Plot hole: The Skrull base is inside an abandoned nuclear power plant with enough radioactivity to force any human (like, say, Nick Fury) to constantly pop iodine pills to fight the symptoms of a poisoning that would kill them in less than half an hour. Despite that, Skrulls also detain prisoners, for years in some cases, in rudimentary shackles without any sort of shield or protection against the radiation.
Sammo
2nd Aug 2023
Secret Invasion (2023)
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Suggested correction: Iodine pills don't fight the symptoms of radiation poisoning; they prevent the body from absorbing radioactive iodine. It does not protect from exposure to radiation; it won't save you from it. Secondly, it's all an act by Gi'Ah posing as Fury anyway. Thirdly, they are in the reactor control room where Gravik says the radiation is higher. The prisoners are in a low radiation room, which could be extra shielded from radiation. It could also be that the prisoners are fed iodine to block radioactive iodine.
We can make up if we want that there's a special, super-secret anti-radiation serum and/or super-effective shielding, helping humans even during an exposure that lasts years (a decade in the case of Rhodey!), but there has to be something in the actual visuals that remotely hints at it. It's hard to headcanon that the dingy area of the plant where they are racked together, strapped to bed nets behind tarps, can be "low radiation", or that they are given anything to counter it. In particular, in the ending, the rescued people leisurely walk around the plant with zero radiation protection, even casually in the open yard where "Fury's" Geiger counter was going mad earlier. And the radiation was not something induced by the Skrulls that just ended when the baddie died. Not only is there no techno-babble justification (one could argue it's simply a pedantic detail not unlike the lack of hair growth or muscle atrophy), there's a direct flagrant contradiction in how the environment of the location - which is the only reason why they picked that site as a base - is deadly to humans only to a dramatic degree only when it's convenient.
12th Jan 2023
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
Plot hole: The Distruptors show up at Andi's house right after the killer (Duke literally crosses paths with him) and are enraged and desperate because they can't find her. At the same time, Andi is dying from apparent suicide breathing the fumes of her car. It'd be pretty extraordinary if they were snooping around her property banging at her door and being dumbfounded for, as Claire said, one full hour, but didn't hear a car running in the garage of her small house. (01:32:25)
12th Jan 2023
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
Plot hole: Helen looks at her phone for the first time at 9:58. From there, she quickly browses the messages everyone has been sending for several minutes to her, and does a google search. Since she gets interrupted by Whiskey and then this interruption is further interrupted by the hourly 'Dong', she must have ransacked Duke's apartment in barely a minute, which is impossibly fast. (01:41:20)
9th Jan 2023
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
Plot hole: There is a pivotal moment when Duke poolside casually says; "remember that night when..." That is a mighty strange way for him to mention the very last time the two met, barely two weeks earlier. Miles was not even supposed to be in the country, but Duke, who later jumps straight to casual blackmail once he gets the Google alert about Andi, never mentions that to Miles before or since. Miles cut him off pretending he meant "Anderson Cooper", but for the rest of the movie he struggles and has no leverage on Miles to the point that he pimps his girlfriend out to him. Furthermore, he mentioned the "pancaking" to the other friends, but somehow never mentioned it was Miles. If he was not going to take advantage of that, then he had no reason at all to keep the secret, especially with the lot of them hanging out for an hour waiting at Andi's door. Anyone would have mentioned the fact already back then, or if they realised it was important, would have already started to use it.
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Suggested correction: When Duke says "remember that night," he doesn't know that Andi is dead. At this point, he thinks Miles went to Andi's house (just as they all did) and didn't go in. Miles has reason to cut him short, though. Attempted murder is also a crime.
I can't stress enough how absurd it is that he'd tell his friends and co-conspirators that he nearly had an accident without mentioning WHO with. They are banging at the door of Andi without a clue for ages, over a matter that has Miles at the center of everything. That's not how human interactions work. They all are outside her house, and he does not mention the identity of the person responsible for the accident? Again, one could only withhold information like this if there is a purpose.
Feel free to file this one under another mistake entry.
9th Jan 2023
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
Plot hole: It's an established fact that the culprit is an idiot (actual quote), but still, not a COMPLETE idiot. Some things such as keeping the envelope as some sort of trophy are in line with the hubris of villains, but there's absolutely no reason at all why he would still have in the back pocket of his pants Duke's phone after having a ton of time to get rid of it (he got rid of the gun and a pair of gloves he had the time to go look for in the dark too), especially in a spot so visible and being known for not owning any phone himself. (01:53:40)
9th Jan 2023
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
Plot hole: In the flashback, Whiskey fired the speargun at Helen at the bungalow away from the main house as she was fleeing at the beginning of the blackout. She has no light source with her, but somehow in the earlier showing of the events she was one of the first people to pop up at the party room seconds after the blackout started, and with a loaded speargun. (01:06:00)
9th Jan 2023
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
Plot hole: Benoit Blanc ruins on purpose the murder dinner party because, allegedly, someone is really trying to kill Miles, and he wants to warn him that it's not a game. But as we know later, Blanc is actually trying to investigate the murder of Andi Brand and he does not really think that Miles Bron is in danger. In fact he is positively convinced that everyone has motives to kill in order to protect Miles and all he wants to be on the island for is to gather clues and investigate. Cutting the game short does not serve his purpose at all, in fact it defeats it. Had he played along, both Helen and him would have had a perfect excuse to investigate. In fact it is a miracle that nobody went back to their rooms right away after that tense moment, instead of being busy with the opening investigation; you even see that they are groaning and complaining and want to leave. The movie explains away most of the other details but none about this.
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Suggested correction: Blanc knew he couldn't hide Helen's identity for long. He said so at 1:15:15. His fear was justified when Duke discovered Helen's identity on the night of her arrival. In short, Blanc and Helen were on a clock.
Regardless of how little time they had left (Blanc estimated "another week", so the leak happens presumably earlier than he anticipated), ruining the dinner does not serve the purpose; gives "Andi" less time to search the rooms, which is what Blanc planned her to do.
If the game was allowed to proceed, Helen would have been forced to play along. Any behavior, other than playing along, would have been suspicious.
6th Jan 2023
Mission: Impossible (1988)
Plot hole: The mysterious neurosurgeon Dr. Quinn was mentioned by the fake Myles Taggart under the pretence that his presence was announced by the local newspaper. It turns out that his invitation by the university was a lie - presumably no newspaper story existed at all then, or the university would have acted on that. Taggart is exposed as a fraud, Quinn's link to him is so direct that he was even the one who invited him (instead of goading the Colonel into inviting him like it was his own idea) and yet the Colonel continues to trust Quinn blindly - he even has the whole night and day to think about this simple fact, nothing was decided on the spur of the moment.
26th Jul 2022
Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
Plot hole: Zeus reassures the vast audience of deities in Omnipotent City that the God Butcherer won't reach Eternity, an omnipotent being that will grant one wish to the first person ever to reach it. This knowledge is fairly trivial amongst deities. This introduces the obvious absurdity that nobody ever tried to make use of this power to undo Thanos' damage. Also, Zeus just happens to know the bad guy's plan out of the blue.
19th Jul 2022
Super Robot Wars V
Plot hole: When Shoji gives himself up to the authorities at the end of mission 9, Aoki thanks to the Senpuji Industries lies to the inspector saying that he was a test pilot, but that does not solve the not marginal issue that the playing character comes from another dimension and has no ID. The inspector is a stickler for the rules but in all the hours of interrogation apparently the subject of their identity never came up.
20th Jun 2022
Trancers (1985)
Plot hole: Whistler's powers are not fully explained, but most certainly he has no god-like abilities or is omniscient; the rest of the movie shows he is not. But Jack's first run-in with a Trancer in 1985 LA makes no sense then; unless Whistler was mentally controlling every mall Santa in LA, he had no way to know where "Philip" would end up. If he did (and again, how could he; he doesn't have the power to control legions of Trancers), he would have capitalized on it catching him in the act with the police, too.
19th Jun 2022
Trancers (1985)
Plot hole: The 'medics' carry the body bag that is supposed to have the body of Evil Santa inside, but Whistler vaporized it. Somehow, they fail to notice that the obese man weighs like a feather and the bag is deflated and empty. Moreover, the other Trancers vaporize within seconds from their death, but that one, and only that one, took minutes or even hours to disappear, only with Whistler's direct intervention. (00:25:00)
18th Jun 2022
Star Trek: Picard (2020)
Plot hole: In this episode, the 'Watcher' displays the power to possess/mind control people at will, jumping from body to body to set up the meeting with Picard. Forgetting the fact that this usage of power for such a menial task is actually detrimental to what she wants to do (it leaves more evidence, by unnecessarily messing up with minds just to tell the guy to go from A to B), this would have been super-useful for the rest of the season, but she just never ever uses it again, not even a nerfed version of it.
18th Jun 2022
Star Trek: Picard (2020)
Plot hole: Dr. Adam Soong is initially presented as a discredited scientist, banned from the scientific community; he gets debarred and his funding revoked. And it's not an internal matter; he is publicly exposed for it. His daughter in episode 6 even finds out this information on Google. Several news articles call him "mad scientist" and such. However, this same person at the same time throughout the rest of the season has every bit of pull and influence, not just through undercover channels, but is treated with the utmost honor and deference by the NASA PR people at public events.
14th May 2022
Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo Returns (2014)
The Death March of Young Kindaichi File 3 - S2-E3
Plot hole: The crowd freaks out when Matsuoka's body is found and Kindaichi happens to be standing in front of it, gun in hand. That's all sorts of silly though, not only because the killer could have never predicted that turn of events, but also because Kindaichi roamed the streets looking for Matsuoka, gun in hand the whole time (it's a different gun from the one Matsuoka is killed with), and it's a girl screaming that draws everyone's attention to the murder. What about the two gunshots? Everyone in the background was entirely unfazed. It also creates a separate issue in the ending, since the plan to frame Kindaichi was supposed to be 'perfect' but the different gun would have spoiled it. (00:08:35)
13th May 2022
Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo Returns (2014)
The Death March of Young Kindaichi File 2 - S2-E2
Plot hole: It's unreasonable, nor is explained in the denouement at the end of this arc, how did the murderer, who stayed behind everyone else on purpose, get to Shinomiya who was ahead of everyone, went inside the cave before everyone else and didn't have a reason to hide, cooperate with him or anything of the sort.
13th May 2022
Star Trek: Picard (2020)
Plot hole: Adam Soong tosses the phaser before it explodes. The explosion is an underwhelming bang in the air that does not hurt anyone. Soong is a chubby old dude, with no access to teleport technology or any tech, no allies left in the area, inside Picard's home in France, and all he did was run out of the door, unarmed. All Rios (or anyone else, really, arguably even Picard-bot) has to do to catch him is comfortably jogged through the corridor, but somehow since he went out of the camera view and the plot doesn't want them to look for him, he ceased to exist, and he can stir trouble later after he gets (somehow) back to California.
10th May 2022
Kindaichi shônen no jiken bo (1997)
Magical Express Murder Case: File 4 - S2-E13
Plot hole: The ending twist is nonsensical; the disciples have been using the tricks in Reiko Chikamiya's notebook for over 5 years, so the 'trap' inside the notebook could, and should, have happened at any point during that time. There's nothing in the killer's actions that makes that particular magic trick happen, nor he swapped or manipulated it.
7th May 2022
Lupin the 3rd (1971)
The Man They Called a Magician - S1-E2
Plot hole: Lupin was knocked out by Pycal when he shot him with a gun at point-blank. On the other hand, the 'shield' he used was strong enough to not even budge when Jigen's gun and several machine-gun shots would hit, and sustained the impact of an anti-tank rocket, so the dampening powers of the chemical are pretty inconsistent. It's also completely impossible that it works as shown, unless it also coats the mouth, the nostrils, the eyes.
8th Apr 2022
Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo Returns (2014)
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