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This is the particularly aggravating practice of using spoiler tags that make it quite clear what they're concealing by their length and/or position, or the wording of the surrounding sentence. This, of course, defeats the entire point of using them at all. Often, even if they can't tell the specifics, it can lead the reader to have a fair idea just from the fact that there's ''something'' spoilery there.
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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
Some tropes, such as [[The Hero Dies]], are [[Spoilered Rotten|inherently spoilers]]
This page is a subset of our [[Spoiler Policy]].
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