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"If the predictive statement appears in a work released before the event it predicts, this is Foreshadowing or a "Funny Aneurysm" Moment."

With this in mind, I've pulled this:

• The Marvel Cinematic Universe is all about this, especially in the post-credits stingers.
  • In Iron Man, War Machine is foreshadowed blatantly.
  • In Iron Man 2, Tony props up a laser with something that looks suspiciously like Captain America's shield.
  • There's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it shot of the Infinity Gauntlet in Thor.

If there's something in Captain America: The First Avenger that references the first two Iron Man films or Thor, on the other hand, that would be an example of the trope.

I pulled this:

• In the first book of E.E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman series, an interplanetary visitor who wants to show that they are from a more advanced civilization, tells Kimball Kinnison that five years from now, he will go into a barber shop for a shave and the barber will cut him slightly. Kinnison says he'll never go into a barber again, but soon forgets the warning. Five years later he has a barber give him a shave and gets a minor nick, which scares the barber silly because Kinnison reacts so violently to it, including jumping out of the chair and cursing, not knowing the reason he's so upset is not because of the cut, but because he realizes the visitor's prediction had come true even though he told him about it in advance.

I don't really see how it's an example of the trope.