Basic Trope: A Plot Hole is filled with one bigger than the original.
- Straight: Bob suddenly develops magical powers, despite the fact that magic was never indicated to exist in the story. Eventually, Bob's sudden magic abilities are revealed to be genetic, which makes no sense because no one in his family has ever indicated having magic powers.
- Exaggerated: Bob's sudden magical abilities are due to a literal Deal with the Devil one of his relatives made which then got passed down generations - even though the story does not feature gods in any way and the relative in question would never have done such a deal.
- Downplayed: While the new explanation isn't completely logical, it at least makes more sense than the original. Bob, for instance, may have initially been said to have gained his powers as the result of selling his soul even though he'd never do that, and it's later Retconned into a genetic trait. While it does raise the question of why his relatives don't have powers, it at least makes more sense than Bob selling his soul.
- Justified:
- The plot itself runs on nonsensoleum, so the explanation shouldn't need to make sense.
- The person doing the exposition does not actually have all the info needed available, meaning there are gaps that could be filled by other characters but never are.
- Inverted: There is already a somewhat logical explanation for Bob's sudden magical abilities, and a later reveal makes it even more plausible.
- Subverted: Bob's sudden magic abilities are revealed to be genetic, which makes no sense because no one in his family has ever indicated having magic powers - but as it turns out, they were just hiding it the whole time, and there is a valid explanation for why his family hid their magic abilities until now.
- Double Subverted: ... Still, Bob should have noticed something was off, and while his family may have had their reasons to hide it, what about that scene last season where they could have prevented someone's death by using their magic discreetly?
- Parodied:
- There was never a plot hole in the first place, yet the author gives an alternate explanation for what happened which is completely illogical.
- An actual voodoo-practicing shark constantly invokes Deus Ex Machinas to solve any problem, even the more mundane ones.
- Zig Zagged:
- There is Negative Continuity on why Bob suddenly developed powers. Some of the suggested reasons make sense, while others don't.
- (Following Double Subverted) His family couldn't. But Bob can. Because he has a recessive trait to be able to. A moment later, his parents are revealed to have no recessive alleles for the ability to use their magic discreetly. The narrator was lying to confuse the audience. But earlier, he was portrayed as a Nice Guy who never tries to confuse the audience. It was a façade. He then is shown to hate them by cringing when a character he knows is evil pretends to be a nice guy. It's a case of Moral Myopia. He then lampshades a character being a Anti-Hero, despite the fact that he hates lampshades. It was because he couldn't fight the urge to do it. But he is known to be good at resisting urges. That particular urge was way stronger than any other urge he encountered. But it is then revealed that he once successfully resisted a urge that was 2 times as strong as that urge. He gradually got worse at resisting urges, due to it being uncomfortable. But the urge before the lampshading one was 3 times as strong as that, and it felt good. He was temporarily brainwashed to resist urges and to follow Alice's orders, by her. But Alice is an Ideal Hero! How could she turn him into a slave?! She was pretending to be an Ideal Hero, and is actually a extremely evil villain. But she once saved the planet from a meteorite shower. She only wanted to live, and didn't care about the planet's denizens. But she has a father whom she loves very much. Then why did she frequently try to [[Patricide kill him]]? Because she is actually a Well Intentioned Extremist, and didn't want to sadden him with the brutal ways she tries to help the environment. But she never tries to help it, instead, putting tons of gasoline in lakes. But didn't she want to live? She is getting water from the lake to drink! She goes to a different place to get the water, but it's actually lava. She survives drinking the lava. She has a trait that allows her to survive drinking lava. A moment later, her parents are revealed to have no alleles necessary for the ability to survive drinking lava. She modified her genes in a lab to survive drinking lava. Despite the fact that she hates GMOs. She did it as a one-time occurrence. She promised herself to never modify her genes, and showed no indication to break the promise. She broke that because she didn't plan to modify her genes to survive drinking lava. It is then revealed that she told her father about her plans to modify her genes to survive drinking lava. It turns out he never existed. The experiences she had with him still happened. He was a hallucination. She still touched him once. She was on drugs. She hates drugs. She stopped hating drugs once her friends pressured her to take them. But they are all nice guys and girls who are very anti-drug. That was a façade. They get mad when they see some crack and throw temper tantrums for the rest of their lives. Then how come they aren't throwing them, since they saw some crack? They were lying. How come they are throwing them? Men exist. How come there are men in the friend group? The "men" are actually apples. How is no-one eating them? They aren't actually apples. Then how come they are throwing tantrums about men existing if there are men in the friend group? The "men" are actually men. They are still men. How come the friends aren't throwing tantrums about men being in the group? They are revealed to be actually throwing bananas. That is revealed to be false. Why are they not throwing tantrums about men being in their group? They steam a good ham. They hate good hams. How come they are eating them? They have Xboxes. How come their parents say they have no Xboxes? They were lying. Why would they lie? Their names are Aqq. Then how come one of Alice's friend Fake's mom's name is Yay? That name was a hallucination. That is revealed to be false. Why is Fake's mom's name Yay, if all of the friends' parents' names are Aqq? Their names being Aqq were actually a hoax by Bob. Bob is revealed to never tell lies, though. He once lied that the sky is green. The sky is actually green. Then how come it's blue? It's an apple. Then how come it's an apple if it's not an apple? People eat it. It tastes awful. Apples taste awful. Then how come they taste good? They taste like good hams. Good hams taste really bad. Good hams are actually not hams. That is revealed to be false. Why do good hams taste bad? That was revealed to be a hallucination suffered by Alice. Alice is revealed to not have had a hallucination in her life ever.
- Averted: The explanation provided makes perfect sense, even if it's a Hand Wave.
- Enforced: The creators wanted to make their story funnier and/or more of a Mind Screw, so they added intentional leaps of logic to the story.
- Lampshaded: "That just bring up more questions!"
- Invoked: Bob is an Unreliable Narrator who thinks up wild theories about things he does not fully understand. For instance, it is never explicitly stated his family could perform magic, but he assumes they can, so he tells the audience this theory first.
- Exploited: Bob's illogical justification baffles Emperor Evulz aswell, and now he doesn't know how Bob even works.
- Defied: The Hand Wave simply encourages to ignore the problem.
- Discussed: "Can I please explain this Plothole, even though I know about... solving problems?"
- Conversed: "They didn't fill in the plot hole; they dug it deeper!"
- Implied: A Plot Hole grows bigger after someone is implied to have tampered with it.
- Played for Laughs: It was made deliberately nonsensical for the sake of comedy.
- Played for Drama: Bob suffers from a personal crisis as long as he never gets to understand himself.
- Played for Horror: The unanswered questions are deliberately raised to make the audience nervous.
- Plotted a Perfectly Good Waste: It seems like the Inexplicably Awesome character is going to get the last thing such a character needs: an explanation. Thankfully, it ends up being designed to make them more inexplicable.
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