Top 100 Best Plot Twists (SPOILERS LIKELY)

5) That cool black costume is an alien! (Subsequent Venom stuff doesn't diminish the coolness of the original arc.)

6) Yeah, I'm a cop now, but I used to wear a costume.

7) Bruce, you billionaire fuckwad! Stop prancing around the city with my son dressed up in tights!

8) "Oh dear GOD! You ARE on DRUGS! YOU'RE REALLY A JUNKIE?" "Who ELSE did you think I was talking about?"

9) I'm so fast I don't need legs.

10) We're not even sure it IS a baby! (Wait, that's Eraserhead.)

10) Okay, Reed, Johnny, you guys head on home, I'm going to kick it on this patchwork planet for awhile and have some space adventures.

11) I'm Captain America! What the hell do you mean you're firing me?!

12) "So, Waspie ... you wanna ... you know ..."

"Oh, Tony, I don't know, this beach is so romantic and all ..."

"Wanna come back to my room and see my ... 'iron man'?"

"What? You're Iron Man? Oh my God!"

"Er, that's not what I -- oh fine. Yes. I'm Iron Man. Dammit. If I tell you I'm an alcoholic, do I at least get a pity grope?"

13) It's an ELF with a GUN! (technically neither plot nor a twist)

14) Holy crap, it's Yorick's ring!

15) Holy crap, Lucifer quit!

Holy crap I COMPLETELY forgot about #1 and #2. Don't mind my paraphrasing.

16) "Cerberus, you're a hermaphrodite."

17) "Rhodey, I want you to wear the armor."

18) The entire "Jean's EVIL! / Jean's OK! / Jean's EVIL! / Jean KILLED HERSELF to save the UNIVERSE!" back & forth throughout the last 3 issues of the Dark Phoenix Saga.

19) Sammy Silke:Kingpin :: Brutus:Caesar

20) The Purple Man's Psycho Pirate impersonation (& Scott Lang's "death") in Alias.

21) Elijah Snow: Revealed!

Actually, my favorite Cerebus plot twists:

22) "Owner." "Agreed." "Agreed."

23) That enormous ka-BOOM? It's not what you thought it was.

24) We know just who'd make a great pope!

25) Hey, Cirin's kind of funny looking. So's Suentus Po, for that matter.

26) The Parliament of Trees.

I think nearly all of these have been posted on the wrong thread.

The costume is an aliang is the lamest plot twist EVAH!

Not as lame as the Jean Grey stuff.

The end of the original Dark Phoenix saga is great. It's all the subsequent resurrections and clones and what have you that are wack.

30) the bit in The Invisibles where you realise the surveillance guys are THE SWEENEY.

Even the greatest of things often have a bit of rub in them.

Is that a quote from The Watcher?

31) Soylent Green is made from people! PEEEEEEEEEOPPPPPPPLLLLLLEEEEE!

That's a total Uatu line. Huk cut out the, "I usually do not interfere with human matters, BUT..." bit.

32) "I've got a message for Judge Dredd. Who is it? It's... JUDGE DREDD!!!"

33) "Who are you, Dead Man?? What name is on that badge you hold?"

34) "If it makes you feel more comfortable, I'll go on like that. If not, I'll explain. Everything."

35) "There IS one man who can beat Judge Dredd! I have him right here! JUDGE DREDD!!"

36) "Who is Norman King and why does he hate Johnny Alpha more than any creature on Earth? Because he's secretly JOHNNY'S OWN FATHER!!"

37) "Maximan is A TRAITOR!!!!?!"

38) "Drokk!! MOGO -- IS A PLANET????" (Not 2000AD BUT MIGHT AS WELL BE.)

34 sounds really familiar, what's it from?

It's the Mad Tommy cliffhanger in Bad Company.

Dude, I have Elijah Snow's realization that he is THE MANG all adapted into the best thirty seconds of cinema ever in my head, yo.

39) "I prefer to wear an older mask. With older associations." The Thunderbolts revealed!

40) "I expected that John Wayne crap. What I got instead was The Crying Game." Xero #12

41) "He's back...the Shredder!" Leonardo #1

42) "You're going to kill him. What else do you think we hired you for?" Deadpool's moral compass whizzes around the world 100 times in #21. The final act in #25 too.

43) Better still: "Holy crap, that's not T-Ray being pulled out of the water...it's me." DP #32 (later retconned).