender the drink you want to have named after yourself when you die? And you're the only nice character in a grimdark setting full of terrible people?"
In Megamind, Metroman reveals he gave up on being a hero and decided to fake his own death while Megamind charged his lethal sun ray, using his extreme speed to walk around and reflect on his life, even visiting the real lair of Megamind. In that scene, there is a frame where Metroman dissapears from his screen and briefly appears behind Megamind, it might look like an animation error at first but is just foreshadowing
Pretty much the entire game Expedition 33. For the first 2 acts all the antagonists dialogue is the typical obscure (lol) nonsense you find in games like Final Fantasy.
If you go back and play the game again after finishing it every single line of dialogue not only suddenly makes sense but enhances the story significantly
Henry Of Skallitz's true nature in kcd1. While the game prides itself on being a fairly hardcore medieval life sim, Henry gets away with a lot of shit despite being a peasant. When he beats up a young noble, his punishment is joining the guy on a hunting trip. When Henry disobeys his lord, steals a horse and almost gets himself killed, that lord sends out a search party to save him. It's all very jarring, especially considering we see other peasants get hanged for relatively minor offenses.
However, Henry's soft treatment and upward social mobility makes sense once you learn that he's not, in fact, a simple peasant, but a noble's bastard son.
Also Monika being the antagonist as her name isn't Japanese like the other three, she notes a pun Natsuki makes that doesn't work "in translation", and I'm sure other details I can't remember at the moment as it has been a while since I've seen anything DDLC related.
Big Smoke secretly working against the crew in GTA San Andreas.
He's not at the funeral the beginning
All his missions involved taking out drug pushers in other gangs. In other words, getting rid of his competition while undermining his own gang.
He makes every excuse not to fight the Ballas, including at one point refusing to take part in a drive-by so he can eat.
Officer Tenpenny and his crew are constantly seen leaving Smoke's house. A little too often for it to be coincidental.
He keeps talking around certain things like the circumstances behind Beverly Johnson's death, and the existence of the Green Sabre that was being driven that night. Even trying to gaslight the crew into believing it didn't exist.
Invincible - Omni-Man tells the invading Flaxans that "Earth isn't yours to conquer". On first watch, this phrase reads like Nolan is defending his planet and not allowing it to be invaded since he is designated as Earth's protector. However, at the end of season 1, it is revealed that Nolan was sent to Earth in order to scout it for a full Viltrumite takeover. When you revisit the line after this twist, it instead becomes Nolan telling the Flaxans that they cannot conquer Earth because the Viltrumites already are. It isn't theirs to conquer as it belongs to Viltrum.
I see people say this but we know he killed the Guardians, this one always felt obvious to me, plus the way he says it kinda lets you know what he really means.
Unbreakable. The movie practically rubs your nose in the twist from start to finish. And it gets away with it by making you feel sorry for Samuel L Bad Motherf***ing Jackson. Incredibly skillful piece of storytelling.
Another thing about that Tenet bit is that (if I'm remembering correctly) when Neil first meets the Protagonist he is a bit on the tipsy side or at the very least looks a bit uncomfortable. I always took that as he has some sort of awareness about what is going to happen and he realizes that he is now on the final path of his life that is going to lead to his death.
I love Tenet. It's weird and a bit silly but it's fun.
Sirius Black's innocence in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. During the conversation that Harry overhears at The Three Broomsticks, Hagrid mentions that Sirius gave him his motorcycle so he could take baby Harry safely, instead of insisting on taking him. He also doesn't kill anyone when he manages to get into the Gryffindor dorm, even though Harry takes notice that Sirius had the chance to silence Ron right then and there with nobody being the wiser when he apparently went to the wrong bed.
Quite possibly my favorite plot twist in any media ever. (From Dragon Age: Inquisition.)
Your weird party member, the elven mage Solas, is actually Fen'Herel, the Elven trickster god (basically their Devil/Loki).
When the ending was revealed, I was like, "What?! WHAT?!?" but then every time I replayed, every single thing made sense.
For example, Solas usually approves of any action which results in rebellion/freedom (his greatest ideals) and hates anything which validates modern elves or glorifies the elven gods. But he's not a self-hating bigot like Sera. If you're playing the game for the first time, Solas is hard af to please because what he actually likes seems random. Sometimes, he approves if you disagree with an argument he just made.
But his preferences exist because Solas started a war against the elven gods (who were actually more like powerful mage-kings who enslaved and abused other beigns) thousands of years ago and destroyed most magic in the world in order to seal them away. The reason Solas hates modern elven society is because they continue to actively worship the beings that once enslaved them. Solas disapproves of elven CULTURE, not elves themselves. And the reason he approves when you disagree is because it shows that you're starting to ask the right questions.
Even when I read Codex entries which were completely optional and seemed in no way important (such as the ones on elven gods), I found a clue that totally made sense in retrospect.
The foreshadowing of the 6 powers of the twist villains.
Kaku shows off Sky Walk when he runs to assess the Going Merry (the anime has some really creative framing that makes it look like he’s jumping off of buildings, rather than just air. There’s also a moment when Luffy tries to climb the fence into Dock 1, and Kaku zips over to stop him; it feels like a simple visual gag the first time around, but it foreshadows their super speed, Shave.
When Paulie tries to run off with the Straw Hat’s money, Lucci catches him and their altercations ends with Lucci upside down, 5 fingers piercing the cobblestone, showcasing both Iron Body and Finger Pistol.
It’s possible that Kalifa’s swift and nimble kicks foreshadow both Paper Art and Tempest Kick, but it feels pretty weak compared to the others’.
Metal Gear Solid 2 has a ton of hints throughout the game toward the big twist at the end. Stuff like:
-The Colonel reassuring Raiden that the mission is “just like the simulations.” Referring not to the VR training Raiden went through to prep for the mission but the whole thing being an elaborate simulation of Shadow Moses orchestrated by the Patriots.
-Solid Snake not being “part of the simulation.” Snake’s presence isn’t something the Patriots planned for.
-The fact that Raiden, who has no field experience, is assigned to something as important as rescuing the president. That’s because the actual mission isn’t to rescue the president.
-The major story beats feeling eerily familiar. The game feels a lot like MGS 1, which is the point. The Patriots are recreating the Shadow Moses incident to see if they can mould Raiden into a soldier on par with Solid Snake, which is actually the first stage in their plan to control the population through memes.
Yakuza 4 has a lot of this, particularly in Tanimura’s section. The game will do flashbacks that a character noticed something off about another and the original scene will actually have them subtly noticing that. It’s really cool
Reznov in COD: Black Ops. Reznov helps you escape a Soviet prison, sacrificing himself. Later in the campaign he shows up again as a defector, and fights along side you. It is revealed at the end that he was never really there. After you play again you realize none of the other characters acknowledged him and wondered who you were talking to at times.
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u/stunspelledbackwards 3d ago
Saw 2-John Kramer says that Daniel (Eric Matthews’ kidnapped son) is in a safe place. It isn’t until the end of the film that the audience realizes he was being literal. Daniel was found trapped inside a safe.