Sci-Fi Shocks you Never Saw Coming

[JME2]

One of the great ones of the last 5 years for me is the first Bioshock when your realize...
Spoiler

...that Ryan is not the villain after all and that 'Atlas' has been manipulating you for the entire game with the trigger words "Would you kindly".

[Hillary]

+1s for Luke's father and the ending of Blake's 7.

Adric dying in Doctor Who was a massive one for me as well.

[Eternal_Freedom]

Adric dying in Doctor Who was a massive one for me as well.

Yeah, I remember seeing the video of that (having never seen/read aboutt he story before). It was a pretty big downer.

[Hillary]

Adric dying in Doctor Who was a massive one for me as well.

Yeah, I remember seeing the video of that (having never seen/read aboutt he story before). It was a pretty big downer.

It was more the fact that he was such an irritating prick to begin with, then as soon as he became interesting they bumped him off.

[Eternal_Freedom]

It was also a really pointless death. At least Katerina got something vaguely worthwhile, but Adric? Staying behind on a crashing freighter, trying to save it from hitting a plent destined to be hit anyway. That's a bummer.

[edaw1982]

Doctor Polito turned out to be SHODAN.
That piece of GodMod hardware sure knows how F5 her pixilated arse.

[edaw1982]

The first time the Dalek LEV-I-TATed up the stairs.
After decades of 'lol stairs!' that was both shocking and surprising and terribly amusing all at the same time.

Oh and of course, Spoiler

Wash's death in Serenity.

[aussiemuscle308]

big shock was alien when ripley was finally safe in the escape capsule, only to realise the alien was in there with her.

[Darth Nostril]

It was also a really pointless death. At least Katerina got something vaguely worthwhile, but Adric? Staying behind on a crashing freighter, trying to save it from hitting a plent destined to be hit anyway. That's a bummer.

It wasn't pointless, the freighter was going to hit future earth to destroy the conference that would create a military alliance to eradicate the Cybermen, Adrics tampering with the flight computer put the freighter into a time warp that sent it back 65 million years and caused the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.
Adric died not knowing that his efforts had not been in vain but it certainly wasn't a pointless death.

[Eternal_Freedom]

Interesting. My interpretation last time I saw Earthshock was that the freighter was already spiralling back in time (the Doctor says as much to the Cyber Leader to taunt him that he's failed. Lt. Scott and co eject int he escape pod when the freighter is already 65 million years in the past, so Adric staying behind was worthless.