History Main / PlotHole

* [[AdaptationInducedPlotHole While adapting a story to a new medium]], the adaption team made a wrong assumption about a future plot point, and added a detail which was later contradicted by the creator of the source material (Compare OvertookTheManga). ANother one is [AdaptationExplanationExtrication removal of the explanation for a plot element]] without which the plot element doesn't make sense.

* [[AdaptationInducedPlotHole While adapting a story to a new medium]], the adaption team made a wrong assumption about a future plot point, and added a detail which was later contradicted by the creator of the source material (Compare OvertookTheManga).
** Or, they [[AdaptationExplanationExtrication removed the explanation for a plot element]], without which the plot element doesn't make sense.

** I do remember reading somewhere, that the T-1000 was coated in a microscopic layer of organic tissue that disintegrated on re-entry. So that's a possible Handwave I guess, though a little far out.

Can overlap with {{Retcon}} and ContinuitySnarl.

* In The Dark Knight, the mob is somehow able to hire the Joker despite being under arrest. Also, Harvey Dent willingly gets in a car driven by a cop he believes to be corrupt. Rachel forgets about Bruce saving her life several times and attacks him for not being heroic.
** In ''BatmanBegins'', the BigBad's plot is to disperse a fear drug by lacing the water supply with it and turning all of it to steam at once with a stolen MacGuffin. Notwithstanding the large amount of water present in every human body (which would boil everyone alive), how come nobody noticed this drug before when they took a hot shower or boiled water while cooking?

** Before Christopher can put his plan into action, van de Merve knocks him unconscious and steals the ship. We don't really know what Plan A was other than in vague terms.

** [=TFwiki=] appears to imply the opposite - that it was intended as a sequel to Armada/Energon but that the Japanese broadcasters decided to market it as a reboot. Although thus was also later {{retcon}}ned away and it's now part of the Unicron Trilogy in Japan...

*** Santa's magic make you think you bought those things. It also makes you pay for them. Magic!

* In the ''TinyToons'' MadeForTVMovie ''How I Spent My Summer Vacation'', Buster and Babs return to Acme Acres via a literal "plot hole." Lampshaded again in a travel episode, where a set of luggage is devoured by Dizzy Devil, but reappears later. Babs pronounces it to be "A plot hole big enough to drive a Mack truck through!" While falling through the plot hole in the movie, Babs says "I had been wondering how those hack writers were going to wrap this up."

* ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
** The episode "Yesterday's Enterprise" has the Enterprise-C time-jump to an alternate "present", where the Federation and Klingon Empires have been at constant war for decades. It turns out that the Enterprise-C saved a Klingon outpost from a Romulan attack, thus opening the way for peace talks between the two governments. ''Star Trek VI'', which came out the next year, shows that the groundwork for Klingon-Federation peace came about during Kirk's time as a result of the disaster on Praxis. It's not unreasonable to suppose that diplomatic relations may have deteriorated somewhat in the fifty years between ''Star Trek VI'' and the loss of the Enterprise-C.

** And Skynet was explicitly said to have been "built by Cyberdyne for Sagnoriad [sp?] systems". The Skynet of T3 was built by a different company altogether because Cyberdyne was destroyed in T2. Really, there are more such plot holes in T3 than it would be practical to list in their entirety here. The general attitude of the film seemed to be, "Fuck the earlier films and fuck continuity."

* In ''ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' episode "Otter Gone Wild," Marlene the otter (who has gone wild) is captured by a giant cage falling out of nowhere. King Julien asks "Uh... where did that cage come from?" Kowalski replies, "Sorry, that's classified information."
* In one episode of "Ed Edd N Eddy" (Knock Knock, Who's Ed) the three are searching the cul-de-sac for a television to watch a monster movie on after Sarah kicks them out of Ed's place, at one point double D asks why they don't watch it at his own or eddy's house eddy replies with "what and ruin the plot?"

** In the series finale, the [[CoolStarship Odyssey]] has been upgraded with [[TheGreys Asgard]] weapons and other technology [[spoiler:since the Asgard just committed mass suicide]]. The Ori are tracking them using the energy signature it gives off. They then use a [[spoiler:time dilation field]] to hide out for 70 years or so and avoid the final destructive attack. Why not just recharge their shields and destroy the Ori ship?

* ''CodeGeass''' first season has some, mixed with FridgeLogic most of the time. As an example: It's never explained how did C.C., Euphie and Kallen get to the desert island where Zero and Suzaku are after Zero uses his Geass to [[spoiler:tell Suzaku to ''live'', making him flee from the {{BFG}} strike]], or why did Zero and Suzaku even got there, or why are them all separated.