10 Movie Reveals So Bad You Almost Walked Out
2. Rey Is Palpatine's Granddaughter - Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker didn't exactly get off to the most stellar start by ass-pulling the resurrection of Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) totally out of nowhere, but it became clear all hope was lost with that mid-movie reveal.
Despite the previous Star Wars film, The Last Jedi, having Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) inform Rey (Daisy Ridley) that her parents were strung-out nobodies - thereby implying she was also a nobody - half-way through The Rise of Skywalker he adds an infuriating post-script to his prior remark.
Kylo reveals that Rey's parents deliberately chose to become nobodies because, in fact, Rey's father was the cloned son of Palpatine, making her Palpatine's granddaughter. They shed their identities and shipped Rey off in an attempt to protect her.
Whether you're a fan of The Last Jedi or not, this was basically fanfic-level writing made canon - a grotesque attempt to win back fans alienated by The Last Jedi with a contrived familial link between hero and villain.
It was this point that it became clear the creatives were asleep at the wheel and basically making it all up as they went along.
Fans stuck around for the remaining hour of the movie to see the finale of the Skywalker Saga play out, only to be "rewarded" with Rey renouncing the Palpatine name and dubbing herself a Skywalker at the end.