MJN SEIFER
07-18-2011, 04:06 PM
Storylines often get reused, and as such, so do their endings at times. Even when the ending is supposed to be a twist, we often see it coming because it's been done before.
Sometimes though, it's blatently obvious what's going to happen even if this is the first time you've seen this storyline, and this is mostly what this thread will be about.
Here is my example; Picture a storyline were a character has an evil version of himself for some reason - it could be a clone, a parralel version from another world, or whatever. The storyline always seems to end when a third character has to kill the evil version, but can't differentiate him/her from the real one, and there's a lot of hesitating, as both versions try to prove that they are the real deal, until one of them either does something that ultimately proves that s/he is the original, or gives a moving speech about how the friend character should just kill both versions to be on the safe side - this leads to the friend character killing the other one.
And, of course the big "shocking" twist is that the friend character killed the real one after all - the clone knew that s/he would make that mistake (admittedly, one old episode of South Park puts a newish spin on it, as it is the alternate version who the friends want to survive, as he was nicer than the original - they end up killing the alternative, after being tricked by the original, but the principal is the same EDIT: he may have just been sent back to his own world, rather than killed).
Any other options?
Sometimes though, it's blatently obvious what's going to happen even if this is the first time you've seen this storyline, and this is mostly what this thread will be about.
Here is my example; Picture a storyline were a character has an evil version of himself for some reason - it could be a clone, a parralel version from another world, or whatever. The storyline always seems to end when a third character has to kill the evil version, but can't differentiate him/her from the real one, and there's a lot of hesitating, as both versions try to prove that they are the real deal, until one of them either does something that ultimately proves that s/he is the original, or gives a moving speech about how the friend character should just kill both versions to be on the safe side - this leads to the friend character killing the other one.
And, of course the big "shocking" twist is that the friend character killed the real one after all - the clone knew that s/he would make that mistake (admittedly, one old episode of South Park puts a newish spin on it, as it is the alternate version who the friends want to survive, as he was nicer than the original - they end up killing the alternative, after being tricked by the original, but the principal is the same EDIT: he may have just been sent back to his own world, rather than killed).
Any other options?