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-->-- '''Lucky''', ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' (about 'Film/TheSixthSense'')

* Preview Tapes Not Available — critics are sent tapes of the episodes before they're shown so they can review them. However, producers want to keep stuff under wraps will not give out preview tapes, as has happened with ''Series/DoctorWho''. 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.

->''"'Fire!' isn't the worst thing you can yell in a crowded theater. It's 'Creator/BruceWillis [[Film/TheSixthSense is dead]].'"''
-->-- '''Lucky''', ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill''

* A zigzagged example with ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'' 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 ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros''

->''"'Fire!' isn't the worst thing you can yell in a crowded theater. It's '[[Film/TheSixthSense Bruce Willis is dead]].'"''

* Probably the biggest example by sheer number of people affected: shortly after the theatrical release of ''Film/TheOthers'', a member of the Spanish government thought it appropriate to bring up [[TheReveal 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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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': River Song, another time traveller who has already met the Doctor (in her timestream) [[LovesSecrecy teasingly refuses]] to talk about stuff that has already happened to her but is still in the future for the Doctor. As such, "Spoilers" is basically her catchphrase. And when the Doctor meets an early version of River Song, her first time meeting him, he repeats this back to her.

* In a late 1970s-early 1980s ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' story, Veronica used her first-in-town VCR to record the final episode of a mystery for Archie so they can go on a date ... only to have Jughead bump into them and immediately give away the ending.

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[[caption-width-right:213:''[[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy There, I just saved you two long, boobless hours.]]'']]

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* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', "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, [[LockedOutOfTheLoop was that nobody told the publishers]] of the ''junior novelization of said series finale,'' as they released on schedule, [[HypeBacklash causing people to say "They were talking about it as if it were gold, but it was shit"]].

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* In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'', the Black Samurai tries to screw with Isabeau at one point by threatening to spoil the ending of ''Manga/RoseOfVersailles''.

* Spoilerina, a [[OlympusMons Legendary Yo-Kai]] from ''VideoGame/YokaiWatch'', can compel people to [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway reveal spoilers]], if she doesn't just reveal them, herself. [[LethalJokeCharacter She will go to extreme lengths]] to [[KillerRabbit make sure you hear those spoilers.]]
** In [[Anime/YokaiWatch the anime]], she pursues Nate all over town, using her powers to make those nearby, and even a news reporter on television, spoil the plot twist to a movie he's about to watch. It winds up [[spoiler: getting revealed by someone else where she wasn't involved.]]

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* An infamous review of ''Film/{{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 Website/RottenTomatoes website for quite some time). People weren't pleased, and general drama ensued.

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* A ''SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}}'' comic published in 2016 features a flashback to Wade in line for the release of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'', 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. [[spoiler: And then shoots him, apparently for framing Steven Avery.]]

* In the 1970's, when there was no commercial radio in Great Britain and the [[BuccaneerBroadcaster pirate stations]] were effectively dead in the water, the Creator/{{BBC}} guarded its effective monopoly jealously. The only serious competitor was Radio Luxembourg, a European-based station whose English-language channel broadcast music radio from early evening until the small hours of the morning. Therefore it was not unknown for BBC Radio One to extensively spoiler Luxembourg's on-air competitions; either by revealing the answers or by offering similar, but bigger and better, prizes to listeners. Or else the BBC would spoil Luxy's star interviews and exclusives by seeking to get in first before the competition. Only the legalisation of commercial radio in the UK and the introduction of competition nearer to home rendered this somewhat pointless.

* In the 1970's, when there was no commercial radio in Great Britain and the pirate stations were effectively dead in the water, the BBC guarded its effective monopoly jealously. The only serious competitor was Radio Luxembourg, a European-based station whose English-language channel broadcast music radio from early evening until the small hours of the morning. Therefore it was not unknown for BBC Radio One to extensively spoiler Luxembourg's on-air competitions; either by revealing the answers or by offering similar, but bigger and better, prizes to listeners. Or else the BBC would spoil Luxy's star interviews and exclusives by seeking to get in first before the competition. Only the legalisation of commercial radio in the UK and the introduction of competition nearer to home rendered this somewhat pointless.

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.

* In ''Toys/TheTrashPack'' 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.

When a spoiler becomes CommonKnowledge in the mainstream — such as [[LukeIAmYourFather Darth Vader turning out to be Luke Skywalker's father]] — it's no longer spoiler fodder and gets demoted to ItWasHisSled. When a sequel to a work spoils its predecessors, it's a LateArrivalSpoiler. Not to be confused with a spoiler that happens [[FirstEpisodeTwist early or late in the work]].