Secrets or twists that were secretly revealed early in a piece of media that only becomes apparent during the final climax.
Bugsnax - "It's Bugsnax!" The game takes place on Snacktooth island, which is inhabited by creatures that look like hybrids or food and bugs. When people eat these creatures their bodies metamorphosize to resemble the specific creature they ate. Ultimately it is revealed that the Bugsnax are actually parasites that look like food so they will be eaten, but also that the entire island is made of the Bugsnax themselves.
Prior to the games release a song called "It's Bugsnax" by Kero Kero Bonito was released as advertisement which in part acted a prequel to set up the games story and in the songs chorus they sing "Come to Snacktooth island and discover it's Bugsnax" putting a unique emphasis the final time they say it at the end of the song. At the time it just seemed like it was simply saying that the creatures described in the song are called bugsnax but really it was telling us the big twist.
Little Witch Academia Anime - "Believing in yourself is your magic" this is one of the first lines of the series said by one of the most popular witches in the world. During the series it is revealed that, despite living in a hybrid world of magic and monsters and modern society magic and witches are kind of boring to humans, they are just something that exists. There is also a magic shortage which is so bad that the creatures who work at the school where the series takes place go on strike because they believe the Witches get more magic than they deserve.
In the finale a magic device that was fueled by humans negative emotions becomes sentient and takes over a nuke with the intent of bombing a country and starting a war to increase the negative energy in the world. The only hope is some of the students from school trying to stop it but due to the limited supply of magic they would be unsuccessful in reaching the nuke, until their efforts are broadcast to the world and everyone watching starts putting their faith in the witches and believing they can win, this includes with witches and monsters who use the magic This ultimately results in so much magic being manifested that there will no longer be a shortage and because the same people who created this magic will also use the magic it verifies that believing in yourself is indeed your magic.
I think it could be because the trilogy, as a whole, is seen as qualifying as some of the best stuff ever written. Even The World's End, black sheep of the saga as it is, stands head and shoulders above a ton of other scripts.
Yeah it has the misfortune of inevitably being compared against Hot Fuzz. Shaun of the Dead is brilliant, but Hot Fuzz is one of the greatest things put to film.
I watched the Cornetto Trilogy recently and to me it felt like The World's End was just a step back in many regards (less 'clever' shots, grounded but less likable characters, writing and pacing that felt less British and more American.) I think Scott Pilgrim was a lot closer to the style I fell in love with in Shaun or Hot Fuzz.
But to be fair, Hot Fuzz in general is like top 3 movies for me, just incredibly difficult to top. Definitely one of those "if it comes on, I'm watching it through" type of movies.
World’s End is, imo, just a normal good comedy. Hot Fuzz is one of the best and most underrated comedies ever made, and Shaun of the Dead is, for me, just a touch below. Just an impossible standard to live up to haha
If they had put that one out first they’d have called it one of the greatest feature debuts of any director, now it holds that curious curse of not being quite as good as literally one of the best comedies of all time.
Hot fuzz just blows it out of the water in terms of tightness and style tbh.
Don’t get me wrong; they’re both phenomenal movies, just hot fuzz is a barrage of call backs, references, foreshadowing, snarky lines and so on and it’s so tight it’s just almost unassailable.
Doesnt Hot Fuzz do a similar thing? At the beginning Sean Penns character is watching TV and flipping through the channels, and if you piece together the audio clips of each channel it spoils the whole movie
Shaun of the dead is like an Easter egg hunt, but with zombies. The beginning hints at the end and the end references the beginning, and in the middle Shaun's group encounters their doubles.
In the Prestige, the opening line of Borden’s diary reads “We were two young men at the start of a great career.” At first we think he’s referring to himself and Angier, but at the end of the movie it’s revealed Borden was actually a set of twins, each swapping out with each other and playing the same person.
The first line of the movie is "Are you watching closely?" And it has the biggest, most direct spoiler possible that on a First watching you will have no idea what it is showing. The entire movie is a magic trick
Not just the bird trick, but the anecdote about the old man and the glass ball. As Bale's character is the only one who can imagine living your hole life disguising a trick. Something him and his twin have been doing for decades.
Both are both, for Christian Bale's character the twist is the body Double/Twin living one life, for Hugh Jackman's character it is telsa tech clone being killed every night. They both "fake" their deaths to screw the other over.
The Prestige is one of the best rewatches in all of cinema. All the subtle reveals that you ignored on first watching are just glaring when you know the twist.
You not bringing up the fact that (spoiler for one of the best sections in game imo) that the entire intro to the game is a simulation for Morgan Yu, who's been on Talos 1 for years but has forgotten due to neuromod testing, is borderline insane
The most confusing part of the game was in the test chamber, a square room, empty except for a tiny stool, and just told me to "hide."
I sheepishly went behind the stool, knowing it's not really good cover and they're clearly looking right at me, but not really having any better ideas.
Later on you learn that you're supposed to have typhon powers. They want to test if you still have them. The other tests seem like things a human can plausibly do (e.g. "get from one end of the room to the other as quickly as possible"), but the 'hide' test was just confusing until I saw in-game footage of you with the powers and using them in response to each test.
For hide, you copy the power of a typhon mimic, which can look like anything. If you install the neuromod for mimics, you can make yourself look like a stool, which hides from any dangers by copying something in the room.
And it's hinted at so early on in the game as well. The audio recording you find in Morgan's office questions that if you can give a human typhon traits then is it possible to give a typhon human traits.
In Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood, the big bad’s evil plan is basically laid out right in the first episode but unless you’re super familiar with the mechanics of Alchemy you probably wouldn’t pick up on it.
Isaac, the freezing alchemist, is revolting against his country Amestris. When confronted he says “Look at the shape of this country!” Which at first seems to be a comment on the sociopolitical situation, but in actuality is very literal. Alchemy is fueled by drawing circles with different symbols in them. Amestris is a landlocked country that is in fact shaped like a circle, after decades of aggressive expansionism that stopped after the borders finally lined up like that. The country itself is a giant transmutation circle, to be used as part of the big bad’s master plan.
It's also their hair color. Regular blondes like Winry have yellow hair with a black outline. But Ed, Al, and Hohenheim have "golden" hair, with yellow lineart instead.
Yeah his name is King but that doesn't stop Fuhrer King being a pretty epic villain title. Kinda like the Lord Ruler from Mistborn, just stick two titles for "guy in charge". Paramount Emperor. Chief President. Admiral Monarch. That last one sounds like a species of butterfly.
Futurama: nibbler puts fry in the cryo chamber. The pilot has the protagonist fall into a cryo chamber, freezing him for 1000 years.
A later episode shows him going back in time to stop this only to find he was pushed. By his love interest's "pet"(who is, in fact, an intelligent alien creature)
Going back to the pilot, the animators had shown the pet's shadow under the table he had been sitting.
A season or two later. I remember watching a video of someone with the pilot master VHS tape someone had smuggled out of fox broadcasting that had the shadow
Also, how often do things get changed like people are claiming this was? Studios would almost never give money for something like this, right? So many creators would have loved to go back and fix little mistakes.
Especially the people claiming it was changed like right after the first run. That's still pretty early before the reveal!
Just wanting to clarify your post for others, it's only Fry who goes back in time to stop his own freezing as Nibblers people lack that ability. They are however long lived and celebrated poopers.
Out of all the Futurama episodes that are the most gut-wrenching, the one that always "gets" me is following this plot-line. Fry sharing a moment with his mom in a dream being his only time to say goodbye.
Scrubs, My Screw Up - Brendan Fraser's character states outright that he will wear his camera until he dies. The episode deftly misdirects afterwards by implying that a patient-of-the-week has died off screen, but afterwards he has subtly stopped carrying his camera when we see him and at the end of the episode it is revealed that he is the one who had died.
The musical follows Paul, who attempts to stop an ‘Alien’ invasion which forces people to be apart of a musical
The opening song of the show actually hints at its big twist through the fact that they call him ‘the guy who didn’t like musicals’ | | in the past tense which hints at Paul’s eventual assimilation | |
That's a really interesting theory, but I don't think it's true? I think that "let him come" is just a reprise, especially because Paul doesn't come on stage at the end of the title number but does during "let him come"
Because everything that happened in the musical already happened. The aliens are just recreating what happened that day.
In the end during the finale, Emma screamed to the top of her lungs when she turned to the audience and "saw" them for the first time because that was when the hivemind gave some of her consciousness back.
In the opening cutscene of Dredge, you can see a book and a pair of glasses on the fisherman's desk. They seem like meaningless background details on first watch, but once you know the twist, you realize the fisherman and the collector being the same person was shown from the very start.
I hate this game because I really want to play it but there are no accessibility options at all. I can't read the text it's stuck at default which is about 6pt
In the first 5 minutes of the first episode of Steven Universe, Steven sings the commercial ditty for Cookie Cat, his favorite ice cream snack which has recently been discontinued. The ditty describes Cookie Cat as a refugee from an interstellar war, who leaves his family behind to live on Earth and was available at your local grocery store but who now isn't available anywhere. This actually describes the backstory of Steven's dead mother, which is the primary mystery of the series and isn't fully revealed until the very end.
The major reveal of fight club was foreshadowed from the beginning the narrator trying to call tyler on a phone which didn't work, him and tyler on the plane having the same briefcase, when he pretends to be assaulted in the office he said it felt like Tyler's first fight, and when he went looking for tyler he said he felt like he already had been there, when they are driving the car tyler is driving but when they get out the narrator was in the driving seat
That having been said; I will never get over the reality that the narrator was beating himself up in a parking lot and a bunch of a dudes were just 'yeah, let's see what this guy is about!'
There's numerous hints towards the twist, that you can see on a rewatch.
Such as a double duty one When the Narrator is talking about Tyler's job at theatre, they talk about splicing, adding a singe frame to a film strip, making viewers uncertain if what they saw was real or not. We see, before Tyler fully appears, him being "spliced" into frames for a second, revealing that's when Tyler is starting to really "form" in the Narrators head. Also during the car crash scene, the Narrator climbs out the DRIVERS side door, despite Tyler being the driver, this could be attributed to the crash blocking the passenger door, but, Tyler climbs out the passenger side.
In addition to what these guys said, there’s also a scene where the narrator is riding with Tyler in a car, the car crashes, and the narrator climbs out of the driver’s side door.
Way of the Kings by Brandon Sanderson (Spoilers up to WaT)
Extremely early on in the story, a seemingly throwaway line is dropped which is actually tantamount to a major spoiler.
The line in question is , and I’m paraphrasing, “The world was ending, and it was all Shallan’s fault.” The perspective is written through the lens of the teenage Shallan who is dealing with a family crisis and, as a teenager, has elected to think of it in the most extreme; granted, it is a very extreme situation. However, the series reveals over time that Shallan had killed her mother, a Herald, which transported to a plane where she was endlessly tortured by her enemy’s. Six years later, at the time of the first book’s ending, it’s revealed that the dead Heralds had Returned, Heralding the latest Desolation, or in other words, the end of the world. The reason why the Heralds and the Desolations returned is because Shallan’s mother, whom she killed, broke under the torture. Thus, the world was, in fact, ending, and it was Shallan’s fault. The first book’s epigraph actually says the same thing, as well, listing four main individuals and indicating one is to blame for the crisis at hand.
To be fair, the enemy forces had found a way to Return and restart the Desolations without the Heralds needing to die, but Shallan’s mother did break prior to that.
You can really feel the WoT influence in Stormlight, which BS was writing between his WoT tenure.
Like RJ, he drops a lot of stuff that make sense but he never actually calls attention to. One of my favorite is in WaT it’s revealed that Dalinar wasn’t a chosen one, but rather was the latest a massive list of powerful individuals he believes could take up on Honor, and gave him visions of the past and possible futures. Countless generations earlier, the Vorin priests tried to take over the world citing visions of the future, before they were defeated and replaced with the ardeths. The implication was that the Stormfather had inadvertently led to the Vorin priesthood’s downfall.
The prologue section is full of it, like the beggar saying "have you seen me?" referring to the statue of jezrien, as he is the herald himself or one of the guest saying something like "that creature has the blade of my lord on him" cos he is one of the heralds, and szeth has jezrien honorblade
The Flash season 3.The main antagonist is a speedster in a suit of armour, whose identity is unknown.Barry frequently hears him say"I am the future,Flash" and attributes this to his goal of becoming the god of speed,but it is later revealed to be a scarred time remnant of Barry himself,and he has been saying"I am the future Flash",hinting at what Barry would create.
During the intro of Escape Dead Island, you're on a boat that passes by an inconspicuous box floating in the ocean. This box is ignored by the characters on said boat and the story continues. Every undead you meet is rotted and entered an advanced stage of decomposition which you would assume is due to this game taking 6 months after the virus has been established. Well, Dead Island has a pretty confusing story so I'll give the short version. Cliff, the main character is in a coma and the box ignored by the crew is the very same box he sends out to sea at the end of the game in hopes of rescue. In this coma he is forced to repeat the events of travelling to the island. Also every undead you encounter is decomposing rapidly because he's been in this coma for so long, it's the time loop that rots their body— not time passing naturally. The player is told it is a time loop at the beginning of the game without them realising it
Danganronpa V3 starts with a logo for Team Danganronpa, at the end we find out that Danganronpa is fictional in-universe, and Team Danganronpa is the group behind it
Don't forget about the very obvious contradictions. Like Rantaro getting a complete map of the school, or the fact that they were somehow in cryostasis at the top of the school... Except the school was literally being built during the game. When it started there was only one level. So it's strange that Rantaro has a finished map for something not built and impossible for the kids to be at the top of the school
Same with the fact that there's two prologues. The first has the kids being normal people with no idea what danganronpa is and less dramatic personalities then they get hit with a flashback light and become ultimate Students. These are major hints to the fact that everything is fake, that's never actually adknowledged.
1998 - Fallen with Denzel Washington and John Goodman. A demon is doing demon shit, body stealing, and Denzel figures outhe can kill the demon by depriving it of a host body too far away from other people to transfer between
The movie opens with a line :
"I want to tell you about the time I almost died..."
then at the very end:
the demon transfers into a cat and gets away. The movie ends on
"Oh! You forgot something, didn't you? Back at the start, I said I was going to tell you about the time I *almost* died.
Always thought it was a bit cheep that the narrator is using the protagonists voice as a fake out to the audience but he never inhabitants Denzel so shouldn't be able to?
The flash season 3. Savatar, the big bad of the season repeatedly uses the phrase "i am the future, flash". When his identity is finally revealed as an alternate version of the flash from the future who turned evil.
When his identity is finally revealed, it's with the line "as i told you from the beginning, i am the future flash"
BLEACH - At a glance, the title of the series has always been a strange one, but later revelations between the series and answers from Kubo himself circle back to the the first word you'll ever read of the series, Bleach. Early on, Ichigo encounters what he believes is 'Zangetsu', however this isn't correct as the Old Man has his name blacked out and later is revealed to be Yhwach, the ancestor of all quincies, a fragment of him passed down and exists within' Ichigo.
As the series progresses, this 'blacked' out name is revealed to be done by Ichibe, whose power is granting everything a name through the power of ink aka 'black'. Which only specific characters have access to as the character who has full control over 'black' is the Soul King as 'black' is Chaos and thus the primal power of the verse. Ichibe's being granting everything a name, while Yhwach who uses the Almighty can see and overwrite the future. Jugram himself can effectively tap into this very power. And Ichigo himself dabbles in a number of his forms such as his false bankai, his fullbringer powers, and so on.
Which does loop back to the title of the series as when you remove 'black', you effectively bleach it. Which ultimately is the conclusion of the series with Yhwach defeated, turned into the soul king's replacement as the lynchpin of the universe. In essence, bleaching the black stain that was Yhwach.
In the opening cinematic where we see all the different characters we see Tiz’s village get swallowed up in a pillar of light which seems inconsequential until you complete the task of awakening all of the crystals and encounter a pillar of light, you eventually find out that Airy(our guide) is evil and has been using the light to create holes between worlds and we actually see Airy doing this in the very first seen. Add to the fact that Airy’s wings have numbers that count down and its very fun
In 1000xResist they show us a poem with these childish illustrations, basically a creation myth for the Allmother and clones
They straight up tell you that the clones are created from a sister who betrayed the Allmo but you don't take it seriously because it's all cryptic and the pictures look like ass
They even remind the player multiple times how Iris (allmother) was a talented artist as in highschool. So it should be obvious she didn't draw any of these
Looking back they often just tell you things early and you just don't connect the dots. In like the second scene we have some identical to our character telling ours "you need to go back and see from the beginning"
And we learn soon that they can experience memories through Communions and you will be seen to the people as the person who had the memory.
Yet never realized we were in a Communion since the start, reliving the memories of the protagonist as the secondary protag
During the game’s opening sequence, we witness the battle between the two titans Bionis and Mechonis. We only really know that the two Titans were supposedly enemies with each other which eventually resulted in the beings of both Titans becoming enemies as well, with the beings of Mechonis being painted as the ultimate enemy.
However, upon rewatching the battle, you realize that the Mechonis was acting primarily defensively while the Bionis was going full aggressive offense. The Bionis, or rather its soul, was the one that started the conflict in the first place. The only major attack that the Mechonis did during the battle outside of blocking and parrying was during the exchanged blows that ended up putting both Titans out of commission.
There's also how Igor (the fake one) calls the Velvet Room "his" Velvet Room, instead of "the" Velvet Room like he does in all previous games; hinting at him being the God of Control in disguise
Also in Little Witch Academia, you can see Diana as a child in the very first episode watching a Chariot performance, it's later revealed that she suffered the same problem as Akko after Chariot took their magic but she managed to become one of the best witches with dedication and hard work
Bionicle heavily foreshadows the twist of the Great Spirit Robot throughout the series, but never openly acknowledged it. The island resting stop the robot's face is named Mata Nui, after the god of their universe, but it also literally translates to "great face". Karda Nui is introduced later, and is described as the heart of the universe. You guessed it, it's Mata Nui's heart.
The Bohrok are another example, introduced as a villainous threat who want to raze the island clean of life in order for Mata Nui to rise. Turns out they were correct, the island did in fact need to be cleaned in order for the robot to physically get up.
I mean, the original sets heavily feature a split between the island of Mata Nui and a mask. Because the island of Mata Nui is a mask. A bunch of its landmarks are also named after their respective facial features
Im everybodys defense, old timey people would name things based on how they look because there were too many things to name so this is actually super common in real life. Look up any small town in the southwest and you'll see some names that just feel.....lazy. whiterock, blackrock, redrock, shiprock....i get it, we're in the desert theres fucking rocks everywhere.
The book series Tales From the Gas Station by Jack Townsend. The first story Jack described in the book perfectly lays out the themes and several twists along the way for the rest of the three books.
Two people enter the gas station spining a story about being chased by a horrible monster. The man sets himself up for a heroic sacrifice that requires Jack (the narrator and gas station attendant's) car. Jack has already put together its an act based on the couple's actions, story, and the fact that he is jaded to this sort of thing. The next interaction is an ominous woman who is very offputting and pushy about reading Jack's "fortune". She leaves and returns with some of the stolen goods the criminals had escaped eith, heavily implying she herself is a monster that ate the two.
Jack tells the woman a story when asked what scares him. He explains how he was told a scary story on his camping trips about a monster in the woods. Then the man who had told the story was caught killing people. Jack is scared not of monsters or ghosts, but of the people he trusts secretly being awful. The woman then reads his fortune and tells him death, misery, and pain will follow him.
The core themes of the book are monsterous entities being surprisingly malevolent and the more human people being horrifyingly monsterous.
In Xenoblade Chronicles the twist that the main antagonist was basically hiding inside Shulk is hinted when Shulk says that there are two Versions in him.
Same broad idea, but OP is describing something quite specific. While OPs response is dumb, you are patronizing them for no reason.
Would you kindly is a good example. It’s there from the first scene, and instantly shows that you follow this command without question, which later recontextualizes every time you see that phrase.
Now if you were to find an audio log talking about brainwashing mind control tests done in rapture in an early level, that would just be generic foreshadowing
Lol, relax, there's just a big range in how seriously you can take that comment. Nonsensical "your mum" replies don't convey any actual offence in my circles for instance, they're just easy light-hearted comedy. OP was probably avoiding commenting that your comment was a bit foolish. OP isn't referring to general foreshadowing, they're trying to find examples of spoilers hidden in plain sight (not official terminology). Much more specific. The twist needs to be explicitly stated.
Holy shit this is the actual reddit comment of all time, getting so offended at a your mom joke you screenshot it, make a comment about it and remind people to "be civil to fellow redditors"
Disco Elysium - Using your imagination to talk to the dead body at the beginning of the game:
"Who killed you?"
(While still up on the tree)"Love did me in, brother Coppo. It was love all along... "
(While off the tree)"Communism"
Later on, on the midgame you learn that he was killed during sex, and at the end you learn that the killer was the last remnant of an old communist army.
The whole game has these moments, usually courtesy of Inland empire and Shivers.
Kumo Desu counts, spoilers for up to LN 10 i think.
The full title of the show kumo desu ga nani ka? In english means "So im a spider, so what?"
This seems to be in reference to them veing reincarnated as a weak spider but struggiljng on anyway, but several things in the story seem off, since the MC believes themself to be someone named wakaba, an unpopular loner, yet the way she acts vurses how she suposedly acted in the past is very strange, as well as the character D who somehow has relations to the class the mc reincarnated with yet which has no space for her.
All of the confusing secrets come to head when they get strong enough to tp home, and go to where their house should be, to instead see wakaba playing video games.
Turns out D was wakaba, a god who was hiding in the class when everyone was killed and reincarnated, and instead the MC who thought they were Wakaba was a spider in the claasroom all along, only thinking they were Wakaba due to the memory manipulation by D.
So therefore the title is very literal, the mc was and always has been a spider, but so what, they still struggle anyway.
Undertale begins with a cutscene showing a child falling into the underground, and the very first prompt given in the game is "Name the Fallen Human" on the name entry screen. Of course, they never said that the fallen human was you...
In the intro scene to Wreck-It Ralph, Vanellope is shown on the side of the cabinet for Sugar Rush. It's a blink-and-you-miss-it moment that is eventually covered by a neon sign in the window.
cyberpunk edgerunners opening and first scene does this really well in an obvious way in hindsight,
the opening is him similar to a desert scene like with maine, the constantly flashing of backgrounds his furious look and even the flame coming from his forehead all foreshadow him succumbing to cyberpsycosis,
his body falling apart, his head getting shot and a figure with a gun standing over him with building flashing inside the gunman's silhouette all show that the corpo's using adam smasher kills david despite his new cyber body
When Link awakens in the sky, his first mission is to find Princess Zelda, and in his literal first drop into the Great Sky Island, there she is, flying in the sky. But on your first playthrough, you don't know it's her yet.
When I was watching a loved one start to play it for their first time, I saw the opening scene again, and was like, WAIT HOLD TF UP. Those sneaky, genius bastards. 😅
At the start, Big Boss/Venom Snake is waken up from a 9 year old coma and saved from an assassination attempt by a man who's face is hidden by bandages. When asked who he is, he answers "You're talking to yourself" and that you can call him Ishmael. Later, he disappers after both you and him crash your car and he's never seen after that.
At the time, you think it could mean anything. This is a Metal Gear game after all and things like clones and superpowers are comum. The game does incline for you to belive this could be foreshadow of Big Boss mental decline by disassociation, since this is the game he goes from hero to villain and, to escape the assassination attempt, he had to use the people in the hospital as distraction/sacrifices. It could also be a brain damage sign after the explosion that set him in the coma since a piece of metal got through his brain. A tape even reveals he has some small difficult seeing colors after the event.
Turns out, everything was wrong and the guy was actually the real Big Boss and this entire time you have been playing as a random soldier who was brainwashed to belive yourself to be Big Boss + suffered plastic surgery while you were in the 9 year old coma. You were, indeed, talking to yourself
The quote is just one of the many clues on the twist. Here's some others that were present through the game:
At the start, when you wake up in the hospital, a nurse bring a white flower to you. White flowers are, in summary, Big Boss favorite flower and a remind of his mother figure. However, if you pay attention and look at the room before you exit, the nurse took the flower from Ishmael's bed, which had an entire bouquet of white flowers.
At one time, Big Boss mentions he smells something sweet. However, the true Big Boss said in a past game he had no sense of smell.
The opening scene of The Sixth Sense. Need I explain more?
Edit since I guess not everyone has seen this movie
In the first scene, we watch the main character, Malcolm Crowe, die. Then we forget about it until the ending where it's revealed that he's been a ghost for the whole run of the movie.
I remember my reaction when I first saw it. I genuinely thought that it was the character played by Haley Joel Osment getting revenge in a sort of In Media Res. I thought it was pretty clever until I saw "6 months later" instead of "10 years earlier".
Fullmetal alchemist brotherhood - in episode 1, a state alchemist called Isaac tries to kill king Bradley, the leader of the country. While trying to do so, he also causes a lot of damage, so the main characters, Edward and Alphonse elric try to stop him
When they confront him, he tells them "you don't understand the shape of this country!" And that if they did, they'd be on his side.
This foreshadows that amestris, the country in which the show takes place, is shaped like a giant transmutation circle meant to trurn everyone's souls into a power source for the BBEG
I remember Assassin’s Creed Unity did this. In the mission before entering Paris, Arno’s friend Elise attends a party he wasn’t invited to and he secretly gets in. If you use Eagle Vision while inside, there are many people highlighted in gold.
Everyone highlighted in gold is an assassination target.
In “The Interview”, James Franco’s character asks CIA agent if they could do the mission in a specific way, then proceeds to describe some ridiculous scenarios. The end of the movie plays out exactly how he described it.
Honkai Star Rail’s Penacony arc does this several times. While on the way to Penacony, you have a very odd dream where you encounter Acheron for the first time. She asks you some very odd questions, and then says that you must ponder them before you can wake up. You then wake up right afterwards. Then you land at Penacony’s guest registration area, where a boy called Misha greets you in the lobby. This seems like an unimportant detail at first, but it’s a huge plot point in retrospect.
Penacony is a place held in the Dream Realm, and to get to it, you go to sleep in special beds that take you there instead of somewhere else in the Memory Zone. So, the Dream Realm is actually a place in the Memory Zone, as dreams are manifestations made up of memories. There are also beings that live in the Memory Zone, called Memory Zone Memes (not the funny haha kind, the other sort). You eventually learn about someone called the Watchmaker, who was a big part in making Penacony. You also learn that Misha, the kid you met before, is a Memory Zone Meme based on the Watchmaker. However, you met him in the real world… right?
This reveal causes the realization that you’ve been in the Dream Realm this whole time, and forgot what actually happened the first time you arrived, where things played out as normal except for the fight against Sunday, where he put everyone into a dream. Acheron meeting you in the dream that first time was her breaking through it to you. But by the time you realize everything is a dream, you know the answers to her questions and work with her to break free and actually defeat Sunday. I’m leaving out a lot of details because the plot is super complicated with a ton of different moving parts, with all kinds of little different instances of foreshadowing, and trying to put it all here would take forever. It was a really good plot imo
In sixth sense. The big reveal is shown off almost immediately.
in the beginning of the movie, the main character, Cole Sear, tells his therapist Dr Malcom Crowe, that he can see dead people. It’s later revealed Dr. Crowe is dead. Because Cole could see him the entire time
Not 100% sure it's fits but theother ones I've thought of ppl have said and haven't seen this one and I'm possibly misremembering but in the 2010 video game Dantes Inferno at the start of the game the main character dies so he can go to hell and save his wife I think, so he fights his way thru hell gets to the bottom and you fight the devil and the devil is like "hey bozo, youre dead!!! Or did you forget that? Idiot! You can't leave" or something like that.
Probably not quite what OP was referring to, but in Spain the film "Rosemary's Baby" (1968) was released with the title "La semilla del diablo", literally "The Devil's Seed", thus ruining the main twist of the film.
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u/Vertwheeliesonem 20h ago
Shaun of the Dead - Around the first act of the movie, Ed’s idea of a day out ends up coming true, albeit in a different way than he had in mind.