Here at TV Tropes, {{Tanto}} is the leader of this faction. If you've put something behind a spoiler tag on this site, he's clicked on it, no matter what the source.

{{Meiriona}}, while not one to peek at the end of a book, will be on forums discussing the end before even buying the book. In some media, spoilers make up the ''entirety'' of her knowledge.

This troper wants to think of spoilers as a mild, harmless addiction and is not above unveiling spoilertags. About the only things he won't spoil for himself are Lost, BattlestarGalactica and Cloverfield.

This troper thinks the journey to the spoilers is better than the spoilers themselves.

{{Novium}} sees nothing wrong with wanting to know if something has a good ending. It's just as valid as wanting to know if it has a good premise when it comes to deciding whether or not to read/watch it.

ThisTroper's English teacher once actually attempted to justify this trope, explaining that "its fun to see the ending, and then watch how they get there, making guesses and theories along the way". Right.

It's not ''that'' out there an opinion. Consider this : each and every {{Columbo}} episode starts with the murder, Who Did It and How, and you ''know'' that Columbo will figure out what you've just seen by the end of the episode. If you've seen at least one other Columbo episode, you'll also know that he'll mostly use {{Obfuscating Stupidity}} to do so. Yet it still is entertaining.

That's why this troper doesn't get too worked up if she accidentally spoils herself... although admittedly, learning a DownerEnding early would probably kill her desire to finish reading in any case except for ThePendragonAdventure.

People still read the Bible even though Easter spoils that Jesus dies.

Who exactly reads the Bible for the story? Or the New Testament for surprises? (Almost any Christian except the REALLY serious ones could get half a zillion shockers out of the Old Testament if they actually read it. Also great boredom, as it holds great minutiae of dead kings and so on in a country long extinguished. It can also be very funny just on its own, but you have to have the right attitude.)

This troper is a spoiler addict who is attempting to overcome his problem, a fact not helped by the fact that most of his current viewing list is anime so old He Should Know This Already. On the positive side, thanks to irresponsible Wikipedia-diving, he understood most of the plot of ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' on his first go.

This troper probably would have hated EVA (especially the last two episodes) if he didn't have everything spoiled. Now it's one of my favorite shows.

{{Alkthash}} works under the policy that if knowing how story ends ruins it, then it wasn't a very good story to begin with.

{{Jonn}} has heard this before, and would really like someone to elaborate.

{{Smart Mark}}s.

This troper routinely learns pretty much everything about a work of fiction (with the exception of the newest Doctor Who episodes) before experiencing it for herself; she actually does believe that half the fun is seeing how it gets from point A to point B, rather than merely discovering what happens. (Of course, with that said, she really wishes she hadn't known about the eventual fate of the Companion Cube from ''{{Portal}}'' beforehand, as it genuinely spoiled her emotional reaction.)

{{Kriegsmesser}} cannot look at a set of spoiler tags without reading them. It has gotten to the point where he will sometimes ''hunt down'' the entry with the longest spoiler tags just to read the surprises. The only exception is something he's in the middle of reading. (For example, while reading ''WatershipDown'', he stayed as far away from the TV Tropes article as possible.)

This troper also cannot see spoiler tags without reading them, but she will continue highlighting them because this practice has introduced her to several TV shows she wouldn't have otherwise noticed.

This troper has a Greasemonkey script to reveal the contents of spoiler tags so that he doesn't have to manually highlight them.

TheProphetKing a website to download said script at. now uses a userstyle sheet and stylish]].

{{gumby_jd}} thinks that all of that is too complicated and just settled for setting the spoiler unhiding option in the forum options (which translates to the wiki, naturally).

This troper considers himself "spoiler impervious": he typically isn't fazed in being told a spoiler, and will read up on the plot details of works of media he can't and/or intends to peruse. However, he apreciates the impact a story can have if left unspoiled, and avoided being spoiled for certain works (e.g. ''Deathly Hallows'') or spoiled himself on other works (e.g. the ''Ace Attorney'' series) and later realized that he enjoyed the experience better when he didn't know what was going to happen.

He's also recently lamented that there are some series that you can't read/watch/play without knowing what happens already.

{{Gemmifer}} often checks out plot descriptions to see if something is worth her time and enjoys knowing what will happen. Spoiler tags lure her to read.

IdleDandy is largely a spoiler junkie. She is compelled to know everything that will happen on her soap operas and reality shows before it happens. She used to dial the 900 number for ''AllMyChildren'' spoilers when she was 16 (before the internet, you know.) Oddly enough, she especially enjoys reading about the endings of movies she has no plans to see, and books she has no plans to read. However, if you tell her what's going to happen on ''{{Lost}}'' next week, she'll cut you.

RedViking loves spoilers and actively seeks them out. Will get pissed when someone refuses to spoil something under a misguided premise of being courteous towards him.

This troper became a spoiler hound because he was sick of wasting time on stories with downer endings.

This Troper is so wary of ''{{Supernatural}}'''s possible crapsack world ending, she's waiting to see how season four goes before even attempting to watch the depressing third season.

This troper can no longer seen to go through a single series without spoiling pretty much everything for himself at somepoint.

WeirdAlYankovic became a spoiler hound when he was writing "The Saga Begins", his song about ''The Phantom Menace'', because he wanted the release of the song to coincide with the release of the movie. He got every detail right just reading fansites.

He also apparently got himself into an earlier showing just to get the last touches right.

This troper doesn't mind spoilers so much that there are times where she's accidentally spoiled things for her friends...she didn't even realize that what she was telling them was spoilers to begin with!

This troper probably would have enjoyed ''MetalGearSolid 2'' much less if he didn't know half of the plot before hand. The remaining surprises then came at a moderate enough rate to be suspenseful without being completely incomprehensible.

This troper likes looking up spoilers for films he hasn't yet seen (mostly because I have a strange "I haven't seen this before, the idea of watching it scares me" outlook) when he plans to watch them or may not have a choice.

This troper does this with the results of sports games he's tivo'd and plans to watch later. That makes no sense, but he does it anyway.

This undisclosed troper does this for things he intends to read and watch, and for everything else. In fact, most of the things he gets into, he gets into or is intrigued to get into further because the spoilers intrigue him.

{{YnK}} usually prefers to know plot details beforehand -- in fact, she ''finds'' stuff she would like to watch/read by reading detailed summaries. For instance, she started watching ''Avatar'' after reading all the stuff about it here at TVTropes and concluding that she would definitely like it (and she was right). Peeking at the end of the book is something she can never resist.

This troper doesn't usually mind spoilers, finding it more interesting ''how'' a trick is pulled off than ''what'' the trick actually is. Lucky me; spoiling that sort of thing is a little tricky.

Yep, I'm one too. Mostly. Unless there's a TwistEnding that would ''really'' spoil the experience, then keep your yap shut. (Imagine watching, say, ''TheSixthSense'' already having had someone blurt the outcome. Ruins the whole surprise. Or worse, as happened to a friend of mine, sitting next to someone in the theater who knows, and opens their mouth ''right before'' the pivotal Secret is revealed. Aaaaargh!) Basically, the rule is, if I want to know something, I'll ask ''specific'' questions. Beyond that, volunteer nothing.

I did see The Sixth Sense for the first time after being spoiled. I enjoyed it anyway.

This troper here has the DownerEnding problem as well. Especially with video games. Video games are usually much, much longer than a typical movie-especially [=RPGs=]. To go 60+ hours through a game(or even halfway), only to lose a favorite character can cheese one off ROYALLY. Thus, if she has a doubt about a projected favorite character(you know, the ones where you look at the preview roster and decide you like a lot, and then fall in love with the first part of the game), she will read the spoilers to make sure they're okay. Occasionally a death is acceptable if it's done in a grand, glorious fashion that fits the character well; but she does admit that sometimes, it just p"&/## her the hell off. This also goes for a long-running series, where tons of episodes get watched and THEN they hit you. Keep in mind that this troper had nothing against a BittersweetEnding or even the occasional DownerEnding, as every story doesn't have to end in Happy Fun land...but there are those times where she just wants to know what happens.

This Troper has a bad habit of doing so despite hating knowing the ending. Fortunately, he tends to get carried away in the story, so he forgets the ending by the time he gets there. However, Downer and Bittersweet Endings usually encourage him to read it all the way through, while typical "happily ever after" endings usually drive him away (except on a bad day). [[TastesLikeDiabetes So you could imagine what he felt when he read the epilogue to HarryPotter.]]

{{Anomaly}} isn't one ''personally'', but nothing describes his mother better, who has a fully-defined habit of reading the first chapter, and then the last chapter, and ''then'' chronological order. She says that she does it to "make sure the ending's worth it".

This troper fully agrees. After all, who wants to waste $30-60 on something they'll eventually throw at a wall, especially if one has limited funds to begin with?

This Troper almost refuses to buy a book if she hasn't read half of it already while in the store, including the end, unless she knows the author very well, don't want to pay money for a book and then find out you just spent money on a sucky book with a sucky ending right? Especially if it'a a horrible DownerEnding where RocksFallEveryoneDies for no good reason. It takes a fairly well-written and thoughtful DownerEnding to avoid turning her off. She tends to like a BittersweetEnding though. Endings that taste of diabetes get old after a while and it's nice to have a bittersweet ending to mix it up.

This troper started watching AvatarTheLastAirbender ''because'' all the spoilers sounded so awesome. Same with TeenTitans. Also, I like to be prepared for the death of my favorite characters (such as Will and Jim Gordon]]) so I'll look it up before I go see the movies or read the books. (I was particularly bad about this kind of thing with ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean: At World's End'', since I lurked on a forum who were particularly good at sniffing out spoilers months before everyone else.)

ThisTroper regularly reads spoilers for things she never intends to watch/read -- and is endlessly burdened by them if she changes her mind.

{{AnimeDutchess}} actually begs her friends to spoil things for her...unfortunately, they are not as receptive.

JChance is usually one of these. And, for the record, the only {{Downer Ending}}s he doesn't like are those in which shaggy dogs are shot. It's backfired a few times. Yeah, TheSixthSense was one. So were WildArms 2, and RepoTheGeneticOpera, the latter thanks to its page here. Still desperately want to see it, though.

{{Rand}} would like to know where should he sign to get a card saying that he is one.

This troper is an avid trivia player, so reading spoilers lets him learn the endings to far more books and movies than he actually has time to read or see, which is useful when one of them comes up in a trivia question.

Golem's recently joined movie club has the philosophy of "alternating comedies and shit-your-pants scary movies". To preserve his good pants, he's become one of these.

This trooper sort of uses it like a defense maneuver, like the above trooper. Though hating some spoilers, will actively look up the ending to movies that will be scary, due to being a paranoid jumps-at-everything horror fanatic.

This troper went hunting high and low for spoilers to ''FireEmblem 4'' and ''{{Gatchaman}}'' back when she thought she'd never play the former or see the latter. Surprisingly does not regret the first since the impact of certain events was just as big even without the element of ultimate shock.

This troper tends to take the view that knowing ''what'' is happening is never the same as knowing ''how'' it happens or seeing it firsthand. So spoilers rarely bother him. This is in direct contrast to one of his best friends, who absolutely ''hates'' being spoiled and will rage with a capital "[=FFFFFFFF=]" if he gets spoiled on something he didn't want to be spoiled on.

32_Footsteps will admit to editing a page or two just to read spoiler text without having to highlight. Also, he finds that spoilers don't matter because it's about the journey, not the destination.

Oh, pick me, pick me! I get ''very'' frustrated when someone refuses to post spoilers to something I might take an interest in.

My idiot brother keeps telling me not to spoil anything he's currently watching or playing... [[WhatAnIdiot then he goes and asks me if Kamina's really the main character, because Simon's got quite a bit of focus...]]

{{Recon5}} knows most of what he knows about most of the shows he knows about thanks to Internet spoiler sources such as this here wiki. He has actually watched a tiny fraction of the shows in his knowledge base and does not intend to rectify the discrepancy any time soon.

Tropers/WizardJoni actually started watching TengenToppaGurrenLagann after having read the ending on TVTropes. He is forever grateful for this.

ShadowQueen Not only do I go out to find spoilers, I try to spoil other people too! I get a warm fuzzy feeling when I do so.

You do realise that not everyone is a SpoilerHound and you stand a good chance of really hurting someone? Does that still give you a warm fuzzy feeling?

I could quote the third season of ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' before I'd finished watching the first five episodes (seeing it all over the place on here convinced me that I really needed to check it out), and I also knew which shippings became canon and a general summary of the GrandFinale. Usually, though, I'm pretty good about avoiding spoilers for stuff I'm actually interested in...

DarkInsanity13 enjoys spoilers, and thinks that seeing/hearing them makes her want to know more rather than make her upset. Especially if the spoilers are really awesome. Her brother's the same way. Their friends who don't like spoilers don't appreciate any discussion...but it makes for great threats! On a side note, she does not actively hunt for them, but will ask if it comes up in conversation.

MakiP hunts every possible spoiler, except about things she is reading/watching/listening and hasn't yet find spoilers

{{starshine}} prefers to be spoiled for things like thrillers and InTheMouthOfMadness episodes, because she's uncomfortable with tension and likes looking for the hints rather than feeling confused and stupid for forty minutes. But if something's relatively recent and/or has a TwistEnding, ''do not'' spoil it for her. That's just bitchery. (If something's older than say, ten years, she'll even probably spoil it for herself so as to not be spoiled by other bitchy people.)

This troper spoils himself to make sure he doesn't waste his time watching anything that sucks

{{Thnikkafan}} is a SpoilerHound... with the exception of HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi. He got spoilered up the wazoo for iut, and now he won't look at it anymore.

Do you know what "impatience" means? Well, this troper (Happyman) is made of that. Spoilers are like a drug to him.

This troper pretty much always looks at spoilers when they're in front of him and won't hesitate to read the wikipedia/TVTropes page on some media he might consume, but doesn't necessarily hunt spoilers out. He likes to think he can sandbox experiences such that the impact is largely the same if he knew or not. That may just be ego, tho.

Oh, yes. {{IronScope}} ''loves'' to know as much as he possibly can when going into a work. He doesn't like reading blind. Not at all.

Also LeadPal!

This Troper likes to be spoiled about the plot because it lets him enjoy the little things in a work.

{{Dmboogie}} is weird like this, he will eagerly view any spoilers: As long as he doesn't have any plans in the future to view/read/play the media. No reason you have to hound ''all'' spoilers.

This troper ''has'' to look up entire plot synopses to movies before seeing them, books before reading them, TV shows before watching them, video games before playing them...and very often gets the urge to look them up for source material she isn't even interested in. She can be prone to what she calls Secondhand Quote Syndrome (quoting things she's never seen/read/watched/played), and is also guilty of looking up TheReveal of ''TheMousetrap'' on {{Wikipedia}}.

Earlier Today, Cloudtail65536 was truly sick of his sister shouting "NO! NO SPOILERS!" whever he talked ab out his upcoming fanfiction, so he sent her a video revealing every important event that will happen in it in the future. Sweet revenge! in a nutshell, and probably you to since you read this.

Me very much. And I don't even really want it. It is just an urge to great to resist. I look at almost every spoiler I see, even if it is something I've never heard of. I just want to read the spoiler... I ruined quite a few surprises for myself this way...

So much for me that I deliberately leave spoiler markers on as to make it even more exciting clicking them to find out. However, I hate secret spoilers due to hardly even knowing when they are used in the first place.

Jaabi here really needs to stop selecting spoilers. But you know, as much as I try to avoid something that is spoiler-y, something hidden in a white box just makes me ''curious''. Ironically some spoilers as of late (especially some certain DotHackSign details) have come of as "''I knew it!!''".

This troper is one, but she doesn't know why, exactly. There's only ever been once (as far as she can remember) when she's gotten upset over having something spoiled, and that was the Normal Ending in DisgaeaHourofDarkness, the one where Laharl dies and all. He was [[CutenessProximity one of my favorite characters, and this troper had that one ally kill. Yeah. ]] Her being a SpoilerHound actually turned out to be a good thing, as she wouldn't have started watching to see if HigurashiNoNakuKoroni really had a HappyEnding like Wikipedia said or not. Although she still has yet to finish the series due to laziness.

I pretty much have always been like this often when we read stories in class I read ahead and when I got the internet I read about spoilers for movies that I had not yet seen and didn't mind.

I am very much like this, mainly to avoid disappointment - not neccessarily {{Downer Ending}}s, just things I believe I wouldn't like. The same reason I enjoy re-reading books. The only time I made an effort to avoid being spoiled was the last HarryPotter book, which appeared in Hungarian six months after the original.

My first act as a troper was to set spoilers to visible. I mostly don't mind seeing spoilers on the site, but I try to avoid anything I'm in the act of enjoying at that moment. And if someone were to walk up to me and spoil something I swear I would destroy the speech center of their brain so they will never be able to do so again (there is an exception, though).

For some reason, I personally don't give a crap about spoiling myself with, anything really. It doesn't help that I tend to get into shows and franchises that have been finished for years. It's also quite fun to read a spoiler and imagine how it happens, then actually witness that said spoiler and compare. Finally, it's fun to spread the information around (with disclaimer) and turn everything into ItWasHisSled.

I love to read spoilers for anything I watch. For example, I have no problem with reading the SCRIPT for an episode in Deep Space 9.

I am one of these. Spoilers usually don't spoil my enjoyment of a work at all. In fact, they tend to make me even more curious about the work in question.