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Contrast with [[It Was His Sled]], where everybody knows what the spoiler is. This trope means that ''the only thing'' most people know about the work is the spoiler.
See also [[Late Arrival Spoiler]], when the company that makes it gives away a spoiler in the sequel's ads. Often a cause of [[Watch It for the Meme]]. If it happens on the first chapter of a series, it's a [[First Episode Spoiler]]. The [[Shallow Parody]] more often than not will rely on this trope rather than actually watching the work they are mocking. [[Just Here for Godzilla]] and [[Watch It for the Meme]] are common consequences. See also [[Everybody Knows That]].
The [[Trope Namer]] is the 1992 film ''[[The Crying Game]]''.<ref>And indirectly, [http://lyrics.wikia.com/Boy_George:The_Crying_Game the eponymous song].</ref> You likely already know that '''All There Is To Know About ''[[The Crying Game]]''''' is that {{spoiler|[[Unsettling Gender Reveal|the main character's love interest is a]] pre-operative [[transgender]] woman.}} [[William Goldman]] noted that knowing the secret actually made the film a much better movie.
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* ''[[Kannazuki no Miko]]'': Himeko and Chikane become romantically involved, even after {{Spoiler|the infamous scene in the eighth episode where [[Rape Is Love|Chikane rapes Himeko]]}}. The series actually downplays their relationship in the initial chapters, as they don't play by the usual [[Girls Love]] tropes.
* ''[[Romeo X Juliet]]'': if you know how [[Romeo and Juliet|the original play]] ended, [[It Was His Sled|you know how this one is going to end too]].
* In anime circles, two facts about Lucy, the female heroine of ''[[Elfen Lied]]'', (namely {{Spoiler|her death and her real name "Kaede"}}) are widely known
* Two things are well known from ''[[Baccano!]]'': the [[Walking Spoiler]] quality of Claire Stanfield (arguably the most popular character of the series, and also the focal character of one of its most popular arcs), and that this is the series where they have a character named Jacuzzi Splot.
* Thanks to the "Ideon destroyed the universe!" meme, there are plenty that have heard about ''[[Space Runaway Ideon]]'' [[Kill'Em All]] ending despite knowing ''nothing else'' about it.
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* What do you mean that ''[[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]'' isn't about Audrey Hepburn wearing a fabulous Givenchy dress and holding a cigarette in a holder while Mickey Rooney does [[Yellowface]] in the background?
* The shower murder scene and the reveal about Norman Bates and his mother is pretty much what popular culture thinks ''[[Psycho]]'' is about.
* Good luck finding anyone now who
* ''[[Fargo]]'' is widely known as "That movie where a guy gets fed to a woodchipper." Not even the staggering amount of awards it got or its remake as a miniseries are as remembered as that scene.
* ''[[Se7en]]'': the identity of the head in the box is the wife of Det. Mills.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Infamously terrible Tabletop RPG ''[[FATAL]]'' is inexorably tied to the "roll for anal circumference" meme, even when that's not even the most offensive aspect or the worst mechanic transgression of said game.
== [[Theatre]] ==
* ''[[Salome]]'': Salome does an striptease and asks for the head of Jochanaan.
* ''[[The Mousetrap]]'' is famous for having a convoluted, twisty ending. To know what happens in said ending, however, requires people to see the play or go to sources different than this wiki, because the other thing known about ''The Mousetrap'' is that said ending is [[Do Not Spoil This Ending|traditionally asked to be kept in secret once the play ends]], so future audiences aren't spoiled.
* ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' by [[William Shakespeare]]. Everyone remembers it's a beautiful love story about a boy and a girl from a pair of families at war with each other. Nobody seems to remember that they end up killing themselves at the end because of a stupid mistake.
* ''[[The Vagina Monologues]]'' and the "The Little Coochie Snorcher That Could" segment, because of its plot about a teenage girl that sees [[Double Standard Rape (Female on Female)|the dubiously consented sex she had with an older woman as better than the rape she experienced from a male when she was a child]].
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