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** Part 3: Dio survived the events of Part 1 by taking Jonathan's body (which retroactively spoils the end of Part 1) and gains a stand that can stop time. Anybody familiar with the [[Memetic Mutation]] surrounding Dio knows about his stand stopping time, but in the series proper, none of the heroes knew until they actually fought him, with Kakyoin sacrificing himself to give the rest of them a clue. Also steamroller.

** Part 7: Only exists because the [[Big Bad]] of the previous arc [[Cosmic Retcon|reset the universe]].

* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'':

** Not many people may remember that Chibi-Usa/Rini being the daughter of Sailor Moon was once a late second-season revelation. Once she became Sailor Chibi-Moon, it was everywhere.

* The DVD cover of ''[[Halloween (film)|Halloween]] II'' outright spoils the fact that Laurie Strode is Michael Myers' {{spoiler|sister}}; something that isn't revealed until mid-way through the film.

* Once you pop the [[Ghost Rider]] DVD into your player, the background visuals behind the menus reveal that {{spoiler|there is a second Ghost Rider}}.

* ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]'', by necessity, spoils [[Thor (film)|most]] [[Captain America: The First Avenger|of]] [[Iron Man (film)|the]] [[The Incredible Hulk (film)|films]] it follows, seeing as how [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover|all of the heroes]] from said films show up and make reference to prior events. Bruce Banner mentions that he "leveled Harlem" (from ''Incredible Hulk''), Steve Rogers mentions that he remembers "HYDRA's secret weapon" (along with a discussion of how it fell into the ocean when he crashed), Loki and Dr. Selvig's presence (spoiling [[The Stinger]] of ''Thor'') and many other minor elements.

== Literature ==

* [[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.

** Just knowing the ''genre'' of a particular Shakespeare play pretty much spoils the entire ending. If it's a comedy, everyone gets married at the end and lives happily ever after; if it's a a tragedy, everyone dies at the end; and if it's a history, well, those are [[Foregone Conclusion|no-brainers.]]

* [[The Reveal]] at the ending of ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'''s first book? Rand is the Dragon Reborn. The cover of the third book? A triumphant Rand, with the words "The Dragon Reborn" written in big, bold letters. Although in all fairness, it was pretty obvious from about halfway into the third chapter. (Of course, it's only a spoiler if you identify the young man with sandy-coloured hair wearing a cream-coloured tunic with a purple belt, denim jeans (or the fantasy equivalent), mid-calf leather boots, and a glowing sword floating in mid-air above his raised hand as being the tall, gray-eyed youth with a reddish tint to his hair described in the first book - it's not like the cover comes with a name tag.)

* The front cover art of ''[[Spellsinger|The Moment of the Magician]]'' by [[Alan Dean Foster]] spoils what is clearly written to be a surprise, {{spoiler|that the new evil magician in town is a kid's party magician who stumbled in from our own world, and now his lame magic works}}.

* Want to avoid spoilers for ''[[The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind]]''? Then it might be a good idea to involve anything relating to the games that came out later, or any fandom discussions at all. Since ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' games let the player create their own character, the games are very careful to not make any specific details about previous heroes canon, and always make sure to give the player character a title for them to be referred to in future games. For the hero of ''Morrowind'', that title is {{spoiler|"The Nerevarine"}}. The problem with this is that it's supposed to be a twist that {{spoiler|the player character is the Nerevarine.}}

* ''Fallout2'''s [[All There in the Manual|manual]] included The Vault Dweller's memoirs, which was essentially a spoiler and walkthrough for ''Fallout1''.

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