20 Historical Plot Twists No One Saw Coming

Ironically, we’ve become accustomed to the plot twist in our fictional media. There’s just something so unsatisfying about things working out exactly as you expect them to. That’s the kind of boring bullshit that happens in real life — we don’t have to put up with it in our entertainment.

But that isn’t the way it always works out in real life. Sometimes, the scrappy underdog does emerge victorious, best laid plans really do go awry and wacky hijinks ensue that nobody could have predicted. Reddit detailed such instances that changed history when user dazedan_confused asked r/AskReddit, “What’s the biggest plot twist in history?”