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Give this video of two bugs fighting all the awards for its perfect twist ending

Nature is wild, y'all.

Is there an Oscar for most surprising plot twist? If not, there should be — and it should go to whoever filmed these two bugs duking it out.

The 49-second video, uploaded by Khalid Alomani onto YouTube, Sunday, of a cockroach and what looks like a hornet sparring appears to be little more than that, until the bugs' fight comes to an abrupt end.

Here, just take a look at this epic showdown:

Did you see that?!? After the hornet pulled off a couple of the cockroach's legs, some sort of lizard — we're guessing a gecko — came seemingly out of nowhere and ended the fight with one big swallow. Insane.

Sure, the video was just documenting nature, but I think we can all agree that this twist rivals those written by William Shakespeare, M. Night Shyamalan, and Christopher Nolan combined.

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