Tropescilloscope: Plot Hole

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

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