> Investigate now-highly-prevalent spoilers.
Homestuck is full of Late-Arrival Spoilers. Given its ludicrous update rate and density of plot twists, every single page about it on this wiki has become completely Spoilers Off because it was essentially impossible to decide what was a spoiler and what wasn't.
- Official shirts and songs, along with oodles of fanart, spoil the existence of the Troll cast who are introduced a good ways into the story and at first appear to be vague, otherworldly antagonists to the main four kids. This may actually have been a good thing because of how many new readers the extended cast helped bring in once they were given their own A Day in the Limelight act. Said arc treats the facts that Aradia is a ghost and that the trolls created the universe as surprises. Now, good luck finding a discussion on the trolls that doesn't mention either of these.
- To a lesser extent, the appearances of John's three friends (especially the long-delayed reveal of who gardenGnostic was; Homestuck started in April of 2009 and she did not make a physical appearance until October of the same year) and their guardians.
- The What Pumpkin store spoils which characters have gone god-tier
. However, that very concept wasn't introduced until well into the storyline, so you'd have to have read up until that point, stopped, and then gone there to be actually spoiled by it. Also, the store carries shirts for all the possible aspects, so you'd have to be looking at the 'as worn by' section to know which have actually been reached in canon so far. - The post-scratch session. Reading Homestuck regularly, it's almost hard to remember that some of the post-scratch kids' names and appearances, especially Dirk's, were major (and tantalizing) spoilers, especially when the logs on the left-hand side of the page regularly indicate their actions.
- Lord English's identity and relation to Doc Scratch, one of the greatest mysteries of the comic up until his introduction and even a little bit after, gets thrown about fairly casually.
- The album cover arts are occasionally spoilery, such as the cover for Colours and Mayhem side A, which depicts Eridan cut in half, Gamzee with Li'l Cal, Kanaya in Rainbow Drinker Mode and breaking a wand, Sollux as half dead, and Aradia and Vriska in God Tier outfits. Bam, plot points to half of the trolls were revealed right there!
- Karkat's blood color, especially seeing as his stand-in for the pre-scratch session wears a bright sweater in that color.
- Andrew Hussie spoils later plot twists in the commentary of the physical books pretty regularly, which is especially weird as he explicitly noted that one of the main reasons for making the books was to give people a different entry point for the series. In all fairness, however, he admits at one point that he occasionally just makes shit up, and some of the spoilers he says do sound like jokes without context, for example this slightly exaggerated claim:Heh heh, John sure does irrationally hate Betty Crocker, the harmless baked goods corporation, doesn't he? Surely this is just a silly Running Gag and won't come back to haunt us in any significant way. Right? I mean... it just can't... could it? That would be blowing a gag way too far out of propor-oh fuck Crocker's gonna be the last boss, isn't she.
- One of the albums' title and art spoils the existence of The Cherubim, The Reveal of which was big enough at the time that Hussie produced a second, censored version of the page for use on the wiki and other non-official sites.
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