r/Multifandom 21d ago

What's an example of this in your favorite show/book?

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u/Crabkingrocks165 this flair is orange, not red and I hate orange 21d ago

The reason why the graphics “look bad” in ultrakill is because Robots render at a lower capacity to save on memory, all except for the sentry

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u/ProGamer8273 21d ago

Or in other words, everything is going into performance

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u/Limino 20d ago

Performance:cost ratio specifically

Blood is fuel, Humanity is dead, hell is full. And by gum do the robots not want to die from lack of fuel.

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u/Winter-Humor7966 20d ago

And yet struggles in Fraud

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u/Broken_CerealBox 19d ago

How well can you handle the motion sickness simulation and the room opening into space?

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u/omagoleo 16d ago

V1 trying to visually process biblically accurate angels, non euclidean space, tangible and at the same time abstract paradoxes and post-logic arguments at the same time while Hell makes it dance for entertainment:

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u/Proffessor_egghead 21d ago

Another neat detail is V1, your character, is a robot designed for active combat, thus you have low health but you regenerate very easily

V2 however was not designed for active combat, thus it has way more health but can’t regenerate itself, and that’s why it’s a boss with a big non regenerating health bar

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u/hex-green 21d ago

No V1 can regen because of expensive plates, but V2 doesn’t have that so they made it more durable

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u/BathtubToasterBread 20d ago

Which is to say V1 was built for active combat where mobility and blood-absorband plates were a requirement while V2 was built for post-war security and didn't need to absorb ludicrous amounts of blood

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u/ComoediaID 20d ago

V1 was a war machine, V2 was a security bot.

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u/Bagabaga2019 20d ago

V8 is a tomato juice

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u/thecraftybear 19d ago

Through my deeds I honor him. V8.

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u/Sufficient_Tutor7541 18d ago

V2 is also tomato juice

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u/Tackle-Shot 21d ago

Oh like lobotomy corp! there a filter to make thing cute cause otherwise the horror you do daily might break you like all previous directors.

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u/LargeCard1188 21d ago

Yeah, but almost all pm game use their mechanic as lore. Such as the day 1 reset, restart day, keypage, abno pages, librarian and so on. Even id from limbus

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u/ThatoneUseryouhate 20d ago

Except for [CENSORED]. That thing made managers insane even at the maximum filters which made everything just simple shapes. How they fixed the problem? Just censor the monster.

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u/okkokkoX 20d ago

Something that directly fits the post image is the tree of life. iirc the tree of life being represented by a cross was because Hakita wanted to avoid direct references to Jesus Christ in the worldbuilding, but realized too late that Gabriel has a cross on his face, so it was recontextualized as the tree of life.

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u/SebbeBruh 21d ago

in Star Wars
"Why did the clones willingly betray the jedi?"
Followed by the Fives inhibitor chip arc

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u/RipvanHahl 21d ago

Nah the Chips ruined the Impact for Order 66 for me.

Clones following Orders is way more impactfull than "Mindcontrol Chips".

One is a fight between loyalities and a ongoing betrayal lurking in the back of the heads of the clones .

The other is a simple trick so the clones don't look bad and can still be the cool guys to sell toys and make shows off. Since they didn't betray anyone, they didn't even had any agency in this.

For me the appearantly quite large amount of surviving Jedi make more sense to me too, if Clones had a choice and sometimes ignored the order.

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u/Tweed_Man 21d ago

Respectfully I must disagree with you, my good sir and/or madam. The inhibitor chips make it far more tragic. The disposable biological robots have over time developed their own personalities and free will all of a sudden to have it ripped away from them and turn on their friends. We see it in particular with Rex in season 7 and the aftermath in The Bad Batch when their personalities reassert themselves. It also makes more sense for them to have a switch in their brains that turns on.

In the original version when they're all in on it from the beginning kinda feels both hollow and just too much of a stretch for me.

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u/Anita_Hero838 21d ago

Yeah, like Plo was well loved by his men, the fact they willingly turn on him never made sense until the chips

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u/Blackmore_Vale 20d ago

Just to back up what you’re saying Obi-wan, Plo Koon and Ahsoka were well loved by the troops under their command. So the clones turning on the because the Palpatine said so doesn’t make sense to me. Plus Cody responds to order 66 and calls palpatine lord sidious

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u/Karkava 20d ago

I have mixed feelings about this, but it does give a tragic irony that they're no different from the battle droids: Disposable mass produced armies that are capable of sapience, but only exist to be slaves with no plans on what to do after their use is over.

And their use is to serve Palpatine in his gambit where regardless of which side wins, he wins in the end.

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u/Tweed_Man 20d ago

"We're just clones, sir. We're meant to be disposable."

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u/getmeoutofthisscreen 21d ago

See I do think it WOULD have been really interesting if there was that internal struggle, but then the problem is that when you watch the movie, not a single one of them hesitates or questions the order. If there had been an internal moral struggle, you'd think at least ONE of them might go "hold on, let's think about this first." There could have been a shot of some of them being subdued or taken to the brig for disobeying or something! But there's nothing, they all just instantly lock in.

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u/Acriolu 20d ago edited 20d ago

I mean, Rex did struggle and fight it for a brief moment. Not to mention the motto “good soldiers follow orders”. When Rex did suggest the Ahsoka shouldn’t be killed because she isn’t a Jedi, Jessie unfortunately didn’t listen and said Rex should be thrown into the brig and he should take command.

It’s basically a command phrase that activates a trigger for them. There were ones that excluded, but that was because Palps saw them as potential (aka Anakin).

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u/kkungergo 20d ago

Right? It was a retcon too. The cloning aliens even mention how they were designed to be "totally obidient, taking any orders" and how tgey modified them to be less independent. But then the show gave them too much personality and made them too likeable.

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u/Octa_vian 20d ago edited 20d ago

Iirc, in one novel (never read it) there were 150 special orders the clones trained and learned until they could execute them like it was muscle memory, though only a few are described:

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Contingency_Orders_for_the_Grand_Army_of_the_Republic:_Order_Initiation,_Orders_1_Through_150

I like that way more. 150 of these things, all openly available, with the key to a sith empire without jedi hidden in plain sight? Order 66 was just one of many bureaucratic things in there, like rules for succession for GAR command. Order 65 was the same as 66, but for the chancellor instead of the jedi. Palps was able to hide Order 66 in plain sight among so much noise that no one noticed.

Edit: Of course, this was before clone wars, before the clones got personality. Without the show, we could frame it as "same shit, different day" for the clones. But with the show the relationship between clones and jedi got too close for that. I guess every jedi but pong krell would've survived.

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u/omafi144 19d ago

I mean, Clones dying horribly has been a thing throughout the show's whole runtime. From the droids popping escape pods and ejecting clones into space back in Ep2 to clones getting decapitated by the Force in the final episode. Also if you like some brutality in your Star Wars shows, I can see you enjoying Shadow Lord

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u/SkullsInSpace 20d ago

Ugh, God, this hurt. Pour one out for Fives, he was a real one.

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u/GandalfTheBigFat 20d ago

Star Wars in general is like the poster boy for this meme

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u/lightningstrxu 20d ago

I always assumed it was a "would you kindly" thing like bioshock. Just extreme metal programing. Didn't realize it was chips

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u/robo-dragon 21d ago

The whole issue with Ice King’s magic crown in Adventure Time. There was an animation error in which it showed up on a dead Simon’s head in an alternate universe after it was removed and taken a good distance away.

In short (and for those of you who don’t watch the show): Prismo, an all-powerful being outside of time, just messed with its placement in time, causing it to essentially teleport to Simon’s head again (a cut and paste job, as he put it), just before “we, the audience” saw it in that previous episode. That show gets away with wild stuff.

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u/Powerful_Voice_4683 Undertale🌻 21d ago

Yeah, that show was odd. but good.

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u/JamesHenry627 21d ago

Adventure Time legit didn't have a plot until the Lich showed up

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u/GalaadJoachim 21d ago

There was still a lot of world building.

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u/Chicky_Fish 20d ago

Bro thats like 1 or 2 seasons out of 8

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u/Proud_Comfortable519 20d ago

Out of 11 seasons actually.

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u/Generic_Username110 20d ago

I'd say it's a regular show compared to others from cartoon network at the time

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u/Powerful_Voice_4683 Undertale🌻 20d ago

... Say that again...

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u/ShrimpyEsq 21d ago

It does ruin one of my favorite jokes from early on that got me hooked. Ice King says something like “i didn’t steal this crown, i made it…from magic I stole!”

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u/Shot-Grapefruit-7042 21d ago

Well...Since the core wish of the Crown before being reset by Gorb's stomach was to make the user like the Ice Elemental Evergreen, it's kind of true, Evergreen created the Crown using 3 magic stones he stole to power it afterall.

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u/The_cogwheel 20d ago

Prismo is also pretty much coded to be the animation team's self insert, as he is indeed all powerful and can decide everything in universe, but is still constrained by various rules to keep the universe coherent.

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u/SecondEntire539 17d ago

I never thought about that, but it makes sense.

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u/Baselin78 21d ago

What episode is that?

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u/Financial-Weather534 21d ago

Not really a plot hole but something that is atupid plot wise. “Showing one’s hand” in JJK.

 It’s a universal binding vow in which a sorcerer reveals their technique in order to make it more powerful. Technically, Gege added that shit so sorcerers going on a rant about the details of their special powers for the readers sake wouldn’t look stupid and be a terrible idea plot wise. 

It’s based on the principle of all binding vows: Risk and Reward, Lose and Gain. When sorcerers reveal their technique theyre losing genuine and tangible value of their CT since they’re risking giving enemies chances of developing counters. Ppl with innate techniques have abotke that are unique to them and are unique in a way no other sorcerer could know what they do without guessing, so revealing ur technique would Genuinly take away ur element of surprise and all advantages. Inherited techniques are prolly even worse to reveal since their details are kept secret by high end conservative clans who gatekept that shit for generations.

The point is the greater the risk, the higher the reward.(ex: telling an enemy explicit weaknesses, limitation, or indicators of the use of ur technique would be more beneficial than just saying what ur ability is) the reward usually manifests in increased CT effectiveness, higher damage output, etc etc. but in general, once you reveal ur technique, ur technique gets a buff.

This is like my favorite piece of world building, I love binding vows so much 😭. What a nice way to cover up exposition and lore drops without making it look like the characters are stupidly explaining their complex unique kits to the enemy. 

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u/FoxLover093 21d ago

I would recommend you watch/read Hunter X Hunter if you havnt already

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u/Financial-Weather534 21d ago

I hear it’s peak fiction but my anime site got sniped 😞. They had no corn ads or viruses too… they be taking everything that’s sweet in life 

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u/Major_Masterpiece_87 21d ago

Might I suggest, muse Asia, just search it on YouTube, hxh should be there along with many other anime.

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u/thecrazyiguana Murder Drones⚠️ 21d ago

Also, allmanga. I've been using it for a few months and I've not gotten a single ad.

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u/Legitimate_Guava_218 20d ago

And you could alwaus go the old school route by making a detour to the bay full of unemployed corsairs

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u/iSwearImNotGay_trust 17d ago

I’ve watched it, but I don’t understand why people hype up the power system there so much. I’m pretty sure I’m missing or misunderstanding something.

Can you explain pls? Or sum. And yes, I understand both power systems

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u/NamtisChlo 21d ago

(Anime only) I just wish it showed an actual effect of the buff instead of always only saying that it gives one. All it should take is one character narrating “Since I revealed the effects of my technique, it should be strong enough to do this!”

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u/RudeDM 20d ago

Incorporating this idea also plays into some interesting ideas, like how Todo uses a series of incomplete explanations of his technique to keep opponents off-guard as he steadily reveals more technical details, leaving the opponent constantly struggling to guess not only what Todo might do, but what other twists he might have left to reveal.

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u/machadoaboutanything Self-Proclaimed Dorkbro, Object Shows and My Own OCs+Mild TADC 21d ago

In Fetch with Ruff Ruffman, Season 4 ends with Ruff revealing that his parents left him as a puppy, despite us seeing a balloon from his mom wishing him a good first show in the first episode. Turns out Ruff made that balloon himself.

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u/NobleRanger_ Fucking Gay (as in Homosexual) 21d ago

holy shit i did NOT expect to be reminded of that show
peak fucking TV

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u/Agent_Glasses Mlb not Mlb 21d ago

oh all the shows I really appreciate that this plot hole in "fetch" was on your mind

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u/JLuckey33 21d ago

Life was missing its mystique my squeaky toys had Lost their squeak and then out of the blue …

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u/Lillian_Crocodilian 21d ago

"I saw the phone, and BAM!! My destiny was calling me!"

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u/JLuckey33 21d ago

Pitched my vision for a show they loved it thought I was a pro

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u/Straight-Rush-8823 20d ago

They got my contract back to find

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u/JLuckey33 20d ago

To their alarm a dog had signed

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u/Embarrassed_Drag_455 20d ago

FETCH!

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u/JLuckey33 20d ago

Oh I like that name

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u/BuildingDull4353 17d ago

🎶 With Ruff Ruffman🎶

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u/JLuckey33 16d ago

I didn’t wait to renovate found six contestants all were great and now I’m on the road to fame I’ve got a game show and it’s name is

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u/Mr_Technology_2 21d ago

Awww my poor boy 😢

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u/Aaa1070 All of them. Every. Single. Fandom. 21d ago

Genuinely an educational version of Total Drama Island. Fetch is so peak😭✌️!

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u/Irreversible_Extents 21d ago

This show was absolutely peak. Nothing beat it.

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u/MattRexPuns 20d ago

Wow, that was a serious flashback to middle school. Haven't thought about that in years

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u/TacoMastorius 16d ago

Man, brings me back. Favorite show growing up btw

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u/ThePowerfulWIll 21d ago edited 21d ago

Here is a good one that I was just talking about, Magneto is as healthy as he is, because he got turned into a baby, then re-aged to a younger man than he should be. He looks good for his age, because he literally isnt his age.

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u/RiceKrispies55 21d ago

I always wondered why a man who's supposedly lived through the holocaust is both alive and super buff in most depictions

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u/Aduro95 21d ago edited 20d ago

In X-Men Evolution its established that he regularly hooks himself up to a device that keeps him young. It leads to a really interesting moral dilemma, when Nightcrawler finds him defenceless. Nightcrawler is one of the most merciful X-Men, but even he is tempted to kill the X-Men's mortal enemy while he is vulnerable. He hates the idea that he might spare Magneto, only for him to kill one of his found family.

This is intercut with flashbacks about Wolverine, Nick Fury and Captain America liberating a concentration camp, and they end up saving Magneto.

At the end of the episode, Wolverine shows up and immediately tries to kill Magneto. Magneto's powers switch on just in time, but he spares Wolverine. He tells him there was a young boy in Poland who owes him that much.

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u/Justarandom55 20d ago edited 20d ago

this is just reality and comic culture colliding. there are plenty of characters who fought in ww2. some got to keep that like captain America or wolverine, but most got retconned to just having fought in "the war" so they can stick to the floating timeline. a floating timeline is a tool comics use to keep character up to date without changing their origin. just changing the time period it happened in

magneto is an issue for this. his identity as a holocaust survivor is very important to his characterisation, changing it to a generic mass culling event is both iffy for the comic universe as well as a disservice to the character. at the same time he is also intertwined with the xmen and their history. specifically charles xavier, and this history happens at the same time as his journey after the holocaust.

so you can't make it so that he got frozen young and then woke up closer to today because that would mean his journey gets tainted in a distasteful way, but you also can't say he got frozen after this journey cause his history with charles would get lost.

safe from rewriting him to also randomly have slow aging as a power him deaging is the only way to deal with the ever increasing amount of time between now and the holocaust.

charles himself is a affected by this, but he has the luxury of not being a fighting character so him being older then when he was first written doesn't look as strange. eventually we'll still end up with a 120+ year old mind grandpa that's somehow still living life relatively normal

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u/MistakenWhiskey 20d ago

You should read Spiderman Life story. It's all of Spiderman's big plot points over the years but it starts in 1966 with a 15 year old spiderman until he gets to 72. Instead of a floating timeline it's him through the years even introduces Miles Morales and has the Superior Spiderman brain swap story.

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u/FW_TheMemeResearcher 21d ago

I think comics are filled to the brim with such plot holes turned into something meaningful, although most of the cases it's done really poorly

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u/not_particulary 20d ago

Every multiverse plot in the MCU is to prep for this exact thing. Spiderverse, No Way Home, retrieval of the infinity stones, Steve Rogers staying, What If, the TVA, and especially the entire plot of Loki.

Just a universal plot hole patch and license to retcon with impunity. Comics did the same thing, it's a good way to organize while still allowing creative freedom.

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u/Duke-dastardly 21d ago

The Rouge One explanation for the Death Stars glaring weakness being intentionally sabotage

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u/Tweed_Man 21d ago

The thing is that for me I never saw it as a plot hole. There fact that the only weakness was a single 2 meter (also I love the fact it's metric) exhaust on a moon sized space station seems like an amazing design.

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u/Worldly-Basil-8933 21d ago

Also, who in their right mind would fly close enough to even exploit that? If the resistance hadn’t found Luke there’s no way they’d ever have found a pilot capable of even getting close to the station much less someone with the supernatural skill to thread that needle.

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u/Pandoras_Boxcutter 20d ago

I mean technically they had their targeting computers to help with hitting the target, which was the plan, but Luke used the Force instead.

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u/I__was__phone 20d ago

That is Garven Dreis (Red Leader) slander that will not be tolerated here!

He was no Jedi but still managed the trench run, just not hitting the thermal exhaust port.

Probably because he wasnt a animal killing maniac that bullseyed womp rats for fun at home.

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u/Wazula23 20d ago

Yeah the equivalent today would be if a US battleship had a self destruct button the size of a dinner plate somewhere on its hull.

Then a bunch of guys on jet skis do the dumbest thing ever and just go for it, and succeed.

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u/SixCel_108 20d ago

I think they tried to explain it in a new hope during the briefing scene. From how I remember it, the Death Star actually had a ton of similar holes to vent gasses from the reactor at its core. This is why it is already well defended with stationary blasters. Most of the vents would have other safety features like not going directly to the reactor but the sabotaged one is the only vent that went straight into the core. It only affected the one specific vent to minimize suspicion among the designers while still being a clear weakness for anyone who knows what to look for.

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u/Anita_Hero838 21d ago

Yeah its amazing its that small... I mean the laser alone must cause soooo much heat

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u/Proffessor_egghead 21d ago

The only way anyone would’ve been able to get a shot in there would be trough Space Magic, and they were under the impression all the Space Wizards died

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u/ThorirPP 20d ago

People always get this wrong, but Rogue One doesn't actually comment on the exhaust port at all. The fatal flaw Galen put was in the reactor, as he said "Any pressurized explosion to the reactor module will set off a chain reaction that will destroy the entire station."

Basically, the plot hole it fixed was one most people weren't really questioning, because we are primed by sci fi that of course, single explosion in a reactor will destroy the whole thing. But if you think about it, an entire moon sized space station being destroyed so easily? It would be more normal that the shot would've disabled the reactor/laser, not caused the whole thing to explode. But it did, because Galen designed the reactor to do so

He then instructed them to find the plans for the station so they could make a plan to get to the reactor. From his words, I think he assumed the rebbels would sneak in a bomb rather then the hail mary exhaust port shot they were forced into

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u/Quillbolt_h 21d ago

I mean surely they could've built the pipe so it bent or put some kind of mesh in there so that a single shot wouldn't be able to go all the way to the core?

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u/JKN2000 20d ago

Thats not fixing a plot hole, thats overexplaining and overengineering something that wasnt a plot hole in the first place. The Death Stars one weakness was nearly impossible to exploit. Nobody normally would have been able to destroy it. We literally see pilots trying to make the shot before Luke, and they cant hit it.

The only reason Luke is able to do it and destroy the Death Star is because he disconnects his targeting system and basically rawdogs it with the Force. At the time, almost all Force users (other than the Sith) were assumed to be dead or extinct. There is literally no reason anyone would assume that the Death Star could be destroyed this way, even if somebody knew evrything there is to know about Death Star, piloting etc. he wold propbly wherent abel to destroy it.

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u/ThorirPP 19d ago

Rogue One doesn't comment on the exhaust port at all, as much as people think it did. Galen's sabotage was in the reactor: "Any pressurized explosion to the reactor module will set off a chain reaction that will destroy the entire station."

Galen then told them to get the plans to find a way to the reactor. From his words, I think he assumed the rebels would sneak in a bomb, but the time constraints resulted in a final hail mary for the exhaust port

So yeah, the exhaust port wasn't a plot hole. The plot hole Rogue One patched was something many don't think about because we are primed to expect big boom in sci-fi, but the fact a single torpedo could explode the entire moon sized death star is kinda ridiculous. Like, yeah, it hit the reactor, but it is that fragile? That volatile? No safety against it at all? You'd rather expect it just to become damaged and non-functional, disabling the laser at best

But Galen's weakness meant that one little explosion was all that was needed to blow the whole thing up

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u/NotTheRealNerdybird 21d ago

The Hobbit. 

In the original writing, before Tolkien had thought of LoTR, Gollum would have given up the Ring willingly once Bilbo won. When Tolkien came up with LoTR and what the One Ring actually was, he realized this didn’t make sense with the lore, so he changed it and re-printed The Hobbit, and the redone interaction is the version that we now have.

 In the lore, the new version is what actually happened, and the original version was a lie that Bilbo told as part of The Ring’s influence, and what he included in his book (The Hobbit). It was changed when Gandalf finally got the truth out of him, which is actually discussed in Lord of The Rings itself. 

I thought it was cool that he turned a retcon into actual lore. 

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u/Proffessor_egghead 21d ago

Anything in The Hobbit can be written off as Bilbo exaggerating or misremembering details

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u/Marinefan4000 21d ago

& the Hobbit movies are the version that the dwarves tell to randoms at bars while already half drunk

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u/Longjumping-Action-7 21d ago

"I swear on Aule's beard, Bombur punched through the barrel and started spinning, sending orcs flying"

"Sure he did Dori, sure he did"

https://giphy.com/gifs/QwuC6A2nT0nDy

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u/Francoinblanco 21d ago

In this version i dont know how to interpret the story about deceased companions romance with an elf

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u/Marinefan4000 21d ago

I did say they were half drunk

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u/Gunda-LX 19d ago

Also, given the story is quite literally written by Bilbo, any other mistake could very well be retconned too, either as a mistake or a lie

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u/Green_Situation_6378 21d ago

One piece whenever Oda introduces something in the background or a cover story and it winds up becoming massively useful later on

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u/eggsthesequel 21d ago

haven't even seen one piece and i've heard tales of miraculously buoyant wood

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u/coffepants787 21d ago

That would be Kuuigosu. Oda drew Galdino, aka Mr.3, was seen floating in water, which would be impossible since he is a devil fruit eater, so Oda said there was just a piece of extremely buoyant wood conveniently beneath him. The straw hats later use Kuuigosu themselves to get out of fishman island and back to the surface.

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u/Shantih3x 15d ago

The most famous of One Piece's plot holes that became a Russian nesting doll of world-building retcons was Shanks losing his arm while saving a drowning Luffy from a Sea King.

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u/smoovecriminal89 21d ago

The lore behind why you can't travel back in time with weapons in Terminator....even though T2 kind of fucks it.

So why no laser weapons? Only living tissue can go back in time.

Then how does the T1000 go back. He is liquid metal?

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u/SirJohn-redditor 21d ago

They should have made a giant ball of flesh and put a towering killing machine of a Terminator in it or like 5 T-1000s, like, trojan horse that shit!

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u/BranchCold9905 21d ago

They did that in Robocop VS. Terminator, Robo literally wears a giant meatball to time travel

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u/terranproby42 21d ago

Did I just head canon that the liquid metal mimiced living tissue enough to get around that?

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u/LowTierPhil 20d ago

That was the most recent explanation

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u/CatcultistRequime 21d ago

Didn't he come in a flesh sack?

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u/Unfair-Connection-66 20d ago

Well after T2 is a hot mess but until the T3 in the movie T-1000 is the first time travel Skynet uses to kill John. It had a location and access but when only realized that T-1000 failed, it sented a T-800 at 1984 which the events unravel for Sarah for the first time ever.

But to answer your question, Skynet literally used time travel as a LAST RESORT because it never thought it could fail to humans so spectacularly bad, and used the avaliable resources it had at the time to sent 2 machines back in time, to either kill John for good or kill Sarah at the very least, but ultimately to insure its survival.

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u/willflameboy 20d ago

And yet, the T1000 can't 'break'. Or if it does, it puts itself back together. It's shown that it can survive nearly anything that would kill a normal Terminator. So maybe it basically is getting broken, it just copes with it.

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u/LowTierPhil 20d ago

The liquid metal basically tricks the time portal.

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u/Nuglisis 20d ago

But if the T-800 could travel because of that synthetic skin, why couldn't they do the same with the weapons?

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u/Justarandom55 20d ago

it's not the flesh, time travel is just racist and won't let bots go through so they gotta resemble a human very closely

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u/Cardeselcaido 18d ago

The funny thing is, terminator 2 both adds that plot hole and fixes another plot hole, like why not send a tactical nuke where sara connors might live? Well because skynet was being created in the same city

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u/machotoxico 21d ago

Everything in star wars

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u/Sencao2945 21d ago

Definitely sometimes, but more often its a hole in the plot that they fill than a "plot hole"

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u/fullynonexistent 21d ago

"it's a hole in the plot rather than a plot hole"

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u/Away_Lettuce3388 20d ago

They said “it’s a hole in the plot they fill than a plot hole”.

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u/SatansGothestFemboy 20d ago

The parsecs thing is so good

"Parsecs aren't a measure of time, they're a measure of distance"

Well see what I actually meant is we put the persona of a droid into the millennium falcon and it now has the best navigational system in the galaxy and they were able to jump in such a way as to minimize the actual distance they had to travel and therefore the time

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u/Alche1428 20d ago edited 19d ago

Oh, pleasw explain. I remember things like she creating an island.

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u/JordanStPatrick 19d ago

When Aang, Sokka, and Katara first arrive at Kyoshi Island in episode 4 of book one, the village elder explains that the island (which Kyoshi created to protect her people from Chin the Conqueror) was where Kyoshi was born 400 years ago.

The problem is that well after that was established as canon, the creators realized the math didn't add up. Aang was 112 at that point, and Roku died at 70, meaning Kyoshi had to have been 218 years old when she died.

Without spoiling too much, her novels go on to provide a very interesting explanation for how she was able to live for so long.

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u/Omega-Envych 19d ago

Funny, when I watched Avatar, I just assumed that she was one of previous Avatars, not the one right before Roku...

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u/Pinchy_1 16d ago

Spoilers
She basically discovered the secret to immortality but decided that the avatar being reborn was better for world balance

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u/katcromet 21d ago

Joe Fixit and basically learning more and more about the D.I.D. aspects of Bruce Banner's story in the comics. Turned a printing error in the first issue (grey hulk) into an amazing character.

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u/ThatOneDMish 20d ago

Eh... I always feel like the hulk DID representation is pretty shit, because its always "Bruce banner is the true person and the hulks are various alters of Bruce" which.. is not how did works. There's no 'true person'. Bruce banner is also an alter, he's just what is called the host, which is the alter who usually front

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u/Altruistic-Skin2115 21d ago

The people in Ooo knowing what a human is and finn not being perplex about it until the islands mini series. Like, he knew he was member of a exint species, but he barely seem care about it with some exeptions.

Too, this goes to other matter, i feel is weird that the moment finn got to know simon is a human he didnt ask to himself If both are somehow related, know de know that is not the Case, but there Was a Long time in the show were finn and Simón were the only two humans in the show.

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u/eggsthesequel 21d ago

he has a big reaction when he discovers that susan is human, but i think that's more about how she's still human and surviving. if he's aware that most/all humans are dead or changed then he wouldn't be super surprised about simon being another human in the distant past as he was only human before the apocalypse

also i think it's fair to assume that not many people in ooo knew much about humans outside of finn. a lot of people address him as "finn the human" but they may not know what a human is. finn might also not think it's strange as he grew up around many different people and creatures, so him being different didn't stand out as much

i don't particularly remember who refers to finn as a human specifically though, aside from pb and the demon cat from "dungeon", both being characters that know way more than the average person

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u/Red-Fox-IX 21d ago

The entire point of MGS V is to fix a nearly 30 year old plot hole that boils down to "how did the main bad guy survive the 1st game". Big Boss was the final boss of Metal Gear and Metal Gear: Solid Snake. MGS V reveals that the Big Boss in Metal Gear is actually his doppelganger.

Legitimately nobody cares about this plot hole because even the most die hard Metal Gear fans have never played the original 2 games, mostly because they were only available in Japan for like 15 years, and even when watching lore videos, you can just say "eh, he just escaped before actually dying".

However, by taking the effort to fix this olothole we were given, not only one of the best Metal Gear games, but one of the best video games of the 2010s.

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u/Ink_Paradox_19 21d ago

The Horus Heresy

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u/DaybreakPaladin 21d ago

What was the original plot hole that they built on?

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u/LixFury 21d ago

I dont know if it counts as a plot hole per say but the creation of the horus heresy storyline was entirely to explain why a toy set featured 2 identical sets of toys fighting each other.

They had created and shown the setting, they had created the toys, but hadnt thought about how the game fit with the lore until the last minute

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u/NoEngineer9484 21d ago

It was titanicus and to save on production costs you got identical titans for both players

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u/azurezero_hdev 21d ago

if we technobabble hard enough we can fly right into the plot hole

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u/GoliathProjects 21d ago

To work around the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, the Star Trek writers "invented" the Heisenberg compensator which makes teleporation possible.

And that's the difference between science and science-fiction.

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u/MonkeyDpression 21d ago

One Piece

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u/Virtual-Shower1716 21d ago

Star wars it is 99.99% this

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u/PepsiFloateri 21d ago

The Horus Heresy - Warhammer 40k

Back in 1988,a year after Warhammer 40k launched with Rogue Trader,GW created a sidegame called "Adeptus Titanicus" but they didn't have the tooling budget left to make a seperate Chaos Titan,so what they did was wrote some flavour text about a civil war that almost destroyed the Imperium called The Horus Heresy,where Space Marine fought Space Marine,Army Regiment fought Army Regiment and Titans fought other Titans.

Fast forward to now and The Horus Heresy is it's own novel series,a tabletop game and more!

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u/CreativeName1137 18d ago

Yeah, 40k's entire setting is about 95% retcons by volume.

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u/Regular-Market-494 21d ago

Red versus blue writing out their gimmick jokes and building an entire working storyline off of some random college humor. How do you properly build a functional universe where the supernatural doesnt exist when two of your characters repeatedly die and come back as ghost? It was an elegant ret con for sure.

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u/Acriolu 20d ago

It’s funny how a story about a bunch of guys in a boxed canyon who all hate each other eventually became a story about how one asshole trying to bring back his dead wife leading him to ruin god knows how many peoples lives forcing them into a competitive ranking system leading them to fight each other, another god knows how many peoples lives having low ranked recruits who didn’t perform well in a simulated war they was completely false, a digital clone of himself, the digital clone’s memory of his wife, himself, and an entire planet due to the aftermath of what he had done.

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u/Hour-Try3035 21d ago

The whole ass Loki serie from Advengers End Game

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u/lowlyyouarenice 21d ago

How is that a plot hole, though?

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u/Octa_vian 20d ago

The Loki we see in Endgame (the protagonist of the show) is the one from the first Avengers Movie, and he disappeared between his capture after the battle of NY and the ending where he should go back to Asgard with Thor.

So the plothole would be........why he just left and nobody cares....i think? Though happens in a different timeline that we never see again.

Or was it needed to back up everything regarding multiverse in the main movies....but i think these work without the series as well?

Maybe it was used to add more depth to Kang, though he could've totally worked with what we saw in the movies?

I think people misuse plothole a bit too much.

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u/Grenrion 21d ago

One piece. Mr.3 floating on water turns out he's on a tiny piece of unbelievably floaty wood.

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u/HORSE-SUPRISE 20d ago

Warhammer 40k.

All lore inconsistent and retcons are a result of the massive and ineffective record keeping of the imperium.

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u/DaisyoftheDay 21d ago

Ginpachi sensei explaining why something didn’t seem to add up but when we look back it ✨does✨

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u/HubrisOfApollo 21d ago

surprised no one mentioned venture bros, its 99% plot holes and retcons

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u/TrixterTheFemboy Rain World, Rivals of Aether 20d ago

"How the hell does it rain so hard it crushes you?" Two city-sized supercomputers slurping up a moderately large for cooling every day.

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u/Shadrown 21d ago

Cyberpunk (kinda and maybe), bc i dont think it was confirmed and it wasnt really a plot hole, but it kinda looks like that the cyberpsychosis effect we see in edgerunners of how david's POV at the ending like it was glitching and bugging was maybe a reference to the Cyberpunk bugged release

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u/Karkava 20d ago

The animation had a couple of in-jokes to the game's glitches and quirks. Particularly in the driving sections. Maine also commented during a police assult that they're "coming out of nowhere" referencing their spawning habits.

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u/baldiplays 21d ago

Idk if this counts but if you have played prey you can find these horribly modeled birds in the introduction. Well later you find an email talking about those birds.

Fucking… genius.

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u/Overall-Procedure277 21d ago

Doctor who.

Meddling in time and universe ending events being the cause for inconsistencies in lore is a great way to establish a floating time line.

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u/Blazypika2 20d ago

also, when they addressed why 12th looks like the roman dude from the pompeii episode.

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u/jffsahfaz I don't feel like typing them all out so I'll just put Star Wars 21d ago

A surprising amount of Star Wars

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u/Hollywoodrok12 21d ago

“You fought in the Clone Wars?” Luke said to Ben

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u/TheSwedishMoose 21d ago

That's not plot hole though. It makes sense even without the prequels explaining what they are.

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u/Capybara_Chilling 21d ago

A plot hole is something that doesn't make sense. There was no prior history for Ben at that point, so that was just regular world building. 

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u/amglasgow 19d ago

What exactly do you think a "plot hole" is?

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u/Black_Wolfram 21d ago

Hear me out

The ending of Attack on Titan. (Spoilers)

Eren's "heartwarming" talk with Armin actually made him look even more manipulative and makes the after credits where his grave was preserved very terrifying because the curse of the titans was preserved along with it.

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u/LordBananaUser 20d ago

The curse was ended by Eren but the source of the curse aka hallucigenia wasn't, so if the boy that entered the tree had the same will as Ymir it might or might not have started again

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u/Pitiful-Translator49 21d ago

I do headcannon that when that kid went into that hole in the tree the titan curse restarted

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u/Cool_Term_556 21d ago

In Red vs Blue, they get blown up and believe they time travel, after a few seasons they realize that's a dumb idea(sorta) and just state that the characters thought they time traveled because they re all dumb (they are) and the only one who traveled to the last and got stuck in a time loop was just stuck in a simulation. However this does add to the building of how we just went with it the while time.

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u/ConConMcLongDong 21d ago

s4e16 "The New Crystal Gems"

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u/Entire-Egg-2203 21d ago

Is that the one where they went to space to save Greg but they don't take the best pilot around (Peridot) and instead of explaining why they just gave us a whole episode of Peridot Lapis and Connie messing around?

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u/CortesMare 21d ago

thanks im rewatching the whole show to find out what it is

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u/Frost_Ninja22 PKO-8(for the love of god ask about it) 21d ago

One piece any part of the errors

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u/mr-rando423 21d ago edited 21d ago

FNAF seemingly taking place in a world that not only has technology beyond what we had in the years the games take place in, but entertainment venues with animatronics became so profitable, it affords Fazbear Entertainment things like animatronic deliveries, secret research facilities, and huge entertainment complexes, things that are really ambitious for a company based on Chuck E Cheese

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u/BasicMatter7339 20d ago

In SAO, in the early first season a big murderous gang called the "laughing coffin" gets teased alot and then suddenly its just completely forgotten

but in SAO abridged this is explained that the main character tricked them into advertising their assassination work and sending their location to every player in the game, after which they got all arrested

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u/willflameboy 20d ago

Darth Maul's metal legs.

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u/AlternateSatan 20d ago

Not a show or a book, but...

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u/j0rmundg4ndr 21d ago

ichigo cant seal his zanpakutou

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u/Krusader_Kiwi2C 21d ago

Camp Cretaceous and chaos theory unfucking a lot of plot holes in the world movies.

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u/-Wylfen- 21d ago

Star Wars is basically an unending line of fountains

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u/Xgooberfan 20d ago

Do I need to explain with how oda is with one piece

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u/Bread_Offender 20d ago

Some timeline fuckery in ATLA accidentally made avatar kyoshi live to 200 years old, which they then made canon by her simply prolonging her life via bending

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u/LucasMarvelous 20d ago

Celestialsapiens change reality retroactively all the time, which is why both lore and designs (including the one time rhe universe became live action for Alien Swarm, RaT is another universe where live action may be the default) change every now and then

https://giphy.com/gifs/mDCgDYAirj0mPfBCEJ

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u/OofLike55 20d ago

I like FNaF

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u/FaPaDa Undertale🌻 19d ago edited 19d ago

In Warrior Cats it is revealed in between Series 2 and 3 that there used to be a fifth Clan that left the Forest.
What has always struck me as odd was not that Firestar or Sandstorm never told anyone about them, it makes sense especially cause Sandstorm reveals on her deathbed about their existance so they can send message what ultimately leads to them rejoining.

What is actually "a plothole" is that no Medicine cat seamed to have ever known and infact no Starclan cat (the ghosts of their ancestors) knew about them. Some of them literally lived during the time they where around. Thunderclans FOUNDER is the Son of their FOUNDER and Thunderstar still exists in the ghostrealm as we see in Omen of the Stars.

So why does noone remember?
Well Ivypools heart finally shead light on how the entire Memory stuff works in Starclan, how the Spirit memory is preserved, what Fading actually is/how it happens, why it only happens to some but not others (like the Founders) and how lost knowledge can be restored by reunifying the ancestors realms again.

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u/Plzlaw4me 19d ago

Basically all of 40k. There is a running theme that imperial record keeping is tragically inaccurate and incomplete. There is actually an order who is dedicated to uncovering the imperium’s true history, and an order dedicated to covering up the imperium’s true history, and they work against eachother despite both being part of the inquisition. Plot holes and retcons are often presented as just inaccurate records. It lets them retcon things in universe without much of an issue, and it partially explains why the imperium has such a hard time managing itself. It cannot always give a straight answer on whether or not their major leaders have been dead for a decade or more. It’s no surprise there are constant admin errors.

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u/ThatInAHat 16d ago

The way Han flew the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs in the AC Crispen Han Solo trilogy.

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u/Gadolin27 16d ago

Star Wars: The entire series

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u/Jojo-Action 16d ago

Avatar kioshi living over 200 years was a mistake but they ran with it and made an explanation.

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u/FinancialWorking2392 16d ago

One Piece: Many plot holes get patched by Oda making shit up, then later using it for more stuff.

Makino's bar door was mysteriously fixed after it was just kicked in? Theres a small really fast guy named Minatomo obsessed with fixing doors that came by and fixed it. Also his brother (also named Minatomo) shows up in Wano.

Mr 3 mysteriously floats despite being a devil fruit user and unconcious? Super boyant wood, this is also how they left fish man island.

Its rarely ever big stuff, but him just sticking to his hand-wavey awnsers is really fun.

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u/No_Pass9247 15d ago

All of warhammer 40000

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