plot hole

See also: plothole

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plot hole (plural plot holes)

  1. (authorship) A gap or inconsistency in a storyline that goes against the flow of logic established by the story's plot.
    • 2012, Allan Brown, Inside the Wicker Man, Birlinn, →ISBN:
      Invited to collaborate with Hitch, Shaffer watched several of the director's previous films and noticed in North by Northwest a glaring plot hole; Cary Grant hides aboard a train that he has selected randomly yet, somehow, his pursuers lie in wait aboard the same train.
    • 2026 January 5, Stuart Heritage, “In ending, Stranger Things committed TV’s ultimate crime”, in The Guardian‎[1], →ISSN:
      For every hardcore fan who found themselves in floods of tears by the end, there was a disgruntled TikToker aggressively listing all the plot holes the episode left unfilled in its race to the finish line.

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