In films you’ve seen and books you’ve read, what plot twist were you expecting to happen that didn’t happen?
Of course, a twist that doesn’t happen is a twist in itself, but that’s another story. 
I’ll start with Blood and Honour
In Blood and Honour, I was expecting Roderick to kill Victor/Jordan in the melee at the end and claim the throne.
In Robert Heinlein’s juvenile Tunnel in the Sky the course instructor tells the students in his survival course to “watch out for stobor.”
[spoiler]
Of course, any science fiction/mystery fan will immediately turn that word around and get “robots”.
Aha! The hidden peril is really robots. So the kids have been put into what looks like a dangerous planet, but the threat is really a “controlled” threat of robotic animals.
Only that isn’t what it turns out to be at all. People clever enough to figure out the apparent clue were really too clever. No robots at all in the book, in fact. [/spoiler]
Team America: World Police
Spottswoode’s driver, Baxter, looked to me like a female puppet (smaller head, slighter body) wearing a moustache. I kept expecting there to be a big reveal, but Baxter disappeared sometime around the cocktail party scene, never to be seen again.
In the The Phantom Menace, Darth Maul was cut in half by a light saber. I thought Darth Maul might come back only with mechanical spider legs or something.
Somehow I got dragged to see Rent recently, and was shocked when…
…Mimi didn’t die! WTF? I knew she died in La Boheme, so when the Mimi in Rent suddenly woke up from an apparently near-death state, I was amazed.
In Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
In Lover’s Walk, after Cordelia has been impaled and apparently died, we see a funeral. Then the camera pans down to Willow and Buffy walking by outside the cemetary, discussing Cordy’s survival and recuperation in the hospital. Psych!!
Uh oh. Even commenting on this is a spoiler, but since it’s kinda of a minor venue and issue…
In fact, he did! This happens in the comics, but that’s almost precisely what happens.
Biggest one for me, and it almost spoiled the movie–almost. Nothing beats Angel in four-inch high heels and a Santa suit, or the Tango Maureen. 
:smack:
I’ve read that book at least 20 times over the last 30 years and this is the first time I thought of that.
In Pulp Fiction, you expect Travolta and Uma Thurman to get it on, which might have happened if not for other circumstances.
I didn’t. It would have seemed forced and unecessary. Clichéd, almost. And certainly out of character in light of earlier dialog.
My gf was sure you this was the case too. I wonder if it was a plot point that was edited out or if it’s just a badly done puppet.
Matrix Expected it to be a box inside a box, the “real world” was also a matrix. Didn’t happen.
Harry Potter IF Dumbledore is really dead, then that sucks. Him trusting Snape for no really good reason? Disappointing.
In the first Austin Powers movie, before he freezes himself, he catches an enemy spy in a night club who’s disguised as a woman. I was fully expecting a scene in a modern nightclub where he’d see a transvestite and attack “her,” thinking that it must be another agent, when it’s really just a guy who likes to wear dresses.
I was also dissapointed that the third Matrix movie took everything that could have been a clever development and chucked it out the window.
In the Station Agent I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop. . . and it never did.
Don’t you remember the “That’s my mother” “Its’ a man, baby!” scene?
Not a plot twist per se, but in Dumb and Dumber, Jim Carrey’s character name was Lloyd Christmas, and Lauren Holly’s character’s name was Mary. I kept expecting them to finish off the joke, but they never did.
I should post this in a Harry Potter speculation thread, but I’m too damn lazy to search for the right one. So here’s my speculation:Dumbledore was mortally wounded by the curse that blackened his hand. Snape was able to make a potion that would slow down, but not stop, the mortification process. Dumbledore’s and Snape’s argument was that Dumbledore wanted Snape to kill him to maintain Snape’s credibility with Voldemort. Possibly, there will be a brief reappearence of Dumbledore, one of those “wizard deliberately died so as to gain the power to come back briefly at crucial time” like in the movie Dragonslayer
In Finding Nemo,
I was sure Gill was going to be revealed as the bad guy
I’m watching Buffy for the first time - just finished the first season. I have been pleasantly surprised by how often the twist isn’t what I expect.
For example,
The possessed ventriloquist’s dummy turns out to be a good guy.