# Reverse plot game **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 28, 2010, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155 "2010-11-28T07:32:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/41 "2010-11-30T10:47:02Z")
Here’s a tough one: Foreigner kills the heroines sister. The foreigner then steals property off a dead woman, befriends the pretender to the throne in order to gain treasures for the cadre, and then uses the stolen property to escape. ---
**Author:** ![Wolverine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@Wolverine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolverine)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/42 "2010-11-30T11:31:10Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > Here’s a tough one: > > Foreigner kills the heroines sister. The foreigner then steals property off a dead woman, befriends the pretender to the throne in order to gain treasures for the cadre, and then uses the stolen property to escape. Wizard of Oz, but I thought **Inner Stickler** already posted this one way back in post #2 A silly and emotionally unhinged man’s uncle loses his nephew’s large stack of money, and so the man convinces all of his friends and family to pay off his debts for him. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/43 "2010-11-30T11:43:45Z")
> [@Wolverine](#): > > Wizard of Oz, but I thought **Inner Stickler** already posted this one way back in post #2 > > A silly and emotionally unhinged man’s uncle loses his nephew’s large stack of money, and so the man convinces all of his friends and family to pay off his debts for him. It’s a wonderful life ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/44 "2010-11-30T11:47:09Z")
Creepy old deformed guy breaks into the home of a young mother of three, then proceeds to terrorise and corrupt the kids into assisting with his escape from the authorities. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/45 "2010-11-30T11:47:38Z")
**Wolverine** - Ting! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/46 "2010-11-30T11:56:25Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > Creepy old deformed guy breaks into the home of a young mother of three, then proceeds to terrorise and corrupt the kids into assisting with his escape from the authorities. ET? ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/47 "2010-11-30T12:14:10Z")
> [@Sr\_Siete](#): > > ET? You got it! ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/48 "2010-11-30T12:33:42Z")
Racist grouch provokes young Asian men into comitting murder, so that he can get them sent to prison. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/49 "2010-11-30T12:35:16Z")
Habitual liar and self-publicist gruesomely slays a young man, then goes after his grieving mother. ---
**Author:** ![willthekittensurvive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@willthekittensurvive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/willthekittensurvive)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/50 "2010-11-30T13:09:47Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > Habitual liar and self-publicist gruesomely slays a young man, then goes after his grieving mother. Beowulf US special force general occupies an empty prison island and demands the government make reparations to the families of Recon Marines who died on illegal, clandestine missions and that their deaths are honored, only to be thrwarted by a chemical weapons expert and a convivted agent of a foreign power ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/51 "2010-11-30T13:16:22Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > Habitual liar and self-publicist gruesomely slays a young man, then goes after his grieving mother. Beowulf? ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/52 "2010-11-30T13:23:56Z")
Dedicated actor betrayed by director and cast while filming final scene of troubled production. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/53 "2010-11-30T14:11:36Z")
Compassionate War hero and leader is assassinated by psychotic hitman who is aided by his drugged out crew. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/54 "2010-11-30T14:48:06Z")
> [@Alka\_Seltzer](#): > > Dedicated actor betrayed by director and cast while filming final scene of troubled production. Shadow of the Vampire > [@Isamu](#): > > Compassionate War hero and leader is assassinated by psychotic hitman who is aided by his drugged out crew. Apocalypse Now ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/55 "2010-11-30T14:55:13Z")
Apocalypse Now Ya got it! Damn House was just standing there minding it’s own business, then people went crrraaaaaaayyzzzyyyy. Again. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/56 "2010-11-30T15:03:36Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > Apocalypse Now > > Ya got it! > Damn House was just standing there minding it’s own business, then people went crrraaaaaaayyzzzyyyy. Again. House Party? Wait, sorry. House Party 2? -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/57 "2010-11-30T15:06:23Z")
Visionary journalism executive attempts to protect himself against a loose-cannon intelligence officer’s plans for murder. Ground-breaking psychiatrist sees his life’s work destroyed by a lone-wolf renegade _who won’t even show his own face_. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/58 "2010-11-30T15:07:51Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > Damn House was just standing there minding it’s own business, then people went crrraaaaaaayyzzzyyyy. Again. The Shining? ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/59 "2010-11-30T15:41:51Z")
> [@Alka\_Seltzer](#): > > The Shining? Probably. But I like mine better. 🙂 -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/60 "2010-11-30T15:55:32Z")
> [@Alka\_Seltzer](#): > > The Shining? That would be Damn _Hotel_.🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155.md?page=4)