# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/81 "2010-12-01T01:54:44Z")
> [@Wolverine](#): > > The Lion King Correct. > [@](#): > > Government employee is arrested for treason but escapes, contacts a crime boss, and proceeds to steal valuable secrets from a highly fortified government facility with the help of crooks. Mission Impossible ---
**Author:** ![Wolverine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@Wolverine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolverine)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/82 "2010-12-01T02:31:37Z")
> [@Rysto](#): > > Mission Impossible Correct. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/83 "2010-12-01T04:05:23Z")
> [@glowacks](#): > > Not that I’ve seen it, but I can’t imagine any movie fitting this thread with that description other than The Birth of a Nation Correct. Tricky in that the plot summary of the movie’s antagonists is in this instance the non-Bizarro world one. ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/84 "2010-12-01T06:31:11Z")
A corporation is trying to retrieve it’s legally owned property from a remote island, but it’s efforts are hampered by clueless scientists and an amoral terrorist. Many people die as a result and the ones responsible are never brought to justice. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/85 "2010-12-01T08:10:44Z")
> [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](#): > > A corporation is trying to retrieve it’s legally owned property from a remote island, but it’s efforts are hampered by clueless scientists and an amoral terrorist. Many people die as a result and the ones responsible are never brought to justice. Jurassic Park? ---
**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:** [December 1, 2010, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/86 "2010-12-01T08:23:27Z")
> [@glowacks](#): > > Gran Torino > > I swear the previous answer wasn’t there when I posted even though it was an hour earlier. **lisiate** may have pipped you, but you get spelling credits 😉 ---
**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:** [December 1, 2010, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/87 "2010-12-01T10:31:49Z")
> [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](#): > > A corporation is trying to retrieve it’s legally owned property from a remote island, but it’s efforts are hampered by clueless scientists and an amoral terrorist. Many people die as a result and the ones responsible are never brought to justice. Think it’s Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/88 "2010-12-01T10:35:58Z")
Right you are. ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/89 "2010-12-02T02:47:56Z")
> [@Rysto](#): > > The irresponsible son of an important leader runs away following the leader’s death, forcing the leader’s brother to take over the family business. Years later, an childhood friend of the son abandons her responsibilities. During her flight from home she happens upon her old friend and helps to convince him to return with her and usurp his uncle’s position. I never realized that the previous answer given for this has the same basic plot as what I thought it was after the first sentence… Hamlet The previous answer seems far more likely, given that the story as above doesn’t quite work for what I have - but it’s eerily similar. ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/90 "2010-12-02T02:53:30Z")
A town sheriff is forced to resort to ever harsher tactics to try to catch a thief who constantly steals from town and distributes the loot among his friends. The thief then disrupts the sheriff’s wedding and one of his companions kills the sheriff’s mother. ---
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/91 "2010-12-02T03:42:31Z")
> [@glowacks](#): > > A town sheriff is forced to resort to ever harsher tactics to try to catch a thief who constantly steals from town and distributes the loot among his friends. The thief then disrupts the sheriff’s wedding and one of his companions kills the sheriff’s mother. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/92 "2010-12-02T04:14:59Z")
This one may trick you… Mad doctor creates life by using old corpse to re-create a powerful animate being. Being is caged up like an animal but escapes its confines to wreak havoc on those around it. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/93 "2010-12-02T04:26:34Z")
An unwashed, unemployed and possibly disgraced mercenary needlessly goads coexisting business enterprises into senseless bloodshed, ultimately ending in their mutual annihilation. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/94 "2010-12-02T04:37:45Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > An unwashed, unemployed and possibly disgraced mercenary needlessly goads coexisting business enterprises into senseless bloodshed, ultimately ending in their mutual annihilation. Last Man Standing? ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/95 "2010-12-02T04:38:04Z")
Traumatized veteran returns home after an extended tour and goes on a rampage of mass murder, finally driven mad by multiple acts of apparent infidelity. Men and women alike die in the horrifying bloodbath. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/96 "2010-12-02T04:42:31Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > Last Man Standing? I was thinking of _Yojimbo_, but _Last Man Standing_ and _Fistful of Dollars_ are both remakes and work as well. ---
**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:** [December 2, 2010, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/97 "2010-12-02T14:01:24Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > This one may trick you… > > Mad doctor creates life by using old corpse to re-create a powerful animate being. Being is caged up like an animal but escapes its confines to wreak havoc on those around it. The obvious answer on first pass is _Frankenstein_ by Mary Shelley, and its various remakes. But since you’ve tagged it as a trick question, we’ll keep working on it. Meanwhile… A jovial band of highwaymen, who enjoy that rare commodity in their profession – extended cooperation – are astonished that they have been robbed. In their attempts to steal back their properly stolen goods, all except the leader get killed. The leader attempts to commit vigilante justice for the multiple murders, only to have his cover blown by that annoying thief’s all-to-clever aide. ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/98 "2010-12-02T14:20:52Z")
> [@Scuba\_Ben](#): > > A jovial band of highwaymen, who enjoy that rare commodity in their profession – extended cooperation – are astonished that they have been robbed. In their attempts to steal back their properly stolen goods, all except the leader get killed. The leader attempts to commit vigilante justice for the multiple murders, only to have his cover blown by that annoying thief’s all-to-clever aide. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves? In the Middle East, an occupying army finds itself harrassed by a ragtag band of insurgents - who, it transpires, are not only being supplied with weapons by a hostile power, but actually led by a soldier of that power. ---
**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:** [December 2, 2010, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/99 "2010-12-02T14:41:52Z")
Very good, **Stan**. Yours: _Lawrence of Arabia_ ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155/100 "2010-12-02T14:49:18Z")
> [@Scuba\_Ben](#): > > Very good, **Stan**. > > Yours: _Lawrence of Arabia_ Bizarrely I’d looked it up just the other day. And correct! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-plot-game/562155.md?page=6)