What's the biggest thing you ever had spoiled?

[Ihateregistering1]

Interestingly, it was this freakin' website that spoiled something for me worst of all.

For whatever reason, someone posted an article on the main Escapist page for the TV show "Arrow", that flat-out announced IN THE HEADLINE OF THE ARTICLE that

Spoiler

Sara Lance dies in season 3

I don't have cable and just watch the show through Netflix, which hadn't added season 3 yet, and I just remember being floored that someone hadn't bothered to think before they put that headline up that maybe not everyone who is a fan of the show was that caught up yet.

 

[Odbarc]

Last year I made a dozen fake episode spoilers before even watching the show on Facebook. I said last season a dragon died before it even aired. People got so mad. I'm going to do it again.

 

[Fox12]

Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.

Old classic books are usually published with an introduction in the front, explaining the context of the book, maybe a bit about the author's life, detailing any quirks with the translation, that sort of thing.

Well, the introduction to my copy of Anna Karenina straight up fucking mentioned that...

Spoiler

... it ends with the main character committing suicide.

Like... why? Why would you do that? Write something telling the reader how the story ends, and then put it at in very front of the actual book.

It would be like republishing Game of Thrones with an intro that lists who dies.

I've noticed that with classic books. Because if a books old then that must mean that we don't care about the story, right? I had that happen with Lord of the Flies.

Hey, ass holes? If you want to analyze and dissect the book from a literary standpoint, do it at the end of the book. That's not what the forward is for. I don't need a tally of every dead character in the book, and the order they die in.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

I've spoilered myself so many times in books, games and movies, not by reading ahead or looking things up but by deducing swerves and shit ahead of time that it really doesn't affect me anymore when people do it to me by accident or on purpose.
Its not like me being egotistical or anything, I just have a habit of seeing consequences or picking up clues/details in literature or movies.
Especially after watching things like Wild Things or growing up reading Sherlock Holmes and such...

 

[lechat]

Pretty safe to assume i won't need spoilers for this but Australia's next top model season 6 finale http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%27s_Next_Top_Model_%28cycle_6%29

I used to be a bit of a fan of the show and was enjoying that season and it's final contestants feeling pretty safe that i could record it and watch it the next day after work if i avoided the odd radio announcement but there was a major mix up in the final votes and it was such big news that i spent the whole day blocking my ears and running from errant radio stations only to have it fail in the last couple hours before i knocked off.

 

[someguy1231]

I'm probably going to sound like I'm bragging for saying this, but the one big thing that's been "spoiled" for me in a game is one that I figured out all by myself.

That's kind of awesome. Man, it almost makes me feel nostalgic for a time when that was considered clever. Now when games pull stunts like that, I usually find it obvious from the intro.

Thanks. Games have definitely gotten way to predictable nowadays. It's so damn easy to see who's going to betray you, who's going to become the love interest, etc.

 

[Chester Rabbit]

System Shock 2's twist

Would you Kindly

And Darth Revan.

 

[Elfgore]

Pirate Warriors 1 spoiled all of One Piece up until Marineford. So all those people that died didn't really effect me as much as they should have.

I also know everything that happens in The Walking Dead, due to Facebook and my Mom not being able to keep quiet about it.

 

[Scars Unseen]

I had the ending of Your Lie in April spoiled for me. Still a great show, but it loses some of its tension when you know what happens.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Harry Potter got spoiled for me, the part where

Spoiler

Snape kills Dumbledore

My asshole cousin spoiled the previous book, ie:

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Sirius Black dies

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As for things that I've spoiled...I can't think of too many. I generally tell people that I can spoil things for them if they want me to but I try not to. I've told people about the Darth Revan thing and I've told people about the Order of the Pheonix, Half-Blood Prince and, Deathly Hallows things...but I don't recall a time when I've ever just blurted out;

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"Oh man, I can't believe that Cloud was living out his approximation of Zack's life for the first two thirds of Final Fantasy VII! That was such a neat twist!" or, "That Spec-Ops the Line plot sure was messed up...did you end up killing yourself in the end or did you do the final shoot-out? I surrendered at first then tried again and shot my way out."

 

[Poetic Nova]

Someone spoiled the ending of Killer 7 for me before I managed to finish it.

 

[EHKOS]

I was amazingly pissed when I read spoilers for the episode of Breaking Bad where

Spoiler

Mike died.

It was right before I watched the episode in question, too. Bastards.

Yeah, I saw a pic as I was queuing up the episode. For some reason I wasn't as attached to him as most people so it wasn't as bad.

My worst spoiler is something I'm still a bit angry at myself for. I was...14 or 15 when Bioshock came out. I watched tons of trailers and was super hyped, but my mom wouldn't let me have it due to the M rating, and the fact I didn't actually own the right console. Since $250 for a 360 Core seemed like such a huge amount of money at the time, and three years seemed like an eternity, I just read the synopsis on the wiki. WORST. MISTAKE. EVER.

 

[MysticSlayer]

Would you kindly shut up about the twist in System Shock 2?

I also ended up running into some spoilers about Misha in Katawa Shoujo. If you played down the Shizune route, you know what I'm talking about. If not, there's no way in hell you know what I'm talking about unless you've looked it up.

Other than those three instances, I've actually done a good job at avoiding spoilers in most games. Even in Xenoblade Chronicles, I somehow managed to get through it all without running into any major spoilers, despite reading about the game constantly while playing through it (that said, I figured out most twists long before they happened). The same thing happened with Mass Effect. Yeah, I maybe got some minor spoilers, but nothing major.

 

[Blitsie]

I was busy watching a youtube vid on one of those funny animal bugs you can find in Red Dead Redemption and right there, right freaking there as in the first goddamn comment, some asshole decide to spoil the whole ending with three simple words.

The ending itself was still intense as hell but damn, I wanted to go in blind into that one. I hope that person is currently spending his days with the permanent sensation of a thousand lost sneezes

 

[Shadowsetzer]

The big one for me was the ending to Mass Effect 3. I've never been able to play more than an hour or two of that game because of it....

 

[Pyrian]

Games have definitely gotten way to predictable nowadays. It's so damn easy to see who's going to betray you, who's going to become the love interest, etc.

Hey, y'know what was a good identity twist, looking back? Deus Ex: Invisible War. I know, I know, but listen:

Spoiler

In Deus Ex and Deus Ex:Human Revolution your uncovered backstory is that you're some genetically engineered organism created specifically to tolerate augmentations that normal people can't usually take. In Invisible War, your ultra-secret backstory is that you're just some random person on which they were testing the new augmentation technology that can work on anyone.

 

[McElroy]

Not as much spoiled as simply realized that Star Wars trilogies end up with the good guys winning. That was years ago, though, nowadays I also know that the whole thing culminates in

Spoiler: a certain EU trilogy by Timothy Zahn

Thrawn losing the Noghris' loalty in the final moments.

Another big one was the final HP book:

Spoiler

Snape was a good guy all along!

 

[Zen Bard]

When I was a wee lad, I was standing in line at the theater (and it was quite a line) to see The Empire Strikes Back. A guy walked out of the previous screening and said "Man, I can't believe Darth Vader is Luke's father!"

We all wanted to kill him. But no one wanted to give up their place in line.

Oh. Spoiler Alert.

 

[Bellvedere]

I spoil everything for myself on purpose. I read the last page of a book first (and generally a few pages ahead too), generally google a movie or TV show whilst I watch it. I read the Game of Thrones wiki pages about characters that seemed like they were going somewhere interesting before I finished the first season of the show. My way is more efficient. Who wants to invest x hours in something without knowing if the entire story is good or not?

 

[theevilgenius60]

Mine was the ending of Bioshock Infinite. Damn! I was pumped for that one. Unfortunately, a casual friend of mine worked at Irrational and couldn't just shut up. Still didn't deserve what happened to Irrational though. It ranks up there with 38 Studios being forced closed by a politician and Bulletstorm not getting a sequel in my "shittiest endings to great stories" list.