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Spoilers that became pop culture, or surprise reveals that became synonymous with the work itself (infosec.pub)

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(Planet of the Apes) The Planet of the Apes is actually a post-apocalyptic Earth. They put this Statue of Liberty shot on the actual Blu-Ray cover. It was also parodied on Family Guy.

(Metroid) Samus Aran, underneath the power suit, is a woman. The instruction manual refers to Samus as male to obscure her gender until the surprise reveal at the end of the game, but nowadays, Zero Suit Samus is a playable character in most Smash titles.

(Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) The two characters are actually split personalities of the same person. In the book, this is a massive revelation, but the title of the book is now synonymous for someone with a secret dark side.

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[–] TimelordTraveler@lemmy.today 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

To add to that list: Soylent Green

Everybody knows the twist at the very end now, and it's pretty much what the movie is known for. Spoils the whole thing.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Which, incidentally was entirely a creation for the movie.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Star Wars: Darth Vader being Luke's father is probably the one plot point even people that have never watched any of the movies know.

[–] EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Knights of the Old Republic: You were Revan the whole time.

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I surprisingly didn't know that twist when I got to play it some decade or decade and a half after release!

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

Which is a funny reveal when you name your character Revan on a subsequent playthrough.

[–] TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

It was also parodied on Family Guy

No offense but do you have the slightest bit how little that narrows it down? They've parodied just about everything. Also they were FARRR from the first to do so in this case

[–] Drasglaf@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Sixth Sense comes to mind. Unfortunately a friend spoiled it for me so I watched it knowing what the final twist was.