10 Awful Plot Twists That Completely Ruined Great Movies

6. Return Of The Jedi

The Movie

The third part in a seminal sci-fi trilogy, Return of the Jedi finds Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) and Han Solo (Harrison Ford) facing up to the dastardly Empire in a supremely entertaining final ride.

The Awful Twist

A case of trying to spice things up but instead just making everything a lot more psychologically damaging, the revelation that Princess Leia is Luke Skywalker's sister opens up a can of worms that needed never be opened. It seems like George Lucas dropped this creepy A-bomb in there just to tie two of the main characters closer together, to give Han Solo the go-ahead on Leia and, perhaps chief among reasons, to include another familial twist of Empire Strikes Back-proportions.

Does it add to the story? No. Does it allow for character progression? No. Does it add a layer of incestuous subtext to what is essentially a kids' film? Hell yes.

After Luke previously declared "She's beautiful" in A New Hope then got off with her in The Empire Strikes Back (beginning a feature-length game of "Who can pull the royal first?" with Han), we're told halfway through Jedi that Leia has already spent nine months in an intimate relationship with Luke: inside their mother's womb.

The most scarring part is that literally no-one addresses the situation, suggesting this kind of thing is normal as well as lending the previous two films a generous helping of "eurgh, God!" It's the worst-handled part of a great sci-fi sequel that actually damages the films preceding it. And everyone always blames the Ewoks.