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A spoiler is an element of a disseminated summary or description of a media narrative that reveals significant plot elements, with the implication that the experience of discovering the plot naturally, as the creator intended it, has been robbed ("spoiled") of its full effect.
Since the effectiveness of a plot twist usually relies on the audience's not having expected it, revealing a plot twist to readers or viewers in advance is commonly regarded as a spoiler. Even revealing the fact that a work contains plot twists – especially at the ending – can also be controversial, as it changes the audience's expectations.
Wikipedia articles may include spoilers and no spoiler warnings. A spoiler is a piece of information about a narrative work (such as a book, film, television series, or a video game) that reveals plot points or twists. Articles on the Internet sometimes feature a spoiler warning to alert readers to spoilers in the text, which they may then ...
A discussion has taken place over the status of this page, as archived at Wikipedia talk:Spoiler warning/Guideline status, and participants are seeking comments on the following questions, in a bid to gain consensus on this page's status and purpose.
To clarify: She attended [secondary] school, where this was the intended meaning, but the type of school was unstated in the original sentence. To reduce the size of a quotation: X contains Y, and under certain circumstances, X may contain Z as well may be reduced to X contains Y [and sometimes Z] .
2) No one yet has proposed a compelling, widely-accepted definition of "what is a spoiler." The reasons for this problem are easy to explain. The whole premise of spoiler tags is that some readers want to be told a little — but not too much — about a fictional work (film, book, video game,). But no one can say how much is "too much."
“I couldn’t imagine [it] anyway,” Anderson told ELLE of an Oscar nomination. “I’m happy for the SAG nomination — that’s [voted on by] your peers.
And yet the guideline states "A spoiler is a piece of information about a narrative work (such as a book, film, television series, or a video game) which reveals plot points or twists and thus may degrade the experience of persons who wish to experience the work themselves." and "When including spoilers, editors should make sure that an ...