Walking Spoiler / Comic Books

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• Batman:
  • Clayface's involvement in certain storylines, as a frequent twist is that major characters are actually him in disguise.
  • In Death of the Family, everything about Harley Quinn in this storyline is a spoiler.
• The Boys: Anything beyond "Black Noir is a mysterious Batman Expy" is a big spoiler, considering his role as being the one behind Homelander's evil and Butcher's quest of revenge against the Supes.
• Doctor Who Expanded Universe:
  • The main villain in Doctor Who: Prisoners of Time is impossible to mention by name, due to his identity as short-lived Ninth Doctor companion Adam Mitchell.
  • The Doctor Who (Titan) Eleventh Doctor Year Two comics have two very major examples: the first being the never-before-seen Time War Master who appears in the story, and the second being that apparent companion the Squire is actually a shapeshifting Dalek mutant and the story's real Big Bad.
• Emmie And Friends: In Invisible Emmie, it's all but impossible to discuss Katie—the most popular girl in school—without giving away the Twist Ending in the last chapter that she's not even real. She's completely made up by the primary narrator, Emmie, to represent the cool, popular, Class Princess that Shrinking Violet Emmie wished she could be.
• Hack/Slash: The fact that Big Bad Akakios is actually the hero's love interest Samhain, due to a case of Amnesiac Dissonance.
• Hitman: The Agent 47: Birth of the Hitman comics, despite being released between Hitman (2016) and Hitman 2 entries, has a massive story spoiler that reveals the ending of the latter game; 47 and 6 killed Diana's parents with a car bomb on behalf of Blue Seed Pharmaceuticals. Reading the comic and attempting to avoid this spoiler is impossible, as it's on the very first page, and sets up the impetus for Diana to take down whoever killed her parents. Because of this, the work page for the comic has spoilers unmarked for that game.
• Invincible: It's pretty much impossible to discuss the series without spoiling that Omni-Man, the protagonist's father, isn't a Superman Substitute so much as a villainous advance scout for a race of alien conquerors. Similarly, anything regarding the Guardians of the Globe is hard to discuss without mentioning that the original roster is murdered by Omni-Man in the first issue.
• Judge Dredd: Due to its unique structure, it is impossible to even describe the premise of the "Trifecta!" storyline.
• Loki: Talking about the current Loki after events of his adventures in Journey into Mystery (Gillen) is near impossible without dropping massive spoilers, since his entire motivation and personality stems from the fact that in the final issue of Journey Into Mystery, a copy of the original Loki obliterated the young, innocent Kid Loki, taking over his body (but he feels pretty guilty about it, attempting to be an actual good guy as a result). If you try to get someone to read Young Avengers or Loki: Agent of Asgard, you pretty much have to tell them that they need to read Journey Into Mystery first, because any storylines following Journey Into Mystery WILL spoil the ending out of necessity since it is a hugely defining moment for the character.
• The Mice Templar: It's impossible to talk about the series without either mentioning that Pilot the Tall was Evil All Along, or that he survived his alleged death in Issue 6 and resurfaced as one of the comic's main villains.
• Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (Boom! Studios): Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Shattered Grid is impossible to fully explain without revealing that Lord Drakkon killed his heroic counterpart Tommy Oliver, the Green Ranger, at the end of the very first issue of the storyline.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW): The identity of Nightmare Moon II in the second story-arc, so much that we can't refer to the Big Bad of the Arc by the name she's introduced with without spoiler tags!
• Paperinik New Adventures: Try to talk about Xari's role without revealing he survived the fall of his planet and started to work for the Evronians to capture Xadhoom (his ex-girlfriend)to protect the survivors of his race.
• Planetary: Very nearly everything about Elijah Snow's personal history ends up central to the plot and backstory. The big, big reveal? He's the Fourth Man and the founder of Planetary.
• Spider-Man:
  • Miles Morales, the new Spidey in Ultimate Spider-Man (2000), whose very existence spoils that the original Peter Parker Spider-Man of the Ultimate Marvel universe was supposedly Killed Off for Real. Although nowadays he's become so popular that it's practically a case of It Was His Sled.
  • It's impossible to explain the identity of the Superior Spider-Man in Superior Spider-Man (2013) without explaining the ending of The Amazing Spider-Man (Dan Slott) #700. The entire premise is that Dr. Octopus pulled a Grand Theft Me on Spider-Man, killing Peter Parker in the process, and then attempts to be a hero, out of the belief that he can do it better than Peter.
  • The Chameleon, due to his powers of impersonation, often serves as this.
• Superman: When Superman: Earth One first introduced its version of Lex Luthor, it was as a husband and wife duo, respectively named "Alexander" and "Alexandra" with the former being a redhead like the original Luthor. However, the husband was a Red Herring who dies and, combined with Gender Flip, it's Alexandra who's truly this universe's version of Luthor.
• Superwoman: The comic has Lois Lane, who is actually a Decoy Protagonist and is killed off in the first issue.
• Thunderbolts: Just try to explain the original concept without revealing the twist. The original team is apparently a group of new heroes who take up world-saving duties after many major heroes are killed by Onslaught... except they're actually the Masters of Evil in disguise.
• Tintin: Frank Wolff, a character in the Moon Arc, has more white under his name than anyone else on the Characters page. This is because he not only turns out to be the one responsible for leaking information about the rocket to the mysterious foreign power but also winds up being an atoner who saves the heroes by killing the Big Bad's proxy and then throwing himself out into space (thus ensuring that they'll have enough oxygen to make it back to Earth).
• Transformers:
  • It is impossible to talk about Bombshell's role in The Transformers: Robots in Disguise without giving the main twist in the first season. This is because he is seemingly killed by Prowl, only for him to return ten issues later, where it is revealed he actually Prowl into a mind controlled proxy for Megatron's scheme. Bombshell is then killed shortly afterwards, making it impossible to talk about him as a result. Showing an image of the new Devastator also qualifies, since it gives away the fact that Prowl becomes the new head.
  • Just try talking season 2 of The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye without spoiling Megatron's defection. I dare you.
  • Minimus Ambus. Saying anything about him other than that he's the brother of Dominus will out Ultra Magnus as a Legacy Character.
  • Rewind II. His existence is pretty much a dead giveaway to the fact that the original Rewind is killed.
• Watchmen: Adrian Veidt, aka Ozymandias, whose terrifying plan to save the human race from itself is not revealed 'til the next to last chapter.

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