All The Tropes:Self-Fulfilling Spoiler: Difference between revisions

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The best workaround in a case where a [[Self -Fulfilling Spoiler]] seems necessary is to rephrase it until it ''isn't''. For instance, if a character's gender turns out not to be what the viewer/reader/player was led to believe it was, it doesn't do much good to put the correct pronoun in spoiler tags. But "the time {{spoiler|her}} arm was injured provides a good example of this" can be changed to "the arm injury provides a good example of this" (opinions about "passive voice" aside). This can require some creativity.

Be particularly careful with short names: If you say "In [[Harry Potter]], {{spoiler|Ron}} has a wand with a unicorn hair core", it's pretty obvious there aren't many characters whose names will fit in a spoiler box of that size, which will make it relatively clear which character you're talking about -- thisabout—this goes double for any character with a [[One-Letter Name]].

Some tropes, such as [[The Hero Dies]], are [[Spoilered Rotten|inherently spoilers]] -- their—their ''very presence'' on a work page is a spoiler in and of itself. Generally these should be spoiler-tagged, but even then the trope title can be easily deduced by the length of the spoiler box and its alphabetic placement within the list of tropes (not to mention the URL that displays when you mouse-over the link); or there could be so many that spoiler-tagging them all would render the page downright unreadable. For these sort of cases, an alternate solution is to put all inherently spoilery tropes in a category of their own at the bottom of the page.