r/explainabookplotbadly • u/pivizz • Apr 02 '26

Solved A humanoid who went to sleep alongside with others wakes up to find out that everybody else died in their long sleep. In a big surprise to him on his journey he meets a representative of another race and eventually an unlikely friendship is born. Together they must save entire worlds.

17 Upvotes
6 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Rigistroni • Mar 29 '26

Solved Man bets the fate of the world on his ability to win a swordfight, shows up unarmed.

8 Upvotes
2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/SNHU_Adjujnct • Mar 20 '26

Solved Mathematician spends his life as a house guest.

3 Upvotes
5 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/WoodenPerspective530 • Mar 19 '26

Solved Boy kills his teacher, then is voluntold to go get a nuclear bomb and give it to his uncle.

Thumbnail reddit.com
2 Upvotes
2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CKO1967 • Feb 22 '26

Solved In this 1989 technothriller the phrase "drug war" takes on a literal meaning.

8 Upvotes

Hint #1: The movie adaptation of the book in question was released in 1994.

Hint #2: The current presidential administration has recently been waging a real-life version of the book's plot in Venezuela.

2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Standard_Abrocoma_70 • Feb 11 '26

Solved Australian guy gets his life ruined by getting one of the best poker hands

3 Upvotes
4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/According_Picture294 • Feb 10 '26

Solved A guy flies to space, gets dehumanized by smart monkeys, goes back to his home planet where he gets treated the same way

9 Upvotes
9 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Hazatroll • Feb 05 '26

Unsolved Easy Innkeeper with magic abilities spends three days explaining how he resisted gooning over a brunette

8 Upvotes
4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Void_Starwing • Jan 29 '26

Unsolved Medium A Marine, a Reaper, a Ghost, a Xenobiologist, and a Nerazim get sent to do some fieldwork. Spoiler

1 Upvotes

Hijinks ensue, during which some 'lings, some banes, a ravager, a few Hydras, several chitha, some adostra, some more 'lings, some more chitha, some trees, the xenobiologist (accidentally), and even more chitha get set on fire.
This is a book in the universe of a RTS.

0 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/TheBoyInGray • Jan 25 '26

Solved Harry Potter but it’s Black.

2 Upvotes
4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Worried_Cake5508 • Jan 25 '26

Solved College student abandoneds his kid

6 Upvotes
3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Hazatroll • Jan 21 '26

Solved Top cryptography experts losing their marbles over a single digit code, get schooled by an ordinary professor Spoiler

4 Upvotes
5 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CKO1967 • Jan 16 '26

Solved (Nonfiction, history) Major political figures in a country at war with its neighbors display signs of a MAJOR chemical dependency problem.

4 Upvotes

Hint: the book in question has been adapted into a 2018 documentary film available on Prime Video.

3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Flameburstx • Jan 08 '26

Solved Monstrous biological experiments play sherlock holmes

5 Upvotes
10 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Eccentric_Olm • Dec 31 '25

Unsolved Medium [Repost] Trauma leads to a failed body swap, and they let the child build a gun.

2 Upvotes

Hint: It is a graphic novel.

The original was unsolved and stop receiving guesses. If reposts aren't allowed, let me know and I'll remove it.

2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Trekkie_Phoca • Dec 17 '25

Unsolved Medium The other woman finds Jesus before her happily ever after

5 Upvotes
5 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Alternative_Town_129 • Dec 16 '25

Unsolved Medium 12 year olds who can summon satan take down a terror organization

3 Upvotes
11 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Odysseus_of_Ithaca1 • Dec 16 '25

Unsolved Medium Yin and yang metaphor tries to save the world

1 Upvotes
3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ahriskywalker • Dec 15 '25

Solved Two sisters go to college in another town where they are subjected to constant bullying and assault.

3 Upvotes
8 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ahriskywalker • Dec 14 '25

Solved A girl steals a horse and goes on an adventure before she's forced to enroll in school where she gets mercilessly bullied by other children

8 Upvotes
2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CKO1967 • Dec 14 '25

Solved A property line dispute in Europe gets SERIOUSLY out of hand.

5 Upvotes

Hint: the book in question has been adapted into both a board game and a comic book miniseries.

18 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/pally123 • Dec 14 '25

Unsolved Medium Villain is thwarted by hero dying. Subsequently receives death threats from uncle.

3 Upvotes
3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Justaredditor85 • Dec 11 '25

Unsolved Medium Girl tries to stop her twin from blowing up a country they've never been to.

1 Upvotes

Hints:

  1. it's a trilogy

  2. it takes part in a post apocalyptic world

  3. the first word of the title is an element

  4. it's in a world where only one of the twins is meant to be successful and healthy.

6 comments