User blog comment:Boyariffic/I just noticed something pretty weird/@comment-24152851-20140808015122/@comment-24152851-20140808031614

We'll with the hair, he didn't really have any point in flipping it up since he's in Mike's mind.

It's funny you should mention the coincidence thing. If you check the trivia of Mike's alternate personalities I've now included that Cory Doran stated (prior to ROTI airing) if he could make a fifth personality he would make a guy who was chaotic and addicted to mayhem like the Joker. He also added "good thing I don't write for this show", but one season later la voila a character that matched his description perfectly was introduced.

I agree that this means of foreshadowing Mal is far too obscure, they may or may not have planned for Mal, but I don't think this was foreshadowing.

Btw, someone did add early bird cameo on the tropes page. I should probably take it off.