Most mindblowing plot twists ever

[TheSchaef]

Every other episode of Death Note.

The Game.

The revealed head of all the Dollhouses.

Oh, and apparently Palpatine turns into the Emperor?

 

[richardwatchorn]

If anyone has seen it "Arlington Road" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137363/
Ending was insane

 

[Shru1kan]

Would you Kindly ......

I bet this would have blown my mind, if my friend hadn't told me this literally a day before I got to that point in the game. So angry with him.

It blew mine... that was really damn good.

 

[Gorrister]

Lucky Number Slevin was quite mindblowing. i had a feeling the kid never got killed, but when it shows you all the plannign you're like "Snap!"

 

[Ekonk]

One of my favourites is in the finale to the second season to NCIS

Spoiler

They raid a building with a bunch of terrorists in and clear it out. They get to the top, clear that and stop the terror plan. They a guy who hid comes on to the roof and takes a shot at the leader. One of the operatives jumps in the way and takes the bullet. The other two take out the guy. Then you're like "Oh my God! She's dead" and then you're like "Wait no, she's probably got a bulletproof vest on" and sure enough, she does. She gets helped up the it's like "Wow, that almost ended badly". Then BAM, sniper bullet to the head. It comes the fuck out of nowhere, and that's her, dead.

I saw that one! I was like and then O_O

OP: I'd have to say the Bioshock one. Magnificent breaking - more like cracking, actually - the fourth wall.

 

[The Candyman]

That "Timmy the Really Nice Guy" was actually nice and that Sir Shmoopy made him Timmy the Evil!

 

[MR T3D]

in serenity, Wash...
that got me

well, not mind-blowing, that's when Bruce Willis was dead, at the end of 6th sense.
um,
Dr. Horrible; everything you ever...

 

[CrazyGirl17]

My personal favorite plot twists include twists from the following:

Fight Club, Star Wars (Kind of an old one, but oh well), Tales of Symphonia (had several, including one similar to the Star Wars one), Bioshock, Transformers Animated, Harry Potter, and, of course, Red VS Blue: Reconstruction (one of THE best plot twists ever in my opinion.)

Any of these ring familiar with anybody?

I'd add details... but I'm not sure how to put in spoiler tags. Any tips?

EDIT: Hang on, I thought of a few more: Sola, Kingdom Hearts and Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive . (What? Don't look at me like that!)

 

[Ziltoid]

Okay, well my thoughts on the subject are that I don't consider the mere inclusion of a surprise or shock moment to be a real plot twist, nor are cliffhanger endings (which are something in of themselves). For something to be a plot twist there has to be a plot continueing after the story, a twist ending is something else entirely.

One of the problems I have with many "surprises" in movies and such is that there are very few new ones. All of them are cool the first time you see them, but as you get older, see more movies, and become more jaded, you realize how repetitive things get. I can't say I've seen much real originality in years, and what originality comes around is typically beaten to into the ground by an immediate influx of imitators, some of which will probably actually improve on the original work even if they lack the newness.

Going back to one of the most classic twists, read an old story called "The Purloined Letter". Today you might go "well what's so special about that?" but then consider when that was written (and by whom, if you don't know) and you'll rapidly realize that a lot of those twists are simply variations on one of the oldest mystery/surprise stories of all time. Leading me to occasionally sit there and rate whethere something is a GOOD version of that story/twist or not rather than going "OMG, that was original". There are other unique twists that are just as classic and recycled that get the same reaction, but that one is perhaps the all time classic/most used type of twist.

But then again I'm 34, and while not greatly older than a lot of people posting here I think that even coming up in "residential facilities" I think even a scant few years made a lot of differance in the educational system. It seems that shortly after I graduated High School and even Jr. High stopped encouraging children to read a lot of classic literature, probably for political reasons (as everything is left wing nowadays, as opposed to providing writers who lean in differant directions with differant messages and letting people make their own desicians). The writings of Kurt Vonnegut, Edgar Allan Poe, HP Lovecraft (to an extent), Robert Heinlan, Issac Asimov, were all on my required reading lists through the years for various reasons. Today it seems someone says "well we'll hand them some Hemmingway and Steinbeck and call it educational reading" without other writers in counterpoint they lose a lot of impact. A lot of slightly more modern writers are also overlooked. I'll also say that I feel people like Herman Melville have lost a lot of their relevency, and today 90% of what people say about them are trying to project modern opinions onto writings that were devoid of them being totally out of context. With someone like Vonnegut, Heinlan, or Asimov as fantastic as the stories might be at times it's pretty obvious the points they try and make and why they are relevent, or remain that way.

I for example think Asimov's "Foundation" series should be read through an entire year in school as part of a "Reading" or "literature" class or whatever they call it. The reason being is that as it goes on, it pretty much analyzes and generates thought about pretty much every social and political system to exist on any major level in the last few levels, and as it goes on the philsophy lionized and "saving the day" in one story doesn't nessicarly fare so well in another. The ending (which took him a long time to get there) is pretty incredible, and let's just say it winds up supporting a system that I don't agree with, however I believe that's half the point of the story especially given some of the final comments. Not to mention that if you've read it all as of the climax on earth's moon everyone is going to have their own opinions as to what the right path for humanity should have been.

I'm one of those people who would say Foundation is quite probably the best and most continously relevent science fiction series every written.

I totally agree with you about the Foundation series, they are some of the best books I have ever read, and the ending really was very interesting(I did not like the whole "Universe is Gaia" either, but I could definitely understand his reasoning.)

Personally my favorite twist has to be the end of Memento by Christopher Nolan, may not be a huge, in your face type of twist like his other film Prestige, but when you stop and think about how much it affects your perception of the main character and his actions it blows you away.

 

[Ganthrinor]

I watched oldboy a couple of weeks ago. Man...that film wouldn't have gotten made here. But I recommend it if you like having your mind blown.

Possibly one of the best movies ever.

OT (and also a fun fact) the movie "The Departed" was based almost entirely off of a Chinese movie called "Infernal Affairs". Infernal Affairs was awesome for it's twistiness.

 

[MercenaryCanary]

Well, I sure as hell wasn't expecting that World War II would end with a giant bomb.
I was all like "NO FUCKING WAY!!!"

 

[lacktheknack]

The ending to the game Second Sight.

I should have seen it coming!

 

[PxDn Ninja]

Fight Club of course.

Yeah, pretty much this. Caught me from left field.

 

[Teenage Beatnik]

The Sixth Sense... the SECOND time I saw it. It still surprised me! How? I dunno...

 

[Mufujumon]

Ted Dekker and all of his novels. Seriously, all of them.
PS how do you hide txt?

 

[Dorian6]

The end of Soylent Green, Citizen Kane, and Saw 2 (to a lesser extent)


Spoiler alert: it's people

 

[Claymorez]

I was pretty impressed bye the Redvs.Blue Redemption plot twist - that was very very well thought out with Director Dr. Leonard Ch-

But ya a better on is like the suicide bomb in season 3 of Battlestar Galactica I was shocked and appalled at the writers putting it in and how radical the New Caprica hesitance was.

 

[OtherSideofSky]

I'm going to have to go with Myst, to which I devoted a significant portion of my childhood, and Fantastic Children, which completely blew me away just before the end. I would also like to mention 20th Century Boys (Monster and Pluto as well, but 20th Century Boys shocks me the most frequently) and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

Also, Violence Hero Riki Oh may have some of the most unpredictable and shocking plot twists ever, but that stems less from masterful storytelling and more from complete insanity. If anyone can predict all the ridiculous stuff that happens in Riki Oh, then they must be clairvoyent.

 

[mr.aravaro]

Bioshock best plot twist I've seen in a game.
fable 2 worst plot twist I've seen in a game.

 

[daishonato]

1984, Winston's redemption... it's built over the last chapter or two, but still the greatest twist I've ever read.
Close second would be Battlestar Galactica's end of season three, with 'all along the watchtower' and the meeting in the brig... don't think I've ever laughed so hard, sheer genius.