Tropescilloscope: Plot Hole

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

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