25 Films That Intentionally Spoil Other Films

There may not be an '80s or '90s kid who doesn’t know a) Sonic the Hedgehog, and b) Charlotte’s Web. And yet there’s only really one place outside our brains where the two have come together.

After a rocky uncanny valley beginning, Jeff Fowler’s Sonic adaptation got up to full speed and brought the character to life on screen in 2020, joined by James Marsden’s sheriff Tom Wackwski and Jim Carrey as Dr. Robotnik, in something of an origin story for the title character.

In many ways, Robotnik steals the show, with his madcap antics and typically plastic line-and action-delivery, per Carrey, but he also manages to slip a few odd references in as well. Major Bennington (Neal McDonough) is one of the soldiers tasked with helping Robotnik track and catch Sonic, and at one point, when the mega-mind Robotnik is berating him, Sonic tells Bennington that he reads at a third-grade level and explains the ending of Charlotte's Web: that Charlotte dies and leaves an egg sac behind.

It makes sense for the context of the scene, but despite that, it spoils both the book, the original 1973 film, and Gary Winick’s 2006 version, even though it’s not exactly a timely pop culture reference. But, given the film’s writers are both Gen X, that might explain how we ended up here…