Karmic Twist Ending: Difference between revisions

== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Hell Girl]]'' is fond of Twist tropes, here are a few. In this show, if you send someone to hell, you will go to hell when you die.

** A girl becomes known for doing wiccan type stuff, which eventually leads to people asking her to put curses on other people. {{spoiler|While she was a nobody in the past, this gets her a lot of attention including from an ex bully. She starts doing requests for this girl. The ex bully eventually tells her to kill someone who was stalking her. The girl tries her hardest to kill this person using her curses, but it doesn't work (in universe the minions of Hell Girl realize that these were all coincidences in the first place ) and is put under a lot of pressure by the ex bully. The girl uses Hell Link to send the stalker to hell. The ex bully thanks her for finally coming through, only to reveal that the guy wasn't a stalker, that was just a lie to get her to curse him. He was actually just a guy that she found creepy. }}

 

 

* In the 70's, DC had a short lived comic called ''Plop!'', in which a crew of ghoulish looking folks present stories, all of which end have that kind of ending. For example, a kindly old man is actually a secret grave robber who visits funerals only to inventory the jewelry of the deceased. But when the doctor tells him his time is coming, he's frantic to avoid the same treatment at the hands of his apprentice. So he stipulates that he be buried only in everyday clothes. Alas, he forgot that a dentist who believed the man's public image, had given him a free overhaul. And in the last scene, the apprentice is happily bashing out the gold teeth from the old man's corpse. After each story, the presenters cackle over the misfortunes of the characters before going on to the next story. Naturally, at the end of each issue, something goes "Plop!" on the presenters as well.

** This particular variant (hideous narrators and all) was a staple of pre-Comics Code Authority horror comics, particularly those published by EC.

== Films -- Live-Action ==

* The 1968 film ''Wild in the Streets'' has an ending that could be considered an example of this. {{spoiler|A group of twentysomethings and teens manages to exile everybody over 30 to retirement camps. Then at the end, a group of kids exiles everybody over 10.}}

** Judging by the [[Word of God]] about his cameo in the third game, he eventually got over it.

* [[Double Subversion|Doubly subverted]] in ''[[Kind Hearts and Coronets]]''. The story revolves around a man who attempts to become the Duke of Chalfont by murdering everyone in line to inherit the dukedom. {{spoiler|Then he gets sentenced to death for the one murder he ''didn't'' commit. Then he gets acquitted at the last moment, but ''then'', as he leaves the prison, he realizes that he left his memoirs--which describe the murders he actually committed--in his cell.}}

** "Bits of Love" has a nuclear war survivor living in a bunker with holograms for companionship. Even through the holograms think and feel emotion like real people, he treats them with incredible disrespect, saying things like that they are not real so their opinions don't matter. In the end, the holograms reprogram themselves to completely ignore him and create a holographic society for themselves. The man lasts about a minute before he cracks from loneliness.

** "To Tell The Truth" has a discredited scientist discover that his newly-founded colony is about to be wiped out by a solar flare. Given that his discrediting was due to a prediction of volcanic activity that caused the colony to be moved at great expense but failed to occur, [[Cassandra Truth|no one believes him]] except his assistant and his mentor. He keeps on raising a fuss, until the colony's security chief reveals that evidence was found of an indigenous alien race when the colony was set up on the most valuable land on the planet - and not only accuses the scientist of being a shapeshifting saboteur trying to break up the colony, but condemns him with a DNA test that shows bizarre readings. He is then imprisoned and threatened with dissection, but the assistant, holding one last ounce of trust in her mentor, meets him in secret and tests him again to reveal that he is in fact human. As time is running out, the scientist, mentor and assistant attempt to escape the planet in the single emergency shuttle - and the scientist is mauled to death by a crazed mob while ensuring the escape of his two supporters. Afterward, the security chief mourns the scientist, and is mocked by the colony administrator for caring about an alien. The chief then reveals that ''he'' is the alien saboteur - ''he used his own DNA to fake the test'' - and states that it's ironic that the scientist, the only human in the colony he wished he could have spared for being "the gentlest of you", was the first to die, and at the hands of other humans - and then the solar flare hits, wiping out the colony and triggering the rebirth of the alien civilization.

* In the ''[[Tales from the Crypt]]'' episode "Top Billing," a struggling actor played by John Lovitz competes with his more handsome and successful former rival for a role in a production of ''[[Hamlet]]''. When his rival is chosen for the role based purely on his looks, Lovitz's character murders him, and in his absence is accepted to fill in his role... which is revealed to be the role of [[Alas, Poor Yorick|Yorick]].

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

* Spoofed in a ''[[Bloom County]]'' story arc. Oliver invents a device that turns people black (as in, of African descent) and tests it on an unwitting Steve Dallas. A couple of strips later, Steve finally noticed and, when talking to Binkley, theorizes that it's a ''Twilight Zone''-style event where he was turned black in return for his occasional racism. The strip ends with Steve searching the bushes for Rod Serling.

 

 

** And in another:

{{quote|'''[[Mad Scientist]]''': I have combined the DNA of the world's most evil animals to make the most evil creature of them all!

** Then there's this parody:

** A more recent episode had a [[Brilliant but Lazy]] scientist invent a robot to do all his work and fulfill his social obligations. When the robot starts winning Nobel Prizes and the love of the scientist's family:

''(The scientist sips a beer and sighs contentedly.)'' }}

* In the "Wasted Talent" episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'' where Peter had to get drunk to play the piano, the final scene shows his solitary bookworm brain cell in despair after breaking his glasses, alluding to the Twilight Zone episode "Time Enough at Last."

 

== Video Game ==

** Not really an aesop since its possible for the galaxy to already learn the aesop without being blasted to pre FTL

 

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