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'''Roger:''' Was that me?
'''Babe:''' Said ya couldn't be tied down...
'''Roger:''' I said that?
|Exchange from ''[[Space Quest|Space Quest 4: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers]]''}}
A specific variant on [[Foreshadowing]] where the viewer sees the consequences of actions before seeing the actions themselves, via [[Time Travel]] or via future sight, or just via [[Anachronic Order|seeing the scenes]] [[Back to Front|out of chronological order]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== Anime ==
* In the anime version of ''[[Future Diary]]'', Ai's diary records that her boyfriend Marco buys a gift for a girl (namely, a ring). She confronts him about it, and because it hasn't happened yet, he has no idea what she's talking about. He ends up buying the ring for her.
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* In ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'' Mori didn't go to the first meeting Kyon had with Organization members because she was intimidated by something Kyon did a few days before. About 20 chapters later a time traveling Kyon is shown {{spoiler|bursting into a secret Organization meeting falling through the skylight in a 10 meter drop while carrying a man beneath an arm (who was spying on the meeting) and calmly saying "Don't mind me dropping in," as it was normal a person would do this. He left through the skylight too}}. And Kyon is supposed to be the most normal cast member.
* The ''[[1983 Doomsday Stories]]'' make good use of this, in part due to how [[Anachronic Order|individual fics take place in different years and not in sequential order]].
== [[Film]] ==
* Happens a ''lot'' in ''[[Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel]]''. The best example is when Ray goes up and buys a round of drinks. The first time around it looks boring and irrelevant but {{spoiler|later in the movie we discover the guy in the red hoodie standing next to Ray is actually a future version of Ray.}}
* Given that the first trilogy made came chronologically ''after'' the second trilogy made, [[Star Wars]] as a whole is full of this, from explicit statements like Obi-Wan's "Why do I get the feeling you're going to be [[Mentor Occupational Hazard|the death of me]]" to [[The Dragon|Ana]][[The Paragon Always Rebels|kin]] to subtler ones, like how General Grievous, a melodramatic cyborg with breathing problems, foreshadows Darth Vader, the original melodramatic cyborg with breathing problems.
* Happens a lot in ''[[Memento]]'', due to the [[Anachronic Order]] in which we see events.
* The penultimate scene of ''[[The Unbearable Lightness Of Being]]'' has Sabina on a beach in california reading a letter that tells her of Tomas and Tereza's death in a traffic accident. The final scene has the two driving off back in Czechoslovakia, where [[Irony|in the last line he tells her he's thinking about how happy he is]].
* In ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]'', Palpatine telling Anakin "the Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise" is this for the [[Expanded Universe]] novel ''[[Darth Plagueis]]'', which was released in 2012. Although, those who read the novel will realize that much of what Palpatine tells Anakin in the film was [[Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor| his sick idea of a joke.]]
▲== Live Action Television ==
* Not surprisingly, the Doctor indulges on this on occasion in ''[[Doctor Who]]'', especially where River Song is concerned.
** In other case, we saw Queen Elizabeth I stark raving mad at the Doctor a good three years before he or the viewers found out why. Turns out that in her past/his future, he marries her, robs her of her title of the Virgin Queen before abandoning her.
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* In ''[[Babylon 5]]'''s big time travel story, Sheridan gets stuck years in the future, where he sees the disaster that his actions will bring for {{spoiler|Centauri Prime}}. Unfortunately, he doesn't learn how it's going to happen, which is kind of a prerequisite for [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong|setting right what once went wrong]].
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Special mention goes to ''[[Achron]]'', a game which makes this a standard ''multiplayer game mechanic''.
* Just about any game which involves [[Simultaneous Arcs|multiple playable characters along separate storylines]], such as the below-mentioned ''[[Sonic Adventure]]'', can dabble in this, depending on the order in which you play through said storylines. For example, while playing as character A you may encounter character B someplace you never expected them to be, but you won't find out how they got there and what they were doing there until you play as character B and get to the same point.
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* ''[[Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker]]'' has a hidden CODEC scene where Big Boss, having recruited the man who will be Otacon's father, notes he gets a bad feeling when he looks at the water. {{spoiler|Otacon's father is revealed to have drowned himself in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]''.}}
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Homestuck]]''. Each of the four main characters is introduced at around the beginning of the day, even as time passes for the other kids, so we hear about certain events before we see them. For example, when {{spoiler|Dave gets buried under puppets}}, we first see [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002422 the chatlog of him pestering Rose about it], and only later do we see [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002511 the event itself].
** ''Homestuck'' also has an in-universe example as a '''major''' plot point. {{spoiler|Jade is semi-precognitive, and sees John upset at something in the future. So she sends him a powerful weapon that will help him to fight against the [[Big Bad]] (and, obviously, cheer him up). Said weapon falls into the enemy's hands ''first'', allowing him to become the [[Big Bad]]. The subsequent destruction that the [[Big Bad]] creates is what causes John's sadness in the first place. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]].}}
** Not that [[MS Paint Adventures|Andrew Hussie]] hasn't dabbled in this before. [[Problem Sleuth]] has [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=4&p=001778 this]. (For [
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20101229172317/http://www.brawlinthefamily.com/?p=1118 The April Fools 2010 issue] of ''[[Brawl in the Family]]'' consisted of an "official letter" from Nintendo demanding that the comic be shut down. It provided a list of "offensive" comics and the reasons they were so offensive... and the worst offender listed, #249, hadn't even been made at the time. Did it live up to its charges? [http://www.brawlinthefamily.com/?p=1224 Sort of.]
* The [[Time Travel]] issue of ''[[PS238]]'' involved Zodon bouncing through time, at one point arriving in the middle of an alien invasion. Several issues later, said invasion occurs.
* ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'': After the failed mission to blow up a dinosaur scout, Dr. McNinja ended up bouncing in time and ended up [http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p05 somewhere in the future.] But no one knows when this will happen or how.
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* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' has the "time windows", where some characters seem to be coming back from the future using some strange device.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
▲== Western Animation ==
* In the fourth season of ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'', we're treated to several visions of the [[Scenery Gorn|aftermath]] of [[The End of the World as We Know It|Trigon's arrival on Earth]] episodes before it even happens.
* ''[[Justice League]]'',
** In the first two seasons
* It happens most of the time whenever Paradox shows up in [[Ben 10: Alien Force|Ben 10 Alien Force]] and [[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien|Ben 10 Ultimate Alien]], especially since Paradox's chronological order isn't the same as Ben's or the viewer's.▼
** Also, in the ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' episode "The Call", the elderly Bruce Wayne tells Terry that he "never trusted those boom tubes" that [[The New Gods]] use for transortation. Come an episode of ''[[Justice League]]'', where the much younger version of himself is seen using one for the first time with Wonder Woman, he seems to get motion sickness from doing so.
▲* It happens most of the time whenever Paradox shows up in ''[[Ben 10:
== [[Real Life]] ==
* [http://www.andrew-may.com/asf/prophecy.htm The Science Fiction Prophecy] mixed this trope with [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy]].
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