I Am Your Father! The Spoiler Spoiler Thread -- What are the biggest ever spoilers? [spoilers]

[Malmuria]

Ed Norton and Brad Pitt are playing the same character!

(My prom date actually spoiled this one for me)

 

[pukunui]

No, no, no, this is for films you care about being spoiled.

I enjoyed both of those movies!

 

[DeviousQuail]

Are we talking about the one from Alien, or the Queen from Aliens? The Queen is a lot easier to find, just in low orbit over a known settlement. And even with the first one, Weyland Yutani have the logs, they know where and when the creature was ejected. If they got it into their heads to track it down for tissue samples it'd be a very difficult search, but possible.

I barely remember Aliens. I was thinking of Alien in my original post.
It would be a feat to figure out the alien's trajectory and velocity even with a camera pointed at the engines. Not to mention all it would take is a small rupture or expulsion of xenomorph gunk to change velocity and trajectory further. Combined with the 6 weeks time to get back to a station (according to Ripley), time spent deciding to go get it, getting a ship and crew together, getting to the location to start looking, and then trying to find something that small, black, and without heat is the longest of longshots. There might be other methods of locating a body in space but I'll need someone else to chime in with that.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Leia also kissed Luke at the start of Empire.

Tangentially, I just recently found out that in one of the early scripts for Star Wars, the roles were reversed and it was Leia rescuing Luke from the Death Star. Fascinating to imagine what that might have been like.

Plus for those of us who remember Leia kissing Luke in the first movie, EW.

(At least it wasn't The Hotel New Hampshire.)

I haven't liked a single Star Wars movie since the original, and I was 9 or 10 when I saw that. Before you cry in shock, I haven't seen a single Star Wars movie since The Phantom Menace put me off the franchise forever. On the plus side, it inspired Tales of the Sith Academy, which provided many a chuckle for months after.

Re-reading the books as an adult, Sturm's fate is heavily foreshadowed. And talking to Margaret Weis, she has said that his death was designed from the moment his character was created. But I can remember when I first read it, what a shock it was.

Book not film, but Sturm dies, and stays dead

Same, except it was on io9. I wasn't as mad as I would've been normally, simply because Harrison Ford had always made it clear that he thought Solo's character arc should end in his death. But I was still very annoyed with that commenter.

One major spoiler annoyance I had was some troll in a Youtube comment posting that Kylo Ren kills his father Han Solo, about two days before The Force Awakens came out. It didn't actually diminish the impact of the moment, though.

 

[Mad_Jack]

The cast just ate Eddie for dinner.

 

[Dioltach]

Cassian dies when the Rebellion is finally becoming a force.

 

[R_J_K75]

Dante dies of a heart attack at the end of Clerks 3

 

[practicalm]

The Maltese Falcon is a fake
Rick does not get the girl
The miners do not get the gold

 

[trappedslider]

The whole show (and maybe all of tv) takes place inside the mind of a kid.

 

[MarkB]

Rick does not get the girl

He certainly does! They even have a kid by the sequel. But then she gets re-cast in the third movie.

 

[Omand]

He certainly does! They even have a kid by the sequel. But then she gets re-cast in the third movie.

Ummm ... Pretty sure the reference here is to Rick in "Casablanca", not Rick in "The Mummy."

That said, I can understand the confusion. Might be helpful if people named which movie they were "spoiling" for this type of context where characters in wildly different movies have the same name.

Cheers

 

[DragonBelow]

One from the books:

Catelyn Stark survives the Red Wedding thanks to some Lord of Light shenanigans, and then basically gets forgotten about.

IIRC she kills Brianne of Tarth, and Podrick. We just didn't see that in the show. I like the show version better.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Ummm ... Pretty sure the reference here is to Rick in "Casablanca", not Rick in "The Mummy."

 

[practicalm]

Ummm ... Pretty sure the reference here is to Rick in "Casablanca", not Rick in "The Mummy."

That said, I can understand the confusion. Might be helpful if people named which movie they were "spoiling" for this type of context where characters in wildly different movies have the same name.

Cheers

Yes these were all Bogart film spoilers because it was more interesting to spoil something without listing where it was from.

I mean I could also spoil Oceans 11 where they don't get the cash. But that's the original movie.

 

[Mercurius]

 

[Dioltach]

Not a movie or telly series, but a book: Right from the start, there's an Eater in the party travelling to the Edge of the World.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

One major spoiler annoyance I had was some troll in a Youtube comment posting that Kylo Ren kills his father Han Solo, about two days before The Force Awakens came out. It didn't actually diminish the impact of the moment, though.

Oh my god, someone did that to me on the general chat of a Star Wars: The Old Republic server, and it's the only time I've ever actually been mad about someone "spoiling" something. The movie had been out for several days at that point, but we were saving it for Christmas. I was playing a Star Wars game specifically because I was hyped about it. And they were clearly doing it just because they sucked.

 

[practicalm]

I realized I missed the chance to spoil
Spock dies and then gets better.

 

[Muso]

Gollum throws the Ring into the Cracks of Doom (along with himself) after a fight with Frodo.

 

[MarkB]

I realized I missed the chance to spoil
Spock dies and then gets better.

Kirk dies and then gets better. It's not nearly as effective.