Basic Trope: The trailer for a work spoils the major plot twists.
- Straight: The trailer for the movie Tropetown shows Alice and Bob's wedding, the death of Charles, and the Five-Man Band's defeat of Emperor Evulz.
- Exaggerated: The trailer consists of the final five minutes of the movie, revealing every major twist from the film.
- Downplayed:
- The trailer only reveals the ending of the B Plot, showing Darlene and Ethan's baby.
- The trailer only reveals part of the big twist, usually by omitting a key detail that puts everything into a new context.
- Justified:
- The ending is the only exciting part of the movie.
- It's a Foregone Conclusion - a film of Romeo and Juliet shows the lovers killing themselves in the trailer, with the assumption anyone going to see Romeo and Juliet already knows the ending.
- Inverted:
- The trailer spoils the beginning.
- The trailer "spoils" plot points that aren't actually in the movie.
- Subverted: The trailer shows what initially looks like Charles dying, but it's actually Frankie instead.
- Double Subverted: Frankie has a Disney Death, but Charles actually dies in a scene not shown in the trailer.
- Parodied:
- Alice and Bob have Medium Awareness, thus knowing the spoilers in the trailers. They begin to try to derail the story into weird nonsense.
- Just before Charles dies, he says "It's okay. Everyone knew I was going to die. It was in the trailer."
- Zig-Zagged: Some scenes in the trailer spoil the ending, but others don't.
- Averted: The trailer shows enough to get the audience interested, but not spoiling.
- Enforced: The creators know that the ending is the only good part of the movie, and to get people to see it they put spoiling scenes, with no regard to spoiling.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Evulz intentionally kills Charles in the way it is shown in the trailer, with Evulz quipping "I saw this in a movie trailer once."
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: The characters in the movie are aware of the trailer and intentionally try to make sure that the events of the trailer don't happen in the film.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Man, that trailer made me feel like I just watched the whole movie."
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