Worst plot twist you have ever seen in your life

[Neurotic Void Melody]

One of the most memorable movies I've ever seen was the Long Kiss Goodnight. I didn't have a TV and I hadn't seen a trailer of it. I went to the movie theater with some friends on a Saturday and we ordinarily catch 2-3 movies, hopping between rooms. We would see one we really wanted to see, then just pop in on another that was just starting. Well, The Long Kiss Goodnight was about 10-15 minutes in, and it looked to me to be about a lady that was in a coma that woke up a and got married and was trying to figure out who she was. I asked my friend, why are we watching this, but he said he saw the trailer and promised it was going to be good. Eventually a bunch of guys bust into the house to kill her and she kills them like a professional hitman - and that was a big WTF moment for me, having no clue what this movie was about. Turns out she's a spy that was thought dead and now has amnesia.

Catching the first bit of the movie later, this ruined the experience. I thought the movie could have been edited/written better to hide the fact of who she is really is.

It got me to thinking; if we could watch movies with no trailer at all, just going in and watching it, it would make for a more exciting experience - provided that the movie/game is actually worth seeing and you are going to enjoy it. Unfortunately we don't have a way of knowing if we're even interested unless we see a trailer. There are too many movies/games (even classics) fighting for your time, so we pick and choose based on what we see, which ruins a lot of the surprise.

Imagine a movie that's a romantic comedy - but then there's an unexpected twist and it's an action movie in space (yes I'm aware it sounds like a horrible movie). How can you do that in the trailer to entice people without giving too much away?

I had a similar experience with Lucy, the Scarlet Johannson film. All I had to go on was the front cover, it's title and a friend's vague recommendation. My immediate assumption was it was going to be a typical femme fatal movie, so for ages I was waiting for Scarlet to just shout "surprise, muthafuckas!" and whip out some whoop-ass on everyone instantly. What I was not expecting was

Spoiler

...some all-powerful goddess origin story.

The expected kick-ass was trumped infinite times over by what I finally experienced (bad pop-science not withstanding).
Thinking back on it, I agree that seeing any trailer or review about beforehand would not have given me the incredible feeling of surprise and excitement. It is difficult to replicate that experience whilst we swim in the free-flowing waters of information. The most effective method would be to go around with our eyes closed and fingers in ears chanting "Lalalalaladooleelaaa" Which is certainly no friend of health and safety, I tell you.

 

[Scars Unseen]

I'm still seething about the ending to "Magi Madoka Magica: Rebellion".

Spoiler: This is as much as I can gather

Ok, so somehow the Incubators captured Homura after the end of the series and experimented on her Soul Gem, turning her into a Witch, who in turn, trapped the entire city in her Labyrinth. (...Bunnycat is such a dick.) When Homura realizes this, she goes full Witch, so the other Magical Girls have to fight her. When it's all over, Madok gets her god powers back and starts to bring Homura to her afterlife... Only for Homura to go and steal those powers away from her. What the fuck.

That one's not bad if you had been paying attention to the entire series. I mean, it's a bad way to end the story if there isn't another sequel, but the plot twist itself isn't bad.

 

[Ihateregistering1]

I wouldn't call it the absolute worst, but I guessed who the Arkham Knight would be within about an hour of playing 'Arkham Knight'.

In the original Resident Evil, finding out that Wesker is bad. Never trust someone who wears sunglasses at night and has their hair slicked back. Also finding out that the 'mystery person' was Jill in RE5. Actually RE just stinks at plot twists period.

 

[Buccura]

Recently watched Higurashi no Naku Koro ni. It was pretty good as a horror, until they revealed that basically

Spoiler

It was ALIENSSSS!

Yeah, they basically pulled a midichlorean. Killed any interest in seeing the second season.

 

[Akjosch]

The assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, of course. I mean, come on. That course of events was so improbable, the people involved in creating it had to be drunk!

 

[Megalodon]

The entirety of Season 5 of Game Of Thrones?

Were there any plots twists in there? Don't get me wrong, a lot of that series was pretty weak (and really, a lack of plot twists does contribute to that), but generally you plot needs to have twists for them to be bad ones. Best I can think of is

Spoiler

Stannis burning his daughter and still loses

but that isn't really a twist as it's a Hail Mary idea at best, and it's resolved so quickly there's little time to linger on it.

 

[wizzy555]

Mass effect 3 where they thought it was a good idea to turn the gleefully evil Reapers into well an intended extremist role which didn't fit with anything they ever said or done.

When exactly were they portrayed as gleefully evil? I recall them being extremists with a weird ideology from the very beginning.

I agree, they were gleefully superior and dismissive of the organic races, but they even said they were up to something you (organics) wouldn't understand - which at the time I immediately took as a cop out or a kick the can down the road situation.


BTW did that rumor about the real villain being dark energy before the rewrite ever get confirmed?

 

[TristanBelmont]

Plot twist implies it's been thought out beforehand. By Mass Effect 3 they were just writing stuff as they went along.

 

[ItouKaiji]

Recently watched Higurashi no Naku Koro ni. It was pretty good as a horror, until they revealed that basically

Spoiler

It was ALIENSSSS!

Yeah, they basically pulled a midichlorean. Killed any interest in seeing the second season.

It wasn't

Spoiler

aliens. They were just speculating in that episode. It's not anything even close to aliens.

You're missing out on an excellent season if you stop watching there.

 

[ObsidianJones_v1legacy]

Maybe it's because I saw it just yesterday, but I'll go with Devil's Advocate.
OK, by the later parts of the movie I stopped liking it and started skipping a minute here and there, so maybe I am wrong, but:

Spoiler

So, this whole thing is happening in Keanu Reeveses characters head and he is actually in a bathroom right before triumphantly defending a pedo. So he tells him to fuck the hell off, losses the case and lives happily ever after. And by the way, Al Pachino is not a Devil, but an angel (?) who took a role of a Devil to guide Keanu. Well, I did not like it at all.

Maybe later I'll edit my comment and add something else.

In Christian Lore, The Devil was the Angel Lucifer who fell from Heaven after rebelling against God. What you saw at the end was Lucifer form before going to hell.

It wasn't in Keanu Reeves' head. It happened. But the Devil didn't want to lose. So the Devil, being an nigh omnipotent force, reset time with knowledge of all the things that went wrong. When Keanu was about to walk away from everything, quitting being a Lawyer and about to be disbarred, Lucifer came to Keanu in a different form, trying to play on his pride to again try to make Keanu fall into the Devil's plan.

Spoiler: Speaking of M. Night Shyamalan

Ok where to start?
Signs- So the alien greatest weakness was water which just so happened that the planet Earth is made of about 70%- 80% of water?

What I never got was Humidity. Isn't that essentially just a different phase of water? How come they weren't affected by that? Why does it have to be just liquid water?

 

[Akytalusia]

the worse plot twist i've ever seen in my life?

"jk."

so overused. it may very well be the most common plot twist in all media.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Maybe it's because I saw it just yesterday, but I'll go with Devil's Advocate.
OK, by the later parts of the movie I stopped liking it and started skipping a minute here and there, so maybe I am wrong, but:

Spoiler

So, this whole thing is happening in Keanu Reeveses characters head and he is actually in a bathroom right before triumphantly defending a pedo. So he tells him to fuck the hell off, losses the case and lives happily ever after. And by the way, Al Pachino is not a Devil, but an angel (?) who took a role of a Devil to guide Keanu. Well, I did not like it at all.

Maybe later I'll edit my comment and add something else.

Quality of the movie aside, that's not what happens at all.

Spoiler

Keanu is the son of the Devil and is asked by his dad to perform somekind of satanic impregnation ritual with his own sister, which'll give birth to like the anti-Christ. Keanu knowing he can't outrun any of this since he's Satan spawn himself chooses to blow his brains out. This is then seen as an extreme act of selflesness, probably by God, and he's given a second chance right before everything went to hell. We then get a final shot of Al Pacino indicating the Devil still hasn't given up on Keanu.

 

[DahkWaltz]

I wouldn't call it the absolute worst, but I guessed who the Arkham Knight would be within about an hour of playing 'Arkham Knight'.

In the original Resident Evil, finding out that Wesker is bad. Never trust someone who wears sunglasses at night and has their hair slicked back. Also finding out that the 'mystery person' was Jill in RE5. Actually RE just stinks at plot twists period.

Yeah, I'd say that, mostly because both me and my friend were playing the game, the moment Arkham Knight spoke I instantly thought of that one character. My friend said the same thing about a minute after.

 

[FPLOON]

Sonic 06...

Spoiler: Why am I putting this under a spoiler tag again?

Sonic gets killed by Mephiles, causing Elis to cry and release Iblis from her body... In other words, the only reason why Sonic's "The Iblis Trigger" in the first place is because the fucking villain, Mephiles, made it so instead of the whole "you can't change fate" shtick, considering we're dealing with time travel in this game...

Other than that, Sei finding his father in Virtua Quest... I mean, it was a bit too obvious the moment Sei's father's on screen, let alone when he's speaking in general...

 

[Mister K]

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OK, my bad. I DID say that I may be wrong, though.

But I remembered another one that I know for sure did happen.
I am talking about Stephen King's "Under the Dome". Look, I liked the book. King was always good when it came to disecting peoples inner world, but the general plot of his books is most of the time average. Who placed the Dome?

Spoiler

Yeah.

 

[Recusant]

I would say the worst kind of plot twist is one that is shown to us in it's own bloody trailer. *death stare towards Terminator Genysis*

Now, now- let's give credit where it's due, okay? That movie was just following the trail laid by Soylent Green, which did the same thing. (Also, that was a preview, not a trailer).

The assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, of course. I mean, come on. That course of events was so improbable, the people involved in creating it had to be drunk!

You saw the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand? That was in your life? Good gravy, (wo)man! How old are you?

In all honesty, though, I'm pretty sure we should leave reality out of this. If you put them in a movie, no one would believe the Bastard winning at Hastings or Osman Gazi's rise to power. And let's not forget George Washington's defeating the English in the American revolution (pretty hard to believe in itself), the newly-formed United States defeating them again (though far less decisively) thirty years later (forcing the first surrender of a UK naval squadron in history? Come on!), and the inhabitants of the US still tolerating being called "colonials".

 

[vallorn]

Can I just say M Night and be done?

No?

Ok.

The Dark Knight Rises. Specifically, the plot twist near the end... SPOILERS.

Spoiler

Miranda is Ra's Al Ghul's child? There's no hinting at it or anything, it's just a clumsy, sloppy mess that is somehow predictable and not foreshadowed at the same time.

Not enough? Splice. It's old enough that I'm not even going to put spoiler tags in this, but essentially the movie's "Spliced" individual goes from a girl who's most evil act is seducing someone, all the way to a boy who ends up raping his own biological mother (At best, Ick, at worst WHY!? Why would you write this!?) The complete and inexplicable tonal shift in the character is clumsy and horribly done, and makes me wonder if a warped ideologue wrote the character's role. It just makes a "Character who we all know will turn evil but we're not going to foreshadow it and just make it a sudden change!" shift, turns it up to eleven, and then indulges in gratuitous and unnecessary things to show us just how "EVIL!!!" this new boy version of the character is...

 

[CrazyGirl17]

I'm still seething about the ending to "Magi Madoka Magica: Rebellion".

Spoiler: This is as much as I can gather

Ok, so somehow the Incubators captured Homura after the end of the series and experimented on her Soul Gem, turning her into a Witch, who in turn, trapped the entire city in her Labyrinth. (...Bunnycat is such a dick.) When Homura realizes this, she goes full Witch, so the other Magical Girls have to fight her. When it's all over, Madok gets her god powers back and starts to bring Homura to her afterlife... Only for Homura to go and steal those powers away from her. What the fuck.

That one's not bad if you had been paying attention to the entire series. I mean, it's a bad way to end the story if there isn't another sequel, but the plot twist itself isn't bad.

Fair enough, maybe I missed something in the long run, I'm not that eagle-eyed. But like I said, I'm biased by my own opinions and preferences, and the end, to me, comes across as rather hollow and bitter. Not helped by the fact that there's supposed to be a follow-up, but nothing's surfaced so far.

 

[Ogoid]

The ending for Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes. It wasn't just bad, it made no sense whatsoever, and was one of the very few occasions I can think of when sticking (somewhat) close to your source material was a godawful idea.