forum What's your favorite plot twist you've ever written?

Started January 13, 2018 by @thatonegirl1958

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Well there was this one time this character thought her first kiss would be the protagonist…

"But it was me, DIOOO!"

Once, I wrote a short story for class and there was this time loop. And then the time loop "broke" but the plot twist was that it didn't actually break, and the story ended with the same sentence it started with

Probably the biggest plot twist occurs after the group of MCs is split in half. Group A discovers that the main god of a religion prominent in the countries they're from is tangibly real, and that the god's supposedly benevolent parents were in fact terrible people…
…Cut to Group B working with other characters to resurrect those parents, none the wiser.

The favorite plot twists I’ve ever written is:

1. The Antagonist is pregnant with the protagonist’s best friend’s child.
   And
2. The magical race they are trying to save is actually in danger because of a member of that species.

I have to say my favorite plot twist is when a man named Arcus (who was supposed to defeat the leader of the Obscuracles and bring peace and harmony to the world) failed in his mission and became an Obscuracle himself.
It just goes to show that the good guy doesn't always have to win.

My favorite is when it turns out that the protagonist, the shadowy antagonist, and the protagonist’s missing friend, who the protagonist is looking for for the entire book, are all the same person because the protagonist has a personality disorder. And that his wife knew all along. And that everyone thought he was crazy, which you don’t know because of the way the book is written (or, will be written. Heh heh).

My favorite plot twist I've ever written is the opening of my story for my D&D character. I made it seem like it was her brother's wedding day, but it was really his funeral. I described how hard he fell, his fiance's veil, crying… and then ruthlessly twisted it #rip

Well, I have the classic "Protagonists love interest's parent is the antagonist," Except… the love interest is aware and chill about his dad being a super villain, and even helps him occasionally, and their whole family is really put together and strong.

I know these sounds lame when out of context, but here I go boy
plot twist one: The battle they've been fighting is actually one big hoax to gather lotsa humans in one place, make duplicates of them, which then ties in to the whole thing about "Oh yeah btw we're gonna kill the entirety of humanity just so you know" thing. So they're evil… or something
plot twist two: The protagonist's best friend/older sister is actually a time traveler that can rewind time, and that's why they come back to life every time they die.
Plot twist three: Three of the Claire family siblings are actually robots from the future sent back to the past to collect info about the past, and that's why they're all so fracking overpowered
Plot twist four: Congratulations you know the dead guy that we mentioned earlier that died before the story began? Yeah he's back now isn't that nice
Plot twist five: Azik's dead.

Rewind time? You mean like Whis?

Uhh I have no idea what a whis is sorry
Um I mean it's a complicated system? Basically there are lots of people who have time powers, and they can basically make time go backwards, and erase any "future" there was. So they can only go back, and can't go forward. If someone else rewinds, then another person with rewind powers can remember everything up to the last point that they rewinded to.

So let's say person A writes down a record point, which can be read out loud later to rewind.
Person B also has another record point, from let's say, 7 months ago. Person B rewinds to 7 months ago, and person A immediately forgets everything that happened after 7 months ago. But 7 months later, when person A comes across the point that A previously recorded, A remember everything before they recorded. So they gain all their memories before the recording.
Makes sense? Probably not. It's really confusing.

Okay, plot twistssss.

Well, you know the cliche character models.
There's the Antag, protag, love interest, and mentor.

Welp, I went and made the mentos evil. (Wait, did I say mentos? I meant mentors.)

Here's the main mentor's background.

Okay, Sycore killed everyone, they got cursed. They tried to kill their owners to pass the wretched mentos curse on to them. Failed. Sycore doesn't want Birane to have Hicia when he's really not interested. Sycore and the mentos gang become mortal and try to kill them that way. Fail. Hicia stuck a sword through her mento boyfriend's back and Birane and herself and they were fried that way. (Wait, I didn't mean fried I meant free.)

I think that's all.

Oh, wait.
"James! You remember that weird powerful girl you killed and gained her powers?" I yelled into an alternate reality.
"Yeah, the Guardian of the Amulets? I forgot her name…" He responded.
"Diami. She's your sister."
"wHaT THee hELl mY LIfeS A lIE!"
And that my friends, was the sound of James dying.

Beautiful. Characters metaphorically dying is my most favourite thing to write and read.

I would like to try writing a world where the people would be forced to work hard and there would also be soldiers that would have to fight for the system and it would be written in such a way that would make the readers wish for the government to be taken down and for the people to not be slaves anymore. Then, plot twist, the "system" described would be nothing else but the human organism with all its cells personified into slaves and in the end the readers would realize that what they wished- a rebellion, would just kill the human being. I don't know if I will ever write it though, it's not that good and I'm not that good at writing…

The story was written as if the person was a depressed friend connected to a murder victim, but it was revealed that they were the murderer and they were only afraid of themself. DARK I KNOW.

My favourite is probably when the protagonist turns out to be the person everyone has been looking for, and have asked her to look for. And then she goes and saves the person she's meant to kill and kills the person she's meant to be working for. Good times

My favorite os my old sh!t mystery novel i wrote in middle school, in the final part when a mysterious woman starts to severly injure the people the protagonist loves or cares about and then he awakens in a hospital bed with the reveal that he had been in a coma since he was born and the woman was a personification of the machine keeping him alive.