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Information relating to surprises and character entry/exits in an episode were revealed ahead of transmission. The surprise was spoiled. The most common kinds of spoilers are thus: Someone de-bagged the cat in an online forum or in more conventional conversation; Plot points got out by way of the media; A show or episode aired overseas first and overseas fans were talking about it. The overseas type occurs frequently with anime airing in Japan before a dubbed version reaches the west and Europe due to the transatlantic delay. If the show airs in the States first, American viewers will be talking about it before Europe sees it; the same applies if the show airs in Europe first, when European viewers will be talking about it before Americans see it. Subtypes of the media type of spoiler: TV Guide Spoiler — An episode review makes a big emphasis on the fact of a major revelation or character death. They'll say it is being closely kept under wraps. Except, obviously, it isn't. For example, in Britain, TV guides for the following week (Sat-Fri) go on sale on the previous Tuesday. If the episode with the mysterious revelation is on Wednesday, all you have to do is look at next week's episode guide and the revelation is revealed. Yet another type is the commercial spoiler, or for movies, the trailer spoiler, where, in attempting to advertise, they directly quote all the big surprise moments. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is somehow a major offender of both the above and the opposite. Preview Tapes Not Available — critics are sent tapes of the episodes before they're shown so they can review them. However, producers who want to keep stuff under wraps will not give out preview tapes, as has happened with Doctor Who. By season 4, they came up with another way to prevent spoilers-cutting out the most shocking bit when showing it to critics...and hoping the critics don't complain about the episode seemingly not having an ending. Happens more for main networks. When a spoiler becomes common knowledge in the mainstream — such as Darth Vader turning out to be Luke Skywalker's father — it's no longer spoiler fodder and gets demoted to It Was His Sled. When a sequel to a work spoils its predecessors, it's a Late-Arrival Spoiler. Not to be confused with a spoiler that happens early or late in the work. But, on one hand, spoilers aren't always a bad thing. They can create sense of positive Dramatic Irony, for suspense. On the other hand, posting spoilers on a fan forum will almost always get the forumgoers royally pissed off at you, but when the show's actual owners start using or threatening legal action against people who spoil, you should Spoil at Your Own Risk. Not to be confused with the DC Comics character Spoiler (though there's a reason she's called that; see below). Or with Double Spoiler ~ Touhou Bunkachou, for that matter. Or with aircraft spoilers. For a few tips on how we treat spoilers around this wiki, see Handling Spoilers. See Spoilered Rotten for tropes about spoilers, and tropes where spoilers are almost inherent. |
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Back in the late 90's, Rosie O'Donnell came under fire during her talk show The Rosie O'Donnell Show when she venomously shared her hatred of the movie Fight Club, and without remorse spoiled the Twist Ending on national television just to get her point across about why she disliked it so much. | |
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In Shin Megami Tensei IV, the Black Samurai tries to screw with Isabeau at one point by threatening to spoil the ending of The Rose of Versailles. | |
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Special mention also goes to Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Some seemingly random writing in the background on the wall of an abandoned building in Episode 2 that was supposed to be a Rewatch Bonus, quickly turned into this when released in Germany (or viewed by German viewers in general). It's a quote from Faust, which is mandatory to be read during German classes in a lot of Germany's schools. Therefore having no problems recognising it, German viewers could easily predict the parallels the plot later draws to said story. | |
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In The Stanley Parable, one ending has Stanley go Off the Rails and stumble upon the Mind Control Facility that you're not supposed to know about yet. The Narrator tells Stanley to close his eyes, and then resets the game because he realizes he can't salvage the story. | |
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A commercial for the broadcast of The Empire Strikes Back in 1995, on the Australian TV network Ten, proceeds to reveal the shocking revelation of Darth Vader being Luke Skywalker's father, immediately after the announcer proclaims, "The Secrets of the Universe!" The fact that the commercial would reveal the big surprise at the end of the film, is obviously spoiler material. | |
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There was a reveal in a season 5 episode of Angel which was genuinely out of left field and, with no foreshadowing before the very brief scene to which it belonged, was pretty much impossible to guess. However, a fan saw some of the filming of the episode and posted it on the internet. Fortunately they did so in such a way that no one would have read it accidentally. As most people don't intentionally spoil shows for themselves (and especially so back then), the reveal was not widely known until after the episode aired. | |
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In an episode of the fifth season of Chuck, Morgan has forgotten the Star Wars saga completely, and as he heads to re-watch them, Casey (who's still bitter after his incredibly jerkish attitude in the previous episode) spoils the truth about Darth Vader being Luke's father and Leia his sister. | |
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On an episode of House, Foreman is trying to prep Taub for an up-coming medical examination, but Taub is not interested in preparing for it and instead asks Foreman if he wants to watch The Usual Suspects, since he hasn't seen it yet. Foreman, annoyed by Taub's procrastination, simply tells him to enjoy the movie. Then, as he is leaving, he blurts out: "Kevin Spacey is Keyser Soze!" | |
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The Baby-Sitters Club: The title of Jessi's Gold Medal gives away the fact that Jessi wins a gold medal in synchronized swimming. | |
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The Simpsons episode "I Married Marge" is a Whole Episode Flashback depicting Homer and Marge's pre-marriage relationship, wedding and Bart's birth, taking place in the early 80s. There's a scene of the couple leaving their movie date, with Homer inadvertently spoiling a huge bunch of people waiting in line to see The Empire Strikes Back that (what else?) Darth Vader is Luke's father. | |
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Weaponized during the second "get the bells" test in Naruto — Naruto figures out that the best way to beat his teacher Kakashi is by threatening to spoil the next Icha-Icha book;note which he would know, since for the last two and a half years he's been studying under the series' author Jiraiya, who's had Naruto proofreading the books for him Kakashi panics, shouting "No spoilers!" and covers his ears. When he realizes that his Sharingan lets him read lips, he closes his eyes too, which allows Naruto and Sakura to win by stealing the bells from him. | |
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RWBY: The first episode of a volume always has a cold opening. In Volume 9, the episode opens straight into a mysterious woman narrating the in-universe fairy tale of The Girl Who Fell Through the World. Her identity is not revealed into the final episode. However, the blu-ray's English language subtitles reveal immediately who the person is, spoiling a major plot twist. The mysterious narrator is Summer Rose, with the final episode revealing the real Summer Rose rather than Ruby's memory of her. | |
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The March 24th, 2008 episode preview for two game shows - Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? and Deal or No Deal - revealed the results of the games. | |
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An episode of Scrubs begins with Dr. Cox ruining the end of The Sixth Sense for the Janitor (He was dead the entire time!) In revenge, the Janitor spends most of the episode threatening to ruin the score of the basketball game Dr. Cox had recorded. Cox talks him out of it, only for Dr Kelso to spoil it anyway. | |
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In Air Force One the President is telling everyone not to say anything about the football game he wasn't able to watch while he was giving an important speech. He asks the crew to run the tape of the game, and one of the staffers who didn't know not to say anything, comes in and says, "12-13 Michigan, what a game Mr. President!" | |
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Some Cowboy Bebop fans are fond of spoiling the ending for their friends, with the blunt phrase, Spike dies. At this point, it's become a kind of joke. This particular spoiler is revered for being solid spoiler gold: it is final, powerful, massively important to the plot, extremely well-done, and occurs at the very end of the last episode of the series. | |
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In episode 45 of Banzi's Secret Diary, Banzi, Eungsim, and Namnam read a mystery book series together and Eungsim isn't able to help herself when she gets the idea to read the next book before Banzi and Namnam do. As a result, Eungsim spoils that the killer was the actor wearing glasses, leading to Eungsim and Namnam renouncing their friendship. | |
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The finale of WordGirl, "Rhyme and Reason", is unique among PBS Kids series in that it has a spoiler for the entire show as a plot point, one that changes how the status quo is treated. Let's just say Violet gets mad at Becky and leave it at that. | |
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Portlandia has an entire sketch centered on spoilers. Spoiled items include, The Sixth Sense, The Usual Suspects, The Wire, True Blood, and Dexter. | |
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The Big Bang Theory, "The Spoiler Alert Segmentation": Leonard fights with Sheldon after Sheldon spoils the ending of the Harry Potter book that Leonard is reading, and Penny reveals how relationships developed. Finally, Sheldon gives away a major plot-point from The Walking Dead (2010). The concept of spoilers is used and played with in this episode. | |
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Kamen Rider Build plays this for laughs thanks to the Previously on… segments being narrated by the characters themselves. Episode 30 has one character show up and act suspiciously because he'd been Killed and Replaced by someone else in a prior episode. When Sento starts questioning this, the character nervously interrupts with "You can't just go revealing spoilers like that in the recap!" | |
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Kamen Rider Drive was pretty blatant about this with the preview of Episode 45, which didn't just tease a character's death but openly told the audience which character was going to die, showed how they died, and their final moments. While one might think this would kill any dramatic impact, fans still found it quite effective because of all the build-up involved. | |
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In Retail Marisa asks Val not to spoil the show she recorded. Val's baffled by this because...well... | |
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In a 3rd Rock from the Sun episode, the Solomons saw an Alien Invasion movie and were upset by the portrayal of aliens as evil monsters. Harry decided to warn the people waiting to see the movie how inaccurate it was: | |
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Most wrestling websites prominently post spoilers for shows that are taped before they air. WWE.com even got in on the act for a short time. The most egregious use of spoilers in wrestling was done by WCW, against the then-WWF. WCW's Monday Nitro was aired live, while WWF's Monday Night RAW was taped a week in advance; thus, right before 9:00 (when WWF RAW started), the WCW commentary team would spoil the WWF's main event for the evening, in order to coax viewers into continuing to watch Nitro instead. This backfired, however, when Tony Schiavone revealed that Mick Foley — then wrestling as Mankind — would be winning the WWF Championship that evening; he jokingly said "yeah, that'll put butts in seats". An estimated half a million viewers switched over to RAW, an act which killed Nitro's ratings, gave the WWF the upper hand in the Monday Night Wars, and caused fans to start bringing "Mick Foley put my butt in this seat" signs to WWF shows. It also didn't help that the night in question also featured WCW's biggest Jump the Shark moment, the "Fingerpoke Of Doom". |
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In the opening credits of the Chilly Willy cartoon "Chilly Chums", Grace Stafford is credited as "Woody's voice", thus ruining the cartoon's joke cameo of Woody Woodpecker. | |
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One chapter of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War has Shirogane, Ishigami, and Fujiwara trying to convince Kaguya to read a shojo manga, only for all three of them to end up spoiling major plot points in their attempts to do so. | |
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Stargate SG-1's fourth-wall cracking, in-joke spouting, lampshade-hanging 200th episode...called, of course, "200" (for reasons both related and not to this fact)...featured the return of Richard Dean Anderson's character General (formerly Colonel) Jack O'Neill for the first time on the show since the beginning of season 9. This exchange says it all: | |
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In Avatar: The Last Airbender, "Sozin's Comet" was originally supposed to be a shocking and incredible series finale. Unfortunately, the third midseason was back scheduled to fill out Nickelodeon's summer schedule. Even more unfortunate, was that nobody told the publishers of the junior novelization of said series finale, as they released on schedule. | |
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In the pilot episode of Seinfeld, Jerry avoids spoiling a baseball game he had taped, even going as far as answering phone calls with "If you know what happened in the Mets-game, don't say anything, I taped it"... and then Kramer spoils it for him anyway. | |
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When Twin Peaks was first airing in Spain, it was a huge success, an outright cultural phenomenon. The "who killed Laura Palmer?" was almost a meme. At some point a popular magazine spoiled in advance who the killer was, just to boost sales. The magazine argued that the series de-emphasized the reveal and the whole "who is the killer?" question in later episodes, and thus revealing the killer isn't such a big deal. While this might be somewhat true, it was still a dickish move that got a lot of backlash. | |
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An infamous review of Scream 4 by a disgruntled reviewer spoiled the murderer's identity... in the very first words of the very first sentence (and the spoiler shined proudly on the Rotten Tomatoes website for quite some time). People weren't pleased, and general drama ensued. | |
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Right at the start of Romeo and Juliet, one of the actors comes out on stage and tells the audience everything that's about to happen in one soliloquy. In Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, this happens twice. First a small TV with a news anchor reciting the soliloquy, and then we get it again but with more dramatic editing, imagery and narration. | |
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Batman: The Cluemaster, a B-grade Riddler knockoff, got over his compulsion to leave hints behind at crime scenes after thorough psychiatric counseling ("Thank you, Arkham"). Stephanie Brown, his daughter, became disgusted with his villainy and decided to give up the information in his place, calling herself "the Spoiler." The name, however, became an Artifact Title soon afterwards as Stephanie continued to fight criminals beyond her father and no longer left hints or clues, instead directly intervening herself. She eventually became the fourth Robin and then Batgirl. The name is later lampshaded during Joker's Last Laugh, where a villain asks Stephanie if her power is to ruin the endings of movies. And again by Cassie when the two Batgirls are teasing each other in a Batman: Urban Legends story: |
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In the Bizaardvark episode "Promposal Problems", Dave has to duck out of watching the finale of Show Within a Show "Cali Beach High", as he's promised to watch it with his brother. Naturally, he spends the episode besieged by spoilers. | |
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In season 6 episode of Murdoch Mysteries, Dr. Emily Grace is vexed when her boyfriend Constable George Crabtree tells her the whole plot of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. She bought tickets to see a theatre adaptation, and he has read the book and enthusiastically told her the whole thing, never realizing that she wouldn't want to. | |
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In an episode of Saved by the Bell, Screech and Tori go on a date to the moviesnote It was a bet made by Lisa - if Tori can tolerate Screech's antics through the whole movie, she (Lisa) will act nicer towards him.. During a conversation, Screech blurts out the ending of the movie, which is "the big surprise where the monster blows up", and a couple sitting behind them is seen angrily leaving the theater. | |
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In a similar vein as the above example, "Ladies' Night" eventually became code for the point in the Death Note anime where L was killed. | |
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A spoiler from the sixth Harry Potter book actually managed to become an Internet meme. Someone who found out that Snape kills Dumbledore went out to the Internet, posted it everywhere, and now you can even see image macros in the biggest Web forums with this spoiler that, on top of that, is as short, powerful and final as the one from Cowboy Bebop. There's even a story about a fanboy who killed himself after he accidentally stumbled upon it! The Voldemort-kills-Harry-then-has-battle-in-Hogwarts has become this, too. As a result, ridiculously elaborate precautions were taken to keep the 7th book under wraps until it was in the hands of bookstore customers; the printers worked in darkness, the manuscript was kept in a safe, etc. etc. etc. |
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An extra in the season 2 Prom episode of Glee spoiled the identity of the Prom King and Queen (Karofsky, and in an unexpected prank, Kurt, respectively) over Twitter. The shows' creators made it very clear that the performer in question had likely ended her entertainment career with this blunder. | |
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Complete scene by scene spoilers for Lost's 3rd and 4th season finales made it to the internet before those episodes aired. In the case of season 4, some fans thought the spoiler was actually a foiler because the "frozen donkey wheel" seemed so crazy. In an effort to keep the whole thing from being spoiled, multiple versions of the revelation that it's Locke in the coffin were filmed, with various characters. | |
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Less so (because they are only static images with no action or dialogue) NCIS starts each segment after a commercial break with a frozen black and white version of the final frame from that segment. In some cases they can still reveal what's about to happen, though ... and nearly always reveal something that's not going to happen; if you see Gibbs in the image doing something other than lying on the ground in a pool of blood, you can be reasonably certain that the guy holding his gun to Gibbs' head in the segment is not going to actually kill him. | |
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The deaths of major characters get this treatment on occasion. When DC Comics killed Superman in the 90s, it actually made the national news, as did when Marvel killed Captain America more than a decade later. | |
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A zigzagged example with Xenoblade Chronicles 1 is Seven. Said character is the final party member, and their joining the team is a major plot point to the extent where the fanbase guards the secret no matter what. However, Nintendo isn't so careful about hiding the spoiler, very blatantly including them in things such as Super Smash Bros. | |
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CollegeHumor provides a comprehensive video "Official Spoiler Rules" which tries to establish spoiler etiquette. You know, so that we could stop fighting and enjoy talking about our favourite shows. See it here. The video is spoiler free. | |
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The big twist in Psycho was considered so integral to the enjoyment of the film that Hitchcock didn't let anyone come into the movie casually (as people were allowed to walk into films late at the time) and specifically requested at the start of the film to not talk about the plot to any of their friends. He even went so far as to purchase every copy of the book he could get his hands on when the film was greenlit so people couldn't go out and read it before seeing the film. | |
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In The Trash Pack episode, "Spoiler Alert", Rotty Pop is introduced. He's a bag of popcorn filled with movie trivia...which he shows by saying the endings of nearly all the movies in a ten-movie marathon. | |
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In a late 1970s-early 1980s Archie Comics story, Veronica used her first-in-town VCR to record the final episode of a mystery for Archie so they could go on a date ... only to have Jughead bump into them and immediately give away the ending. | |
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In Goodbye, My Rose Garden, after Hanako Kujou finally meets her favorite author Victor Franks (or rather, realizes that Victor is Hanako's employer and lover Alice Douglas), Victor is about to say how "Goodbye My Rose Garden," Victor's latest work, ends, but Hanako protests that she isn' done rading it. | |
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Code Geass does the spoiler-in-the-title thing just enough to be EXTREMELY ANNOYING to people who have preview lists that include titles of upcoming episodes, like the now-aired "Emperor Lelouch", where the NAME spoils the previous episode's end result. There have even been cases where the title for a particular episode spoiled a shocking twist from later on in the very same episode, such as "Bloodstained Euphemia" | |
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In The Fairly OddParents! episode "Stage Fright", Vicky tires out a variety of movie roles to audition for; one of them is a slasher flick where she plays the slasher and Timmy is the slashee. | |
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A plot point was spoiled for the webcomic And Shine Heaven Now when the author posted the relevant trope on the comic's page on this wiki two days before posting the corresponding comic. While spoilers are a common enough occurrence here, it usually does not happen that way. | |
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In one episode of Home Improvement, Tim was taping a football game while taking Jill to a wedding. Unfortunately, not only did Jill's friend who was watching the boys erase the tape, but she gave away the score. | |
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Jason's Halloween costume in one FoxTrot strip is a giant mass of spoilers; he hand-picks pages from every A Song of Ice and Fire book released up to that date, each one containing an unexpected or shocking plot development from the series, with the intent of forcing said spoilers upon people. It backfires when his brother expresses enthusiasm at the idea of not having to actually read "all 10 billion pages" of the series. | |
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Applicable to the TV and radio versions as well (with radio being the original version), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy features a spoiler at the start of the missile attack sequence, which reveals several key plot points in the interest of reducing stress from the suspense of not knowing, while keeping one rather trivial item (the identity of the person who suffers a bruised arm) hidden to preserve some suspense, even though it has no plot relevance, and is only revealed as a stinger at the end of the chapter/episode. | |
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In The IT Crowd, Roy is desperate to see a pirated copy of the latest Tarantino movie unspoiled. This eventually culminates in him slapping a police officer. | |
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Several flashbacks in My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! involves Catarina's friend Atsuko giving her spoilers for the game that she ended up reincarnating into, allowing her to function as a Ms. Exposition for the routes that Catarina never got the chance to play. This becomes absolutely crucial when her spirit appears to give Catarina the knowledge she needs to resolve the incident with Sirius/Raphael peacefully. | |
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During their playthrough of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, the Game Grumps decide that the owl character is "Spoiler Owl," who will give helpful hints and then spoil things. As an example, Arin tosses out the infamous Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince spoiler...only to actually spoil it for Dan in the process. | |
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At the end of The Mousetrap the actors on stage swear the audience to secrecy so as not to spoil it for people who haven't seen it yet. Of course, we all know who the killer really is. | |
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In This Bites!, due to his stance on knowing what would happen makes an adventure boring, Luffy prefers that Cross not reveal his future knowledge unless it's relevant or important. This unfortunately is a problem for the rest of the crew as there have been many moments where they could've used a heads up from Cross. | |
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Doctor Who: Some fans got the series 7 finale early when the DVDs were accidentally shipped out a week early. Moffat requested that people not talk about the final scene and, surprisingly, people obeyed. Yet again upheld when a rough cut of the entire first episode of series 8 — the first adventure with the Twelfth Doctor — leaked on the internet. |
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Another problem with Dark City is that it's hard to discuss it as a sci-fi film, or commenting on how cool the spaceship in the movie is, because even its genre is a spoiler to a great extent. | |
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In Central Park, Season 1 "Dog Spray Afternoon", Birdie explains, as the narrator, he can not reveal information to the other characters. He then proceeds to sing "Spoiler Alert", bleeping himself from revealing the details of the episode. | |
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When John Wolfe is playing Undertale, he is furious that the comments of his videos basically spoiled everything for him prior to him being able to discover it for himself. For one example, he'd have been perfectly fine beating the game, getting a neutral ending, and then realizing he missed a sidequest or two, but to only know he had to do the sidequest because the comments were barking at him to go do it ruined it for him. This actually killed his interest in playing the game more than once, to the point he didn't even bother getting the Golden Ending and left the game after killing Asgore rather than reloading and exploring the True Lab, because he believed he had no reason to explore the various other endings. This even killed his interest in doing other games that put heavy emphasis on experiencing it blind for the first time, and he notably never so much as looked at the game's sequel Deltarune. As he explained in a response to a comment on his 8th video of the game: | |
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Criminal Minds: When Reid is helping out with surveillance of a potential kidnapper, his temporary partner explains that there are long stretches of sitting around and waiting for thigs to happen and shows that she brought along a book to kill the time. Reid's already read it and tries to strike up a conversation about one of the twists. She dryly notes that she hasn't made it there yet and slams it shut. In the end, he apologizes for spoiling it for her, but she takes it in stride and offers to let him spoil something else for her sometime. | |
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It's more or less impossible to mention Baccano!'s Claire Stanfield without spoiling a good amount of the Grand Punk Railroad/Flying Pussyfoot arc. So most of the time, he's split into two characters for explanation purposes until a certain point. They are the Young Conductor and Claire/Vino. The character could be split into four names and there would still be certain users who compulsively conceal the ones that remain trivial even after The Reveal. |
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One such deliberately-revealed spoiler occurred with the canonical continuation comics for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, though funnily enough, Joss Whedon claimed it to be a Justified Trope, saying that he felt it was only fair to release the spoiler ahead of time so that comics shops would know ahead of time to order extra copies of the issue in question to meet demand for the issue where Buffy, who turns out to be bicurious, sleeps with a fellow Slayer. This didn't stop anybody from automatically assuming of course that it was a stunt to drum up sales; after all, Girl on Girl Is Hot — ironically, though, that trope is seemingly averted, since at best we see them cuddling afterwards under sheets; it's their reactions to the impulsive act, and the reactions of the people who inevitably walk in on them, that are the bulk of the issue's content. | |
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Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Rescue Across Time episode 41 killed off the show's main character, Weslie. He comes back alive in the next episode. Anyone who was reading social media posts and the news in China (where Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf is produced) might have wished their ability to go into the episode blindly was alive when the episode aired, as both spoiled the scene. | |
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Promotional material for Captain America: The Winter Soldier (including a "First Look" on the Thor: The Dark World blu-ray and the television special "Assembling a Universe") have been very open about the fact that the Winter Soldier is actually Cap's best friend Bucky Barnes, who appeared to die in the first film. While most comic book readers already know this (being a near-direct adaptation from the comics), there are plenty of moviegoers who are fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but have never picked up a comic book. However, many people feel that this did a great job of hiding the mid-plot twist and true conflict of the movie: that HYDRA had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. at its very creation, and is using it as a front to take over the world. | |
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Battlestar Galactica put spoilers for each episode in its own opening credits. They flashed by at high speed, but some people still could see them clearly, and had to close their eyes through the credits or else have every episode spoiled. | |
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Probably the biggest example by sheer number of people affected: shortly after the theatrical release of The Others (2001), a member of the Spanish government thought it appropriate to bring up the biggest reveal in the film as a metaphor... during a key televised debate in Parliament. Yep, the guy actually spoiled the film for the whole country. | |
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At one point in Little Busters!, Haruka happens to catch the ending of a popular TV series, so to get people watching it she writes a summary on the blackboard. Except she goes too far and ends up revealing who the killer is. Naturally, the students aren't pleased, and Riki agrees, saying that 'spoilers are a serious crime.' She passes it off by claiming that what she wrote was just her theory, though, which the others accept, even praising her on coming up with such a realistic idea. | |
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RTL, the first German station to air South Park, provided full summaries as episode descriptions. Viewers had to wait some nine months between seasons only to learn the identity of Cartman's father from their TV guide. | |
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In an episode of The Legend of Korra, Bolin tells Asami the ending of the movie he's starring in, and then adds "Oops… spoiler." | |
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An unpublished story of The Powerpuff Girls had Mojo Jojo trying to relax reading a mystery novel when the girls barge in accusing him of a crime he didn't commit. Realizing their mistake, the girls fly off but not before Blossom (who has read the book Mojo is reading) gives away the denoument. | |
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Advertising for the fifth season finale of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (and the series finale, from the WB's perspective) blatantly spoiled Buffy's death, by running ads featuring Buffy's tombstone. | |
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The concept of spoilers is mentioned — and briefly discussed — in The Kite Runner: the narrator/protagonist discovers, after revealing to a stranger the ending of a western, that Americans aren't very keen of the whole "telling people what happens in the end" thing — as opposed to life in his home country, where everyone floods the moviegoer with questions after he watches a movie. | |
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At least one reviewer for The Perfect Storm avoided spoiling the fact that the fishing boat sinks and its crew all die, despite the film being based on a recent historical event. The review in question included the (truthful) statement that none of the Andrea Gail's Real Life crew had agreed to an interview about the movie. | |
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How I Met Your Mother: There's an episode in which the main characters attempt to NOT find out what the score of the Super Bowl was. Another episode, entitled Spoiler Alert, was all about pointing out someone's incredibly irritating habit which had gone unnoticed (for example, Ted's new girlfriend never stops talking, Robin constantly misuses the term "literally", Ted is always correcting people over small details, and Barney's entire personality is completely obnoxious). Once these annoying traits are pointed out to people, they become impossible to ignore (thus "spoiling" the person) and the gang is quickly at each others throats. |
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In "Little Red Running Shorts" from The Stinky Cheese Man, Jack the Narrator gives away the entire plot before the story even starts. The characters get so ticked at this that they just leave, causing the remaining pages reserved for the story to be blank. | |
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Frasier: One episode involves Frasier intent on catching up on the latest episode of a television series he's taped the night before without being spoiled. Naturally, everyone else seems just as intent on spoiling it for him. In another, Niles brings over some videos to watch on a rainy night. Daphne, Frasier and Martin manage to comprehensively spoil Casablanca, plus the ending of The Way We Were. Played for laughs in one episode where Frasier is trying to get some space to read a recently published non-fiction psychology text he's been meaning to catch up on. He goes to Cafe Nervosa where Niles happens to bump into him, sees what he's reading, and casually mentions a conclusion the author reached that he found particularly interesting. Frasier acts like he just spoiled the climactic final twist of a movie: "Great! Now you've ruined the ending." |
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Friends In one episode Rachel and Joey swap books, she reads his copy of The Shining while he reads Little Women. While discussing their progress Joey accidentally spoils the ending of The Shining. Rachel is so annoyed she decides to get some revenge by telling him what happens to Beth March. | |
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The after-credits of Kong: Skull Island was supposed to be a Wham Shot revealing Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan and Ghidorah. Unfortunately, their names appeared in the credits as trademarks of Toho, just before the post-credit scene! | |
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A Deadpool comic published in 2016 features a flashback to Wade in line for the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, complete with Hogwarts uniform cosplay. Then someone drives by and shouts out the infamous spoiler. In the present day, Wade finally tracks him down and breaks his nose. And then shoots him, apparently for framing Steven Avery. | |
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The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Skin of Evil" killed off Tasha Yar but the fans saw it coming as it was known that Denise Crosby wanted to leave the show. It was also known that she wanted to leave the show in a way that had never been done before on Star Trek; namely killing off a central character permanently. At the time, there were few complaints about the foreknowledge of Tasha's impending death. Everyone tuned in out of curiosity mostly because this was a revolutionary move for Star Trek for which the general rule up until then has always been: Death is Cheap unless you are a Red Shirt. | |
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