Tropescilloscope: Plot Hole

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

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