Tropescilloscope: Plot Hole

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

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