Tropescilloscope: Plot Hole

The story contradicts itself by breaking a rule established earlier in the story. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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