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* ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien Resurrection]]'''s official trailer flatout says that {{spoiler|Ellen Ripley died before the events of the film}} no less than three separate times (using various characters' quotes).

** The back cover for the UK DVD release of ''Alien 3'' outright spoils the fact that supporting characters Dwayne Hicks and 'Newt' Jorden are killed at the beginning of the film (before Ripley crashes on Fiorina 161).

** The DVD of ''[[The Usual Suspects]]'' is even worse. The scene index shows a still clip from each of the 25 "chapters" of the DVD. The still clip for the final chapter shows a fax machine receiving an image of Keyser Soze's face, and even at low resolution a casual viewer can easily see it's {{spoiler|Kevin Spacey}}.

** Also, if you watch too much of the main menu of the DVD of the ''[[The Usual Suspects]]'' you will see {{spoiler|a man's feet as he limps down the street. His gait quickly becomes less shuffling and he is suddenly walking perfectly fine.}}

By the way, the character summaries of these editions are found all the way back in the first book of ''Discworld'', which doesn't even have the City Watch. In fact only four of the seventeen characters in the summaries are even in the book and only two of those played a major part.

** The Harper Torch printings of the older ''[[Discworld]]'' books tend to assume you've read them already, so they tend to have fairly spoileriffic images on the cover. To their credit, the spoiler usually doesn't make sense until you ''have'' read the book, but it's still not cool to put the gonne on the cover of ''[[Discworld/Men At Arms|Men At Arms]]''. (Not a ''huge'' spoiler though, as anybody in Roundworld rather than the Discworld will know what the weapon was as soon as the first death occurs. Any cover image or blurb that shows a plot element is arguably equivalent, since you wouldn't otherwise know about the book until you started to read it.)

** Not only does this happen with the endings of the Discworld books, but it will automatically happen if you read the first book of a series published after any earlier work. This is most glaring with the first Moist von Lipwig book, ''[[Discworld/Going Postal|Going Postal]]'', which includes spoilers to nearly all of the city watch books and The Truth. As this is one of the most popular novels in the series, and one of the more recently published, it is a real problem for new fans unsure of where to really start.

* [[Shakespeare]]'s works. Everyone knows the ending to ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' (pictured), and to ''[[Hamlet]]'', and to ''[[Julius Caesar]]'', and to ''[[Macbeth]]''. (''Romeo and Juliet'' even [[Oh, and X Dies|mentions in the prologue that both the title characters die]]. And ''JC'' is helped by [[Doomed by Canon|being based on a true story]].) The lesser known works such as ''[[Othello]]'' are still at risk but way better than the Big Five.

** The game's full title is ''Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising''.

** The plot twist in the game, which is that {{spoiler|Hawke kills Sturm}}, is mentioned twice in general conversation in the next game.

* The ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' series is replete with these, starting with the fact that anyone who plays the original MK after either MKII or MK 3 will be confused by the notion of Shang Tsung as a) the boss and b) old. Later games reveal that Reptile {{spoiler|is an actual reptile and no longer wears a mask}}, Liu Kang {{spoiler|is a zombie in ''Armageddon'' because he died at Shang Tsung's hands at the start of ''Deadly Alliance''}}, Kitana {{spoiler|is a heroic princess}}, Mileena {{spoiler|is Kitana's evil monster-clone}}, Sindel {{spoiler|is Kitana's mother}}, Noob Saibot {{spoiler|was Sub-Zero in the first game and is the current Sub-Zero's older brother}}....it goes on and on. Many of these are spoiled in character backstories at the start of the later game; some are obvious just from seeing the character portrait!

* In ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'', the fact that there are actually two worlds is supposed to be a big reveal several hours into the game. Of course, it's pretty much impossible to read anything about this game without that fact being spoiled, including the [[Trailers Always Spoil|back of the game case]], where it says, "The line between good and evil blurs in this epic adventure where the fate of two interlocked worlds hangs in the balance."

*** Honestly though given that it's a free webcomic with the entirety of it's archives intact, most people openly discuss spoilers constantly and fan discussions almost never spoiler tag anything, mostly because aside from a small subset of fans that are reading the comic slowly, most of the fanbase has read it up to the current pages.

** To a lesser extent, the appearances of John's three friends (especially the long-delayed reveal of gardenGnostic; Homestuck started in April 2009 and she did not make a physical appearance until October of the same year)) and their guardians.

** Averted with regards to the {{spoiler|Alpha Session}}, a major spoiler for Act 5, which is fairly well kept, on this wiki at least.

*** However! Reading ''[[Homestuck]]'' regularly, it's almost hard to remember that some of the {{spoiler|Alpha kids'}} names and appearances, especially {{spoiler|Dirk's}}, were major (and tantalizing) spoilers, especially when the logs on the left-hand side of the page regularly indicate their actions.