Trailers Always Spoil: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Mai-HiME]]'', Episode 15's trailer, after a cliffhanger involving {{spoiler|Mai's apparent death}}, contains a brief shot with {{spoiler|Mai in the background while Yukino is ordering food and drinks at the Hime Sentai's karaoke party}}.

* The trailer for ''[[Goldeneye]]'' revealed the plot twist that Bond's old partner 006 (Trevelyan) was the film's main villain.

** And the poster/DVD cover for ''At World's End'' spoils the twist ending from the second movie ({{spoiler|Barbossa is [[Back From the Dead]]}}).

* Late trailers for ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]'' go out of their way to reveal {{spoiler|[[Back From the Dead|Megatron's return]]}}.

* ''[[Toy Story]] 3'' had trailers that spoiled that {{spoiler|the new toys were the villains}}. And while they never explicitly stated who the [[Big Bad]] was, many viewers were able to tell just from what was shown (and if not that, then from the other marketing).

* ''[[Unknown]]'''s trailer shows the people telling him that the person he thinks he is does not exist - the HUGE twist (although it only gives the line, not much context of it), and it shows the explosion, and one even showed them faking the picture.

** The Polish publishing house Amber seems to have a thing for horribly spoilerish blurbs. In an edition of Strugatsky's ''[[The Powerless of This World]]'', the back cover blurb is ''only'' the surprise ending, and nothing else. A Polish edition of [[Robert Sheckley]]'s ''[[Dimension Of Miracles]]'' likewise spoils the humorous ending, that {{spoiler|the hero gets back to his world but finds it insufferable}}. And the one for ''[[The Stainless Steel Rat|A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born]]'' spoils the {{spoiler|death of The Bishop}}, and even gets it [[Cowboy Bebop at His Computer|completely wrong]] ({{spoiler|claiming that he's killed by the police in an ambush, while in reality he's killed in a military attack on a distant quasi-medieval planet}}).

* Averted, apparently by accident, on the back covers of some of the Harper Torch-published ''[[Discworld]]'' paperbacks, where it's obvious that [[Cowboy Bebop at His Computer|whoever wrote the blurb had never read the books.]]

** Except for ''[[Discworld/Guards Guards|Guards Guards]]'' which gives away the fact that {{spoiler|the dragon is crowned king}}, which doesn't happen until about halfway through the book and is apparently intended to be a surprise twist.

* FOX has a tendency to completely ruin the element of surprise on their gameshows, including ''[[Moment Of Truth]]'' and ''[[Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?]]'', by having openings and "coming up after this commercial" previews which show how far along the contestant is going to get, which completely defeats the point of going to commercial after the contestant answers the question but before it is revealed if they are correct or not.

* One immensely frustrating one occurred to ''[[Star Trek: Voyager|Star Trek Voyager]]''. At the very end (literally in the last five seconds) of the otherwise unrelated episode "Blood Fever," the crew discover {{spoiler|a Borg corpse, setting up the [[Wham! Episode|next episode, "Unity,"]] and the primary threat of the remainder of the series. It was pretty effective -- it came completely out of left field and chillingly evoked one of the most terrifying enemies in the Trek mythos (regardless of how unforgivably [[Villain Decay]]ed they would subsequently become)}}. So what do the producers do? Why, they put that scene right in the trailer, of course.

* The original trailers of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' could be pretty awful about this too. Perhaps the most [[Egregious]] was the trailer for the episode, "The Most Toys" which showed Data being captured by aliens, a woman alien offering to help Data escape, and a man {{spoiler|incinearting the woman with a phaser}}. When the episode aired, the man was the villain of the episode while the woman was his loyal assistant...and was a major character throughout the entire episode, not doing her [[Heel Face Turn]] and getting {{spoiler|zapped [[Redemption Equals Death|by her boss]]}} until within the last 5 minutes of the episode.

* [[USA Network]]'s promos for the season 3 finale of ''[[White Collar]]'' spoiled the sudden [[What Now? Ending]] about {{spoiler|Neal cutting his anklet.}}

** In actuality, the whole bonus segment in ''Original Generations'' were like an interactive trailer for ''[[Super Robot Wars]] Original Generation Gaiden'', thus the main story of the bonus sections got carried over to the Gaiden. {{spoiler|Including the death of [[Player Punch|Lamia Loveless]]. Her [[Brainwashed and Crazy|rebirth in different circumstances]] was still well hidden in the commercial videos. As well as the inclusion of the Cry Wolves of the MX series and [[Back From the Dead|the return]] [[Heel Face Turn|and redemption]] of both Axel Almer and Alfimi.}}

* The trailer for ''[[Starcraft]]'''s [[Expansion Pack]], which features several clips of a military funeral interspliced between the imagery of awesome carnage. The fact that the coffin had the banner of the United Earth Directorate on it meant that a major UED character was going to die, though it didn't become clear until the {{spoiler|second-to-the-last}} Terran mission.

*** And the Ninja example wasn't much of a spoiler to non-Japanese audiences, since ''[[Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake]]'' [[No Export for You|didn't get an international release]] until ''MGS3: Subsistence''.

** Similar to the above ''Phantom Menace'' and ''Gundam SEED'' examples above, ''[[Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake]]'' features a track labeled {{spoiler|"Natasha's Death." (That's Gustava for those of you playing the version included in Subsistence.)}}