INCORRECT Spoiler Thread to Famous Stories!

Don't you just love it when Gregor comes out of his cocoon at the end of The Metamorphosis, bright and shiny as a new butterfly?

Brings a tear to my eye every time, it does.

Oh well- THIS idea fell flat on the floor! :D

How about the twist at the end of The Witch of Blackbird Pond where the blackbird....was the witch!

Give it a bit of time, people need to stew on this creative stuff. :) Plus, some people are so afraid of spoilers they won't even want to read incorrect ones.

I was so disgusted when Scrooge told the Ghost of Christmas Future to go stuff himself, then fired all his workers on Christmas Day.

I was shocked to discover that Charlotte's Web was a zoophilic porn site!

And likewise that Watership Down was a forecast of recent events surrounding the Costa Concordia. (Hope nobody here had friends/family on that lot.)

Upon discovering that humans are insane, The Little Mermaid applied for a refund and returned to the sea. I don't know about you, but I would have done the same.

Who could've guessed that Princess Leia would turn out to be Luke's father?!

>8 saltmanz: *snarfles*

I felt so ripped-off when Edmond Dantes died in prison.

The real clincher, for me, was when Dumbledore and Voldemort turned out to be the same person!

I can't say I was totally surprised when Frodo threw the ring into Mount Doom.

I was surprised when the 6th Sense turned out to be an actual case of Anatidaephobia. I never saw that twist coming; Shyamalan's never a let-down!

It all made sense when the Beast turned out to be an insurance salesman. I mean, really, if you clearly can't pay your share, that's just bad business sense.

Though it did give Belle a good reason to leave. She already had Aflac.

How about when Edward discovered (on the honeymoon!) that Bella was the most powerful vampire slayer of all ages? The scene in the bedroom was gruesome.

I was shocked to find that Kirk's many trysts were nothing other than ploys to make Sulu jealous.

>17 GeorgiaDawn: *snorts*

#17 - Hehe!

I was just so happy when Scarlett won the lottery and was able to rebuild Tara.

Who'da thunk that by fixing the glitch in the Matrix, Neo would be waking everyone up? I hope he's prepared for a frenzy in the housing market.

I was totally disgusted with the ending of A Tale of Two Cities, where after Charles Darnay is executed, Lucie marries Sydney Carton. I could see it coming a mile away. You'd have thought Dickens could manage some kind of a twist, with or without Oliver.

Seriously? All they needed at the end of Things Fall Apart was some superglue and duct tape?

Who would have guessed that Marley *wasn't* dead to begin with?!

Or Rebecca?

Or Finnegan?

I remember reading Dickens' heartwarming sequel to A Christmas Carol - where Scrooge explored across England with his partner from the first novel, in Travels with Marley.

*snork*

I was so relieved when the Titanic made it safely into New York.

I was flabbergasted by Glorfindel's betrayal of the Fellowship over his unrequited love for Arwen.

I was a bit upset after all the HP books to have it turn out it had all been a dream.

It was a bit sad when Bilbo the hobbit got roasted by Smaug, after having walked all that way. Smaug of course went on to live happily ever after - safe even from Sauron's wrath. Mind you it was a longer book than the original when the trolls ate all the dwarfs, and then had poor bilbo for pudding.

Romeo and Juliet got married, had kids and lived until they were old and grey? bit of a dull play really, the inital shouting scenes were interesting enough, but the rest got tiresome.

Mole stayed in and carried on cleaning like he was supposed to. No wind in the willows was heard, deep in the earth. Even this was better than the first draft where he rushed down the hill, tripped, fell in the river, and drowned. Short and sad, much like many animals' lives.

I wonder how many Nightingale feathers it took to carpet all the way Across the Nightingale Floor?

They all die at the end.

(That's for every book.)

Gee, thanks everyone. Now I can't read anything, ever again! :(

*giggle*

How about when St. John woke up at the end of the Book of Revelation with the words: "That's the last time I eat watermelon before going to bed!"

After all those pages, everyone in the Book of Numbers RSVP'd "Not Attending"?!

I was kind of shocked when The Road led the boy into Disneyland.

I was so excited when he finally cracked The Da Vinci Code and found out he won the Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes!

The one that flummoxed me was Jane Eyre. What was she thinking, setting up that brothel-cum-opium den?!

Waldo had to call in sick, so there are three pages randomly scattered throughout the book where he doesn't appear.

I'm so glad, at the end of Moby Dick, that the Greenpeace ship arrived in time to save the whale!

@42: No, no, I'm pretty sure that was a Romulan Warbird!

I thought it was the Enterprise!

Little Women and Little Men, while interesting enough stories about the hardships of height challenged peoples, tended to drag a bit.

Catniss won by killing everyone!

I felt kinda cheated when Pern conquered Thread with a team of yarn-spinners.

I think the most surprising thing for me was that Bella had triplets.

>48 millhold:: fathered by Jacob.

48 & 49> I thought it was twins - one of each!

#49 ~~ I hadn't gotten to the part about them being fathered by Jacob. That's why they call them "spoilers" right?

#50 ~~ No, it was triplets. I guess since Jacob was the father, that's why it was almost a litter.

*runs from the keyboard before people start throwing things*

@50: Naturally, by "one of each" you mean: one of Jacob's, and one of Edward's.

And a human child for good measure. :)

Even with one cub, the veterinary bill was astronomical.

>51 millhold:: Oh no! I'm sorry about that.

What disappointed me about The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is that it was just a temporary one.

Yes, I agree (56) and didn't you just hate it when she went in for the make-over at the Nordstrom's cosmetics counter?

I have to apologize for my very bad pun. I was trying to allude to the fact that a litter of puppies may have more than one father.

I really enjoyed the Broadway Dance Troupe in Space theme of Starship Troopers. Especially the descriptions of their zero gravity grand finale production of Cats.

*snerk* That was a real shock for me, BOSK.

Was anybody else surprised when Superman DIDN'T catch Lois Lane as she fell from the sky?

61: Not as surprised as I was when Spiderman saved Gwen Stacy from a fatal fall.

#62 And wasn't it sweet when, at the start of his career, Spidy used his powers to stop a dangerous criminal who would otherwise escape the law? I was very much in fear that this criminal would later murder Peter's gentle Uncle Ben!

I had a box of tissues handy during the wedding of Elizabeth Swann and Commodore Norrington. It was all so beautiful.

I was really annoyed that Mr Darcy refused to help when Lydia ran off with Wickham, so the Bennet family was disgraced and none of the other daughters ever married. So sad!

Did anyone feel at least the tiniest bit of remorse when Willy Jack Pickens was flattened by that train?

The hound of the Baskervilles was a Chihuahua.

So heartwarming in To Kill a Mockingbird when Tom Robinson gets off - I really thought he was a goner!

They stopped voting for lizards.
(So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish)

#67 - Mamzel - Brilliant! :)

I thought that it sent out a really good message when The Very Hungry Caterpillar admitted that he had a problem and sought medical help for his eating disorder. It sends out a really positive message for today's youth.

Yes, I agree that was a good first step, but do you think we should encourage him to wear those outlandish outfits? And what about his delusional thinking that he may be able to fly?

What a lovely turn of events, when Colonel Brandon proposed to Mrs Dashwood. I didn't think Jane Austen had it in her!

A welcome note of realism, to find that "they all lived average, up and down lives, sometimes happily, sometimes not-so-happily ever after".

Perhaps it could have been a bit snappier, though...

it was so romantic when Mina and the Count went to Capri for their Honeymoon.

The only people left alive after the Rats Of Nimh attack are on the isle of Wight.

Algernon the mouse's election as Pope seems inevitable in retrospect.

It took Elizabeth far too long realise Mr Darcy was an opium eater all the signs were there.

The tell tale hearts is a bittersweet but ultimately rewarding tale of forgiveness.

Lord of the Flies: The Boys are trapped and used as sex slaves By Amazons.

After Bill Sykes death Nancy moves in with Fagin look after Oliver and the other boys.

I love that moment when Professor James Moriarty says "Sherlock, I am your father!"

82> LOL

82> *giggle/snort*

Who would have figured that Sam I Am was a serial killer? Trust your instincts and do NOT eat the Green Eggs and Ham!

#13 - I have GOT to find a way to bring the word Anatidaephobia up in casual conversation!

#17 - Who knew?

#17 and 85 - I did!

So funny when the trains went on strike at the end of Anna Karenina.

If only the captain had not mistaken that iceberg for a great white whale.

The scene where the animals force Pooh to confront his Addiction to Hunney Is based on a scene from the Life of S T Coleridge.

In the Magnificent Ambersons, George breaks his back attempting a triple reverse somersault without a safty net!

The toughest monster Beowulf has to face is Grendal's Mother In Law.

The Nine Tailors Draw lots to decide which one will take the blame.

Noah builds a shelter to escape a rain of frogs.

As the emperor walked down the red carpet, he told the shocked reporters that his new clothes were from Gucci.

I was relieved when Fred came out of the Battle of Hogwarts unscathed. It was bad enough that Sirius inadvertently blasted George's ear off while aiming for Snape.

SimonW - You have a gift for these! :)

I wept when I saw the romantic love between Picard and the Borg Queen. When they married, the Borg finally stopped adopting species and had children of their own.

When Carl Denham used the Dirigible to shoo away the fighter planes, and Kong leapt atop the airship, clinging to the top as Englehorn, Driscoll and crew piloted it back to Skull Island, I really cried. How brave was Ann Darrow when Jack rescued her again from the sleeping Kong's clutches after Denham let loose gas from his bombs before the Beast could leap with her from the lowering ship.

"Well Carl, the gas bombs got him again!"

"Oh no, it wasn't the gas bombs. It was Beauty stayed The Beast!"

Why thank you Mrs Lee

Robinson Crusoe's escape by balloon means that Daniel Defoe has been often been claimed as one of the forefathers of Science Fiction.

I think you may be confused on that one, SimonW11. As I recall, Robinson Crusoe fled the island with Thursday Next on a submarine and that's why Defoe is credited with fathering science fiction. It was The Three Musketeers that ended with the heroes in the balloon.

The last of the Mohicans, In an attempt to be discharged under section eight Hawkeye adopts an extreme hairstyle.

Who didn't know that Peter was going to marry Wendy?