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* The March 24th, 2008 episode preview for two game shows - ''Series/AreYouSmarterThanAFifthGrader'' and ''Series/DealOrNoDeal'' - revealed the results of the games.

* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Rescue Across Time'' episode 41 killed off [[spoiler:the show's main character, Weslie]]. Don't worry, he comes back alive in the next episode. You ''do'' want to worry for anyone who was reading social media posts and the news in China (where ''Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf'' is produced) when the episode aired, as both spoiled the scene.

* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Rescue Across Time'' episode 41 famously killed off [[spoiler:the show's main character, Weslie]]. Don't worry, he comes back alive in the next episode. You ''do'' want to worry for anyone who was reading social media posts and the news in China (where ''Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf'' is produced) when the episode aired, as both spoiled the scene.

* The title of the ''Literature/BabysittersClub'' book "Jessi's Gold Medal" gives away the fact that [[spoiler:Jessi wins a gold medal]] in synchronized swimming.

* ''WebAnimation/{{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 English language subtitles reveal immediately who the person is, spoiling a major plot twist. [[spoiler:The mysterious narrator is [[PosthumousCharacter Summer Rose]], with the final episode revealing the real Summer Rose rather than Ruby's memory of her.]]

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': The first episode of a volume always has a cold opening. In Volume 9, the episode opens straight into a mysterious woman's 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 English language subtitles reveal immediately who the person is, spoiling a major plot twist. [[spoiler:The mysterious narrator is [[PosthumousCharacter Summer Rose]], with the final episode revealing the real Summer Rose rather than Ruby's memory of her.]]

* A plot-point concerning the winners of Prom in an episode of ''Series/{{Glee}}'' was very publicly spoiled over Website/{{Twitter}}. Creator RyanMurphy made it very clear that he was not happy with the leak.

* When ''LetsPlay/JohnWolfe'' is playing ''VideoGame/{{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, as he already got the GoldenEnding thanks to these spoilers and had no reason to explore into the various other endings, and 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 ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}''. As he explained in a response to a comment on his 8th video:

* In ''Manga/GoodbyeMyRoseGarden'', after Hanako Kujou finally meets her favorite author Victor Franks([[spoiler: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.

* A show [[ShortRunInPeru aired overseas first]] and overseas fans were talking about it.

* It's more or less impossible to mention ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'''s [[spoiler: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. [[spoiler:They are the Young Conductor and Claire/Vino.]]

* Several flashbacks in ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'' involves Catarina's friend Atsuko giving her spoilers for the game that she ended up reincarnating into, allowing her to function as a MsExposition for the routes that Catarina never got the chance to play. [[spoiler:This becomes absolutely crucial when her spirit appears to give Catarina the knowledge she needs to resolve the incident with Sirius/Raphael peacefully.]]

* Weaponized during the second "get the bells" test in ''Manga/{{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[[/note]] Kakashi panics, shouting "No spoilers!" and covers his ears. When he realizes that his [[MagicalEye Sharingan]] lets him read lips, he closes his eyes too, which allows Naruto and Sakura to win.

* ''Series/KamenRiderBuild'' [[PlayedForLaughs plays this for laughs]] thanks to the PreviouslyOn segments being narrated by the characters themselves. Episode 30 has one character show up and [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness act suspiciously]] [[spoiler:because he'd been [[KillAndReplaced Killed and Replaced]] by someone else in a prior episode]]]]. When [[TheHero Sento]] starts questioning this, the character nervously interrupts with "You can't just go revealing spoilers like that in the recap!"

* UsefulNotes/{{New Zealand}}ers ''really'' know how to keep their mouths shut. While the ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' finale episode "[[Recap/KimPossibleS4E21Graduation Gradu]][[Recap/KimPossibleS4E22Graduation ation]]" has already aired there, none of the lucky fans who got to see it said even a single word, and no trace of the episode appeared at any internet file-sharing sites.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "I Married Marge" depicts Homer and Marge's pre-marriage relationship, wedding and Bart's birth, taking place in [[TheEighties 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 ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' that (what else?) [[LukeIAmYourFather Darth Vader is Luke's father]].

* In the early WholeEpisodeFlashback of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' that depicted Homer and Marge's pre-marriage relationship, wedding and Bart's birth, taking place in [[TheEighties 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 ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' that, what else, [[LukeIAmYourFather Darth Vader is Luke's father]].

Not to be confused with the Creator/DCComics character [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Spoiler]] (though there's a reason she's called that; see below). Or with ''[[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Double Spoiler]]'', for that matter. Or with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoiler_(aeronautics) aircraft spoilers]].

* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', "The Spoiler Alert Segmentation": Leonard fights with Sheldon after Sheldon spoils the ending of the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' book that Leonard is reading, and Penny reveals how relationships developed. Finally, Sheldon gives away a major plot-point from ''Series/TheWalkingDead''. The concept of spoilers is used and played with in this episode.

* Special mention also goes to ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''. Some seemingly random writing in the background on the wall of an abandoned building in Episode 2 that was supposed to be a [[RewatchBonus Rewatch Bonus]], quickly turned into this when released in Germany (or viewed by German viewers in general). [[spoiler: It's a quote from {{Theatre/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.]]

* One such deliberately-revealed spoiler occurred with the canonical continuation comics for ''Comicbook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', though funnily enough, Creator/JossWhedon claimed it to be a JustifiedTrope, 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 [[spoiler: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, [[spoiler:GirlOnGirlIsHot -- 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]].

* The title of the Literature/BabysittersClub book "Jessi's Gold Medal" gives away the fact that [[spoiler:Jessi wins a gold medal]] in synchronized swimming.

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