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** ''Naruto'''s Volume 42 preview shows Sasuke saying that the Mangekyo Sharingan 1){{spoiler|enables the user to control tailed beasts}}, 2){{spoiler|causes blindness}}.
** The preview for the fourth uncut DVD collection reveals nearly all of the matchups in the preliminaries and, most [[Egregious|egregiously]], features a shot of the winners gathered together.
* In a strange case, the [["On the Next..."|Post Episode Trailers]] on the first three episodes of ''[[Yes! Pretty Cure 5 (Anime)|Yes Pretty Cure 5]]'' (as well as the promo trailers, which focused a lot on the first episode) each showed part of the [[Transformation Sequence]] of the girl who would transform for the first time in that episode. So in the trailer previewing episode 5, the conspicuous ''absence'' of a scene spoiling Karen's transformation was a spoiler in itself. (Or at least, in hindsight, it ''should'' have been.)
** On the other hand, although the ''[[Pretty Cure (Anime)|Pretty Cure]]'' fandom was more-or-less unanimous about [[Sixth Ranger|Cure]] [[Heartcatch Pretty Cure|Sunshine's]] identity, there was still some suspense to be had in-show...until the trailer for Episode 23 killed it: the preview footage consisted almost entirely of [[Student Council President|Itsuki]] transforming into said Cure.
* The infamous "Malay dubs" of ''[[Transformers Headmasters (Anime)|Transformers Headmasters]]'' would often have major spoilage IN THE TITLE ("Ultra Magnus Dies!" Wonder what that episode is about). And one particularly amusing spoiler from the narrator in one episode:
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* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (Manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'''s Volume 2 preview spoils {{spoiler|Nina and Alexander's unfortunate fate}}.
** The trailer they made for the Season 1 boxset of [[Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime)|the 2003 anime adaptation]] shows various clips from the first 26 episodes. The clips they use to end the trailer on? {{spoiler|Maes Hughes' death}}
** Although ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (Manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'' usually avoids this, the trailer for episode 50 completely ruins episode 49's [[Cliff Hanger]] of {{spoiler|Mustang's allies about to be shot dead}} by, after a pause of about half a second, showing {{spoiler|many of the "shot" characters perfectly fine}} in the [["On the Next..."]] trailer.
* The manga preview for Volume 27 of ''[[Bleach (Manga)|Bleach]]'' spoils {{spoiler|Orihime being abducted}}, while at the end of Volume 26, {{spoiler|she had only just encountered Ulquiorra}}.
** The summary of Volume 15 of the ''Bleach'' DVDs spoils {{spoiler|Aizen}} being the [[Big Bad]], by referring to him as {{spoiler|a captain who was thought to be dead}}, screenshots showing him {{spoiler|clearly alive}} and the cover being of him after [[The Reveal]].
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** The July 2009 issue features a preview frame in [[Bleach]] showing Dordonii's defeat.
* Every "Next Episode" trailer in ''[[Zeta Gundam]]'' does this. Watch the trailers and you need never be surprised by a plot twist again.
* The trailer for [[Wham! Episode|Episode 405]] of ''[[One Piece]]'' spoils almost the entire episode by showing {{spoiler|shots of Kuma lunging after each of Luffy's crewmates, and his saying that he can't save a single friend}}. And there's the [[Spoiler Title|title]]: "{{spoiler|Disappearing Crewmates! The Final Day of the Straw Hat Crew!}}"
* One of the next episode trailers for ''[[Samurai Seven]]'' showed {{spoiler|Katsushiro}} and {{spoiler|Kirara}} kissing. They didn't actually [[Relationship Upgrade]], though.
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Striker S (Anime)|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Striker S]]'' has another example of a spoiling soundtrack. The name of Subaru's [[Leitmotif]]? "{{spoiler|[[Hollywood Cyborg|Steel]]}} Sprinter", a fact that isn't revealed until halfway into the season. Note that the OST with the spoilery track was [[Feelies|packed with the first Japanese DVD volume]], which only had the first three episodes.
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** Considering it was the last episode aired, an astute viewer probably would've had it figured out.
*** But if you're showing the series to someone new you can get a great reaction by not letting them see the opening credits so they don't know which people are regular cast members until the end of the first episode.
* Happens pretty often in trailers for the 2000s ''[[
** Worse still, the opening [[Title Sequence]] (sometimes) contains cuts from the upcoming episode, frequently turning the opening into an automatic, hard-to-avoid spoiler.
** In the trailer for ''Revelations'', {{spoiler|every scene but one has already occurred by the episode's apparent ending, and that one scene can literally be missed if the viewer blinked. Even when you see it, it's ambiguous.}}
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*** Not to mention showing {{spoiler|D'Anna}} was a spoiler in itself.
* ''[[Law and Order (TV)|Law and Order]]'' sometimes gives away the twist in the commercial for it, or even in the preview right before they play the ep.
* The new ''[[
** Played straight with the first [[Cliff Hanger]] of the revived series; "Aliens Of London" ends with {{spoiler|the Doctor being electrocuted to death by the Slitheen}}, which then immediately cuts to a [["On the Next..."]] trailer not only showing the Doctor {{spoiler|very much alive}} but also telling {{spoiler|the army}} about the Slitheen's plans!
** The trailer for "Bad Wolf" gives away the twist that the {{spoiler|Daleks}} are behind the deadly game shows the Doctor and Co find themselves in.
** The sneak peek for "Army of Ghosts" at the end of "Fear Her" all but gives away that the "army of ghosts" is made up of Cybermen. This was not actually much of a surprise when you consider that the fact had already been reported in various media. However, {{spoiler|the Daleks also appear}} at the last minute of the episode, a fact that the show's creators went to great lengths to keep secret... only to be spoiled by a rather obvious shot of {{spoiler|a Dalek [[Death Ray]] firing}} in the same trailer.
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* The last few seasons of the reality show ''[[The Ultimate Fighter]]'' has had several fight ending finishes shown during the commercial ''about the show'' just before it happens.
** Also, they often tease a "special guest" showing up in the next episode and vainly attempt to edit around the actual person to keep it a surprise. This often fails (IE, Matt Hughes being clearly seen sitting on a bench in the background in one teaser).
* During the last season of ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'', the teaser at the end of each episode showed ''the very last scene of the following episode''. Technically, this may have been more misdirection than spoiler, though, as the final scene of each episode was usually unrelated to the main action of the story, and was ''itself a lead-in for the following episode''. Which is to say, that after the final scene foreshadowed the next episode, the [["On the Next..."]] teaser that followed showed you what amounted to ''a teaser for the episode two weeks down the line''.
* 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.
** Likewise the "later tonight" promos in their Sunday night cartoon block tend to show the best [[Orphaned Punchline|punch lines]] from the forthcoming shows, which would've been funnier if you had seen them [[It Makes Sense in Context|in context for]] the first time.
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*** Erm. Sylar got his powers back at the end of season 2. And complaining that the title gives away the general direction is like complaining that the title "Spider-Man" spoils that there's a guy getting the powers of a spider.
* German TV stations are particularly notorious for this. A trailer for ''[[Evolution (Film)|Evolution]]'' with David Duchovny featured one of the movie's final scenes, a trailer for season 2 of ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]'' featured the confrontation between {{spoiler|Mr. Eko and the smoke monster}}, a trailer for season 4 reveals who the Oceanic Six (one of the "main" mysteries in the first half of the season) are and on top of that features ''scenes from the season finale'' (the Oceanic Six arriving at home, {{spoiler|the island disappearing}}), and so on.
* One immensely frustrating one occurred to ''[[Star Trek Voyager (TV)|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|Villain Decayed]] they would subsequently become)}}. So what do the producers do? Why, they put that scene right in the trailer, of course.
** ''Voyager'''s "The Chute" is a classic example. Paris and Kim are thrown in an alien prison, and about halfway through comes the revelation that {{spoiler|they can't break out because the prison is in space}}. It's a very dramatic shot that would no doubt have been more effective if it hadn't ''been in the commercial''.
* Reality shows on [[Bravo]] typically show the judges' harsher comments and contestant reaction shots/defenses. Although this is sometimes subverted, like one time where a comment was said in the trailer and the contestant shot showed him tilting his head back and going down, as if in frustration/agony. In the episode, he was in the top 3.
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*** And this relates to ''The Tudors'' how?
**** Since it's history, anyone with historical knowledge of the period in question would expect said spoiler to occur at some point. Still a spoiler for the series itself, though.
* ''[[
** At the end of an episode in season 7, the ambassador from Sangala had locked himself and his wife in a panic room. The bad guys are outside, wondering how they can get to him. Cue the preview for next week, which shows the room being flooded with gas. Naturally, it's no surprise next week when Jack Bauer (working undercover) suggests that he can create a gas out of household items and pump it through the ventilation system.
** Season 3 had a very notorious example. At this point in the season, there was a powdered form of a virus being transported in a plastic bag by a mule (just a kid who agreed to carry something over the Mexican border). CTU spent the entire episode trying to track down the package and the kid. Then, after the episode was over the preview literally had {{spoiler|Jack Bauer yelling "THE VIRUS IS OUT!" in absolute panic}}. Granted, it turned out to be {{spoiler|a false alarm}} but 24 fandom was so pissed off at potentially being spoiled that complaints were flown at FOX's direction and addressed. This resulted in the previews being treated as spoilers in 24 fandom discussion.
* The [["On the Next..."]] trailers of the original ''[[Star Trek the Original Series]]'' were terrible about this. Particularly [[Egregious]] is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU3B_5hVsns the preview] of "The City on the Edge of Forever", which so effectively summarizes the whole episode that it plays more like a [["Previously On..."]] than anything else.
* The original trailers of ''[[Star Trek the Next Generation (TV)|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.
* When TV Guide Channel re-aired episodes of ''[[Hollywood Showdown]]'' (which was 30 minutes), they would pad out the show with commercials to make it an hour long. Towards the end of the hour, they would run the first five minutes or so of the next episode.
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* If you have a box set/are watching episodes of a TV series on [[YouTube]] of a show you've never seen, never, EVER read the episode summary, unless you want the whole episode spoiled for you. In one sentence, the summary will ruin your whole viewing experience.
** More or less than TV Tropes?
* [[The CW]] did this to themselves with a Season 7 episode of ''[[One Tree Hill]]''. The [["On the Next..."]] preview that aired after 7x08 had Brooke's voiceover stating that she thought she could be pregnant. Later, the CW released the clip where she confesses this to Haley before a concert Haley will be playing that night at the town's nightclub. Then the CW releases a promo photo of Brooke drinking at Haley's concert, clearly revealing she ''wasn't'' pregnant.
** Then there were the trailers for the season five finale which showed the cliffhanger-end in the preview.
* Ads have started running for a [[TBS]] stand-up comedy show which says "If these are the punchlines, imagine what the set-ups are like!" and proceed to show just the punchlines of jokes. Which [[Captain Obvious|tends to ruin the joke]], but apparently nobody at TBS knows that, or how jokes work.
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* A DVD sleeve example - the UK boxset of the final series of ''[[Six Feet Under]]'' not only shows a wedding photo of {{spoiler|Nate and Brenda}}, but the entire cast at a funeral with {{spoiler|Nate}} mysteriously missing...
* For the episode "Grace" in the first season of ''[[Falling Skies]]'', the promo immediately before it showed the boy putting the harness back on his back. The boy doesn't actually put it on until ''45 minutes'' through the hour-long episode.
* The promos for the season finale of ''[[My Babysitters a Vampire]]'' on [[Disney Channel]] pretty much spoil what was probably intended to be a [[Wham! Episode|Wham Ending]], showing clips that make it blatantly obvious that {{spoiler|Jesse bites Ethan and Sarah sucks the vampire venom out of Ethan, becoming a full vampire in the process}}.
* The Season 2 Comic-Con trailer for ''[[The Walking Dead (TV)|The Walking Dead]]'' shows a quick clip of {{spoiler|Guillermo, the leader (and caretaker) of the retirement home in the first-season episode "Vatos"}} lying dead on the ground, while Rick and the others fend off a contingent of walkers massing around the area near his body.
* The preview for an episode in Season 2 of ''[[Parenthood (TV)|Parenthood]]'' showed one of the main characters being involved in a potentially fatal car accident and implied that the episode's entire plot would be centered around the buildup to the accident scene. The episode itself had the character shown in the accident scene being involved in a completely unrelated storyline with the buildup to the accident only happening within the final 5 minutes and the accident itself being the very last shot before the credits rolled.
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** On October 13, 2010, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLXGIf7lTE8 one preview] that aired near the end of the show was devoted entirely to a woman picking up the Million Dollar Wedge, complete with suspenseful music and an announcer hinting viewers that she would win the grand prize. When the episode in particular aired, [[Never Trust a Trailer|she lost the wedge to a Bankrupt]].
* [[USA Network]]'s promos for the season 3 finale of ''[[White Collar]]'' spoiled the sudden [[What Now? Ending]] about {{spoiler|Neal cutting his anklet.}}
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' had [["On the Next..."]] trailers that were notorious for this. The one for "Phases" revealed who the werewolf was, and the one for "Innocence" revealed that Angel had lost his soul.
* PBS' trailer for the newest adaptation of ''[[Great Expectations]]'' gives away {{spoiler|how Miss Havisham dies}}, even though the official website goes out of its way to stick "Spoiler Warning" on the production designer's discussion of that event.
* The trailers for ''[[Supernatural (TV)|Supernatural]]'' are infamous for this. For example, the season 3's big cliffhanger ending of {{spoiler|Dean being sent to hell}} was kind of ruined since the original episode promo showed {{spoiler|Sam crying over Dean's dead body.}} More recently, the episode promo for season 7's "Repo Man" completely ruined the episode's big twist of {{spoiler|the apparent victim actually being a villain and trying to let a demon that once possessed him once again inhabit his body}} by actually making it the ''focus of the trailer.''
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** The manual for ''Crash Twinsanity'' spoils almost everything significant to the plot in the first three quarters of the game.
* Referenced in ''[[Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney]] - Trials and Tribulations'', Godot mentions he doesn't like spoiling himself with trailers, and "we'll just wait and see how the movie turns out tomorrow, won't we?" when he refuses to reveal something until the trial starts.
** Investigations 2 would later play this straight. The trailers make a big deal of {{spoiler|Edgeworth being offered to become a defence attorney.}} But the actual offer itself, coming at the end of case 2, is a ''major'' [[Wham! Line]] if you don't see it coming. It's even spoiled at the end of the ''demo'' too. (In fact, though the demo comprises of basically the first half of Case 1, the exchange at the end doesn't take place until ''the end of Case 3'')
* Done in the instruction manual for ''[[Totally Rad]]'', revealing master magician Zebediah's secret at least three times until they actually lampshade this trope.
* One of the few plot twists in ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'' that couldn't be seen coming three miles away, namely ''Jak II/Renegade'' being {{spoiler|set in the future}}, well...the trope name should give you something of a clue.
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* ''[[Shadow of the Colossus]]'' had a trailer that ends with a montage {{spoiler|showing Lord Emon looking around the shrine of worship, Mono sitting up from her resting place, and Wander lying on the ground with HORNS!}} Of course the last part goes by [[Freeze Frame Bonus|extremely quick]], but keen eyed viewers of the trailer either had an idea of what the ending was about, or at least got an early head start on how the game would tie into Ico (which before the game's release, was said to no connection to the latter title).
* The ''[[Alter AILA]]'' Genesis. some fans have stated that they avoided watching the trailer for fear of spoilers. Which is funny, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXk1mSaQ1Lw since it doesn't really contain any.]
* In a possible attempt to subvert this trope, the E3 reveal trailer for ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'' featured an attack on the Papal carriage in 1503 Rome, the city and year in which {{spoiler|Pope Alexander VI, aka Rodrigo Borgia,}} died. While both hold true in the game, unfortunately the circumstances are far less epic than the trailer implied.
** Played more straight with some European versions of the "Story" trailer (narrated by Cesare Borgia), which concludes with a showdown between him and Ezio Auditore atop a castle wall. The US version does not name it, but the European versions identify the setting as 1507 Spain, {{spoiler|the year and country in which Cesare Borgia died in [[Real Life]]}}, ''de facto'' confirmed when the developers started name-dropping the site as Viana no less. Moreover, this showdown was much more accurate to the actual in-game event than the (completely inaccurate) E3 reveal trailer had been.
* Divisive though it is among gameplay critics, there's little doubt that the developers of ''[[Star Wars]]: [[The Force Unleashed]]'' wanted {{spoiler|the Apprentice Force-pulling a Star Destroyer out of orbit}} to be a significant point in the story. Not only was it depicted on the back of the box, it was also used for giant promotional posters designed specifically to be positioned at the entrance to game shops.
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{{quote| '''Narrator''': Will Professor Chaos succeed? Which boy will replace Kenny? Which adult cast member will [[Tonight Someone Dies|die]]? These questions will be answered... {{spoiler|right now. No, Tweek, and Ms. Choksondik.}}}}
** Though that may have been intended as a parody for the (in)famous "Who is Eric Cartman's real father?" 2-parter, since a ''lot'' of fans were ticked off when they got the Terrance & Phillip special after waiting for a month, instead of the continuing story.
* The ads for [[The Movie]] and [[Grand Finale]] of ''[[Kim Possible]]'' (before it was [[
** As if that wasn't enough, one of said ads actually showed a clip of Kim being shocked by Eric while he had an evil look on his face, which would pretty much give away that {{spoiler|he's really working for Drakken}}.
* Nickelodeon showed various commercials of scenes leading up to the release of [[The Movie]] of ''[[Hey Arnold]]''. One of these completely spoiled that Helga finally confesses her love for Arnold. (They didn't show how he reacted to it, though.)
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