Spoiler

Spoiler or Spoilers may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

• Spoiler (media), a summary that reveals significant plot elements
• The Spoiler, DC Comics superheroine Stephanie Brown

Film and television

• Spoiler (film), 1998 American science fiction
• The Spoiler (TV series), 1972 Australian drama
• The Spoilers (1914 film), American Western with William Farnum, based on 1906 Rex Beach novel
  • The Spoilers (1923 film), remake with Noah Beery, Sr. and Anna Q. Nilsson
  • The Spoilers (1930 film), remake with Gary Cooper and Betty Compson
  • The Spoilers (1942 film), remake with Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott and John Wayne
  • The Spoilers (1955 film), remake with Anne Baxter, Jeff Chandler and Rory Calhoun
• Spoilers with Kevin Smith, 2012 film review TV show

Literature

• The Spoiler (novel), 2011, by Annalena McAfee
• The Spoilers (Bagley novel), 1969, by Desmond Bagley
• The Spoilers (Beach novel), 1906, by Rex Beach
• The Spoilers, a novel by Edwin Pugh, 1906
• "The Spoilers", a short story by Michael Gilbert in Game Without Rules, 1967

Music

• The Spoiler (album), by Stanley Turrentine, 1966
• The Spoilers (band), American punk rock/new wave musicians formed in 1978
• Spoiler (album), by Aitana, 2019

People

• The Spoiler (wrestler) (Donald Delbert Jardine, 1940–2006), Canadian masked champion
• Drew McDonald (wrestler) (1955-2015), ring name The Spoiler

Science, technology and transportation

• Spoiler (aeronautics), a device which intentionally reduces the lift component of an airfoil
• Spoiler (car), a device to modify air flow over a vehicle
• Spoiler (security vulnerability), on modern computer central processing units
• Beam spoiler, material placed in the path of the photon beam in radiation therapy

Other uses

• Spoiler effect, where the entry of a losing (irrelevant) candidate affects the results of an election
• Spoiler effect (sports), where teams eliminated from playoffs can affect other teams in the league as they play
• The Spoilers, the trio of Ph.Ds who serve as the villains in the bonus round of the 1970s CBS game show Double Dare

See also

• Spoiler Alert (disambiguation)
• Mighty Spoiler (Theophilus Philip, 1926–1960), Trinidadian calypsonian