Tropescilloscope: Plot Hole

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

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