Tropescilloscope: Plot Hole

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

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