This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Drop Dead Gorgias: What is it called when the episode synopsis given by your Ti Vo or cable box spoils the ending? This happens all the time in Law And Order. It is similar in effect to Narrowed It Down to the Guy I Recognize, but different in execution.
Ununnilium: What about an opening that *creates* a mystery - for example, silhouettes of characters that become fully-drawn when the characters are introduced in the series? I know both Digimon Tamers and Gokujou Seitokai used that version.
Seth: Karin (or *Shudders* Chibi Vampire as tokyopop are calling it) had charecters that hadn't been introduced yet blacked out in the opening too.
Ununnilium: Hm, this may be an Anime Trope all on its own. Silhouette Opening?
Travis Wells: Drop Dead Gorgias: That happens with shows like The Twilight Zone too. The episodes are pretty much defined by their twist endings. Try and describe one without spoilers. Well, there's the episode where it's a cookbook... drat. The episode where the last guy on earth breaks his glasses? damn. How about the one where the beautiful main character is treated as hideous because the norm is now pig-faces? You really can't ready any descriptions of episodes without them giving away the twist.
whitetigah: I wonder... do dub openings fit in here? If so, I've got a whole lot of examples from Italian anime dubs that are just begging to be added.
Ununnilium: I'd say yes?
Sikon: Took out the "heroic impression" part of the NGE example because it's not a subversion of this trope, it's Bait-and-Switch Credits — a different trope. The NGE opening does include a subversion, but it's of different nature.
Looney Toons: Hey, Sikon? Bad enough that you can't figure out the formatting codes to put them in your new stuff, but do you have to remove them from things you're editing, too?
Sikon: Whoops. I really have no idea why I removed the italics. I'm sorry.
Marionette: The italian dub of Sailor Moon is referenced, but not the American one, which included a shot of Usagi as Princess Serenity, which is supposed to be a mystery for 30-odd episodes. Also shows all the senshi, where the original did not add them until they were introduced, or in later seasons, only showed silhouttes.
Citizen: I have to wonder if the appearance of "the computer club president's 'girlfriend'" in the OP partly negates the Haruhi example, since she only makes a single brief appearance in a side-story episode...
Sci Vo: Moved the Buffy example down to the section for examples. Also removed the spoiler tag.
Citizen: I'm 'moving' a much of examples to Evolving Credits—I blame The Great Crash for reverting my earlier edits.
Lord Seth: Deleted:
- Not to mention that the opening ends with the same picture as the series (without movies): A smiling Shinji.
Danel: Half of these I really don't see it - watching the opening tends to be a confusing swirl of contextless cool and dramatic moments. It's not until you appreciate the context that it makes sense - at which point they're no longer a spoiler at all.
Does this really count as a spoiler opening? It was part of the premise of the show:
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: The first opening for the show, even though it's shadowed, features the combination between Gurren and Lagann. This troper's friend figured out that the two would combine before it even happened.
