10 Subtle Ways Movies Foreshadowed Major Spoilers

To the surprise of just about everybody, No Time to Die did the seemingly unthinkable act that few ever expected Bond producers to sign off on - killing James Bond (Daniel Craig).

It was a massive shock, even though the film's repeated use of "We Have All the Time in the World" as an instrumental leitmotif seemed to foreshadow that a focal character - either Bond or, more likely, Madeleine Swann (Lea Seydoux) - wasn't going to make it out alive.

Yet the real hint at Bond's eventual fate comes right at the start of the movie during its opening gunbarrel sequence.

While it at first seems like any usual gunbarrel opening, look closely at the end and you'll see that Bond subtly, eerily thins out and evaporates into white as we fade into Madeleine's opening flashback.

A fade to white has been visual shorthand for death since the early days of cinema, and so the transition felt different to not only every prior Craig gunbarrel, but most of the previous gunbarrels in the entire series.