SPOILER ALERT
1. When talking about a movie to an audience that has not yet seen the movie, this phrase is used by a speaker to
warn that they are about to reveal
plot details that may be surprising or unexpected. The thought is that revealing certain plot details will
detract from the natural viewing experience, so
the warning serves as an opportunity for people to stop listening/reading.
1a. The same idea, but in the context of other media such as books, television shows, etc.2. Often this phrase is used jokingly following, or immediately proceeding information that is felt to be obvious.
spoiler alert
by iharasu on Mar 30, 2015 09:42:30
1. A phrase, sentence, or really any form of communication that completely ruins
that show, movie, or book series by giving away key
plot points or twists.
interjection
2. Ruining everything for everyone.
Example:
Sarah has a
tendency to
word vomit endings to movies I haven't seen yet. We call her 'Spoiler
Alert Sarah.'
Spoiler Alert
by Dizastermaster on Jan 02, 2019 05:33:43
Someone is going to die.
43 Impact, 25 Range, 46 Stability, 15 rounds in the magazine, 360
RPM, 56
Reload, and 68 Handling
A solid gun... if you're not planning on surviving your next
firefight.
Post-facto spoiler alert
by millardfillmore on Apr 20, 2010 10:57:58
When you accidentally spoil something for someone and then attempt to
make it up by yelling out "
Spoiler alert!"
It will nonetheless piss someone off because either a) you're just rubbing it in that you spoiled the ending to an amazing movie/book/show, or b) they weren't really paying attention before and would have missed the
spoiler, but because you had called attention to it, now they are aware they have been spoiled.
Example:
Kris: "So I'm reading this Harry Potter book and so far I don't like that Snape fellow."
Melissa: "Yeah I really hated Snape in the 6th book when he killed Dumbledore but everything worked out in the end."
Kris: "Ye- Wait.
Snape KILLS Dumbledore?!"
Melissa: "Er, ah, um,
SPOILER ALERT!!!1"
Paul: "Wow, Melissa, way to pull a
post-facto spoiler alert."
Kris: "It will never be the same!" *sobs*
postfix spoiler alert
by Subsequence on Apr 16, 2011 07:23:01
An acknowledgment of a
spoiler very much like a
spoiler alert except that it's provided after rather than before the spoiler in question. See, for example, the Dinosaur Comics strip for
April 15, 2011.
By extension, any would-be warning preceded by the thing it's supposed to warn against.
Example:
"So then
Snape kills Dumbledore. That's a particularly infamous spoiler." "Nice postfix spoiler alert, you numskull." / A week after the drop deadline, the
registrar told me I was taking the wrong classes and wouldn't be able to graduate till
next semester. Talk about a postfix spoiler alert! Does he think I'm Merlin or something?