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It hasn't released yet, so the fact that "the cat's out of the bag" is insignificant.
The warnings should be restored and the troper in questions should be messaged.
Arctimon -
All of the changes mentioned above were citing the EW 'exclusive' rather than any direct statement from Marvel, but if Marvel have subsequently acknowledged the leak as truth and released their own news article with an official preview, I think that changes the position a little.
We can now handle it the same way as any other official preview for an unreleased work, I guess?
Although that still leaves some questions about how we handle a spoiler-tagged work name above the line on a Characters page. The tagging's got to go, in line with above-the-line spoiler policy, but do we delete the work name entirely or leave it there? My preference would be to delete it from the Characters page, at least until it's released.
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Just to add -
Some Initial feedback on the Violations of the Spoiler Policy
thread suggests that we should cut the unreleased Fallen Friend special from the Character page's above-the-line list of appearances for the relevant character.
Would be good to get more views and build a consensus on this.
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^ That sounds fair. Put it in only on release.
^ Done.
Any thoughts on the rest of it? Should we just acknowledge that Marvel's stopped trying to fight the content leak spoilers and tidy up the pages (keeping tagging) to reflect the confirmation (e.g. linking to the official press release rather than the third-party scoops/leaks)?
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That sounds fair to me.
YMMV.The Amazing Spider Man 2022, Trivia.The Amazing Spider Man 2022 and WMG.The Amazing Spider Man 2022 all updated.
I've also changed the Spoilers Off warning on the WMG page to directly state that these spoilers include things from press releases for unreleased comics.
I think that probably covers everything?
Just a heads up, but Shocking Swerve is no longer a trope and is now a redirect to Ass Pull, so you might want to change it to something else.
Thank you - Ass Pull was already cut, so I've cut this as well.
I'm not sure we can really class an event in an unreleased instalment as an Ass Pull, especially when it was only acknowledged by the creators after a content leak of a few pages. If it still seems to be one after the full issue's published, it can always be added back.
Edit: guess we can lock this one now?
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As mentioned here
, here
and here
, we've had some issues with today's Spider-Man content leak, revealing a "shocking twist" in a comic to be released later this month. As the comic is due to be followed by a special Fallen Friend (final title embargoed) issue, the assumption was that it involved a major character death.
As per mod guidance from Synchronicity, I added a comment to some of the relevant pages warning tropers not to add leaked content.
Later today, hours after the initial leaked pictures made it onto the internet, Entertainment Weekly published it as an 'exclusive' scoop with clearer images. They also revealed the cover and final title of the Fallen Friend one-shot.
At this point there is no such announcement on marvel.com and it's unclear how 'official' that EW exclusive is, as Marvel had previously said all details were embargoed until end of month. There are certainly no Marvel quotes/comments within the EW article, and there's nothing about it on Marvel's own site yet.
However, Magi Mecha has now:
Where do we stand on this? It was clearly an unwanted/unofficial leak earlier today (with Marvel warning fans to avoid spoilers
Do we accept that the cat really is out of the bag, and let some of these edits stand? (I'm assuming the spoiler tagged title on the Characters page needs to go, either way)
UPDATE: Marvel themselves have finally given in and announced it, with an article on their site
. Spoilers, of course. So it looks like the EW story was with their backing.
I guess some of the same questions remain, though - and some of the usual Creating a Work Page for an Upcoming Work considerations will apply to how we cover an unreleased instalment?
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