What's Your Big Twist?

Anyone die? Turn out to be an identical twin?
Comes from the northern 79th plantet of the Zeron Sub-Galaxy?
Anyway, leave your cool or noteworthy twists here or help others find their way with their own!

Ooh, tough one. My plot is pretty twisty.

A couple big ones: The president of a major processed-cheese producing corporation turns out to be the reincarnation of the dog star Sirius.

His long time rival, the reincarnation of the Greek God Aristaeus, was basically the one to cause everything going on in the plot.

Probably connected to my Moriarty style character Cerise - she is on the scene. I guess the biggest twist is the murderer gets away. Although that could change as I write it.

My one big twist, I just figured out the other day, might not occur for a few books (rather like the emperor in Star Wars). In the end I plan on having the villain manipulating all the crimes my detective solves as being his "late" wife. It seems she died when a "unabomber type" kidnapped her and blew up the yacht she was on. But unbeknownst to my protagonist, she lived and prospered under the tutilage of the "bomber" and has been manipulating everyone around the protagonist to commit all manner of crimes.

The first of which is a series of serial murders/rapes.
The second is going to involve a homicidal priest.

The one thing I haven't figured out yet, is her motives for doing this, when she apparently loved my protagonist. Perhaps it was money. Perhaps it was power. Love for the Antagonist. Just a bad case of PMS. I'm not sure. If there are any ideas for motives, I'd appreciate them.

The amnesiac woman who looks just like the missing heiress is actually an elemental involuntarily possessing the heiress's dead body. She's also the killer, but she doesn't know that.

I have a big twist right at the end, but I am hoping that it doesn't come as a big twist at all. There are hints all the way through the story, and while I am hoping it might surprise people, I don't want it to be a "what the hell?" ending (like "Happytown" was - that was a truly appalling example of what a "twist" can be).

The first person killed is not connected at all to the rash of suspicious deaths that follow. His death is actually an accident--the cartel hitman who kills him went to the wrong hotel, and killed the wrong guy.

All the rest of the deaths that follow are due to the machinations of the cult attempting to bring about the End of Days ;-þ

In the last half of the book, my main character's female friend-bordering-on-sidekick, a government-appointed official, is actually using him to discredit and defeat a political rival (who the main character dislikes, but respects). In addition, he has no way to achieve his own aims without allowing her to - opposing her would mean instant and utter defeat. The worst part is that he deliberately initiated the chain of events leading to this, knowing what would occur, thinking he would come out on top.

This might not seem like much of a twist, but it completely changes the tone of the piece from semi-altruistic to a black-and-gray perspective where nobody is in the right. Most of the twists in this piece are heavily built-up-to, foreshadowed, and almost don't feel like twists when you reach them.

My book is all about this seventeen year old kid trying to find out what happened to his disappeared dad, and I've only thought of one twist so far:

-There are a bunch of family photos of the family and some random woman. The kid's mom always said that this was his dad's sister. It turns out, though, that the woman is really someone the dad had an affair with (not his sister, no incest)

I think I want to put more twists in there, but this is the only one that I've got the sotory set up for.

The biggest twist I have so far is that when the murderer is revealed, it's also revealed that the first victim was innocent of the action the killer attributed to him. And since every other action was to cover up that original killing, it was really all for nothing.

My antagonist identity is the big twist of my story. He is the MC's half-brother (they have the same mother) but the MC doesn't even now he exist. He is also the one that killed the MC's mother and older brother and almost killed the MC, twenty years ago.

Well my novel deals with several serial killers so there are lots of little twists.

The one I'm writing right now is that the female victim is not who they thought she was. Maybe she's the male victim's sister or minister or the woman he's having an affair with - but now they need to know why she was attacked until unrecognizable.

The big novel twist will deal with someone this detective trusts becoming so untrustworthy that she put the entire family in danger.

That someone you think is the murder victim, actually murdered 11 other people and is psychopathic. Hopefully if it turns out the way I want, while people may have suspicions, it'll only be the final sentence of the book where people realise it's her.

I think the MC's new boyfriend is gonna turn out to be the rapist and later kidnapper of her sister. If I can figure out how to tie it all together.

It could still change as I write it
but I think my big twist is going to be that the autistic schizophrenic my MC cares and feels responsible for is connected to the murders. And he may or may not throw himself of a building because the voice in his head tells him to....

Twist One: The main character is a really good guy. The story follows just how good he is. Towards the end of the novel he is told by the mob leader that he has two days to kill his two infant children or the mob will do it for him, slowly, before then killing him. Their death is inevitable and so, naturally, he kills his children in an act of humanity.

Twist Two: The mob leader comes back, tells him he's a horrible human being because who would murder children? The mob leader is not going to kill him now because he thinks it'll be more tortuous for him to have to live with what he's done.

It's left ambiguous as to whether the mob leader was ever going to kill the MCs children, or whether he was just playing mind tricks.

The reader will find out at the end that Bruce Willis was dead the whole time.

My big twist is that my MC's childhood mentor is actually the dictator's mistress…which explains a LOT in the context of my story

Minor plot twist: Most of the people in town are either magic users or supernatural beings.
Major plot twist: The serial killer is someone close to the MC that is actually a demon.

My story has some supernatural/horror elements to it. >>;;

My FMC is almost killed by a serial killer who targets slender blondes. It's going to turn out that she wasn't targeted simply because she fits that profile, but that the killer went after the other girls because they resembled my FMC.The other murders were preparation for her death, which is why he becomes so relentless in trying to finish her off rather than going after other victims which goes against his MO.