10 MORE Incredibly Clever Moments Of MCU Movie Foreshadowing

10. Captain America's Vision - Avengers: Age Of Ultron

The visions which besiege the Avengers during Age of Ultron are more than merely nightmarish distractions designed to split the team and push their loyalties past breaking point. The visions courtesy of baddie-turned-eventual Avenger Scarlet Witch can also be read as premonitions for the fate of each character, some cryptic and some explicit—albeit all of them pretty pessimistic projections, given the point of the dreams.

Thor, for example, sees Ragnarok before we did in Taika Waititi’s eventual instalment of the same name, and its destruction mirrors the eventual end of the flick. Iron Man saw the Decimation even more explicitly seems to skip forward to the end of Infinity War, and

Black Widow sees herself unable to escape her past, presaging the eventual sacrifice she makes as outlined earlier in an earlier entry.

Most poignant is Cap’s vision, which sees him going back to the past, a fate which at the time seemed like a cruelly impossible promise—only for it to eventually come to pass come the close of Endgame, as Cap gets the same happy ending for himself that he envisioned.

Except, you know, sans the horrible “this isn’t real” rug pull at the end.