10 Video Game Twists In Front Of You The Whole Time
7. Mia Was Mother Miranda - Resident Evil Village
One popular evil villain method, particularly if you've written yourself into a corner by making a villain whom would normally not tolerate any pesky heroes traipsing all over their turf, making the audience wonder why they haven't just killed the little goody two shoes yet, is having the villain use the hero as an unwitting pawn in their grander scheme.
Resident Evil Village does this with its titular villain, Mother Miranda, who can shapeshift at will and thus likes to use this ability to help guide people along on the paths she needs them to be on for her master plans.
For example, Mother Miranda turns out to be the creepy old lady that protagonist Ethan Winters keeps running into, who keeps subtly sending him on specific trails and paths that of course are exactly what Mother Miranda wants him to do in order to complete her plans.
Just a shame that doing so leads Ethan to killing the rest of her little family, but hey, details.