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Encyclopedia > Spoiler
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Spoiler could refer to Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ...

  • Spoiler (media), a comment which discloses plot details of a book, play, video game, or film or is intended to distract attention from a rival
  • Spoiler (aeronautics), a device to reduce lift in aeronautics
  • Spoiler (automotive), a device to reduce lift and increase downforce in automobiles
  • Spoiler (sports), a team that has been eliminated from the playoffs, and beats a team that required that win to advance
  • Spoiler (comics), a secondary character in the DC comic book Robin
  • SPOILER (film), a comedy film project in New York City
  • Spoiler effect, an individual unable to win an election or game for him- or herself, but with the power to determine which player among two or more others will win
  • Spoiler (politician), a candidate for election, who, while having little chance of winning, draws votes from another candidate with similar positions on major issues, thus allowing the election of someone with contrary positions
  • Mighty Spoiler, a popular calypso singer
  • Don Jardine, a professional wrestler also known as the Spoiler.

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Spoiler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (315 words)
Spoiler effect: in politics or gaming, an individual unable to win an election or game for him- or herself, but with the power to determine which player among two or more others will win.
In politics, a spoiler is one who takes votes away from one candidate to a disproportionate degree, making certain or likely the election of a third candidate who is less unacceptable or totally acceptable to the backers of the spoiler.
Spoiler (sports): in sports terminology, a team has played "spoiler" for another team if a team that has been long-eliminated from the playoffs beats a team that needed that win in order to make the playoffs, and thus eliminated (or "spoiled") that team.
Spoiler (media) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1614 words)
A spoiler is a summary or description of a narrative (or part of a narrative) that relates plot elements not revealed early in the narrative itself.
On Usenet the common method for obscuring spoiler information is to precede it with many blank lines known as "spoiler space", traditionally enough to push the information on to the next screen of a 25-line terminal.
An IMDb poll on 10 November 2003[1] asked users to choose which one of a set of movie spoilers was too infamous to be considered a spoiler anymore; Vader's true identity was a clear winner, by a forty-percent margin.
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