Stupidest twist a story has used

[retyopy]

Stupid story twists happen all the time. "ZOMG CORPORATION IZ BADZ U WORK FOR THEM OH NOEZ" and such. But I want to go deeper into the realm of horse-shit. And so I come to you, Escapists: what is the stupidest twist any story (Video game, book, movie, toaster, etc.) that you have evr read. This will have spoilers, iinvietably.

EDIT: I actaully have a question about a non stupid plot twist: Right before the very end of inception, does the top keep spinning or not? Becuase I turned away and when I looked back it was the credits, so I didn't see if it started wavering or not.

 

[retyopy]

Oh, a story that has a stupid twist is haze. bad corpororatiosn du jour.

 

[the_baku_eats_dreams]

"The trees are angry" The happening

 

[Casual Shinji]

Pirates of The Caribbean: All of it.

That entire trilogy was stupid plot twist after stupid plot twist.

 

[Bloedhoest]

"The trees are angry" The happening

I actually quite liked that one.

 

[GigaHz]

"it was all a dream"

Really? So then the experience was a complete waste of time.

 

[twistedmic]

I might be remembering wrong, but I think there was a movie called 'The Virus' (not the '99 Jamie Lee Curtis one) where a deadly virus is sweeping the country, dozens/hundreds die from it within the movie itself, and the protagonists don't catch it because they were already sick with the common cold.

 

[twistedmic]

"it was all a dream"

Really? So then the experience was a complete waste of time.

Which movie had the 'it was all a dream' twist specifically? I know that a soap opera did that to fix a couple of seasons worth of colossal fuck-ups, but I cn't think of any movies that had that type of twist.

 

[tomtom94]

Was going to say "in b4 Shyamalan" but too late.

Mainly because I can't think of anything else, I nominate Command & Conquer Red Alert 2. Specifically the Soviet campaign.

Spoiler

Halfway through, with no input from the player, a couple of characters on your side are killed off, including President Romanov, by Yuri, and you are then ordered to work for Yuri in killing off their resistance and furthering his agenda. One of the most egregious examples of gameplay and story segregation - you have NO impact on this whatsoever, and in the long run it affects nothing apart from who shows up in the cutscenes.

EDIT: not retarded any more

 

[electric_warrior]

Scream 4

I won't ruin it for you, but its pretty damn stupid.

I actually quite liked the original trilogy too

 

[Sylveria]

I have to go with Star Ocean 3's "The entire universe as you know it is a giant MMORPG."

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

*ahem*

WHY IS HIS WIFE AN ARM?!?

Seriously, that was....mindblowingly bad.

 

[DEAD34345]

"it was all a dream"

Really? So then the experience was a complete waste of time.

Those twists are quite bad, but it gets even worse when in the last second of the episode/game/book you see something that proves it wasn't a dream at all, and then you're just left confused.

Spoiler: WARNING: TVTropes links inside

If you want examples for either of those twists:

All just a dream [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AllJustADream]

Or was it a dream? [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OrWasItADream]

 

[GigaHz]

Which movie had the 'it was all a dream' twist specifically? I know that a soap opera did that to fix a couple of seasons worth of colossal fuck-ups, but I cn't think of any movies that had that type of twist.

I can't really think of any modern movies, but a few kids movies from the 90's come to mind. I'm not in the mood to go digging for examples, but I'm sure they are there.

Plus there are plenty of TV shows that use it shamelessly. There's a whole website dedicated to 'It was all a dream" episodes.

 

[WorldCritic]

Your wife IS your arm.

Bionic Commando

 

[Mechanical Cat Fish]

The whole 'it was a dream' and 'I'm working for the bad guys' things are pretty bad, but they've already been mentioned. I think 'Turns out the bad guy is God' (which is admittedly fairly specific to JRPGs) is pretty overdone, even if it did work the first few times. Also, as an honourable mention, the 'The bad guy is made entirely out of asparagus' idea from Yahtzee's review of Singularity is pretty silly. From a narrative standpoint, what does it add?

 

[GigaHz]

Your wife IS your arm.

Bionic Commando

I actually thought that twist was hilarious.

What kind of sense does that make? If they explained it in game, please tell me why they need a person inside of a robotic arm?

 

[Svenparty]

The "Hit by a truck" solution as found in City of Angels and One Day.

 

[eggy32]

The thing with the forest "coming alive" at the end of Macbeth.
That really sucked.

The last few chapters of Condemned 2 as well.

 

[Mr. Omega]

Chalk up another vote for the wife-arm. Good God that was stupid...