Foreshadowing in Official Art?

[centurycreeper.livejournal.com]

So after the Geass finale, I looked at some pictures on my hard drive and wondered why I never realized this before




I had realized that Lelouch and Rolo both had wings, but I never made the connection before Rolo being dead and having wings, and Lelouch having wings as well.

It becomes that much more evident when you see the full picture, and they're the only ones that have wings, when other characters prominently featured lack them.




Any other instances like this? Do you think they were really foreshadowing events in art or just drawing whatever they felt like?

Comments

[starryburst.livejournal.com]

I don't know. When I saw this back then, I was like "Rolo death confirmed x1000 D:"

But hmmm, perhaps it was telling us that Lelouch was going to die as well. Or maybe the wings on him meant the upcoming death of Lelouch as Zero, or maybe even the death of Lelouch Lamperouge. Who knows?

[centurycreeper.livejournal.com]

Ahh, I first saw this image after Rolo had died, and as a huge Rolofag, it made me bawww a little.

Sounds plausible. Maybe it signifies both in a way, since Lelouch is in his Zero outfit yet is lacking the most identity-concealing part: the mask.

[kazara.livejournal.com]

My notice in the foreshadowing is Viletta, Kallen, and Tamaki wearing their outfits from here:

[blackwhite-rain.livejournal.com]

That's some lovely artwork. O_o *saved* Too bad Zero didn't show up in the wedding in the end...

[suruma.livejournal.com]

Well, technically "Zero" was there... if you think of Suzaku as Zero.

[digiparadisez.livejournal.com]

You are right. Suzaku as Zero =_=. Is Suzaku is type who hold a rose?

[mixtapehaven.livejournal.com]

...LOL TUXEDO MASK.

[emptyego]

lmao exactly my thoughts! XD

[neltis-screi.livejournal.com]

Zero at the wedding would be perfect~

[eriol33.livejournal.com]

So, spinzaku now fabulouzaku?

[amachizzle.livejournal.com]

how is he smelling the rose through the mask?

[unasuvas.livejournal.com]

I noticed that too but FFFFFFFFFFFFF- THIS PICTURE ONLY MAKES ME RAGE HARDER.

[chivy-pandaz.livejournal.com]

is it only me or did Kallen's boobs reduce?

[madhatterpan.livejournal.com]

Her boob size was influenced by...the hours she had to pilot a Knightmare. The less mecha-time, the smaller they become?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_miyuchan_/]

Usually magazines have always some sort of picture that shows something "that is going to happen".
The thing is that you need to understand their way to communicate, they can't be obvious or people will be spoiled of everything, but they can give hints.
It happens also with other series so of course it happened with Code Geass.
Just that as you can see, fans realize it always after the thing actually happened in the episodes; at that point people can look at the pictures back and say "woah now I get it!"

[centurycreeper.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's interesting though, since this picture came out before Rolo died so they either had to have known quite a while beforehand or they just accidentally threw something together that ended up being able to be seen as foreshadowing once the series was over.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_miyuchan_/]

I think the animators give to these magazines some highlights of all the serie in order for them to draw pictures that actually can fit in the episodes. If they knew highlights only for a part of the plot they might, who knows, draw even things that in the end would end up being the opposite to what it happens.
So probably they said. "ok this chara lives, this chara dies, this one will die in the very end, this one will get married etc etc.
Knowing these kind of things, the ones who provide art for the magazines know exactly what they can draw and what it's better not to...

[epistretes.livejournal.com]

Or it could simply be the obsession with white feathers, as you see them in video games and anime all the time.

[chivy-pandaz.livejournal.com]

yes, for example it is only now that I realize it: in the last pic, Suzaku is wearing all black with sword in hand while Lelouch's hand is taking hold of him. .... as if in guiding him O.O

[x-conspiring-x.livejournal.com]

In the ED2, Shirley has wings too.

[spicykimchisoup.livejournal.com]

I don't know if this is worth mentioning, but when my friend and I where looking at the picture you posted she noticed that Lelouch's OUTFIT OF JUSTICE was tattered along with the wings (AKA broken wings).

Sunrise just likes to fuck with minds :D