Plot twists and big reveals you solved by yourself

[Agent Larkin]

Dark Knight Rises I guessed a lot of it.

I got Bioshock as soon as he said what the names of his wife and son were and i recalled a poster I had seen in game.

MGS3. I guessed Ocelot was one of the good guys from the beginning. And that the Boss was being set up.

Mafia 1. I knew it would end with your character being killed. I got the method wrong in that I thought it was going to be the cop you were talking too was crooked.

There is one of the Sharpe books (Sharpe's Sword I think) where he is trying to ferret out a spy and he believes it is someone but I called who it was really when the character was first introduced.

I also have a habit of guessing it is either the Butler or the Vicar did it in any mystery. ESPECIALLY if there is no Butler or Vicar in the story.

Also I guessed Hot Fuzz. Didn't change how awesome the movie was for me at all.

 

[Ryotknife]

I say the plot twist to Tales of Vesperia and Star Ocean the New Hope.

tales spoiler:

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For Tales, I knew that something was going to happen with the playable character Raven. I figured he would die in an unexpected way, or he would betray me and become the enemy. Why? One, he is the only playable character that is not customizable. Two, while he is a goofus, he does intellectualize everything, so he could easily justify away betrayal. Three, towards a certain point, he lets his goofy and carefree mask slip a few times, like he is pondering something that weighs him down heavily, but every topic steered towards this is disarmed with a smile and a joke.

Then again, i did NOT expect him to betray me, die, come BACK to life, AND rejoin my party in a span of like...10 minutes.

Star Ocean:

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I do not know why, but i figured faize, one of the first playable characters (and someone who is there 85% of the game), to be the final boss/villain. I mean, that is a pretty unique twist, and yet it seems like they advertised the clues WAY too much.

1. In the middle of the game Faize goes from "lalala the world is wonderful and Edge is my hero" to "FU Edge, F your planet, F your people, and F your stupid emo hair!"

2. at the height of the new Angry Faize, he just ups and dies. No fanfare, no "FAAAAAAIIIIIIZZZEEE", just BOOM dead (course you dont see him die, although they never explained how he got out of that)

3. you get a new Faize, with half of the calories but all of the abilities! Well...okay i thought. Maybe this new faize is just a temp to fill in the plot till they find him. That is what i thought till i got to the final dungeon, and then it was "he is the final boss, isnt he?"

 

[robotam]

The ending to Lost, along with every one who ever watched even 5 minutes of the first episode, 10 years prior to its cancellation.

Every 'mystery' HIMYM has thrown at us has been pretty easily solved. The 'twists' in every episode of Sherlock. ALL the 'shocking revelations' in last season's Doctor Who, and the ending to Inception.

Lost wasn't on for 10 years and it wasn't cancelled. What twist exactly did you see coming?

 

[Prime_Hunter_H01]

Rogue Galaxy, fun game but story wise;

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IF YOU HAVE EVER SEEN STAR WARS AN CANNOT FIGURE OUT THE PLOT TWISTS IN THIS GAME...
Jaster has some sort of important heritage, Zegram betrays you, you go on some grand adventure with a band of space pirates leaving a desert planet. And that the missing dad of the women and child is one of your party members. There is a f***ing C-3PO Expy. Damn.

 

[Kataskopo]

I knew who Altas was from the moment his family was killed, even when I didn't know what his name would be, because well...

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The Polito form is dead, insect.

Jade Empire...that one bugged me as the game dragged on and on and on.

Fucking Slumdog Millionare, knew the final question, who he would call and what he would do about ten minutes in...I walked out at that stage.

How... but... why?

I tried to pay attention to the logs, but I never got a hint of that. Would you kindly elaborate?

 

[The Almighty Aardvark]

Don't know quite how difficult this was to supposed to be to find out but in the first season of Dexter:

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I guessed that the doctor was the Ice Truck Killer pretty early on. Initially because he seemed like the only character in the show who could be him, but later on he kept slipping in lines about bodies and pieces, as well as having a fascination in the human form

 

[octafish]

I knew who Altas was from the moment his family was killed, even when I didn't know what his name would be, because well...

Spoiler

The Polito form is dead, insect.

Jade Empire...that one bugged me as the game dragged on and on and on.

Fucking Slumdog Millionare, knew the final question, who he would call and what he would do about ten minutes in...I walked out at that stage.

How... but... why?

I tried to pay attention to the logs, but I never got a hint of that. Would you kindly elaborate?

I knew because so much of Bioshock was badly lifted from 1999's System Shock 2, which I played to death, (and still do). When Atlas' "family" died I knew what role he would take, the logs just filled in details, like his name and motivations.

 

[Stasisesque]

The ending to Lost, along with every one who ever watched even 5 minutes of the first episode, 10 years prior to its cancellation.

Every 'mystery' HIMYM has thrown at us has been pretty easily solved. The 'twists' in every episode of Sherlock. ALL the 'shocking revelations' in last season's Doctor Who, and the ending to Inception.

Lost wasn't on for 10 years and it wasn't cancelled. What twist exactly did you see coming?

Sorry, hyperbole gets the best of me when I really dislike something. Also hope, I hoped it had been cancelled - it's sort of sad that it came to a 'natural' end in retrospect.

The 'twist' being them dying. True, only the "sideways world" was the afterlife, but that still sort of leaves the island as purgatory, even if it was real. It was a cop out by Abrams, and a huge shame as I am normally a fan of his. A similar thing is/was/has happened in Fringe.

 

[locoartero]

I actually study stories for a living. I'm bound to ruin myself some.
Pretty much every Shyamalan plot twist (from the actually worth watching movies Unbreakable, Sixth Sense, etc) I mean, come on. The second the kid says "They don't know they are dead" I called it. Same thing with Jackson's suspicious obsession with wearing gloves.
Also, Nueve Reinas, the super obvious Miranda Tate thing, Brazil, Shutter Island, Invisible Monsters and, sadly, Fight Club (too many hints: "I know this because Tyler knows this" and "Sometimes Tyler spoke for me" being just too much). By the same logic, The Machinist, but that felst like a Frankenmonster stapled together with ideas from other better films, so who cares...
Matchstick Men, but that was boring and predictable.
Lucky Number Slevin I pieced together halfway through...
Dexter, the first season
Slumdog Millionaire
Psycho, thanks to the modern obssesion with criminal and DPD
Brazil
It's 4:30 am
I'll probably have more later.
And that's skiping videogames and except for one book, literature. My god, do we all have some there.

 

[revjor]

The ending to Lost, along with every one who ever watched even 5 minutes of the first episode, 10 years prior to its cancellation.

Every 'mystery' HIMYM has thrown at us has been pretty easily solved. The 'twists' in every episode of Sherlock. ALL the 'shocking revelations' in last season's Doctor Who, and the ending to Inception.

Lost wasn't on for 10 years and it wasn't cancelled. What twist exactly did you see coming?

Sorry, hyperbole gets the best of me when I really dislike something. Also hope, I hoped it had been cancelled - it's sort of sad that it came to a 'natural' end in retrospect.

The 'twist' being them dying. True, only the "sideways world" was the afterlife, but that still sort of leaves the island as purgatory, even if it was real. It was a cop out by Abrams, and a huge shame as I am normally a fan of his. A similar thing is/was/has happened in Fringe.

It's not really how you are describing. The sideways world in the final season is purgatory or something close. Everyone is there because everyone dies someday. A handful of characters never die in the show and are assumed to have lived quite awhile off or on the island. They are dead in the sideverse because eventually at somepoint they did die... because that's how living works. The sideverse was a way of wrapping up the characters not the story because the story could have technically kept going. It just didn't need to. The island is nothin close to purgatory. It was just an oft visited island sitting on an immense power source.

 

[revjor]

Identity was by far the easiest twist to figure out. They explicitly tell you what it is in the opening credits. Yet people were still somehow surprised.

 

[Korolev]

Batman Dark Knight rises

Bane couldn't have been the kid who escaped. When he was beating on Batman he clearly states that he didn't see the daylight until he was a grown man. He couldn't have been the son of that Ghul or whatever his name is

 

[Grimh]

I figured out KOTOR pretty fast.
And all of the things in The Dark Knight Rises.
Shutter Island was pretty obvious.
Oh and the first season of Dexter.

Those are the ones I could remember of the top of my head.

 

[WolfThomas]

Brandon Sanderson's writing is great for plot twists. Sometimes he leads you by the hand explaining it at some point, other times he leaves it just up to you. But he always gives you rules and frameworks for his magic systems that let you guess.

Spoiler: For example (warning Warbreaker, Mistborn and Stormlight spolilers)

In Warbreaker I worked out Clod was Arsteel after being reanimated. It was pretty easy (they had a friend who was a brilliant swordsman, their zombie servant is a brilliant swordsman), but he never tells you it. I guessed the numerous statures were Kalad's Phantoms a few pages before the reveal.

Though I did miss that Shallan in Way of Kings had a shardblade, I misread her line about having a hidden weapon to mean her fake Soulcaster and I totally read a "counting her heartbeats line" as just dramatic writing. I did guess Kaladin had stormlight powers the minute he pulled out a dun-sphere. I did guess that the Voidbringers were the Parshmen/Parshendi.

In the Mistborn series I immediately understood Spook had a haematurligic spike when he got pewter powers and heard Kelsier's voice (Ruin actually). Then very quickly I realsed that Vin's coppercloud piercing powers must have come from her bronze earring. I did miss that Reen's voice from earlier was the same God/Kelsier/Ruin that Spook and Zane heard.

 

[robotam]

Sorry, hyperbole gets the best of me when I really dislike something. Also hope, I hoped it had been cancelled - it's sort of sad that it came to a 'natural' end in retrospect.

The 'twist' being them dying. True, only the "sideways world" was the afterlife, but that still sort of leaves the island as purgatory, even if it was real. It was a cop out by Abrams, and a huge shame as I am normally a fan of his. A similar thing is/was/has happened in Fringe.

Spoiler: lost ending

But everyone eventually dying isn't really a twist. The twist was they were able to create a purgatory, using the power of friendship (and sinking the island with a nuke), they were able to create a purgatory (sideways world), where they could sort out some issues and then all move onto the afterlife together. The island was not in anyway purgatory.

You might not like it. But I'd say no one would guess that by watching 5 the first episode.

 

[ArcaneSaint]

First one that springs to mind:

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when I saw Fight club I quickly realized the truth about Tyler Durden. In the scene where he, himself, and his "girlfriend" had a conversation, and it was only ever her and one of the two others in the same room. She never encountered both of them at the same time. Also, the things she said.

Dude, you just contradicted yourself. You can't say "the scene where he, himself, and his girlfriend had a conversation" followed by "She never encountered both of them at the same time".

I meant the scene where (enormously massive spoilers ahead, if you haven't seen Fight Club yet, do so first.)

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Tyler and not-Tyler were having an argument with each other and Marla, but she never saw both of them at the same time, as Tyler and not-Tyler were the same person (multiple personality twist!), so when Tyler was talking to Marla, he'd often leave the room after which not-Tyler would enter, talk to Marla, leave, and Tyler would once again enter. She also acted all confused in that scene, as she didn't know about the split personality.

 

[Da Orky Man]

Not quite a big reveal, but I worked out that Mass Effect 3 would have you prowling the galaxy getting support from the various races for the Plan, and I have the posts somewhere on here to prove it.

 

[Acton Hank]

The ending to Lost, along with every one who ever watched even 5 minutes of the first episode, 10 years prior to its cancellation.

I had never seen the show and I called the ending when the series started. I was till in highschool then and I specifically said

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It will turn out they're all dead

I think it was based on a book, which is probably how I called it.

What got me into LOST was that the producer promised, in the off-season gap between Season 1 and Season 2, that a) there would not be a copout ending, nor ambiguous or non-ending and b) all the big theories already postulated to him -- most notably this specific theory itself -- were wrong. I stopped watching LOST at the midway ending with the flashforwards where everything major was tied up, but with enough minor loose ends to keep producing episodes for the dedicated fans. If he did indeed pull this stunt as the final, final ending, after suckering people into watching by explicitly promising that would not be what happened, then that's disgraceful.

Was anybody really expecting the Lost ending to be anything else?

Lost had 1 good season and 5 godawful ones.

I told all my friends about a third of the way through the second season "Look, none of this will lead anywhere, this is just going in circles, it's just going to add more and more bullshit till we get to a stupid copout ending that's going to piss everyone but the religiously devoted fans off; all because there is no satisfying way to answer the collective piles of bullshit that have been stacked on top of one another over the course of 5 seasons.

My friends still kept watching it, and at the end all of them said "Shit, you were right"...

Oh and the twist in Bioshock, god that was telegraphed a mile away.

 

[Yopaz]

Pretty much everything that going happen in Avatar I figured out after the first 10 minutes or so, when they got done explaining the basic premise of the movie. It was laughably predictable after that, but despite that I still managed to enjoy the movie.

I figured out the killer in quite a few Bones episodes because I noticed a pattern with it, every killer will either have appeared in the first 5-10 minutes of the episode or just come out of nowhere in the last 5 minutes of the episode, the killer almost never shows up halfway through, and they will never not figure out who the killer is either.

Captcha: Smoking Guns

My, how psychic captcha, you must have seen me coming an hour ago.

I figured out the entire thing about Avatar from seeing the trailer. That movie gets way too much praise, the plot is really unoriginal. The special effects are decent though.

OT: I have guessed the killers in several Agatha Christie books, several twists in games (most recently The Last Story came with an obvious one). I would say I have a knack for it, but I think it is because there are few original stories left.

 

[JeffBergGold]

That Delita Hyral would become the ruler of Ivalce in FFT. I just knew he had it in him from the start.