History Foreshadowing / GameOfThrones

* Melisandre assuring Stannis that he will rise to greatness after a prophetic battle in the snow. [[spoiler: After Stannis's death and Jon's resurrection, she comes to realize that she was wrong about Stannis, and the Prince that was Promised is actually Jon Snow. The great battle in the snow where 'Stannis' was supposed to win and rise to greatness is actually the Battle of the Bastards, 3 seasons later, where ''Jon Snow'' was the one fighting against Ramsay Bolton to liberate Winterfell. And the rise of greatness is Jon Snow ascending to be the King in the North. Melisandre was never more mistaken.]]

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** The prophecy takes on a new meaning after The Long Night when [[spoiler: the dead are defeated at Winterfell. [[ExactWords The dead did rise in The North but didn't get any further]].]]

* An example that spanned from the first season to the last: One of Syrio Forel's lessons to Arya which is repeated as a catchphrase regularly through the show is "What do we say to the God of Death? Not today." [[spoiler:In episode three of season eight, Arya is the one who kills the Night King, ie the God of Death.]]

* One of the earliest establishing scenes for Ned Stark has him beheading the Night's Watch deserter in Robert's name. Right when he says "...rightful King of the Andals and the First Men..." [[spoiler: the camera cuts to Jon Snow and Bran Stark. Jon really ''is'' the rightful King, Aegon Targaryen VI, and Bran Stark is crowned king in the Finale.]] That's some ''incredible'' foreshadowing right there.

* Also foreshadowed in that episode is Bran's arc ... a camera shows a raven in closeup, then tilts up to Bran practicing archery.
* "You may not have my name, but you have my blood." [[spoiler:Jon does have Stark blood. However, it's not from his "father" Ned, but from his mother, Lyanna.]]
* The conversation between Jon Snow and Jaime Lannister in the second episode about Jon joining the Night's Watch is treated as an oddly significant conversation despite seeming to have little connection to what happens afterwards. Until [[spoiler: the Finale, when Jon kills Daenerys and has to rejoin the Night's Watch as punishment. Jaime killed Daenerys's father, Mad King Aerys II, and became the "Kingslayer" as a result. Jon kills Aerys's daughter Daenerys after she goes mad and commits the very atrocity that Jaime stopped her father from committing, effectively becoming a "Queenslayer". The entire conversation is Jaime foreshadowing Jon's fate after committing the exact same crime that he got away with.]]

* Fire cannot kill a dragon. Daenerys taking scalding hot baths without flinching and picking her dragon eggs out of a lit brazier foreshadow what she does in "Fire and Blood". In the books, Dany isn't immune to fire, confirmed by GRRM (the dragon hatch scene was a one time thing, and even then, her hair burns off), although she does show some resistance towards heat and flame in general.

* When Jon first captures her, Ygritte, expecting that he will kill her, asks only that he make it quick and burn her body afterwards. After she actually does die in Season 5, he does take care of that task.

* In "Kill the Boy", Maester Aemon laments "'' A Targaryen alone in the world is a terrible thing''", and then Jon suddenly walks in. [[spoiler: Which is an hilarious foreshadowing of Jon's Targaryen origins and a terrible foreshadowing of Jon's assassination once Maester Aemon dies.]]

* At the end of Season 5 Jon's assassins lure him to his [[spoiler:temporary]] death by telling him Benjen has returned. The next season, Benjen does indeed return, [[spoiler:albeit as a freed wight]].

* The anger voiced by the actress playing Cersei in ''The Bloody Hand'', following the death of "Joffrey", added to the play at Arya's suggestion, foreshadows the turn the real Cersei takes at the end of the season following [[spoiler:Tommen's suicde]] and her own ascension to the throne.

* In "Home", [[spoiler:Balon Greyjoy]] dies. This is pretty significant by itself, but also foreshadows that, even if [[CrisisOfFaith she might not believe it herself anymore]], some of Melisandre's powers are still active, as this death completes the curse she casted three seasons earlier using Gendry's blood. Indeed, by the end of the episode, [[spoiler:her ritual to revive Jon Snow succeeds]].

* As Tormund and the Wildlings [[spoiler: prepare to head back North of the wall]] Jon asks them to take [[spoiler:Ghost]] with them, stating that he belongs [[spoiler:North of the wall]], to which Tormund replies that Jon does as well, claiming he has [[spoiler:the true north within him]]. [[spoiler:All this hints at Jon's final fate.]]

* Also foreshadowed in that episode is Bran's arc ... a camera shows a raven in closeup, then pans up to Bran practicing archery.

** The prophecy takes on a new meaning after The Long Night when [[spoiler: the dead are defeated at Winterfell. [[ExactWording The dead did rise in The North but didn't get any further]].]]

* When Rojen begins having the same visions of the heartwood tree as Bran, he tells Bran that he realizes that the whole group doesn't have to get there, just Bran. [[spoiler:Indeed, he dies just short of the tree]].

** The latter event is also foreshadowed during Cersei's discussion with the High Sparrow in the chapel, [[spoiler:where he speaks disparagingly of the sept as a monument to Baelor's vanity and she responds that that's not a reason to tear it down]]

* In "Home", [[spoiler:Balon Greyjoy]] dies. This is pretty significant by itself, but also foreshadows that, even if she might not believe it herself anymore, some of Melisandre's powers are still active, as this death completes the curse she casted three seasons earlier using Gendry's blood. Indeed, by the end of the episode, [[spoiler:her ritual to revive Jon Snow succeeds]].

* In "The North Remembers", Melisandre makes a chilling prophecy that after the long summer, darkness shall fall heavy on the land, the cold breath of winter will freeze the seas, and [[spoiler: the Dead shall rise in the North]]. Switching forward to the season finale...

* Tywin's warning to Tyrion that he cannot take any of his whores to court, and the reasons Tyrion's and Varys's unsuccessful exhortations to her to take the money offered and leave King's Landing, anticipate Daenerys's explanations to Daario as to why she must leave him behind in Meereen while her armies cross the Narrow Sea at the end of Season 6.