Stupidest twist a story has used

[DeltaEdge]

Anime: Dog Days
It was the most absolutely generic anime that I have seen in a long time, and when it looked like he finally might have to give something up he conveniently managed to get out of the situation because there was some kind of horribly convenient requirements for getting back what he lost that it just so happened that he fulfilled without even knowing. Just way too freakin' convenient. Everyone is happy and no one lost anything at all. And he didn't have to make any romantic choices either. It completely defeated the purpose of introducing that potentially redeeming plot twist that could make the show tolerable. A terribly generic ending to a terribly generic show.

 

[CplDustov]

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.

It wavers but then corrects itself... and back and forth... so you're never really sure.

OT... Probably.. He's your father... It CAN be done well but Wanted apart from being predictable just... frustrated me on that particular point. Amazing bullet-time stuff though Love the other 90% of the film

 

[retyopy]

Anime: Dog Days
It was the most absolutely generic anime that I have seen in a long time, and when it looked like he finally might have to give something up he conveniently managed to get out of the situation because there was some kind of horribly convenient requirements for getting back what he lost that it just so happened that he fulfilled without even knowing. Just way too freakin' convenient. Everyone is happy and no one lost anything at all. And he didn't have to make any romantic choices either. It completely defeated the purpose of introducing that potentially redeeming plot twist that could make the show tolerable. A terribly generic ending to a terribly generic show.

Then why did you watch it? There must have been SOMETHING good if you watched to the end.

 

[BlackHazard]

"Remember Me"

Spoiler

Robert Pattinson dies in the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center

He dies at the end I gotta watch that movie.

 

[AceTrilby]

Raptor. Terrible, cheap movie all round, but at least the initial ending was passable - cloned dinosaurs kill everyone including their cloner and excluding the hero and his buxom but useless sidekick, government coverup yaddayadda...

But then, just before it ends, it turns out that the bad guy and his assistant somehow cloned themselves to continue their work. Wait, what???

Seriously, did they really expect to make a sequel or something?

 

[retyopy]

"Remember Me"

Spoiler

Robert Pattinson dies in the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center

He dies at the end I gotta watch that movie.

Revenge for Twilight, eh? You know, i really didn't mind the books. They were okay, mediocre, I suppose.

 

[esperandote]

"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.

Spoiler: examples

Silent Hill (Game)
Silent Hill (Movie)
Silent Hill Shattered Memories
Identity
Super Mario Bros 2
Macario (1959 mexican film)
That one where Nicolas Cage see two minutes into the future, this counts as a half because only half of the movie is a vision.

If you like twists then watch Basic

Also the good guy is really the bad guy he just forggot/didn't know.

Spoiler: examples

The number 23
Silent Hill 2
Fight club

 

[Epslion.Bear]

The Ending of assassins creed brotherhood

just ಠ_ಠ

 

[Flutterbrave]

I JUST WANTED TO GO INTO SPACE!

/thread

 

[DeltaEdge]

Anime: Dog Days
It was the most absolutely generic anime that I have seen in a long time, and when it looked like he finally might have to give something up he conveniently managed to get out of the situation because there was some kind of horribly convenient requirements for getting back what he lost that it just so happened that he fulfilled without even knowing. Just way too freakin' convenient. Everyone is happy and no one lost anything at all. And he didn't have to make any romantic choices either. It completely defeated the purpose of introducing that potentially redeeming plot twist that could make the show tolerable. A terribly generic ending to a terribly generic show.

Then why did you watch it? There must have been SOMETHING good if you watched to the end.

It was still remotely tolerable for me until it reached that terrible convenient conclusion. It is the most generic convenient solution that I have ever seen. I don't have some kind of excuse as to why I was watching it though really. I just was. It wasn't particularly exciting in anyway at all, but it wasn't so tormentingly bad that I could not watch it.

 

[Veylon]

The Dreamers by Eddings. This tetralogy is a whole series of plot twists that, instead of adding drama and excitement, actually drain it away.

* Spoilers, if anyone cares *

First, there's an invasion of bug monsters and the Gods call upon warriors from every part of the world. Imagine Roman Legionaries, Vikings, Mongols, and American Indians taking on the Zerg. Now, this would be epic, except that more than half the book is people meeting people, engaging in witty banter, and deciding to be friends. In between such scenes, the plans of the enemy are effortlessly foiled. The main battle is ended by a small child having a dream (hence the title), which causes volcanoes to annihilate the invading army and blocking the one route to the west.

The second book basically copies the first one, except that this time one of the female characters turns out to be a Goddess. The entire thing is filler that leads up to a showdown between fantatics and the bug army. Which is subsequently rendered completely pointless by said Goddess easily summoning up geysers (blocking the one route to the south) to save the day.

The third one is yet another bug army. This time, the one single route to the north is blocked. By fire. The rest is filler.

Lastly, the final battle never takes place. Many pages are nonetheless dedicated towards building up for it. Yet another character is a God. The entire backstory of the whole world is revealed to have been made up for no particular reason. This God then proceeds to erase the bugs from history and restart time.

This is easily the worst fantasy series I've read and it's all due to pointless, ridiculous plot twists that add nothing to the story! It's just one meaningless "look at this neat thing!" after another. The villain starts out as a terrifying being with a desire to consume the earth and ends up as little more than a cockroach to be stepped on.

 

[WarpZone]

The Matrix also relied on it pretty heavily, too. Although it's more of a "simulation", but they're pretty much the same plot device.

I dunno if I'd say they're the same thing. The fact that it was a simulation did nothing to defuse the dramatic tension of the situation. If an innocent bystander died in The Matrix, you knew that they stayed dead. (Granted, the sequels killed the dramatic tension in other ways...)

A better example of a non-dream that's as bad as a dream would be Sucker Punch. Absolutely nothing that happens in that movie matters. And worse, you know this going into it, starting the moment Babydoll takes that first katana to the face and you can see that it bounces off harmlessly.

 

[Flight]

Final Fantasy VIII

"Oh, btw, all of you that have been working together, SURPRISE! You are from the same orphanage! You just all forgot due to using summon magic. Neat huh?"

I agree with this one. I love that game, but I was sort of tilting my head at that whole bit.

 

[blunt_eastwood]

"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.

What about the movie Basic?

 

[blunt_eastwood]

"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.

North had the 'it was all a dream' twist, and it was a really bad movie before the twist.

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/7838-north

What about Jacob's Ladder? Also, I think Inception relied pretty heavily on the whole "it was all a dream".

The Matrix also relied on it pretty heavily, too. Although it's more of a "simulation", but they're pretty much the same plot device.

You knew from the start that the characters in Inception were entering dreams, so how is that a twist? And if you're referring to the idea that it all happened in Leo's mind from the start, the movie is ambiguous so you can't really make that claim.

The Matrix wasn't a dream. In fact the twist in The Matrix Reloaded was really well done.

 

[blunt_eastwood]

Batman: HUSH

The Empire Strikes Back. That made no sense. You already know by Episode III that Anakin is Luke's dad. So why does everyone call the climax of ESB a twist??

 

[Truehare]

Really? All the way through the first page and no one mentioned the "the hero/es was/were dead all along" twist? It was nice when I saw it for the first time in The Sixth Sense (Though I'm sure it was done before, that was the first time I saw it), but it got pretty tiring pretty quickly. I'll have to admit, it works sometimes, but mostly it just sucks. That's why the ending of Lost felt so "meh" to me, even though I tried my best to love it like I had loved the series up to that point.

And for a while after The Matrix, we ran the risk of getting overflowed with "the whole world/reality as you know it is just a fabrication put before your eyes for a sinister purpose" plot twists, but thankfully it has been (mostly) sparsely used so far, and it's generally used well too.

Also: Rosebud was just the name of his sled... No, wait, that was brilliant. And thankfully no one ever used it again.