Tropescilloscope: Plot Hole

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

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