Trope Talk: Plot Twists

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Me: I wonder what plot twist joke they're gonna start with? *Sees Blue 11/10

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.

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!”

Red: explains the benefits of Quicksilver surviving Me: starts mourning

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

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

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.

Truly the best plotwist devised in media is... NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!

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

5:45 Or even better, just have an ompitent narrator announce: "one of these people will be dead by the end". Now you're in suspense and wondering who, how, and why.

The Vulture twist was so damn good. I still remember seeing that in the theatre and just being "oh no!"

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.

The biggest plot twist will be finding out that Noobmaster69 is TheLegend27 in an alternate universe.

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

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