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This is the thread to report all violations of the site's spoiler policy in, as well as a place to coordinate cleanup of those articles.

Edited by Mrph1 on Oct 18th 2025 at 11:06:42 AM

Twiddler (On A Trope Odyssey)
dsneybuf (Not-So-Newbie)
#1602: Dec 4th 2022 at 7:48:42 AM

LateArrivalSpoiler.Live Action TV contains some entries concerning The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, despite the existence of LateArrivalSpoiler.Star Wars (which also has entries about those two shows).

techno156 from Lost in the wrong part of the internet (Private) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#1603: Dec 4th 2022 at 7:52:30 AM

[up] From the looks of things, you can fold the two together. There's a little bit of overlap with the first point, and they seem to be written by two different people.

Maybe one of them wasn't aware of there being a separate Star Wars subpage?

Agentofchaos A God Am I from Somewhere in the Universe Since: Dec, 2021
#1604: Dec 4th 2022 at 3:07:25 PM

On Inside Job (2021) Bear -O's character folder pretty much the whole thing is spoiler tagged, permission to remove them and mark it Unmarked spoilers?

"We'll meet again" | 🏳️‍⚧️
Anarchist2 Confounded by avatar changes Since: Apr, 2020 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Confounded by avatar changes
#1605: Dec 5th 2022 at 8:20:18 AM

[up] Don't see why not.

As an ending trope subpage, MultipleEndings.Undertale shouldn't have spoiler markup, right?

RainbowPumpqueen R A T (she/her) from Kalos Since: Apr, 2021 Relationship Status: Squeeeeeeeeeeeee!
R A T (she/her)
#1606: Dec 5th 2022 at 6:36:52 PM

Do moments pages have a preferred way of bringing up unmarked spoilers? In hindsight I definitely should have asked before editing moments pages to add unmarked spoilers tags.

Should it be like this (what I've been doing):

Moment pages are Spoilers Off per site policy. You Have Been Warned.


Or like this:

Moment pages are Spoilers Off per site policy. You Have Been Warned.

At first I thought it didn't matter, but I'm asking just in case. I have a feeling it depends on whether or not a page has an image.

Edited by RainbowPumpqueen on Dec 6th 2022 at 1:07:14 AM

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PurpleEyedGuma Since: Apr, 2020
#1607: Dec 5th 2022 at 8:41:59 PM

I do the latter. There’s no official standard.

RandomTroper123 She / Her from I'll let you guess... (Not-So-Newbie) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
She / Her
#1608: Dec 5th 2022 at 11:23:40 PM

[up](x3) Since it's discussing endings, that page should be Administrivia.Spoilers Off.

[up][up]Either is fine; there are no rules either way.

techno156 from Lost in the wrong part of the internet (Private) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#1609: Dec 6th 2022 at 9:15:17 PM

RE:https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13942308710A40570900&page=65#comment-1605

Yeah. There's no way to put works on it without spoiling the fact that they have multiple endings.

ShinyCottonCandy Everyone's friend Malamar from Lumiose City (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Everyone's friend Malamar
#1610: Dec 7th 2022 at 4:13:20 AM

I was looking at Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist earlier and I wonder if it should be spoilers off. Most of the examples seem to come from pretty late in their respective works, perhaps in part because there needs to be enough to make it look like the villain may be a Well-Intentioned Extremist and then reveal they aren't. There's also inconsistancy with some endings being unspoiled anyway and some not.

Of course, there's also a lot of misuse of the "they were never trying to convince us the villain was well-intentioned anyway" variety.

Edited by ShinyCottonCandy on Dec 7th 2022 at 7:15:13 AM

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techno156 from Lost in the wrong part of the internet (Private) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#1611: Dec 9th 2022 at 5:35:14 AM

As a death trope, should the spoilers be entirely removed from Heroic Suicide? The page itself says "expect lots of unmarked spoilers", but there are still some spoilers in place.

WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000)
#1612: Dec 9th 2022 at 9:59:20 AM

Well, it depends. We want to keep the stuff relevant to the death untagged, but that doesn't necessarily mean we should spoil everything.

Edited by WarJay77 on Dec 9th 2022 at 12:59:37 PM

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RandomTroper123 She / Her from I'll let you guess... (Not-So-Newbie) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
She / Her
#1613: Dec 9th 2022 at 11:58:47 PM

I'm thinking of making Characters.Puella Magi Madoka Magica Kyubey because he's a Walking Spoiler and roughly 70% (at least) of his page is spoilered out. What do you all think?

Twiddler (On A Trope Odyssey)
#1614: Dec 10th 2022 at 1:54:28 AM

I disagree that he's a Walking Spoiler (you can name him and give a basic description of him without spoiling, as the top of his page does) but given the proportion of spoiled out text and the number of trope names that are already spoilers by themselves, I'd be fine with making his page spoilers off.

Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#1615: Dec 10th 2022 at 2:03:46 AM

He can't be Walking Spoiler is he's still a recurring character before The Reveal. Still, it's difficult to bring up anything about him.

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techno156 from Lost in the wrong part of the internet (Private) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#1616: Dec 10th 2022 at 5:52:38 AM

[up] Wouldn't a walking spoiler count for that anyway? Even if the character appears in pre-spoilers, if everything about them is a spoiler, that seems like it would qualify them as a Walking Spoiler.

Kirby0189 Kirby is shaped like a friend from America Since: Apr, 2019 Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
Kirby is shaped like a friend
#1617: Dec 10th 2022 at 6:33:08 AM

[up]There's a big misunderstanding about Walking Spoiler that is cleared up by the second-to-last paragraph in the trope's description. The takeaway is that if you can mention this character exists and describe their basic traits without spoiling anything, they aren't an example.

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themayorofsimpleton Short-Term Projects Herald | he/him from the Island of Koridai (Captain) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
Short-Term Projects Herald | he/him
#1618: Dec 10th 2022 at 6:38:36 AM
RandomTroper123 She / Her from I'll let you guess... (Not-So-Newbie) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
She / Her
#1619: Dec 10th 2022 at 9:54:33 AM

The first paragraph of Walking Spoiler states, "A character or thing in which most of its tropes are spoilers." And you can't say much about him without revealing he's an insincere villain and stating what he is is a Spoiler itself. Plus, there's nothing saying a character can not both be a recurring character and a WS.

Honestly, if you all want to discuss the details of WS, TRS and (EDIT: to a lesser extent) Trope Talk are better places for that. Honestly, the reason I brought this up is to suggest making a page Administrivia.Spoilers Off and not to discuss one trope.

Edited by RandomTroper123 on Dec 10th 2022 at 9:56:56 AM

Twiddler (On A Trope Odyssey)
#1620: Dec 10th 2022 at 3:11:00 PM

Like I said, I think his page can be made spoilers off even if he isn't a Walking Spoiler, since a) so much of it is spoiled out b) there's a lot of trope names that are already spoilers by themselves.

Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#1621: Dec 12th 2022 at 12:49:45 AM

The Tall Man has more spoiler markup than plain text.

TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
PhantomDusclops92 Nitpicky Nitwit from Italy Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
Nitpicky Nitwit
#1622: Dec 13th 2022 at 8:46:27 AM

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet has some inconsistency with spoiler tags. For instance, Paradox Pokémon are hidden under spoiler tags for most of the page except under Ambiguous Robots and Lost World. Also, Foreshadowing mentions that Larry is both the Normal-type Gym Leader and the Flying-type Elite Four with no issues, while Stealth Pun spoils the latter part. In the YMMV page, Larry's status as an Elite Four member is again not spoiled multiple times, while Arven's paragraph under The Woobie is filled with endgame reveals with no spoiler tag whatsoever.

ShinyCottonCandy Everyone's friend Malamar from Lumiose City (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Everyone's friend Malamar
#1623: Dec 13th 2022 at 11:08:55 AM

[up]? Looks like most of Arven’s paragraph is spoilered to me. Could possibly extend that to the bit about Mabostiff, but that’s not as plot-critical.

If it were me, I’d probably spoil everything mentioning the Paradox Pokémon at least. But I’d also want to hear from others.

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PhantomDusclops92 Nitpicky Nitwit from Italy Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
Nitpicky Nitwit
#1624: Dec 13th 2022 at 12:49:31 PM

[up]Whoops. I was in editing mode and I didn't see the beginning of the spoiler marking on the Arven paragraph.

About spoiling Paradox Pokémon... I don't know. On one side they're a late game twist, but on the other side when people talk about the game online, when they're not complaining about the bugs the only other argument is about Paradox Pokémon's competitive usage (I wanted to do a blind run of the whole game, but it was ruined because everyone and their dog was yelling "HEY LOOK HERE ARE ROARING MOON AND FLUTTER MANE THEY'RE LIKE SUPER OP" on my social feeds and when I complained because they were posting spoiler things a week after the game's release they all pointed at me and laughed)

Edited by PhantomDusclops92 on Dec 13th 2022 at 9:53:32 PM

Zuxtron Berserk Button: misusing Nightmare Fuel from Node 03 (On A Trope Odyssey)
#1625: Dec 13th 2022 at 4:44:39 PM

So Characters.Psychonauts Psychonauts (yes, it's a Repetitive Name, the first half refers to the game and the second to the titular organization) has a seemingly-minor character with a MAJOR SPOILERS tag in their folder name. Considering how the second game's plot revolves around hunting down The Mole, anyone who sees this before beating the game will probably immediately jump to a certain conclusion before even clicking on the folder.

Perhaps one solution would be to do what Characters.Persona 4 and Characters.Squid Game do, and have the folder only contain the pre-reveal tropes, while the tropes related to their true identity are kept in a separate folder.

Edited by Zuxtron on Dec 13th 2022 at 10:54:55 AM


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