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Death tropes examples aren't spoilered because the mere fact a work appears on the page is a spoiler. Spoiler tags wouldn't achieve anything other than making it hard to read.
Although, Spoilers Off means something else (guidelines for when a work doesn't need to be spoilered because the "spoiler" is well known anyway).
TV Tropes's No. 1 bread themed lesbian. she/her, fae/faerIrene: I was talking about trope pages. If I'd been looking at the work page, well, I really couldn't blame anyone but myself.
Bisected8: Whoops, I thought I might be getting Spoilers Off mixed up with something.
I figured "[spoiler: Alice] dies in Work X in order to save the world", or something like that, is a bit less harsh of a spoiler than the entirely uncovered identity and detailed circumstances of the character who dies. It probably would have helped if the trope page I was thinking of (I don't remember which) had folders- then I could have just left the Video Games one closed to begin with, because if I remember right I was looking for something in Webcomics when I spotted the Bioshock Infinite spoiler I'm whining about.
Maybe a good idea would be to encourage people to folderize the pages for death tropes, then?
Edited by InsanityPreludeI'm fine with folderization as is. Note that some Trope names aren't super obvious, like Player Punch. Maybe it should depend the trope itself?
For the trope pages, it'd be a pain to spoiler-mark it. For work pages, I see a reason for it.
Shadow?

Is it really necessary to go entirely Spoilers Off on Death Tropes?
I got the ending of a game spoiled for me recently because I went to such a trope off the launch list to see what it was about. It wasn't even an old game that everyone's expected to be familiar with already- this was only a month after it came out.
It seems kind of unfair to assume that readers are going to know, or want to know, every example on the page- and if the examples list is short or you're scrolling to a category below the one a spoiler is in, it's easy to end up seeing it entirely by accident. Yes, knowing that these tropes occur in a work is a spoiler in itself, but the least we could do is hide the names of the characters they happen to, or the details of an ending.
If it had been because I'd reflexively highlighted a spoiler tag (again), then yeah, it would be my own fault. But getting major spoilers because they weren't tagged at all, when I wasn't even looking for an example about that work, is frustrating and I really considered leaving the site over it.