Trope Talk: Plot Twists

🚨WARNING! THIS VIDEO CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS FOR:🚨
-Game of Thrones (ALL SEASONS)
-Steven Universe (SEASON 5)
-Spider-Man: Homecoming
-Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse
-Terminator 2: Judgment Day
-Avengers: Age of Ultron
-Captain America: Civil War
-Avengers: Endgame
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[mendeta]

Honestly sometimes having the audience go “HA I knew it!” Is way better then having them go “wait, what?”
Its infinitely more satisfying when you know your right

[nemonomen]

Plot twist twist: Quicksilver was _so fast_ that he had time to move them out of the way, go find a bottle of ketchup, return to the scene and fake his death. He's been alive the whole time. Bet you didn't see that coming.

[joelhaggis]

Remember, "Uncle Ben dies" is still technically a plot twist, even though it surprises exactly 0 people, because it changes the trajectory of the plot.

[jessicadecuir]

Signs Aliens:
“Commander, nearly 71% of this planet’s surface is covered in a lethal substance. Additionally, it makes up 0-4% of the planet’s atmosphere. Are you sure we shouldn’t wear suits?”
Commander: “Did I stutter?! I said no suits!”

[anthonyhorn]

It's nice to see a YouTuber say "if the story is predictable, it means I'm getting my plot points across without losing anyone. It means I'm doing my job" makes me feel like so many people get so concerned about making their story interesting that they're actually filling out a checklist rather than writing characters who are actually relatable.

[AaronDanarajF]

Me: I wonder what plot twist joke they're gonna start with?


*Sees Blue


11/10

[andrewsheiman]

I loved Spiderverse a ton when I watched it. A few months later, I was talking to a girl in my high school gym class and it turned out that she was Brian Michael Bendis's (co-creator of Miles Morales) daughter (Olivia Bendis). That was certainly a plot twist. Might even be the biggest plot twist of my life, tbh.

[starry-eyed-ace]

A good plot twist shouldn't leave you thinking "I didn't see that coming" they should leave you thinking "I SHOULD'VE seen that coming" because it will make the little details make sense when you finally find out what's actually going on

[renee_is_pink]

Red: *explains the benefits of Quicksilver surviving*

Me: *starts mourning*

[evewaller]

I didn’t realise I needed the Quicksilver version of endgame until now

[spacegremlin]

I never really watched game of thrones, but it was so fascinating to watch something that everybody loved and talked about for years just disappear from public consciousness in a few weeks

[RealRaven]

One case of a twist congratulating itself that I really like is the Doki Doki Literature club one. I feel like that twist pats itself on the back hard, but I love how they handled it. They had a character literally say "Isn't it amazing when a writer can deliberately take advantage of your own lack of imagination to completely throw you for a loop?" when the game is still pretending to be a cutesy dating sim. Then after the twist, when everything is turned on its head, that line shows up again, spoken at the same moment in the story that just looped. It's both funny and a way of creating that retroactive context within the natural progression of the story by pointing out the obvious foreshadowing we missed the first time.

[shadowstriker]

In regards to the “what if quicksilver lives” it would also turn the “you know I’m five minutes older” into a bit of foreshadowing, with those five minutes turning into five YEARS.

[HilariousScreenings]

*Red explaining what Quicksilver's potential was in the MCU*
Me: ...Shit that's good.

[alicebnuuy]

showrunners: add foreshadowing to their stories
fans: predict the ending using the foreshadowing, look forward to the ending and feel smart for figuring it out
showrunners: panic because nO wE nEeD tO sUbVeRt ExPeCtATiOnS and hastily rewrite the ending to be an unsatisfying plot twist
fans: feel cheated and lied to, on top of being unhappy with the new ending

why do people keep doing this

[fenris]

"Wow you sure subverted my expectations of the story being good"

[st.joanieofarc]

(Red explains the benefit of Quicksilver surviving)
Me: I smell fanfiction

[mreverything]

I always feel like the best plot twists are the ones that make sense when you go back and reread/rewatch a story, and you realize all the hints

[jonbrines]

Honestly, my favorite twisty movie is Knives Out. There's several twists, you think you know what happened fairly early on, but that's all turned on its head, and I would absolutely watch it again and again despite knowing the outcome because all the characters are so well written

[billionai]

seeing this again makes me think of Wandavision. Like yeah, they throw a dead pietro there (as a bad twist again) but imagine Red's version. Can you imagine the amazing interplay that could happen if she had brain-washed her own LIVING brother into a part on that show? THAT would be an amazing way to end the series, with her finally realizing how she was actually hurting people, not just hearing the now-unsuppressed thoughts of strangers, but seeing his 5-year-older "I dealt with this, I understand you, but it hurts me" face and having THAT be the moment she decides to let go of her show? it would be AMAZING