# Works where you guessed the twist/major plot point/whatever before it happened \[SPOILERS\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 18, 2011, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-where-you-guessed-the-twist-major-plot-point-whatever-before-it-happened-spoilers/600023 "2011-10-18T10:29:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![amorali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3e96dc/32.png) [@amorali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amorali)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2013, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-where-you-guessed-the-twist-major-plot-point-whatever-before-it-happened-spoilers/600023/101 "2013-12-02T05:13:51Z")
Avatar= Dances with Aliens The last Samurai = dances with Asians Not sure this is a plot twist but any time a group or two people have been together for the whole movie and then get separated or one chooses to go a different way, it’s pretty sure thing that one of them is going to come back at the end to save the other a la Han Solo. Most recent example would be Breaking Bad. Also Toy Story 3. And now that I see it I wish I didn’t! Shutter Island creeped me out. Or should I say Leonardo creeped me out. Sometimes his acting is so good it’s bad. I knew something was up. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2013, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-where-you-guessed-the-twist-major-plot-point-whatever-before-it-happened-spoilers/600023/102 "2013-12-02T06:48:08Z")
Granted, somebody has always done it in a whodunit, so it’s not really a “twist”, but I did correctly guess that the butler did it in one particular Agatha Christie novel. He turned out not to be what he appeared to be, and I have wrongly suspected a few butlers as well, but nonetheless, score one for me. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2013, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-where-you-guessed-the-twist-major-plot-point-whatever-before-it-happened-spoilers/600023/103 "2013-12-02T10:15:50Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > But then, I thought…“they killed her father.” > > Or her boyfriend, maybe. Because she’s A Girl™, they’re going to make this about revenge. Inspired by A Man. Because that’s what Girls do—they don’t have motivations of their own, they’re motivated _by_ someone. No “agency”\*, just emotional reactions. To the actions of Men™. > > And…guess what they do reveal, a few episodes later? :smack: > > For the record, though, it turns out he wasn’t dead, just trapped in the Phantom Zone or something. > > \*(That’s the current buzzword, I believe) To be fair, that’s a pretty common motivation for guys too. That was a substantial portion of Luke Skywalker’s motivation for two thirds of the original trilogy, recall. Her dad was General Zod?!:eek: That’s a twist I wouldn’t expect! ---
**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:** [December 3, 2013, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-where-you-guessed-the-twist-major-plot-point-whatever-before-it-happened-spoilers/600023/104 "2013-12-03T14:15:36Z")
> [@Raguleader](#): > > Her dad was General Zod?!:eek: That’s a twist I wouldn’t expect! But didn’t she just have time to save either her boyfriend or her father, and picked the guy (the actor who played Dougie Howser)? I just remember someone shouting Neil before Zod! ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-where-you-guessed-the-twist-major-plot-point-whatever-before-it-happened-spoilers/600023/105 "2013-12-03T22:18:05Z")
I was trapped on a transpacific flight and The Others was playing. About 20 minutes in I thought if this ends the way I think it does I am going to be so pissed. I was pissed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-where-you-guessed-the-twist-major-plot-point-whatever-before-it-happened-spoilers/600023.md?page=5)