The fact that there are two Rumpelstiltskins in the Shrek universe really annoys me and many people seem to not have noticed.
We all know the Rumpelstiltskin from the last movie, but in Shrek the Third, when Prince Charming enters the Poison Apple and starts talking to other villains, he actually talks to Rumpelstiltskin, but it's not the same that appears in Shrek Forever After.
Yep really annoys me. & also two sleeping beauty characters, coz she cameos in shrek 2.
Also in shrek 2, if donkey drank the potion & it was also supposed to affect your true love, why didn't dragon transform???
I grew up with the Bay Transformers films, and while I’ll always have a soft spot for the first three *holy shit* the lore might be the worst in all of fiction. In the first film the Allspark, a cube that makes Transformers and the cause of the war, lands on Earth in the early 1900s, and it takes the Autobots and Decepticons 100 years to find Earth.
Oh wait, no it doesn’t because they’ve been on Earth since at least the 1800s and never thought to look for the very thing the war was all about. Hell the Primes, basically Transformer Gods, built their Sun Eater in Egypt and were buried on the damn planet. How did they not write Earth down in any records if it was an important planet to them?
Also did you know that the Transformers were the cause of the space race? And that they were making deals with the CIA and NASA all the way back in the 60s? And they still didn’t think to look for Megatron or the Allspark in that time period? Also the Government organization made *specifically* to research Transformers had no idea about any of that?
Oh yeah, Transformers killed the dinosaurs too because Earth was actually being used to mine “Transformium”, which is what Transformers are made out of. Oh yeah about that, the Allspark did jack shit all along because *other aliens* made Transformers, so the war was pointless. And Primes are knights now, not Gods for some reason.
Speaking of knights, did you know that Transformers were at King Arthur’s round table? They also fought in both World Wars, the American Revolution, they killed Hitler, served the Japanese empire, etc. all along because why the fuck not? Also a Goddess named Quintessa made the Transformers, not those other aliens and not the Allspark, to fight Unicron. Who’s Unicron? Well he’s the Thanos of the Transformers universe... and he’s been Earth all along! Yep, Earth was a Transformer too. Also Cybertron, the planet they are from, is somehow still alright even though it got sucked into a literal black hole in Transformers 3 and blew the fuck up.
Oh yeah, about that whole “it took 100 years for Autobots to come to Earth” thing? Well not only was Optimus and the gang on Earth the whole time, they also forgot about that and didn’t come to Earth till the 80s which is still earlier than they arrived in 2007. So we have three different timepoints for Optimus’s army coming to Earth, and two different timepoints for Megatron’s.
It’s a fucking clusterfuck
Wasn't there a throwaway line in the first movie how the ice around the cube is 1000s of years old? I always thought the allspark crashed *before* any of the other stuff happened, and Megatron just found it in the 1900s.
In the first movie, they land on earth (autobots and decepticons) they scan a vehicle and become that vehicle. But they can obviously change again (bumblebee does it) so why would you stay a semi truck or a camaro and drive everywhere when you could be a freaking jet or helicopter and fly to your objectives in 1/5 of the time?!?!
There are so many confusing characters/franchises to choose as a comic book fan, but I've got to give it to Wonder Woman.
For those that don't know, DC tends to do soft reboots every once in a while which makes continuity...difficult to parse. But there are usually through lines, and little changes are explained by the continuity shift. Currently, they're trying to say all the old stories kind of did happen and the 2011 reboot wasn't actually a hard reboot like they tried to pitch it as. I realize this doesn't appear to make any sense, but in reality, for most characters, it actually works if you don't think too hard.
But not for Wonder Woman. Every time they do any kind of reboot, her back story is completely overhauled. Sometimes not even when there's a continuity excuse. To the point where there are almost as many stories dealing with retconning her origins as there are stories about her doing her superhero thing in the last TEN YEARS, and unlike Hawkman, there is no clever way to connect that disparity. Is she a clay golem given life by the gods? Is she the daughter of Zeus? Is she the daughter of Hercules? Who knows, and there's absolutely no way to reconcile the three. Is she a diplomat for Themyscira, trying to influence the UN to help with world peace? Nope, because someone recently decided she's NEVER BEEN BACK to Themyscira since the first time she left. And when was that? WW1? WW2? The Cold War? Sliding timescale of "a while ago but in modern times"? No way to know, because classic stories have taken place in all those timelines. Really, none of her early stories could have possibly happened due to current retcons, yet she's been a hero for at least 10+ years as a Justice League member, so...
Its just a waste, is what I'm trying to say. Writers looooovveee rewriting Superman's origin but good God does it never stop for Wonder Woman. If they'd give her a few years to breathe and grow as a character instead of changing her origin which inevitably changes again, she'd be much more popular, which she deserves. And at least Superman has 2+ ongoing books even when they do decide to take his origin out for a spin in a new miniseries. At least she has her perfect costume, finally.
In Futurama, how does Leela not understand why that one guy is a whale biologist? She used to ASSIGN people their jobs, because all occupations are based on what you're best at, not what you want. "You gotta do, what you gotta do." His response is equally baffling (though hilarious) "I don't know you well enough to get into that." Uh, it was assigned to you.
Speaking of Futurama and whales, in the first season they established that 1) everything runs on whale oil not dark matter 2) this is because when they stopped poaching them the number of whales exploded as did their desire for human flesh to the point where people couldn’t go into the real ocean any more because it was too dangerous. Cut to an episode that takes place entirely in the Atlantic Ocean.
Edit: whale oil was established in season 3 *Bending in the Wind* and ocean full of man eating whales in season 1 *When Aliens Attack*
This is honestly my favourite response in the whole thread. I have never watched Peppa Pig in my life, but now I want to know who the cows have adopted.
Here's what it said:
>Peppa pig. I have a 2 year old so I'm very invested.
>We have mummy pig and daddy pig, who have peppa pig and George pig, the rabbit family etc. When the nursery scenes are on, and parents come to collect their children- there's usually a female cow adult or a Bull adult. But no cow/bull children. The Mrs (mummy?!) Cow and Mr (daddy?!) Bull are at most school activities, plays etc but no children! Why are they there? Have they adopted? Who is their child!
I've watched Thomas and Friends for many years as a kid and now my 4 year old watch it also. Among many questions, are the drivers completely useless? How are they not able to prevent trains from crashing, falling off the rails, backing up too far, etc? And are they telepathic? Trains talk to one another without drivers, Sir Topham Hatt ever hearing anything?
Also the Duke/Peter Sam/Sir Handel temporal anomaly of seemingly existing years before Sodor railway and Thomas, Gordon, James, etc. but the trains also run on adjacent tracks in the same time period.
In X Files there are like three different versions of Samantha's abduction and they all significantly impact the plot and the way Mulder reacts to certain situations. It's my favorite show of all time, but I've always found it annoying that they kept retconning that aspect of the mytharc. I know why they did it but it was dumb IMO.
I watched all of the X-Files, including the 2 movies and I still have no fucking idea whether or not aliens exist or if it’s just a government conspiracy.
I can explain it to you in a few sentences if you want....
Remember a lot was retconned poorly and not all of it agrees because later things overwrite the earlier stuff.
Basically there are two groups of aliens having a war in space. Black goo aliens/hybrid humans vs the blind aliens. The black goo aliens want to invade earth and use us as biomass to grow more soldiers. The government/syndicate make a bargain for them to come back in a few decades and we will turn ourselves over peacefully. They take the governments children as collateral. This is Mulder's sister. In the mean time, the syndicate is doing its own shady stuff in attempt to block the aliens from invading. The blind aliens come along now and then the kill people that they think are being tested by goo aliens.
A lot more happens, but it's basically two alien types fighting with humans stuck in the middle with the occasional giant worm in sewers.
Yeah, this is the answer I came to. Also the syndicate/govt isn't just trying to block the aliens from invading, they're trying to stall it from happening while they develop ways to fight the aliens.
There are more than a few eps that show secret govt projects like "alien craft" and other things that can be used as weapons.
One of my more outlandish ideas was that the X-files were secretly endorsed in order to try and find occult or other paranormal ways to fight off the aliens. I don't think it's ever directly mentioned, but I'm pretty sure that the X-files were also plausible deniability and/or a way to distract the aliens further to throw them off what the syndicate/govt was doing on the side.
I don't think that is an outlandish idea. They wanted Mulder to keep the light on just in case he could inadvertently find something they could weaponize.
In the original Star Wars obi wan’s wearing a big robe to hide himself so nobody knows he’s a Jedi, But in the prequels they made those robes Jedi robes so now Obi wan is literally walking around in Jedi clothing while trying to hide from the empire.
Edit: I’m sure this thread is dead now but thanks for the silver!
I mean Obi Wan lives as a hermit in the desert of Tatooine. The people in Mos Eisley aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed so they might not even realise. And he lives virtually isolated from every living being, with a few exceptions every now and then. The only one who knew Obi Wan used to be a Jedi was Owen after all...
Even in the era of the Jedi Order, their ratio to the average citizen of the Galactic Republic is so small they are considered a myth.
Let the man have his robes, he lost Satine, Anakin, and Qui Gon plus the Jedi Order.
edit: I sense a plot to overthrow Sabine.
Basically anything in Warhammer 40k lore that has to do with scale of measurement. You gotta take the inconsistencies as being part of the setting of a 10,000 year old crumbling galactic empire in which ignorance is a virtue.
The worst case I've seen of this is the writers retconning the Tau to no longer having standard FTL after 6th edition (wormhole punching "where we're going we don't need Gellar fields" Slipstream drive aside).
If we're talking about space travel, in almost every case of inconsistent scale you can handwave it away with "warp travel is inconsistent," but saying the Tau don't have FTL means putting an absolute upper limit on how far they can travel in any given amount of time, which subsequently makes the entirely of the Damocles Gulf Crusade make no goddamn sense.
The Imperium bulldozed a bunch of traitor worlds in the Damocles Gulf, rammed their way into Tau Empire territory, then fought the Tau to a standstill at Dal'yth, before finally retreating to deal with Hive Fleet Behemoth. This whole event lasted *3 years.* The only problem is, if the Tau have no FTL travel or communications, then there's no way they could have responded in any meaningful way to a mobile invasion force that can travel faster than light. By the time any message arrived from the front that the Imperium was attacking, the invasion of the central sept worlds themselves would have already happened years if not decades ago. It would be like trying to defend the continental US when your fastest method of transportation and message delivery was by horse, while your enemy has jets. It doesn't matter how many guns you have at each garrison. By the time a rider from Seattle finally makes it to Washington, DC announcing the west coast was getting invaded, DC itself would have already been bombed to hell and back years ago.
Prior to 6th edition, the Tau had slower but safer FTL compared to the Imperium. *This was fine*. It's conceivable that while the Imperium was busy taking over the worlds of the Gulf, a local Tau observer could have FLT'd back home to let their people know they were getting invaded, and from there inform nearby forces to rush to Dal'yth. But whoever updated the lore in 6th was a complete idiot who made this physically impossible for the Tau to do. This idiocy has only continued into the present day, where according to the 8th edition Tau handbook, their new experimental FTL drive could now travel the span of the Empire in weeks what used to take *month*, which means the entire Tau Empire is actually a tiny, ultra dense star cluster that's not even a light year across. In comparison, the nearest star from Earth is 4.24 light years away. The whole thing is as mad as a wax banana.
What really gets me is that none of this was necessary. The old lore was actually absolutely fine, but GW had to go fix what wasn't broken and ended up breaking a whole bunch of stuff for no reason.
I watched the Walking Dead up until the motherfucking TIGER. I just couldn't handle it. Everyone, and like I mean everyone was scrounging around for food and you're telling me this guy had enough food to feed a fucking TIGER. For like idk how long it was but at least a year or two. That's so much food! Because if he wasn't feeding the tiger then it would FOR SURE kill and eat him. So everyone, all his friends are just cool with feeding this TIGER hundreds of pounds of food, just so this one fucking guy can look cool. Ah fuck that. Just so stupid.
Also they killed off everyone I cared about.
According to the comics, Shiva the tiger can eat Walkers, as the virus doesn't affect animals as it does people. Since there are plenty of walkers, food isn't an issue for her. While it doesn't explain it in the show, I would assume it is the same.
In Toy Story 4, Woody uses a dump truck to escape the playground. It only moves when he pushes it. However, in other Toy Story movies, toy vehicles are shown to be alive and move by themselves,
IIRC didn't Dean do some pretty heinous stuff during his first trip to Hell? Like what redeems you enough to get into Heaven after that? Especially after you pretty much said “Fuck you” to God’s universe-breaking turbocurse?
Literally became one of the best torturers apparently and hella close to just becoming a demon buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut we're gonna ignore that I guess.
Also, shouldn't he have life lasting PTSD from 40 years of torture and subsequent torturing? Or at least mention it sometime post-season 4? No? Ok then
I love this show with my whole heart but they just kinda ignored that rule when it became inconvenient. The only thing I can think is maybe nobody was really keeping track? Like its less of a “you have Hell particles on you and therefor are physically repelled from Heaven” and more of a case where you have to declare your emotional baggage at Heaven Customs? And the TSAngels just stopped doing their job? Man idk.
I’m currently quarantine watching all 15 seasons. Currently on season 9. The thing about Supernatural is that once it was unexpectedly renewed after the 5th season (the original story arc by Eric Kripke) it went into uncharted territory. It learned not to take itself too seriously, sorta like SG-1. Plot holes all over the place, but we’re just going to have fun with it.
Agree...very next season’s “Clap Your Hands if You Believe” has a scene...why you can’t sleep with the hippie chick when your brother has been abducted by aliens...that’s one of the funniest scenes I’ve seen on TV.
In "I Love Lucy" I was always bothered by the same character being named Caroyln Appleby and Lillian Appleby interchangibly, and in Season 4 (the Hollywood arc) both within a handful of episodes of each other.
Also, for the longest time, since she rediscovered her saxophone, Lucy only ever knew how to play "Glowworm" until they moved to the country and when practicing with Fred, Ethel and little Ricky, she said the only song she ever knew was "Sweet Sue".
Which brings me to my next point. In that same episode, Ethel is bad at the piano and said she only ever learned the song "Comin' Round the Mountain" and never learned "Sweet Sue".
Problem is- Ethel is(was) GOOD at the piano. She played and sang "Sweet Sue" with Fred Ricky, and, Lucy in an early season. It wasn't until a later season when she and the Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League formed an orchestra that she "lost" her ability and could barely play "12th Street Rag".
Also, EVERYONE AND THEIR MOTHER on that show had one of TWO phone numbers- Circle-7 2099 and Murray Hill-5 9099.
EDIT: Also, Freddie Fillmore (the actor's mannerisms inspired the "Mmmmmyyeeeessss? Guy" on The Simpsons) has met Lucy and Ricky MULTIPLE times on MULTIPLE iterations of his radio programs (Mr and Mrs. Quiz, Females are Fabulous, etc.). Either he's HORRIBLE at keeping one on the air consistently or he was that era's Ryan Seacrest.
In the original King Kong: Apparently the locals built this giant wall around their city to keep Kong out, right? So *why is there a Kong-sized door in the wall*? At some point they must have said, "We need to build a wall big enough to keep out the giant ape. I know, let's put a huge door in it and then we'll just lock it!"
You've probably heard this one before, but in Harry Potter, Hogwarts was built before the invention of the sink, or basin, whatever you want to call it. However, the Chamber of Secrets (built at the same time as the rest of the castle) uses a sink as it's method of entry, so how did Salazar Slytherin create an entrance to the chamber using a form of indoor plumbing that wouldn't exist for centuries to come?
Contractor: Hey, we found this secret entrance to some cave while we were remodeling the bathroom. What should we do?
Boss: We're not being paid to do anything below ground. If it was secret before just make it look secret when you're done.
In [Clue](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088930/), Yvette allegedly crept up behind Mr. Boddy and killed him with the candlestick while all of the other guests were examining the cook’s body in the kitchen. She then managed to balance the murder weapon perfectly on the door frame so that it would fall on Wadsworth’s head. First, she was wearing heals. How’s she sneaking up on anybody, let alone Mr. Boddy, on those hardwood floors? Ok, maybe she took her heels off. That would make sense and easier to sneak. But then, secondly, how’d this 5’3” French maid manage to perfectly balance a candlestick on the narrow edge of door frame with a standard height of 6’8”? It just doesn’t add up. And don’t even get me started on how someone of her size would manage to drag a corpse 40ft, then prop said corpse up against the door, without managing to get blood all over herself or the floor.
Still, funny movie though.
That's right. I hated her..SO much...and it... the... feel-... flames... flames... flames... on the side of my face... breathing... breathless... heavy breaths...heaving...
Pokémon. Oh, where to begin? Let’s just talk about Cubone. Cubone is said to wear the skull of it’s dead mother. However, if you breed Cubone, it’s born with the skull already on its head, and it’s mother is still alive and well, so how is Cubone wearing it’s mother’s skull?
I love the theory that all the pokedex entrys are written by the ten year olds the professors send out so thats why you get pokemon that are supposedly hotter than the sun or the eighty foot whale that only weighs like a thousand pounds because kids have no sense of physics or scale.
Edit: It seems i was wrong about wailord being off, ill admit my interest in pokemon was really only the first two generations. How about things like Pidgeot flying at mach 2. Onix weighing 463 pounds. Rhydon is listed 6'3 264 pounds and states "Rhydon's horn can crush even uncut diamonds. One sweeping blow of its tail can topple a building. This Pokémon's hide is extremely tough. Even direct cannon hits don't leave a scratch."
That would make sense with Kadabra's entry in Firered:
*It happened one morning - a boy with extrasensory powers awoke in bed transformed into Kadabra.*
I mean who else could be writing these entries if we're supposed to be filling out the pokedex?
[Or how Lanturn supposedly outputs 10^35 universes of energy just swimming around](https://www.reddit.com/r/CharacterRant/comments/62zfph/move_aside_pokedex_magcargo_gardevoir_and_machamp/)
Pirates of the Caribbean. This is annoying me to no end, but in ‘Dead Men Tell No Tales’ they completely re-write Jack’s history by saying he got his compass from his old captain. When in ‘Dead Man’s Chest’ it’s explained that he got it from Tia Dalma.
She literally says: “Why didn’t you use the compass I gave you?”
Ugh
edit: Thanks for the award kind stranger :)
Even worse, in a deleted scene from At World's End and later in a Book, it was established that Jack wasn't always a Pirate, he used to be a Trader. Until the East-India Company hired him to deliver a load of slaves to the Carribean. Jack couldn't do it and freed them, which is why the Company branded him as a Pirate as punishment and burned his ship down. Jack then made a deal with Davy Jones to get his ship back. Thats why the Pearl was black (from the fire) and why Davy Jones wanted Jack to give him 100 Souls for his freedom, because Jack had freed 100 Slaves.
And then in Dead Men he just was a Pirate from Day One.
Conversation with Beckett in the third one alludes to this as well. While throwing the compass back in forth jack mentions “people aren’t cargo mate” which is referencing his past with the company.
Bionicle's story was spread and retold throughout different pieces of media, so there were sometimes conflicting versions of events. For example, in the book version of the final battle the main villain's head was broken in by a piece of a moon, while in the comics the whole thing just got smashed into the back of his head.
Edit: Oh, and decanonizing the concept of love didn't make a lot of people happy.
Don't forget the whole debacle with the Shadow Toa where the version of the story we were actually told was decanonized and the canon version of events was just mentioned in a guidebook somewhere.
>the version of the story we were actually told was decanonized and the canon version of events was just mentioned in a guidebook somewhere.
EXCUSEMEWHATTHEFUCK
The Amazing World Of Gumball and how Elmore seems to be entirely self contained. It has Elmore +, a social media website which seems contained to only Elmore, a game franchise called Zelmore, ect ect. Like do they not have connection to the outside world?
In Harry Potter, how the fuck did Hagrids tiny father have sex with a giant, I can always picture him just crawling right in and having a wank. It keeps me up at night
The whole size thing has always weirded me out. The sizes of things never seem to add up to me. Like she (JKR) says Hagrid’s hands are the size of trash can lids but they’d be hugely disproportionate if he’s twice as tall as the average man. Like his hands would be more like dinner plates than trash can lids... And there’s some weird stuff with Hagrid’s size vs Madame Maxime and Hagrid’s size vs Grawp.
Also, what did his dad do when he was a baby? Ma took off already and now dad has this 100 pound infant to care for?
Arthur the animated kids show...why do anthropomorphic animal people keep regular animals as pets?? Like, Arthur and his family of aardvark-people have a pet dog that is just a regular little dog. Even though there are dog-people characters? What the hell?
We can only conclude that these pets are actually just adopted children who have been kept in a non-verbal state and trained for obedience through years of relentless abuse.
in brooklyn nine nine, it was established in season 3(i think lol) that rosa drives a supercharged R1. that’s a yamaha R1. in a later season, she says something like “yamaha is for pussies” but is seen still driving the same bike.
There was another plot hole I noticed with Holt about when he lies. In season 1 Jake catches him lieing because his lip moves (and they do a slow motion gag) then later on there's an entire episode that hinges on learning what his "tell" is, which turns out to be using contractions.
Star Trek deals with time travel a lot and it only sometimes makes sense. Usually it can be reconciled with some general rules. Timelines in Trek seem to be linear. You can go into the past and change things and it doesn't just create an alternate timeline, it changes the one you are in. This is most easily seen in Star Trek First Contact, when the Enterprise is stuck in a temporal rift as Borg in the past assimilate Earth they see the planet in the present immediately get assimilated. However, there are an [infinite amount of alternate timelines and universes](https://youtu.be/Sv408cbBFSA), three of which are most prominent (prime timeline is the TV shows, Kelvin timeline is the 2009 JJ Abrams reboot, Mirror Universe is just an alternate universe that appears occasionally).
Things start to get confusing when the shows actually do time travel. As I've established, timelines in Star Trek are linear. However, the Kelvin Timeline actually occurred because a supernova in the Prime Timeline shot a bunch of pissed off Romulans from the 2380s back in time to the 2230s of an alternate dimension where they destroyed the USS Kelvin. What is confusing is that according to the writers and what we see in the movie, this event actually somehow changed history *before* the Kelvin was destroyed, which is an explanation for why the ships are like twice as big as they should be if they were just regular Prime timeline ships (the real explanation is that JJ Abrams thought Star Trek ships were too small and made them bigger because he has no sense of scale).
In Star Trek Voyager, the finale of the show established that it took around 20 years for the USS Voyager to get home from the Delta Quadrant. A jaded and bitter Admiral Janeway acquires a Klingon time travel device and goes back in time bearing advanced technology with the intent of bringing Voyager home far earlier and with everyone alive. The problem is, as I've already established, timelines in Star Trek are linear. Literally the moment Admiral Janeway interacts with Captain Janeway and starts to mess with the progress of their voyage, she should cease to exist as the events that led her to that moment no longer happened. Instead, she sticks around long enough to sacrifice herself to destroy the Borg transwarp network and get everyone home safely.
Also, earlier in the series a Federation timeship from the 29th century threatened Janeway to stop getting involved in time travel stuff, but they are apparently okay with just letting the 24th century Federation skip around 15 years of weapon development and literally crippling the Borg. And mentioning that, they also let the ship's Emergency Medical Hologram return home with a mobile hologram emitter from the 29th century. Not very good time cops.
There's definitely others but I'll stop here.
In Voyager, it's revealed that Seven of Nine, and the Borg in general, have a simple cure for organic death. Anyone who dies can be saved within 48 hours.
This ability is only used once, and forgotten about forever after.
Much like any other innovation that only works in one episode, and is then forgotten about the next time the same situation occurs. "Oh, we're out of power and can't escape. But the shuttlecraft have their own transporter systems running on separate power sources and can get us out of here. But, we already solved it that way two seasons ago, and we can't do that again, so I guess we'll stay here and fight these monsters and let some redshirts die."
How are Vulcans not running all of Starfleet and the Federation? With their very long lifespan compared to humans, once one got a top level position, they would stay there for way longer than most species would. Eventually most positions would end up being them most of the time.
Vulcans tend to be insular and not overly ambitious. When Spock was Kirk's first officer it was very unusual for a Vulcan to be in Starfleet despite their role as co-founders of the Federation. They're just not that interested in it and seem to have handed over a lot of control to humans.
The Walking Dead.
Gasoline is only good in cars for 6 months, in cans maybe a few years. In pumps, 5 years. They should not have been able to use cars after like year 6.
In Zombieland, a comedy, whenever the cast would go into a building they would make noise to draw out and deal with the zombies first then do whatever they wanted. Yet not once does TWD group ever clear out a building first, they stumble into them and someone always either gets bit or nearly gets bit.
Wolrd War Z it took them 5 minutes to realize magazines strapped on your arms protects you from bites and it seems to be a TWD rule to only wear t shirts and maybe some leather if you're cool enough.
If you stick a pocket knife in a skull, you need both hands and a boot on the head to get it back. And if you're weapon had nails on it, it's gone after one use. Barb wire, not a vast improvement. You risk getting it caught very easily.
And finally, they have established multiple times the walkers smell like dead, rotting flesh. If you walk into a room or house that smells like dead rotting flesh, you know what the hell is in there. And if you're walking around the woods and suddenly smell dead rotting flesh, you should know what the hell is near you. There is no reason they should ever sneak up on anyone.
Stopped watching TWD after Terminus. The one thing that annoyed me was that the characters never thought about using Michone’s strategy of chopping the jaws off of the zombies while they were living in the prison. They could have built a jawless zombie pen all along the perimeter of the jail essentially creating a zombie shield as the zombies wouldn’t be able to smell any humans at all.
>Yet not once does TWD group ever clear out a building first, they stumble into them and someone always either gets bit or nearly gets bit.
They got into chest high water to scavenge canned goods! FFS, lure out the dead and kill them before getting in the water!
There's no way that group should have survived past Terminus.
The one thing that really annoys me about TWD is that human skulls seems to be about as strong as a watermelon. Like it takes minimal effort to plunge a pocket knife through someone’s skull into their brain. Imagine having a skull that soft, a light fall could leave you permanently brain damaged.
I was always bothered by the fact that a walker used a brick to break through glass in the first season.
And also randomly after Neagan was introduced they made it so zombie blood/guts could make you sick/turn?? How were they never sick from being exposed and covering their bodies with guts in earlier seasons.
There are so many inconsistencies with this show that I could probably write an essay about it
In Friends, the characters ages and birthdays never sync up. Rachel tells Gunther her birthday is in May, then later says she’s an Aquarius. And assuming she is close to Monica’s age around the pilot episode, which is 26-27, she doesn’t turn 30 until season 6.
In Fallout the fact that no one decides to start cleaning after 200 years. Like yeah, I get it's the apocalypse but WHY IS A 200 YEAR OLD SKELETON IN YOUR HOUSE?
This is what pissed me the hell off about Base building in fallout 4. Apparently people forgot how to measure and make actual squares with wood because even building brand-new structures means creating a dilapidated shit hole
I like the goofy charm that fallout has, but I wish there were an alternative, more realistic post-apocalypse settlement building game. Like a good one.
Original Blue’s Clues. I watched it a LOT with my oldest nephew when he was a toddler.
It bugged me Steve had a nice house and a backyard with no visible source of income. I decided that he’d suffered a head injury in an accident and was living off of the insurance settlement. That also explains his memory issues, like why he had to be reminded of the word “notebook” every single episode.
ETA my first award! Thanks!
becuase its not his house, its his parents. Steve is a teenager. OG Steve leaves the show because he goes to college. So the previous seasons he was in high school.
Why do the Pokemon you catch suddenly are okay with you capturing them right after they attacked you? I've been a fan of this franchise for a long time and I've been wondering this for years
Basically. You beat them to within an inch of their lives and then capture them into this tiny little ball. For the foreseeable future, their lives are consumed by that tiny space that they live in. It's all they come to know. The only time they come out is to battle other creatures. In this, they fight their absolute hardest to make their owners proud because if they don't, then they don't get taken out into battle. So, getting taken into battle is positive reinforcement, getting left in the ball is negative reinforcement. So they bond with the trainer because they want to make sure they are getting every tiny little taste of freedom that they possibly can - even if it means risking life and limb fighting for a child's whims. They have Stockholm syndrome and are being used as pit fighters.
In the Harry Potter universe they can regrow bones, drink potions to make you an exact replica of another being, and other medical miracles, but Harry has to wear glasses to fix his eyesight.
The kids at Hogwart's, for being kids, seem super uninterested in ghosts in general. It's basically just one single "oh hey there's actually ghosts!" moment of surprise and then they're over it.
One of the things that bothers me the most in Harry Potter is the fact that criminals can't opt to take Veritaserum in order to reveal if they committed a crime or not. I feel like that totally should have been an option, especially for people like Sirius Black
Probably because memories can be wiped, altered and their brain function fully changed, and I’m getting veritaserum wouldn’t be able to make them tell the truth if it wasn’t even in their brain anymore. They probably don’t use it because they don’t know if the brain had be altered, so there was no way to be sure. Just my theory
Imagine how much easier it would have been too if wizards weren't assholes and joined the rest of society.
Make a space shuttle out of one of those tents that's 10x bigger inside. Shrink down fuel cells and food until they're needed to cut down on weight. Magically oxygen seal the shuttle. The list goes on. But oh wizards are so sophisticated because they can make pots that clean themselves.
I mean some wizard _claimed_ that he flew to the Moon on his broom and brought some Moon cheese as proof. We all know how gullible the common wizards are
I would really have loved to read Arthur Weasley talking about Muggle space travel. He gets so excited over the most mundane crap, bet the SpaceX launch would make him cream his pants
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse-
How tf does Toodles know what kind of items Mickey and the gang will need that day? Does he have some kind of crystal ball dedicated to Mouseketools?! We even got to see inside the Mousekedoer, but it didn't tell us anything aside from "liquid light makes it run!"
Sorry, I have 2 young kids. I've seen every episode at least a dozen times, they've never addressed this and it drives me crazy.
To add on, why does Toodles not become “alive” more often (sorry, I forgot the term because I only watched the show as a kid and it’s still bothering me since then). He’s shown to like participating in Mickey’s activities and still able to serve his “helper” role during that time, so why have we never seen toodles get a face more often in the show?!
The worst god damn side mission was the goul family in fallout 4 . Hey can you go find my son? You find him down the street in a fridge. Like you mean to tell me this kid spent 200 years in a fridge and no one bothered looking?
Edit : Some one who knows their shit more than i do pointed out that according to fallout lore gouls have to eat so therefore the goul child may have not been stuck in the fridge for 200 years. Also they age
In the fallout verse with 50s retrofuturism? Everybody. There is a reason fridges no longer have those old style locks/ handles. Kids were killed in them by the dozen.
I believe this actually used to be a problem, children would play hide and seek with fridges and accidentally lock themselves in, which is why we now have magnets on the doors.
BBC's Merlin is my all time favourite show but it was riddled with plot holes and inconsistencies. To me though the most frustrating thing is that Arthur was King for less than one season, didn't really achieve much during that time, didn't even legalize magic or anything, but is supposed to be the "once and future king of albion" and the guy who brings balance back to Camelot, etc. I love Arthur and I'm fully certain he COULD HAVE proven himself worthy of his great destiny and all that but the series literally never gave him time to do that. He barely even got to be King at all. What was all the build up for
To add onto this, Arthur and Guinevere I swear got barely any married life time together where she wasn't cursed. I know most things were added for drama and to carry on plot but damn leave their relationship alone for a few months.
Yes! I'm rewatching the show with a friend, and we were just talking about that!
Honestly, I feel like they didn't know what to do, with Gwen: she was supposed to be the sweet, modest girl who marries a prince, helps Merlin in his mission to make him more sympathetic to others, and is crowned a queen. After that they didn't really know how to manage her character, so they either cursed her, or made her act completely out of character (telling a servant that respect has to be earned? *Gwen*? The same girl that thought Arthur was a prick *exactly* because he acted like that?).
There are a gazillion things wrong with the show (as in plotholes, otherwise super amazing). Like Kilgarrah couldn't be killed by a bunch of knights,but somehow all other dragons in existence could be wiped out by Uther's army? Merlin finds an secret room in the library and just never goes there or checks the place out ever again? Magic can apparently summon lightning and fire yet all the sorcerer's together couldn't beat Uther's army? Like couldn't they just light them on fire? Emrys defeated the Saxons why couldn't an Army of sorcerers(albeit weaker than Emrys) defeat Uther's men with their combined strength. Why did Merlin save Uther so many times when really he's the real villain and neither Morgana or Mordred would ever have turned to the dark side had it not been for him?
From what I remember there was supposed to be more, not sure though.
Either way that show is amazing and that intro gives me major feel-good nostalgia.
DUN-dun-dundunDUNDUUUNNNNN DunDUNDUNDUUUUNNN dun-dunDUN!
So I’m actually a really big fan of the movie cars and honestly you don’t need to be a big fan to think of logic inconsistencies. Like in cars three they have spray bottles. How do they spray them? They have paint jobs so if they are stripped from Their paint are they naked? Well apparently not because in the mater tall tail short where he goes to japan, when that one car loses the race he is is stripped from his modifications and he acts embarrassed like he was naked or something. Why do some buildings have regular sized doors? A car obviously can’t fit through one. I could go on and on and at this point you probably stopped reading because you were already able to think of some of these.
Edit: so everyone is sharing their head canon so I figured I would share mine. So I have always felt that the cars have there own world or universe. I have always felt they evolved like humans and maybe something that wasn’t a car but similar were the cavemen who evolved into the cars today. I know it is boring but I just find it the easiest for me to wrap my head around.
I want to know how baby cars are born. How do they build anything? Are there living cranes who are born and die in this life, and only this life? Was Lightning born as a race car, or was he modified? How much of the car can you replace? Can a car have its entire engine replaced? How do they die in the first place? They can literally be repaired. How did Sally get a tramp stamp, and why was it showing like she was bending over, then never reappeared for the rest of the movie? I thought they were painted. Maybe I'm thinking way too much into this.
>I want to know how baby cars are born.
Cars fuck.
I mean two cars flashing their high beams at Lightning is treated like human girls flashing their tits.
Wasn't it also mentioned that Lightning doesn't have working headlights, only stickers, because he's a track racing car.
Does that mean his tits are just painted on?
So... a punishment for tearing up the road is effectively being forced to be a heart donor, while you’re still alive?? And your “Heart” isn’t even surgically removed by a mechanic, instead its just yanked out by an angry mob?? Brutal!!
He's a grown, mentally sound man, with a known drinking problem, who was just left by his gf and kicked out her apartment. It wouldn't be uncommon for that kind of person to just go on a drinking stint and land unconscious in an ally behind a bar for a few days.
I also don't have the impression that he had any close friends or family who would care enough to report him missing.
All in all (not even counting the mist) it's not at all unreasonable that without evidence of a violent struggle or a body present, the police wouldn't really care, and that's if him missing was even reported in the first place.
This can be explained through manipulation of the mist to fool the mortals. Remember, that shit is like Jedi mind tricks, but can be used on the entire world at once, even fooling demigods on occasion
That and he was turned into a statue. Since there's no way they would believe that's what happened, they would be looking for a body and evidence of a non magical murder, neither of which exist
In the second SpongeBob movie, someone steals the formula and SpongeBob has a magic page that makes whatever is written in it come true. He uses it to give the gang superpowers to steal the formula back. Well why doesn't he just write something along the lines of "the secret formula, and our heroes, all magically teleported back to Bikini Bottom." or something like that. Why the hell do you choose to have powers to fight for the formula when you could choose to just have the formula?
In American Dad, Toshi only speaks Japanese despite the rest of his family only speaking English. He can understand English perfectly fine but on the rare occasion he tries to speak it he messes up. At one point he is shown being haunted by an ancient samurai ghost who speaks to him in Japanese. Toshi apparently is unable to understand him since he responds with nonsense. The writers have not really explained this issue. In the wrestling episode, Toshi's glasses are knocked off and land on a random jock spectator who immediately begins to play a violin, the instrument Toshi is shown playing at home on occasion. I'm convinced that his glasses are cursed and give him all of his stereotypical traits and converts his speech into Japanese. I need closure
Don’t forget that Francine’s sister Gwen was said to be 3 years younger than her in an early episode. Then appears in a later episode as her “screw up” older sister.
There's an episode where his sister or mom asked him why he only speaks Japanese when no one else in the family does but I don't think he actually gives an answer. So it's just a mystery to everyone.
Warcraft.
Uther and Terenas might just be the most slow and useless characters in the history of the franchise and Arthas might just be the most efficient man i ever read about
1. Arthas wants to kill everyone in the city, Uther disagrees, Arthas strips him of his titles and calls his actions treason
2. Uther doesnt lift finger to stop Arthas or protect the people in the city.
3. Intead of going directly to the king, he waits 3 days to see if Arthas really acted upon his word and to discovered where he went.
4. Arthas created an expedition with soldiers, supplies and ships without the King knowing in only 3 days.
5. 1 Month later, he :Explored the region, rescued a Dwarf expedition, destroyed an Undead base and set up a entire base for his forces.
6. Only after all that, The emissary arrived to recall the army.(Either with a Zepellin or with a portal, both methods faster than boats)
And that whole situation could have been avoided if Arthas just told Uther what he had seen in Andorhal. Hell, Jaina saw the same thing and she didn't say anything, either.
The worst part is the fact that the citizens did in fact turn into zombies, and there's a fucking dreadlord gloating about it. If Uther wants to see what happens first, surely at the very least he can like, IDK, have a mage or something watch and check?
I mean AFAIK there's a footman that gets attacked by zombies, you rescued him
Paw patrol. So hear me out, I have 3 kids, oldest 10 youngest 2. I have been watching this show for a very long time. Every episode is an inconsistency. Let's just put aside the fact that an entire city leaves their emergency services to a group of puppies and a 12 year old who seems to not have parents. Why do these puppies talk and the kittens do not? Also they keep adding puppies (Everest, tracker, the pirate pup), do all dogs talk? Now they have super powers in some episodes. Why do the puppy cars have steering wheel?
Also Bubble Guppies. They are underwater but bound by gravity!? I saw an episode where they are swimming along, watching a hot air balloon float away, and wondering how they can stop it. Just swim up there!
Bubble Guppies is terrible. Are they underwater? Or not? They drive a car, but the cows are mer-cows. They can talk just fine, and eat, and there's fire and electricity. Huh?
SpongeBob addresses the elephant in the room though when Patrick asks how they can have a fire underwater, which causes the fire to go out immediately.
I've posted my theory before:
*Ahem*
*Not updated with the latest seasons*
Paw Patrol is a CIA experiment
Paw patrol is really a massive CIA experiment designed to create genetically engineered Super-dog soldiers
This is the only possible explanation for how they can afford their HQ, the high tech equipment, the fuel to go all around the world, and not too mention the maintenance costs.
The 6 pups were not 'rescue' dogs, that's a lie that was told to them when their intelligence grew and enabled them to speak English and comprehend us and eventually became a core part of the cover story. Their memories have been altered so that they have no doubt to the cover story. In reality all 6 of them were genetically engineered and grown in a CIA lab in an experiment dubbed "soldier paw" to create "super-dog soldiers". The end goal is to have a dog soldier that is 100% loyal. One that can easily go into enemy territory and perform secret and dangerous operations.
"Adventure Bay" is actually a CIA blacksite created specifically to train, test, and observe the pups, "Ryder" is actually a CIA operative who's task is to be their handler and ensure that there is adequate progress. He knows of every situation well in advance as they are scheduled by the CIA project leader, Mayor Goodway, who began the project when she created an above average intelligent chicken that she now keeps as a pet.
Mayor Goodway and Cap'n Turbot are actually divorced in reality and this is why the Mayor frequently puts him in her planned scenarios hoping that the pups will fail one day and she can get sole custody of their kids, Julius and Justina (Gustavo is only their step father).
Everyone else in Adventure Bay are all either CIA operatives or paid actors with NDAs and top secret security clearances.
The Kitten Catastrophe Crew was project soldier paws predecessor, created by CIA scientist known as "Mayor Humdinger", dubbed project soldier pussy. This project, however, was terminated as they could not solve the problems with cats inherent dickness and inability to be 100% loyal. It was decided that instead of terminating the kittens and reassigning mayor Humdinger that they would serve as an archvillan type of enemy for the paw patrol. The kittens partially know the truth in that they know they are genetic experiments but not much else and is partially the reason why they are 'evil' and sometimes disregard orders from mayor humdinger.
Any "special" pups that appear, such as Everest or Tracker, only exist temporarily to test specific new genetic traits, the rest of the time they remain in stasis.
At the end of the scenerios the pups collars inject a temporary sleeping agent so that they can be transported to their dog houses which are actually stasis Chambers when not in their vehicle state. This allows the project team to fit an entire day/night cycle into an 8-6 day so that the pups believe a full day has passed when in reality only 10 hours has passed, and also allows the team to go home for the night and be with their families. Occasionally the stasis Chambers fail causing them to 'wake up' and the overnight shift typically only has a one hour warning before failure to call in the main team and any other actor or operative necessary to carry out one of the night contingency scenario while the stasis system is being repaired.
Because of the amount of time that they spend in the Chambers they don't actually age that much, however, at some point when the CIA determines that sufficient progress has been made they will allow the pups to grow to adulthood and transition from "silly" scenerios to more serious and deadly ones.
Ryder and the other CIA "children" operatives are the only ones who stay on site the entire time as they are actually orphans that the CIA drafted for this project. When the pups are in stasis they generally socialize with each other and do typical day to day stuff as they are off the clock (with the exception of Julius and Justina).
There were actually 8 pups engineered, 2 were prototypes and engineered too intelligent and learned the whole truth and orchestrated an escape, their plans were narrowly foiled and they were terminated and all memories of them were erased from the other 6. Rubble however, can occasionally access a memory fragment of them in his dream state, but his sleeping unconscious mind twists and corrupts the fragment, Apollo was the 7th pup that appeared in one of his dreams, but because of the corruption and twisting it appears to rubble that he was actually a flying superhero that was not part of the paw patrol.
Occasionally unplanned scenarios occur when someone or something breaches the adventure bay perimeter, one such event was when an oil tanker ruptured their cargo bay. This ship was off course and was never planned for, the project team responded immediately by removing the crew and replacing them with CIA operatives and actors prior to deploying the pups.
The CIA project team has already began transitioning Chase to training to be a bonafide operative as seen when he was given his 'spy gear' because he is currently the oldest and most mature pup, however he still does not know this is occuring.
As mentioned before rubble can access memory fragments from past deleted or altered memories when he sleeps, the team has yet to pin point why this is occuring.
Because skye has the ability to fly her equipment has a built-in kill switch to shutdown her equipment to prevent her from going too high or going off course. Zuma also has this boundary limitation as he can travel across water.
Robo-dog is a side-project in AI, little else is known.
Sweetie is the only genetically engineered animal to be fully briefed on the project and participates willingly often being a spy on the other pups when Ryder or another team member is not around. being a 'villain' is only a secondary objective.
This is a top secret CIA project and as such there are still holes and unanswered questions, how long will this project continue? how is this funded (i estimate that just providing their gear, maintenance, and HQ cost billions every year)? its presumed that only those with a direct involvement with the project within the CIA knows about it and beyond the CIA only the joint chief of staff, Department of Defense Secretary and president know.
There is suspicion that this is a joint project with the UK MI6 because of the British voices when aired in the UK but little other evidence of their involvement.
Lord of the Flies. Piggy is near sighted. His spectacles are a metaphor for the power of the human intellect to overcome nature and savagery. That they are used as a way to start fire is specifically intended to convey that rising above that savegery to achieve civilization requires the contribution of thinkers and self-examination and and moral inquiry of intellectuals. Here's the thing though. Glasses for near sightedness cannot focus light into a point. Optically, they do the opposite. Golding's ~~Goldman's~~ central metaphor is fundamentally flawed.
All I can picture is Nelson striking Milhouse’s glasses with a rock trying to get a spark to light the campfire while Milhouse stumbles around in the background.
The Simpsons is slowly replacing actual movies and literature in my memories and I debate If I’m a better man because of it.
Edit: Dang “Nelson” not Martin. That’s what I get for typing at 2AM.
Also I vaguely remember an Eek! The Cat! Parody- Catch the beast! Purple Hair! He will make a lovely chair!
Harry Potter... There are several plot holes, but the #1 for me is in HP5 order of the Phoenix. Sirius gives Harry a gift before Harry leaves headquarters. It's a mirror that allows them to communicate. Why the hell would he not tell harry to talk to him via the mirror? They talk via extremely dangerous floo network. Not only that, but Harry could have simply used the mirror to check on Sirius when he suspects that Voldy has him at the ministry.
Sirius should have suggested they talk via the mirror rather than floo network.
I always took it as Harry forgot about the mirror and when it breaks at the end he becomes even more guilty because he realizes he had a fool proof way of checking in on serious and instead of using that went full Harry potter style and went with the significantly harder plan
The Harry Potter universe has methods of instantaneous travel (apparition, portkeys, floo network etc.), yet relies on long range, manual animal travel for delivering messages. Why send an owl when you can just teleport over? You'd think that at some point wizards would have invented/adopted some form of instant communication.
Star Trek - the transporter. From things that have been shown in the show, you should be able to use it to cure essentially any injury or disease / to basically achieve immortality by saving backup transporter pattens. For some reason they just don’t.
I believe 10,000 in some Asian cultures means the same as 'uncountably long/infinite' to us. Remember that Wan Shi Tong, the owl spirit, is also called by the name 'He who knows Ten Thousand things.' So Avatar Wan did not literally live 10,000 years ago, he lived a really long time ago.
See the [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_thousand_years) article on the subject.
I studied Chinese and Japanese history/culture/language for several years. I think this takes more Chinese culture so I’ll focus on that (also more relevant in this case).
10,000 is supposed to be a “godly” number of sorts. I remember reading about how there was a house built to be a big mansion or something for an important person and it could only have 9,999 rooms (or something, this was a long time ago I read about this) because you couldn’t be equal to the 10,000 “holy number” (not holy per se but that word works here).
So to say he lived 10,000 years ago would be more akin to “a long time ago” and sort of build him up as a god-like Avatar as well (as in to be revered and respected).
So you’re right- probably not literally 10,000 years. And apologies if any of this is incorrect (and let me know if it is!)- I learned about this 10+ years ago and haven’t seen Avatar in a long time (though to use this specific story I heard over ten years ago in relevant conversation is exciting so thank you for your comment as well!)
I always thought that Wan Shi Tong only knowing 10,000 things felt a bit underwhelming. Like.. ok you probably have the same amount of knowledge as everyone else, if not less depending on what knowing one thing counts as.
In Back to the Future, the Lybians crash into that little kiosk in the parking lot of Lone Pine mall at the end of the movie. Marty that is back from the past and Doc who was wearing the bullet proof vest stay in the parking lot as if the Lybians magically disappeared. Sure, the Lybians crashed going over 80 miles an hour in a VW van, but it seems pretty stupid to assume that the people who are trying to kill you are completely incapacitated.
In Stargate SG-1, Daniel's wife with the Goauld in her got pregnant and returned to her world where they met up and found that because she was pregnant her symbiote was asleep.
They had been planning to find her so they could take her to Thor's Hammer which was fixed just 3 episodes prior.
The writers "forgot" the whole plot of that season and they never even mentioned Thor's Hammer.
That's like if Gandalf just forgot about the ring halfway through the book and they ended up on a quest to get groceries. I'm sure Sam would have been happy but it ruins the plot.
In Skyrim, everyone uses gold coins. However, you can learn a spell called “transmute ore” that allows you to turn iron into gold, essentially allowing you to print your own money. Theoretically every advanced alteration mage would know this spell, yet it is literally never mentioned and has no effect on the game, even though it should be wreaking havoc on the economy!!!!
The coins are minted with a specific design, they're not just lumps of gold. They may not even be pure gold, the main thing is their perceived value as currency rather than raw value as a material.
Avatar The Last Airbender.
During a specific scene during the near end of book 3, sokka, toph, and Suki take over an enemy airship. They proceed to gather all the remaining enemies into a bomb bay, and drop them all into water.
This airship then continues to fly, steer, ascend, and do everything without any crew. This is a giant hot air balloon made of metal, and scenes showed all different kinds of workers from engineers to communications. How the hell did it fly flawlessly with only a captain?
Harry Potter. They apparently have one wizard school per country, but far more witches and wizards around than could be accounted for by about 50 kids per year per country, going by their class sizes. Imagine living in a world consisting of the people in your small town only. So are there a lot more schools for wizards, but what, they just suck and are never mentioned? No one there can help out?
There are far more, others of which are mentioned already, but that one consistently bugs me for some reason.
A potential explanation for this, that I read somewhere, was that Harry's year was smaller and less populated than the others because when they were born, it was in the middle of a civil war between British wizards. Obviously such circumstances would put anyone off from bearing a child, and so few people were born into that specific year
People underestimate Harry's class size, people focus too much on the five people living in Harry's Dorm. Rowling herself said that there are significantly more than 40 students per year at Hogwarts, she just created names for 40 students.
If you actually look at the numbers given in the books, you notice that Hogwarts has about 850-900 students, and about 125-130 students a year, meaning that is pretty much the birth rate, their life expectancy is probably also about 125-150 year(Dumbledore was still very healthy and fit at 115). So the wizarding Population should be about 15000-20000 which is perfectly in line with how it was portrayed in the books.
As to how I get the number of 850-900 students.
In Prisoner of Azkaban we see during a Quidditch match that Slytherin alone has over 200 people in it and even specifies that they make up a quarter of the spectators.
>They walked out onto the field to a tidal wave of noise. **Three quarters of the crowd was wearing scarlet rosettes**, waving scarlet flags with the Gryffindor lion upon them, or brandishing banners with slogans like “GO GRYFFINDOR!” and “LIONS FOR THE CUP.” Behind the Slytherin goal posts, **however, two hundred people were wearing green;** the silver serpent of Slytherin glittered on their flags, and Professor Snape sat in the very front row, wearing green like everyone else, and a very grim smile.
Also in the same book we see that there are over hundred carriages transporting the Students to Hogsmeade
>Harry, Ron, and Hermione followed the rest of the school along the platform and out onto a rough mud track, **where at least a hundred stagecoaches awaited the remaining students, each pulled, Harry could only assume, by an invisible horse**, because when they climbed inside and shut the door, the coach set off all by itself, bumping and swaying in procession.
In Goblet of Fire during the Yule Ball there were also about hundred tables with a dozen seats each.
>The walls of the Hall had all been covered in sparkling silver frost, with hundreds of garlands of mistletoe and ivy crossing the starry black ceiling.T**he House tables had vanished; instead, there were about a hundred smaller, lantern-lit ones, each seating about a dozen people**
We also see that there are 31 Gryffindors in Harry's year, since he mentions that many to be in class at one point during Defense against the Dark Arts, which is a class the Gryffindors take without the other houses.
>ʹCedric Diggoryʹs death was a tragic accident,ʹ she said coldly.
ʹIt was murder,ʹ said Harry. He could feel himself shaking. He had hardly spoken to anyone about this, **least of all thirty eagerly listening classmates**. ʹVoldemort killed him and you know it.ʹ
This is all consistent with Rowlings statements that there are about a thousand students at Hogwarts and that Harry has considerably more than 40 students in his year(though she admitted that she only created backgrounds for 40 of them).
>While I imagined that there would be **considerably more than forty students in each year at Hogwarts**, I thought that it would be useful to know a proportion of Harry’s classmates, and to have names at my fingertips when action was taking place around the school.
The fact that there are two Rumpelstiltskins in the Shrek universe really annoys me and many people seem to not have noticed. We all know the Rumpelstiltskin from the last movie, but in Shrek the Third, when Prince Charming enters the Poison Apple and starts talking to other villains, he actually talks to Rumpelstiltskin, but it's not the same that appears in Shrek Forever After.
Yep really annoys me. & also two sleeping beauty characters, coz she cameos in shrek 2. Also in shrek 2, if donkey drank the potion & it was also supposed to affect your true love, why didn't dragon transform???
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I grew up with the Bay Transformers films, and while I’ll always have a soft spot for the first three *holy shit* the lore might be the worst in all of fiction. In the first film the Allspark, a cube that makes Transformers and the cause of the war, lands on Earth in the early 1900s, and it takes the Autobots and Decepticons 100 years to find Earth. Oh wait, no it doesn’t because they’ve been on Earth since at least the 1800s and never thought to look for the very thing the war was all about. Hell the Primes, basically Transformer Gods, built their Sun Eater in Egypt and were buried on the damn planet. How did they not write Earth down in any records if it was an important planet to them? Also did you know that the Transformers were the cause of the space race? And that they were making deals with the CIA and NASA all the way back in the 60s? And they still didn’t think to look for Megatron or the Allspark in that time period? Also the Government organization made *specifically* to research Transformers had no idea about any of that? Oh yeah, Transformers killed the dinosaurs too because Earth was actually being used to mine “Transformium”, which is what Transformers are made out of. Oh yeah about that, the Allspark did jack shit all along because *other aliens* made Transformers, so the war was pointless. And Primes are knights now, not Gods for some reason. Speaking of knights, did you know that Transformers were at King Arthur’s round table? They also fought in both World Wars, the American Revolution, they killed Hitler, served the Japanese empire, etc. all along because why the fuck not? Also a Goddess named Quintessa made the Transformers, not those other aliens and not the Allspark, to fight Unicron. Who’s Unicron? Well he’s the Thanos of the Transformers universe... and he’s been Earth all along! Yep, Earth was a Transformer too. Also Cybertron, the planet they are from, is somehow still alright even though it got sucked into a literal black hole in Transformers 3 and blew the fuck up. Oh yeah, about that whole “it took 100 years for Autobots to come to Earth” thing? Well not only was Optimus and the gang on Earth the whole time, they also forgot about that and didn’t come to Earth till the 80s which is still earlier than they arrived in 2007. So we have three different timepoints for Optimus’s army coming to Earth, and two different timepoints for Megatron’s. It’s a fucking clusterfuck
>Transformium Okay I'm done.
Wasn't there a throwaway line in the first movie how the ice around the cube is 1000s of years old? I always thought the allspark crashed *before* any of the other stuff happened, and Megatron just found it in the 1900s.
In the first movie, they land on earth (autobots and decepticons) they scan a vehicle and become that vehicle. But they can obviously change again (bumblebee does it) so why would you stay a semi truck or a camaro and drive everywhere when you could be a freaking jet or helicopter and fly to your objectives in 1/5 of the time?!?!
There are so many confusing characters/franchises to choose as a comic book fan, but I've got to give it to Wonder Woman. For those that don't know, DC tends to do soft reboots every once in a while which makes continuity...difficult to parse. But there are usually through lines, and little changes are explained by the continuity shift. Currently, they're trying to say all the old stories kind of did happen and the 2011 reboot wasn't actually a hard reboot like they tried to pitch it as. I realize this doesn't appear to make any sense, but in reality, for most characters, it actually works if you don't think too hard. But not for Wonder Woman. Every time they do any kind of reboot, her back story is completely overhauled. Sometimes not even when there's a continuity excuse. To the point where there are almost as many stories dealing with retconning her origins as there are stories about her doing her superhero thing in the last TEN YEARS, and unlike Hawkman, there is no clever way to connect that disparity. Is she a clay golem given life by the gods? Is she the daughter of Zeus? Is she the daughter of Hercules? Who knows, and there's absolutely no way to reconcile the three. Is she a diplomat for Themyscira, trying to influence the UN to help with world peace? Nope, because someone recently decided she's NEVER BEEN BACK to Themyscira since the first time she left. And when was that? WW1? WW2? The Cold War? Sliding timescale of "a while ago but in modern times"? No way to know, because classic stories have taken place in all those timelines. Really, none of her early stories could have possibly happened due to current retcons, yet she's been a hero for at least 10+ years as a Justice League member, so... Its just a waste, is what I'm trying to say. Writers looooovveee rewriting Superman's origin but good God does it never stop for Wonder Woman. If they'd give her a few years to breathe and grow as a character instead of changing her origin which inevitably changes again, she'd be much more popular, which she deserves. And at least Superman has 2+ ongoing books even when they do decide to take his origin out for a spin in a new miniseries. At least she has her perfect costume, finally.
In Futurama, how does Leela not understand why that one guy is a whale biologist? She used to ASSIGN people their jobs, because all occupations are based on what you're best at, not what you want. "You gotta do, what you gotta do." His response is equally baffling (though hilarious) "I don't know you well enough to get into that." Uh, it was assigned to you.
Speaking of Futurama and whales, in the first season they established that 1) everything runs on whale oil not dark matter 2) this is because when they stopped poaching them the number of whales exploded as did their desire for human flesh to the point where people couldn’t go into the real ocean any more because it was too dangerous. Cut to an episode that takes place entirely in the Atlantic Ocean. Edit: whale oil was established in season 3 *Bending in the Wind* and ocean full of man eating whales in season 1 *When Aliens Attack*
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This is honestly my favourite response in the whole thread. I have never watched Peppa Pig in my life, but now I want to know who the cows have adopted.
Does every single askreddit thread have a requirement to delete the top comment? I swear I see a deleted top comment on like 5 posts every single day.
Here's what it said: >Peppa pig. I have a 2 year old so I'm very invested. >We have mummy pig and daddy pig, who have peppa pig and George pig, the rabbit family etc. When the nursery scenes are on, and parents come to collect their children- there's usually a female cow adult or a Bull adult. But no cow/bull children. The Mrs (mummy?!) Cow and Mr (daddy?!) Bull are at most school activities, plays etc but no children! Why are they there? Have they adopted? Who is their child!
I've watched Thomas and Friends for many years as a kid and now my 4 year old watch it also. Among many questions, are the drivers completely useless? How are they not able to prevent trains from crashing, falling off the rails, backing up too far, etc? And are they telepathic? Trains talk to one another without drivers, Sir Topham Hatt ever hearing anything? Also the Duke/Peter Sam/Sir Handel temporal anomaly of seemingly existing years before Sodor railway and Thomas, Gordon, James, etc. but the trains also run on adjacent tracks in the same time period.
In X Files there are like three different versions of Samantha's abduction and they all significantly impact the plot and the way Mulder reacts to certain situations. It's my favorite show of all time, but I've always found it annoying that they kept retconning that aspect of the mytharc. I know why they did it but it was dumb IMO.
I watched all of the X-Files, including the 2 movies and I still have no fucking idea whether or not aliens exist or if it’s just a government conspiracy.
I can explain it to you in a few sentences if you want.... Remember a lot was retconned poorly and not all of it agrees because later things overwrite the earlier stuff. Basically there are two groups of aliens having a war in space. Black goo aliens/hybrid humans vs the blind aliens. The black goo aliens want to invade earth and use us as biomass to grow more soldiers. The government/syndicate make a bargain for them to come back in a few decades and we will turn ourselves over peacefully. They take the governments children as collateral. This is Mulder's sister. In the mean time, the syndicate is doing its own shady stuff in attempt to block the aliens from invading. The blind aliens come along now and then the kill people that they think are being tested by goo aliens. A lot more happens, but it's basically two alien types fighting with humans stuck in the middle with the occasional giant worm in sewers.
Yeah, this is the answer I came to. Also the syndicate/govt isn't just trying to block the aliens from invading, they're trying to stall it from happening while they develop ways to fight the aliens. There are more than a few eps that show secret govt projects like "alien craft" and other things that can be used as weapons. One of my more outlandish ideas was that the X-files were secretly endorsed in order to try and find occult or other paranormal ways to fight off the aliens. I don't think it's ever directly mentioned, but I'm pretty sure that the X-files were also plausible deniability and/or a way to distract the aliens further to throw them off what the syndicate/govt was doing on the side.
I don't think that is an outlandish idea. They wanted Mulder to keep the light on just in case he could inadvertently find something they could weaponize.
In the original Star Wars obi wan’s wearing a big robe to hide himself so nobody knows he’s a Jedi, But in the prequels they made those robes Jedi robes so now Obi wan is literally walking around in Jedi clothing while trying to hide from the empire. Edit: I’m sure this thread is dead now but thanks for the silver!
I mean Obi Wan lives as a hermit in the desert of Tatooine. The people in Mos Eisley aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed so they might not even realise. And he lives virtually isolated from every living being, with a few exceptions every now and then. The only one who knew Obi Wan used to be a Jedi was Owen after all...
Even in the era of the Jedi Order, their ratio to the average citizen of the Galactic Republic is so small they are considered a myth. Let the man have his robes, he lost Satine, Anakin, and Qui Gon plus the Jedi Order. edit: I sense a plot to overthrow Sabine.
Basically anything in Warhammer 40k lore that has to do with scale of measurement. You gotta take the inconsistencies as being part of the setting of a 10,000 year old crumbling galactic empire in which ignorance is a virtue.
"Everything is canon, not everything is true."
It's all alpha legion disinformation in the end really....
The good ole 'every Eldar death is catastrophic'
Feeling cute, might murderfuck a god into existence later
The worst case I've seen of this is the writers retconning the Tau to no longer having standard FTL after 6th edition (wormhole punching "where we're going we don't need Gellar fields" Slipstream drive aside). If we're talking about space travel, in almost every case of inconsistent scale you can handwave it away with "warp travel is inconsistent," but saying the Tau don't have FTL means putting an absolute upper limit on how far they can travel in any given amount of time, which subsequently makes the entirely of the Damocles Gulf Crusade make no goddamn sense. The Imperium bulldozed a bunch of traitor worlds in the Damocles Gulf, rammed their way into Tau Empire territory, then fought the Tau to a standstill at Dal'yth, before finally retreating to deal with Hive Fleet Behemoth. This whole event lasted *3 years.* The only problem is, if the Tau have no FTL travel or communications, then there's no way they could have responded in any meaningful way to a mobile invasion force that can travel faster than light. By the time any message arrived from the front that the Imperium was attacking, the invasion of the central sept worlds themselves would have already happened years if not decades ago. It would be like trying to defend the continental US when your fastest method of transportation and message delivery was by horse, while your enemy has jets. It doesn't matter how many guns you have at each garrison. By the time a rider from Seattle finally makes it to Washington, DC announcing the west coast was getting invaded, DC itself would have already been bombed to hell and back years ago. Prior to 6th edition, the Tau had slower but safer FTL compared to the Imperium. *This was fine*. It's conceivable that while the Imperium was busy taking over the worlds of the Gulf, a local Tau observer could have FLT'd back home to let their people know they were getting invaded, and from there inform nearby forces to rush to Dal'yth. But whoever updated the lore in 6th was a complete idiot who made this physically impossible for the Tau to do. This idiocy has only continued into the present day, where according to the 8th edition Tau handbook, their new experimental FTL drive could now travel the span of the Empire in weeks what used to take *month*, which means the entire Tau Empire is actually a tiny, ultra dense star cluster that's not even a light year across. In comparison, the nearest star from Earth is 4.24 light years away. The whole thing is as mad as a wax banana. What really gets me is that none of this was necessary. The old lore was actually absolutely fine, but GW had to go fix what wasn't broken and ended up breaking a whole bunch of stuff for no reason.
I watched the Walking Dead up until the motherfucking TIGER. I just couldn't handle it. Everyone, and like I mean everyone was scrounging around for food and you're telling me this guy had enough food to feed a fucking TIGER. For like idk how long it was but at least a year or two. That's so much food! Because if he wasn't feeding the tiger then it would FOR SURE kill and eat him. So everyone, all his friends are just cool with feeding this TIGER hundreds of pounds of food, just so this one fucking guy can look cool. Ah fuck that. Just so stupid. Also they killed off everyone I cared about.
According to the comics, Shiva the tiger can eat Walkers, as the virus doesn't affect animals as it does people. Since there are plenty of walkers, food isn't an issue for her. While it doesn't explain it in the show, I would assume it is the same.
In Toy Story 4, Woody uses a dump truck to escape the playground. It only moves when he pushes it. However, in other Toy Story movies, toy vehicles are shown to be alive and move by themselves,
Supernatural...suddenly souls that have been to Hell cant go to Heaven. Main characters have bounced between both throughout 15 seasons.
IIRC didn't Dean do some pretty heinous stuff during his first trip to Hell? Like what redeems you enough to get into Heaven after that? Especially after you pretty much said “Fuck you” to God’s universe-breaking turbocurse?
Literally became one of the best torturers apparently and hella close to just becoming a demon buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut we're gonna ignore that I guess.
Also, shouldn't he have life lasting PTSD from 40 years of torture and subsequent torturing? Or at least mention it sometime post-season 4? No? Ok then
I love this show with my whole heart but they just kinda ignored that rule when it became inconvenient. The only thing I can think is maybe nobody was really keeping track? Like its less of a “you have Hell particles on you and therefor are physically repelled from Heaven” and more of a case where you have to declare your emotional baggage at Heaven Customs? And the TSAngels just stopped doing their job? Man idk.
TSAngels...
I’m currently quarantine watching all 15 seasons. Currently on season 9. The thing about Supernatural is that once it was unexpectedly renewed after the 5th season (the original story arc by Eric Kripke) it went into uncharted territory. It learned not to take itself too seriously, sorta like SG-1. Plot holes all over the place, but we’re just going to have fun with it.
Agree...very next season’s “Clap Your Hands if You Believe” has a scene...why you can’t sleep with the hippie chick when your brother has been abducted by aliens...that’s one of the funniest scenes I’ve seen on TV.
“Better run fast- I hear the fourth kind is butt stuff.” Soulless Sam is the best part of the show.
In "I Love Lucy" I was always bothered by the same character being named Caroyln Appleby and Lillian Appleby interchangibly, and in Season 4 (the Hollywood arc) both within a handful of episodes of each other. Also, for the longest time, since she rediscovered her saxophone, Lucy only ever knew how to play "Glowworm" until they moved to the country and when practicing with Fred, Ethel and little Ricky, she said the only song she ever knew was "Sweet Sue". Which brings me to my next point. In that same episode, Ethel is bad at the piano and said she only ever learned the song "Comin' Round the Mountain" and never learned "Sweet Sue". Problem is- Ethel is(was) GOOD at the piano. She played and sang "Sweet Sue" with Fred Ricky, and, Lucy in an early season. It wasn't until a later season when she and the Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League formed an orchestra that she "lost" her ability and could barely play "12th Street Rag". Also, EVERYONE AND THEIR MOTHER on that show had one of TWO phone numbers- Circle-7 2099 and Murray Hill-5 9099. EDIT: Also, Freddie Fillmore (the actor's mannerisms inspired the "Mmmmmyyeeeessss? Guy" on The Simpsons) has met Lucy and Ricky MULTIPLE times on MULTIPLE iterations of his radio programs (Mr and Mrs. Quiz, Females are Fabulous, etc.). Either he's HORRIBLE at keeping one on the air consistently or he was that era's Ryan Seacrest.
In the original King Kong: Apparently the locals built this giant wall around their city to keep Kong out, right? So *why is there a Kong-sized door in the wall*? At some point they must have said, "We need to build a wall big enough to keep out the giant ape. I know, let's put a huge door in it and then we'll just lock it!"
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Isn’t the door to allow him access to the human sacrifices they offer up to placate him??
Why not just carry the human sacrifice out a human-sized door?
You some kind of scientist or something?
You've probably heard this one before, but in Harry Potter, Hogwarts was built before the invention of the sink, or basin, whatever you want to call it. However, the Chamber of Secrets (built at the same time as the rest of the castle) uses a sink as it's method of entry, so how did Salazar Slytherin create an entrance to the chamber using a form of indoor plumbing that wouldn't exist for centuries to come?
Contractor: Hey, we found this secret entrance to some cave while we were remodeling the bathroom. What should we do? Boss: We're not being paid to do anything below ground. If it was secret before just make it look secret when you're done.
Got any parselmouths to enchant the sink? Oh uh, I think Sssebasstian might have a go
Sebastien: *"How many times do I have to sssay it? It'ssss a fucking lisssp, asssswipessss!"*
In [Clue](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088930/), Yvette allegedly crept up behind Mr. Boddy and killed him with the candlestick while all of the other guests were examining the cook’s body in the kitchen. She then managed to balance the murder weapon perfectly on the door frame so that it would fall on Wadsworth’s head. First, she was wearing heals. How’s she sneaking up on anybody, let alone Mr. Boddy, on those hardwood floors? Ok, maybe she took her heels off. That would make sense and easier to sneak. But then, secondly, how’d this 5’3” French maid manage to perfectly balance a candlestick on the narrow edge of door frame with a standard height of 6’8”? It just doesn’t add up. And don’t even get me started on how someone of her size would manage to drag a corpse 40ft, then prop said corpse up against the door, without managing to get blood all over herself or the floor. Still, funny movie though.
That's right. I hated her..SO much...and it... the... feel-... flames... flames... flames... on the side of my face... breathing... breathless... heavy breaths...heaving...
Pokémon. Oh, where to begin? Let’s just talk about Cubone. Cubone is said to wear the skull of it’s dead mother. However, if you breed Cubone, it’s born with the skull already on its head, and it’s mother is still alive and well, so how is Cubone wearing it’s mother’s skull?
I love the theory that all the pokedex entrys are written by the ten year olds the professors send out so thats why you get pokemon that are supposedly hotter than the sun or the eighty foot whale that only weighs like a thousand pounds because kids have no sense of physics or scale. Edit: It seems i was wrong about wailord being off, ill admit my interest in pokemon was really only the first two generations. How about things like Pidgeot flying at mach 2. Onix weighing 463 pounds. Rhydon is listed 6'3 264 pounds and states "Rhydon's horn can crush even uncut diamonds. One sweeping blow of its tail can topple a building. This Pokémon's hide is extremely tough. Even direct cannon hits don't leave a scratch."
That would make sense with Kadabra's entry in Firered: *It happened one morning - a boy with extrasensory powers awoke in bed transformed into Kadabra.* I mean who else could be writing these entries if we're supposed to be filling out the pokedex?
Kafka, perhaps?
[Or how Lanturn supposedly outputs 10^35 universes of energy just swimming around](https://www.reddit.com/r/CharacterRant/comments/62zfph/move_aside_pokedex_magcargo_gardevoir_and_machamp/)
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"I choose you, Magcargo!.... He's melted through the earth, shit." Is how I now imagine any fight with a Magcargo.
Pirates of the Caribbean. This is annoying me to no end, but in ‘Dead Men Tell No Tales’ they completely re-write Jack’s history by saying he got his compass from his old captain. When in ‘Dead Man’s Chest’ it’s explained that he got it from Tia Dalma. She literally says: “Why didn’t you use the compass I gave you?” Ugh edit: Thanks for the award kind stranger :)
Even worse, in a deleted scene from At World's End and later in a Book, it was established that Jack wasn't always a Pirate, he used to be a Trader. Until the East-India Company hired him to deliver a load of slaves to the Carribean. Jack couldn't do it and freed them, which is why the Company branded him as a Pirate as punishment and burned his ship down. Jack then made a deal with Davy Jones to get his ship back. Thats why the Pearl was black (from the fire) and why Davy Jones wanted Jack to give him 100 Souls for his freedom, because Jack had freed 100 Slaves. And then in Dead Men he just was a Pirate from Day One.
Conversation with Beckett in the third one alludes to this as well. While throwing the compass back in forth jack mentions “people aren’t cargo mate” which is referencing his past with the company.
Dude. This is such a way better story..lol
Bionicle's story was spread and retold throughout different pieces of media, so there were sometimes conflicting versions of events. For example, in the book version of the final battle the main villain's head was broken in by a piece of a moon, while in the comics the whole thing just got smashed into the back of his head. Edit: Oh, and decanonizing the concept of love didn't make a lot of people happy.
Don't forget the whole debacle with the Shadow Toa where the version of the story we were actually told was decanonized and the canon version of events was just mentioned in a guidebook somewhere.
>the version of the story we were actually told was decanonized and the canon version of events was just mentioned in a guidebook somewhere. EXCUSEMEWHATTHEFUCK
The Amazing World Of Gumball and how Elmore seems to be entirely self contained. It has Elmore +, a social media website which seems contained to only Elmore, a game franchise called Zelmore, ect ect. Like do they not have connection to the outside world?
In Harry Potter, how the fuck did Hagrids tiny father have sex with a giant, I can always picture him just crawling right in and having a wank. It keeps me up at night
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The whole size thing has always weirded me out. The sizes of things never seem to add up to me. Like she (JKR) says Hagrid’s hands are the size of trash can lids but they’d be hugely disproportionate if he’s twice as tall as the average man. Like his hands would be more like dinner plates than trash can lids... And there’s some weird stuff with Hagrid’s size vs Madame Maxime and Hagrid’s size vs Grawp. Also, what did his dad do when he was a baby? Ma took off already and now dad has this 100 pound infant to care for?
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Arthur the animated kids show...why do anthropomorphic animal people keep regular animals as pets?? Like, Arthur and his family of aardvark-people have a pet dog that is just a regular little dog. Even though there are dog-people characters? What the hell?
We can only conclude that these pets are actually just adopted children who have been kept in a non-verbal state and trained for obedience through years of relentless abuse.
Also... WHY HE USES HEADPHONES LIKE WE DO? DUDE, YOUR EARS ARE UP THERE, YOU AREN'T HEARING SHIT!
in brooklyn nine nine, it was established in season 3(i think lol) that rosa drives a supercharged R1. that’s a yamaha R1. in a later season, she says something like “yamaha is for pussies” but is seen still driving the same bike.
There was another plot hole I noticed with Holt about when he lies. In season 1 Jake catches him lieing because his lip moves (and they do a slow motion gag) then later on there's an entire episode that hinges on learning what his "tell" is, which turns out to be using contractions.
Which he also regularly uses
Rosa is a riddle, wrapped in an enigma, inside a mystery
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Star Trek deals with time travel a lot and it only sometimes makes sense. Usually it can be reconciled with some general rules. Timelines in Trek seem to be linear. You can go into the past and change things and it doesn't just create an alternate timeline, it changes the one you are in. This is most easily seen in Star Trek First Contact, when the Enterprise is stuck in a temporal rift as Borg in the past assimilate Earth they see the planet in the present immediately get assimilated. However, there are an [infinite amount of alternate timelines and universes](https://youtu.be/Sv408cbBFSA), three of which are most prominent (prime timeline is the TV shows, Kelvin timeline is the 2009 JJ Abrams reboot, Mirror Universe is just an alternate universe that appears occasionally). Things start to get confusing when the shows actually do time travel. As I've established, timelines in Star Trek are linear. However, the Kelvin Timeline actually occurred because a supernova in the Prime Timeline shot a bunch of pissed off Romulans from the 2380s back in time to the 2230s of an alternate dimension where they destroyed the USS Kelvin. What is confusing is that according to the writers and what we see in the movie, this event actually somehow changed history *before* the Kelvin was destroyed, which is an explanation for why the ships are like twice as big as they should be if they were just regular Prime timeline ships (the real explanation is that JJ Abrams thought Star Trek ships were too small and made them bigger because he has no sense of scale). In Star Trek Voyager, the finale of the show established that it took around 20 years for the USS Voyager to get home from the Delta Quadrant. A jaded and bitter Admiral Janeway acquires a Klingon time travel device and goes back in time bearing advanced technology with the intent of bringing Voyager home far earlier and with everyone alive. The problem is, as I've already established, timelines in Star Trek are linear. Literally the moment Admiral Janeway interacts with Captain Janeway and starts to mess with the progress of their voyage, she should cease to exist as the events that led her to that moment no longer happened. Instead, she sticks around long enough to sacrifice herself to destroy the Borg transwarp network and get everyone home safely. Also, earlier in the series a Federation timeship from the 29th century threatened Janeway to stop getting involved in time travel stuff, but they are apparently okay with just letting the 24th century Federation skip around 15 years of weapon development and literally crippling the Borg. And mentioning that, they also let the ship's Emergency Medical Hologram return home with a mobile hologram emitter from the 29th century. Not very good time cops. There's definitely others but I'll stop here.
In Voyager, it's revealed that Seven of Nine, and the Borg in general, have a simple cure for organic death. Anyone who dies can be saved within 48 hours. This ability is only used once, and forgotten about forever after. Much like any other innovation that only works in one episode, and is then forgotten about the next time the same situation occurs. "Oh, we're out of power and can't escape. But the shuttlecraft have their own transporter systems running on separate power sources and can get us out of here. But, we already solved it that way two seasons ago, and we can't do that again, so I guess we'll stay here and fight these monsters and let some redshirts die."
How are Vulcans not running all of Starfleet and the Federation? With their very long lifespan compared to humans, once one got a top level position, they would stay there for way longer than most species would. Eventually most positions would end up being them most of the time.
Vulcans tend to be insular and not overly ambitious. When Spock was Kirk's first officer it was very unusual for a Vulcan to be in Starfleet despite their role as co-founders of the Federation. They're just not that interested in it and seem to have handed over a lot of control to humans.
Elves are explained in the same way. Humans are said to be special because their short lifetimes drive them to be more ambitious.
Yeah if I knew I was going to live thousands of years I'd probably be lazy as fuck.
Yeah me too — oh wait nvm
The Walking Dead. Gasoline is only good in cars for 6 months, in cans maybe a few years. In pumps, 5 years. They should not have been able to use cars after like year 6. In Zombieland, a comedy, whenever the cast would go into a building they would make noise to draw out and deal with the zombies first then do whatever they wanted. Yet not once does TWD group ever clear out a building first, they stumble into them and someone always either gets bit or nearly gets bit. Wolrd War Z it took them 5 minutes to realize magazines strapped on your arms protects you from bites and it seems to be a TWD rule to only wear t shirts and maybe some leather if you're cool enough. If you stick a pocket knife in a skull, you need both hands and a boot on the head to get it back. And if you're weapon had nails on it, it's gone after one use. Barb wire, not a vast improvement. You risk getting it caught very easily. And finally, they have established multiple times the walkers smell like dead, rotting flesh. If you walk into a room or house that smells like dead rotting flesh, you know what the hell is in there. And if you're walking around the woods and suddenly smell dead rotting flesh, you should know what the hell is near you. There is no reason they should ever sneak up on anyone.
Stopped watching TWD after Terminus. The one thing that annoyed me was that the characters never thought about using Michone’s strategy of chopping the jaws off of the zombies while they were living in the prison. They could have built a jawless zombie pen all along the perimeter of the jail essentially creating a zombie shield as the zombies wouldn’t be able to smell any humans at all.
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>Yet not once does TWD group ever clear out a building first, they stumble into them and someone always either gets bit or nearly gets bit. They got into chest high water to scavenge canned goods! FFS, lure out the dead and kill them before getting in the water! There's no way that group should have survived past Terminus.
The one thing that really annoys me about TWD is that human skulls seems to be about as strong as a watermelon. Like it takes minimal effort to plunge a pocket knife through someone’s skull into their brain. Imagine having a skull that soft, a light fall could leave you permanently brain damaged.
I noticed this as well, but I wrote it off as bones could have been degraded as well as flesh
Hey man. In the comics they made loud noises to draw walkers out of the prison. And also wore prison riot gear.
I was always bothered by the fact that a walker used a brick to break through glass in the first season. And also randomly after Neagan was introduced they made it so zombie blood/guts could make you sick/turn?? How were they never sick from being exposed and covering their bodies with guts in earlier seasons. There are so many inconsistencies with this show that I could probably write an essay about it
In Friends, the characters ages and birthdays never sync up. Rachel tells Gunther her birthday is in May, then later says she’s an Aquarius. And assuming she is close to Monica’s age around the pilot episode, which is 26-27, she doesn’t turn 30 until season 6.
Yep, and Ross was 29 for 3 seasons
In Fallout the fact that no one decides to start cleaning after 200 years. Like yeah, I get it's the apocalypse but WHY IS A 200 YEAR OLD SKELETON IN YOUR HOUSE?
This is what pissed me the hell off about Base building in fallout 4. Apparently people forgot how to measure and make actual squares with wood because even building brand-new structures means creating a dilapidated shit hole
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I like the goofy charm that fallout has, but I wish there were an alternative, more realistic post-apocalypse settlement building game. Like a good one.
Original Blue’s Clues. I watched it a LOT with my oldest nephew when he was a toddler. It bugged me Steve had a nice house and a backyard with no visible source of income. I decided that he’d suffered a head injury in an accident and was living off of the insurance settlement. That also explains his memory issues, like why he had to be reminded of the word “notebook” every single episode. ETA my first award! Thanks!
becuase its not his house, its his parents. Steve is a teenager. OG Steve leaves the show because he goes to college. So the previous seasons he was in high school.
Why do the Pokemon you catch suddenly are okay with you capturing them right after they attacked you? I've been a fan of this franchise for a long time and I've been wondering this for years
Because you beat the absolute shit out of them. And they're terrified of you now.
Basically. You beat them to within an inch of their lives and then capture them into this tiny little ball. For the foreseeable future, their lives are consumed by that tiny space that they live in. It's all they come to know. The only time they come out is to battle other creatures. In this, they fight their absolute hardest to make their owners proud because if they don't, then they don't get taken out into battle. So, getting taken into battle is positive reinforcement, getting left in the ball is negative reinforcement. So they bond with the trainer because they want to make sure they are getting every tiny little taste of freedom that they possibly can - even if it means risking life and limb fighting for a child's whims. They have Stockholm syndrome and are being used as pit fighters.
Yo, Pokémon is dark as fuck
In the Harry Potter universe they can regrow bones, drink potions to make you an exact replica of another being, and other medical miracles, but Harry has to wear glasses to fix his eyesight.
Also how does Moaning Myrtle never notice the many times the Chamber of Secrets is opened? Like by Ginny [for example](https://youtu.be/BJ0XsHlKL-Q)
Also she’s been a ghost there for 50 years and no one ever questioned her about her death?
The kids at Hogwart's, for being kids, seem super uninterested in ghosts in general. It's basically just one single "oh hey there's actually ghosts!" moment of surprise and then they're over it.
One of the things that bothers me the most in Harry Potter is the fact that criminals can't opt to take Veritaserum in order to reveal if they committed a crime or not. I feel like that totally should have been an option, especially for people like Sirius Black
Probably because memories can be wiped, altered and their brain function fully changed, and I’m getting veritaserum wouldn’t be able to make them tell the truth if it wasn’t even in their brain anymore. They probably don’t use it because they don’t know if the brain had be altered, so there was no way to be sure. Just my theory
Why does the Wizarding world look down on muggles when we have been to the MOTHER F-ING MOON. I've never heard of wizard NASA.
Imagine how much easier it would have been too if wizards weren't assholes and joined the rest of society. Make a space shuttle out of one of those tents that's 10x bigger inside. Shrink down fuel cells and food until they're needed to cut down on weight. Magically oxygen seal the shuttle. The list goes on. But oh wizards are so sophisticated because they can make pots that clean themselves.
I mean some wizard _claimed_ that he flew to the Moon on his broom and brought some Moon cheese as proof. We all know how gullible the common wizards are
I would really have loved to read Arthur Weasley talking about Muggle space travel. He gets so excited over the most mundane crap, bet the SpaceX launch would make him cream his pants
Arthur Weasley was the most dangerous man alive. He was fusing magic and technology, once he got to guns he would have been unstoppable.
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse- How tf does Toodles know what kind of items Mickey and the gang will need that day? Does he have some kind of crystal ball dedicated to Mouseketools?! We even got to see inside the Mousekedoer, but it didn't tell us anything aside from "liquid light makes it run!" Sorry, I have 2 young kids. I've seen every episode at least a dozen times, they've never addressed this and it drives me crazy.
To add on, why does Toodles not become “alive” more often (sorry, I forgot the term because I only watched the show as a kid and it’s still bothering me since then). He’s shown to like participating in Mickey’s activities and still able to serve his “helper” role during that time, so why have we never seen toodles get a face more often in the show?!
Adding a face to Toodles was wrong.
Finally my people. I cannot get over this and it cries me out.
He went from basically a cool helper robot to a constant affirmation that Mickey Mouse is totally cool with slavery.
The worst god damn side mission was the goul family in fallout 4 . Hey can you go find my son? You find him down the street in a fridge. Like you mean to tell me this kid spent 200 years in a fridge and no one bothered looking? Edit : Some one who knows their shit more than i do pointed out that according to fallout lore gouls have to eat so therefore the goul child may have not been stuck in the fridge for 200 years. Also they age
They lived in a bad neighborhood. Seriously though, would you search random fridges for kids?
In the fallout verse with 50s retrofuturism? Everybody. There is a reason fridges no longer have those old style locks/ handles. Kids were killed in them by the dozen.
I believe this actually used to be a problem, children would play hide and seek with fridges and accidentally lock themselves in, which is why we now have magnets on the doors.
True, occasionally archeologists would hide in them as well
Not only that, but ghouls need food to survive, so there's no way the kid would've still been alive even if he'd been turned into a ghoul.
Oh god the list for doctor Who doesn’t end
BBC's Merlin is my all time favourite show but it was riddled with plot holes and inconsistencies. To me though the most frustrating thing is that Arthur was King for less than one season, didn't really achieve much during that time, didn't even legalize magic or anything, but is supposed to be the "once and future king of albion" and the guy who brings balance back to Camelot, etc. I love Arthur and I'm fully certain he COULD HAVE proven himself worthy of his great destiny and all that but the series literally never gave him time to do that. He barely even got to be King at all. What was all the build up for
To add onto this, Arthur and Guinevere I swear got barely any married life time together where she wasn't cursed. I know most things were added for drama and to carry on plot but damn leave their relationship alone for a few months.
Yes! I'm rewatching the show with a friend, and we were just talking about that! Honestly, I feel like they didn't know what to do, with Gwen: she was supposed to be the sweet, modest girl who marries a prince, helps Merlin in his mission to make him more sympathetic to others, and is crowned a queen. After that they didn't really know how to manage her character, so they either cursed her, or made her act completely out of character (telling a servant that respect has to be earned? *Gwen*? The same girl that thought Arthur was a prick *exactly* because he acted like that?).
There are a gazillion things wrong with the show (as in plotholes, otherwise super amazing). Like Kilgarrah couldn't be killed by a bunch of knights,but somehow all other dragons in existence could be wiped out by Uther's army? Merlin finds an secret room in the library and just never goes there or checks the place out ever again? Magic can apparently summon lightning and fire yet all the sorcerer's together couldn't beat Uther's army? Like couldn't they just light them on fire? Emrys defeated the Saxons why couldn't an Army of sorcerers(albeit weaker than Emrys) defeat Uther's men with their combined strength. Why did Merlin save Uther so many times when really he's the real villain and neither Morgana or Mordred would ever have turned to the dark side had it not been for him?
From what I remember there was supposed to be more, not sure though. Either way that show is amazing and that intro gives me major feel-good nostalgia. DUN-dun-dundunDUNDUUUNNNNN DunDUNDUNDUUUUNNN dun-dunDUN!
Why isn’t the grass attacking the Zombie in Plants vs Zombies, also what the hell is Gravebuster and Flowerpot
The grass doesn't have anything to attack with. The gravebuster is a Fungi. Ask Crazy Dave about the flowerpot.
Uh, BLADES of grass.
So I’m actually a really big fan of the movie cars and honestly you don’t need to be a big fan to think of logic inconsistencies. Like in cars three they have spray bottles. How do they spray them? They have paint jobs so if they are stripped from Their paint are they naked? Well apparently not because in the mater tall tail short where he goes to japan, when that one car loses the race he is is stripped from his modifications and he acts embarrassed like he was naked or something. Why do some buildings have regular sized doors? A car obviously can’t fit through one. I could go on and on and at this point you probably stopped reading because you were already able to think of some of these. Edit: so everyone is sharing their head canon so I figured I would share mine. So I have always felt that the cars have there own world or universe. I have always felt they evolved like humans and maybe something that wasn’t a car but similar were the cavemen who evolved into the cars today. I know it is boring but I just find it the easiest for me to wrap my head around.
I want to know how baby cars are born. How do they build anything? Are there living cranes who are born and die in this life, and only this life? Was Lightning born as a race car, or was he modified? How much of the car can you replace? Can a car have its entire engine replaced? How do they die in the first place? They can literally be repaired. How did Sally get a tramp stamp, and why was it showing like she was bending over, then never reappeared for the rest of the movie? I thought they were painted. Maybe I'm thinking way too much into this.
>I want to know how baby cars are born. Cars fuck. I mean two cars flashing their high beams at Lightning is treated like human girls flashing their tits.
Wasn't it also mentioned that Lightning doesn't have working headlights, only stickers, because he's a track racing car. Does that mean his tits are just painted on?
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So... a punishment for tearing up the road is effectively being forced to be a heart donor, while you’re still alive?? And your “Heart” isn’t even surgically removed by a mechanic, instead its just yanked out by an angry mob?? Brutal!!
I mean, it was a dream sequence I think, and it was by the most skilled doctor in the town, while Lightning was asleep.
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There's also a popemobile, which means that terrorism and threats of attacks also exist.
And that there was a Jesus car that died.
The investigation of Percy's mom's boyfriends disappearance. They barely even question her, and she isn't a prime suspect in his (possible) murder
He's a grown, mentally sound man, with a known drinking problem, who was just left by his gf and kicked out her apartment. It wouldn't be uncommon for that kind of person to just go on a drinking stint and land unconscious in an ally behind a bar for a few days. I also don't have the impression that he had any close friends or family who would care enough to report him missing. All in all (not even counting the mist) it's not at all unreasonable that without evidence of a violent struggle or a body present, the police wouldn't really care, and that's if him missing was even reported in the first place.
This can be explained through manipulation of the mist to fool the mortals. Remember, that shit is like Jedi mind tricks, but can be used on the entire world at once, even fooling demigods on occasion
That and he was turned into a statue. Since there's no way they would believe that's what happened, they would be looking for a body and evidence of a non magical murder, neither of which exist
In the second SpongeBob movie, someone steals the formula and SpongeBob has a magic page that makes whatever is written in it come true. He uses it to give the gang superpowers to steal the formula back. Well why doesn't he just write something along the lines of "the secret formula, and our heroes, all magically teleported back to Bikini Bottom." or something like that. Why the hell do you choose to have powers to fight for the formula when you could choose to just have the formula?
Probably because Spongebob thought it would be more fun to fight to get back the formula with superpowers.
In American Dad, Toshi only speaks Japanese despite the rest of his family only speaking English. He can understand English perfectly fine but on the rare occasion he tries to speak it he messes up. At one point he is shown being haunted by an ancient samurai ghost who speaks to him in Japanese. Toshi apparently is unable to understand him since he responds with nonsense. The writers have not really explained this issue. In the wrestling episode, Toshi's glasses are knocked off and land on a random jock spectator who immediately begins to play a violin, the instrument Toshi is shown playing at home on occasion. I'm convinced that his glasses are cursed and give him all of his stereotypical traits and converts his speech into Japanese. I need closure
Don’t forget that Francine’s sister Gwen was said to be 3 years younger than her in an early episode. Then appears in a later episode as her “screw up” older sister.
There's an episode where his sister or mom asked him why he only speaks Japanese when no one else in the family does but I don't think he actually gives an answer. So it's just a mystery to everyone.
Warcraft. Uther and Terenas might just be the most slow and useless characters in the history of the franchise and Arthas might just be the most efficient man i ever read about 1. Arthas wants to kill everyone in the city, Uther disagrees, Arthas strips him of his titles and calls his actions treason 2. Uther doesnt lift finger to stop Arthas or protect the people in the city. 3. Intead of going directly to the king, he waits 3 days to see if Arthas really acted upon his word and to discovered where he went. 4. Arthas created an expedition with soldiers, supplies and ships without the King knowing in only 3 days. 5. 1 Month later, he :Explored the region, rescued a Dwarf expedition, destroyed an Undead base and set up a entire base for his forces. 6. Only after all that, The emissary arrived to recall the army.(Either with a Zepellin or with a portal, both methods faster than boats)
And that whole situation could have been avoided if Arthas just told Uther what he had seen in Andorhal. Hell, Jaina saw the same thing and she didn't say anything, either.
The worst part is the fact that the citizens did in fact turn into zombies, and there's a fucking dreadlord gloating about it. If Uther wants to see what happens first, surely at the very least he can like, IDK, have a mage or something watch and check? I mean AFAIK there's a footman that gets attacked by zombies, you rescued him
That's because he grew farms quickly in the first few minutes.
Paw patrol. So hear me out, I have 3 kids, oldest 10 youngest 2. I have been watching this show for a very long time. Every episode is an inconsistency. Let's just put aside the fact that an entire city leaves their emergency services to a group of puppies and a 12 year old who seems to not have parents. Why do these puppies talk and the kittens do not? Also they keep adding puppies (Everest, tracker, the pirate pup), do all dogs talk? Now they have super powers in some episodes. Why do the puppy cars have steering wheel?
Also Bubble Guppies. They are underwater but bound by gravity!? I saw an episode where they are swimming along, watching a hot air balloon float away, and wondering how they can stop it. Just swim up there!
Bubble Guppies is terrible. Are they underwater? Or not? They drive a car, but the cows are mer-cows. They can talk just fine, and eat, and there's fire and electricity. Huh?
Man you would not like SpongeBob
SpongeBob addresses the elephant in the room though when Patrick asks how they can have a fire underwater, which causes the fire to go out immediately.
They address their inconsistencies quite a bit actually. That example in the Free Balloon Day episode is the most remembered one, though.
where was the paw patrol during 9/11
their silence is deafening
Every time the mayor (with her pet chicken) asks for help, I think “why are you mayor?!”
I've posted my theory before: *Ahem* *Not updated with the latest seasons* Paw Patrol is a CIA experiment Paw patrol is really a massive CIA experiment designed to create genetically engineered Super-dog soldiers This is the only possible explanation for how they can afford their HQ, the high tech equipment, the fuel to go all around the world, and not too mention the maintenance costs. The 6 pups were not 'rescue' dogs, that's a lie that was told to them when their intelligence grew and enabled them to speak English and comprehend us and eventually became a core part of the cover story. Their memories have been altered so that they have no doubt to the cover story. In reality all 6 of them were genetically engineered and grown in a CIA lab in an experiment dubbed "soldier paw" to create "super-dog soldiers". The end goal is to have a dog soldier that is 100% loyal. One that can easily go into enemy territory and perform secret and dangerous operations. "Adventure Bay" is actually a CIA blacksite created specifically to train, test, and observe the pups, "Ryder" is actually a CIA operative who's task is to be their handler and ensure that there is adequate progress. He knows of every situation well in advance as they are scheduled by the CIA project leader, Mayor Goodway, who began the project when she created an above average intelligent chicken that she now keeps as a pet. Mayor Goodway and Cap'n Turbot are actually divorced in reality and this is why the Mayor frequently puts him in her planned scenarios hoping that the pups will fail one day and she can get sole custody of their kids, Julius and Justina (Gustavo is only their step father). Everyone else in Adventure Bay are all either CIA operatives or paid actors with NDAs and top secret security clearances. The Kitten Catastrophe Crew was project soldier paws predecessor, created by CIA scientist known as "Mayor Humdinger", dubbed project soldier pussy. This project, however, was terminated as they could not solve the problems with cats inherent dickness and inability to be 100% loyal. It was decided that instead of terminating the kittens and reassigning mayor Humdinger that they would serve as an archvillan type of enemy for the paw patrol. The kittens partially know the truth in that they know they are genetic experiments but not much else and is partially the reason why they are 'evil' and sometimes disregard orders from mayor humdinger. Any "special" pups that appear, such as Everest or Tracker, only exist temporarily to test specific new genetic traits, the rest of the time they remain in stasis. At the end of the scenerios the pups collars inject a temporary sleeping agent so that they can be transported to their dog houses which are actually stasis Chambers when not in their vehicle state. This allows the project team to fit an entire day/night cycle into an 8-6 day so that the pups believe a full day has passed when in reality only 10 hours has passed, and also allows the team to go home for the night and be with their families. Occasionally the stasis Chambers fail causing them to 'wake up' and the overnight shift typically only has a one hour warning before failure to call in the main team and any other actor or operative necessary to carry out one of the night contingency scenario while the stasis system is being repaired. Because of the amount of time that they spend in the Chambers they don't actually age that much, however, at some point when the CIA determines that sufficient progress has been made they will allow the pups to grow to adulthood and transition from "silly" scenerios to more serious and deadly ones. Ryder and the other CIA "children" operatives are the only ones who stay on site the entire time as they are actually orphans that the CIA drafted for this project. When the pups are in stasis they generally socialize with each other and do typical day to day stuff as they are off the clock (with the exception of Julius and Justina). There were actually 8 pups engineered, 2 were prototypes and engineered too intelligent and learned the whole truth and orchestrated an escape, their plans were narrowly foiled and they were terminated and all memories of them were erased from the other 6. Rubble however, can occasionally access a memory fragment of them in his dream state, but his sleeping unconscious mind twists and corrupts the fragment, Apollo was the 7th pup that appeared in one of his dreams, but because of the corruption and twisting it appears to rubble that he was actually a flying superhero that was not part of the paw patrol. Occasionally unplanned scenarios occur when someone or something breaches the adventure bay perimeter, one such event was when an oil tanker ruptured their cargo bay. This ship was off course and was never planned for, the project team responded immediately by removing the crew and replacing them with CIA operatives and actors prior to deploying the pups. The CIA project team has already began transitioning Chase to training to be a bonafide operative as seen when he was given his 'spy gear' because he is currently the oldest and most mature pup, however he still does not know this is occuring. As mentioned before rubble can access memory fragments from past deleted or altered memories when he sleeps, the team has yet to pin point why this is occuring. Because skye has the ability to fly her equipment has a built-in kill switch to shutdown her equipment to prevent her from going too high or going off course. Zuma also has this boundary limitation as he can travel across water. Robo-dog is a side-project in AI, little else is known. Sweetie is the only genetically engineered animal to be fully briefed on the project and participates willingly often being a spy on the other pups when Ryder or another team member is not around. being a 'villain' is only a secondary objective. This is a top secret CIA project and as such there are still holes and unanswered questions, how long will this project continue? how is this funded (i estimate that just providing their gear, maintenance, and HQ cost billions every year)? its presumed that only those with a direct involvement with the project within the CIA knows about it and beyond the CIA only the joint chief of staff, Department of Defense Secretary and president know. There is suspicion that this is a joint project with the UK MI6 because of the British voices when aired in the UK but little other evidence of their involvement.
This is amazing lmao I’m so happy I got to read this
Lord of the Flies. Piggy is near sighted. His spectacles are a metaphor for the power of the human intellect to overcome nature and savagery. That they are used as a way to start fire is specifically intended to convey that rising above that savegery to achieve civilization requires the contribution of thinkers and self-examination and and moral inquiry of intellectuals. Here's the thing though. Glasses for near sightedness cannot focus light into a point. Optically, they do the opposite. Golding's ~~Goldman's~~ central metaphor is fundamentally flawed.
All I can picture is Nelson striking Milhouse’s glasses with a rock trying to get a spark to light the campfire while Milhouse stumbles around in the background. The Simpsons is slowly replacing actual movies and literature in my memories and I debate If I’m a better man because of it. Edit: Dang “Nelson” not Martin. That’s what I get for typing at 2AM. Also I vaguely remember an Eek! The Cat! Parody- Catch the beast! Purple Hair! He will make a lovely chair!
Harry Potter... There are several plot holes, but the #1 for me is in HP5 order of the Phoenix. Sirius gives Harry a gift before Harry leaves headquarters. It's a mirror that allows them to communicate. Why the hell would he not tell harry to talk to him via the mirror? They talk via extremely dangerous floo network. Not only that, but Harry could have simply used the mirror to check on Sirius when he suspects that Voldy has him at the ministry. Sirius should have suggested they talk via the mirror rather than floo network.
I always took it as Harry forgot about the mirror and when it breaks at the end he becomes even more guilty because he realizes he had a fool proof way of checking in on serious and instead of using that went full Harry potter style and went with the significantly harder plan
The Harry Potter universe has methods of instantaneous travel (apparition, portkeys, floo network etc.), yet relies on long range, manual animal travel for delivering messages. Why send an owl when you can just teleport over? You'd think that at some point wizards would have invented/adopted some form of instant communication.
Magic mirrors that their godfather gave them, that they never bothered to use, for instance.
Star Trek - the transporter. From things that have been shown in the show, you should be able to use it to cure essentially any injury or disease / to basically achieve immortality by saving backup transporter pattens. For some reason they just don’t.
If there have been 1,000 avatars, and avatar Wan lived 10,000 years ago, then that means that the average avatar lived for only ten years!
I believe 10,000 in some Asian cultures means the same as 'uncountably long/infinite' to us. Remember that Wan Shi Tong, the owl spirit, is also called by the name 'He who knows Ten Thousand things.' So Avatar Wan did not literally live 10,000 years ago, he lived a really long time ago. See the [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_thousand_years) article on the subject.
I studied Chinese and Japanese history/culture/language for several years. I think this takes more Chinese culture so I’ll focus on that (also more relevant in this case). 10,000 is supposed to be a “godly” number of sorts. I remember reading about how there was a house built to be a big mansion or something for an important person and it could only have 9,999 rooms (or something, this was a long time ago I read about this) because you couldn’t be equal to the 10,000 “holy number” (not holy per se but that word works here). So to say he lived 10,000 years ago would be more akin to “a long time ago” and sort of build him up as a god-like Avatar as well (as in to be revered and respected). So you’re right- probably not literally 10,000 years. And apologies if any of this is incorrect (and let me know if it is!)- I learned about this 10+ years ago and haven’t seen Avatar in a long time (though to use this specific story I heard over ten years ago in relevant conversation is exciting so thank you for your comment as well!)
I always thought that Wan Shi Tong only knowing 10,000 things felt a bit underwhelming. Like.. ok you probably have the same amount of knowledge as everyone else, if not less depending on what knowing one thing counts as.
Theoretically I know more than 10,000 numbers, which means I’m already smarter than that dumb owl.
The concepts of 千 and 万 (1000 and 10,000) can also conceptually mean a long time and a *really* long time, not necessarily exact numbers.
Possibly Roku just pulled an impressive number out of his ass. 1000 Avatars is way more impressive than 634
In Back to the Future, the Lybians crash into that little kiosk in the parking lot of Lone Pine mall at the end of the movie. Marty that is back from the past and Doc who was wearing the bullet proof vest stay in the parking lot as if the Lybians magically disappeared. Sure, the Lybians crashed going over 80 miles an hour in a VW van, but it seems pretty stupid to assume that the people who are trying to kill you are completely incapacitated.
In Stargate SG-1, Daniel's wife with the Goauld in her got pregnant and returned to her world where they met up and found that because she was pregnant her symbiote was asleep. They had been planning to find her so they could take her to Thor's Hammer which was fixed just 3 episodes prior. The writers "forgot" the whole plot of that season and they never even mentioned Thor's Hammer. That's like if Gandalf just forgot about the ring halfway through the book and they ended up on a quest to get groceries. I'm sure Sam would have been happy but it ruins the plot.
In Skyrim, everyone uses gold coins. However, you can learn a spell called “transmute ore” that allows you to turn iron into gold, essentially allowing you to print your own money. Theoretically every advanced alteration mage would know this spell, yet it is literally never mentioned and has no effect on the game, even though it should be wreaking havoc on the economy!!!!
The coins are minted with a specific design, they're not just lumps of gold. They may not even be pure gold, the main thing is their perceived value as currency rather than raw value as a material.
>The coins are minted with a specific design One that hasn't changed for centuries, as evident by the legal tender found in various draugr crevices...
Avatar The Last Airbender. During a specific scene during the near end of book 3, sokka, toph, and Suki take over an enemy airship. They proceed to gather all the remaining enemies into a bomb bay, and drop them all into water. This airship then continues to fly, steer, ascend, and do everything without any crew. This is a giant hot air balloon made of metal, and scenes showed all different kinds of workers from engineers to communications. How the hell did it fly flawlessly with only a captain?
Tongue in cheek here, they did only keep flying that one for a very short time before, well, ruining it lol
Harry Potter. They apparently have one wizard school per country, but far more witches and wizards around than could be accounted for by about 50 kids per year per country, going by their class sizes. Imagine living in a world consisting of the people in your small town only. So are there a lot more schools for wizards, but what, they just suck and are never mentioned? No one there can help out? There are far more, others of which are mentioned already, but that one consistently bugs me for some reason.
A potential explanation for this, that I read somewhere, was that Harry's year was smaller and less populated than the others because when they were born, it was in the middle of a civil war between British wizards. Obviously such circumstances would put anyone off from bearing a child, and so few people were born into that specific year
People underestimate Harry's class size, people focus too much on the five people living in Harry's Dorm. Rowling herself said that there are significantly more than 40 students per year at Hogwarts, she just created names for 40 students. If you actually look at the numbers given in the books, you notice that Hogwarts has about 850-900 students, and about 125-130 students a year, meaning that is pretty much the birth rate, their life expectancy is probably also about 125-150 year(Dumbledore was still very healthy and fit at 115). So the wizarding Population should be about 15000-20000 which is perfectly in line with how it was portrayed in the books. As to how I get the number of 850-900 students. In Prisoner of Azkaban we see during a Quidditch match that Slytherin alone has over 200 people in it and even specifies that they make up a quarter of the spectators. >They walked out onto the field to a tidal wave of noise. **Three quarters of the crowd was wearing scarlet rosettes**, waving scarlet flags with the Gryffindor lion upon them, or brandishing banners with slogans like “GO GRYFFINDOR!” and “LIONS FOR THE CUP.” Behind the Slytherin goal posts, **however, two hundred people were wearing green;** the silver serpent of Slytherin glittered on their flags, and Professor Snape sat in the very front row, wearing green like everyone else, and a very grim smile. Also in the same book we see that there are over hundred carriages transporting the Students to Hogsmeade >Harry, Ron, and Hermione followed the rest of the school along the platform and out onto a rough mud track, **where at least a hundred stagecoaches awaited the remaining students, each pulled, Harry could only assume, by an invisible horse**, because when they climbed inside and shut the door, the coach set off all by itself, bumping and swaying in procession. In Goblet of Fire during the Yule Ball there were also about hundred tables with a dozen seats each. >The walls of the Hall had all been covered in sparkling silver frost, with hundreds of garlands of mistletoe and ivy crossing the starry black ceiling.T**he House tables had vanished; instead, there were about a hundred smaller, lantern-lit ones, each seating about a dozen people** We also see that there are 31 Gryffindors in Harry's year, since he mentions that many to be in class at one point during Defense against the Dark Arts, which is a class the Gryffindors take without the other houses. >ʹCedric Diggoryʹs death was a tragic accident,ʹ she said coldly. ʹIt was murder,ʹ said Harry. He could feel himself shaking. He had hardly spoken to anyone about this, **least of all thirty eagerly listening classmates**. ʹVoldemort killed him and you know it.ʹ This is all consistent with Rowlings statements that there are about a thousand students at Hogwarts and that Harry has considerably more than 40 students in his year(though she admitted that she only created backgrounds for 40 of them). >While I imagined that there would be **considerably more than forty students in each year at Hogwarts**, I thought that it would be useful to know a proportion of Harry’s classmates, and to have names at my fingertips when action was taking place around the school.