Bad plot twists

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Mars of Destruction, on top of possibly being the worst, most hilariously bad anime ever, also had the most useless, pathetic excuse of a twist ending I've ever seen.
 

WolfThomas

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Xorn is Magneto, that is all.

Maeta said:
Also, can you call it a twist that Senator Palpatine was Darth Sidius all along, when his voice was easily recognisable, as was his nose?
Plus he is actually referred to as Palpatine in the original trilogym, if not directly in film, but in additional stuff. I remeber seeing an Emperor Palpatine action figure long before the Phantom Menace existed.
 

Rocksa

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LiberalSquirrel said:
Rocksa said:
In the movie Timeline, student Andre Marek gets his ear cut off in the final battle which unlocks his inner badass, since it reveals that he is, in fact, the knight that they find in a sarcophogas at the beggining of the movie. The problem there is that it means that everything was already set, which means not a damn bit of their actions mattered since none of the characters actually had free will. What had happened, would happen, and would always happen in a loop, now and forever. Not a bad plot twist per se, but really crappy and kinda makes the entire plot of the film feel pointless when you think about it.
I would suggest reading the book instead. That... er... never happens in the book. I really liked the book, but I didn't even know they made a movie out of it.

But whenever I see "bad plot twists," I automatically jump to the king of all horrible plot twists: Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles.

SPOILERS

The ending was just one giant WTF. "The male main character is the son of his own clone, who married the female main character's clone and gave birth to him, and..." et cetera, et cetera.
Yeah, I would really expect that. Seems like the people who decide to make Crichton's books into films are the same people who've never read any of his books. Lost World was the same way, in the whole terrific book/terrible movie thing there.

Anyway, speaking of Lost World...

Not much of a twist, but in the book it turns out that they want the dinosaurs for animal testing. That's the bad guys big over reaching goal. Apparently the logic is that there aren't any laws about what's humane testing and what isn't when you do it to dinosaurs. They let you think that maybe it's for a new theme park or some kind of weapon thing...nope, making better makeup.
 

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MetalMagpie said:
JesterRaiin said:
Merkavar said:
bad plot twists?
Last 30% of every Final Fantasy game that came after FF7.
I'm going to invite flames here by saying that I would INCLUDE FF7 in that statement!

My pet theory is that the writer(s) wrote themselves into a corner with the whole "who is Cloud really?" mystery. Then just decided to give the whole idea the boot and move on.
It seems that whatever Square Enix writers are inhaling, wears too quickly off. ;)