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12->'''Announcer:''' Will Clark Kent find happiness with a new love? Stay tuned for chapter six — ''Clark Kent Finds Happiness!''\
13'''Cinema Snob:''' Whoa, spoiler alert, movie!
14-->-- '''The Cinema Snob''' (on the MadeForTVMovie version of the ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' musical), ''WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob''
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17Work and episode titles that give away what happens in the story.
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19This trope only applies if the title really is a spoiler. An important event — like a [[TonightSomeoneDies character's death]] — could be revealed by the title (and even take place near the show's end) but not have been meant as a surprise, so the title's not an example of this trope. See ForegoneConclusion or OhAndXDies for those. Quick litmus test: if the work was a paperback novel, the back would ask a question. Would the title answer it? OhAndXDies builds up tension whether we have a LyingCreator or TeasingCreator or not. If the creator is NOT lying or teasing, it's this trope.
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21If the title is shown in the opening of the episode, may be a SpoilerOpening. If the title is shown on the DVD cover for Season 2 and it's a casual giveaway of the shocking twist at the end of Season 1, you're looking at a LateArrivalSpoiler. Many examples of an ExcitedTitleTwoPartEpisodeName may also be this. If the title says ''everything'' important about what happens and how, then it is also ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, but just revealing that someone dies or is introduced usually isn't enough. If it spoils the existence of something, rather than a plot point, then it's TheNamesake. Some works hide the spoiler by [[CloseOnTitle closing on title]] (or [[TitlePlease not displaying it at all]]) instead of opening with it. Chapter titles in the "InWhichATropeIsDescribed" style often can end up as these.
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23Note that this can apply to episode titles that are never displayed on-screen during the episode, as it can be difficult to avoid seeing them in TV guides and on DVD packaging. Although possibly some creators figure that if the episode's been aired at least once, the audience should already be aware of it.
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25Contrast NeverTrustATitle and NonIndicativeName.
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27'''''Note:''''' This is a SpoileredRotten trope, that means that '''EVERY SINGLE EXAMPLE''' on this list is a spoiler by default and most of them will be unmarked. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned This is your last warning]], only proceed if you really believe you can handle this list.
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35* ''Animation/IllReturnAsTheRain''. Near the end of the short, Guda-Guda, dies by [[ImMelting melting in the sun]], much to the dismay of his new friend, a human girl. Guda-Guda comes back as rain drops.
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39* Episode 21 of ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'' is called "Takaoka Time", revealing Takaoka has returned.
40* ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'''s episode titles tend to be pretty explanatory in general, but the only real spoiler has to be "Firo and the Three Gandor Brothers Are Felled by Assassins' Bullets". In the show's defense, however, that also [[AnachronicOrder happens in the first episode]]. Of course, "felled" doesn't always mean "killed".
41* ''Manga/{{Bakuman}}'' manages to avert this, with its TheNounAndTheNoun titles, which often only become clear when the chapter is read. For example, the chapter in which it is determined whether "Detective Trap" will be canceled, (and it is canceled) is titled "18 and 40", and refers to Mashiro realizing that his hope of getting an anime by age 18 will never come true, and after sending an e-mail to Azuki about the cancelation on the last page, she jokingly replies that she wants to get married before 40.
42* In the last episode of the ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'' ''OVA'' Bubblegum Crash, until very late in the episode, the true plan of the Boomer antagonists is unknown but the Title of the Episode actually spoils a rather huge part of this plan.
43* Twenty dollars on the outcome of "Tooya Dies" in ''Manga/CeresCelestialLegend''. He dies. Sort of.
44* ''Anime/CodeGeass'':
45** "Bloodstained Euphie" is a middle example. It spoils that something's going to go horribly wrong, but it's still quite surprising that Princess Euphemia is the one who does the killing.
46** The movie title, ''Anime/CodeGeassLelouchOfTheResurrection'', gives away that [[TheHeroDies Lelouch died]] and is going to be resurrected in the movie. Though the movie is a sequel to the CompilationMovie trilogy and not the show, where Lelouch remains dead.
47* ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' had that one episode with the title "The Kind-Hearted Hero, Leomon Dies".
48** One episode of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' was titled "Sayonara, Ken-chan". What made it such a spoiler, though, was that the words on the screen were in a Wormmon-shaped silhouette.
49** ''Anime/DigimonFusion'' was really bad about this. For example, both Deckerdramon and Beelzebumon's deaths were spoiled in episode titles -- then ''further'' spoiled through the story narration lines in the corner, which showed up at the beginning and middle of the episodes.(The one at the beginning in episode 48 said, "Goodbye, Beelzebumon!")
50* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' has a reputation for this, particularly since every episode concluded with a OnTheNext segment that revealed the full name of the episode at the end!
51** The Saiyan saga, specifically during the battle with Vegeta and Nappa, has "Yamcha Dies! The Terror of the Saibaimen", "Farewell, Ten-san! Chaozu's Suicidal Strategy", "Tenshinhan Cries Out! This Is My Final Kikoho!" and "Ferocity of the Saiyans! Kami-sama and Piccolo Both Die". Come on, let's root for the good guys to win!
52** "Goku Dies! There's Only One Chance Left" was one of the first episodes, even -- which probably let some savvy Japanese fans guess [[SpoiledByTheFormat that the "twist" would be undone later on]]. Non-Japanese dubs mostly kept it under wraps, although for example the French (and its many European derivatives) titled the episode "Sangoku Sacrifices His Life".
53** One episode has "Such Regret...!! The Proud Saiyan, Vegeta Dies". ''Hello'', we still have to ''watch'' the episode! Do you ''mind''?!
54** Even worse, "The Death of Dende... Come Forth! Intense, Full-Force Power".
55** "Freeza Defeated!! A Single Blast Packed with a Totality of Rage" is an infamous but downplayed example, as it was pretty clear who was [[CurbStompBattle winning the fight at the end of the episode.]] Still, way to spoil how screwed the BigBad was, and when he would lose.
56** How about "Planet Namek's Great Explosion!! Goku Disappears into Space". Not a Spoiler Title much, but the next episode title? "Son Goku Survived! The Z Warriors Are All Resurrected!!" ''Thanks'' for that, guys.
57*** The dub has the same issue, titling the episodes "Namek's Explosion...Goku's End?" and "Goku's Alive!!".
58** And the dub title "Pay to Win", to a lesser extent.[[note]]The episode where 18 and Mr. Satan are the two finalists in the Tenka'ichi Budōkai, which ends with her taking a dive for a bribe equal to double the actual prize money.[[/note]]
59** Can Videl win? Find out next time in ''Dragon Ball Z'': "A Tragic Videl!! Are You Coming Out, Angry Super Gohan?"!
60** The original ''Manga/DragonBall'' had an episode called "Goku's Opponent is... Goku?!", in which Goku fights a masked fighter exactly his height with his exact skill. We wonder who it could be??
61** For movie titles, the Japanese title of ''[[Anime/DragonBallZTheReturnOfCooler The Return of Cooler]]'' was "Clash!! 10,000,000,000 Powerful Warriors", spoiling that Cooler [[MesACrowd made a bunch of copies of himself]]; something we don't even find out until near the end of the film.
62** Another big offender is the dub title of the 8th movie, ''Anime/BrolyTheLegendarySuperSaiyan''. Broly's power is supposed to be a big twist: half of the movie makes him look like a weakling who barely even speaks, but instead everyone's just waiting for the heroes to figure it out. In Japan it was called ''Burn Up!! A Red-Hot, Raging, Super-Fierce Fight''.
63** In the third Broly movie, even though it was intended to be kept a mystery as to who exactly they were cloning other than the fact that it was a Saiyan, the US title spoiled it by explicitly stating ''[[Anime/DragonBallZBioBroly Bio-Broly]]''. In Japan, it's ''Super-Warrior Defeat!! I'm the One Who'll Win''.
64* To some extent, ''Anime/EurekaSeven'' did this with 2 episodes and averted it with a third: Namely "Acperience 2", "Acperience 3" and "Acperience 4", though the latter is averted in the same way as ''Gurren Lagann''[='s=] two aversions. The first two just tells the viewer what is in store for them.
65* ''Manga/FairyTail'' is pretty bad about this. Especially since at the end of each chapter, the title of the next chapter is shown.
66** Chapter 244: "Thunder Crashes" reveals that Laxus, who'd previously been expelled from the guild and had no reason to be on Sirius Island, pulls a BigDamnHeroes moment against Hades.
67** Chapter 492: "Elder Sister and Younger Sister" spoils the Agria sisters reuniting.
68** Chapter 493: "The White Dragneel" reveals that there's another Dragneel besides Natsu and Zeref.
69* Depending on if you've seen [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight the original series]] or not, ''Literature/FateZero'' episode 17's title, "The Eighth Contract", is either this or ForegoneConclusion. Granted, the series shows the titles at the end of the episode, but [[Website/NicoNicoDouga Nico.jp]] displays the episode title right on the viewing page, defeating the purpose.
70* ''Manga/GetBackers'' had it in the second Infinite-castle visit. It was a TonightSomeoneDies title.
71* ''Anime/GodMars'' has several episode titles like "Akira's Girlfriend is a Female Soldier" and "Marg Dies on Earth", which sum up the main points quite well.
72* Episode 6 of ''Anime/GoLion'' is titled "Death of Shirogane the Hero".
73* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' series occasionally have episode titles that give away major plot points, often referring to character deaths:
74** The original ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' has some of these, with "Garma's Fate" being a particularly bad one, along with "Big Zam's Last Stand". These become hilarious when the narrator asks "[[OnTheNextEpisodeOfCatchphrase Who will survive?]]" after revealing the title.
75** ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'' is generally good at not choosing spoilerific titles, with a few exceptions like "Amuro Flies Again" and "Goodbye, Rosammy," and then the penultimate episode is the rather on-the-nose "Casualties of War."
76** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ'' has [[ColonyDrop "Falling Sky"]], "Rasara's Life," and "Emary's Glory."
77** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'' episode, oh excuse, phase 36, is called "Athrun escapes". The trailer in phase 35 really looked like "sorry for the spoiler. Here is [[{{Fanservice}} Meyrin in underwear]] as an apology."
78* In the middle of ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' we are treated to a HopeSpot arc, with everything hinting towards a happy ending. The title of the arc? Minagoroshi-hen, "the Massacre Chapter" or, if translated word-for-word, "the Kill-Everyone Chapter".
79* The season 1 finale for ''Manga/ICantUnderstandWhatMyHusbandIsSaying'' was titled "[[BabiesEverAfter Me, Her, and Another]]", though it's a case of CloseOnTitle.
80* Chapter 84 of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' is simply titled "The Mysterious Nazi Officer"; however, the 2012 anime adaptation spoils the reveal with two words: [[WeCanRebuildHim Stroheim's]] Counterattack, making the constant shadowing of the character's face pointless.
81* Some of the case arcs in ''Manga/TheKindaichiCaseFiles'' are spoiled because of the title in a given case.
82** One can guess who would be the prime suspect in the case arc titled "Kindaichi the Killer".
83** Anyone who knows what a "sommelier" is or does can guess who would be serving wine in the case arc that's titled "Case File of Kengo Akechi the Sommelier".
84* ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'':
85** This was often done with its Japanese titles. The dramatic reveal that Knuckle Joe isn't actually working for Night Mare Enterprises as a salesman, but merely pretending to so he can gain access to one of eNeMeE's most dangerous creations and kill it would probably have worked better if the episode hadn't been titled "Monster Hunter Knuckle Joe" in Japanese.
86** Downplayed in the case of an early episode, which has Tiff receiving a love letter written on a seashell, apparently written by someone named Kine. She wonders who Kine is. The Japanese title card saying "[[InterspeciesRomance The Fish Who Loved Me]]" immediately pops up. Kine is not revealed to be a talking fish until two and a half minutes later, although if the audience were aware that he also appears in some of the games (and a few of the earlier episodes) they'd be less than surprised.
87* Episode 8 of ''Anime/LaytonMysteryDetectiveAgency'' revolves around the mysterious disappearance of £100 million in cash from a high-tech bank vault. Or at least, it would be mysterious if the episode wasn't called "The £100 Million That Blew Away In The Wind". And just to reassure you that the title isn't metaphorical, the first thing you see of the bank vault is its gigantic ventilation fan.
88* ''Literature/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes'': The whole of episode 82 is spent watching one man's life in the balance but in the end "The Magician Did Not Return".
89* ''Anime/Macross7'', Episode 47: "Basara Dies".
90* Played with in ''Anime/{{Mazinkaiser}}'' Episode 6: "Koji Kabuto Dies in Magma!" Although he does in fact get dunked into Mt. Fuji, he does survive in the next episode.
91* People who watch ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' on Website/{{Crunchyroll}} should take extra caution during the second season's Sports Festival arc. The episode selector shows multiple episodes ahead of the one you're currently watching, and one episode is titled "Todoroki vs Bakugo", spoiling the fact that Midoriya will lose his fight against Todoroki (as does Iida, who faces Todoroki in the semifinals).
92* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
93** An episode was titled "Gaara Dies!" ''Gee, thanks.'' At least he comes back to life.
94** Chapter 437's title is "Confessions", which doesn't sound like much of a spoiler until you see Hinata on the cover.
95** Chapter 473 is called "Brother". Again, doesn't sound like a spoiler until you know the context of the previous chapter in which Killer B is presumably about to be killed by Kisame. Anyone who had been paying attention would know Killer B not only has a brother but his brother is none other than the ''Raikage'', who was last seen looking for him, and thus would be a great deal of help to Killer B.
96** Chapter 480 is titled "Sacrifice" which makes [[ShootTheHostage what happens]] at the end obvious several pages before then.
97** Chapter 599 is called "Obito Uchiha", which, again, is a very big spoiler if you know the context.
98* [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] on ''Manga/{{NEEDLESS}}''. Episode 3 is titled "Gedo Dies Gedo Dies" and Blade is adamant that that happens in the preview. In fact, Gedo does not die and lives through the series.
99* ''Manga/OnePiece'' has quite a few spoiler titles.
100** Episode 32 was titled "Usopp's Death?! Luffy -- Yet to Land?" Later subverted when it's revealed that Nami faked his death.
101** Episode 290 was titled "Uncontrollable! Chopper's Forbidden Rumble!"; in it, Chopper first uses Monster Point.
102** Episode 377 was titled "My Crewmate's Pain is My Pain, Zoro Fights Prepared to Die!", and in it, Zoro agreed to take in all of Luffy's pain to convince Kuma to leave, which was thought to be fatal.
103** Episode 405 was titled "Disappearing Crewmates! The Final Day of the Straw Hat Crew!". The title spoils the ''entire episode''.
104** Chapter 512 is titled Zoro Vanished! ruining the ending.
105** Chapter 565 is titled Oars' Road. The previous chapter saw Akainu begin to melt all the ice the opposition were standing on causing readers to wonder how the pirates would end up ok. The title of this chapter told us.
106** Chapter 574 is titled Portgas D. Ace is Dead. Can't really get more spoilerific than that.
107** Played with in Chapter 429: Complete Defeat. Things are looking bleak for the Straw Hats when suddenly, they come upon a HopeSpot. Then the Marines thoroughly beat them anyways, right? Actually, it's their victory. The title was taken from a line near the end of the chapter, spoken by a marine: "This is our complete defeat."
108** One of the TV Specials has a spoiler right in its full title: ''3D2Y: Overcome'' '''''Ace's Death!''''' ''Luffy's Vow to His Friends!''
109** The title "The 500 Million Berry Man! The Target is Usoland!" completely spoils the episode's funniest moment; Usopp tops the list of people Doflamingo wants dead.
110** The title "Luffy's Peak Attained! Gear Fifth" completely spoils that Luffy is not only alive, but has unlocked Gear Fifth after Kaido decisively knocked Luffy out earlier.
111* The title of the 25th episode of ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' "The Host Club Declares Dissolution!" spoils half of the plot twist revealed ''in the last ten seconds of the episode''.
112* ''Our Yuri Started With Me Getting Rejected in a Dream'' is the story of a girl named Tsukushi, who has a dream about her long-time friend Hinoka turning down her LoveConfession.: Chapter 36, which is a few chapters after Hinoka kisses Tsukushi, is titled, "The Couple That Started with Getting Rejected in a Dream." While [[CloseOnTitle the chapter ends with that title]], anyone who sees the chapter name in advance will be spoiled.
113* There is an episode of ''Manga/{{Perman}}'' titled "Perman 3's a Real Witch". The other characters have no idea that the witch is Perman 3 until near the end of the episode, so the title effectively ruins the plot twist.
114* Here are the Japanese titles for a pair of ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' episodes that aired in May 2010. If the second title was revealed in the first's OnTheNext, it wouldn't be this trope. However, they were revealed [[http://www.serebii.net/archive/April-2010.shtml at the same time]], so...:
115-->Ep. 464 Semi-Final! Who is Heading to the Final[[note]]in the Sinnoh Grand Festival[[/note]]?\
116Ep. 465 Final! Hikari/Dawn vs. Nozomi/Zoey! [[note]]At least they have the decency to not tell us who wins.[[/note]]
117** Done once again with the Club Battle arc, which reveals that the two finalists are Ash and Iris.
118** And again with the Donamite/Clubsplosion arc, with ''all four episodes'' revealed at once, spoiling all the matchups and their outcomes:
119--->Ep. 731 The Unveiling Donamite! Scraggy VS Simisage!!\
120Ep. 732 Quick Succession Donamite! Druddigon VS Bisharp!!\
121Ep. 733 Fierce Fighting Donamite! Bisharp VS Emboar!![[note]]so we know Bisharp got through the last round and Druddigon must have lost[[/note]]\
122Ep. 734 Decisive Battle Donamite! Throh vs Sawk!![[note]]only one of those Pokémon is owned by any of the rivals, so it's safe to say the others all lose.[[/note]]
123** Let's just say that the Japanese titles for the tournament arcs all have spoilers in the titles. The Junior Cup reveals Iris going to the semifinals, and the Vertress Conference reveals that Ash defeats Trip in the preliminaries, Cameron defeats Bianca, Ash defeats Stephan, and that Cameron's Riolu evolves, even though the last example happens in the episode before.
124** And releases are usually "Goodbye X!" If it's not definite, it's usually "Goodbye X?!"
125** The English dub is also not immune. The third episode, titled "Ash Catches a Pokemon!" is a primary example. Another egregious one is "Evolution By Fire!", where Tepig's evolution into Pignite is already leaked, even though it happens near the end of the episode.
126** Another really bad example was the English title "Tie One On!", which is centered on a League match that ends in a tie. Even worse in the Latin American dub. Since the pun was untranslatable, they simply translated the title as "Un empate!" ("A tie!"). To make matters ''even'' worse, unlike "tie", the word "empate" ''doesn't'' have multiple possible meanings.
127** This was surprisingly averted during the Alola League arc. The first part of the final four episodes where Ash fights Kukui does spoil that Ash will face him, but the title was not revealed until after Ash had won the League proper to keep Ash winning the League at all a surprise. Sadly for the creative department, the win wound up being spoiled in another way when screenshots of the episode were revealed showing Ash holding a trophy.
128** Subverted with the Japanese title of the final episode of the Kalos League: "Kalos League Victory! Ash's Ultimate Match!" Ash doesn’t win. [[ExactWords The episode said "victory", it just didn’t say who would win.]]
129* Many episodes of the ''Anime/PrettyCure'' franchise usually mention any major events in the episode directly in the title, which could be anything from a Cure's debut to [[TheBadGuyWins the evildoers the Cures are up against taking over their home world.]]
130* Episode 98 of ''VideoGame/PriPara'' is titled "Playing Three Roles at Once is Hard~Nanon", spoiling the fact that Non herself is all three members of Triangle.
131* Episode 5 of ''Anime/PunchLine'' is titled "Ito Dies". Doesn't matter that much though since the whole show is a huge [[GroundhogDayLoop Groundhog Day Loop plot]] and the death is obviously immediately undone.
132* ''Anime/SailorMoon'' did this with impunity. ''[[Anime/PrettySammy Magical Project S]]'' followed the model as well, although whether it was just another detail to parody the genre or an executive-mandated detail is hard to tell.
133** The various ''Sailor Moon'' dubs sometimes replaced the original Japanese titles with something that wasn't so spoilerific. For example, Episode 10, which introduced Sailor Mars, was called "Cursed Buses! The Fire Soldier Mars Appears" in the original and the VIZ dub, but "An Uncharmed Life" in the Creator/DiC English dub and "The Temple of Lovers" in both German and Dutch. Episode 13, translated by ADV as "Girl Power! The End of Jadeite", became "Fight to the Finish" (episode 10) in the DIC English dub.
134** Some other gems from the original Japanese are Episode 24 "Naru's Cry! Nephrite Dies for Love", 33 "The Last Sailor Soldier! Sailor Venus Appears", and most JustForFun/{{egregious}}ly, 45 "Death of the Sailor Guardians! The Tragic Final Battle". The English dub changed these to "A Friend in Wolf's Clothing," "Sailor V Makes the Scene," and "Day of Destiny"[[note]]which was episodes 45 and 46 chopped up with a meat cleaver with the remnants sewn together[[/note]]. They got better with this in the later seasons, although titles like "When the Galaxy Perishes! The Sailor Soldier's Final Battle" and "Disappearing Stars! The End of Uranus and Neptune" are still pretty obvious.
135* Episode 53 of ''Anime/SaintSeiya'' is titled "That Man! Cassios Dies for Love". During the episode, Cassios indeed dies for love.
136* ''Manga/ShimejiSimulation'' has several titles that are blatantly spoilery that talking about them is an immediate spoiler.
137** The manga's title, "Shimeji Simulation", is this. Wait for it... The title itself spoils the TomatoSurprise twist and TheReveal that everything about this world is a reality simulation.
138** Chapter 10 is titled "Dream". In that chapter Shijima travels through the Dream World by herself throughout this chapter.
139** Chapter 30 is titled "Change". It doesn't hide the fact that it blatantly spoils the manga's first WhamEpisode where reality gets ''permanently changed'' by Sis almost at the end of the chapter. Nice way to spoil the plot with just one word!
140** Chapter 45 is titled "Reverse". That spoils the plot point where Shijima has to reverse the damage of the simulation which happens at the end.
141** Chapter 46 is titled "Genesis". Not only it blatantly spoils Majime's ascendance to godhood, but it also spoils the revelation that she becomes TheMaker of her new world.
142** Chapter 47 is titled "Empty". If the chapter's SpoilerCover is not an indication of what the chapter is all about, the chapter shows the exact fate of Shijima's fate as TheAloner.
143* The ''Manga/SoulEater'' anime averts this in the same way ''Gurren Lagann'' did, as the name of the final episode "The Word is [[HeroicResolve Bravery]]" isn't revealed until just before the credits. But played straight with Medusa's Revival.
144* ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'' and its dub ''Star Blazers'' are horrible about this. The Japanese titles are full-blown ExcitedTitleTwoPartEpisodeName with spoiler included. ''Star Blazers'' originally had no titles, but fans created unofficial ones that can be found on fansites. These are also spoilers.
145* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'':
146** Averted: the title of Episode 8, "Later, Buddy", is not displayed until the end, although it would admittedly be hard to get the spoiler that Kamina dies from this one line. This is repeated in ''Super Robot Wars Z2'', where the same title is only displayed at the end of the stage. [[TearJerker Voiced.]]
147** Another example is episode 25: "I accept your dying wish!", which Simon says after Kittan dies. That was actually a brilliant BaitAndSwitch maneuver; in the previous episode, six of the minor characters died, so you'd be thinking Simon was talking about them when he said that.
148* ''Anime/TransformersHeadmasters'' had an episode titled "Ultra Magnus Dies!!" The episode immediately after that was also the very specific "The Emperor of Destruction Vanishes on an Iceberg."
149* ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'''s fifth chapter is called ''End of the Golden Witch''. Just as bad (but only if you happen to know the definition of the term) is the seventh chapter's ''Requiem of the Golden Witch''.
150* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' episodes: "Koenma of the Spirit Realm! A Trial Towards Resurrection", "Yusuke's Hard Battle! A Bruised and Bloody Counterattack", "Toguro Returns" (at least in the English dub), and "Genkai Falls! Settled After 50 Years!". What are they about?
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154* ''ComicBook/{{Bionicle}} Ignition #11: [[TheHeroDies Death of a Hero]]''. With the cover focusing on Matoro carrying the Mask of Life, an artifact that's known to do bad things to its wearer, and with the previous issue (and tons of other foreshadowings) having confirmed that he will have to wear it, guess what happens to him. He dies.
155* ''ComicBook/BlackMoonChronicles'': Album 14 is named ''The End of Days''. [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Guess what happens?]]
156* Until the WhamLine of "[[TheHeroDies I'm dying]]" in the first part, DC advertised ''ComicBook/TheFinalDaysOfSuperman'' as ''Superman: Super League''.
157* The first arc of ''ComicBook/DarkTimes'' is called ''The Path to Nowhere,'' which hints at the ShaggyDogStory outcome of the heroes' efforts to rescue Bomo's enslaved loved ones.
158* Franchise/MarvelUniverse:
159** ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'':
160*** There's an AlternateContinuity comic that asks the question "What would happen if the Castle's family had been caught in the middle of a Superhero battle instead of a gangland shooting?" It's called ''ComicBook/ThePunisherKillsTheMarvelUniverse''.
161*** In another, Frank goes back in time to kill Al Capone in the '20s, ensuring his family doesn't get shot in Central Park. It was AllJustADream, but what else can you expect from a story titled "When Frank Sleeps"?
162*** ''ComicBook/MarvelUniverseVsThePunisher'' is a subversion -- while Frank does end up inadvertently causing a ZombieApocalypse in a way that leaves him immune to it, he's not alone against Marvel characters, as there are other survivors.
163** Marvel has also launched titles called ''ComicBook/DeadpoolKillsTheMarvelUniverse'' and ''Longshot Saves the Marvel Universe''. Eventually they parodied this trend by opening ''What If: Infinity'' with the title ''Rocket Raccoon Kills the Marvel Universe'' (the events in the titles do not happen in the book). And later there was a G-rated equivalent with ''ComicBook/TheUnbeatableSquirrelGirl Beats Up the Marvel Universe''.
164** ''Deadpool Kills...'' Also had a sequel series called ''Deadpool kills Deadpool''. As one might guess, this is a subversion of sorts since every single character, other than The Watcher is an alternate universe version of Deadpool. Thus the readers weren't entirely sure if the title meant the Kills the Universe Deadpool would kill the mainstream 616 Deadpool, vice versa, or if the title referred to one of the thousands of other Deadpools killing another one.
165** ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': A certain very famous issue had a totally spoilerish title. Well, the writers figured that out, so they [[CloseOnTitle stuck the title at the end of the issue instead]]. The title was, of course, "ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied".
166** While the solicitations for the issues of ''ComicBook/TheUltimates3'' tried to keep the death that kicked off the main plot a secret, the collected edition doesn't bother, rather bluntly revealing it with the subtitle "Who Killed the Scarlet Witch?"
167* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' had a downplayed example with the early story "The Bomb Bugs Me!" Sonic overhears Robotnik bragging about using "the bomb" to kill them all, assumes he's talking about '''the''' [[NukeEm bomb]], and leads the Freedom Fighters in a raid to steal and disarm it. When they do, it turns out the title has a clever double meaning: the bomb is for bug infestations.
168* Similarly, there's an issue of the (Will Payton) ''ComicBook/{{Starman|DCComics}}'' comic where the title was placed at the end: "Your Mother Should Know".
169* A popular arc of ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' featured a warped and bizarre Metropolis in which the villainous Superman every night broke out and had to be brought back to jail by the resident superhero, Bizarro. The reason behind this sudden change and the entity responsible? The mystery was tightly kept during the original release, even originally calling it ''Superman: Arkham'', but the fact that the paperback collection was titled ''Comicbook/EmperorJoker'' ruined the big surprise. Of course, the thing is, most fans of the storyline apparently thought it to be the best title for the TPB anyway.
170* The end of the ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' album ''[[Recap/TintinDestinationMoon Destination Moon]]'' ends on a {{cliffhanger}} as the astronauts have passed out and earth has lost communication with them. As mission control gets increasingly nervous, the {{Narrator}} asks the reader rhetorically (paraphrased): "Will Tintin and his friends survive this dangerous mission to make it to the moon? Find out in ''[[Recap/TintinExplorersOnTheMoon Explorers on the Moon]]''!" [[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt Not that any reader really thought they wouldn't make it, of course]].
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174* ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'': An in-universe example shows up in one strip when BA has everyone but Dave leave the room. Once they're alone, BA tells Dave that his character has been subject to a KillAndReplace by a {{Doppelganger}} and if he agrees to play along he'll get a nice in-game reward. The moment the other players are called back into the room, Brian instantly declares he's attacking Dave's character, then says that BA made a mistake by running a module called "The Doppeler Effect".
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178* ''Literature/{{Rumpelstiltskin}}'' is about a princess who has to guess the name of the mysterious little man who helps her. It's easy for the reader to figure out; [[AntagonistTitle his name is the title]].
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182* ''Fanfic/BelieveItOrNot'' has some titles that hint at the culprit.
183** "Green Thumb, Red Hand" strongly implies that the student with a gardening talent (the proverbial "green thumb") will become the culprit (and be caught "red-handed")
184** The second chapter is titled "Puella Magi Masuyo Tragico". The student who's a walking ShoutOut to ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' is the culprit.
185* ''Fanfic/BoysUndSenshado'' has Chapter 6 titled, "Accident Against Anzio". It doesn't disclose who has the accident (Miho, when getting shot by a Semovente), but it does strongly indicate that this [[WhamEpisode will be no ordinary match]].
186** The next chapter is titled "Miho's Heartache", which suggests that something worse than suffering bruised ribs happens to Miho-her mother disowns her, as she'd hinted at doing earlier.
187* Chapter [[FourIsDeath 4]] of ''FanFic/TheEndOfEnds'' shows the planet Tamaran blowing up. The title? “The End of [[RougeAnglesOfSatin Tameran!]]”
188* ''Fanfic/FriendshipIsMagicalGirls'' does this in a rather subtle way. The fic itself is in English, but the author is fluent in Japanese; the chapter titles [[GratuitousJapanese are written in kanji]] and only spoil you if you translate the title, meaning the spoiler is more of a BilingualBonus.
189* In ''Fanfic/GirlsUndPanzerHopeDies'', Chapter 12 is titled "Unrequited Love". It turns out to be the reason why Miho's killer, who'd confessed at the end of the previous chapter, [[IfICantHaveYou had killed her]].
190* ''Fanfic/HowToWriteATSSStory'': The title of the [[ShowWithinAShow story-within-a-story]] "Losing a Beloved" heavily implies that someone close to Victor and Anita will die. While that does happen in the story itself, it's not at all who the readers expect it to be. It ends in the TragicStillbirth of their daughter.
191* ''Fanfic/TheLastQueenOfGreenwood'': Caradel marries Thranduil and becomes his queen. It helps that the marriage is not the whole plot.
192* Fanfic/NjalGetsBurned. Granted, the original is often titled [[Literature/NjalsSaga "The Saga of Burned Njal."]]
193* In ''Fanfic/{{Origins}}'', a ''Franchise/MassEffect''/''Franchise/StarWars''/''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}''/''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' MassiveMultiplayerCrossover, Chapter 94 ("A Redux, the Jedi Shall Have") blatantly gives away the return of the Jedi and Force (which were pseudo-hidden in InsistentTerminology previously, being called "Current Channelers" and "the Current").
194* Downplayed with ''Fanfic/PokemonStrangledRed'' and its in-universe hacked game of the same name. The title makes it obvious that someone gets strangled, but never says ''who''.
195* Chapter 7 of ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/268471/ponyexe pony.exe]]'' is entitled "[=POSSCapture.exe=]". This is the name of the application Twilight runs from inside the computer.
196* ''Fanfic/QuarterLifeHalfwayToDestruction'': CHAPTER TWO: THEY REVOCER TEH ISOTROPE BUT THEY DON'T. The heroes find and confront the bad guy, but the isotope hits "quarter-life" in the middle of their encounter.
197* ''Fanfic/ReturnToHinamizawa'' Part III, Chapter 15 ends with the last three survivors trying to get to safety. The next chapter is titled "And Then There Were None". Mind you, knowing [[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry the work it's based on]], this is close to ForegoneConclusion territory.
198* ''Fanfic/ASadStory'': The title gives away how the story plays out, with Harry ultimately dying after being severely beaten by Uncle Vernon.
199* ''Fanfic/TheSecretReturnOfAlexMack'': Chapter 227 is called "[[Film/WhereEaglesDare Where Raptors Dare]]", which -- if you're familiar with the original -- gives a clue about a twist involving TheMole.
200* {{Averted|Trope}} in ''Fanfic/SonicGenerationsFriendshipIsTimeless'': Chapter 13 has a ? in place of Trixie's name in the title, hiding her presence in the chapter.
201* Episode 77 of ''Fanfic/SonicXDarkChaos'' is titled "''Tails's Work''". If you know that the original episode's Japanese title was "''Cosmo's Work''" and that Cosmo dies in that episode...
202* ''Fanfic/TwilightsList'' gives us chapter three, "Rainbow Says Yes", and the final chapter prior to the epilogue, "Twilight Says Yes".
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206* ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'': We don't officially get that title until the end of the movie.
207* The Chinese title for ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'' is "Ghost Mom". The Other Mother is not exactly a ghost, but still.
208* ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'': Nemo is indeed eventually found. The title doesn't work quite the same for ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'' though, as it's more of a [[ArtifactTitle legacy title]] than anything else.
209* ''WesternAnimation/{{How to Train Your Dragon|2010}}'' starts off being about a village that battles dragons. One of the inhabitants, Hiccup, finds the most fearsome kind of dragon, and he trains that dragon.
210* ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'': The titular character doesn't get his name until two-thirds of the way through the movie.
211* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' movie ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish'' has multiple characters race to touch the wishing star first. Wakko is the winner.
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215* Subverted in ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetTheKillerBorisKarloff''. The great question of the plot is who the mysterious killer in the hotel could possibly be. Could it perhaps be the evil Swami, played by Creator/BorisKarloff? Turns out, it's... '''[[RedHerring not]]''' Boris Karloff's character at all. It's the hotel manager.
216* The Hungarian release of ''Film/Alien3'' gives away the ending by naming the film ''The Final Solution: Death'' due to a somewhat forced pre-2010s tradition of putting the word "Death" into every ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' title, as if that were the aliens' name.
217* ''Film/TheAssassinationOfJesseJamesByTheCowardRobertFord''. Subverted in that Robert Ford wasn't a coward and Jesse James wasn't the heroic figure, nor was he "assassinated".
218* The film ''Blood Red Sky'' is about a single mother with a rare medical condition travelling to the US for treatment when her plane is hijacked. The twist comes at the end of the first act; as hinted by the title, she's a vampire.
219* Creator/BrianDePalma's ''Film/BodyDouble'' gives away the fact that the woman the protagonist was peeping on was not the real Gloria, but a porn actress body double.
220* The tagline for ''Film/TheBoyWhoCouldFly'' alludes to an amazing secret shared between the main character and the eponymous boy, which is his ability to fly.
221* The sequel to ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' is titled ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''. Seems likely that the [[Characters/MarvelComicsBuckyBarnes Winter Soldier]] will be showing up and therefore Bucky didn't die. Which is only a spoiler if you know that Bucky is the Winter Soldier... Subverted in that it was done intentionally to distract from the ''real'' twist that SHIELD had been [[EvilAllAlong infiltrated by HYDRA since the very beginning]].
222* The Italian title of ''Film/TheCrazies1973'' and [[Film/TheCrazies2010 its remake]] is ''La Città Verrà Distrutta All'Alba'' meaning ''The Town Will Be Destroyed at Dawn''.
223* One of the segments of ''Film/{{Creepshow}}'' is called "The Lonesome Death of [[Creator/StephenKing Jordy]] [[CreatorCameo Verrill]]", just in case you were in danger of getting attached to ol' Jordy.
224* Japanese film ''Film/TheCrucifiedLovers'' -- in the English-language market title. It's set in 18th-century Japan where adultery was a capital crime, and at the end, the lovers are in fact crucified. Averted with the Japanese title, ''A Story from Chikamatsu'' ("Chikamatsu" being the name of the original playwright).
225* Allegedly, one Asian dub of ''Film/TheCryingGame'' had a title that meant ''Oh No, My Girlfriend Has a Penis!''
226* ''Film/TheDeadlyMantis'', like 90% of the 1950s AttackOfThe50FootWhatever films, spends the first 20 minutes or so with mysterious disappearances and goings-on in the Arctic. Or rather they would be mysterious if the name of the film didn't give the monster away before it even started. To be fair, the monster is pretty much the big selling point of these kinds of movies. People wouldn't throng to see a movie called "Vague Imminent Threat That May Destroy the World and May Involve Monsters and/or Aliens!"
227* ''Film/DeadMansLetters'': The title spoils the reveal that Prof. Larsen's letters to his son [[PosthumousNarration are being read posthumously]].
228* Averted with ''Film/DeepRising'', which was originally shopped around Hollywood under the script title ''Tentacles''. Thanks to the change, the "worms" being appendages of a larger creature was obscured.
229* ''Film/TheDevilsAdvocate'': In the actual film it is treated as a shocking reveal that Creator/AlPacino's character is the Devil himself. But the title as well as a theatrical poster with some noticeable occult themes gives away the twist well in advance.
230* ''Film/EatingRaoul'' [[PlayingWithATrope plays with]] this trope. Yes, the film has a character named Raoul who gets eaten, and it's an important plot point, but it's ''not'' the ending.
231* The ending to ''Film/EddieAndTheCruisers'' reveals that Eddie, who was thought to have died, turns out to still be alive; HesJustHiding. The title of the much-delayed sequel: ''Eddie Lives!''. Though it's hard to see how there could be a sequel otherwise.
232-->'''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20180825113152/http://www.agonybooth.com/eddie-and-the-cruisers-ii-eddie-lives-1989-part-3-3376 Agony Booth]]:''' Is it even ''possible'' in movies for [[NeverFoundTheBody someone whose body was never found]] to ''actually be dead?''
233* ''Film/EndOfWatch'' is named after a police term for when a police officer dies on duty.
234* A review for ''Film/TheFlightOfThePhoenix2004'' preemptively apologized for spoilers, then excused it by pointing out "it's called 'Flight of the Phoenix,' not 'They Crashed in the Desert and Died.'"
235* ''Film/TheFlyingDeuces'': The movie is called ''The Flying Deuces'', and Creator/LaurelAndHardy are shown in an airplane and in pilot gear, they don't fly anywhere until the madcap chase that forms the climax of the movie.
236* ''Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare'': Yes, Freddy Krueger does [[KilledOffForReal die for real]]. It is not however the [[SeriesFauxnale final Nightmare]].
237* Creator/FrancisFordCoppola's 2020 recut of ''Film/TheGodfather: Part III'' received the title ''The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone''.
238* For ''Film/TheGreenGoblinsLastStand'', this trope was defied by using the second part of the storyline's title as opposed to the first part's very spoiler-filled "The Night Gwen Stacy Died".
239* ''Film/HaroldAndKumarGoToWhiteCastle'' tells you exactly what will happen at the end: Harold and Kumar will indeed go to White Castle.
240* ''Film/JasonGoesToHellTheFinalFriday'' ends with Jason going to Hell at the end. Ironically, he's dragged down there by the guy above. Also not the last ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' film.
241* ''Film/JohnDiesAtTheEnd'' plays the trope the same way as in the book, which is to say it both inverts and subverts it. He dies at the ''beginning'', but gets better. See Literature.
242* ''Film/JohnnyEnglishReborn''. He is "reborn" at the end.
243* The 1969 film ''Journey to the Far Side of the Sun'' didn't have a spoiler title: it's established fairly on that a journey to the far side of the Sun is involved. What's discovered there, however, wouldn't have come as a suprise to North American audiences, where it had been distributed under the title ''Doppelganger''.
244* ''Film/LoneSurvivor'' starring Creator/MarkWahlberg, telling the story of Operation Red Wings. There is only a single survivor, Mark Wahlberg.
245* ''Film/TheManWhoShotLibertyValance''. Guess who dies at the end. Liberty Valance. Subverted in that the main protagonist (Creator/JimmyStewart) wasn't the man who shot Liberty Valance. To be fair, they only said 'shot', not 'killed'.
246* Double-subverted in ''Film/MeAndEarlAndTheDyingGirl''. The movie title certainly points to a DownerEnding but then along comes [[{{Narrator}} Greg]] reassuring the audience twice that Rachel is going to live. [[UnreliableNarrator But this is not what happens]] ultimately.
247* The UK video release of ''Film/TheMightyDucks'' was named ''The Mighty Ducks Are The Champions''. The theatrical release was the less spoiler-heavy ''Champions''.
248* Played with on the ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]'' showing of ''Film/ItConqueredTheWorld'' -- Tom Servo riffs over the title "Hey, they're giving away the ending!" But it didn't conquer the world. Also [[PlayingWithATrope played with]] in another ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' movie, ''Film/TheThingThatCouldntDie''. It dies.
249* The Swedish title for ''Film/TheNightOfTheHunter'' gives away where the money is hidden: ''Trasdockan'', meaning "ragdoll".
250* ''Film/PennAndTellerGetKilled''. Well, yeah. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Penn Jilette. Teller informs him that they screwed up a sequel, to Penn's realization and dismay.
251* The CompletelyDifferentTitle of the original ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' in Portugal kinda qualifies: ''O Homem que Veio do Futuro'', "The Man Who Came From the Future". Sure, the only TimeTravel is [[HumanPopsicle forwards]]... but it in some way qualifies to him returning to what was EarthAllAlong. Similarly, the Portuguese title of ''Film/{{Vertigo}}'', ''A Mulher Que Viveu Duas Vezes'' ("The Woman Who Lived Twice") also counts, depending on how you interpret it.
252* ''Theatre/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead''; Guess what guys? ThoseTwoGuys [[OhAndXDies get killed!]] Mind you, that's only a, what, ''[[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} Four hundred year]]'' old spoiler? This is taken one step further than is immediately obvious. If you accept the reading that the plot occurs in a time loop or sort of endless metatextual hell that the characters exist in means they're already dead at the start in a certain sense.
253* The French title of ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'' is ''Les Évadés'', which means "Those Who Escaped" roughly, so not only does it give away the twist that Andy escapes the prison but also that Red flouted his parole. The Finnish title for the movie is ''Rita Hayworth -- avain pakoon'', which translates to "Rita Hayworth -- The Key to an Escape". So the title doesn't just spoil Andy escaping, it also hints at how he manages to do it.
254* ''Film/TheySavedHitlersBrain'': This 1969 film was a reworking of a 1950s unfinished film called ''Mad Men of Mandoras''. They actually recycled all of the footage of that movie and spliced it with newly shot footage that looked oddly modern for a movie that was set in the Eisenhower era of the 1950s. In the original film, the fact that they saved Hitler's brain was supposed to be a surprise revealed near the end when the protagonists discover the bad guys hang out. It is hinted earlier in the film that some suspect that Hitler may still be alive but no one knows exactly how.
255* ''Film/ThorRagnarok:'' the humorous [[spoiler: [[HarsherInHindsight prophecy of the fall of Asgard by Surtur's hand]] that seems like just a joke in the cold open would've worked a lot better if the movie weren't called "Ragnarok."]]
256* ''Literature/TheVirginSuicides'': Subverted by Lux! But we aren't saying how.
257* ''Film/{{The Wicker Man|1973}}''. What's a wicker man? Well, it's a big wicker statue that the ancient Romans claimed that the {{druid}}s used to sacrifice people by sticking them inside and burning them. The film is set on a remote Scottish island that practices Neo-Paganism, in the lead-up to a big May Day festival, so obviously the islanders must be plotting a HumanSacrifice using one. The question is who the intended victim is going to be.
258* ''Film/YorTheHunterFromTheFuture'''s alleged "twist" is that this primitive world is not the past but a post-apocalyptic future. Now read the title again.
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262* ''Literature/OneQEightyFour'': The last chapter of Book 3 names the perspective as being "Tengo and Aomame", revealing that the main characters managed to reunite after twenty years of being a part.
263* ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio'' humorously {{subvert|edTrope}}s the spoiler potential of its "InWhichATropeIsDescribed" chapter titles with a chapter entitled, "In Which Pinocchio Finds in the Body of the Dogfish... Whom Does He Find? Read This Chapter and You Will Know, My Children."
264* Creator/BrianAldiss' first ScienceFiction novel was published in the UK under his title, ''Non-stop''. Unfortunately, his US publisher didn't think this was exciting enough, so they renamed it ''Starship''. This is a spoiler because, until the big reveal, the viewpoint characters have ''no idea'' that they're living in a starship.
265* Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/TheBicentennialMan'': Thanks to the title, we know that Andrew becomes a man and lives to be 200 years old.
266* ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'':
267** In the book where Stacey's parents divorced, most of the plot centered around her choosing whether to stay in New York City with her father or move back to Stoneybrook with her mother. The book was called ''Welcome Back, Stacey''.
268** In another book, Jessi is asked to participate in a synchronized swimming competition. The title of the book is ''Jessi's Gold Medal''.
269** In a book, Stacey is excited to spend a week with her best friend from New York, Laine. By the title ''Stacey's Ex-Best Friend'', you can tell how much they will get along and in fact, by the end of the book, they are no longer friends.
270* ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'': New Testament Volume 10 is a BossRush in novel form, with each chapter representing a particular fight. The titles of the chapters hint at the enemies being fought, with some being more obvious than others. “The One who Bears White and Black Wings and Opposes the World” doesn't just reveal that Accelerator is the enemy, but also that he's actually sided with Touma and Othinus (thus opposing the rest of the world). The final chapter subverts this, having only question marks in place of the hint.
271* ''Literature/ChroniclesOfAncientDarkness'': Doubling as a LateArrivalSpoiler, if you see the title ''Viper's Daughter'' before reading ''Outcast'', you can probably guess it refers to Renn.
272* The titles of the last two ''Literature/CodexAlera'' books are ''massive'' spoilers once you figure out the pattern. Namely, the ranks in the titles all refer to Tavi. It's probably for the best that Creator/JimButcher didn't go with [[Trivia/CodexAlera his original name]] for the first book, or it would have been even more obvious.
273* ''Literature/TheCuckoosCalling'': Cuckoo chicks kill their adoptive siblings by pushing them out of the nest; similarly, John Bristow pushes both of his siblings to their deaths.
274* Georg Büchner's ''Dantons Tod'' (''[[Literature/DantonsDeath Danton's Death]]''). As history dictates, Danton gets beheaded in the end.
275* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': The title of ''Literature/MonstrousRegiment'', if you know anything about sixteenth-century history, in particular, John Knox's misogynistic Protestant tract ''The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women''.
276* The title of the ''Literature/EncyclopediaBrown'' mystery "The Case of the Happy Nephew" gives away the fact that the suspect's young nephew (who's otherwise a very minor character in the story) is a vital clue, as is the fact that he's ''happy''. Encylopedia figures out that the suspect's alibi is a lie when he notices the nephew happily smiling while walking barefoot on the hood of his car, [[SpottingTheThread proving that he wasn't on a long car trip when the crime took place (if he were, the hood of his car would still be hot, and his nephew would have burned his feet)]].
277* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'' embodies this trope. The three heroes discover that a magical artifact, whose nature remains unclear, is hidden in the school... Hm, could that be that philosopher's stone mentioned in the title? Invented by that guy Flamel mentioned at the beginning of the book? In France, the character of Nicolas Flamel is better known than in Anglo-Saxon countries, so the title was changed to "Harry Potter at the Wizardry School" to avoid a complete giveaway of the story's plot.
278* The third book of ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials'' has a seemingly spoilery chapter title, so if you read the table of contents before reading, you might be a little dismayed by the chapter title "Lyra and her Death". Turns out it's just that Lyra meets a "personification of her eventual death", which every living being has.
279* The early chapters of ''Literature/TheInvisibleMan'' don't actually reveal the mysterious bandaged stranger's condition until his self-inflicted DramaticUnmask, but the reader is only surprised if they've forgotten which book they're reading.
280* ''Literature/JohnDiesAtTheEnd''. It's actually a subversion and inversion because John dies in the beginning and becomes Dave's SpiritAdvisor, although Dave eventually helps John's spirit return to his body, bringing him back to life; Dave is actually the protagonist who dies at the end. Or, to be more precise, he dies closer to the middle and only realizes he's dead at the end. Also, Dave's love interest Amy dies at the end, except it turns out that the Amy that Dave saw die was a clone, and the real Amy is at Dave's house, sobbing over Dave's corpse. It's complicated.
281* Creator/LouisaMayAlcott's ''Literature/ALongFatalLoveChase''. Bet you can't guess the plot of that one.
282* Apparently, Creator/JRRTolkien disapproved of the title under which the third ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' book was published for this reason, and wanted to call it ''The War of the Ring'' instead of ''The Return of the King''.
283* In a 1901 novella by E. M. Forster, all humans left on Earth live in a worldwide underground complex, completely dependent on a great automatic mechanism that provides for all their needs. The story is called ''Literature/TheMachineStops''. Guess what…
284* {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''Literature/MobyDick''. One of the chapters is titled "Queequeg in his Coffin", so naturally you assume he dies, especially if you casually see the title in the table of contents. He doesn't. The chapter is literally about him trying on a coffin he intends to be buried in.
285* Possibly the most extreme example of all time is ''The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Literature/MollFlanders, Etc. Who Was Born In Newgate, and During a Life of Continu'd Variety For Threescore Years, Besides Her Childhood, Was Twelve Year a Whore, Five Times a Wife [Whereof Once [[BrotherSisterIncest To Her Own Brother]]], Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon In Virginia, At Last Grew Rich, Liv'd Honest, and Died a Penitent. [[DirectLineToTheAuthor Written from her own Memorandums]].''
286* ''Literature/{{My Brother Sam is Dead}}'', a story in which Sam, the narrator's brother, dies on the final page.
287* ''Literature/NjalsSaga'' is frequently titled "The Saga of Burned Njal."
288* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians:'' The WorkingTitle for the first book was ''The Son of the Sea God;'' however, since we don't actually learn who Percy's father is until about a third of the way through the story, Creator/RickRiordan's students suggested that he change it.
289* Creator/AynRand thought her original working title for ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'', ''The Strike'', was this, so she ended up using ''Atlas Shrugged'' instead.[[note]]The French translation uses the working title.[[/note]] The title is about the people who run stuff like the banks, railroad companies, etc., all going on strike.
290* ''Literature/{{Shatterbelt}}'' by Colin Thiele is the story of a teenage girl named Tracy who starts DreamingOfThingsToCome, specifically what appears to be a terrorist bombing connected to a controversial tourist mine. The final chapter reveals that she was actually seeing the result of an earthquake, but it's easy to see the twist coming if you're aware that shatterbelt is a (slightly obscure) term for a string of fault lines. And if you're not, it's explained in a ChekhovsLecture early in the book. It also doesn't help that the sequel is called ''Aftershock!''
291* ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'': A beautiful subversion is the chapter title "The Trapping of Birdy Edwards" in ''The Valley of Fear''. The title is accurate... but not in the way you assumed.
292* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'' does this ''constantly'', and the [[SpoilerCover covers]] and blurbs get in on it, even though in the text the spoiler in question is typically just hinted and nudged at rather than outright spoiled. Pretty much the only one that doesn't spoil anything right there is ''Army of Terror''.
293* ''Literature/{{The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor}}'' by Creator/GabrielGarciaMarquez is actually titled "The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor: Who Drifted on a Liferaft for Ten Days Without Food or Water, Was Proclaimed a National Hero, Kissed by Beauty Queens, Made Rich Through Publicity, and Then Spurned by the Government and Forgotten for All Time".
294* ''Literature/SweetValleyHigh'':
295** One book has Elizabeth rejecting a would-be boyfriend who gets his revenge by going around telling Elizabeth's friends about all the embarrassing things Elizabeth "told" him about them. Jessica is sure Elizabeth wouldn't have told these secrets, but how could he have known them otherwise? It might have been quite the mystery, had the book not been titled ''The Stolen Diary''.
296** Another book had Lila trying to get her divorced parents back together. Its title: ''The Wedding''.
297* There is a book called ''Literature/{{They Both Die at the End}}'', by Adam Silvera. It delivers what it promises (but there's still a twist in how and why they die).
298* Ken Follet's thriller ''Literature/TheThirdTwin'': at the beginning of the novel there are just two twins. But as you read the title, you know that a third one will soon show up. Actually, an aversion as the big twist are the fourth through the twentieth twin.
299* The sequel to ''Literature/{{Valhalla}}'' is called ''[[Literature/{{Ragnarok}} Ragnarök]]''. While this seems a logical progression, it's possible to tell who in the novel is based on who in the myth, so anyone who knows the story of Ragnarök in Norse Mythology will know some major spoilers for the novel.
300* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': The ''Literature/SpaceMarineBattles'' novel ''Fall of Damnos'' gives away the fact that the Ultramarines will not succeed in their defense of the eponymous planet right in its title.
301* ''Literature/WarriorCats'' has several. In part, this is due to the fact that once a character ascends to a high rank, their name gets changed, so when books are titled after characters, this leads to spoilers.
302** ''Firestar's Quest'' spoils the fact that that character becomes leader, ditto for ''Mistystar's Omen'' and ''Bramblestar's Storm''.
303** ''[=SkyClan's=] Destiny'', a direct sequel to the first Super Edition, spoils the existence of [=SkyClan=], the lost Clan Firestar sets out to rebuild in the previous book. The same thing is spoiled by the manga series ''[=SkyClan=] and the Stranger''.
304** The manga series ''Tigerstar and Sasha'' spoils both that a certain cat from the original series becomes a leader, and who they have kits with. The former is a twist in the first series, and the latter is a twist in the second.
305* Also {{subverted|Trope}} in ''The Gathering Storm'', book 12 of ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' with a chapter entitled "The Death of Tuon". It's about Tuon, the Daughter of the Nine Moons, becoming Empress Fortuona.
306* ''Literature/TheVirginWidow'': This RomanceNovel about the courtship of Anne Neville and her second husband, the future UsefulNotes/RichardIII, lets the reader know that Anne wasn't terribly close to her first husband.
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310* Episodes two and three of ''Series/AngieTribeca'' are named "The Wedding Planner Did It" and "The Famous Ventriloquist Did It". No bonus points for guessing who did it.
311* ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' did this subtly with the episode "Justice Is Blind". Michael is dating a blind prosecutor in charge of his father's case. It's later revealed that she's [[ObfuscatingDisability only faking blindness]], but her seeing-eye dog Justice actually is blind.
312* ''Series/BreakingBad'' had "Ozymandias" in the final season. There was also a promo with Creator/BryanCranston reading the poem before the final season hit. Anyone wondering "where does everything REALLY get bad for Walter White" can make a pretty good guess.
313* The German episode titles of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' tend to give away the entire episode's plot and/or ending. Some of the most egregious examples are: "Gingerbread" is renamed "Hansel and Gretel"; "The Body" becomes "Death of a mother"; "Seeing Red" is "Warren's revenge".
314* In ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'', "Hell Hath No Fury": the "woman scorned" is obviously the dead man's wife, and the ending comes as no surprise.
315* If you don't speak Korean and are interested in watching ''Series/DaeJangGeum'', don't look up what "dae" means. Also, don't go to Wikipedia and find out who Jang Geum was. Also, don't read any descriptions of the series. The real historical event that happens at the end is an incredible plot twist. At least it would be, if the title didn't tell you what was going to happen so that you more or less spend the 50+ episodes of the series just waiting for it, ruining all the tension and drama that leads up to it.
316* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
317** This is a famous problem, particularly for Dalek or Cyberman episodes, in both the old and new series. It was a running gag amongst fans of the old series that a serial would be called "[[TheXOfY Noun of the Daleks]]", and the Episode One CliffHanger would be... a Dalek!:
318*** Averted in early Dalek serials — "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks The Daleks]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E2TheDalekInvasionOfEarth The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]", and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan The Daleks' Master Plan]]" — as all of these serial names are names applied retrospectively to the stories and at the time the convention was to title each episode individually. Thus, you don't expect Daleks at the Episode 1 cliffhanger while watching "The Dead Planet", "World's End" or "The Nightmare Begins". You're stuffed [[LateArrivalSpoiler if you're watching them on DVD or video or online]], though, which of course you are, being that you are living in the future. And then there's "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase The Chase]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E2MissionToTheUnknown Mission to the Unknown]]", Dalek stories which don't have "Daleks" in the title.
319*** There's a ShakyPOVCam monster that's obscured from us, it's called a "Metaltron" by the cast, there's a Cyberman mask shown as a RedHerring, but the title is "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek Dalek]]". Hmm. I wonder what that could be about?
320*** One Series 5 episode takes this even further: it's called "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks Victory of the Daleks]]". [[TheBadGuyWins Wonder who wins that one.]]
321** Subversion: The episode "The Death of Dr. Who". Of course, it aired as the fifth part of a [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase six-episode serial]] in 1965, and they're still making the show... and the character is still alive, [[IAmNotShazam not that his name is Dr. Who anyway]].
322** Averted with the serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion The Invasion]]", which was originally to be named "Return of the Cybermen", but was retitled to avoid spoilers since they do not appear until halfway through the eight-episode serial (incidentally, the WorkingTitle would later be reused for a Fourth Doctor story before being renamed ''again'' to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E5RevengeOfTheCybermen "Revenge of the Cybermen"]], which averts this trope by showing the Cybermen well before the cliffhanger of part one).
323** A similar aversion: Part One of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E2InvasionOfTheDinosaurs Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]" was simply titled "Invasion", so as to conceal what exactly was invading. This ended up birthing a popular but ultimately debunked urban legend among fans, which claimed that the episode was [[MissingEpisode wiped by the BBC]] (the only one from that story to meet such a fate during the network's routine archive purges at the time) because it got mixed up with the earlier serial [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion "The Invasion"]].
324** Partially averted with "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E1Robot Robot]]", which was going to be called "The Giant Robot" in development but this was changed. While the presence of a robot is carefully concealed to us with a ShakyPOVCam shot, and the Episode 1 cliffhanger is TheReveal that the thing in the lab is — a ''robot!!!'', the fact that the robot [[MakeMyMonsterGrow grows giant and terrorises UNIT]] in the Episode 3 cliffhanger is properly concealed by the new title. The Target novelization by Creator/TerranceDicks uses the original title.
325** The two-part serial scripted as "The Deadly Experiments" used the revelation that the Sontarans were behind the experiments as the only cliffhanger. Script editor Creator/RobertHolmes was very unhappy to learn at a late stage that it had been retitled "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E3TheSontaranExperiment The Sontaran Experiment]]" but the cliffhanger left intact. The new series did it again with "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E4TheSontaranStratagem The Sontaran Stratagem]]", which is shot so that no actual Sontarans are shown for a good while.
326** The novelization of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons Terror of the Zygons]]" gives away a fact about their Skarasen creature. The title of the novelization is ''Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster''.
327** A really bad case is "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E4TheAndroidInvasion The Android Invasion]]", where the title gives away something that in-story is meant to be a mystery all the way up to the cliffhanger of the second episode.
328** There's a LockedRoomMystery entitled "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E5TheRobotsOfDeath The Robots of Death]]". The robots did it. (Although the actual mystery of the story quickly turns into which of the human characters is reprogramming the robots to kill.)
329** Apparently the writers managed to catch onto this with the Cybermen on at least one occasion, as their reintroductory serial in Peter Davison's tenure (after a seven-year absence) was purposefully ''not'' titled "X of the Cybermen" or any variation on "Silver" — it was instead called "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock Earthshock]]".
330** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E5RiseOfTheCybermen Rise of the Cybermen]]". The cybers are only hinted at until the very last scene of the episode, but the title gives their presence away right from the beginning.
331** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E4TheVisitation The Visitation]]" surreptitiously gives away the ending. The 1669 Rebuilding Act ordered the construction of the Great Fire of London Monument, "the better to preserve the memory of this dreadful visitation".
332** Interesting variation: The title of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth The Stolen Earth]]" gives away a big spoiler[[note]]Although the titular planet theft ''does'' happen during the teaser, prior to the opening titles[[/note]], so the producers kept the title a secret until only a few weeks before the episode aired. Of course, that didn't stop ''Magazine/RadioTimes'' from completely spoiling its villain. At least "Daleks" wasn't in the title this time...
333** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong The Wedding of River Song]]". According to Creator/StevenMoffat, the wedding takes place ''after'' the episode, but that doesn't make it any less of a spoiler.
334** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan The Angels Take Manhattan]]". This episode also contains an in-universe example: when the Doctor reads the chapter titles in the Melody Malone book and realizes from "Amelia's Last Farewell" that Amy is going to have to say goodbye to somebody.
335** The French titles for the new series are quite bad, although for some reason quite a few of them leave out the spoileriffic mentions of Daleks and Cybermen. Yet the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday series two finale]] was named "Farewell Rose", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime The End of Time, Part One]]" "Return of the Master", "The End of Time, Part Two" "Return of the Time Lords", etc. There are a lot more examples of other titles that spoil what is supposed to come as a surprise in an episode.
336** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E5TheGirlWhoDied The Girl Who Died]]": Especially egregious because, apart from companion Clara, the titular "Girl" is the only major female character in the episode.
337** The final ''Doctor Who'' comic published by [[Creator/IDWPublishing IDW]] lampshades the whole mess when the Eleventh Doctor RealWorldEpisode ends up in the "real" world where he's a fictional character.
338--->'''Eleventh Doctor:''' And how can parts of my life have titles!? And if I'd known some of these were called things like "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E4TheAndroidInvasion The Android Invasion]]" it would have saved a lot of bother!
339* ''Series/DonkeyHodie'':
340** "Bye Bye, Book" is about Duck Duck not wanting to give away her book of facts to other people because she cherishes it. By the end of the episode, she gives it to Purple Panda.
341** The episode "Donkey's Bad Day" is about Donkey trying to have a perfect day. The title makes it clear what's going to happen to her. Downplayed with the book adaptation, which is instead titled "Donkey's Awesome, Very Good, Extra Fun Day".
342** The title of "Donkey and Panda Cheer Up" spoils that at the end of the episode, Donkey Hodie gets upset when she learns she lost a contest and needs Panda's help to feel better again.
343* ''Series/EnemyAtTheDoor'' has an episode titled "From a View to a Death", in which an escaped prisoner is hunted down by the Germans. It's a foregone conclusion that there's going to be a death; recognising the phrase as a reference to fox-hunting makes it clear whose.
344* ''Series/{{Friends}}'' had several episodes titled "The One Where X Dies", with X usually referring to a person and once a recliner. Granted, the death usually occurred fairly early in the episode. Averted in "The One Where Rachel Tells Ross", which is sometimes listed as "The One Where Rachel Tells..." to avoid spoiling things since the identity of the person she has to tell was TheReveal at the end of the previous episode.
345* ''Series/ICarly'':
346** In "iGo Nuclear", for a Green week school assignment, Carly eventually gets the help of a guy who builds what is eventually revealed at the end to be a mini nuclear reactor.
347** In "iMeet the First Lady", the gang tries to contact Carly's father in a secret location when the government tells them they know about their contact. After a good part of the episode of them fearing the worst of what could happen to them, the agents bring them to Carly's home to visit with then-first lady Michelle Obama, who saw their show and commends them for supporting a family member in the military.
348* Austrian cop-and-dog show ''Series/InspectorRex'' wrote out the human partner, Moser, in an episode entitled "Moser's Death".
349* Every ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' has a straightforward episode title like "Mac Bangs Dennis' Mom" and "Frank Sets Sweet Dee on Fire" that often [[GilliganCut contradicts the last line of dialogue]] before the TitleCard. It's done very deliberately and very hilariously.
350* ''Series/{{Jessie}}'': The second-to-last episode of Season 2 is called "Break-Up and Shape-Up". [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Jessie and Tony break up in the end.]]
351* ''Series/TheJoeSchmoShow'' was a parody of reality shows in which everyone except the chosen schmoes were actors performing from a script. The promo for the sixth episode of ''Joe Schmo 2'' promises that "We've laughed with them, cried with them and [[TonightSomeoneDies one of them is going to die.]]" The episode is titled "Requiem for a Frog," purposely giving away that it's Bryce's pet frog, Everett, which "dies" in that episode.
352* No points for guessing what happens at the end of ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'' episode "Burai Dies..." and while this happened two episodes after "[[NonIndicativeName Burai's Departure of Death]]", [[LivingOnBorrowedTime he still had time left to live at that point]] while his time ran out when he died. Not to mention that this was also one episode after [[TheLastDance Blaze, Burai!!]].
353* Given the sheer number of episodes in the ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' franchise, it was bound to happen on occasion.
354** One episode of the [[Series/LawAndOrder original series]] is called "Charm City". Guess where the investigation leads?
355*** "Harvest" is an apparently simple case where a woman was shot in a robbery gone bad, but the title, combined with the fact that her organs were donated after death, suggests that the donation itself will come into play somehow.
356*** The title of "Doped" kind of spoils TheReveal that an apparent drunk driver was actually drugged, since that's not usually a term associated with alcohol intoxication.
357** One episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' has detectives investigating a woman framed for murder. They discover she was working on a project called Tuxedo Hill, and wonder if it was connected. The fact that the episode is called "Tuxedo Hill" suggests the answer.
358*** In "Astoria Helen", detectives find there are two people who could have leaked sensitive information from an armored car company. One is a male guard, the other a female dispatcher named Helen. It's not quite as clean as they thought, but she does end up being the one with the connection to the case.
359*** A woman is murdered in the style of a serial killer who was executed six months previously, even copying a signature that was never made public. Since the episode is called "Disciple", it's not hard to figure out how that could happen.
360*** The title of "Three-In-One" suggests how some of the pieces of a particularly bizarre case fit together, which the detectives spend the first half of the episode trying to figure out.
361** In ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' the Title of Episode 11 of Season 5 is "Escape". In Germany the title is "Geraubte Jahre" meaning "Stolen Years".
362*** "Stranger" teeters right on the edge of this. It ''could'' be a reference to a kidnapped child being virtually a stranger after being gone so long, but it's also a hint that things may not be what they seem.
363*** In the episode "The Third Guy", two boys are accused of murder, but they insist it was just a robbery. Guess what the missing piece turns out to be?
364*** "Forgiving Rollins" doesn't give away any specific details but, it does suggest that the eponymous detective has a connection to the case; combine the title with the few crumbs that had been dropped in earlier episodes (something bad happened to Rollins on the job, and it involved a Deputy Chief being "out of line"), and once the first few pieces of the episode's case are in place, it's not hard to figure out the rest of it.
365*** "Making A Rapist": Well, we know this guy was just exonerated after spending years in prison for a rape he didn't commit...
366*** "Florida" is a subversion, especially given that it's the sequel to an episode called "Philadelphia" that did occur in that episode's eponymous city. But in this episode, it turns out that Florida is a RedHerring; the witness who gave them the evidence was in the early stages of dementia, and was recalling a sign ''referring'' to Florida.
367* ''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'' had an episode entitled "Feeb", which nobody says until the very end.
368* ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'' had an episode where Merlin rescues a Druid girl from execution and falls in love with her. At the end of the episode, she is seemingly KilledOffForReal... Except the episode was called "The Lady of the Lake". Guess who she turns out to be?
369* One episode of ''Series/MidsomerMurders'' is called "The Axeman Cometh" and is about a murderer killing members of an aging rock band. The killer is the band's guitarist, Jack [=McKinley=] AKA Axeman.
370* ''Series/TheNoddyShop''[='s=] final episode is called "Closing Up Shop". In that episode, NODDY's closes, and all the toys are sold off. However, there's a plot twist where Noah decides to keep the shop open after realizing the terrible mistake he made in closing it.
371* One episode of ''Series/{{Numb3rs}}'' was entitled "The Fifth Man". At the beginning of the episode, Charlie's analysis of a robbery crew indicates a four-man team. When the team arrives to stop the robbery, guess what -- or rather, ''who'' -- they get surprised by?
372* The last episode of ''Series/{{The Outer Limits|1963}}'' was about a group of plane crash survivors who wind up on an alien space probe — without either the characters or the audience realizing it — and spend about half the story [[OntologicalMystery trying to figure out where they are]]. The episode's title? "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S2E17TheProbe The Probe]]".
373* Quite a few episodes of ''Series/SecondsFromDisaster'' have titles that are this due to being [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin literal descriptions of the incident]]; episodes called, for example, "Collision on the Runway" or "Crash Of The Concorde" don't leave a lot of ambiguity about the ultimate outcome of the situation. {{Justified|trope}} in that many of these are famous disasters anyway, and in that the show's plots are generally not about ''what'' happened but ''why'' it happened.
374* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E18TheImmunitySyndrome The Immunity Syndrome]]" was translated to French as "Amobea".
375* The page quote at the top is of the example that happens in the MadeForTVMovie version of the ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' Broadway musical, ''It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's Superman!''
376* You can sometimes figure out pretty major plot twists in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' if you look at the title of the episode.
377** For instance, in "Good God, Y'All", the BigBad is the horseman War. Knowing the song that the title comes from pretty much gives that away.
378** Another example would be "The Song Remains the Same". In the end, everything goes back to the way it was. All that the Winchesters have changed in the past goes back to how it was originally.
379** The season 4 finale is an obvious example. It has the brothers trying to prevent Lucifer from escaping his jail. The title is "Lucifer Rising".
380** A number of season one episodes were named after what the MonsterOfTheWeek turned out to be. For instance, "Wendigo", "Bloody Mary", and "Hook Man".
381* One episode of ''Series/TedLasso'' has a major subplot revolving around mercurial footballer Zava, and who he's going to sign for. Chelsea are the frontrunners, and at the end of the episode they schedule a press conference to announce his arrival. The episode is titled "(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea". Take a wild guess what happens at the press conference. Downplayed, as it's easy to guess that he won't be signing for Chelsea as soon as [[BigBad Rupert Mannion]] gets involved, and who he ''actually'' signs for is the real spoiler./
382* ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1985}}'': The title of "Dreams for Sale" makes it obvious that the idyllic country picnic experienced by Jenny is not real.
383* ''Series/TheYoungAndTheRestless'': Every single episode title is just an awkward summary of the episode's plot.
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387* Downplayed with Music/{{Jhariah}}'s ''[[ConceptAlbum The Great Tale of How I Ruined It All]]'', which does not have a happy ending. However, the album's pacing and song titles make it ambiguous as to exactly what he did until the final track.
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391!!!'''By Creator:'''
392* Music/JohnWilliams is notorious for doing this:
393** His soundtrack for ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'' contains a whopping four -- Lupin's Transformation, The Werewolf Scene, Saving Buckbeak, and Forward to Time Past -- that basically spell out what happens during the film's climax. One wonders if the reason Pettigrew's theme wasn't included on the soundtrack was to preserve the only major twist the movie had left.
394** The worst example may well be ''Film/PresumedInnocent'', where the penultimate track is called "Barbara's Confession". That's right, he gives away '''who the murderer is'''.
395** The soundtrack to ''Franchise/StarWars Episode I: Film/ThePhantomMenace'' was released two weeks before the movie itself came out. Anybody who picked it up got treated to tracks called "Qui-Gon's Noble End" and "The High Council Meeting and Qui-Gon's Funeral". Oops.
396!!!'''By Work:'''
397* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'':
398** {{Leitmotif}}s will typically have the associated character's name in the title; as the majority of killers since the second game have their own themes, it's a safe bet that anyone without a theme is innocent.
399** For a more specific example, in ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice Spirit of Justice]]'' the track title "Dhurke ~ A Dragon Never Yields" does not mention the associated character's last name Sahdmadhi, to avoid spoiling his relation to his son. Unfortunately, his biological ''daughter'' isn't as lucky, as her theme is called "Rayfa Padma Khura'in ~ The '''Unyielding''' Medium Princess", despite this reveal coming much later in the game.
400* While the ''Film/BrokedownPalace'' soundtrack album is almost all songs, there's a 6:55 suite from Music/DavidNewman's score made up of two tracks -- "The Arrest/Darlene Goes Home".
401* ''Film/CutthroatIsland''[='s=] soundtrack titles sum up the whole movie. Especially the expanded version particularly "Morgan and Shaw Jump the Cliff/The Big Jump" followed by "Shaw Captured", and the lengthy "The Battle/To Dawg's Ship/Morgan Battles Dawg/Dawg's Demise/The Triumph".
402* The soundtrack for ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'' has basically a 20 sentence summation of the plot. Closing with "Godzilla's Victory" and "Back Into The Ocean".
403* ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'': The soundtrack lists "Tala's Deathbed", "Tala Returns", "Sails to Te Fiti", "Te Fiti Restored", "Navigating Home" and "The Return to Voyaging"... basically summarizing key plot points and conclusion of the movie.
404* The soundtrack for ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'' contains the track "Flay's Death".
405* The audio CD for ''Film/TheSixthSense'' spoils the ending with the final song title "Malcolm Is Dead" (though in their defense, the surprise ending is already pretty well known).
406* The soundtrack to ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'' also mainly consists of songs, but does include a few pieces of the score by Vince [=DiCola=]... The first of these is titled "Death Of Optimus Prime".
407* ''Film/TronLegacy'''s soundtrack (by Music/DaftPunk) spoils the movie with the song "Flynn Lives". DoubleSubversion in that case: on the one hand, it's a reference to the "Flynn Lives" AlternateRealityGame, but on the other, one Flynn "lives," the other is [[NeverFoundTheBody presumed dead]]...
408* ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' has the tracks "Tyler's Deal", "Keeping the Panda", "I'm Keeping It", "Unleashing the Panda", "Stadium Ritual", "Pandas Unite/Nobody Like U (Reprise)", and "The Real Ming". All of which give a general idea of what happens during the second half of the film.
409* The soundtrack for ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' contains the dual pieces of "Farewell to X" and "The Funeral", hinting at [[Characters/XMenFilmSeriesProfessorCharlesXavier Professor Xavier]]'s [[DeathIsCheap Comic Book Death]].
410* Two tracks on the ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' soundtrack album have one: "A Bunny Can Go Savage", which gives away a plot point, and "Ewe Fell for It", whose PunnyTitle reveals the identity of the BigBad: Assistant Mayor Dawn Bellwether, a sheep.
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414* The ''Radio/{{Dragnet}}'' episode "Claude Jimmerson: Child Killer". Even with Jack Webb's this-ain't-for-kids-but-parents-need-to-know-this warning at the beginning of the episode, it still isn't clear until just before the commercial break (more than halfway through the episode) that the two missing girls are even dead, let alone whodunnit.
415* ''Radio/TheRickyGervaisShow'' often uses this for humour during the "Monkey News" segments, where Karl Pilkington has to tell a story about monkeys. Karl will usually obscure the identity of the monkey character in the story, intending it as a TomatoSurprise twist, despite the fact that the presence of monkeys doing outrageous things is the whole premise of the segment. Ricky just loves needling him by asking questions like "and was he a short, hairy bloke with long arms?" long before the intended reveal -- or pre-emptively debunking why the person could not possibly be anything other than a human.
416* Played with in The Adventures of the Falcon episode "The Case of the Careless Client". While not completely giving away the killers identity, the title gives a huge clue to their identity and motive.
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420* When ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' announced the Innistrad block they also revealed the names of all three sets. The last one was named ''Avacyn Restored''. Before spoiler season even started everyone know that "Avacyn" would be important, would be taken out of the picture for some reason, and would then come back.
421** ''New Phyrexia'' was such a spoileriffic title that they circulated two possible titles for the set, the other being ''Mirrodin Pure'', for as long as possible prior to the set's release to keep up the drama of the Mirran-Phyrexian War.[[note]]This may have been an AuthorsSavingThrow, as [[WordOfGod Mark Rosewater]] has said the initial concept wanted New Phyrexia to be the title of the ''first'' set in the block, and have it be revealed to be [[EarthAllAlong Mirrodin all along]].[[/note]]
422* When ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' finally hit the final battle of the Dark Age era, ready to transition into the new ilClan era, the suspense of the final showdown between the Wolves and the Jade Falcons was spoiled by the title of the novel which detailed it: ''Hour of the Wolf''.
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426* Creator/ArthurMiller's play ''Theatre/DeathOfASalesman'' (although it doesn't spoil HOW he dies). Additionally, the phrase "death of a salesman" is used halfway through the play, and it does not refer to the titular salesman.
427* Music/RichardWagner's ''Theatre/{{Lohengrin}}''. The name of the eponymous knight isn't pronounced until quite late in that opera, as keeping his identity a secret drives much of the plot.
428* ''Theatre/LovesLaboursLost''. Big surprise when all the courting doesn't work out, right?
429* ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' has two songs titled "Javert's Suicide" and "The Death of Gavroche". Three guesses as to what happens in these songs.
430* Creator/TomStoppard's play ''Theatre/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead''. To be fair, anyone familiar with ''Hamlet'' has a good chance of remembering that detail mentioned in passing.
431* The title of ''Theatre/MButterfly'' will spoil Song's secret to anyone who understands enough French to know that "M." is short for "Monsieur."
432* In an instance of a ''change'' being a spoiler, there's ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}''. The subtitle of [[Literature/{{Wicked}} the book]] is "The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West"; the musical's is "The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz". The key difference is that "The Life and Times" is used when the subject of the biography is dead - which Elphaba is in the book, but [[SparedByTheAdaptation isn't]] in the musical.
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436* One of the things that happen at the end of ''VideoGame/AwesomePossumKicksDrMachinosButt'' is Awesome Possum [[LiteralAssKicking kicking Dr. Machino's butt]].
437* In ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'', you can miss the spoiler entirely if you only put the game in sleep mode to recover SP for something. During chapter six while awakening the crystals again, awaken three of them then go back to the title screen. Certain letters in the current subtitle for that file will turn red and vanish, turning the subtitle from "Where the Fairy Flies" into "Airy Lies".
438* VideoGame/{{Concussion}}'s title spoils the twist at the end -- that most of the mod happened in the Sole Survivor's head after he fell and suffered the titular ailment.
439* The title of ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot2CortexStrikesBack'' should tip you off that Cortex's HeelFaceTurn isn't sincere, even before the game blatantly and repeatedly foreshadows his true intentions.
440* The DLC campaign for ''VideoGame/DMCDevilMayCry'', which takes place after the main game, is called ''Virgil's Downfall'' thereby spoiling his FaceHeelTurn and his being trapped in Hell at the end of the main game, which wouldn't be that bad except ''the DLC was announced before the game was released!''
441* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIII'' had a case of Spoiler Subtitle with its Japanese subtitle (which translates into "And Thus Into the Legend..."). After the [[StealthSequel Stealth Prequel]] reveal, it's pretty obvious ''[[FamousAncestor whose]]'' legend it's referring to. (The Western mobile release gave it the subtitle "The Seeds of Salvation", which is far less spoiler-y.)
442* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'' has the subtitle "Hand of the Heavenly Bride". Guess who's descended from the Zenithians and becomes the mother of the Legendary Hero?
443* The credits song in ''[[VideoGame/DrawnToLife Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter]]'' is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Real Life"]]. Guess what TheReveal [[AllJustADream is]].
444* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'': Quest names have a bad habit of doing this. Who'd ever guess that quests with names like "A Brotherhood Betrayed" or "Ulterior Motives" involve people not being entirely honest...
445** One of the worst cases is a sidequest in ''Oblivion''. Reynald Jemane asks you to find out why someone has been impersonating him. The explanation is completely spoiled by the quest's name: [[spoiler:Separated at Birth]].
446* Subverted by ''VideoGame/ElShaddaiAscensionOfTheMetatron'': you never do see Enoch ascend and become Metatron.
447* A subtle example comes in the Japanese version of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses''. The Japanese version of the title translates to "Wind, Flower, Snow, Moon", which spoils the fact that the game has ''four'' routes, not three. Each word is included in a route's name- the Golden Deer route is Verdant Wind, the Black Eagles route is Crimson Flower, the Church of Seiros route (if you take the Black Eagles route but don't join Edelgard) is Silver Snow, and the Blue Lions route is Azure Moon.
448* ''VideoGame/TheHalloweenHack'' has the alternative title of "Press the B Button". Pressing the B Button at a critical decision will allow the Player to access the rest of the game.
449* The twist in ''VideoGame/InazumaEleven Go Galaxy'' when Storm Wolf's players turn out to be aliens, and a spaceship appears over the stadium, then the plot swerve in the next episode where the storyline turns from an international soccer tournament to an intergalactic space adventure, is kinda spoiled by the title of the game. Although the promotional material didn't exactly try and hide this either.
450* ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'':
451** The game normally avoids this, except for Chapter 11: "Viridi, Goddess of Nature". Judging by the end of Chapter 10, you'd normally think 11 would be about stopping the humans from wiping each other out fighting over the Wish Seed, and the start of the chapter makes you think so until the titular goddess arrives and nukes everyone. Unfortunately, the title kinda ruins the surprise early.
452** The game, however, also gives us some very clever subversions via ExactWords. The name of the DiscOneFinalDungeon, for example, is "Medusa's Final Battle", which is completely true; it ''is'' Medusa's final battle, but it's not Pit's by a long shot.
453* In the English version of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'', the game starts with Link getting shipwrecked during a nasty storm and then waking up on a strange island. About two-thirds of the way through the game, you make the (very unexpected) realization that all of Koholint Island (including the various people he's met) is just a dream of the Wind Fish, and the goal of the game is to escape the dream by waking the Wind Fish, even if it means erasing the island from existence. Meanwhile, the Japanese title for the game is ''The Legend of Zelda: A Dream Island''. So much for subtlety.
454* Kinda hard to talk about the third ''VideoGame/MegaManXMavericks'' game when its title, Zero's Revenge, spoils that Zero turned evil at the end of the second game.
455* Chapter 1 of ''VideoGame/Mother3'' is titled "Night of the Funeral"--guess what shocking news Flint gets halfway through the chapter? Though it's early in the game, it's still a spoiler. And if you take into account that players are likely to name Hinawa after their own mother, this can become quite a shock.
456* Since ''VideoGame/{{Pentiment}}'' is a relatively obscure term, one might not realize that the eponymous ''pentimento'' - an image of a Greek goddess underneath a peculiar painting of the Virgin Mary - is one of the objects that set the game's events in motion.
457* Parodied in ''VideoGame/Persona3'', where an episode of the ShowWithinAShow "Phoenix Ranger Featherman R" is titled "Death of a Condor! Get Your Tissues Ready, Kids!"
458* In ''VideoGame/Persona4DancingAllNight'', the last scene of Chapter 6 is titled "The witness[[labelnote:Context]]To Yuko Osada's suicide[[/labelnote]] was me." If there's any doubt as to who it's talking about, the chapter is from Kanami's POV.
459* ''VideoGame/Portal2'': Chapter 9: The Part Where He Kills You
460** Which is a completely hilarious and memorable {{subver|tedTrope}}sion. That is, if you're any good at ''Portal''.
461** The game practically shouts the title at you when you reach it. Aside from the chapter title being prominently shown in the middle of the screen, the two main characters say a variation on it and you get an achievement with the same title. Of course, it's hardly a surprise that it was eventually going to happen, given how unsubtly Wheatley talks about it beforehand.
462** In the game's menu and achievements, it's only listed as "The Part Where...". It's only when you ''get'' to it that the full title is displayed, whereupon Wheatley promptly tries to kill you. Emphasis on "tries".
463* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'':
464** There's a side quest early in the game about people who go missing in the hills. It's titled "American Appetites" and is revealed in the 3rd (and last) part to be about [[ImAHumanitarian cannibals]].
465** The final mission before the PlayableEpilogue is titled "[[AsTheGoodBookSays The Last Enemy That Shall Be Destroyed]]". Even though they tried to hide it by leaving off the last two words (Is Death), if you're familiar with that quote, then it should come as no surprise that TheHeroDies.
466* The ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'' visual novel and anime are divided into episodes; many of the episode titles would spoil the episode they refer to, but CloseOnTitle avoids this.
467* ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'' has Sidestories: "the Last Pagan" introduces Ricky Pagan, who charges the player to find the lost members of his Rockabilly gang or failing that return their leather jackets. Only two members of the Pagans have survived one is killed by an onryo when you find him, the other renounces the gang to join the samurai of the Jingu Clan, leaving you to return all of the jackets and making Ricky the last Pagan.
468* ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'':
469** The title of the main scenario, "A Letter from Silent Heaven", reveals of the game's big twists. Mary is in fact dead and she was envisioning heaven for herself and James as Silent Hill as it was when he and she went there, and in particular their hotel room when she wrote her farewell letter.
470** The title of the sub-scenario "Born from a Wish" is an even bigger spoiler, as it reveals Maria's [[{{Tulpa}} true nature]]. However, this title is probably vague enough that a typical player wouldn't understand it fully without context.
471* Subverted in ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'', which features two support characters named Adams and Lugo. Chapter 13 is entitled "Adams", in which Lugo dies.
472* The first ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance game has a story where Spider-Man investigates weird occurrences and thefts, in an attempt to determine who could be behind it all. In the story as presented (always from Spider-Man's point-of-view), he does not find the culprit's identity until the start of the final stage. The full title of the game: ''VideoGame/SpiderManMysteriosMenace''.
473* One of the soundtracks in ''VideoGame/{{Spiritfarer}}'' is called "Stella's Departure", spoiling the fact that Stella dies after her work is done.
474* ''VideoGame/StrandedSailsExplorersOfTheCursedIslands'' doesn't reveal that the islands are cursed until well into the midgame. Presumably the developers added that subtitle to distinguish the game from other works called ''Stranded''.
475* Chapter 6-2 of ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' is titled "The End of a World", so it should come as no surprise that [[TheBadGuyWins The Bad Guys Win]] this round.
476* The title of Chapter 4 of ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland'' is called "The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood", which is fulfilled differently: Even though Guybrush manages to get his name cleared of all charges ([[BigDamnHeroes especially with the help of LeChuck, of course]]) and avoid execution, he ''does'' get killed at the end of the chapter, making it a WhamEpisode.
477* ''VideoGame/TheTalosPrinciple'': Some of the puzzle titles tell you how to solve them. Similarly, if you know your Bible, ''Road To Gehenna'' pretty much gives away the plot of the DLC. Gehenna is a Hebrew version of hell, so the title refers to the proverb "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
478* The title of ''VideoGame/TheWitcher2AssassinsOfKings'' makes it clear to the player that there's more than one Kingslayer long before the characters realize this. Unexpectedly, you only ever meet one of them in person.
479* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles:''
480** In ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2TornaTheGoldenCountry,'' one sidequest involves searching for a missing soldier. Why are they missing? The sidequest is called "Duplicity."
481** ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3's'' final chapter is titled "Time Moves Again." [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed,]] as the titles are only visible in the Events Theater menu instead of being displayed onscreen at the start and end of chapters like [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2 the previous game.]]
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485* Despite the full name of ''WebAnimation/DreamComeTrue'' being ''Dream Come True (A Mule Mom's Story)'', Flow isn't even ''born'' until 3/4th way through the short. Her having a foal isn't brought up until the last 3 minutes.
486* {{Invoked|Trope}} by ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-QQpL1YjeU The Name of This Cartoon Would Ruin It]]", aka "[[spoiler:Front-Facing Homestar]]". That title is only displayed at the end of the cartoon, and the only hint you're getting is a front-facing Strong Bad in the thumbnail (which, while he does do that for a split second in the cartoon, Homestar isn't doing it in the thumbnail).
487* Similar to the ''Literature/JohnDiesAtTheEnd'' example above, we have ''WebAnimation/MegaManDiesAtTheEnd''. Guess what happens at the end of the series? [[WebAnimation/SonicForHire Sonic]] kills him. Mega Man kind of dies at the end of Season 1, but turns out that was just a trick made by the creators.
488* Many ''Platform/GoAnimate'' videos describe the main event that will happen in the video in their title.
489* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qY8s-an1AM Popular Boy Kissing Game]]'' contains thus in brackets after the title: ''(old flash game, [[ContentWarnings TW: assault]])'', completely giving away that [[DisguisedHorrorStory it's not as innocent as it looks]].
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493* ''Webcomic/TheBMovieComic'' averts it with a joke in the second movie, "Attack of the [ Description withheld in order not to spoil the surprise ]".
494* The full title of ''Webcomic/{{Concerned}}'' is ''Concerned: The Half-Life and Death of Gordon Frohman''. Most people will have forgotten this by the time they reach the end of the comic, but as the notes point out, you really shouldn't be surprised when Gordon Frohman does indeed die.
495* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': ''Every'' movie title on Alternia contains a spoiler (their society has been around for so long that they've ''run out'' of shorter titles):
496-->CG: ONE THAT IS AMAZING AND A CLASSIC IS:\
497CG: WHEREIN NUMEROUS VIGILANTES CONFRONT PERIL; ONE OF THEM BETRAYS THE OTHERS; (BUT IT TURNS OUT TO BE PART OF THE PLAN ALL ALONG);\
498CG: SEVERAL ATTRACTIVE FEMALE LEADS PROVOKE ROMANTIC TENSION; FOUR MAJOR CHARACTERS WEAR UNUSUAL HATS; ONE HOLDS PLOT-CRITICAL SECRET;\
499CG: 47 ON-SCREEN EXPLOSIONS, ONE RESULTING IN DEMISE OF KEY-ADVERSARY; 6 TO 20 LINES THAT COULD BE CONSTRUED AS HUMOROUS;\
500EB: wait...\
501EB: this is the title?\
502CG: IT GOES ON.\
503CG: THEY TEND TO BE MORE LITERAL AND INFORMATIVE THAN YOUR TITLES.
504* One of the ''Webcomic/{{Jix}}'' story arcs is called "Kelelder's Revenge", however, no one in the comic (and presumably the audience if they didn't look at the title) knows that Kelelder is behind what is going on.
505* ''Webcomic/NicoleAndDerek'': The chapter "Cerise and Daisy" wasn't named in the tags or captions until was finished, to avoid spoiling the identity of Cerise's mystery lover.
506* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' [[PlayingWithATrope plays with]] this: [[KnightTemplarParent Vaarsuvius]] is battling the [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Ancient Black Dragon]], and the last strip of the battle is called "A Dragon's Victory." This is accurate... [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0638.html sort of]].
507* The title of ''Webcomic/TheQuickAndDirtyLifeOfFritzFargo'' suggests that Fritz will die young at some point in the comic.
508* ''Webcomic/TwistedTropes'': A woman reads a book "[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Harry Potter and the Unlikely Coincidences]]" where Harry is poisoned by Dolores and ends on a {{Cliffhanger}} and ToBeContinued. The last page has an advert for "Ron Weasley and the Very Sad Day" where the team visit Harry's grave.
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512* ''Literature/GhastlyMacaroni'': "YOU WERE THE FROGS" has the second-person protagonist find their house full of frogs and put them all outside, and ends with the revelation that the protagonist was the frogs themselves all along. Lampshaded, with the first line of the story being "WARNING SPOILER TITLE".
513* Parodied on a WB fansite, in an article supposedly discussing Creator/TheWB's Hot New Lineup. An episode summary for the new ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' show was roughly: "Pikachu must decide whether to save his partner, Tash. What will he decide?! We find out in the next episodes, 'Tash's Funeral' and 'Pikachu Gets a New Partner'!"
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517* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPpVGXhv0F8 The final part]] of [=GamerThumbTV=]'s ''WebVideo/ThePerfectCastlevaniaTimeline'' video series about the ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' franchise is called "The Dark Lord [[JokerImmunity Returns]]". Anyone who has played the duology of ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaAriaOfSorrow'' and ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaDawnOfSorrow'' (which the part focuses on) can safely predict that [[DownerEnding it doesn't end well]] for [[DoomedProtagonist Soma Cruz]].
518* ''WebVideo/Lonelygirl15'' did this all the time. "Bree's Dad Is Dead" was a bit of a giveaway, for instance.
519* ''WebVideo/StampysLovelyWorld'': Many episodes involving [[BigBad HitTheTarget]] tend to involve this, complete with DarkerAndEdgier [[SpoilerCover thumbnails]] -- most notably Episode 541, "[[TheBadGuyWins I Lost]]" and Episode 542, "[[RescueArc Hero Helpers]]".
520* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M-soD2hO7A "Steamed Hams but it's edited like Dragon Ball Z (and it's the Funimation Dub)]]", as the title implies, is the "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E2122ShortFilmsAboutSpringfield Steamed Hams]]" sketch from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' edited into a parody of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'''s English dub. So of course it ends with a preview for [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E22 the next Simpsons episode]], with a title that completely spoils the ending.
521-->'''Narrator:''' Meanwhile, Bart faces his toughest challenge yet. Can he find the treasure before the evil Mr. Burns?\
522''[Insert episode title: "Burns Gets the Treasure!"]''
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526* In the Italian version of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', "[[WhamEpisode Crossroads of Destiny]]" is called "Fall of the Earth Kingdom".
527* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' had several episodes that tried to keep the main villain's identity a secret until the first commercial break (or later), but this was more often than not kneecapped by the titles. Gee, who's responsible for all the lunacy in "Make 'em Laugh"?
528* The Nelvana animated ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'' series has "Papa's Pizza" in which Brother and Sister are throwing a party, but can't figure out what to serve for food because all of their friends have different likes and dislikes. Three guesses how the problem is solved, and the first two don't count.
529* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': The acronym for "Operation: F.L.U.S.H." ('''f'''oolish '''l'''oser '''u'''ndoes '''s'''inister '''h'''opes) gives away that the Toiletnator [[NiceJobFixingItVillain messes everything up for the villains.]]
530* One episode of the 1950s sci-fi cartoon ''WesternAnimation/ColonelBleep'' saw Squeak disregard his space pilot training, driving his spaceship recklessly, getting arrested, and sentenced to 20 years in prison. The end reveals it was only [[AllJustADream a nightmare]] Squeak was having. A huge twist...for anyone who missed the intro, seeing as how the title was "Nightmare".
531* In-Universe in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/DaveTheBarbarian''. When Dave finally finds a replacement narrator when the regular guy gets laryngitis, he forgets to give him a script to read, leading The Dark Lord Chuckles the Silly Piggy to proclaim that they might ''not'' be the victors this time around. His hopes are immediately dashed when the narrator announces the title of the story; "Dave Beats Chuckles Like a Cheap Suit".
532* ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'' starts off by telling the audience that the dragon king was killed and his egg was destroyed. Given that the show is called the Dragon ''Prince'', it's not terribly surprising to learn that the egg is still intact.
533* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
534** The show seems to play this straight with "Stewie Kills Lois", but subverts it at the very end of the episode when it turns out that [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat Lois miraculously survived]]. The next episode, "Lois Kills Stewie", is a bigger subversion, as Lois can't bring herself to kill Stewie, so Peter does it instead, but then the whole thing turns out to be Stewie running a virtual-reality simulation to decide whether killing Lois is a good idea.
535** Played straight with "Life of Brian", in which Brian dies, after being struck by a car, although two episodes later, he returns.
536* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
537** In the episode "Reincarnation", the Anime short "Action Delivery Force" is presented as an ongoing show, with an episode entitled "Medical Dance Crab With Lesson". Try to figure out how the episode is resolved.
538** Guess what [[TheReveal Reveal]] occurs in "Leela's Homeworld". Yep, Leela finally learns which planet she's really from. It turns out her parents are Earth natives. Leela's a mutant, not an alien.
539** Also, if you haven't seen "Leela's Homeworld", the episode title "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" tells you exactly how it ends. Also, the title for that episode was released before "Leela's Homeworld" aired.
540* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' has two episode titles that aren't spoilers for the episode in question and [[TitlePlease aren't in the episodes themselves]], but are for the ''major'' plot twists that happened in the last minutes of the previous episode. In this case, the show's irregular scheduling (along with very tight control of new episode names) works to its advantage, but anyone watching them digitally is at a huge risk of accidentally spoiling themselves.
541** "Not What He Seems" centers on Dipper and Mabel becoming very suspicious of who Grunkle Stan really is and what he's trying to do, ultimately meeting Stan's twin brother. The next episode title, "A Tale of Two Stans", pretty plainly tells you [[TwinSwitch what was implied]] by the final scene of "Not What He Seems".
542** "Dipper and Mabel vs. the Future" [[CliffHanger ends]] with [[DreamWeaver Bill Cipher]] tearing down the barrier between the physical realm and the dream realm. Because of this, the next episode was initially listed under the seemingly-gibberish title "Xpcveaoqfoxso" [[CrazyPrepared just in case episode guides revealed its name early]]. It was actually encoded, and only with a key found in "Dipper and Mabel vs. the Future" could one uncover its real title: "Weirdmageddon".
543* The final episode of ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw'' is titled "The Death of Harvey Birdman".
544* The episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' where the Earth Queen is asphyxiated to death by Zaheer is called “Long Live the Queen”--a term typically used following the death of a monarch.
545* ''WesternAnimation/{{Muppet Babies|2018}}'': The episode "Animal and the Little Accident" deals with Animal not wanting to go to the bathroom during his trip to Ratlantis. The title confirms the fact that [[PottyFailure he doesn't make it in time]].
546* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
547** Averted in several episodes that had spoileriffic {{Working Title}}s, which were changed before the episode was announced.
548*** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E10SecretOfMyExcess Secret of my Excess]]" was originally called "[[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever Attack of the Fifty Foot Dragon]]", spoiling Spike's rapid growth spurt.
549*** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E7MayTheBestPetWin May the Best Pet Win]]" was going to be "The Tortoise and the Mare", spoiling which animal ends up as Rainbow Dash's pet.
550*** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E11KeepCalmAndFlutterOn Keep Calm and Flutter On]]" was initially "Fluttershy's Home for Reformed Draconequi", revealing Fluttershy reforming Discord.
551** The season 2 opening 2-parter, "The Return of Harmony", is a straight example, since the title indicates that [[VileVillainSaccharineShow Discord]] is going to lose in the end. Given the format, it's not exactly a ''twist''.
552** The episode in which Apple Bloom gets her cutie mark (and then a bunch more) would have been much more interesting if it had not been called "The Cutie Pox". The title not only gives away that her cutie marks are caused by a disease, but also kills any shock from her gaining the first cutie mark (which would otherwise have been a major development).
553** Subverted for "School Raze" in Season 8, since while it's said that removing the artifacts that were trapping Starlight Glimmer in the school's basement would destroy the school, it doesn't. Instead it restores the magic that was being drained back to Equestria.
554** In the Russian dub, "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E22ABirdInTheHoof A Bird in the Hoof]]" is called "птицафеникс" (Phoenix) and "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E25PartyOfOne Party of One]]" is called "день рождения" (Birthday).
555** In the German dub, "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E11KeepCalmAndFlutterOn Keep Calm and Flutter On]]" is called "Discord wird ein guter Drache" (Discord is a good dragon), and "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E13MagicalMysteryCure Magical Mystery Cure]]" is called "Prinzessin Twilight" (Princess Twilight).
556* ''WesternAnimation/NoddysToylandAdventures'' had an episode called "Noddy Buys A Parasol" in which Noddy works several jobs so that he can earn money to buy a parasol. This is averted in the North American dub for ''Series/TheNoddyShop'', where it is called "Noddy Earns Some Money".
557* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' has an episode called "Candace Gets Busted" where at the end… well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin you can guess what happens]]. The Latin American version averts this, where it is called "Candace's Party".
558* There's the ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' episode "Mindy Turns Five", which also happens to be a major WhamEpisode. Guess what happens.
559* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' episode "First Name Ashley" has Randall finding out Spinelli's EmbarrassingFirstName and threatening to tell everyone if she doesn't do what he says. Guess what it is.
560* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'': In "Hair of the Cat", Ren tries to figure out what keeps setting off his allergies. As the title of the episode implies, it soon becomes obvious to the audience that Ren is allergic to Stimpy's hair, something Ren doesn't figure out until the end of the cartoon.
561* Parodied in a segment of ''WesternAnimation/SheepInTheBigCity'': The narrator goes: "Where will Sheep spend the holidays? Find out on the next segment, ''Holidays at Home''. Ugh, as if the title doesn't tell you exactly what will happen..."
562* Invoked in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Bart Gets Hit by a Car." It begins with credits showing the episode's name (which the show almost never does outside of specials) [[RuleOfFunny a second before Bart gets hit by a car.]]
563* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' has the episode "Kenny Dies"... although [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Kenny dies]] ''[[RunningGag every]]'' [[OncePerEpisode episode]]. Nevertheless, this episode is somewhat unusual because instead of a sudden, violent death, Kenny is dying slowly from a currently-incurable disease, and Cartman is fighting to get the ban lifted on embryonic stem cell research in the hope that Kenny can be cured before it's too late. Despite Cartman's efforts, Kenny dies. And instead of being back the next episode like usual, he stays dead for ''over a year.''
564* Happened with the French translation of ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderman''. Who is manipulating the events to create a gang war between Tombstone, Silvermane, and Dr. Octopus? Find out in "The Return of the Green Goblin"!
565* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': The episode titles [[TitlePlease not being displayed in either the episode or the credits]] means viewers aren't ''quite'' as likely to catch these titles, but if they're watching the [=DVDs=] or a streaming service, no dice:
566** "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E10LairOfGrievous Lair of Grievous]]"' twist that Kit Fisto and company have been lured to General Grievous' secret lair would have been more surprising if the episode had a different title.
567** Since the two previous episodes about members of Domino Squad ("[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E5Rookies Rookies]]" and "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E1CloneCadets Clone Cadets]]") were titled after the clones' ranks at the time, knowing the title of "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E2ARCTroopers ARC Troopers]]" gives away that Fives and Echo are probably getting a promotion long before it happens in the last scene.
568** "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E10CarnageOfKrell Carnage of Krell]]": Looking at the title, the reveal that Krell was EvilAllAlong isn't as surprising as it should be.
569* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': "[[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS4E08JediNight Jedi Night]]" is a {{pun|nyTitle}} on "Jedi Knight" and the word "night", which is often used to refer to an ending or a death. Once the title was released, it was obvious which of the main characters was getting KilledOffForReal in it even though the marketing avoided TonightSomeoneDies.
570* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
571** In the episode "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E25MirrorGem Mirror Gem]]", Steven finds a mirror, and the title gives away the fact that the gem on the back of the mirror is, in fact, sentient. Not that Lapis's first appearance was any less of a shocking moment.
572** {{Defied|Trope}} with "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E20Bismuth Bismuth]]", which has a title held off until Steven encounters the title character herself.
573** Days before the finale of ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'' aired, all four episode titles were revealed. Even though Steven corrupting technically happened at the end of "Everything's Fine", the next episode's title, "I Am My Monster", spoiled the climax before the finale even aired. However, because [[IKnewIt everyone had already guessed the climax anyway]], no one was upset.
574* The ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan'' episode "Tashy 497" which is the name the trio chooses for their deceased pet, a combination of the names Tarax, Mushy, and #497, which each of them wanted to name it.
575* The episode "Betrayal" of ''WesternAnimation/{{Teen Titans|2003}}''. Wait, betrayal? But who would betray the Titans? Could it possibly be the [[SixthRangerTraitor new team member]] who has only made two speaking appearances in the show before this episode, and only had a cameo appearance after becoming a member?
576* ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' has the episode "Evil Boyfriend". We don't find out that Sam's new love is evil until the very end, yet the title has already told us that.
577* A repeat broadcast of the G1 ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' episode "Dark Awakening" ends with Optimus Prime dying... followed by the narrator saying, "But is this really the end of Optimus Prime? Find out in tomorrow's exciting episode, 'The Return of Optimus Prime'!"
578* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'':
579** A Season 1 episode is called "A Great Secret Revealed" ("Meant to Be" in the 4Kids dub). Bloom finds out she's been adopted and she's not from Earth.
580** The 4Kids title of Season 2, Episode 20 is called "The First Charmix". Bloom gets her Charmix powers.
581** Season 3, Episode 6 is called "Layla's Choice" for Cinelume, and "Aisha's Courage" for Atlas Oceanic. Season 3, Episode 7 does this again calling it "The Company of the Light" in the former and "Heroes of the Past" in the latter. Averted for the 4Kids dub where the episodes are called "The Mermaid Queen" and "Royal Behavior", respectively.
582** Season 3, Episode 9's Atlas title is called "Breaking the Mark"; Stella breaks Valtor's spell on Sky.
583** The Season 5 finale is called "The End of Tritannus". Three guesses to the outcome.
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