History Main / SpoiledByTheFormat

* In ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii'', when you reach the final castle in World 8 and defeat Bowser the first time before his transformation by Kamek, you may as well think that you won the game if it weren't for the fact that you were only able to collect at most 2 star coins.

* Wiki/TVTropes: It's considered an IdiotBall by some to go reading a tropes page for a work ''before'' seeing/reading/etc the work, and expecting not to be spoiled. On another level, [[Administrivia/SelfFulfillingSpoiler even the spoiler tags can still spoil]], because for example:

* ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'': After having her heart accidentally blasted with Elsa's ice powers, Anna reaches Arendelle where Hans offers to give her TrueLovesKiss and heal her. But the fact that the movie still has over half an hour of running time left is a sign that this will ''not'' turn out as we thought, and sure enough, [[spoiler:Hans turns out to be EvilAllAlong.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'': After having her heart accidentally blasted with Elsa's ice powers, Anna reaches Arendelle where Hans offers to give her TrueLovesKiss and heal her. But the fact that there is still over half an hour of running time left in the movie at this point is a sign that this will ''not'' turn out well.

* ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'': Anna, having been given ice in her heart by Elsa, reaches Arendelle where Hans offers to give her TrueLovesKiss and heal her. But there's a whole lot more to come, since that occurs when there's a little of a half hour left in the movie, and things will go downhill from there once you learn what Hans really is.

* Sometimes, when a Website/YouTube video asks the viewer at the beginning if they can guess what's up, they'll lampshade this by acknowledging that the viewers read the title already.

* Given a humorous nod in the Hollywood Crash Cliches episode of ''Series/MythBusters''. After finishing the initial test, Jamie considers doing the "[[UpToEleven Replicate the Results]]" step they usually do. Adam agrees it would be a good idea, and [[MediumAwareness hey, there's still plenty of time left in the episode to do it]].

* Creator/WilliamShakespeare: Is it a tragedy? The title character is going to end up lying on the ground dead. Is it a comedy? It's going to end with lovers united and a wedding. Is it a history? It's going to end with the Tudors victorious or poised to be. Though there were exceptions, especially once he got established as the most popular playwright in England and lost interest in following the format. They're termed the "problem plays"[[labelnote:*]]All's Well That Ends Well, Measure For Measure, The Merchant of Venice, ''and'' Troilus and Cressida[[/labelnote]] and the "late romances"[[labelnote:*]]Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Cymbeline, A Winter's Tale, and The Tempest[[/labelnote]].

* In ''Manga/KindaichiCaseFiles'', the case will usually be solved whenever this catchphrase "All the mysteries have been solved" or "The culrpit is one of us!" are said by one character in an overly dramatic fashion, usually taking almost one page. That's why when someone delivers a plausible solution not followed by those, you can tell it's not the correct one, especially when there are 3-4 more chapters to go.

A short-term variant of this can occur when watching TV shows and movies with UsefulNotes/ClosedCaptioning or subtitles, since they usually display a sentence before it's finished being said. This means that if a character's words are cut off in the middle of a sentence, you know that they're going to be interrupted by something a few seconds before it happens. In some cases, when it's obvious enough what the character is going to say next, it's possible to avoid this in subtitles by showing the whole sentence anyway, then making it quickly disappear when the character is interrupted. Some captioning includes the name of the person doing the speaking, which is especially frustrating if that person's actual identity is an important future plot point and hasn't actually been revealed yet.

* In ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' TheMovie ''Nobita's Great Adventure into the Underworld'' involves the characters creating a parallel universe where magic exists. Unfortunately said parallel world turned out to have a BigBad demon who wanted to take over the Earth. The solution? [[CuttingTheKnot Just go back to their own universe.]] In the comic it has a fake ending but of course it doesn't work since people will notice a suspiciously large amount of book left.

Compare DiscOneFinalDungeon and InterfaceSpoiler, which are much the same issue applied to video games, and ConspicuouslyLightPatch, which is this trope in animation.

* ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'': The game was released in 2002, and the fourth-wall-breaking [[SanityMeter sanity effects]] that simulate someone [[InterfaceScrew messing with your TV or console]] often reflect this when trying to replay it in the present day. Many [=TVs=] during that era would have a series of green rectangles representing volume, display a black screen with "VIDEO" in a corner when there isn't a signal, etc. Playing it on a modern TV, with all their different ways of presenting such information (to say nothing of emulating it on a computer), makes the trickery immediately clear.

* In ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'', Episode 8 of the anime(adapted from Chapter 27 of the manga), which takes place on New Year's Day, has Mira learn that Ao will have to move out as a result of her father getting a transfer, something that will happen during Spring Break in March. One would think that this sort of thing would happen at the end of the series, whether as a climactic problem or the cause of a BittersweetEnding, but there are four episodes to go in the anime. Mira and Ao manage to get Ao to stay with Mira's family near the start of the next episode.

* ''Series/MatchOfTheDay'' likes to show its best games first. "Best" being decided by a combination of team popularity, match importance and result; but especially team popularity. If first match up is Stoke vs. Wigan, expect a UFO to land in the centre circle at some point. Likewise if Manchester United don't feature in the first few games then their match must be the kind of 0-0 draw that makes you yearn for the excitement of watching paint dry. (Several managers have [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] the likelihood that their very dull match will end up being on last.)

* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' series
** It can be quite easy to guess who will die (though not necessarily who will be a victim and who will be a culprit) in the next chapter of the game based on who gets into a Rebuttal Showdown with the main character during a class trial. In the second and third games, the first Rebuttal Showdown opponent becomes the victim in Chapter 2. In Cases 2 and 4 of the second game, and 2, 3 and 4 of the third game, the culprit is one of the Rebuttal Showdown opponents.
** In [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony the third game]], the fifth trial involves the group confronting the supposed mastermind behind the killing game. Those who are familiar with the series will expect that there will be a sixth chapter, and there is.

** The back of the published manga can cause this in two different ways since it features the top 10 of the 104th trainee corps. If you've read the first volume or seen enough episodes, you can figure this out easily, and the fact that they're in order from 1-10 going left to right helps. On the back of volume two, Eren, the fifth from the left, is transparent, which one would assume is to show that he was killed in book 1; but if you look at the later books, he goes back to being solid white, which means that he gets better in book 2.

* At the midway point of ''Film/PrinceCaspian'', the forces of Narnia attack the Telmarine castle. Since it is the midway point, it's pretty obvious that the assault is doomed to failure from the start. For bonus points, this assault is nowhere in the [[Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia original Narnia saga.

** Jennifer Lien, who played Kes, was credited as a regular for the first three seasons of ''Voyager''. In the fourth season premiere, suddenly she's credited as a guest star. They might as well have named the episode "Yes, Kes is Leaving."

** [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] at the end of season 4: The heroes make up and defeat the season's BigBad in the episode ''before'' the season finale, while the season finale is a BizarroEpisode that seems like {{filler}}, [[InnocuouslyImportantEpisode but actually]] hints at some events that occur later on in the series
** Played straight in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E1Anne Anne]]", Angel's sudden return to life would’ve been a great twist if Creator/DavidBoreanaz hadn’t appeared in the credits at the beginning. For extra irony, the credits are a character montage, so even people who didn’t know the actors name still saw the character would come back.

* In ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii, when you reach the final castle in World 8 and defeat Bowser the first time before his transformation by Kamek, you may as well think that you won the game if it weren't for the fact that you were only able to collect at most 2 star coins.