Tropescilloscope: Plot Hole

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

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