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** Things end on a thrilling cliffhanger as the heroine realises - putting together several reasonably well-hidden clues throughout the book - that she may be the secret hidden descendant of Jesus that the villain is searching for. The cliffhanger is pretty awesome in a [[Guilty Pleasures|schlocky kind of way]]; the Wallbanger is the resolution, in which [[Designated Hero|Robert Langdon]] simply pooh-poohs this moments later. That is NOT the way to resolve a cliffhanger. Oh, and if you do bear with the book after that? The heroine {{spoiler|[[Suetiful All Along|turns out to be the descendant of Jesus after all]]!}}
** The big mystery that is Leonardo's backwards writing. The book tries to smooth over the reveal with lots of [[Lampshade Hanging]] about how "Wow! It was so obvious! And scholars like us should have picked up on it right away!" Yes, it was, and yes, you should have. I mean, come the fuck on.
** In Dan Brown's ''[[Angels
* ''[[Adventures of Huckleberry Finn|Huckleberry Finn]]'' does this when Tom Sawyer comes back in the end. The book's momentum screeches to a crashing halt so that [[Mark Twain]] can spend several chapters running down classic romances such as ''[[The Count of Monte Cristo (novel)|The Count of Monte Cristo]]''.
** [[Ernest Hemingway]] calls attention to this in his book ''[[The Green Hills Of Africa]]'', and calls the last bit of Huck Finn "cheating". Blame it on chronic writer's block.
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** [[Never Live It Down|Backflipping Terminators.]] That is all.
* The children's book series "[[Replica]]" after book 10. It started out as a decent [[Follow the Leader]] to ''[[Animorphs]]'' with an intriguing premise and backstory (a young girl learns she's one of 12 genetically engineered clones with superior abilities, and she's being hunted by an evil organization). After about book 10 though, it almost completely derails into [[Wall Banger (Darth Wiki)|Wall Bangery]] and [[Narm]], featuring [[Hollywood Science|stupid science]] and fantastic plots more suited for a comic, things such as these: a kid with a magic bracelet that stole people's talent; lightning-induced superpowers; the main character getting shrunk down and inserted into another person's body, where she learns she can talk to the cells; a villain whose cyborg body runs on ''store-bought'' batteries; and a main character who [[Character Derailment|degenerates]] into [[Jerkass]] and [[Too Dumb to Live]] territory.
* Not even dictionaries are immune! ''The American Heritage Dictionary Fourth Edition'' defines [[Anime]] as "a style of Japanese animation characterized by a bright, stylized art, futuristic settings, violence, and sex." [[Sarcasm Mode|Because every anime is]] [[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]], ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (anime)|Transformers Robots in Disguise]]'', ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'', ''and'' [[Bible Black]].
** [[All Anime Is Naughty Tentacles|At least they didn't bring up the]] [[Naughty Tentacles]]...
* Robert Newcomb's [[Chronicles of Blood and Stone|The Fifth Sorceress]], a book some say may be worse than the [[Inheritance Cycle]], has [[Wall Banger (Darth Wiki)|WallBangers]] all round; but what took the cake was when the [[Designated Hero]], Tristan, was given a sword by [[The Dragon]] and told to behead his father. Tristan goes and does just that. No hesitation whatsoever. ''Then,'' only after killing his dad, does he go to attack [[The Dragon]], saying, "You made me kill my father!". [http://eragon-sporkings.wikispaces.com/Fifth_Thirteen Kippurbird's sporking says it better.]
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