Pretty much. Not only that, but some of these examples are just plain dubious. Can the content of a blatant nostalgia title, prequel to a 10 year old game, or the 14th port/remake of a 20 year old game really be spoiled? And I say this as a hardcore spoilerphobe.

I don't know, you'd have to elaborate. It sounds like a possibility to me. I'm just wondering if that Bionicle example is really an example, or someone misinterpreting "You Should Know This Already".

EDIT: Sounds like that's a "yes". Cutting it.

Plus, the fact that a lot of the examples in Video Games are stuff like "In the sequel to the game, they reference the events of the previous game in the game itself". Seriously, if it's not on the back cover, you don't have anybody to blame except for yourself (who's apparently playing games out of order but still doesn't want any spoilers).

Agreed. I never remember the rename of this.

I wasn't privy to the discussion, but I would assume that it had something to do with many people taking "You Should Know This Already" and using it as a "this plot development is pretty much common knowledge, so you can't complain if I spoil it". It got on my nerves, anyway.

Yes, that's exactly why the vote on the name change came about. "You should know this already" by name indicated something closer to "It was his sled" instead of what the trope is really about.

I'm activly trying to avoid Late Arrival Spoilers personally. I've only now started watching How I Met Your Mother from the beginning and are trying my hardest to avoid summaries and discussion of the later parts of the series. That includes advertising for the later seasons.

It Was His Sled

It sounds like someone misinterpreted the title again. Go ahead.

Darned if I know. The paragraphs you mention just looked like nonsense words to me, describing phenomena that could only happen in a bizarre Real Life Eigen Plot. The page is better off without them.

The way the Harry Potter series can fit in this trope is pretty... tricky. The choice lies in jumping head-first into the series through the books or the movies. Similar to the Final Fantasy VII/Crisis Core entry under video games, it's more accurate to say that the 2 mediums spoil each other. Whether the new fan decides to read the books first or watch all the movies first, they will spoil the events of whatever medium they didn't pick to go through first in the end.

And I had the same understanding as you, where I doubt anyone would read one book but not read the ones that came before it. Naturally, if someone had the time and patience to read through the door stopper of a fifth book, they would have the time and patience to read through one to four. Now that I think about it, it's really about as to ''how' a fan approaches the series in terms of late arrival spoilers. If anything, a fan can avoid the Late Arrival Spoiler by watching the movie that is paired with the book instead of finishing one medium before moving onto the next. And avoiding merchandize and advertisements (and the Fandom) at the same time.