Science fable thrives on hiatus of disbelief . When you check a movie or interpret a book about blank space battles and clip travel , you ’re actively get together with the floor to make it hold up . But when the story takes a sudden , nonsensical swerve , your suspsension of incredulity can sprain into a brute revenge . Here ’s our guide to the weird and least sensible plot twists ( imitator Lincoln ? ! ) from scifi books , flick , goggle box and comics . Major spoilers forward , naturally .
Planet Of The Apes ( Tim Burton edition ): Wait , what now ? Abraham Lincoln is an ape ? This stop sort of espouse the original Pierre Boulle novel , but unhappily makes no horse sense whatsoever because nothing in the preceding picture fix it up .
screamer : So the nice girlturns out to bea killercyborgas well , but she ’s a dependable killer cyborg , sort of . And then there ’s a killer cyborg teddy bear on dining table Peter Weller ’s spaceship . Oh noes ! The end .
The Thirteenth Floor . Whoah swell . What is reality ? How did that guy who pop off in the 1990s suddenly plow up in 2024 ? Is anything really real , or is it all just a simulation within a simulation within a simulation ?
Titan AE . The captain of the ship isour friend . No , wait , he ’s an evil treasonist . No wait , he ’s really changed sides again and now he ’s sacrificing his life to save our heroes . Plus , the good guy knows all about dolphins despite having been evoke among aliens .
Android . Klaus Kinski is work to create mechanical man on a veil distance station … . but then it turns out he ’s in reality an mechanical man himself ! Whoah !
Every M. Night Shyamalan movie ever . That cat is dead , hey ? And the aliens are hypersensitized to water , so they resolve to infest a satellite that ’s mostly water . And the village is now . Whoah !
Battlestar Galactica , “ Epiphanies . ” And then it turns out the half - Cylon hybrid fetus line of descent is as if by magic the cure for the president ’s Crab . Wha ? Why ?
The 27th Day . Aliens show up and give five capsulesthat will destroy the world to five humans . All the man have to do is avoid opening the capsules of mass devastation for 27 day and the human race is saved . But oh noes ! The Soviet Premier gets control over one of the boxes and wants to utilise it to hold the world to ransom and attack the United States . Good thing it turn out at the very last minute that you may qualify the capsules to slay “ only the enemies of freedom . ” All WMDs should be that discriminating .
The Mist . The army shew up … just a moment too latterly !
I am Legend . The cured plague victim ’s blood is actually a vaccinum ! ( This makes sense in the Heston version , but is n’t really explained or fleshed out in the Smith version . ) And Alice Braga and her shaver can survive a immense explosion , as long as they ’re locked in an airtight vault . Plus , the small town is now ! I mean , the village is real !
Mission To Mars . Not only is there living on Mars , but it’sincredibly goofy . And it plough out they seeded Earth with life sentence . And now they want to adjoin Gary Sinise , so they can tell him how much they love Forrest Gump .
https://gizmodo.com/what-killed-the-mars-movie-fad-365572
Vanilla Sky . OMG , what is reality ? Tom Cruise ’s tragic girlfriends keep merging into one womanhood , and he ca n’t keep them straight , but then it sprain out he ’s in suspended animation hold a 100 - yr - shroom pipe dream . But then he wakes up , and he ’s still shrooming . Or is he ? He jumps off a building , and into a big eye . Whoah . What just happen ? The end .
Family Tree by Sheri S. Tepper . It turns out they ’re all animals !
Dark Star rise by Frederick Pohl . The exotic Erks promise to help furbish up America ’s lost world power status … but it turn out every race they ’ve “ helped ” before has died off !
Soylent Green . Up with people !
Superman Returns . Superman and Lois have a love tiddler !
The Astronaut ’s Wife . Johnny Depp ’s spaceman is really possessed by a goopy extraterrestrial being … butelectrocutinghim just have the foreigner to leap into his wife , Charlize Theron .
https://gizmodo.com/charlize-therons-demon-pregnancy-terminates-johnny-depp-366519
Highlander 2 . No , wait — the immortal are actually aliens from the satellite Zeist ! And Sean Connery and Chrisopher Lambert were friends there . They just … forget about it when they come to Earth . It all makes entire sense .
Andromeda , the final season . But await , Trance the purple girl is in reality a sun . No , really ! And she give nascence to some variety of ultimate evil thingy .
New X - Men . Xorn , the wise masked mutant , is acutally Magneto , the ill-conceived ( also cloak ) mutant separationist . Oh noes ! Except that he is n’t . Never beware .
Iron Man / Avengers . Tony Stark / Iron Man has really been make for for the sentence - trip maniac Kang all along . Since the get-go ! But never listen , here ’s his teenage self , carreid forward in time to take his lieu .
Amazing Spider - Man . wanderer - world ’s longtime lady friend Gwen Stacy had a babe — with the Green Goblin !
Captain America . The Nazi Red Skull transpose his mind into a knockoff of Captain America , and then becomes the U.S. Secretary of Defence . You go to war with the Red Skull you have , not the Red Skull you wish well you had . Or something .
Amazing Spider - Man ( again . ) Spider - Man was his own knockoff all along ! Oh wait — no , he was n’t .
The Clone Republic by Steven Kent . According to the source himself , there ’s a “ unintelligent plot twist ” involving gun for hire that are right smart way too well-fixed to sabotage . By top them . Which does seem a tad unearthly .
Quantum Leap , the last season . Suddenly Sam is jump intofamous historical figures . He ’s Lee Harvey Oswald ! He ’s Elvis ! But expect , there ’s also an evil leaper who ’s break-dance everything Sam ’s fixed ! And perhaps Sam ’s a vampire ! But maybe not !
Independence Day . The aliens reverse out to be vulnerable to a computer virus on an Apple Mac . Steve Jobs , alien killer !
JLA . Amazo the killer whale android has all the king of the Justice League — so he loses all his powersif the League disbands !
And of course :
Star warfare : Return of the Jedi . Luke and Leia are really sibling ! OMG narrow incest escape !
Thanks to Liz for research help . Also , several plot wind came fromhereandhere .
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