Sci-Fi Shocks you Never Saw Coming

[Eternal_Freedom]

In all of sci-fi, there are some shocking twists, revelations or downright wtf's that only the cast and crew saw coming. What were the most memorable of these moments for you?

For me, the biggest one would probably be Boomer shooting Commander Adama in nBSG - I knew something was going down, it was the end of the series and something big had to happen. I just never thought it would be that.

I should note that most of the big shocks in sci-fi (Vader being Luke's father, etc) I knew about when I saw the films (the price I pay for watching them twenty years late), so whilst they were "oh wow" they weren't "what the fuck?" moments.

[Crazedwraith]

Derek Reese getting headshotted by a Terminator of the Week in the penultimate episode of the Sarah Connor Chronicles.

[Eleas]

Derek Reese getting headshotted by a Terminator of the Week in the penultimate episode of the Sarah Connor Chronicles.

Seconded.

Also, assuming a game is permissible, that moment in Mass Effect 2 when the Harvester ship pops in in front of the Normandy and you're suddenly thrust into the role of the pilot, Joker, limping through the ship with the screams of his shipmates ringing in his ears.

[CaptainChewbacca]

Wash getting speared through the chest in Serenity. I actually yelled 'NO!' in the theater.

[Nephtys]

Lesse, I agree with all those previously mentioned. Totally.

BSG has several of these. '1 year later' was a big one that had me and my roommate floored.

[lordofchange13]

Wash getting speared through the chest in Serenity. I actually yelled 'NO!' in the theater.

Same here.

For video games the first that popes into my head is Prototype: i never saw it coming that the supper hunter was Cross.
And for literature the biggest i can think of recently would be Frankenstein: The Doctor is just so cayuse towards his creation for no real explained reason. then there is that british show Merlin's character morgaine: she turns evil so fucking easily, all because her father never said he was her father.

[lordofchange13]

missed the edit. I also wanted to add the Eagle form the movie adaption for the lord of the rings, as whne i first watched them i had yet to read the books. Superboy-Prime= the definition of WTF.

[Tasoth]

The end of Use of Weapons. Completely blew my mind when the big revelation hit.

[Batman]

Hobbes turning out to be a traitor in Wing Commander. Likewise, Talia Winters in B5.

[Ahriman238]

In contrast to a lot of the above betrayal scenes, I was pretty suprised when Jayne didn't betray Mal in the Firefly pilot.

Robby (I think that was his name?) in Blade Runner saving Decker's life.

Alien. Bursting out of a dude's torso. That is all.

[Night_stalker]

For Movies: " No, I am your father."

For games, I would have to say, that either Miranda's death in Halo 3, or Sovereign's reveal in ME1.

For a TV series, I can honestly say I was shocked when the Final Five were revealed on nBSG, and the first appearance of the Shadows and Mr. Morden.

[Nephtys]

Hobbes turning out to be a traitor in Wing Commander. Likewise, Talia Winters in B5.

Fuck Hobbes as the traitor. That ruined the entire storyline with him and was idiotic. I was MUCH more moved and surprised instead by Spirit's death in WC2.

[Anarchist Bunny]

Derek Reese getting headshotted by a Terminator of the Week in the penultimate episode of the Sarah Connor Chronicles.

God damn that is probably the most shocked I've been watching a TV show. It was so sudden, so cold, and so glossed over that it just hits you like a fucking ton of bricks. And then at the end, with Kyle Reese's graveyard, and the song, and fuck that ruined me.

[Alerik the Fortunate]

Robby (I think that was his name?) in Blade Runner saving Decker's life.

Roy Batty. That scene made the movie.

[Ford Prefect]

Kanaya Maryam turning into a glowing vampire in Homestuck was a bit out of left field.

[Eleas]

In B5 -- and I think this qualifies as a shock -- the sequence immediately after Mr Morden says, "so what're you gonna do, huh? Blow up the island?"

[KhorneFlakes]

In B5 -- and I think this qualifies as a shock -- the sequence immediately after Mr Morden says, "so what're you gonna do, huh? Blow up the island?"

Same here. I would say that was one of Londo's best moments.

[Ryag Han]

Vader turning out to be Luck's father.
The wormhole weapon scene in Farscape: The Peacekeaper Wars. i was like OH SHIT!
The Final Five revelation in BSG, and the Kara returning from the dead! now THAT was a SHOCK!
End of Farscape, when John and Aeryn are crystallized. i was in denial for a while...
Apophis returning in SG1...twice!
Again BSG, when Kara jumps everyone to Earth using coordinates from the Music.
B5, Lando blowing up an entire island with Shadows on it.

to many others to list here, but these are just my favorites wtf moments.

[Thanas]

words

[Skgoa]

Wash got me, too.

The nBSG "surprises" didn't. They were foreshadowed so incompetently, I could always tell in advance. It's pretty boring when the writers literally always (i.e. a 100% of the time) go for the "cheap drama" option. Of course that guy waiting on the abandoned station is a cylon and is rescued at the end of the episode. Of course Boomer is a cylon and shoots the Captain at the end of the episode. Of course the reporter is a cylon and all the other cylons watch her report at the end of that episode. Of course the cylons find New Caprica at the end of the episode. And OF FUCKING COURSE Kara Thrace comes back, how could anyone doubt that, ever?
Wow, what an overhyped yawn-fest that show was.

[OmegaChief]

Kanaya Maryam turning into a glowing vampire in Homestuck was a bit out of left field.

Of all the shocking developments in that webcomic you go for that one?

... well alright I'll admit it was one of the more out of left field surprises, but personally I'd vote for Bec's prototyping or just about anything from the end of act 5 finale.

[Manus Celer Dei]

"For a time, I considered sparing your wretched little planet. But now, you shall witness...it's dismemberment!"'

Alright, yeah, I was about four and easily suprised. But fuck me, Unicron is a transformer! Holy shit!

Also, the ending of Diebuster. Holy shit. Spoiler

"I want more than anything else to meet her and speak with her...about you, who was always smiling...
...after all...the legendary girl you looked up to is coming home tonight!"

THAT NIGHT, BUSTER MACHINES 1&2 AND THEIR PILOTS RETURNED HOME.

W E L C O M E H O M E

I know opinions on Diebuster as a sequel to Gunbuster are divided to say the least, but even so, that ending was damn perfect and it totally caught me off guard..

[Ford Prefect]

Kanaya Maryam turning into a glowing vampire in Homestuck was a bit out of left field.

Of all the shocking developments in that webcomic you go for that one?

There's certain layers to my response.

[Revy]

Not sure if it counts as Scifi, but the twist at the end of the game Second Sight made my jaw drop. All through the game you're made to think that you're jumping back in time and altering the past, then at the end you realise they've fooled you the entire game - the past is actually the present and what you thought was the present is actually a precog vision of the future you're having. Suddenly all the times you thought you were retconning past events you understand you were really just averting bad future events through precognition.

It didn't make a big difference when you think about it, it was just a huge perception twist, and it was brilliant.

For Stargate I'd have to say Janet Fraiser getting hit by a staff blast when they'd spent the episode making you believe O'Neill was the one dead. Carson getting blown up in Atlantis sadly I knew about in advance thanks to seeing a spoiler. I was a tad shocked when RepliCarter unplugged from Daniel and then stuck her T1000 blade through his chest, though.

[DPDarkPrimus]

Farscape. The entire arc of the Two Crightons. You're trained from SF tropes that such a problem will be resolved by the end of the episode, but... it isn't. And when it is resolved... wow.