A guy pretending to be someone else so that he can fool everyone into believing he is going to do his plan in a certain way while his actual plan was going on behind the scenes the entire time. Namely I am talking about the plot twist in MGS4 that Ocelot had been faking being possessed by Liquid that whole time just to screw with everyone, that pissed me off.
Stupidest twist a story has used
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Oh come on, I thought the few actual twists that happened in the first 2 seasons were actually pretty surprising.hooksashands said:
Follow my example, pretend that the latter seasons NEVER HAPPENED.
....and then it turns out you never had free will because atlas was really frank Fontaine and you were being controlled by the phrase "would you kindly", "everyone betrayed me, I'm fed ahp with this woruld..."
No, that twist was from bioshock, and it's awesome beyond compare.
No, that twist was from bioshock, and it's awesome beyond compare.
But I don't really know of any REALLY stupid twists used in stories. But in oblivion, the amount of twists in the dark brotherhood just pissed me off. But most others I know of are just cliché.
I thought the whole, Liquids arm taking control of Ocelot thing from MGS was weird, but that bionic wife arm took the cake for me.WorldCritic said:
(At least you find out the mgs one was fake)
Stupidest Plot Twist: Agatha Christie. Just pick any book. Hundreds of 'em.
Ten Little Indians:
He wasn't dead the first time, that was just a spot of red ink on his forehead, so it *looked* like he's been shot in the head.
[Not big on noticing that the body is still warm and breathing are we??]
Cant remember the title:
Now I remember! You can't be my sister! My sister [or was it a cousin?] always cocked her head the *other* way! You've been doing it wrong because you were practicing in front of a mirror!
[And at over 60 years old you can't recognize the *face* of your own sister??]
And finally:
Edit: "From Dusk 'Til Dawn" makes sense to me. They went to some seedy truck stop in the middle of nowhere, because the fence always picks a different meeting place, and the fence had never been to this place before. And as a truck driver, I can assure you; so long as there's a spot to park and a men's room to pee (this is optional - disgusting but true), you'll get a lot of traffic that doesn't care what the locals do. Unless its something disgusting like an Amish Clown College.
Ten Little Indians:
He wasn't dead the first time, that was just a spot of red ink on his forehead, so it *looked* like he's been shot in the head.
[Not big on noticing that the body is still warm and breathing are we??]
Cant remember the title:
Now I remember! You can't be my sister! My sister [or was it a cousin?] always cocked her head the *other* way! You've been doing it wrong because you were practicing in front of a mirror!
[And at over 60 years old you can't recognize the *face* of your own sister??]
'Phantasm' also did that. Quite often, actually. Sure they were lame, low-budget films, but they brought some new creepy ideas to the 'something's-wrong-at-the-funeral-home' story, and I liked it. Though now I wonder where "Oh crap! It wasn't a dream!" got started? Was "Rosemary's Baby" the first?twistedmic said:
You know, when he puts it that way, its quite amusing. Bravo, sir!blunt_eastwood said:
And finally:
"Dinosaurs Faked Extinction!" Ha! I love Dresden Codak.Worgen said:
Edit: "From Dusk 'Til Dawn" makes sense to me. They went to some seedy truck stop in the middle of nowhere, because the fence always picks a different meeting place, and the fence had never been to this place before. And as a truck driver, I can assure you; so long as there's a spot to park and a men's room to pee (this is optional - disgusting but true), you'll get a lot of traffic that doesn't care what the locals do. Unless its something disgusting like an Amish Clown College.
In black ops' second last mission...
(spoiler alert)
Hudson: why'd you kill him mason? why? WHY!!!???
Mason: REZNOV SAID THAT STEINER MUST DIE! REZNOV IS NEVER WRONG!
Hudson: you idiot! reznov is dead!
Mason: say WHUT?
WHAT A TWEEST!
...not one for the better, i might add.
(spoiler alert)
Hudson: why'd you kill him mason? why? WHY!!!???
Mason: REZNOV SAID THAT STEINER MUST DIE! REZNOV IS NEVER WRONG!
Hudson: you idiot! reznov is dead!
Mason: say WHUT?
WHAT A TWEEST!
...not one for the better, i might add.
Okay. No lie, I didn't like the twists to KotOR (where the protagonist turns out to be Revan) and the twist to The Empire Strikes Back.
Mostly because they fucked up my suspension of disbelief. Especially the KotOR one. You spend an entire game building up a character and shaping a believable story around this character, then you find out that your character's actually Revan, and it just totally screws around with the narrative you've constructed in your head.
I wouldn't say I hate them, because both KotOR and the original Star Wars trilogy turned out okay.
I guess REALLY dumb twists are usually predictable or just plain (facepalm) so... They're not as frustrating because by a certain point, the movie/game/book has already established itself as shit, or already established that the twist will happen.
Mostly because they fucked up my suspension of disbelief. Especially the KotOR one. You spend an entire game building up a character and shaping a believable story around this character, then you find out that your character's actually Revan, and it just totally screws around with the narrative you've constructed in your head.
I wouldn't say I hate them, because both KotOR and the original Star Wars trilogy turned out okay.
I guess REALLY dumb twists are usually predictable or just plain (facepalm) so... They're not as frustrating because by a certain point, the movie/game/book has already established itself as shit, or already established that the twist will happen.
COD games have really bad twists (SPOILERS):
MW2: Price is alive. Yay? WHO THE HELL CARES! And Shepard being evil and killing you. Your main character dies too many times in that game.
BLOPS: Reznov is dead all along. Sorry who? Oh that guy. Sucks to be him.
MW2: Price is alive. Yay? WHO THE HELL CARES! And Shepard being evil and killing you. Your main character dies too many times in that game.
BLOPS: Reznov is dead all along. Sorry who? Oh that guy. Sucks to be him.
The currently airing anime No. 6, an otherwise great scifi story with gay overtones that's only gotten attention as such, recently had the revelation that (Spoiler alert) One of the people is the last of a race of forest people that could talk to the trees, or rather an entity controlling them. It came out of left field, and did nothing but create confusion.
Price launches a nuke at America to defeat the Russians... okay, explain why that is a good idea, I mean its not like it will wipe out most of the American military's hardware in the process and destroy a good chunk of the US's communications ability.Slayer_2 said:
EMP blasts tend to be indiscriminate...
I think the plot twists weren't as excessive as the plot holes; I mean, would the Russians not notice that all the CCTV has Makarov's ugly mug all over the footage and that at two of the bodies were members of a Russian terrorist cell. And how the heck are they supposed to know Allen is an American if, you know, he's undercover!? sigh...
The ending of Indiana Jones 4. Seriously? Aliens? Did the director get raped by George Lucas or something?
Pretty much everything after the main guy gets super powers, especially the whole thing about hobbos being the protectors of the world from AIs and Gods who already controll everything yet for somereason need even more power.
Also his girlfriend dided in front of his eyes! Then he has sex with someone who was trying to arrest him. And that police women he shagged him said she loved him even though less than a day before hand she had been prepared to kill him. Also he was dead and had no blood flow, how the fuck did he get an erection to have sex!?
Also his girlfriend dided in front of his eyes! Then he has sex with someone who was trying to arrest him. And that police women he shagged him said she loved him even though less than a day before hand she had been prepared to kill him. Also he was dead and had no blood flow, how the fuck did he get an erection to have sex!?
"It was all just a dream"- though if used well, it's not too bad...
Also, the "_____ is your father' and "so-and-so Corp is really evil" are two cliched twists that, frankly, are used too much...
Also, the "_____ is your father' and "so-and-so Corp is really evil" are two cliched twists that, frankly, are used too much...
This, and:PxDn Ninja said:
Apparently, Captain Quark was behind the Protopet crisis the whole time. Yeah, Angela's reaction sums it up pretty well.