Specific Clone movements, a droid's trust issues, and much more have foreshadowed Star Wars moments.
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00:00From shadowy imagery setting the stage for the mother of all heel turns,
00:03to witty one-liners meaning much more in the grand scheme of things,
00:07these anything-but-throw-away Star Wars happenings are about to leave your Gungan Tong dangling off the floor.
00:13Gareth here from WhatCultureStarWars and here are 10 moments of Star Wars foreshadowing you never noticed.
00:2010. A Final Goodbye Shows Flickers of Light and Darkness
00:23The fall of Anakin Skywalker into the menacing cyborg that is Darth Vader
00:28acted as the foundation of the entire prequel series, but you knew that already.
00:33As such a great many nods and teases towards his inevitably tragic fate
00:37were always destined to be laced into the trilogy,
00:39with the debuting of characters like General Grievous acting as clear tips of the cap to Skywalker's robotic future.
00:46Yet a moment of foreshadowing that was given a bit less spotlight, in a figurative sense at least,
00:50went down during a seemingly throwaway exchange between Master and Apprentice partway through the third episode.
00:56In what would actually turn out to be the last conversation the pair would share
00:59before Anakin's decision to fully turn his back on the Order,
01:02the decision was clearly made to have him be cloaked in shadow,
01:05while the future Ben can be seen basking in the daylight,
01:08giving us another visual hint at the difference in path the two were set to walk in the time that would follow.
01:159. Floating Leia Hints at the Supremacy's End
01:18Quite easily sitting as one of the most divisive Star Wars happenings ever to go down inside of a movie theatre,
01:24General Leia Organa's floating through space en route back to her Resistance ship
01:28actually provided fans with a rather subtle wink at what The Last Jedi's climax would entail.
01:33See, it was so much more than a one-time princess doing a best Mary Poppins impression.
01:3610. Floating Leia Hints at the Supremacy's End
01:39As Leia makes her way back to her spacecraft on the back of being blasted into the darkness of space by the enemy,
01:45eagle-eyed fans would have spotted the iconic character cutting straight through a hologram of First Order Supership,
01:50the Supremacy.
01:51This return to an oxygenated space actually signaled what would be on the horizon for said terrifying ship,
01:57with Vice Admiral Holdo eventually sacrificing herself by driving the Resistance's vehicle directly through the heart of the Supremacy,
02:04in a visually compelling dealing of a fatal blow to the First Order.
02:098. A Theme Warns Us About The Clones' Eventual Turn
02:13George Lucas very much went out of his way to remind us that, while initially being utilised for the forces of good,
02:19the white armour-wearing clones were always predestined to drive a knife into the back of the Jedi Order.
02:24This time using the medium of music to get over their villainous future,
02:28the instantly iconic notes rumbled into the scene first revealing the early version of the eventually infamous Stormtrooper suit
02:34harkened back to another unsettling reveal one film earlier.
02:37As the droid army of the Trade Federation invade the peaceful Naboo,
02:41the exact same march can be heard thudding away in the background.
02:45The fact the very same tune was then intertwined into this all-important clone reveal on Kamino
02:50subtly provoked the audience into feeling as though a dark fate was very much on the horizon
02:54where these Jango Fett copies were concerned.
02:587. A Silhouette Is Worth More Than A Thousand Words
03:01Silhouettes and shadows became something of a hallmark of George Lucas' prequel trilogy when all was said and done.
03:07First using them as a way to tease what lay ahead for a young Anakin Skywalker in the promotional material for The Phantom Menace,
03:13by having a Darth Vader figure bleed onto a Tatooine house behind Little Ernie,
03:17Lucas also relied upon shadows to tell Blink and You'll Miss Them story beats.
03:21Looking at you, Jango Fett head tumbling out of his helmet post-decapitation?
03:25Lovely stuff.
03:25In that very same prequel feature, though, lay another overlooked setting of the stage for the future.
03:31Coming during Skywalker's trip back home to save his mama in Attack of the Clones,
03:35the shadows that trickle from himself and eventual lover Padme Amidala
03:39hint at the devastating direction their lives are about to head down.
03:43Lighting the moment to perfection or simply altering it in post-production, I'll let you decide.
03:47The conflicted Jedi shadow eerily mirrors that of the frightening Sith Lord he will ultimately become,
03:52with his scooting around on a speed bike in the same flick also giving us another Vader-esque visual to chew on.
03:596. Anakin's Fatal Dooku Choice Mirrors Luke's
04:02Keeping with that impressionable Skywalker now,
04:05and to a beat that would cheekily call back to one of the original trilogy's defining moments,
04:10whilst also technically acting as a piece of clever foreshadowing too.
04:13The advantages of telling your story back to front, eh?
04:16Tasked with rescuing Supreme Chancellor Palpatine from the Separatists in Revenge of the Sith's opening sequence,
04:22Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi are gifted a rematch with Count Dooku aboard an enemy vessel.
04:27With the captive Palpatine watching on, Kenobi is sidelined early,
04:31leaving only the future Darth Vader to contend with another fallen Jedi.
04:35Brilliantly lining up with another all-important duel featuring the Chosen One,
04:39only this time opposite his own damn son in Return of the Jedi,
04:42a seated Darth Sidious enjoys witnessing Anakin's inner turmoil
04:46before he finally forces him to give in to anger and dispatch Dooku.
04:49In other words, to do it.
04:52Yet while Skywalker Sr. opts to lash out,
04:54Luke notably passes up the opportunity to strike his own father down in that original trilogy closer,
05:00highlighting the vital differences between the two generations of Skywalker.
05:055. R2-D2's Trust Issues
05:07In another instance of being able to add further glorious detail
05:11into seemingly insignificant occurrences that go down in the much-adored original trilogy,
05:15George Lucas' prequels may have actually provided us with the answer
05:18as to why a certain little droid felt the need to be so damn defiant.
05:22While admittedly making him one of the most adored rascals in the galaxy,
05:25R2-D2's penchant for disobeying orders,
05:28specifically giving a robotic middle finger to the idea of staying with the ship,
05:32was largely overlooked in those earlier entries.
05:34However, by the time Revenge of the Sith came around in 2005,
05:38a seriously heartbreaking revelation equipped fans with a possible reason for his apparent trust issues.
05:44As it goes, the last time R2 obeyed a command of this ilk
05:46came minutes before Anakin Skywalker wandered into a mining facility on Mustafar,
05:51and the rest is agonizing history.
05:54So the fact Skywalker never returned to the droid's side
05:56and ultimately sealed his unsettling fate upon leaving R2 with the ship,
06:00likely played into the iconic astromech never wanting to stray too far away from his current master's side ever again.
06:074. Darth Vader Notes Luke's Fondness of the High Ground
06:10Still alluding to the fact that his decision to take the high ground is being celebrated to this day,
06:15Ewan McGregor's Obi-Wan Kenobi uttered a now-legendary line
06:18that was actually surprisingly set up a solid two decades earlier.
06:22As Vader puts it, when Luke is safely out of reach,
06:25up high in the midst of their climactic Return of the Jedi duel,
06:28Obi-Wan has taught you well.
06:30In other words, he taught you that my greatest weakness is attempting to flip over my opponent
06:34before getting my limbs sliced to pieces, the clever old space wizard.
06:37Not being in a rush to repeat that fateful revenge of the Sith mistake, though,
06:41Vader resists the urge to do a flip and instead settles for simply having his hand chopped off once again.
06:45Charming.
06:473. There's Always a Bigger Fish is More Than a Cool One-Liner
06:50Providing a great many important soundbites over the course of his all-too-brief live-action
06:55stint as part of the Skywalker Saga.
06:57Qui-Gon Jinn's introducing of midichlorians and wish to see Anakin Skywalker trained by his padawan Obi-Wan
07:03are just a few of the hugely significant words uttered by the opinionated Jedi Master.
07:07Yet arguably his most underappreciated line of dialogue over the course of The Phantom Menace
07:12undoubtedly comes in the form of a witty one-liner that initially feels like little more
07:16than a way to alleviate the underwater tension.
07:18In the midst of a perilous, submerged game of cat and mouse,
07:21Qui-Gon hilariously quips, there's always a bigger fish.
07:24While definitely true for their specific situation, the same line of thinking can very much be applied
07:29to the overall Jedi-Sith war that is once again on the verge of erupting at the time of the flick.
07:34From Anakin seemingly being the chosen one before his son appears to take up the mantle and so on,
07:39to Darth Maul merely acting as the first of many increasingly difficult dark side hurdles
07:43our heroes will be forced to leap over throughout the coming trilogies.
07:47There is, indeed, always a bigger fish.
07:492. Anakin Skywalker's words come back to haunt the Jedi
07:53Discovering the future biggest bad in the galaxy in much more innocent surroundings,
07:58a naive piece of dialogue sent the direction of Qui-Gon Jinn by a young Anakin Skywalker
08:02could just be the most disturbing piece of foreshadowing the series has ever known.
08:07As Annie puts it, upon figuring out that the mysterious presence before him is none other than a Jedi knight,
08:12no one can kill a Jedi.
08:13Unfortunately for the Jedi Master in question, that most definitely would not turn out to be the case
08:19by the end of that very same first episode.
08:21But the much more sickening events that would go down two films on from this sweet supper
08:25add even more dramatic and tragic weight to the lad's ignorant Phantom Menace claim.
08:30Sure enough, Anakin would prove that you very much can kill a Jedi,
08:33absolutely massacring the Jedi Temple on Coruscant,
08:36including a group of younglings not much older than he was around the time he first alluded to a Jedi's invincibility.
08:41Kids say the craziest things, am I right?
08:451. The Clone's Direction Suggests a Dark Future
08:48As seen in everything from Avengers Endgame's long-awaited assembling of Earth's mightiest heroes,
08:54to the Lord of the Rings' many charges into battle,
08:56it's pretty much an unwritten law of filmmaking that your heroes must sprint against the enemy
09:00from the left of the screen to the right.
09:03And that's precisely what made George Lucas' first unleashing of his titular army on the Separatists
09:07in Episode 2, Attack of the Clones, such an ingenious turn of events.
09:11Instead of having his apparent hero infantry arriving to bail out the Jedi during their climactic skirmish on Geonosis,
09:17storm to the rescue using that aforementioned means of travel,
09:20the mind behind the galaxy opted to have his clones wander on in the opposite direction.
09:25Right there and then, fans were given yet another tease of what was undoubtedly set to come,
09:30as, along with the aforementioned Trade Federation march being used to signal their debut,
09:34Lucas' endgame of having the army forged on Kamino play a painful part in the Republic's downfall
09:39was already being brought into existence under our very noses via direction of attack.
09:44And that's our list of any other moments of Star Wars foreshadowing people never noticed.
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