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Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => The Arts => Silver Screen => Topic started by: tempestwheel on February 15, 2009, 06:33:15 PM
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Has there been any movie, game, show, or book with a plot twist that startled or scared you at all? Here's mine: I did not see this one coming at all:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOFZ5fv_pb8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOFZ5fv_pb8)
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If negative, shocking twists are including, i think I ould number a few portuguese novels.
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Yeah, you can include those kinds of twists
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Well then, I was forced - and partially, I liked it in a way - to watch a portuguese ONLY novel - a rarety. Thing is, the last episode of the first series was just worth facepalming.
I mean, throughout more than a 100 episodes, a girl is trying to reach her beloved one's heart, starting as an employee and later as a babysitter, and precisely in the LAST episode, when they were just married, the man is ran over! :facepalm:
Then the second series is about that same girl trying to get to the heart of the man that ran over the first one!
I mean, what next?
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The two shockers:
1. Darth Vader revealing that he is Luke's father.
2. Sephiroth killing Aerith.
You can look these up on you tube...
We all know about the former, but the latter (which comes from Final Fantasy VII) was shocking in that the likelihood of her kind of character dying was VERY low. She was the love interest of the hero (Cloud), a young INNOCENT girl (22 years old, sold flowers, and was like a saint in her conduct), the last of her kind (she was the last of a race called the "ancients", also known as Cetra, I think), and she was killed while praying for the world to be saved.
And, unlike SO many other characters, Aerith was NEVER brought back to life.
P.S. When I was young, I was also shocked to find that Zordon was killed by the Red Space Ranger; he ordered the leader of the power rangers to kill him so that he could save the universe by means of a deus ex machina release of energy from his energy tube. So far, they have kept Zordon dead.
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One plot that twist comes to mind is Dino Crisis 2. When you first start the game, you are under the impression that you're 65 million years in the past. But it's later revealed that it's actually the future, 3 million years from now.
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1. Bolt
2. The Others
3. Marley and Me
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Other than Star Wars? Well, I thought the Arbiter and Master Chief teaming up in Halo 2 was unexpected, although in hindsight it was foreshadowed all throughout the game.
The end of The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker was also pretty mind-blowing, too. So was The Force Unleashed. As for other movies, I thought Maggie Gylenhal's (that's not how you spell her last name) character getting killed off in the Dark Knight was a decent twist. The end of Terminator 3 was definitely a plot twist, since they actually let Skynet win.
In TV, the endings of both Star Trek Deep Space Nine and Enterprise were unforseeable, with each getting a major character spontaneously killed off right at the end.
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Bioshock: The "Would you kindly?" Reveal
I never saw it coming.
It was a huge moment in video game plots; Now even the dialogue can be used to mess with your head.
Those who haven't played Bioshock, don't watch this video. Contains huge spoilers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9L4UIFWA9E (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9L4UIFWA9E)
PS: Also counts as another "Worst Way to Die in a Game." :lol
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Not really a movie , but the short film Fear Itself: New Years Day. a girl wakes up on new years day hungover to find that the zombie apocalypse has started. all through the movie we are seeing flashbacks to the night before. and finally at the end of the movie it is revealed that she overdosed the night before and has been a zombie for the entire movie
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1. Bolt
What was so surprising in Bolt? The fact that he's a normal dog?
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Bruce Willis turning out to be ghost in The Sixth Sense.
Samuel L. Jackson turning out to be more than a harmless nut in "Unbreakable".
Tidus turning out to be a dream come to life in Final Fantasy X.
Your entire religion and world turning out be fabricated in Tales of Symphonia.
Norman Bates turning out to be "mother" in Psycho.
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Norman Bates turning out to be "mother" in Psycho.
Oh, second that one. Also when the actress just got killed off, after so much screen time making her look like the main character.
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3 words: Sleepaway Camp's ending.
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Bioshock: The "Would you kindly?" Reveal
I never saw it coming.
It was a huge moment in video game plots; Now even the dialogue can be used to mess with your head.
Those who haven't played Bioshock, don't watch this video. Contains huge spoilers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9L4UIFWA9E (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9L4UIFWA9E)
PS: Also counts as another "Worst Way to Die in a Game."
I second that in every way possible, it blew my mind when I was playing. Did not see it coming in any way at all.
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(Major spoilers!)
This scene from Star Trek 2. Seriously, I did not see this coming. :cry2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phUKlwCHCIo...re=channel_page (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phUKlwCHCIo&feature=channel_page)
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The ending of "The Mist" :o.
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yi nan wang:
Aruther betrayed lay gong and micheal before shooting his girlfriend.
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The ending of "The Mist" :o.
Yeah, seriously, if they just waited a few more seconds, they would all have been alive and rescued. XP
My mom suggested that I should watch a movie called No Way Out. And needless to say, the last few minutes shocked me.
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Another plot twist that really took me by surprise was the Phoenix reveal in the Monster Rancher anime. It took me completely by surprise.
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Pokemon Mystery Dungeon 2 (I can name 2 major ones)
1.) You were Grovyle's Human partner in the future before you got turned into a Pokemon.
2.) Dusknoir who would seem to be a respected bounty hunter from the future is actually working for the main villain, Darkrai who is trying to plunge the future (from which your character came from) into infinite night.
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Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening -
It a was a MAJOR shock to find out that Koholint Island was actually a dream of the Wind Fish made real and didn't actually exist.
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One most of you probably haven't seen-
April Fool's Day (1986)- a slasher film where, at the end, it turns out it was all a joke and everyone was okay.
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Some good Saw twists:
1. Saw 1-Jigsaw turning out to be the "dead" body on the floor.
2. Saw 2-The events in the house were just a video playback and occurred hours before the police arrived at Jigsaw's lair.
3. Saw 4-The events of Saw 3 and 4 are happening at the same time.
4. Saw 6-The mother and son are not William's family, rather, the reporter is his sister.
Other twists that shocked me:
The ending of Klonoa: Door to Phantomile.
Randy dying in Scream 2.
The revelation at the end of The Final Destination that everything that happened in the series was intended to happen, that the characters never cheated Death in the first place.
The colonel turning out just to be an AI (and many other twists) in Metal Gear Solid 2.
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The Flood's appearance in Halo: Combat Evolved.
Honestly, I had been watching my brother play through the game, we were both getting into the alien-human war storyline, and all of a sudden these super-zombie thingies appear and we look at each other with these expressions: :o :blink: :huh:
I never saw it coming. It was very well-done, and I loved the way it simply slotted in with the central storylines of the Covenant's religion and what the Halo had to do with it.
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The ending of the movie version of The Mist, which I think is one of the best twist endings ever:
The main character and a few other survivors who decided to leave the supermarket get in their car to get away from the monsters. After running out of gas, the main character decides he doesn't want to see his friends and family get mutilated by the monsters, they decide to take a bullet as a much less grotesque way to go. Yes, the main character even shoots his 8-year old son. Since he doesn't have a bullet for himself, the main character steps outside of the car to willingly be killed by the creatures...........
Only to find the thing that was approaching him was the military, who've managed to destroy the mist (and subsequently the monsters), and are escorting the survivors from the supermarket. Yes, the main character just killed his friends and family for nothing, and had they waited 2 more minutes they wouldn't have died. :blink:
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It's all in one line.
"No, Luke. I AM YOUR FATHER!"
A completely unexpected twist at that. It can NEVER be repeated after that XD . Unless you're really, really, really, really, REALLY clever.
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The ending of the movie version of The Mist, which I think is one of the best twist endings ever:
The main character and a few other survivors who decided to leave the supermarket get in their car to get away from the monsters. After running out of gas, the main character decides he doesn't want to see his friends and family get mutilated by the monsters, they decide to take a bullet as a much less grotesque way to go. Yes, the main character even shoots his 8-year old son. Since he doesn't have a bullet for himself, the main character steps outside of the car to willingly be killed by the creatures...........
Only to find the thing that was approaching him was the military, who've managed to destroy the mist (and subsequently the monsters), and are escorting the survivors from the supermarket. Yes, the main character just killed his friends and family for nothing, and had they waited 2 more minutes they wouldn't have died. :blink:
I agree. That...was so shocking :o. That one left my mind numb for a couple of days :crazy.
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The most shocking twist would be...a horror protagonist who actually does logical things!
1. Tobi from Naruto turns out to be Uchiha Madara. That was my favorite moment in Naruto. Also one of the last truly awesome moments in the series.
2. Big Smoke and Ryder's betrayal in GTA: San Andreas.
3. The big reveal in Sleepaway Camp. You know the one.
4. Vanitas' face (Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep)
5. The birth of Xehanort(Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep)
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For me, inFamous. I have not finished it myself, but rather saw a friend of mine finish it instead and man, did not see that happen in who you face in the final boss....you face your future self :blink:
I honestly did not expect that at all.
Oh, and Brekclub, about Saw 6. Yes, I have to agree, I thought the mother and son was related to the executive guy doing the tests. But at the end when it was the girl who was his sister and the other two being unrelated to him....yeah, didn't expect that.
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Two words. Fight Club.
Finding out that "Tyler Durden" was just a figment of the narrator's mind, seeing himelf like he wanted to be, and then realizing that he was crazy the entire time.
Wow. Brain asploded.
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The final episode of Terminator the Sarah Conner Chronicles where all of a sudden the one Terminator whom you thought throughout the whole series to be out to kill John Conner saves him and turn out to be... on which side exactly? Not really clear if it would be the "good" side, but apparently not as "bad" a side as one expected. I was eager for the answers to these questions to come in season 3... which was never produced :bang
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It's all in one line.
"No, Luke. I AM YOUR FATHER!"
A completely unexpected twist at that. It can NEVER be repeated after that XD . Unless you're really, really, really, really, REALLY clever.
You're right: That single line says it all, and I didn't see it coming when I saw Episode V the first time.Call it one of those "Say what?" moments. :)
That and the series' ending episode of Bob Newhart's second sitcom. This was considerably before most of you guys' time, but what a ingenious way to wrap this show by playing on Newhart's first sitcom. Plot twist to end all plot twists?
:lol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newhart#.22The_Last_Newhart.22 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newhart#.22The_Last_Newhart.22)
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I third or fourth the "Luke I am your father" bit. Say what you will about George Lucas, but that really was the greatest plot twist of all time.
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*OMG SPOILERS!*
Here's a couple of memorable ones I've seen over the years in movies:
The Sixth Sense - The main character has been dead all along.
Planet of the Apes - It was Earth all along.
The Empire Strikes Back - All ready mentioned, but definitely a great twist.
Citizen Kane - Rosebud was a sled.
Soilent Green - It's made from people.
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Spoiler alert! Call of Duty: Black Ops.
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Victor Reznov from World at War returns in Black ops. He helps the main character escape from a Russian gulag and later joins him on several missions. However, it turns out that Reznov isn't really there. He's just a hallucination in your head caused by him brainwashing you. The real Reznov was killed helping you escape from the prison.
That kinda disappointed me because Raznov is still my favorite character in the CoD series. I wish they had not killed him and Dimitri off. That sucked.
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Lotso turning out to be a villain in Toy Story 3.
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Lotso turning out to be a villain in Toy Story 3.
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TBH, though I liked Lotso as a villain, I did sort of see it coming. He just had Prospector vibes to him.
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Another shocking plot twist in Black Ops.
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Alex Mason assassinated President Kennedy! :o
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Shutter Island-The entire "investigation" was just an elaborate roleplay, and Leonardo Dicaprio was one of the asylum's patients.
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I think the film is called De Ja Vu...that wasn't entirely shocking but it was like ..oh okay, that's pretty interesting sort of reaction.
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I have two.
Kurama in elfen Lied comitting suicide with Mariko. What the heck? :blink: I can honestly say, I did not see that coming. Why would he do that? I can understand that Mariko was his daughter and he wanted to be with her but seriously, commiting SUICIDE? Just a terribly shocking plot twister.
The train scene in Final Destination 3. What? They seriously are going to die? It didn't make sense at all. I was completely blown away when the preminaition was actually coming true. What happened to, "cheating death"? :blink:
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How to Train Your Dragon
After the climatic battle, when Hiccup wakes up in his house and sees that he lost one of his legs. That really shocked me (in the good way). Not just losing a leg, but the fact that they did that in an family friendly animated movie. Because normally in every other animated movie I see, the hero usually comes out of the big fight or climax almost without a scratch on them.
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Death Note: The Last Name
L wasn't really dead, and the Death Note had been replaced with a fake. This was particularly shocking because in the anime this is based on, L dies about halfway into the series.