Stupidest twist a story has used

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Fidelias

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The endings to Assassins Creed 2 and Brotherhood. They were only put there for "What the Fuck?!" moments, with no explanations, and nothing in the game lead up to the story twists.

Sure, plot twists are supposed to blow your mind, but there needs to be clues leading up to the plot twist, and the twist has to actually explain something, which Assassins Creed fails to do.
 

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Hipsy_Gypsy said:
Yeah, it actually especially annoys me that the book series was real as well.
Eh? You didn't like the book series and it bothers you that it was real? I don't think I get what you're trying to say...
hurricanejbb said:
The ending to Tim Burton's "Planet of the Apes" remake. Gets my vote for a horrible attempt to replicate/surpass the twist from the original film.
What was even going on? I did NOT understand that twist.
 

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Snake doesn't shoot himself. Instead he talks to his dead, but not so dead dad for a few weeks without end.

Then for some reason the villain from the entire MGS series is there in a wheelchair, out of nowhere. How did he get here? Isn't he sort of... important?

And the fact that Snake didn't shoot himself to save weeks of repeating the same patriotic mush to his daddeh and then dying a painful death of 72 cancers in his lungs. Huffff. I guess theres some part of the plot that's gone over my head.

WHATS THAT? AN MGS PLOT THREAD HAS GONE OVER SOMEONES HEAD? MY LAWDY
 

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twistedmic said:
Soulfoodman said:
"I/He is your real father."
This one is more hit and miss then pure hate. I liked it in Star Wars, Wanted, and probably a couple of other times, but this can be sooooo cliched. And I absolutely hate it when any comedy does a parody of the Star Wars scene. It is never funny. Just really really lame.
I guess I'm a little off topic.
In my opinion, the Space Balls and Robot Chicken parodies of that are the only funny one's that I've seen.

The Space Balls version-

And the Robot Chicken version (sound and text only, I can't find the actual clip from the show)

Ahh I completely forgot about those. Yeah they were pretty well done. I guess it's only when the scene occurs in a show/movie that is not itself a parody of Star Wars. I stand corrected, sir.
 

Hipsy_Gypsy

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Queen Michael said:
Hipsy_Gypsy said:
Yeah, it actually especially annoys me that the book series was real as well.
Eh? You didn't like the book series and it bothers you that it was real? I don't think I get what you're trying to say...
Uhh, no. I was agreeing with what Ebalance had said and just backed myself up a wee bit. As in, I especially hate the fact that Oz was all a dream in the films but was real in the books. The whole thing being a dream annoys me in general in regards to films. :p Better? Lol, sorry for being confusing/waffly.


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Singularity!

I won't do spoilers but >.< it was quite dumb
I thought Singularity was like a good cheese movie. I had tons of fun with it and although you're right the twist was pretty silly, it was silly in a good way for me. The twist for me wasn't the story as much as "oh shit i have to decide what ending i want to see RIGHT NOW?!". I really had fun so i intend to go back and see the other ending later.

I think the bad twist didn't bother me so much because they weren't super serious about the whole story to begin with. The whole thing felt intentionally cheesy to me. (sorry to the devs if this wasn't the case! I liked your game though, so that's something!)
 

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I find that anime has a lot of stupid plot twists, but twist endings are the absolute worst. My least favorites are:

*He was really a girl the whole time. (.hack//SIGN, Juubei-Chan 2).
*Everyone dies in the last episode. (Final Fantasy Unlimited)
*It was all a dream/The world turns out to have been virtual (GetBackers).
*The universe gets rebooted. (Bakuretsu Hunters, Gall Force OAVs).

Can't really say on TV series; I grew up on sitcoms that had little to no continuity & therefore no twists.
 

mental_looney

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intheweeds said:
mental_looney said:
Singularity!

I won't do spoilers but >.< it was quite dumb
I thought Singularity was like a good cheese movie. I had tons of fun with it and although you're right the twist was pretty silly, it was silly in a good way for me. The twist for me wasn't the story as much as "oh shit i have to decide what ending i want to see RIGHT NOW?!". I really had fun so i intend to go back and see the other ending later.

I think the bad twist didn't bother me so much because they weren't super serious about the whole story to begin with. The whole thing felt intentionally cheesy to me. (sorry to the devs if this wasn't the case! I liked your game though, so that's something!)
Yeah you are correct it was a total cheesefest and I did enjoy it and have seen all 3 endings but it's just like awww cheese overlaod on the female sidekick
 

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Here's an obscure game: Astal. If you've never played this, please consult wikipedia or Youtube for whatever plot you can find. This has two badly executed plot twists.

1) Your killing enemies is bringing back the ultimate baddie. It would've been interesting in this game, but the foreshadowing makes it feel like the game is taunting you for seeking a story. Sure it seems interesting, but hearing the main antagonist monologue about it makes one want to stop playing.

2) The companion who travels with you is really the macguffin that you - the character - were looking for. This would've gone off better if they didn't bother with that event, or if you found it in the middle of the game. Otherwise it just makes you feel like this was all some deity's sick test to teach positive values on the character.
 

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TyrantGanado said:
I like it, though I'm a sucker for works that have the balls to pull that kind of ending off.
rollerfox88 said:
I liked it too, if only for the guys orgasm squeal as he fellates his gun...aaaaaaAAAAAAAAaaaAAAAaaaaAAAaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!! lolz
weker said:
Well that stops today as I myself loved it, as its own image of what happens with religion and such while in peril.
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Tears of joy, gentlemen, tears of joy.

This thread has lifted my mood immensely.
 

PleasantKenobi

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Great thread, enjoyable readign for the most part. Though some people are being overly harsh on some of the cliches that though over done (and thus, cliche) still work in the right context.

I am suprised that no one has mentioned 'The Box', not the Richard Materson short story but the Hollywood movie based off of it staring Cameron Diaz. The movie stops making alot of sense as of the half way mark, and explaisn away all the rediculous bullshit with the idea that it was all just aliens and their crazy technology. The only thing it does that is pseudo-smart is to quote Arthur C. Clark's suggestion that any far enough advanced alien technology would seem like magic to us, as that helps the bullshit they shovel in later.

It isn't even bad enough to be 'good'. Steer clear of this tripe.
 

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Azaradel said:
TyrantGanado said:
I like it, though I'm a sucker for works that have the balls to pull that kind of ending off.
rollerfox88 said:
I liked it too, if only for the guys orgasm squeal as he fellates his gun...aaaaaaAAAAAAAAaaaAAAAaaaaAAAaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!! lolz
weker said:
Well that stops today as I myself loved it, as its own image of what happens with religion and such while in peril.
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkgg3jh7Ca1qgqeet.gif
Tears of joy, gentlemen, tears of joy.

This thread has lifted my mood immensely.
Your welcome.
 

GraveeKing

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retyopy said:
EDIT: I actually have a question about a non stupid plot twist: Right before the very end of inception, does the top keep spinning or not? Because I turned away and when I looked back it was the credits, so I didn't see if it started wavering or not.
I think it almost did, but you can't really tell - it's intended to keep the question hanging 'is it the real world or not - and even if it isn't, does it really matter so long as he's happy?'

Any-who - the stupidest twist a story ever had... I've read plenty online but none people would know of, so in my opinion the worse 'twist' in a movie or story people might know... oh yeah - I'll go for the obvious. Doctor Who faces Hitler, I mean I knew doctor who was never going to be as good as before and meet my terribly high expectations.... but really? The old 'OH NO HITLER AND NAZIS KILL.' I'm almost tempted to not even watch the episode... but well, I suppose I should give it a fair chance but yeah more or less every twist in the recent doctor who series has been pretty poorly done.
 

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Just sat through the new Nightmare on Elm Street..

"Did Freddy really molest us?"
"I don't think he did, and our parent's killed him! that's why he's after us"

*23 minutes later*

"Oh, he really did molest us..."


God dammit.. dammit.. dammit, DAMMIT! You just don't DO THAT! How do you have an interesting plot device, making the character of Freddy Krueger almost sympathetic. and then just do a complete 180 and shit all over it? BAD WRITING!
 

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Darks63 said:
Monoochrom said:
Signs - Really Shamalamadingdong? Water? Most of the Planet is covered in Water, we consist for the most part of Water. Why not just make it Air and call the Movie ''Why the hell are their Dead Aliens everywhere all of a sudden?''
Technically that was already done in War of the worlds
I have to defend H. G. Wells on that one: germ theory was relatively new in his time, and thus a pretty novel plot twist. Also, the idea that seemingly-unstoppable technological alien monsters could be felled by necrotizing bacteria was also a statement on the Martians' hubris. (Also, Wells was an unqualified genius and all-around visionary and inventor of [a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Wars]perhaps the first modern war game[/a].)

My contribution: Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy.
You go through most of the game unraveling a neo-noir mystery; it's weird and subtle enough that you become totally immersed in this ancient Mayan legend, which makes perfect sense in the game's context--only to discover that the other villains in the game are rogue AI's. ...Seriously. Read that last part again and see if it makes sense to you.
I wanted to throw the controller at the tv when they brought that out; the PS2 was spared destruction due to my being weak as a puppy from a raging fever.
 

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The end to Final Fantasy 10, which I would go into more detail about if I could actually understand what the fuck Tidus actually is. Some sort of dream willed into existence by the dead souls of Zanarkand or something?