MarvinArnold: FightClub: Some *******, ******* **iot on an unrelated IMDb discussion board ruined the ending and the whole point of the movie for me by writing about ABeautifulMind: the twist is the same as Fight Club duhhh". You can expect spoilers on the discussion board for the very same movie, but a spoiler for another movie hidden on an unrelated discussion board... that's EVIL! I have never felt the urge to watch Fight Club since then...

Tropers/TerminusEst13: ItWasHisSled? It was whose sled? I'm just gonna pause this watching of CitizenKane and look this over real qui--OH GOD '''DAMN IT'''

MollyWalker: My friend Lilly was doing example sentences in the preterit past tense in spanish class. One of them was murio en libro siete." Our teacher read the sentence, threw his gradebook down and spun in either utter dismay or anger. Or both. "Lilly, I haven't read it yet!" Lilly's reply? "It's been out for six months!"

HarryPotter book 7 spoiler warning.

NeonGenesisEvangelion: If you didn't watch the anime yet and plan on not being spoilered, AVOID THE CHARACTER TROPES! They're much more spoilerrific than the actual article, the latter at least has a good share of Spoiler Tags, while the first one even leaves lot of character's deaths unspoilered...

Mistermister: I got to watch TengenToppaGurrenLagann for the first time on {{Hulu}} and it instantly became one of my favorite animes, with Kamina as my favorite character on the show. So naturally, I got ''really'' pissed off when I got spoiled by the fact that he dies in episode eight just by reading the information about each episode on Hulu.

Video game example: Despite having a lot of spoiler tags in the article, FinalFantasyTactics's character sheet itself is ''still'' full of unmarked spoilers about characters, which pretty much spoils most of the plot.

Optimusjamie here. At a book club, me and osme friends were choopsing books to read and one of them picked up a copy of Medusa Project: The Set up and read a random sentence. This sentence was... is Viper.

This troper watched ''CodeGeass'' after reading about it here. As such I knew almost everything that was going to happen. It didn't spoil the series any, though.

This troper once worked in a triple combo retailer (for the uninitiated: books, music, video). While in the process of reading the Presumed Innocent novel, I happened to see the movie soundtrack at work and picked it up. Big mistake. One of the last tracks is entitled Confession". Thanks a lot, JohnWilliams.

It's virtually impossible to talk {{Pokemon}} without spoiling the new Pokemon and the plot of the next game. This very wiki doesn't even bother spoilering it, but of course if someone is ''looking up tropes'' they probably don't care about it. Still, it's annoying to try and talk to friends that don't want to be spoiled, not to mention they had to leave the fandom pretty much for six months while it translates.

The new Pokémon themselves are not spoilers IMO. Neither is the existence of the event legendaries, though Darkrai being the main villain in PokemonMysteryDungeon 2 does qualify. Outright plot twists (such as N not really being Team Plasma's king) do get put in tags. As a side note, there seems to be a bit of discussion on how much time should pass before they are unmarked.

A friend of this troper was talking about how he disliked NoOrdinaryFamily because he couldn't understand why Benz left {{Dexter (he'd just started watching the series from the beginning). My roommmate and I, at the same time, casually replied that left Dexter because they killed Rita. He just stared at us, then got pissed. We thought that pretty much everyone had heard about that, since we don't watch the show and even we know about it.

Worse, this troper got it spoiled by Entertainment Weekly having an article with a headline like "Rita's Funeral in Dexter". The first line of the article? "Spoiler alert!" Thanks. Thanks a whole lot.

This troper had plans on doing a marathon for the first season of Dexter to compare it to the first book. She knew the one who dies in the end is different. Making an edit to add her own Taleand reading the above spoiler just spoiled it for her, thanks.

This Troper ended up spoling the ending of Eden of The East for himself one episode before the end by reading its '''page on TVTropes.''' #QUOTE# '''Troper''': Takizawa ''wasn't'' behind careless monday? Mr. Outside ''isn't'' dead and he's the supporter? Takizawa and Saki ''don't'' get together? FFFFFFFFFFFFFF-.

A tradition at this Troper's high school involves walking up to random freshman (who will read {{A Separate Peace}} later that year) and telling them that Finny dies.

It isn't so much as a late arrival as this troper had FinalFantasyXIII in her hands since the day it came out (she just lacked a PS3 to plat it on for about 3 months after buying it), she just has yet to finish the game. So then XIII-2 is announced and she's curious to find out what it's about... turns out the announcement trailer assumes anyone watching already finished XIII within the previous year, so, naturally they set up the short trailer by using scenes from the ending CGI in it. Case in point: the first thing you see in the trailer is Lightning de-crystallizing and Serah and Dajh appearing from the horizon to greet the former l'Cie with the crystallized-in-mid-fall Cocoon right behind them. So much for reading XIII's TV Tropes page without highlighting spoiler tags...

And to keep going, I think any troper who was late to the FinalFantasy party can sympathize when this site, or friends who are avid fans of the game, spoil major plot-points of every game. The most jarring is the ItWasHisSled for FinalFantasyVII. Suffice to say, this troper feels that it severely dulled the impact of the death scene.

Thanks to TV Tropes, I knew even before I started watching ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' that Zuko fails to turn good in season two.

This troper learned the twist ending to ''TheSixthSense'' from, of all things, a ''church sermon'' (it was used as an example of how things don't always seem the way they are, or something). Approximately two hundred people were listening. Wow, thanks.

''Literature/{{Twilight}} Warning''. I have a rare subversion story. Obviously, everyone knows that Edward is a vampire. However, I never read the black flaps of books that are recommended to me and I read the book in its very early days - back when Stephenie Meyer was still able to personally respond to the emails fans sent her. So I actually didn't know that he was a vampire until he said it (silly me was guessing superhero, or something).

I am a fan of ''AvatarTheLastAirbender''. While I knew about the show I didn't care to follow it or watch it or understand it at all. One day, I sat down with my sister and watched a new episode that was airing, and really finally got into it. Unfortunately, that episode was the GrandFinale. Spoilers galore.