‘Riverdale’ is over: Here are the 8 craziest plot twists ever

So lengthy, “Riverdale,” it’s been a wild journey.

The CW’ sequence ended this week after seven seasons after premiering in 2017 and rapidly becoming famous for its off-the-wall plotlines. 

Though it featured acquainted characters like Archie (KJ Apa), Jughead (Cole Sprouse), Betty (Lili Reinhart), Veronica (Camila Mendes) and Cheryl Blossom (Madelaine Petsch), “Riverdale” has by no means been your grandfather’s Archie comics.  

By way of its run, it’s been a world the place, amongst different storylines, the children handled a stick-monster creature referred to as “the gargoyle king”; a serial killer; an organ-harvesting cult chief; teenage prisons; time travel; and an immortal evil sorcerer. Facet characters had names together with “Tall Boy,” “Poppa Poutine” and “Percival Pickens.”  

In honor of the Aug. 22 sequence finale, right here’s a glance again at a few of the present’s most outlandish storylines and characters. 

Jingle Jangle 

“Jingle Jangle” is the identify of a drug that flooded the streets of Riverdale, usually equipped by a kingpin often known as the “sugarman.” It’s been talked about in varied seasons, and it by no means will get outdated to listen to somebody gravely speaking concerning the harmful drug.

Archie will get attacked by a bear

In Season 3, Archie was randomly attacked by a bear. By this level within the present, he had been by way of a whole lot of shenanigans, together with beginning vigilante teams, getting framed for homicide and going to a teen jail the place he lectured one other inmate concerning the pleasure of highschool soccer. Nonetheless, it was a memorable plotline when he bought mauled by an (unseen) beast, after which was completely tremendous the following episode — taking the SATs not lengthy after. Simply one other day on this common present about common youngsters.

Cheryl’s useless brother

Cheryl’s brother, Jason Blossom, died within the first season. However that wasn’t the tip of his time on “Riverdale” as a result of, in Season 4, Cheryl brought his corpse home and often spoke to him as if he was nonetheless alive. That is arguably the craziest Cheryl storyline however it’s a tricky competitors as a result of she’s additionally had story arcs involving a haunted doll and being possessed by an ancestor who was burned on the stake.

The Gargoyle King

In Season 3, everybody on the town grew obsessive about a sport referred to as “Gryphons & Gargoyles,” (suppose this universe’s model of “Dungeons & Dragons” — which took a darkish flip when folks began dying. The entire thing was presided over by a sinister stick-monster creature referred to as “The Gargoyle King.” 

Jughead’s alien abduction

In Season 5, Jughead was investigating folklore about “mothmen” when he appeared to get kidnapped by aliens. They turned out to be inbred Blossom family members dwelling within the woods, which is hardly much less outlandish.  

An try and cease MLK’s assassination 

Sure, you learn that proper – after the present launched superpowers in Season 6, Tabitha (Erinn Westbrook) time traveled to 1968 and tried to avoid wasting Martin Luther King Jr’s life. In the end, she didn’t succeed (because it was defined that was a hard and fast cut-off date).

Jughead fakes his personal demise

In Season 4, Jughead bought embroiled in prep college intrigue that intently mirrored Donna Tartt’s ebook “The Secret Historical past,” and found a murderous secret society. As a way to keep forward of them, he staged his personal demise. 

Edgar Edgernever and his rocket

“Riverdale” had many memorable villains, however maybe probably the most bonkers was Edgar Edgernever (Chad Michael Murray). He presided over a cult often known as “The Farm,” with the last word aim of harvesting organs. After he bought caught, Edgar donned an Evel Knievel outfit and tried to flee on a rocket. Each a part of this story was extra insane than the final.