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⌈ Secret Post #2665 ⌋

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Comments

Favorite plot twists

[(Anonymous)]

For the sake of spoilers, please label the fandom in your post.

Re: Favorite plot twists - Ghost Trick

[masu_trout]

Just... the whole thing. I love that game so much, and I love everything its plot chose to be.

Re: Favorite plot twists - Ghost Trick

[bigpaw]

haha I just wrote almost this exact comment, then saw yours and YES. That game was such a fantastic roller coaster. And just as fun was when I got my friend to play it and he just kept sending me increasingly frantic texts as he got more and more into it. I think he hit the 'sissel is a cat' reveal and sent me something along the lines of "jgfda;lkjhf;skgfl;kddh"

Re: Favorite plot twists - Ghost Trick

[logicbutton]

F'in RIGHT???

It is perfect and flawless. Dear everybody in the world who has ever done a time travel plot: THIS is how you do a plot about time travel.

Despair by Vladimir Nabokov

[sarillia]

One of my favorite uses of an unreliable narrator. The plot is that the main character comes across a guy who looks just like him so he comes up with a plan to fake his own death by killing this man and pretending it's him so he can start his life over somewhere else. Then at the end it turns out that the man didn't look like him at all and the newspapers are speculating about the lunatic behind the ridiculous plot to fake the dead man's identity.

lost

[rubbertea]

so, so many.

a) season 1, 'walkabout': locke was paralyzed before the crash
b) henry gale is the leader of the others
c) locke's father is the original sawyer
d) season 2, 'two for the road': michael shoots ana lucia and libby
e) the first flashforward

Re: lost

[(Anonymous)]

I remember Locke being paralyzed was such a big twist and done so well!

Re: lost

[rubbertea]

yes! i always recommend people watch the show at least until that point. if they don't like after the twist, then it's just not for them. needless to say, most people keep watching after that.

Re: lost

[(Anonymous)]

Hah, after the pilot I remember someone on one of my forums boards throwing out the idea that Locke was paralyzed before the crash and nobody else thinking it was a likely possibility.

Thor 2: The Dark World

[ansela_jonla]

The end scene with Thor and "Odin".

Re: Thor 2: The Dark World

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, that was great. I was really hoping that was how it was going to end. I saw it on DVD and at the reveal, I went back and watched the "Odin" speech once again for added enjoyment.

Re: Thor 2: The Dark World

[riddian]

Yesss, I saw that one coming a mile away and I didn't mind because it was so well done and enjoyable.

I really hope Odin isn't actually dead though. Just... in more Convenient Odinsleep or something.

Re: Thor 2: The Dark World

[ansela_jonla]

Asgard might actually benefit from this. Odin was visibly slipping in Thor 2, even before Frigga's death. His willingness to fight to the last drop of Asgardian blood if necessary was rather shocking, considering how far he went to prevent war in Thor.

One can only hope that the current bum on the throne is a little less willing to throw lives away.

Re: Thor 2: The Dark World

[(Anonymous)]

It was beautiful. Especially because I went in unspoiled, and, a second before the reveal, was whispering to the person I went to the theater with, "Hey, Odin is actually not being a gigantic dick to Thor--hooooomg"

Hornblower in the West Indies, Murder Rooms, ACD Holmes

[dreemyweird]

1. The "St. Elizabeth of Hungary" chapter of Hornblower in the West Indies is the single. most. amazing. historical event-related plot twist ever.

In short, Hornblower chases a Frenchman who intends to free Napoleon from the island of Elba and organize a coup d'etat. When Hornblower finally catches up with him (somewhere in the Pacific at the back of the beyond), he realizes that he has no means of overcoming his opponent because his ship is way smaller. Come the fateful moment, Hornblower goes aboard the French ship and gives his word of honour that Napoleon has died a month ago. The French are devastated and abandon their plan. Hornblower is too absolutely devastated because he is convinced that he has dishonoured himself. He goes back to Spanish America only to learn that Napoleon hAS INDEED DIED THREE WEEKS AGO. The chapter ends with an excerpt from the legend of the Miracle of the Roses (according to Wikipedia, "Elizabeth is perhaps best known for her miracle of the roses which says that whilst she was taking bread to the poor in secret, she met her husband Ludwig on a hunting party, who, in order to quell suspicions of the gentry that she was stealing treasure from the castle, asked her to reveal what was hidden under her cloak. In that moment, her cloak fell open and a vision of white and red roses could be seen, which proved to Ludwig that God's protecting hand was at work"). JESUS H. CHRIST, Forester, you are amazing.

2. Murder Rooms, The Patient's Eyes. Heather Grace being the true criminal is perhaps the classiest and most unusual plot twist I've seen in modern detective fiction. Especially since she does not turn out to be the actual murderer, she turns out to be the mastermind behind the murders that were in fact committed by Capt. Horler. She can't even be apprehended for her crimes. I don't care if her plotline is a classic case of the Cartwright Curse, it's soooo good! There's a reason this episode and this book are considered the best in the series.

3. ACD Holmes canon. Just about every ending of every story ever??? But my favourites are certainly ABBE and COPP. Granted, in hindsight the ending of COPP wasn't really unexpected, but I was five years old when I read it, so I guess my adoration for this plot twist is excusable. And I do so admire ACD's use of psychology. The way he connected the character of the child to the character of his father must be one of the coolest narrative tricks of the time.

A fanfic for a really obscure fandom none of you are in

[(Anonymous)]

There were a lot of hints throughout the story leading the readers (all three or four of us) to believe the head of the good-guy organization and the main villain were the same person. Well...yes and no. Turned out they faced off in battle before the story began, the villain won, and he erased the leader's mind and took over his body. So the good-guy leader isn't just some run-of-the-mill double agent. There is no good-guy leader. He's a literal puppet. Holy shit.

Re: A fanfic for a really obscure fandom none of you are in

[dreemyweird]

Ahh, this sounds great. I'd be in love with this plot twist, too.

Re: A fanfic for a really obscure fandom none of you are in

[(Anonymous)]

Tellllll usssssss

Re: A fanfic for a really obscure fandom none of you are in

[(Anonymous)]

That sounds great. Which fandom? Do tell!

BioShock & Bioshock Infinite

[elaminator]

This and what came after it. Then when Fontaine starts knocking down your health bar. I yelled. (Super helpful, let me tell you.)

Not sure if it's my favorite (because of the aforementioned fact that I was shipping Booker/Elizabeth), but BioShock Infinite had so, so many. And left me legitimately shocked as well.

Tiger & Bunny, episode 16

[pantswarrior]

There's a reason episode 16 is my favorite episode of an anime ever. We already knew who Lunatic was, of course, but finding out who his DAD was, and what happened to him, and the kinds of conflicting messages Yuri was getting before that which led to him eventually becoming Lunatic...

Not to mention the implications and parallels with Kotetsu. Guh. That episode was just perfectly crafted.

Re: Tiger & Bunny, episode 16

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, that was too weird. I was like, What? Seriously?

Wheel of Time: AMoL

[diet_poison]

My favorite twist from this book was Olver and the Horn.

I was amazed when he played it and it worked and Mat was like "oh yeah I died that one time" and it just left me wondering how long Jordan had been planning that. Because not only did nobody but Mat and maybe Rand* realize he had died - which I also hadn't really thought of - but it didn't occur to me as a reader that that might have broken his link because yeah, he was dead, but he's still alive, right? I didn't even think of it once. We spend like ten books assuming that Mat has to blow the horn again with all the characters just take it for granted, and then suddenly that happened.

Also, go Olver! I'm glad he got to do something important after all the shit he'd been through. (I kinda wonder what happens to him post-canon...)

*I say "maybe Rand" because from his POV while it was clear Mat was in huge shit, it wasn't clear that he was literally dead before being "revived". So it's possible that even Rand didn't realize what had happened.

Re: Favorite plot twists - Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy

[(Anonymous)]

Everything about the Bronev family, especially Jean Descole/Desmond Sycamore/Hershel Bronev. It really casts his actions in previous games (and movie) in a new light. Especially the fact that he thought the best way to control Clark was by destroying his family, and the resurrection-of-dead-daughter-by-mind-transfer thing in Eternal Diva. (And he lost his wife and child around the same time as Claire's death. Of course.)

And Leon simultaneously makes me go D: and "he really nedds a hug." Did he actually know that he ordered his daughter-in-law's and granddaughter's deaths?

Bastion

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Bastion, a nice double-plot twist that Zia isn't the damsel in distress, she's the audience of Ruck's story, and talking back.