Most obvious plot hole.

[jamescorck]

Citizen Kane.

Nobody was there to hear him saying his last words. The room was empty. How the hell did they know he said "Rosebud"?

 

[drbarno]

There's this really bad one in Yugioh 5ds where Yusei and co. face off against Team unicorn.

at the end of the duel Yusei has no cards left in his deck and it's the other guys turn. by ending, yusei would lose, but the guy goes and fucking attacks anyway, making him lose. and what makes it even worse is that they spent the last 2 episodes focusing on this exact method to beat him!

 

[jamescorck]

Mass Effect 2 (Spoliers):

I thought that the Reapers removed all evidence before they went back into dark space to make sure no one discovered their existence. Yet in Mass Effect 2 you visit a derelict Reaper just floating next to a planet that the other Reapers apparantly decided to leave there, that seems like a pretty big clue. Maybe the Reapers just don't to roll call before they go back through the relay.

The Reapers didn't leave that there, as The Reapers never do anything without a plan. They left it to lure any other alien species. The humans of Cerberus took it and placed their research lab inside it, not knowing that it was the Reapers who were applying behavioral tests in them. So no, the Reapers didn't left that there. They settled an undercover Reaper laboratory to investigate other alien species.

As for the planet that sucks the Reaper into oblivion that might be a self-destruct mecanism planted there to erase evidences of their existence in case somebody found the laboratory. After Shepard's visit it triggered and that's why there's no evidence left of the Reaper once you are done.

 

[mageroel]

Ha, pretty much the entire series of Dragonball, Why don't trunks and goten fuse and beat the crap out of everyone? Why don't they go along with Goku when he goes off to save the galaxy with Pan, the weakest character in the universe? Why is Pan alive? Why does Gohan, the coolest character ever fall to the wayside, while the brats fuse and save the world? etc. etc.

It's Dragon Ball. It's not supposed to make sense.
Remember how Yamcha, Tien, and Chaotsu were supposed to be the strongest fighters along with Goku? Remember how they are utterly gone now? Yeaah.

They're gone because they're not Sayans, and therefore cannot become as strong as Goku or other Sayans... is what I make of it at best. still, the story is weird..

 

[Something Amyss]

Ummm... Anakin Skywalker has neither a brother named Owen, not a sister named Beru. Nor even the the common sense to look in the phone book from his home planet ...for 18 years!

His connection to them is explained. Also, as far as he's concerned, his kids are dead. Why would he go back and say "Hi, is my son, a great and powerful Jedi, hanging around here?"

Spoiler

Why did jesus have to die? I'm not kidding you, it doesn't make the slightest bit of sense to me. He died for our sins, but couldn't God have just chosen to forgive us without, you know, having his son suffer an agonising death? I'm not even bible bashing. Please explain this because I've obviously missed something HUGE.

The Bible is chock full of plot holes. This one always annoyed me though, because people still argue it HAD to go down this way. No it didn't. He's God. He makes the rules.

 

[shadyh8er]

I love this movie to death, but this can't be ignored.

Watchmen.

How did the comedian learn about Veidt's plan? In the graphic novel the comedian sneaked onto an island with all the artists and stuff on it. What did he do in the movie to learn about it?

EDIT: In "I, Robot" one of the unbreakable rules that the robots must follow is that they can't let a human be harmed through action or inaction NO MATTER WHAT. But in a scene where Will Smith is fighting Sonny (the "bad" robot)in a crowd of robots, said robots just stand there.

 

[Lotet]

Avatar
1. Why didn't you orbital bomb those tree huggers
2. Just drop two tank on top of their main base
3. How they are able to sharpen the spears but they can go through bullet proof gas. I mean if you can sharpen them, so they can't be too hard... (my logic may be flawed, don't be ass holes when proving it)
4. Maybe I am just being a baby because the bad guys won.

My issue with that movie is that they spend all this time saying they are after a mineral then blow up the only thing stopping them from getting it yet they completely ignore it to try to wipe out the aliens for no better reason than assholeism.

Just posting because I'm addicted to TVTropes, but:

1: The Corp wasn't a military group, it was simply private contractors made mostly of ex-soldiers. I doubt that they had the ability to attempt orbital bombardment. After all, they seem fairly arrogant, and I doubt the Stockholders would be happy with them packing orbital bombardment weaponry against an enemy armed with bows and arrows.

You don't need weaponry to bombard someone from orbit. They came there on a starship, all they have to do is chuck asteroids at them, with absolute impunity.
It's not even hard, anyone with any decent level of maths ability could do the math, so people that can build and pilot FTL starships could certainly do it.

Jupiter stops asteroids from hitting us. Pandora is a moon of a gas giant, likly no asteroids and good luck trying to pluck one from an asteroid belt (if there is one). they trying to get stuff worth 20 Million per Kilogram, causing massive damage to the place is, well, counter-productive.

spend 5 million in starship fuel and logistics to cause a Billion Trillion dollars worth of damage so you can save 120 million dollars worth of military gear and personel? (numbers pulled out of the air)

A moon in a gas giant likely means tons of rocks, since around most gas giants, you get a planetary ring (although in some cases it is rather small). And you don't need a huge rock to really mess up someone's day, especially after they all gathered in one spot. You don't even need massive amounts of energy to pluck a rock out and put it into an injection orbit, for any people advanced enough to have starships and FTL, they should know all about orbital dynamics.

Hell even now, people have done the maths that would get asteroids from the asteroid belt injected into stable earth orbits for mining purposes. To say they can't do it is just stupid. You don't need an asteroid big enough to cause an extinction event, you can pretty much rain down small rocks with absolute and utter impunity, wiping out any centre of resistance - broadcast a message telling them 'play nice or daddy wipes out you and your entire species'.

you're either incredibly intelligent or you have no idea what you're talking about.

*scratches head*
I mean, I'm no mathematical whiz but I don't see how our current technology and understandings can allow us to get an asteroid from a swirling ring of rock and metal using something made by us that likely has less mass than the asteroid in question and have it sent over to us. what IS the energy or method used for that kind of act anyway?

plus why are you behaving with such a simplified approach to this? you're acting like you enemies will do exactly what you want them to do so you can cause maximum damage, instead of say, attacking you're ground base? and that's just the simplest approach. c'mon though, even if you calculate, object mass, planetary rotation, level of gravity and all that I don't see how you can acuratly direct a big lumpy (incredibly lumpy) rock thousands of miles down. I like pointless debates, can you tell?

need I repeat $20,000,000 per Kilogram? a chunk as heavy as a car gone will cost you $20 Billion!

to quote a much enjoyed fictional report on a similar, though not quite the same, subject:

Rocks are NOT 'free', citizen.

and you can't use the word "impunity" if you're striking your source of income when you're attacking.

 

[Kinokohatake]

Ummm... Anakin Skywalker has neither a brother named Owen, not a sister named Beru. Nor even the the common sense to look in the phone book from his home planet ...for 18 years!

His connection to them is explained. Also, as far as he's concerned, his kids are dead. Why would he go back and say "Hi, is my son, a great and powerful Jedi, hanging around here?"

Spoiler

Why did jesus have to die? I'm not kidding you, it doesn't make the slightest bit of sense to me. He died for our sins, but couldn't God have just chosen to forgive us without, you know, having his son suffer an agonising death? I'm not even bible bashing. Please explain this because I've obviously missed something HUGE.

The Bible is chock full of plot holes. This one always annoyed me though, because people still argue it HAD to go down this way. No it didn't. He's God. He makes the rules.

The ancient Jewish tradition was to sacrifice an animal to fix their sins. Thus the idea of a perfect, unsinful human being as a sacrifice to atone for all sins. This was Jesus.

 

[Binerexis]

HOW is it that Trunks can go back in time and be able to only change JUST ONE event?!??

what did he change? I thought he went back to his unchanged future but he was just much more powerful. he just played a part in an alternate reality

In his future, Goku died from an incurable heart disease and they really could have used Goku to fight against Cell with him being super-awesome etc etc. It turns out that in some cruel twist of fate, a cure for Goku's disease was discovered shortly after he died and Trunks brought that cure with him. Of course, Goku still got sick and the creation of Android 16 made things a bit more complicated too but yeah, he changed the fact that Goku died.

 

[Queen Michael]

In Dragon Ball, Tien has that technique that uses all the energy in your body. So why doesn't he teach that to the other heroes? They sure could use that in their fights against the big villains.

 

[Lightslei]

LOTR..the Giant Eagle Race could just fly someone with the ring right into Mordor, into mount doom and drop off the ring. completely bypassing hours of unnecessary bother.

Yes, because the giant floating all seeing eye in the sky wouldn't see a group of people and army of birds flying right at his country...

and not have time to prepare a completely devastating aerial assault.


The point of the entire books (which they screwed up royally) was that they were supposed to be discreet.

Why doesn't it just see the group then? One extra bird to fly them there is hardly any less discreet. In fact, the lack of commotion caused by them bypassing all sorts of ground-based obstacles would make them LESS discreet...

Three movies of walking reduced to one movie of flight.

If I put you directly in front of a tree and told you, you couldn't turn in any degree in any direction or walk, would you be able to see through or around it?

Hence, why I said they really screwed it up.

 

[Rusty Bucket]

Spoiler: Terminator

Why trust just ONE terminator to do the job. She barley killed one so just send in 5 or 6 to do the job better. And why not kill Sarah when she is no threat at all. A.K.A. When she's 5! There are so many point to exploit.

There's worse plot holes with Terminator. Apologies if this doesn't make sense, it's a bit hard to work out. Fuck it, I'll just copy and paste from cracked.

Spoiler: Why time travel is a fucking stupid idea

If you've found your way to this article, odds are you remember The Terminator, but let's refresh some key plot points. In the mysterious and distant future--1997, to be exact--Skynet, a highly-advanced artificial intelligence, is introduced to the world. Humans decide to hand over all military control to this system because in the Terminator universe the people have not seen The Terminator.

Decades later, the humans are at war with the robots and a brave warrior named John Connor takes charge and turns the tide. The machines strike back by sending the Governor of California back to the 80s to kill Connor's mom before he's born. The humans send Michael Biehn back to protect her.

Along the way, he makes it part of his mission to protect her vagina from not having his penis in it. And that, readers, is where everything in the space-time continuum gets "iffy."

As it turns out, when Michael Biehn and Linda Hamilton sleep together, they conceive John Connor. And, as we learn in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, when the Terminator is destroyed in the first film, the microchip in its skull survives, falls into the hands of computer company Cyberdyne Systems, and allows for the creation of Skynet in the first place.

Therefore, the only reason either John Connor or the machines exist is because the Terminator went back in time, and the only reason the Terminator went back in time is because the machines and John Connor exist. Get it?

Oh, and John Connor and our heroes spend the last act of the second movie trying to prevent said war, meaning John Connor is trying to prevent his own existence, by eliminating the reason for his dad to travel back in time to conceive him. And, if he does prevent his own existence, well, he certainly won't be around to prevent the war thus prevent his existence and...

Well, you get the idea.

 

[meowchef]

Modern Warfare 2

The No Russian mission.

Why do the members of the airport security/government/ANYONE not check security recordings to check and make sure it wasn't only an American slaughtering people... but instead just invaded the US.

 

[direkiller]

LOTR..the Giant Eagle Race could just fly someone with the ring right into Mordor, into mount doom and drop off the ring. completely bypassing hours of unnecessary bother.

Yes, because the giant floating all seeing eye in the sky wouldn't see a group of people and army of birds flying right at his country...

and not have time to prepare a completely devastating aerial assault.


The point of the entire books (which they screwed up royally) was that they were supposed to be discreet.

I'm aware of all that, but this thread is meant to be theoretical though isn't it?....its still potentially possible if planned right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yqVD0swvWU

think this is what your after

 

[Something Amyss]

The ancient Jewish tradition was to sacrifice an animal to fix their sins. Thus the idea of a perfect, unsinful human being as a sacrifice to atone for all sins. This was Jesus.

That wasn't an answer, it was a rote response.

God had altered His law prior to that without requiring anything of that magnitude. Amazingly enough, the idea of absolving sins through an act of horrific brutality is kind of weird. Not to mention if this event was predetermined, it undermines the free will we're supposed to have.

But mostly, God could have just said "knock it off."

Your answer doesn't explain why God would do it, it explains why an offshoot of Jewish culture would fabricate the concept of absolution through further sacrifice.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Smurfs. The use of "smurf" for so many distinct words in an otherwise english language would lead to commonplace miscommunication.

Yeah, I never got how they all understood what the smurf they were all smurfing about.

OT; Dead Rising 2. I can see the Government installing Zombie-proof safe houses in large cities and towns after the falls of Willamette and Las Vegas. I can see the implementation of a standard operating procedure like the one they had in place. What I don't understand is this:

Spoiler: an unintended rant that I am not going to change

If part of the Government's Zombie-Plan is ultimately to firebomb a city which has been lost to a hoard then why not make the zombie-shelters also bomb proof? Also in the interest of the survivors, there should be more than one Satellite Phone and/or and internet connection. I mean if Zombies have been such a problem that there's a reality show about killing them, I'm pretty sure telling other people about how you've survived a zombie outbreak (assuming the assholes with you don't back-stab) wouldn't be that big a problem to the Government's image. In fact I think they would like to know their shelters are being used properly. The Fortune City outbreak was televised in a pretty big way. The people who worked with Rebbecca for example should have known she wouldn't have been killed by the zombies and the fact that they didn't send a chopper for her shows that either they're total dick sandwiches or, they were killed themselves while looking back in the direction of the woman they had left behind and, running into a zombie (or off of a rooftop, whatever the case may be). The most stupid of stupid things was that the leader of C.U.R.E. was there without a cell-phone. If she had one, she could have accessed the roof to get a signal. Hell, ANY OF THE DAMN SURVIVORS COULD HAVE to call a news agency and their lawyers...and to throw roof-debris down at zombies.

 

[Angeryterrano]

STARWARS KOTOR2 the old chick is not a sith at all lol why do u think she always tells you to do the wrong things fails

 

[Fidelias]

Spoiler: Ocean's 11

How did the hooker pamphlets get into the vault?

Ha, pretty much the entire series of Dragonball, Why don't trunks and goten fuse and beat the crap out of everyone? Why don't they go along with Goku when he goes off to save the galaxy with Pan, the weakest character in the universe? Why is Pan alive? Why does Gohan, the coolest character ever fall to the wayside, while the brats fuse and save the world? etc. etc.

The first one is explained actually. They like to show off. The second one probably has something to do with the voice actors. Pan is alive because of Goku. Dragon Ball Z was planned for the torch to be passed from Goku to Gohan. My guess is the audience didn't respond well to Goku not being the center of the series.

What? How could anyone WANT Goku to be the center of the series?

I got one about almost every military-based shooter out there.
Why is it that your character completes 100's of vital missions without a hitch, drags tons of people to safety, and just basically performs heroic bad-assery and STILL doesn't get promoted from private?

Oh, and more specifically about Modern Warfare 2:
Why is it that before that American guy betrays you, you have enough guys in Task Force 141 to lead an assault with back-up AND helicoptors, but after, it's all up to you and Price?
I mean, the American guy isn't supplying the troops or resources, just the intel and cooperation.
And it's impossible to kill EVERY SINGLE SOLDIER in Task Force 141, even if it is a surprise attack, so why?

 

[starwarsgeek]

*quite sizable snip*

Spoiler: Halo Reach

Ok, so....Cortana was made by humans using forerunner tech, then? Because in Reach, you find her in a massive underground forerunner structure, so I assumed she was an ancient forerunner AI. But your explanation makes more sense. And I suppose the soda-can thing I was talking about could have been some kind of storage unit, like a substitute for Master Chief's head.

It's been a while since I read Fall of Reach, but I do not think the Forerunners were involved in her development at all.

As for the container, it is possible that it was a different storage unit than previous games (The Chief can only use her on the field because she is partially stored in his brain, which is why he hallucinated in Halo 3). I plan on finishing the campaign later today, so I'll get back to you after I actually see this part.

 

[Super Toast]

Heavy Rain. Which part? Every part.