21 Movies With Deranged Subplots

Have you ever tried to write a movie? It’s not easy. Maybe you have a brilliant idea for a script about guitar-playing monsters who teach America about acceptance and face-melting, but then you have to actually get them to that point. Sometimes, it turns out it takes way less time than you thought for the Bandshees to shred their way into the public’s heart, so you’ve got to pad it out a little. And it’s not like you’ve done anything normal so far.

This was likely the process of writing the script for “Vincent Diesel’s seminal work, The Pacifier,” in which Diesel’s character “believes (one) of the children he’s babysitting/protecting is a Nazi,” one Redditor told r/Movies. “This movie is aimed at children, and they have a plotline about believing a 14-year-old boy is a neo-Nazi. And then it turns out he’s just auditioned to be in a musical where he’ll be playing a Nazi.”

They then asked, “What is the most messed-up/out of place subplot in movie history?”