10 Disturbing Video Game Plot Twists You Didn't See Coming

7. Locust Origin - Gears 5

The Locust in the Gears of War games were a means to a cover-based shooting end. Though as the games have come and gone, their origins have been slowly drip-fed to the point where these creepy underground lizard people aren’t as clear cut evil anymore.

The games setting Sera is full of a glowy yellow liquid known as Imulsion. It fuels the planet above with seemingly no repercussions, but once an A.I construct of a long-dead Niles is confronted by Kait, it reveals all.

Turns out miners of Imulsion were coming down with ‘Rustlung’. After being sent off to Niles it was thought that they would simply die, when in actual fact he was turning them into the Locust. So, the COG had a hand in creating the very threat that brought humanity to its knees.

This really does muddy all the past conflicts in the Gears games. Not only were the Locust horribly experimented on, but in 3 they are just trying to escape the Lambent. Making them the real victims of all this and the COG the bad guys.