Spoiler or Spoilers may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Spoiler (media) A spoiler is an element of a disseminated summary or description of a media narrative that reveals significant plot elements, with the implication that the experience of discovering the plot naturally, as the creator intended it, has been robbed ...

, something 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 * ''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) In aeronautics, a spoiler (sometimes called a lift spoiler or lift dumper) is a device which increases the Drag (physics), drag and decreases the lift (force), lift of an airfoil in a controlled way. Most often, spoilers are hinged plates on t ...

, 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 In social choice theory and politics, a spoiler effect happens when a losing candidate affects the results of an election simply by participating. Voting rules that are not affected by spoilers are said to be spoilerproof. The frequency and se ...

, 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