[WikiEN-l] {{spoiler}} vs. writing a goddamn encyclopedia

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 16 May 2007 at 02:05:03 -0700, "Matthew Brown" <morven at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> It also seems to me like people are rather odd about what stuff they
> consider "spoiler" and what not.  This is especially notable with
> major comic-book figures, who've often been recreated, re-imagined and
> retconned so many times that there are dozens of "plots" and
> "endings".

In fact, saying that Bruce Wayne is Batman is a spoiler... of the 
original Batman story in Detective Comics #27 (May 1939), "The Case 
of the Chemical Syndicate", in which that fact is not revealed until 
the final panel.


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