Worst plot twist you have ever seen in your life

[MeatMachine]

"Tower of Mice" quest in The Witcher 3.

The tortured spirit of a girl who was eaten alive by rats at the top of a haunted tower politely asks you to take her skeletal remains and deliver them to the lover who abandoned her at the first convenient place right off the shores of the horribly cursed island to which she is bound (and to which she is inconsistent about whether her spirit is bound to the tower, or the island as a whole).

If you somehow manage to oversee the dozen or so red flags about that task and mindlessly carry out her requests, well... the region of Velen won't be too terribly pleased with what happens immediately afterwords.

 

[Nazulu]

'repeating the Adam & Eve cycle while whiping out the current humans' or 'aliens did it!'. I've seen it in more than 8 movies now and I hate it so much!

I heard that the Adam and Eve bit got used in so many stories that editors started refusing manuscripts with that ending in them.

I still loved it in the old Norse Ragnarok stories, though. And Narutaru. And End of Eva...

Ok, that is pretty funny. Was it a trend?

Also, you're not spoiling those stories you just mentioned? Or does it work differently?

 

[Fox12]

'repeating the Adam & Eve cycle while whiping out the current humans' or 'aliens did it!'. I've seen it in more than 8 movies now and I hate it so much!

I heard that the Adam and Eve bit got used in so many stories that editors started refusing manuscripts with that ending in them.

I still loved it in the old Norse Ragnarok stories, though. And Narutaru. And End of Eva...

Ok, that is pretty funny. Was it a trend?

Also, you're not spoiling those stories you just mentioned? Or does it work differently?

It may have been for a while. I think it's just one of those things that gets reused a lot through history. Like having an old wise man, or a farm boy hero. I actually like the concept itself, since it ties into the cycle of death and rebirth. It's just been done to death.

Was it a spoiler? I didn't think about it, really. One is decades old, one is thousands of years old, and one was never translated properly into English. I didn't think there was any harm (and Eva is open to interpretation anyway).

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

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.

Wasn't that literally because the original plot was leaked and they not only scrambled to rewrite all of ME3 in like 3 months, but there was no time for proof reading/second draffs/or other writers to offer advice.
1 guy rewrote everything, once, over like a weekend and it turned out to be shit.

 

[Nazulu]

'repeating the Adam & Eve cycle while whiping out the current humans' or 'aliens did it!'. I've seen it in more than 8 movies now and I hate it so much!

I heard that the Adam and Eve bit got used in so many stories that editors started refusing manuscripts with that ending in them.

I still loved it in the old Norse Ragnarok stories, though. And Narutaru. And End of Eva...

Ok, that is pretty funny. Was it a trend?

Also, you're not spoiling those stories you just mentioned? Or does it work differently?

It may have been for a while. I think it's just one of those things that gets reused a lot through history. Like having an old wise man, or a farm boy hero. I actually like the concept itself, since it ties into the cycle of death and rebirth. It's just been done to death.

Was it a spoiler? I didn't think about it, really. One is decades old, one is thousands of years old, and one was never translated properly into English. I didn't think there was any harm (and Eva is open to interpretation anyway).

You know, I haven't seen a rebirth bit come in half way through the story, mostly just Bang! There's the unexpected ending. Know any stories that introduce that element earlier?

 

[Fox12]

'repeating the Adam & Eve cycle while whiping out the current humans' or 'aliens did it!'. I've seen it in more than 8 movies now and I hate it so much!

I heard that the Adam and Eve bit got used in so many stories that editors started refusing manuscripts with that ending in them.

I still loved it in the old Norse Ragnarok stories, though. And Narutaru. And End of Eva...

Ok, that is pretty funny. Was it a trend?

Also, you're not spoiling those stories you just mentioned? Or does it work differently?

It may have been for a while. I think it's just one of those things that gets reused a lot through history. Like having an old wise man, or a farm boy hero. I actually like the concept itself, since it ties into the cycle of death and rebirth. It's just been done to death.

Was it a spoiler? I didn't think about it, really. One is decades old, one is thousands of years old, and one was never translated properly into English. I didn't think there was any harm (and Eva is open to interpretation anyway).

You know, I haven't seen a rebirth bit come in half way through the story, mostly just Bang! There's the unexpected ending. Know any stories that introduce that element earlier?

I'm not sure. Rebirth was a major theme of all the stories I mentioned, but they don't usually show the actual "rebirth". It's typically implied. Some handle it better then others, of course, if the ending is led up to properly.

Ragnarok is unique, though. It's basically the Norse story of the end of the world. There's a massive war that shakes the foundations of the earth, and all the gods die. Some people think the Christians rewrote the ending, though, because it features two humans surviving the cataclysm, and restarting humanity. This part probably wasn't in the original, but it's thought that the Christians altered it to represent the death of paganism and the birth of Christianity. The man and woman obviously symbolized Adam and Eve. Regardless, it's probably the most epic "end times" story ever.

Evangellion is a little more complicated then what I described. I would highly recommend it if you haven't seen it yet.

I can't think of any that do it halfway through. I guess most people want to end their story at the most dramatic moment (and it doesn't get more dramatic then Armageddon). There's potential for a story there, though...

 

[PsiMatrix]

Game - ME2, Collectors, ME3.

Spoiler

OMG, THEY'RE PROTHEANS AND SERVANTS OF THE REAPERS.... but they've been around for at least 200 years so why were the Reapers so afraid of the races getting together when they could see they were fighting each other and then making the journey from the darkspace in about 6 months and rofflestomping everything in 3. Completely undermined Sovereign and the 'careful, patient' Reaper mentality it projected. And Starbrat at the end just complicating it further. The kid that died at the beginning and showed up in your dreams just happens to be the Reaper-creator, ooooo. Would've been better if it was the Virmire sacrifice

TV - Martial Law,

Spoiler

Season 1 cliffhanger against his arch-nemesis, they fall from a helicopter... TO BE CONTINUED. Season 2 opens and he just survived it. And the nemesis is never mentioned again plus they're now starting to fight this criminal super-gang called Scorpio that have cyanide capsules in their fingers. I wish I was joking.

Movie - Serial Mom.

Spoiler

Serial-killer mom kills numerous people, family finds out and becomes petrified of her until she -might- go to jail for all the murders and then they all suddenly turn into her best friends.

 

[SmallHatLogan]

Spoiler: Final Fantasy VIII

Final Fantasy VIII. Orphanage, amnesia, Guardian Forces. What absolute garbage. Presumably this part of the story was conceived on Squaresoft's annual come to work drunk day.

 

[Random Argument Man]

I would say anything from the series called "The 100". It doesn't matter if the teenagers just lived a traumatic experience because they decided to make a stupid decision out of love. They will still fall in love with the next person that they had a 15 minute conversation with.

 

[Cid Silverwing]

Red Alert 3 has a really retarded one. I.e., in the Allied campaign you suddenly gotta stop the President from basically nuking the Soviets because he says you can't trust them. But then after you kill the President, the Soviets betray you anyway and then you gotta destroy their space shuttle because plot. Nevermind that they wouldn't be able to do any damage from outer space...

 

[w23eer]

Kingdom Hearts has a lot of stupid twists.

Spoiler: Kingdom Hearts

[KH II]
Ansem's back!
Except the real Ansem is dead, and this fake Ansem is just Riku in disguise.
... except it turns out that the real Ansem wasn't the real real Ansem - it was just a fake real Ansem using the real real Ansem's name the whole time! The fake real Ansem's name was actually Xehanort.
[KH:BBS]
... but Xehanort isn't the real Xehanort, just a fusion of the real Xehanort and some other bloke, who also lost his memory so fake Xehanort (who, remember, is also the fake real Ansem) doesn't even know he's the fake Xehanort!
[KHDD]
Real Xehanort is back from the past!
And so is fake Xehanort!
And so is real Xehanort... again, but from even further back in the past!
And now everyone in Orginization XIII is also Xehanort somehow!

 

[Thyunda]

Stupid-ass Sixth Sense. Seriously, I don't get how people liked this movie. The twist was a bunch of hand-waving because they couldn't write cleverly enough to not out and out lie to the audience. Lying to your audience does not a twist make, M. Night! "Ghosts only see what they want to see..." yeah, so all the shit you showed us could be swept under that idiotic rug. /descends into angry old-man ranting

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?
The Village- The twist is so obvious that anyone can easily say what the twist (like I did as a joke) is before actually watching it!
Lady in the Water- Ok so the lead guy picked the wrong roles for those weirdo people who lived in the flat? It doesn't help when the right roles were given doesn't make it any better (like how the guy is able to read future predition from a bunch of ceral boxes?). I am still buffle that any of them believed her tale and went along with it as oppose to I don't know, think she is mentally unstable and called the authority and asked any parent if their crazy daughter went missing?

THE TWIST IN SIGNS WAS THAT THERE ARE NO COINCIDENCES YOU RUBE!

Sorry I get pretty passionate about Signs. It's just the greatest movie of all time.

 

[Fox12]

Spoiler: Final Fantasy VIII

Final Fantasy VIII. Orphanage, amnesia, Guardian Forces. What absolute garbage. Presumably this part of the story was conceived on Squaresoft's annual come to work drunk day.

Ah, yes, that day has birthed some truly great moments. Cloud cross dressing and going to a brothel, Tidus's back story, the ending to xenogears,'and, of course, the entirety of Kingdom Hearts was written on a bender.

 

[sonicneedslovetoo]

The one where Batman died in a comic and Gotham fell to the villains like a stack of cards, then Batman was back and they were all getting nervous because they still had the body of Bruce Wayne on display somewhere(I think penguin had it). But then you know what, YOU KNOW WHAT, it turns out that actually it was the Joker gone even FARTHER off his rocker had figured out that the world was boring without batman and decided to replace him. But the Joker doesn't have any reservations about killing and he doesn't have any money.
I mean sure it came out relatively early on but still.

 

[Shiftygiant]

I remember at Comic-Con this year in London they had a big marquee thing next to a replica of the Batmobile where they were showing off the demo for Arkham Knight. It looked pretty cool, but the moment that Arkham Knight appeared, I very loudly speculated to my girlfriend and her friend and a few people nearby who Arkham Knight was. And you know what?

Spoiler: I fucking called it

It was Jason Todd

But I now know what I must do. I must write and publish a piece of work with a plot twist that out bullshits all the examples that we can muster.

 

[Siege_TF]

I put Naruto down for at least a year after 'Madara' told Sasuke the truth about the Uchiha massacre and nine-tails' attack...

Spoiler

and decided the most appropriate thing to do would be try to destroy Konoha himself.

Edited for accuracy.

 

[WonkyWarmaiden]

Kingdom Hearts has a lot of stupid twists.

Spoiler: Kingdom Hearts

[KH II]
Ansem's back!
Except the real Ansem is dead, and this fake Ansem is just Riku in disquise.
... except it turns out that the real Ansem wasn't the real real Ansem - it was just a fake real Ansem using the real real Ansem's name the whole time! Real real Ansem has been in hiding this whole time! The fake real Ansem's name was actually Xehanort.
[KH:BBS]
... but Xehanort isn't the real Xehanort, just a fusion of the real Xehanort and some other bloke, who also lost his memory so fake Xehanort (who, remember, is also the fake real Ansem) doesn't even know he's the fake Xehanort!
[KHDD]
Real Xehanort is back from the past!
And so is fake Xehanort!
And so is real Xehanort... again, but from even further back in the past!
And now everyone in Orginization XIII is also Xehanort somehow!

Oh God. What? That's actually what happens? Wow, I'm glad I stopped after KH2.

 

[w23eer]

Kingdom Hearts has a lot of stupid twists.

Spoiler: Kingdom Hearts

[KH II]
Ansem's back!
Except the real Ansem is dead, and this fake Ansem is just Riku in disquise.
... except it turns out that the real Ansem wasn't the real real Ansem - it was just a fake real Ansem using the real real Ansem's name the whole time! Real real Ansem has been in hiding this whole time! The fake real Ansem's name was actually Xehanort.
[KH:BBS]
... but Xehanort isn't the real Xehanort, just a fusion of the real Xehanort and some other bloke, who also lost his memory so fake Xehanort (who, remember, is also the fake real Ansem) doesn't even know he's the fake Xehanort!
[KHDD]
Real Xehanort is back from the past!
And so is fake Xehanort!
And so is real Xehanort... again, but from even further back in the past!
And now everyone in Orginization XIII is also Xehanort somehow!

Oh God. What? That's actually what happens? Wow, I'm glad I stopped after KH2.

I'm over-simplifying of course but, yes, that's the gist. I'm still a sucker for KH though.

 

[Flashmanic]

The reveal of the masked sniper/assassin to be that blonde woman (celeste?), Faith's friend, in Mirror's Edge. And it wasn't bad in a story sense, mainly because it blended in with the rest of the mediocre story in Mirror's edge. No, it was bad because of how awfully it was executed.

Before the reveal, you have a kind of running fight with Celeste, but she was in the mask so you didn't know who it was. During that, the headpiece guy constantly said "get after him!", "don't lose him!", etc. Normal pieces of dialogue perhaps, but the problem was -it was so fucking obvious the person was a woman-. It immediately ruined the reveal because you realised that the game was trying to make you think you're fighting a man so that they could build up to some shock reveal. And when you figured that out, you immediately realised that it had to be celeste, the only other woman in the game.

I guess that's a good example of how game design and story need to work together, or else you end up with something mediocre, at best.

 

[Someone Depressing]

Spoiler: Watch this. Go on. Watch it.

Ok - so you've watched that and it's like every other terrible indie game, right? Well, the worst isn't here yet...
There it fucking is.

Almost 2 years after watching this, I still laugh whenever I think about this.