List of plot twists

The following is a list of notable plot twists or twist endings (sometimes erroneously referred to as "spoilers" or "spoiler endings") in various media.

Film

• In The Empire Strikes Back, Darth Vader is revealed to be Anakin Skywalker, Luke Skywalker's father
• In The Usual Suspects, an unreliable narrator (Verbal Kint) undergoes a police interrogation regarding a notorious crimelord (Keyser Soze) before it is revealed in a twist ending that he is the criminal in question
• In The Sixth Sense, the character played by Bruce Willis (a child psychologist) is actually deceased for the entire movie, though he doesn't realize it
• In The Crying Game, the main character becomes romantically involved with someone before discovering they are a pre-operative transsexual woman
• In Planet of the Apes, it is revealed that the main character, thinking himself on another planet, was actually on earth the whole time
• In Soylent Green, food shortages force most of the population to eat mass-produced rations which a police investigator discovers are made from human remains
• In Fight Club, the character Tyler Durden (played by Brad Pitt) is revealed to be an alternate personality of the narrator (played by Edward Norton).
• In Saw, it is revealed that the man (Tobin Bell) that posed dead on the floor during the whole film was in fact alive and the Jigsaw Killer.

Literature

• In The Mousetrap, Sergeant Trotter, despite having presented himself to the household as a policeman, is actually the [...] while Major Metcalf, who came in the guise of a lodger is, in fact, a policeman who has been tracking the [...]

Video games

• In Bioshock, it is revealed that Atlas is really Frank Fontaine and the protagonist Jack was his unwitting agent whom he controlled with the key phrase "would you kindly..."