Tropescilloscope: Plot Hole

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More Tropes Agony of the Feet Serial Killer Token Minority Green-Eyed Monster Downer Ending Fingore Gilligan Cut Alpha Bitch Up to Eleven Historical In-Joke Red Herring Public Domain Feature Films As Long as It Sounds Foreign Actor Allusion Let's Get Dangerous! Based on a True Story Bullying a Dragon Martial Arts Movie Red Shirt Small Name, Big Ego Show Within a Show Action Genre Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Flashback Lampshade Hanging Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Worthy Opponent Fake Shemp Pay Evil unto Evil Deliberately Monochrome Fantasy Films Bond One-Liner Stealth Hi/Bye It's All About Me Bad "Bad Acting" Parental Substitute Villain Ball Made of Explodium The Dog Bites Back Black Comedy Humiliation Conga It Will Never Catch On Captain Ersatz Distracted by the Sexy Hidden Depths 20 Minutes into the Future Nice Guy Heroic Sacrifice Happily Married Room Full of Crazy Death Glare Psycho for Hire Villainous Breakdown Mexican Standoff Ax-Crazy The '80s Parental Incest Dirty Coward Here We Go Again! The Reveal Greater-Scope Villain Well-Intentioned Extremist Adaptation Distillation Arc Words Slap-Slap-Kiss Blood from the Mouth Disney Death Bald of Evil Getting Crap Past the Radar Moment Killer The '50s Does Not Like Shoes As Himself Ominous Latin Chanting Retirony Rule of Cool Accidental Misnaming Animal Motifs Eiffel Tower Effect Bittersweet Ending Adaptational Heroism Naked People Are Funny Stealth Pun Soundtrack Dissonance Sir Swears-a-Lot Real Life Killed Mid-Sentence The Bad Guy Wins Chiaroscuro Would Hit a Girl More Dakka Tagline Double Entendre Improvised Weapon Fanservice Outrun the Fireball Woman Scorned Action Girl Christmas Movies Index Author Avatar Hong Kong Films Funny Background Event Horror Comedy Cool Shades The Ghost Rich Bitch The Chessmaster Genre Savvy Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Only a Flesh Wound It's Personal There Is No Kill Like Overkill Dumb Blonde Creative Closing Credits Those Wacky Nazis Central Theme Undying Loyalty Posthumous Character Corpsing Random Events Plot The Casanova Super Strength Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Video Credits Red Eyes, Take Warning Psychological Thriller Daylight Horror Even Evil Has Loved Ones Put on a Bus Babies Ever After Military and Warfare Films Romantic Comedy Determinator aka: The Determinator Historical Villain Upgrade Big-Bad Ensemble Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Interrupted Suicide She's Got Legs Expy Cool Old Lady Bare Your Midriff Awesome, but Impractical Horror Films Brother–Sister Incest Reality Is Unrealistic Thriller Everyone Has Standards Unspoken Plan Guarantee Italian Films Kick the Son of a Bitch Brutal Honesty Would Hurt a Child Bloodless Carnage Ambiguous Disorder Bring My Brown Pants Facial Horror Smoking Is Cool Knife Nut Daddy's Girl Only in It for the Money Brick Joke Drives Like Crazy Early-Bird Cameo Corrupt Corporate Executive Back from the Dead Suddenly SHOUTING! Kids Are Cruel Comically Missing the Point Fan Disservice Faking the Dead Precision F-Strike Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Deliberate Values Dissonance Dual Wielding folderlabel The Dreaded Not So Different The Starscream Funny Foreigner Deconstruction Grievous Bottley Harm Crapsack World Race Lift Hooker with a Heart of Gold Death by Sex Death by Irony Early Installment Weirdness Works Set in World War II Film Noir Index Creepy Child Tap on the Head Slasher Smile Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Ambiguously Gay Driven to Suicide Jerk with a Heart of Gold Spell My Name with an "S" Did Not Get the Girl Mind Screw Guns Akimbo Your Cheating Heart Aside Glance My God, What Have I Done? Five-Man Band Self-Deprecation Asshole Victim Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Jitter Cam Whole Plot Reference Disappeared Dad Cruel and Unusual Death Adults Are Useless Drill Sergeant Nasty Karma Houdini Soft Glass Film Series Adaptational Attractiveness No Antagonist Poor Communication Kills Cool Old Guy Henpecked Husband The '60s Laser-Guided Karma Attempted Rape "Well Done, Son!" Guy Naïve Newcomer Male Gaze Names to Run Away from Really Fast Translation Convention Black Dude Dies First Red Right Hand And I Must Scream True Companions Chekhov's Gun Sadistic Choice Evil Laugh Married to the Job Big "NO!" Action Prologue Stylistic Suck Actually Pretty Funny Cool Car Contrived Coincidence Becoming the Mask Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Canon Foreigner Eyepatch of Power Match Cut Peek-a-Boo Corpse Villain Opening Scene Needs Wiki Magic Love The End... Or Is It? Shoot the Shaggy Dog The X of Y Trailers Always Spoil Action Survivor Informed Ability Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Imagine Spot Shut Up, Hannibal! Reality Has No Subtitles Chase Scene Left the Background Music On Recycled IN SPACE! Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Artistic License – History Hollywood Darkness Abhorrent Admirer Eye Scream For the Evulz Darker and Edgier Defiant to the End Woman in White Narrator Demonic Possession Car Fu Advertised Extra The Quiet One Retired Badass Bury Your Gays Fate Worse than Death What the Hell, Hero? I Did What I Had to Do Properly Paranoid The Mafia Maybe Ever After Rule of Three Dull Surprise O.O.C. Is Serious Business Laughing Mad Foil Beard of Evil Body Horror Gold Digger Those Two Guys Male Frontal Nudity Anguished Declaration of Love Darkest Hour Break the Cutie Curb-Stomp Battle Final Girl Artistic License – Physics Wounded Gazelle Gambit Documentary I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Spanner in the Works Reckless Gun Usage Not Using the "Z" Word Air-Vent Passageway Missing Mom The Stoner Reasonable Authority Figure Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Wicked Cultured Brainless Beauty Wham Line Rated M for Manly Card-Carrying Villain Depraved Bisexual Large Ham Epic Movie Combat Pragmatist Foreshadowing Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Annoying Younger Sibling Unresolved Sexual Tension Intrepid Reporter Foregone Conclusion Biopic Evil Is Petty Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Diabolus ex Machina Cat Scare Nice Hat Breaking the Fourth Wall Eldritch Abomination Romantic False Lead After the End Jump Scare Arranged Marriage Dramatic Gun Cock Smug Snake Real Life Writes the Plot Vomit Indiscretion Shot Sealed Evil in a Can Character Development Bottomless Magazines Punny Name Catapult Nightmare Jerk Jock Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Mugging the Monster Monumental Damage Race Against the Clock And the Adventure Continues A Date with Rosie Palms Accidental Murder He Knows Too Much Mundane Made Awesome Alliterative Name Men Are the Expendable Gender Our Zombies Are Different Unusually Uninteresting Sight Domestic Abuse Pyrrhic Victory Australian Movies Affably Evil Gender Flip Ascended Extra Double-Meaning Title Bound and Gagged Irony Expository Hairstyle Change The Alcoholic Implacable Man Meet Cute Neck Snap Dirty Old Man Rewatch Bonus Big Applesauce Improbable Aiming Skills Bond Villain Stupidity Offscreen Teleportation Badass Normal Four-Temperament Ensemble The Musical As the Good Book Says... Man on Fire Word of God Star-Crossed Lovers Big Fancy House Bilingual Bonus Very Loosely Based on a True Story Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Hell Is That Noise Toplessness from the Back Scary Black Man Never Trust a Trailer In Medias Res Knight Templar Obfuscating Stupidity Badass Grandpa Index of Film Westerns Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Award-Bait Song Revenge Ungrateful Bastard Music Stories Amusing Injuries Sanity Slippage Not So Above It All Lighter and Softer Genre Throwback Failed a Spot Check Damsel in Distress Fish out of Water Morality Pet Older Than They Look Take a Third Option Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Pragmatic Villainy Shower Scene Riddle for the Ages Deal with the Devil Evil vs. Evil Gratuitous English Cowboy Cop Dark and Troubled Past Historical Hero Upgrade Developing Doomed Characters Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane The Brute Disproportionate Retribution Protagonist Title Children Are Innocent Frame-Up Dutch Angle Never Found the Body Pimped-Out Dress Deadpan Snarker The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Insistent Terminology Batman Gambit I Want My Beloved to Be Happy The Cameo Cluster F-Bomb Butt-Monkey Leave the Camera Running Leaning on the Fourth Wall Abusive Parents Ironic Echo Hope Spot Big Bad Plucky Comic Relief My Beloved Smother Rousing Speech Obviously Evil Unreliable Narrator Cain and Abel From Bad to Worse Artistic License – Geography Drowning My Sorrows Femme Fatale The Oner Setting Update Impaled with Extreme Prejudice The Bully Authority Equals Asskicking Sacrificial Lion Sequel Hook Half the Man He Used to Be Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Fatal Family Photo Ass Shove I Have Your Wife Call-Forward Blackmail Humans Are Bastards "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Conspicuous CG MacGuffin Face–Heel Turn Pet the Dog N-Word Privileges Defrosting Ice Queen Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience I Need a Freaking Drink Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique What You Are in the Dark Only Known by Their Nickname The Ditz Bait-and-Switch Bunny-Ears Lawyer Superhero Villain with Good Publicity The Chick Death by Adaptation Hero of Another Story Artistic License – Military All Girls Want Bad Boys Serious Business Shipper on Deck Fat Bastard Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas British Films Fire-Forged Friends Shirtless Scene Bloodier and Gorier A Minor Kidroduction Determinator The Cavalry Mystery and Detective Films One-Man Army Only Sane Man Catch-Phrase You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Scenery Gorn The Great Depression Not What It Looks Like Meaningful Background Event Curse Cut Short Vacation Films Fourth Date Marriage This Is Gonna Suck No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Bland-Name Product Not Even Bothering with the Accent Title Drop Those Two Bad Guys Only One Name Composite Character Coming-of-Age Story Bolivian Army Ending War Is Hell Author Appeal Police are Useless Homage Cold-Blooded Torture Big Eater Not So Stoic The Lancer Vitriolic Best Buds An Axe to Grind The Lost Lenore Establishing Character Moment Hypocritical Humor The Sociopath Broken Aesop Spiteful Spit All There in the Script Dark Is Not Evil Police Brutality The Vamp Hate Sink May–December Romance Camera Abuse Black Comedy Rape Amoral Attorney Really Gets Around Psychopathic Manchild Evil Counterpart Calling the Old Man Out Non-Indicative Name Truth in Television Belligerent Sexual Tension Department of Redundancy Department Vampire Fiction Jerkass Has a Point Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Obstructive Bureaucrat Nothing Is Scarier Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Your Head A-Splode Dying Moment of Awesome Rule of Funny The Power of Love Sequel Escalation Sassy Black Woman Chekhov's Skill Anti-Villain Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Mood Whiplash The Stoic Politically Incorrect Villain For Want of a Nail Gory Discretion Shot Even Evil Has Standards The Dragon The Place Malevolent Masked Men Victoria's Secret Compartment Last-Name Basis No-Sell The Alleged Car The Mole No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Auto Erotica Villain Song Evil-Detecting Dog Genre Shift Manipulative Bastard Blatant Lies The Load Fiery Redhead Neck Lift Mistaken for Gay Death Seeker Rape as Drama Evil Is Hammy Red Oni, Blue Oni Say My Name Wrong Genre Savvy Kill 'em All Plot Hole Redemption Equals Death Artistic License – Gun Safety Redshirt Army Light Is Not Good Took a Level in Badass Badass Boast Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" All for Nothing Continuity Nod Immune to Bullets Never My Fault Guile Hero Evil Brit Adaptation Expansion Almost Kiss Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Rule of Symbolism Intergenerational Friendship The Hero Dies Adaptation Dye-Job The Voiceless Storming the Castle Yandere Honor Before Reason Empathic Environment "Shaggy Dog" Story Market-Based Title Meaningful Echo You Have Failed Me Running Gag Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Twist Ending Ghost Fiction Stock Footage You Killed My Father All Men Are Perverts Dressing as the Enemy Overprotective Dad Alas, Poor Villain Logo Joke A.I. Is a Crapshoot Epic Fail Does This Remind You of Anything? Take That! Stuff Blowing Up One-Word Title Jerkass Fanservice Extra Celebrity Paradox Stalker with a Crush Big Damn Heroes Evil Sounds Deep Friend to All Children German Films Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Book-Ends Throwing Your Sword Always Works What Happened to the Mouse? Anti-Hero Disney Villain Death He Who Fights Monsters Took a Level in Jerkass Spiritual Successor Loads and Loads of Characters Heterosexual Life-Partners Big Bad Duumvirate Dissonant Serenity Face Death with Dignity Adaptation Name Change Animal Title Index No Celebrities Were Harmed The Hero Chekhov's Gunman Madness Mantra Badass in a Nice Suit Destination Defenestration Paper-Thin Disguise Not Quite Dead Handicapped Badass Exact Words Broken Pedestal Pretty Little Headshots Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome As You Know Motor Mouth Kill It with Fire My Greatest Failure La Résistance Betty and Veronica Fun with Acronyms Cool Guns Big Brother Instinct In Name Only Television Movie Index Armor-Piercing Question Decoy Protagonist Stepford Smiler Hollywood Law Hoist by His Own Petard Manchild Novelization The Atoner Death of a Child Gorn Beauty Is Never Tarnished Sinister Minister Blood Knight Wretched Hive Artistic License – Biology NO INDOOR VOICE Dwindling Party Pretty in Mink Dark Action Girl Mooks Beta Couple No Ending Dramatic Irony Adult Fear And Starring Training Montage Kubrick Stare Broken Bird Parental Neglect Totally Radical Age Lift Cloudcuckoolander Together in Death The Smart Guy Due to the Dead Unusual Euphemism Vomit Discretion Shot Adaptational Villainy Improbable Weapon User Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Badass Longcoat Silence Is Golden Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Suspiciously Similar Substitute Mr. Exposition Call-Back Evil Plan Wham Shot Fainting Science Fiction Films Hero Antagonist "Awesome McCool" Name Covers Always Lie Scare Chord Groin Attack The Ace '80s Hair Pragmatic Adaptation All Just a Dream Berserk Button Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Didn't Think This Through No Name Given Be Careful What You Wish For An Arm and a Leg Made of Iron Ms. Fanservice Grey and Gray Morality Bi the Way Crazy-Prepared The '90s Black and Gray Morality Karmic Death Animated Credits Opening All There in the Manual Once More, with Clarity! B-Movie Time Skip BFG A Father to His Men Better to Die than Be Killed Eureka Moment Arch-Enemy Dramedy Get Out! Sexy Discretion Shot Tranquil Fury Captain Obvious Ripped from the Headlines One Steve Limit Insane Troll Logic Sole Survivor In the Back Costume Porn Every Car Is a Pinto Freeze-Frame Bonus French Films Our Vampires Are Different Exactly What It Says on the Tin "The Reason You Suck" Speech Shout-Out Framing Device Line-of-Sight Name Shown Their Work Black Best Friend World of Ham The '70s Dirty Cop Sci-Fi Horror From Nobody to Nightmare Insult Backfire Offscreen Moment of Awesome Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Heroic BSoD Unwitting Instigator of Doom Crucified Hero Shot Film Noir Taking the Bullet Eagleland The Stinger Silent Movie Tempting Fate Manly Tears Leitmotif Enemy Mine Camp Gay Cat Fight Credits Gag Loophole Abuse The Film of the Book Anachronic Order Same Language Dub How We Got Here Heel–Face Turn Bowdlerise Bar Brawl Japanese Films Aluminum Christmas Trees Noodle Incident Retcon Instant Death Bullet Bavarian Fire Drill Dies Wide Open Product Placement timeperiod She Cleans Up Nicely Adaptational Badass Ship Tease Heel Realization Country Matters The Smurfette Principle Boom, Headshot! Chewing the Scenery Ambiguous Ending Russian Films No OSHA Compliance Sports Stories Good Is Not Nice Slasher Movie Deus ex Machina Overly Long Gag Pre-Mortem One-Liner Parental Abandonment Dropped a Bridge on Him The Un-Reveal Mythology Gag Danny Peary Cult Movies List Spared by the Adaptation Canadian Movies Heroes Want Redheads Make It Look Like an Accident Creator Cameo Love Triangle Despair Event Horizon Important Haircut Idiot Ball Papa Wolf Gone Horribly Right Faux Affably Evil A God Am I Dogged Nice Guy Dark Reprise Off with His Head! Mad Scientist Mercy Kill An Aesop Meaningful Name Cassandra Truth Demoted to Extra Lock and Load Montage Bloody Hilarious Famous Last Words Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Extremely Short Timespan The Big Guy Adapted Out Straight Gay Roaring Rampage of Revenge Adorkable Badass Bookworm Crazy Jealous Guy Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Hair-Trigger Temper The Faceless The Remake Artistic License – Law Love at First Sight Affectionate Parody Oh, Crap! Bad Boss Fatal Flaw Drugs Are Bad Mighty Whitey It Can Think Easily Forgiven Too Dumb to Live Suspiciously Specific Denial Punch-Clock Villain Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Freudian Excuse Closed Circle Refuge in Audacity Re-Cut Major Injury Underreaction Scenery Porn Antagonist Title Break the Haughty Beware the Nice Ones Visual Pun Skewed Priorities Off-into-the-Distance Ending Fantastic Racism Villain Protagonist Disguised in Drag Zombie Stories Anyone Can Die Mama Bear Playing Gertrude Kick the Dog Anachronism Stew Extreme Doormat Slashed Throat Apocalypse How Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Hypocrite Casting Gag I'm a Humanitarian Historical-Domain Character Have a Gay Old Time Gainax Ending Shell-Shocked Veteran Mr. Fanservice Rasputinian Death Manic Pixie Dream Girl Reality Ensues Flipping the Bird Taking You with Me Earn Your Happy Ending