# Favourite plot twists **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 13, 2020, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-plot-twists/855599 "2020-06-13T12:33:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Calavera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calavera/32/70_2.png) [@Calavera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calavera)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-plot-twists/855599/1 "2020-06-13T12:33:56Z")
What are your 3 favourite plot twists? If you’re the first person to mention it, please include a spoiler box describing the twist, no open spoilers please. I’d say 1. The Good Place. This is the Bad Place! 2. The Usual Suspects Verbal is Keyser Soze. 3. Sleuth: 1970s version Inspector Doppler is actually Milo ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-plot-twists/855599/2 "2020-06-13T13:15:22Z")
To be fair, regarding your number 2 we don’t actually know if Keyser Soze even exists But as double-cross/misdirections go, it is pretty darn good. One of my favourites is “The Others” where Nicole Kidman and her family are terrorised by hauntings. when actually it is her and her family that are the ghosts but she doesn’t realise it ---
**Author:** ![blue\_infinity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_infinity/32/2817_2.png) [@blue\_infinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue_infinity)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-plot-twists/855599/3 "2020-06-13T13:46:12Z")
1. The Prestige Borden has a twin brother 1. Fight Club Tyler Durden is the Narrator’s alter ego 1. Identity It’s all in the killer’s mind ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-plot-twists/855599/4 "2020-06-13T13:49:13Z")
The Sixth Sense. Do I even have to post the twist? I think everyone knows it by now. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-plot-twists/855599/5 "2020-06-13T14:05:16Z")
From the TV show _Hu$tle_, the episode “The Lesson” The show is about scamming an African warlord with some fake currency. There’s also a second subplot about scamming a greedy banker. The two scams dovetail into a double twist when we learn they were actually scamming a new member of their own crew ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-plot-twists/855599/6 "2020-06-13T14:22:58Z")
OP, did you know all three of your spoilers showed up on the preview (when we mouse over thread titles in Cafe Society list… I always do that to see if I should open it). Wonder if the Neo-Dope (powered by Discourse) will do that? My favorite? I was going to say _No Way Out,_ but reread the OP and realized it could be a book as well. Then I’d say _Ender’s Game…_…when he discovers that it’s his childhood friends that he’s leading into battle. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-plot-twists/855599/7 "2020-06-13T14:51:38Z")
For books, I’ll go with the twist in Agatha Christie’s _The Murder of Roger Ackroyd_ The killer is the book’s narrator, who is helping Poirot investigate ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-plot-twists/855599/8 "2020-06-13T14:53:46Z")
> [@digs](#): > > My favorite? I was going to say _No Way Out,_ but reread the OP and realized it could be a book as well. Then I’d say _Ender’s Game…_ Been awhile since I read the book, but isn’t another aspect of the plot twist of Ender’s Game… …Ender thought he was playing yet another battle simulation (or, game) but it was actually the real battle against the aliens Another plot twist from the literary world: An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge: [spoiler]A man is being hung by Union soldiers from a bridge. But the noose snaps and he falls into the river! His senses sharpened, he evades gunfire, swims to safety, and makes an arduous 30 mile journey back home. Except… …he actually just hallucinated the whole thing in the moment between being dropped and the noose snapping his neck. I remember reading that story in school and going “woahhhh”.[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-plot-twists/855599/9 "2020-06-13T16:36:42Z")
Can’t believe this hasn’t been mentioned yet: Citizen Kane Rosebud is the sled ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-plot-twists/855599/10 "2020-06-13T17:05:39Z")
Watchmen “Dan, I’m not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I’d explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.” ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-plot-twists/855599/11 "2020-06-13T17:07:07Z")
Damon Knight story (and _The Twilight Zone_ episode) “To Serve Man.” “It’s a cookbook!” Harlan Ellison story “Croatoan.” Not sure how to explain it. Easier just to read the story. Steve Martin movie _The Man With Two Brains._ [spoiler]Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr: You. You’re the elevator killer. Merv Griffin. Merv Griffin: Yeah. Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr: Why? Merv Griffin: I don’t know. I’ve always just loved to kill. I really enjoyed it. But then I got famous, and - it’s just too hard for me. And so many witnesses. I mean, _everybody_ recognized me. I couldn’t even lurk anymore. I’d hear, “Who’s that lurking over there? Isn’t that Merv Griffin?” So I came to Europe to kill. And it’s really worked out very well for me. [/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-plot-twists/855599/12 "2020-06-13T18:05:37Z")
And nobody has yet mentioned _The Empire Strikes Back_? I am your fatherWell, it was a mind-blowing twist at the time! :) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-plot-twists/855599/13 "2020-06-13T18:21:18Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Been awhile since I read the book, but isn’t another aspect of the plot twist of Ender’s Game… > > …Ender thought he was playing yet another battle simulation (or, game) but it was actually the real battle against the aliens So I think it is more than that. Correct me if I am wrong, but I think that: Nearly all of his battle simulations were real battles leading to the final confrontation, which he wins and they tell him was real. Am I right? I know my mind was blown when I read the book. I am glad I managed to stay spoiler free until I read it(around 2008 or so). ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-plot-twists/855599/14 "2020-06-13T18:45:49Z")
I See You. [I See You (2019) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6079516/) Mysterious things are happening in the house because they don’t realize they have “phrogs,” i.e. two people who decided to sneak in and live, quietly, in their attic for awhile. and Unbeknownst to the other, one of the phrogs begged to go along because he wanted revenge on the father of the family. and The father, who is a policeman, is the bad guy. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-plot-twists/855599/15 "2020-06-13T19:06:43Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > The Sixth Sense. Do I even have to post the twist? I think everyone knows it by now. I don’t. ---
**Author:** ![TheSundial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6f9a4e/32.png) [@TheSundial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheSundial)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-plot-twists/855599/16 "2020-06-13T19:06:53Z")
I think my favorite is the first Saw. ---
**Author:** ![TheSundial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6f9a4e/32.png) [@TheSundial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheSundial)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-plot-twists/855599/17 "2020-06-13T19:16:52Z")
I will also say The Visit. and that movie has a nice property where it was filmed which is unrelated but still something I will remember. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-plot-twists/855599/18 "2020-06-13T19:40:15Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > The Sixth Sense. Do I even have to post the twist? I think everyone knows it by now. > [@SCAdian](#): > > I don’t. Bruce Willis dies at the beginning of the movie. The kid is the only one who can see him, because he sees dead people. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-plot-twists/855599/19 "2020-06-13T19:51:56Z")
> [@digs](#): > > My favorite? I was going to say _No Way Out,_ but reread the OP and realized it could be a book as well. I liked the twists (there was more than one) in No Way Out. ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-plot-twists/855599/20 "2020-06-13T20:11:00Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > The Sixth Sense. Do I even have to post the twist? I think everyone knows it by now. The Sixth Sense was released in China under a different title: “He’s a Ghost!” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-plot-twists/855599.md?page=2)