Plot holes in games and films (potential spoilers)

[SomeBritishDude]

How long did it take for the Ents to get together to council?

How long did it take for them to arrive when treebeard summoned them to war?

Ents can actually move very fast when needed.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, book and movie. It was just one huge plot hole, even reading it as a kid I was just left thinking wtf!?

[spoiler/]why didn't the fake Mad Eye Moody (Barty Croach junior) just put the port key spell on Harry's shoes or his broom stick or something. It wouldn't have been hard to do. A hell of a lot easier than getting Harry though 3 huge mother fucking tests so he could touch the cup at the end. The port key spell could be cast on anything, we saw that at the beginning with the wellington boot and the old tire and so on that got everyone to the Quidich world cup. What the Hell!? [/spoiler]

I do believe (but don't quote me on this) that the potion that Voldemort needed to return to life took that year to locate/prepare/create. So the Fake Moody stalled up until the end of the year and then sent him to the graveyard.

It still doesn't make sense to put him though the tournament. What if he's been killed or he hadn't won? That'd be the whole plan down the toilet. It would have been a lot safer to just wait until the time i right, then send Harry on his way with an everyday portkey.

I'm a big Potter nut, but both Goblet and Hallows have huge plot holes.

 

[Hyper-space]

WoW.

Dah fuck did Illidan survive at the end of Wc3?

I think Blizzard said anything that happens in WoW is pretty much out of canon. They're killing off major characters left and right, but it's not going to have an impact on the continuation of the Warcraft lore.

dunno, i read somewhere that the reason why blizzard is not gonna make WC4 is because that all lore-progression would take place in WoW, therefore making it canon.

 

[thehoff]

well, of course, How could a virus mutate its means of transference that quickly in Resident Evil?
Actually, pretty much any Zombie movie:How the FRICK is a zombie reanimated when the human body stops working for a good f*cking reason when you die.
Then the obvious LOTR one, why don't they ride the eagles to mordor?
Spaceballs, and every other spoof movie, 'nuf said

I always wondered that about LOTR, could it be because the eagles couldn't get close to the eye tower or something because it was too evil? Then when the tower was destroyed they could fly in.

 

[Dapper Ninja]

Twilight is a bit plot hole.

I'm going to assume you meant "big plot hole" and elaborate. Somebody is clearly stalking me? There's clearly no reason to creeped out by that person. He's also a vampire? Yay! He plainly admitted that he had to try really hard not to kill me? Aww, how romantic! I could go on.

any episode at random from Heroes season 3 will be chalk full of plot holes (can't think of any off the top of my head though)

How about this? The Company has a prison where they keep people with dangerous abilities. This prison is divided into five levels, with the danger increasing with each level.

On level two, they put an unstable psychopath who has killed numerous people. He has the ability to saw off people's heads with his mind and then gain their abilities by removing their brains and eating looking at them. Some powers he has include telekinesis and killing people by touching and freezing them.

On level five, we have some guy with super strength that only works when people are afraid of him, someone that can use magnetism in ways that don't seem to go beyond closing a car door without directly touching it, a fat pervert with a different crappier form of telekinesis (controlling people like puppets), and an idiot who can burn things. All clearly much more dangerous than that first one. The fact that when most of them gang up on the first one, he easily kills them all does not in any way prove otherwise.

 

[MsDevin92]

A relatively minor plot in Psychonauts...

If you need the Telekinesis badge to use telekinesis in the game, why can you already use it to dig up arrowheads at the start?

 

[BladesofReason]

yeah... i'm kind of aware of all of that >.>

Sorry, most of that was aimed at other people who didn't seem to know quite what happened to him. The only part I guess was sort of for you was that Illidan does die in WoW... again, sorry about that

 

[Spudgun Man]

Well in Fallout 3, when your dad dies, why does the Colonel live?

If you notice he stabs himself with something meaning that the enclave made some type of Uber Rad away.

 

[rekabdarb]

yeah... i'm kind of aware of all of that >.>

Sorry, most of that was aimed at other people who didn't seem to know quite what happened to him. The only part I guess was sort of for you was that Illidan does die in WoW... again, sorry about that

oh yeah np, its just i get a huge quote citing the entire history of Illidan, and i'm just sitting there reading it like um... i know this crap

 

[Sixties Spidey]

The Entire Prequel trilogy of Star Wars. Such a shitty series of movies, and it failed to cover any of the plot holes very well, just creating more plot holes in the process.

 

[KayOss_92]

In the Prince of Theives, after Robin makes his speech we see a montage of the villagers make weapons out of whats around them. How can they make the points of their arrows by just melting a pot of metal? The only metal that even melts at the same temperature as a flame is Iridium and I doubt Nottingham would have even of it or that it would even be very useful as a weapon.

um i think you might be reading a bit too much into that one....

 

[Siris]

I don't think you can deck Fallout 3, since the story changed on how you act through out the game.

The Bible is full or plot holes

 

[Sarcastic Chimp]

Twilight is a bit plot hole.

I'm going to assume you meant "big plot hole" and elaborate. Somebody is clearly stalking me? There's clearly no reason to creeped out by that person. He's also a vampire? Yay! He plainly admitted that he had to try really hard not to kill me? Aww, how romantic! I could go on.

any episode at random from Heroes season 3 will be chalk full of plot holes (can't think of any off the top of my head though)

How about this? The Company has a prison where they keep people with dangerous abilities. This prison is divided into five levels, with the danger increasing with each level.

On level two, they put an unstable psychopath who has killed numerous people. He has the ability to saw off people's heads with his mind and then gain their abilities by removing their brains and eating looking at them. Some powers he has include telekinesis and killing people by touching and freezing them.

On level five, we have some guy with super strength that only works when people are afraid of him, someone that can use magnetism in ways that don't seem to go beyond closing a car door without directly touching it, a fat pervert with a different crappier form of telekinesis (controlling people like puppets), and an idiot who can burn things. All clearly much more dangerous than that first one. The fact that when most of them gang up on the first one, he easily kills them all does not in any way prove otherwise.

That does seem like a MASSIVE plot hole now I think about it.
Bennet: "The Level 5 criminals are robbing a bank, they are the most dangerous of the lot. I know, we'll get a guy that A.) has a hunger to get other powers B.) couldn't be stoped by Peter and Nikki in the 1st season C.) survives getting shot AND stabbed throughout the seasons and D.) has tried to kill my daughter multiple times. That will work out perfectly!"

 

[videonerd250]

Oh and uhhh...plot holes...any episode at random from Heroes season 3 will be chalk full of plot holes (can't think of any off the top of my head though)

There's one at the end of an episode in season 3 where Bennett's looking down a rifle scope, ready to take out Syler & Elle, while their powers are gone.
Next episode, he walks in with a gun after they have "done the dirty".
How does that work?? Bennett got some kind of moral obligation not to shoot people in the middle of getting it on? Terrible.

Hahaha, you know you're the second person to suggest that on this thread. It must have left a huge WTF impression to all who watched it.

 

[Skizle]

Gears of War 1 & 2

1. what exactly did Marcus do to be in prison?
2. what exactly war the point of the lab level?
3. is the COG army a corporation or somthing?

i know theres others but i cant think of anymore

 

[sabotstarr]

Blasphemy. Heroes is amazing!!!! I'm joking though, it does have an irregular amount of those...

 

[CptRumGuy]

What are the biggesr plot holes you have encountered in any kind of entertainment medium? I would say one of the most confusing is the fact that Leia knew her mother and described her in return of the Jedi, despite the fact that Padme died at the end of Revenge of the Sith.

She isn't remembering her real mother, she's remembering Bail's wife.

I doubt she's remembering her foster mother, since Luke asks her, "Do you remember your mother, your REAL mother?"

 

[dragontiers]

I'm going to go ahead and bring this puppy back from the dead (at least for a minute or two). I just went and saw Night At The Museum 2 at the drive-in. Overall, it was an OK movie, but two items stuck in my craw, and a third bothered me, but I half explained it to myself. Here we go (roughly in order of appearance).

1)The tablet brings everything in the museums to life, even when brought into a completely different museum, on the same night as when it was already used. Also, anything previously brought to life by it stays alive with no regard to distance from the tablet. To me, it should be one or the other. Either it goes off once at every sunset, brings everything within the museum to life for a set period of time (till sunup), or it has a continuous area effect, where anything near it after dark is brought to life until the sun rises. I understand them doing both, but it just doesn't feel right to me.

2)The variable amount of pop-culture the things brought to life seem to know. I understood in the first movie some of the exhibits had picked up things, but they had been brought to life every night for years. Eventually they would pick up on a thing or two. In the second movie however, the Smithsonian exhibits are experiencing this for the first time. They haven't had time to pick up on things. Also, it's not consistent. The main villain, Khamen Ra (not sure on the spelling) shows absolutely no knowledge of any pop culture (rubix cube, Archie Bunker, Darth Vader all just pass over his head), meanwhile a trio of cupids from a fountain start singing modern R&B love songs whenever our hero runs by. Also, the Einstein bobble heads sing "That's The Way (Uh-Huh Uh-Huh) I Like It". Again, one or the other people.

3)This was the biggie. I was immediately pulled out of the movie when this came up. It's even more unforgivable, as it is a major plot point. Because of this, I'm forced to

Spoiler

There is a big puzzle they have to solve. First, they translate the hieroglyphics. Fine there. Then they have the riddle. "The answer is at the heart of the pyramids." Okay, sounds interesting. The solution? Pi. Wait, what? As far as I know, Pi has nothing to do with pyramids. Circles, yes. Spheres even. But pyramids? Maybe I'm just rusty on my math skills. I could believe that there is still some correlation. The next part though, is unforgivable. Einstein, yes Einstein, tells them Pi is 3.14159 "exactly". What? Huh? Excuse me? Pi is a non-repeating, non-terminating decimal. And to have Einstein deliver this news? I wanted to kill someone. I actually would have been fine if they had actually incorporated Pi into it. "Oh, the solution is Pi. Go ahead, spend all of eternity pushing little buttons on the tablet cause the solution is a never ending series of numbers. Ha ha, jokes on you." That would have actually been a great solution, in my opinion. But no, they cut it off at the 9, making a mockery of math. (Yes I know how silly it sounds. I watched a movie about a magic tablet that brings plastic people to life and I'm upset they got the math wrong. Still, I stand by my statement ).

 

[TriggerUnhappy]

In the Dark Knight, at the party where the Joker throws Rachel out of the window and Batman dives down to save her. After he does, it just cuts to another scene without resolving the whole party fiasco, leaving you wondering just what happened. Did the Joker just run away after throwing her out of the window, and if so why? Especially with all of those potential hostages to use against Batman, maybe it was explained in the movie, but I can't quite remember for I haven't seen it in a while.