Board 8 > The Mount Rushmore of: Spoilers

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Last Topics Results

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/52018a80.png

A bit of contention if Journey is a walking sim or not. It barely misses out as a result.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e6674767.png

I mean...she IS sleeping beauty. Even if it's not of her own free will.

Last 5 Rushmores

Movie Needle Drops: Stuck in the Middle With You (Reservoir Dogs) / Bohemian Rhapsody (Wayne's World) / All Star (Shrek) / Holding Out For a Hero (Shrek 2)
Board 8 Usernames: Heroic Mario / ertyu / crazyisgood / Strahax
Mythological Animals: Dragon / Unicorn / Phoenix / Kraken
Sleepyheads: Snorlax / Rip Van Winkle / Sleepy / TBD
Walking Simulators: The Stanley Parable / What Remains of Edith Finch / Gone Home / Dear Esther

This Week's Rushmores

Saturday: 3DO Games
(Next) Sunday: Wii U Games

Next Thematic Week: Famous Monster types (October 20 - 26)

Today's Parameters:

You must pick spoilers from stories.

Stories can be books, TV, movies, video games, etc. Nothing based on history (i.e. JFK dies).

You don't have to black-bar your spoilers, bu if you are unsure, feel free to do so. Just make sure the wording of the spoiler is descriptive enough for accurate tallying.

https://ew.com/gallery/biggest-spoilers-25-years-film/
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/top10/2853-the-top-10-most-famous-video-game-plot-twists-spoilers
https://www.thegamer.com/biggest-gaming-spoilers-that-everyone-knows/
https://www.cbr.com/gaming-spoilers-common-knowledge/
https://www.cbr.com/obvious-known-famous-movie-spoilers/
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-movie-plot-twists/
https://www.take5reviews.ca/top-10-spoilers-that-arent-spoilers-anymore.html
https://www.buzzfeed.com/crystalro/best-movie-twists

Rosebud was his sled (Citizen Kane)
Darth Vader is Luke Skywalkers Father (Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back)
Bruce Willis is a ghost (The Sixth Sense)
Aerith Dies (Final Fantasy VII)

Honourable mention to the T-800 being good in Terminator 2 as that is also a huge one.

citizen kane
empire strikes back
final fantasy 7

open to suggestion on the last of these

Aerith dies (Final Fantasy 7)
Snape kills Dumbledore (Harry Potter)
"I am your father" (Star Wars)
Sixth Sense

BlueCrystalTear posted...

Aerith dies (Final Fantasy 7)
Snape kills Dumbledore (Harry Potter)
"I am your father" (Star Wars)

Also Rosebud

Final Fantasy VII
Empire Strikes Back
Citizen Kane
Planet of the Apes

I think these are so ubiquitous I don't even need to say what they are

Leonhart4 posted...

Final Fantasy VII
Empire Strikes Back
Citizen Kane
Planet of the Apes

I think these are so ubiquitous I don't even need to say what they are

Yeah I'll just ditto these 4.

I read the Mount Rushmore of Spiders do that next

Citizen Kane
Empire Strikes Back
The Sixth Sense
Final Fantasy VII

Citizen Kane
Harry Potter
Sixth Sense
Planet of the Apes

I feel like these have more universal knowledge while I doubt many non-gamers know the FF spoiler.

Star Wars - I am Your Father
Final Fantasy VII - Aerith Dies
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Snape Kills Dumbledore
Rosebud

Three are the most well known ones, and the last one is the Trope Namer.

i legitimately don't know know the planet of the apes offhand. might have some inkling but not certain

harry potter, sixth sense, and terminator 2 are good picks too

oh, i don't even know if people conceptualize this one as a spoiler, but the world being a simulation in the matrix is definitely treated as a plot reveal

@hombad46 i'm not reading that, i might still see it!

Fair enough lol

Star Wars
Final Fantasy VII
Sixth Sense
Harry Potter

Citizen Kane
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Harry Potter
Planet of the Apes

I kinda think Harry Potter gets the bigger nod over FF7 because of the widespread malicious spoiling at the time and how Deathly Hallows had to have an internet warning that people were gonna do the same thing.

Citizen Kane
The Sixth Sense
Soylent Green is people
Planet of the Apes

Rosebud is a sled
Darth Vader is Luke's father
Malcolm is dead the whole time
Tyler Durden isnt real

FF7
Empire Strikes Back
Citizen Kane
Sixth Sense

I get video games aren't a widespread medium overall compared to some of these movies and shows, but I think FFVII still deserves some credit for being THE video game spoiler.

Vader
Sled
Aerith
Apes

I dunno, I think Sheik is Zelda OoT should at least be in consideration for that. I feel like more people would know this one, especially since it's just blatantly given away in Melee

Final Fantasy VII
Citizen Kane
Outer Wilds
The Sixth Sense

The third is particularly obnoxious but people love to casually drop its spoiler so /shrug

Snape kills Dumbledore
Vader is Luke's father
Sixth Sense ending
Norma(n) Bates

HM
Samus is a girl
The Matrix is a simulation
Rosebud

Isquen posted...

The third is particularly obnoxious but people love to casually drop its spoiler so /shrug

Everything could be considered a spoiler but I'm just gonna guess you're talking about the game being in a time loop ?

Replace Aerith with dead people

hombad46 posted...

Everything could be considered a spoiler but I'm just gonna guess you're talking about the game being in a time loop ?

Yeah that one.

Anagram posted...

Replace Aerith with dead people

A humorous sentence devoid of context

i literally have no idea what the outer wilds one could be

good shout on fight club; any subsequent similar plot twist is almost always referred to using fight club at this long

Citizen Kane
Psycho
The Empire Strikes Back
Final Fantasy VII

things I want to mention no one has yet:
-Pokemon RBY. This one is so well known, I think people forgot Giovanni being a gym leader and Blue being the champion actually were supposed to be spoilers at one point.
-Friday the 13th, which even got referenced in Scream

LeonhartFour posted...

I get video games aren't a widespread medium overall compared to some of these movies and shows, but I think FFVII still deserves some credit for being THE video game spoiler.

This is specifically why I said FFVII. It's THE spoiler for a medium of storytelling, just like the Harry Potter one is for books and the Star Wars one is for movies.

I have no idea what the Planet of the Apes spoiler is, but...

Drop: Sixth Sense
Add: Rosebud (Citizen Kane)

Bitto posted...

A bit of contention if Journey is a walking sim or not.

i forgot to vote yesterday but journey not being a walking simulator is a fucking wild take

I tried to pick ones that aren't just well known, but are ones that people actively try to spoil (thus the word spoilers) for people. Harry Potter's was shouted at the midnight release of the book at bookstores, which is why I think it belongs on there.

oh god. I can't believe that wasn't mentioned until then.

remove FF7
Add Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

that's another spoiler that I feel is so famous, the fact it even is a spoiler doesn't even register

LazyKenny posted...

Citizen Kane
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Harry Potter
Planet of the Apes

I kinda think Harry Potter gets the bigger nod over FF7 because of the widespread malicious spoiling at the time and how Deathly Hallows had to have an internet warning that people were gonna do the same thing.

All right, I'm convinced by some of the posts here

Drop Planet of the Apes
Add Final Fantasy VII

Final Fantasy VII
Empire Strikes Back
Citizen Kane
The Sixth Sense

Final Fantasy 7
The Empire Strikes Back
The Sixth Sense
The Wizard of Oz

LightningStrikes posted...

Rosebud was his sled (Citizen Kane)
Darth Vader is Luke Skywalkers Father (Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back)
Bruce Willis is a ghost (The Sixth Sense)
Aerith Dies (Final Fantasy VII)

Honestly this is it

Final Fantasy VII
Empire Strikes Back
Citizen Kane
The Sixth Sense

yeah this is pretty solid.

Final Fantasy VII
Empire Strikes Back
Citizen Kane
Half-Blood Prince

Seems about right

Final Fantasy VII
Empire Strikes Back
Citizen Kane
Half-Blood Prince

Final Fantasy VII
Empire Strikes Back
Citizen Kane
The Sixth Sense

Empire Strikes Back
Final Fantasy 7
Planet of the Apes
Terminator 2

Final Fantasy VII Aeris dies
Empire Strikes Back I am your father
Planet of the Apes It was earth all along
The Others You are the ghosts

HM: Carrie kills most/everyone at the prom / revives at the end(?), Psycho Bates is his own grandma, Friday the 13th Jason's mother is the killer, Rocky loses, Game of Thrones/ASoIaF: Ned Stark dies, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: The grandaddy of them all twists and I won't even spoil it here.

FF7
Empire Strikes Back
Half-Blood Prince
Sixth Sense

citizen kane's twist is well-known but let's be real it's fucking weak