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30 Of The Most Infamous ‘Plot Holes’ That The Movies Actually Explained, But The Audience Didn’t Notice Except that NASA and other space agencies do this all the time; they're called mission specialists and they have specialized training in some field the flight crew doesn't. They don't get taught how to fly the ship, just how not to die in space.

Also, for the record, drilling for oil — or any kind of deep core geological work — is extremely specialized, and most of the people in the positions the team of drillers in Armageddon were in have a lot of letters behind their names.

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kjorn 3 years ago

Ben Affleck point that out and was told to shut up

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Animeking1108 asked their fellow redditors to share the infamous ‘plot holes’ that are basically misunderstandings caused by an impatient audience that doesn’t want to think for “more than ten seconds.”

Most of us are probably aware of quite a few of these. They’re so infamous, they’ve passed on into popular culture and have become enrooted like sleeping Ents and we no longer question them because we take the plot holes for granted.

30 Of The Most Infamous ‘Plot Holes’ That The Movies Actually Explained, But The Audience Didn’t Notice Ariel had an entire song about how much she wanted to explore the human world long before she ever laid eyes on Eric. Even after seeing him for the first time and fawning all over him, she never thought about going to see Ursula to get some legs.

The reason she "threw her life away" was because she just watched as her father go into a rage and violently destroy her Human Trinkets collection, something that brought her more joy than anything else. She invested SO MUCH TIME and risked her life to get those things. All that time and effort was destroyed and invalidated by her father in less than a minute.

Sure, Ursula may have framed her whole pitch to Ariel around "you'll get your human man," but Ariel didn't even consider Ursula an option until Triton destroyed her life's work. She no longer felt she could be happy or safe in her father's ocean, so she might as well try to find a life where he can't reach her. Getting a chance to be with Eric was just a nice bonus.

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Wendillon 3 years ago

Also Ariel is a teenager and many teenagers are rather impulsive...particularly when they have controlling parents who don't support their hobbies/interests.

107points

30 Of The Most Infamous ‘Plot Holes’ That The Movies Actually Explained, But The Audience Didn’t Notice Well, maybe that tower with the giant demonic eye could see them coming miles away and order an army of Orcs to shoot them down, just off the top of my head.

Animeking1108 Report

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Hans 3 years ago

Well, to understand this you would need to read the Silmarillion. The Eagles held contact with the Valar, who had decided to not directly interfere with middle earth in the third age (but for sending maiar such as Gandalf). There is rich history to everything in the Lord of the Ring, and there are fewer plot holes than one might think if just watching the movies and perceiving them of medieval flicks with a pinch of magic.

93points

The major one is from 1997’s ‘Titanic’ where Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jack drowns at the end of the movie (can’t spoil a movie over a couple of decades old), even though there’s enough space on the door for him and Rose, portrayed by Kate Winslet. But do you remember that scene? The movie shows that the door couldn’t handle both of them. The Mythbusters found a way where they could both technically survive, but it seemed overly complex and impractical.

30 Of The Most Infamous ‘Plot Holes’ That The Movies Actually Explained, But The Audience Didn’t Notice Because he's on an alien planet and that's what everyone else does when these giants walk into the room. He needs to blend in.

It also might just be an instinct all toys have. You can't exactly have toys not holding still just because they don't consciously know any better.

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Hans 3 years ago

Better do not think this through. What will he do if he eventually is disposed off, put into the bin, and driven to the garbage incineration plant?

23points

30 Of The Most Infamous ‘Plot Holes’ That The Movies Actually Explained, But The Audience Didn’t Notice Jack and Rose could not have both gotten onto the door. They even showed Jack trying to climb up and the whole thing capsizing.

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Sum Guy 3 years ago

sure they could both fit... but would the door stay buoyant?

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Insider points out that the odds of Jack surviving on the floating door were close to zero… unless the door was made out of pine. (Plus, in the script, it’s referred to as wooden debris and it’s technically the top of a door frame, but that’s being overly technical.)

30 Of The Most Infamous ‘Plot Holes’ That The Movies Actually Explained, But The Audience Didn’t Notice Glass!!! Is not!!! Very malleable!!! It’s not a very flexible material so if course it can be expected to fall off!! This also applies to the original story, where iirc the slipper is made of gold.

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RandomPandaGuyHamiltonLafayette 3 years ago

In some early stories the shoes were made of Squirrel Fur.

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30 Of The Most Infamous ‘Plot Holes’ That The Movies Actually Explained, But The Audience Didn’t Notice In Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban, everyone loves to point out that if you can time travel, you can just go back to the past and fix every problem, like by killing voldemort when he was a baby for example.

If you'd just pay attention, you'd see that you can't actually change the past, you travel to the past and effectively live the same exact situation from another perspective. Future Harry saved past Harry, and future Harry was always there to save past Harry, nothing was changed by going back in time.

There will always be paradoxes when time travel is involved, but the remark of 'fixing' the past is just not valid. However, I do have to admit, when they created 'the cursed child' it all went to shit. That play makes no sense whatsoever and I therefore wish to not count that in as canon

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Ozacoter 3 years ago

Also the original time turners only go back a few hours.

74points

“Pine might have allowed the two to both survive long enough for rescue. However, due to the way the panel flipped when Jack tried to grab it after Rose was clinging on, the wood was most likely oak,” writes Insider. “Unfortunately, the size of the oak debris coupled with the weight of a sodden and hypothermic Rose on top could work, but not if you added Jack's additional weight to it."

30 Of The Most Infamous ‘Plot Holes’ That The Movies Actually Explained, But The Audience Didn’t Notice Kylo had, in the past 10 minutes, killed his father, been shot in the leg by a weapon that being shot by a normal person had previously been demonstrated to be the equivalent to being hit by a car, and had taken a lightsaber hit from Finn (who he had been merely toying with and ended the fight as soon as he took a hit). On top of all of this, he wasn’t even trying to kill Rey and was trying to recruit her. Yet even after all of those things being clearly demonstrated just moments before, fans still insist that either he’s weak or that Rey is overpowered for beating him.

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Shelp 3 years ago

Ok you can save that one, but the new trilogy stays a disaster

37points

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30 Of The Most Infamous ‘Plot Holes’ That The Movies Actually Explained, But The Audience Didn’t Notice It would have been enough to kill him/destroy the horcrux if Fawkes hadn't been there. A horcrux has to be damaged beyond hope of magical repair. That means death if it's a living thing, or some powerful magical damage for nonliving objects. It's not like basilisk venom has any special 'anti-horcrux' properties. It's just a substance that can damage most objects behind the point of magical repair, and Fawkes cured Harry before it could kill him.

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109points

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Kira Okah 3 years ago

I cannot count how many times I have had to explain this to people - even to hardcore Potterheads.

40points

"Since the Maritime Museum confirmed that the original wood paneling was indeed oak, this solution makes the most sense.” Apologies, Jack, but no matter how much the internet loves you, there was just no way for you to get out of your gruesome and grim ending.

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30 Of The Most Infamous ‘Plot Holes’ That The Movies Actually Explained, But The Audience Didn’t Notice The couple likely got pregnant regardless of their own wishes. There's basically zero infrastructure left and they've been reduced to raiding an abandoned pharmacy for whatever random medicine might be left. Sure, they could probably find a few packs of pills and condoms, but after that, what exactly are your birth control options? Give yourself a birth control implant? Perform your own vasectomy? Pull out and hope for the best?

Sure, they probably could have been more careful, but the number of people I saw criticizing this as if it's impossible to get pregnant without consciously choosing to do so was hilarious.

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Amy S 3 years ago

Also birth control sometimes fails.

68points

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30 Of The Most Infamous ‘Plot Holes’ That The Movies Actually Explained, But The Audience Didn’t Notice They knew him for a week over 20 years before he would look like that. And the only people he saw on a regular basis in that week were Doc, who knew, and Lorraine, who would be eager to forget a silly teenage crush she had just before meeting her soulmate.

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Karl Baxter 3 years ago

Why did they wait to call their third child Marty when they think it’s a good name back in 1955?

28points

Another major ‘plot hole’ (that is anything but) comes in the form of my favorite movie series of all time, ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy. The keyword here is eagles. Eagles? Great Eagles! The alleged ‘slip’ in storytelling goes something like this: the Fellowship of the Ring could have asked the eagles for help and plopped the One Ring right into the fiery chasm of Mount Doom, defeating Sauron and saving Middle Earth. Hooray! Right..? Not so fast there, young hobbits.

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30 Of The Most Infamous ‘Plot Holes’ That The Movies Actually Explained, But The Audience Didn’t Notice Is there not a scene explaining that he'd had the genocide idea for a long time, but was rejected and considered crazy by his people? I think the implication is that, deep down, Thanos wanted to kill half of all life so he could say "I told you so."

CaramelPlanets Report

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101points

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Kira Okah 3 years ago

Yes. He wasn't trying to save anyone - he just wanted to prove that he was right.

53points

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30 Of The Most Infamous ‘Plot Holes’ That The Movies Actually Explained, But The Audience Didn’t Notice Phone line was cut from the falling trees.

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Eduard Korhonen 3 years ago

Yet he managed to order a pizza? 🤔

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Here’s the problem. That would never have worked. And there’s a host of reasons for it! Starting with the fundamentally practical (tons of orcish archers in Mordor, Sauron’s Eye always on the lookout, the Nazgul and their winged beasts ready for action) to the meta (the Ring might have enticed the eagles with its insidious promises of power, and let’s not forget that the eagles themselves are meant to “bear tidings not burdens”).

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30 Of The Most Infamous ‘Plot Holes’ That The Movies Actually Explained, But The Audience Didn’t Notice He shoots zero people throughout the entire story. I doubt that he even knows what a gun is.

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River Webb 3 years ago

who even came up with this one?

101points

Ozacoter 3 years ago

Americans and their obsession with guns.

29points

N G 3 years ago

There are a subset of movie watchers whose solution to everything is "why dont you just shoot him?". This applies to James Bond, Harry Potter... basically any movie where there bad guy has our hero at his mercy. Parodied in the first(?)Austin Powers movie by Scott Evil

11points

Kira Okah 3 years ago

Probably an attempt to counter people who counter the other thing that Voldemort would never do - throw baby Harry out of the window.

4points

Linus Nilsson 3 years ago

In Lev Grossman's "The magician", he incorporates a gun into the magic. It's utterly useless, but good comedy.

2points

Ritchat 3 years ago

Voldemort despises muggles, muggle-born wizards and half bloods. So why would he use something non-magical, invented by muggles? Wouldn't make sense and would be out of character. He longs to be the most powerful wizard. Would be a shame if he would have to rely on something non-magical to kill his sworn enemy.

13points

blugeagua 3 years ago

Boom!

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Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

This is beyond weird. The daily prophet even has to explain to wizards what a gun is, suggesting they are unfamiliar ("a kind of metal wand which muggles use to kill each other")

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Vicky Zar 3 years ago

I always loved that explanation.

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Bowtechie 3 years ago

In the fourth book it's also explicitly stated that muggle items like scuba tanks, walkie talkies, etc... do not work within the confines of Hogwarts because of the heavy magic present. It's why the castle doesn't have electricity and why Harry couldn't repeat his summoning trick and just use an oxygen tank to assist him in the second tri-wizard task. My guess if things like that won't work within Hogwarts or other places heavy with magic, a gun wouldn't fire properly either. Also, Voldemort makes it VERY clear he abhors everything about muggles because he loathes his muggle father. He probably knows very well what a gun is but is simply far too proud to use one because it's a muggle invention.

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Kira Okah 3 years ago

A gun would work, because it's mechanical - magic only interferes with electricity and electronics.

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Aurelia! 3 years ago

I DISPUTE THIS literally he could have just done vulnera sanentur and heal himself, or deflected the bullet, but you can't deflect avada kedavra

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Kira Okah 3 years ago

Yep, even a simple Protego would stop a bullet, it's easy for a wizard to defend against a gun.

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Kira Okah 3 years ago

Why would Voldemort - if you get Voldemort's character - ever use any Muggle method ever?

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Michał Jastrzębski 3 years ago

wouldnt he consider using muggle tech as beneath him ?

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Kira Okah 3 years ago

Yes he would.

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Vorknkx 3 years ago

That's like asking "Why didn't Thor just shoot Thanos?"

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Tabitha L 3 years ago

Isn't Tom Riddle a half blood? He grew up in a muggle orphanage in London. Do kids in England know what guns are? If yes, than Riddle did too.

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Kira Okah 3 years ago

After spending his education at Hogwarts, whee he was taught that magic is superior and all powerful? Magic can block bullets after all, if he knows what a gun is, he would certainly understand that magic could stop it.

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Hans 3 years ago

I strongly endorse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS3y1Q3mFVw

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Andrew Keane 2 years ago

Voldemort, the leader for all wizards who see themselves as pure blood, despise anything less than that and hates muggles. This is the villain someone asked why they didn’t use a muggle weapon. I’m sure that would have gone down well with his followers. Seriously, what idiot even thought that question was valid?

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backatya 3 years ago

I thought he was going to say in the a**e lol

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Cathy Carey 3 years ago

Guns are muggle contraptions

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Winx 3 years ago

I've heard this one before. Does the wizarding world not have/know what conventional weapons are? Harry should though, and why didn't he ever think about shooting V?

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Kira Okah 3 years ago

The wizards had to have the newspaper explain to them what a gun even is, so no they don't know and have been isolated from Muggles for several hundred years. Probably because Voldy knew how to produce a shield charm, which could easily block a bullet.

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Kines Tezja 3 years ago

Yeah, sure. He lived 11 years in the muggle world but he doesn't know what a gun is.

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Kira Okah 3 years ago

Voldy would consider Muggle weapons beneath him, and Harry is pretty good at the shield charm.

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blugeagua 3 years ago

Not only that but he's anti-muggle. Why in the world would he use a muggle tool?

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jimmy pop 3 years ago

They know about cars. And about the world wars? Since Tom was at Hogwarts during all of WW2, they must have been a topic ...? Also guns have been around in Europe since 14th century, wizards must be incredibly dumb to not know what guns are and that they're quite a big deal, even to ignorant muggle-discarding superwizards. If he knows, and decides not to use them, that's a different story.

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Kira Okah 3 years ago

Why would Voldemort use one?

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Phil Vaive 3 years ago

Why the hell would a wizard who despises humanity, who thinks we are meant to be his servants at best, use a tool that humans created to kill his arch enemy?

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Duke Ferris 3 years ago

Watch the animated movie "Wizards". You'll see.

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Isog Sargent 3 years ago

But why didn't Harry, who surely knew what a gun was, shoot Voldemort?

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Kira Okah 3 years ago

1) Bullets are easy for a wizard to block. 2) The last book is set after the gun ban following the Dunblane School Massacre.

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Sasha Kuleshov 3 years ago

This would be a total different story :P

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Lydia Jeanne Wright 3 years ago

Are you... serious? I mean... really?

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KT 3 years ago

its modern times, how would he not know what a gun is? That's just stupid

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Kira Okah 3 years ago

Most wizards don't know what a gun is, that is shown in the bbooks. Heck, most wizards don't know what TROUSERS are (book 4, if curious where that comes from).

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80 Van 3 years ago

First, guns are even mentioned in The Prisoner of Azkaban in passing, and the news report has to explain to wizards what a gun is, so it is unlikely that Voldemort or anyone else would know what one is or how to use it. Second, guns would be extremely vulnerable to magic and would be a pretty pathetic second option. Third, Voldemort had no reason to believe magic would backfire, so why would he have used a gun in the first place? Even in future attempts, he believed Harry escaped only by sheer luck, so a gun wouldn’t have ever felt more likely to succeed than magic.

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MALEC GWITTER🤩 3 years ago

Ummmm...why? This is harry potter, a fantasy novel of witches and wizards, not a mid-western movie with all the lassos and duels all that other crap? That is the stupidest thing I have seen all day. And lucky for you, my day is just getting started.

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Dario T. 3 years ago

Or, as I usually say, another proff that americans are like the orcs: always ready to begin a war with their obsessions over weapons and guns that goes bum.

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30 Of The Most Infamous ‘Plot Holes’ That The Movies Actually Explained, But The Audience Didn’t Notice Vader didn't sense that Luke was his son either. He thought Padme had a miscarriage. He only knows Luke is his son when Palpatine flat out tells him.

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Ozacoter 3 years ago

He was also very closed to his emotions. If he was more open he would have probably felt a connection with them (not know that they are his offspring but at least feel some connection).

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What’s more, the Fellowship’s quest was a secret. Relying on the eagles without a distraction like Aragorn’s attack would have proven to be the downfall of Middle Earth as we know it. Besides, there are spies everywhere and the eagles would have been spotted at some point. Sauron would know in advance what to expect and, let’s not forget, that you can’t drop the Ring directly into Mount Doom from the air.

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30 Of The Most Infamous ‘Plot Holes’ That The Movies Actually Explained, But The Audience Didn’t Notice Obviously, Bruce is a man of stealth who knows every way into, out of, and through Gotham; not just the roads that were seized by Bane. The real question is how he recovered from that spinal break and hokey prison surgery enough to make the trek and fight at all.

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Sum Guy 3 years ago

Bane didn't guard most of these exits... he relied on people being too scared because he would blow s**t up. The real question here is, why would an entire police force go underground at the same time?

21points

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30 Of The Most Infamous ‘Plot Holes’ That The Movies Actually Explained, But The Audience Didn’t Notice Dumbledore did everything he could short of barging into the Dursley's house and cursing them to hell and high water because, with the blood ward Lily created and the massive chaos of Voldemort's first defeat, it was the safest option. Remember, shortly after Voldemort's defeat, a group of his supporters forced their way into the Longbottoms' house and drove them mad with torture. Harry had these maniacs gunning for him as well, and he was a baby!

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Kira Okah 3 years ago

He had to live with a blood relative to maintain the blood ward. Petunia Dursley is his only living blood relative.

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The eagles themselves aren’t under Gandalf’s control, least of all anyone else’s: they are proud creatures who aren’t anyone’s aerial taxi service. When the eagles decide to help is entirely up to them. They directly serve the Valar and they have their own reasons for doing (or not doing) things. If this were Dungeons and Dragons, you could argue that they’re True Neutral or Lawful Neutral or that their understanding of what’s good is beyond the understanding of mortals or even wizards.

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30 Of The Most Infamous ‘Plot Holes’ That The Movies Actually Explained, But The Audience Didn’t Notice Many traditional martial arts competitions ban punches to the head, but are perfectly okay with kicks to the head. Why that rule exists varies depending on who you ask, but kicks to the head are usually perfectly legal.

Yes, I know that the Cobra Kai youtube series jumped on the bandwagon with this one, but I still say it's bulls**t.

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StIJN 3 years ago

the ref needed to go home

15points

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30 Of The Most Infamous ‘Plot Holes’ That The Movies Actually Explained, But The Audience Didn’t Notice Cooling things in space is difficult as heat needs somewhere to go. An exhaust vent is a perfectly reasonable thing to have station is the size of a small moon that's obviously going to generate a lot of heat and other such things that needs to be vented. The movie also outright tells us that this is not the only exhaust vent the station has. In the briefing scene it mentions there are multiple exhaust vents, it wasn't a single vent.

The Rebel pilot also complain about the 2m wide port being too small to hit. Their first torpedoes are unsuccessful even with the targetting computers, it's only Luke using the force to time when to fire that works, so it is not some huge glaring uneccesary weakness. It's an integral part of a giant space station that even skilled pilots with computer-targeting couldn't hit, it wasn't some significant weakness in the first place.

As part of that, there's the "Rogue One explains the weakness!" thing. No, it doesn't explain the exhaust port - the weakness added by Galen Erso is that the reactor when hit will cause a chain reaction. That specific exhaust port is just identified as the most appropriate one to use.

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71points

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Kira Okah 3 years ago

Honestly, the fact that they got an exhaust port down to the size of a Womp Rat is an amazing feat.

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What other ‘plot holes’ that aren’t really plot holes at all do you know about, dear Pandas, whether in movies or any other medium? Why do you think audiences have a hard time being patient and thinking about the scenario sometimes? Do you think good storytelling is possible even while leaving some gaps in the plot? Let us know what you think!

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30 Of The Most Infamous ‘Plot Holes’ That The Movies Actually Explained, But The Audience Didn’t Notice Just because he’s the only one in the shot when he dies doesn’t mean none of his staff weren’t just out of shot.

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Mohsie Supposie 3 years ago

I'm sure there was the cameramen, the director and the whole crew there to hear him. ;)

34points

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30 Of The Most Infamous ‘Plot Holes’ That The Movies Actually Explained, But The Audience Didn’t Notice He is SUPPOSED to be cringey. People in the scene even comment on his cringiness.

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Busy_D 3 years ago

Honestly Toby did good at the role, it was just the movies that were bad.

21points

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30 Of The Most Infamous ‘Plot Holes’ That The Movies Actually Explained, But The Audience Didn’t Notice The explanation is that if Prim takes tesserae, she will keep getting her name entered into the games more often every year, including after Katniss turns 18 and becomes ineligible to volunteer.

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Ola Polowczyk 3 years ago

Plus, Katniss was sure she wouldn't make it through the games

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30 Of The Most Infamous ‘Plot Holes’ That The Movies Actually Explained, But The Audience Didn’t Notice That doesn't break the rules of the universe, however, since we know that Tony Stark can probably easily access a lot of security footage (he even shows some to Peter) and we can imagine that he used that to track Peter down; or there may be a different explanation, dude's an Avenger after all. It would be different if, say, that teacher from the maths competition group in Homecoming just knew Peter's identity, without explanation, because one of the rules of the universe is that Peter keeps his secret identity pretty secret

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A.M. Pierre 3 years ago

Wait, so you're saying one of the smartest people in the world deduced a teenager's secret identity? Impossible!!! ;-)

45points

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30 Of The Most Infamous ‘Plot Holes’ That The Movies Actually Explained, But The Audience Didn’t Notice Everyone jokes about the alien mothership not having anti-virus, but why would they? They're a hivemind species that communicates telepathically, and they seem to have an extremely high level of social cohesion. Computer viruses aren't like actual viruses. They're not naturally occurring; humans created them because humans are malicious towards each other. It's entirely possible an alien species that uses telepathy to communicate wouldn't even concieve of such a thing, and it doesn't seem likely that any of the species they've faced thus far have given them reason to consider it. Plus, even if they did have such defenses, at that point Jeff Goldblum has a direct hardline connection anyway.

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Teucer T 3 years ago

The really amazing thing is that they were using a 1996 Macbook which isn't compatible with any other computer on earth, but is somehow compatible with the alien mother ship OS.

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30 Of The Most Infamous ‘Plot Holes’ That The Movies Actually Explained, But The Audience Didn’t Notice Because the one Hermione has is only meant to go back hours, not days or years. And going back years would cause major disruptions anyway.

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Kira Okah 3 years ago

All time turners have the same enchantment, but it's stated that no more than five hours is recommended for as little disruption/possibility of paradoxes as possible. A wrng move and you could potentially undo your own existence.

20points

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30 Of The Most Infamous ‘Plot Holes’ That The Movies Actually Explained, But The Audience Didn’t Notice Sauron has flying things, too. And a bunch of giant eagles probably wouldn't go unnoticed and just gotten torn and/or shot out of the sky and the crash site thoroughly investigated.

(And yeah, if you've read the books, you know the eagles are sentient and probably would have refused. But I also get that's not obvious in the movies. So I try to confine myself to the films when talking with someone who's only seen the films.)

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Kaleb Prichard (MiraiKuma) 3 years ago

The same reason Gandolf didn't. The more powerful you are, the more you are attracted to the rings power. The eagles were very powerful and would not be able to resist the power.

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30 Of The Most Infamous ‘Plot Holes’ That The Movies Actually Explained, But The Audience Didn’t Notice The problem is that only acknowledged highborn bastards have geographically- based surnames like “Snow”, “Sand” or “Waters”. Gendry didn’t even know who his father is until the very end, so he in fact never uses a surname. He might have know that he is a bastard but he didn’t know he is highborn. Small folks, bastards or not, don’t use surnames. This is evident since many black brothers who are lowborn don’t have surnames. Gendry lived his whole life calling himself simply “Gendry”, so he made a mistake when he wanted to emphasize that he is no longer a bastard, on the same day that he found out he was a bastard of Robert’s. Also it was established that Gendry is illiterate...

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38points

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Wendillon 3 years ago

Of all the plotholes in GoT this is the one we're focusing on? Some super nervous guy who just had his whole world upended saying the wrong name?

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30 Of The Most Infamous ‘Plot Holes’ That The Movies Actually Explained, But The Audience Didn’t Notice The passage of time can speed up or slow down based on the needs of the narrative.

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Wendillon 3 years ago

This wasn't a plothole...this was just plain rushing to end the series.

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30 Of The Most Infamous ‘Plot Holes’ That The Movies Actually Explained, But The Audience Didn’t Notice Vader couldn't sense Lea was his daughter because that's not something that's possible in the Star Wars universe. He didn't sense Luke, either. Palpatine literally told him.

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Mohsie Supposie 3 years ago

Kind of a repeat, so I will repeat my comment: Vader did get feelings when he was near Luke or Leia, but he did not interpret them as his children, as he had never had those feelings before, and also, he never even knew they existed.

14points

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30 Of The Most Infamous ‘Plot Holes’ That The Movies Actually Explained, But The Audience Didn’t Notice Even if Shenron or Porunga couldn't outright kill the villains, doing something sly like turning their blood into a lethal poison or teleporting them so deep into space that they'll never get back to a planet with life before they starve to death, freeze, or simply die of old age would work.

If nothing else, they could use the dragon balls to wish the weaker fighters to be stronger or even give them Saiyan level potential.

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Gergely Kiss 3 years ago

This point literally confirms a plot hole instead of rebuking it, so it does not belong in this list at all.

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#32

Why did the audience not learn the fates of the other children in W***y Wonka and the Chocolate Factory? Did they make it or did they die?

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Kira Okah 3 years ago

I know that this is a book based comment - but yes, the rest of the kids were fine, though were changed by their experiences (one became super tall when stretched and the one that turned into a blueberry is still purple for example).

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Joanna Stasiołek 3 years ago

Quite a few of the questions did repeat, like one about Darth Vader not sensing his children and time turner in Harry Potter

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J Baker 3 years ago

People wonder, "How did Cypher plug into the Matrix without an operator?" But he actually explained it to Neo in the previous scene - when Cypher describes the Matrix code to Neo he tells him, "I don't even see the code, all I see is blonde, brunette, redhead." The camera then focuses on the screen with the code, and cuts to the next scene with him having dinner in the Matrix, with a blonde, brunette, and redhead present. He didn't enter with an operator, he was reading the code - the scene is what is playing out in the Matrix, but Neo actually walked in on his betrayal without knowing it.

5points

Alex Metslov 3 years ago

There's another explanation. Well, Neo is in the matrix all the time. As Cypher. Except that Cypher knows it. Red and Blue Pills have no difference - both are dreams. One is nice and peaceful, another for rebels. The architect explains that later. Cypher hates Morpheus for that. And willing to change his dream to a "Blue" one. Also, that explains why interrogating Morpheus is useless. He is a program himself, but agents are not aware of it. They are not supposed.

0points

Luisa Vasconcelos 3 years ago

Very nice and interesting.

4points

Wandaluzt 3 years ago

Lazy copy paste Reddit rip article that hasn't even been checked for duplicates. It's not that hard to do.

1point

Sista of the moon 3 years ago

W***y. Lol why is that censored???

1point

StPaul9 6 months ago

Ofelia wasn't stupid in Pan's Labyrinth eating food in front of the Pale Man right after being told not to! It shows she won't obey an unfair law-living in a dictatorship teaches you that. The mark of a good ruler.

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Matthew Braim 3 years ago

#21: Charles Foster Kane WAS alone when he said 'Rosebud'; his housekeeper came in just after he said it & asked what he said, before realising he was dead. This remains a HUGE plot hole, in a mediocre movie (imho), xxx

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Tobias the Tiger 3 years ago

One I see on occasion is regarding the monkey from "Pirates of the Caribbean". People are confused as to why he still turns into a skeleton in the moonlight, considering the curse was broken at the end of the first movie. However, in the post-credits scene, the monkey can be seen taking a coin and therefore cursing himself again.

0points

jk nbt 3 years ago

"it made the Kessle run in 23 parsecs".... they had to work hard to explain this one since parsecs are angular distance units

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Jon S. 3 years ago (edited)

My guess was that it was a boast about the course he was able to plot with the ship. Two points, not that distant (say 20 parsecs) but separated by space hazard that usually involves a long detour (say 30 parsecs). With a ship that's fast and nimble enough you can cut corners and take a more direct route of only 23 parsecs. (I realise they just used the word parsec because it sounded cool at the time)

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Steve Barnett 3 years ago

Sorry, not so much a plot hole but an obvious presumption; in Blade Runner Deckard is clearly a replicant, because why else would the police department send out an actual person to apprehend dangerous replicants, when they can just send out another replicant to do that dangerous job instead?

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Teucer T 3 years ago

Like moat people who watched the movie and didn't read the (short) book, you missed a LOT of what was going on in the movie. For example, remember that TV show in the background that kept going, "I'll buy that for a dollar!"? That was the movie version of the "empathy device" every human left on earth (and they were left because of genetic defects) had to use on a daily basis to avoid going insane in the relatively empty cities. "Replicants" were unable to access the empathy device, which is why they couldn't pass the "empathy tests". Some could fake it and come close, but they couldn't pass it. Deckard wasn't a replicant, but he was well on his way to insanity before the case... And, remember, it is all from his point of view.

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Andrew Coe 3 years ago

Did you even conceive of the beginning of the idea of a concept of a hope of giving a f**k when writing this article? Several items are repeated, and most of the plot holes you reference do not get explained in the movie, you’re just shoveling out fairly well reason speculation. The fecal matter swirling in my toilet bowl each day gives more of a s**t about telling a coherent narrative than this article.

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Wendillon 3 years ago

Another case of "I didn't like the post so clearly it has no value to anyone since my opinion is the only one that matters" I see.

2points

SirPatTheCat 3 years ago

Sometimes I help write scripts for my theater group's productions and it's so annoying when people obsess over small details like some of these lmao. Just stop thinking so hard and enjoy this plot we've laid out so nicely for your brain to absorb xDD

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Pusheen 3 years ago

Hi! Just wanted to let you know being someone who has acted in multiple plays, there's nothing more annoying to me than acting out a scene with a plot hole in it. I'm not saying everyone feels this way, but I do.

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Joanna Stasiołek 3 years ago

Quite a few of the questions did repeat, like one about Darth Vader not sensing his children and time turner in Harry Potter

20points

J Baker 3 years ago

5points

Alex Metslov 3 years ago

0points

Luisa Vasconcelos 3 years ago

Very nice and interesting.

4points

Wandaluzt 3 years ago

Lazy copy paste Reddit rip article that hasn't even been checked for duplicates. It's not that hard to do.

1point

Sista of the moon 3 years ago

W***y. Lol why is that censored???

1point

StPaul9 6 months ago

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Matthew Braim 3 years ago

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Tobias the Tiger 3 years ago

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jk nbt 3 years ago

"it made the Kessle run in 23 parsecs".... they had to work hard to explain this one since parsecs are angular distance units

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Jon S. 3 years ago (edited)

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Steve Barnett 3 years ago

0points

Teucer T 3 years ago

1point

Andrew Coe 3 years ago

-3points

Wendillon 3 years ago

Another case of "I didn't like the post so clearly it has no value to anyone since my opinion is the only one that matters" I see.

2points

SirPatTheCat 3 years ago

-3points

Pusheen 3 years ago

5points