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A twisted cousin of foreshadowing and preshadowing but closer to foreshadowing Foreshadowing episode one occurs specifically with a flashback of events before a story set by a character later in the story, more so in a TV show or a movie, that contains subtle hints to events already shown at an early point of the story, set later than the events of the flashback. As the flashback is set further in the past, the subtle hints count as a foreshadowing
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