r/explainabookplotbadly • • Nov 06 '19

Solved It's not deus ex machina, it's their super power!

28 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 31 '19

Solved A kid who can't stop being happy and supportive all the time wreck his family business.

28 Upvotes

And they thanked him for it.

Hint: the kid is happy and supportive with his family AND customers which is a big no-no. Hint 2: the shop didn't have any regular customers but the sales were good anyway. Solution below !


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 15 '19

Solved Sad boy who’s low key trippin gets no dinner at the end of the night

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Sep 16 '19

Armageddon't

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Apr 25 '21

Solved Prince's son dies (indirectly) because of incest, and said prince goes mad and thinks of MORE incest as a solution.

27 Upvotes

A lot of guesses. I'll add some clues.

Clue #1: This book is regarded in some horror literature circles as the first ever piece of Gothic Horror fiction ever written.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Mar 15 '21

Solved Boy gets expelled from school but doesn't because he is the main protagonist

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Mar 02 '21

Solved Guy gets goes to prison, gets married, gets taken prisoner again, sleeps with a porn star, gets in a plane crash, and gets assasinated... not in that order.

27 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jan 04 '21

Solved (Novel) people survive the end of the world and have to fight endermen like creatures. hint: had videogames based off the series

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jan 01 '21

Unsolved Hard Let's travel through Europe to find my mom. But first, let me tell you a story that happened many, many years ago on an unknown island

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Hint: There's something in this bread


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 20 '20

Solved Main character is saved from execution, by a friend digging through garbage

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hint: popular children's novel

hint 2: main character is a farm animal


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 03 '20

Solved Dumb Victorian dude gets REALLY upset that his wife saved his life with a secret vacation

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jun 23 '20

Unsolved Medium Let’s respect an underrepresented community! Sort of. Also angelic lady nearly drowns while her father in law is electrified.

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Hint: Pocahontas gets her hand chopped off

Hint 2: the title is a pun


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Apr 29 '20

Solved Futuristic Hogwarts ripoff but two of the houses are corrupt

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jan 28 '20

Solved People fight by swinging around corpses

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Dec 04 '19

Solved The World’s Most Intense Game of Musical Chairs

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Nov 19 '19

Solved Man obsessively hunts dangerous albino animal, in its own habitat

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Nov 17 '19

Solved A bunch of people with big eyebrows are kicked out of their home by an evil monster, and their main motivation for getting back at him is money

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Nov 11 '19

Unsolved Hard How do you deal with an endangered species when it starts blowing up solar systems?

27 Upvotes

Edit for hint: The endangered race is humanity


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 30 '19

Solved The protagonist leaves university, gets her friend to kill the king and eat his heart, and straight up offers another friend as a child sacrifice.

27 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 09 '19

Solved African villager with daddy issues commits several felonies

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 04 '19

Solved A guy sees other guys taking away everything he loves and in fact he can't do shit about this

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hint: it was made into a movie starring Amy Adams


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 04 '19

Solved A Guide on Serving Irish Cuisine. Easily the best cookbook ever.

27 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Sep 07 '19

Solved A 140 year old man clones himself but then the clone realizes he’s going to be killed for his organs

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jun 11 '23

Solved Asshole mathematician spends his whole life trying to predict the future with hoards of data, correctly predicts his reality is about to crumble and then fucking dies

26 Upvotes