Stupidest twist a story has used

[DementedSheep]

Its not the worst but I thought the one in the Witcher was pretty bad TBH.

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The whole thing with the grandmaster being the future Alvin (the kid you saved and kind of adopted). He was intentionally provoking the non human uprising to try overthrow King Foltest and is creating supper mutants so he can lead humans south to avoid climate change? It didn?t help that they start droping bad hints as to who he is almost as soon as you meet him and it for some reason just seem realy out of place. Tho I had a friend who finished the game and still managed to miss that somehow. I wish time travel stories would stop pulling the "person you saved destroys the world" twist.

Of course any "you are actauly X and didn't know" "Those are not you're real parents" and "but I saw you die!" twists also suck.

 

[TheFloBros]

"Those were actually people you were killing!"

 

[Takuanuva]

Lol...option C. I was just joking.

In that case, it's both A and B.

Relax, it's just a joke.

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You don't seem to get the point... it was a stupid, trollish joke, thus you acted like a stupid troll. Due to the fact, that I lack any evidence that you are not a stupid troll, it's pretty safe to assume, that you are one. Period.

Wait, before this devolves into a flame war, let me get my popcorn.

Okay, carry on.

It won't turn into a flame war. I already said everything I wanted to say, thus the conversation is over, unless I will be given a proper reply, which I doubt.

 

[Beebo2579]

THEN WHO WAS PHONE??????

 

[retyopy]

"Those were actually people you were killing!"

"Really? well, they were pretty octupusy, tentacley, demonic looking humans, but if you say BLARGH DIE!"

 

[weker]

Fucking hell, even before I saw the movie, I called that fucking twist ending. My sister saw it opening day and was yelling about how it was "omgomgomg best movie evar the ending is soooo mind blowing omg!!!" and I asked her "it ends with some 'is it a dream or is it reality' bullshit, doesn't it?". She asked me how the fuck I could know that.

Ok, so maybe it's not the stupidest twist ever, but I still hate the fuck out of it because it's such an obvious fucking way to end the movie.

The ending of the movie version of The Mist

Spoiler

The dad kills the rest of the survivors including his son, only to run out of bullets before he reaches himself. Now he has to die alone when the evil creatures come out of the mist to rip him apart. But wait! moments after he kills his son, the mist clears and the army rolls by! My god they are saved!.....oh wait

Hehehe... I loved every second of that movie. The ending is so wonderfully dark.

I've never met anyone beside myself who likes the ending though...

Well that stops today as I myself loved it, as its own image of what happens with religion and such while in peril.

 

[Some_weirdGuy]

Was going to say "in b4 Shyamalan" but too late.

Mainly because I can't think of anything else, I nominate Command & Conquer Red Alert 2. Specifically the Soviet campaign.

Spoiler

Halfway through, with no input from the player, a couple of characters on your side are killed off, including President Romanov, by Yuri, and you are then ordered to work for Yuri in killing off their resistance and furthering his agenda. One of the most egregious examples of gameplay and story segregation - you have NO impact on this whatsoever, and in the long run it affects nothing apart from who shows up in the cutscenes.

EDIT: not retarded any more

uh.. I'm pretty sure the whole thing has 'no input from the player'. You're just there to strap in and let the storyline take you for a ride (which isn't a bad thing since RA2 was fun). About the only input a player could ever give is 'succeed or fail mission', which is really only 'succeed' since when you fail you just have to try again.
Events really just play out and you react to them. Its not a player input driven game, so why should that instance be any different to the rest of the game?

Also, it was good because

Spoiler

It gave you a new type of opponent to face rather than it just being about fighting only allied forces. And I mean really, what part could you have in betraying your country without you... being the one betraying your country? You can't, and they wanted you to be a good soviet not some sneaky backstabber like yuri was.

 

[tjcross]

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?"

that's just something the gf critics are saying. WHY IS THE ESCAPIST FORCING ME TO REMEMBER FINAL FANTASY 8 but anyway in a game your princesse is in another castle.

 

[retyopy]

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.

I spent the whole movie thinking rosebud was a street name for crack. Imagine my disappointment.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

THEN WHO WAS PHONE??????

Omg you totally ninjad me!

Bet you werent expecting that -.-

Can I say the entirity of the film Triangle? That was so bad.

 

[souper soup guy]

The obvious answer is the lousy twist in Super Mario Bros.
"Sorry Mario but your Princess is in another castle"
My mind was blown, the first time, but then they had to repeat it another 7 times, seriously that's just lazy story telling.

 

[intheweeds]

The one in Bioshock as they used the same twist in their previous game.

I don't think Bioshock's example can really count as a twist. Primarily because everyone who played that game should have known from the first second that Atlus was going to end up being the bad guy instead of Ryan. He started going on to me about his family and whatnot right off the hop and every time he talked to me i said to myself "whatever you say, guy I'm going to end up killing later!". Sure the fact that he turned out to be Fontaine didn't become obvious for a few more levels, but please, that 'twist' was so transparent!

 

[Hipsy_Gypsy]

"it was all a dream"

Really? So then the experience was a complete waste of time.

That tends to ruin the entire film experience for me, jeez. Either that or they hallucinated the entire thing which is just equally as bad. I loved "Pan's Labyrinth" but that really annoyed me for some reason that it was just a part of her imagination; or at least it was implied at the end. Ditto, all in all.

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.

That instantly reminds me of "The Others", haha. I was watching a film the other night with Kristen Stewart in it although the plot twist wasn't that the family were dead but that the "poltergeists" were actually warning them or something about the fella who was helping them out with the farm because it was his family who he killed. Simultaneously, I found it rather interesting but I also felt that it was a silly idea. I mean, considering the poltergeists didn't actually warn them... just scared them something shocking. Also the fella, from what I gathered, seemed absolutely lovely until he almost got pecked to death from the crows and he'd been seemingly taken over or something. Still an interesting film I guess. There were a lot of scenes involving crows attacking the characters within which reminded me of the film "The Birds":

Me: "This reminds me of that film with all the birds..."
Mother: "The Birds?"
Me: Uhh, yeah.


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[Harry Mason]

I'm going to have to be terribly unoriginal here and say the Wife-Arm from Bionic Commando.
It just... It just takes the stupid cake and runs out the door with it...

It's like if someone let M Night Shyamalan make a game. *shudder*

 

[mental_looney]

Singularity!

I won't do spoilers but >.< it was quite dumb

 

[Fidelias]

The Tourist (yes I watched that film, don't laugh).

So anyway the twist is painfully obvious and doesn't make any sense. Why would you go through the process of changing your appearence and voice, just so that you could be with Angelina Jolie.

And don't get me started on the stupidity of the police in that movie.

Oh, I watched it too, and it didn't make any real sense.

I mean, if he changed his face, voice, and attitude, how did he know Angelina Jolie would pick him to replace him. And it just seemed a little too extravagent. Surely there was a better way.

 

[Bobic]

Lol...option C. I was just joking.

In that case, it's both A and B.

Relax, it's just a joke.

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You don't seem to get the point... it was a stupid, trollish joke, thus you acted like a stupid troll. Due to the fact, that I lack any evidence that you are not a stupid troll, it's pretty safe to assume, that you are one. Period.

Yikes guy. Do you react this badly to all jokes? I actually found it to be quite funny.

You should really be nicer to the noobies. Don't discourage them from making witty comments, they make threads more interesting.

 

[Queen Michael]

In The Wizard of Oz they have the "It was a dream thing"... then again it was pretty obvious... and BTW in the book series Oz is REAL... that always upsets me b/c I'm a huge fan of the books, and L Frank Baum's work in general. Nobody gets it rights...

You ninja'd me. I agree completely. Imagine if they'd done this in any other book, just taken a place that was real in the books and say that it was all a dream. "Actually, Harry, Hogwarts and the magical world don't exist. You dreamt it." Or this: "Actually, Bruce, this entire Baman thign was just a dream." Or this: "Atticus, you need to accept that this "Scout" girl was just a dream."

 

[Hipsy_Gypsy]

In The Wizard of Oz they have the "It was a dream thing"... then again it was pretty obvious... and BTW in the book series Oz is REAL... that always upsets me b/c I'm a huge fan of the books, and L Frank Baum's work in general. Nobody gets it rights...

You ninja'd me. I agree completely. Imagine if they'd done this in any other book, just taken a place that was real in the books and say that it was all a dream. "Actually, Harry, Hogwarts and the magical world don't exist. You dreamt it." Or this: "Actually, Bruce, this entire Baman thign was just a dream." Or this: "Atticus, you need to accept that this "Scout" girl was just a dream."

Yeah, it actually especially annoys me that the book series was real as well. Ever seen the cartoon sequal "Journey Back to Oz"? horribly implied that it's a dream. The unofficial Disney sequal doesn't even imply it as much though it is fairly obvious. Still though; I like to convince myself while watching it that it actually happened within the film anyroad


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