Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) - 267 mistakes

Visible crew/equipment: When Superman and the super villain are fighting on the moon, when Superman flies in and lands at the beginning of the fight, you can see the cables that are suspending him.

Factual error: The Sun Man takes the publisher of the newspaper out into space. Humans cannot breathe in outer space. Even if they could, wouldn't she burn up in re-entry? It can't be Superman's powers are transferred to someone he's touching, otherwise in the second film he could never have crushed General Zod's hand...

Continuity: When the truck is carrying the missile, the officers parading in front of it pass by the same place twice.

Continuity: When Superman leaves Luthor in the quarry, he lands several feet to the right of the cop. In the close-up they are almost close to each other.

Continuity: When Nuclear Man arrives on Earth, he enters a shady place which makes him loose his power and cools his body, producing some frozen-like smoke. The next two times that he enters a dark place (inside the elevator and in space) he doesn't produce the smoke. FX budget problems here?

Continuity: Two firemen are seen away from their truck, but when the angle changes six firemen have appeared seemingly from nowhere.

Continuity: Nuclear Man dents the floor with his footsteps, but in a wider angle the floor is intact.

Continuity: When Lacy is in outer space grabbed by Nuclear Man, she slides down dramatically and grabs on his wrist. Half a second later, the sliding effect is gone and she is now floating relaxed, grabbing the upper part of his arm.

Continuity: In the barn, Superman puts a glowing crystal inside a pocket. A frame later it disappears.

Continuity: After the two police cars are sent backwards, a third one that was parked behind, suddenly appears aligned with the other two.

Continuity: When Lois is in the subway carriage crying for help, she places her right hand on the rail above. A frame later the hand is by her waist.

Continuity: The debris on the bottom of the Statue of Liberty's base appears and disappears between shots.

Revealing: When Superman saves the people that Nuclear Man throws up into the air, as they lower you can see the support wires holding them up.

Continuity: While the people in the village are watching the lava flow down the streets, the first shot shows them to the right of a wooden door. A frame later they are positioned several feet further, close to a big green plant.

Continuity: During the Great Wall of China scene, the sky changes from cloudy and grey in the shots involving people, to bright and sunny when the wall explodes.

Plot hole: When NuclearMan sees a picture of Lacy Warfield on the newspaper he decides to go after her. When confronted by Superman he asks "Where is the woman?" Superman responds that he'll never find her. How could Superman know which woman NuclearMan was talking about? There was no indication that Superman knew that NuclearMan was looking for Lacy.

Continuity: When Superman lands Lex on the quarry, the standing position of the prisoner behind differs between shots.

Continuity: In the quarry, the cop on the right's hat has two strings around the top, the upper one dissapears depending on the shot.

Continuity: After Superman straightens the US flag, a brief shot shows he is on a plain ground, but when he is knocked down by Nuclear Man, a big mount appears in front of him.

Continuity: Before Superman enters the UN hall, the amount of people by the staircase changes between shots.

Continuity: The shape and size of the volcano is totally different between the moment when Nuclear Man enters it, to when it erupts.

Continuity: Behind where Nuclear Man lands there's no school bus on the wide shot, which is a matte painting, but a frame later one appears and stays there for the rest of the scene.

Continuity: When nuclear Man bursts the cab's hood, the radiator explodes and vanishes. A second later it's back on.

Continuity: Mr. Warfield asks the little boy to repeat "I wish Superman had said yes" and places his hand on the kid's shoulder. The shot changes inmediately to a close-up and the arm and hand are gone.

Revealing: When Nuclear Man blows up the fire hydrant one can easily notice it's made of foam.

Factual error: If the Russian cosmonauts need special suits to survive out to space, so does Lacey when she is taken by Nuclear Man.

Continuity: The Statue of Liberty manages to fall down straight the whole long time, but when it is is about to hit the ground, the angle changes and the statue has magically tilted sideways.

Revealing: Watch the moon fight between the two supermen. In one scene, Superman charges nuclearman and you can see the backdrops flutter if your monitor brightness is high.

Revealing: When NuclearMan goes to destroy the Great Wall of China, there is a brief glimpse of him wearing support wires.

Continuity: Whenever there is a shot of Superman flying taken from directly in front of him, against a blue screen (watch out for the oh-so-visible black outline and loss of colour), it's always the exact same shot. Obviously the producers could only get one day with the blue screen, then.

Continuity: When Nuclear Man buries Superman, there's a huge rock near the hole. When Superman comes out, the rock has disappeared.

Continuity: While the lava flows on the Italian village, a wooden cart with hay on the left suddenly becomes a red car.

Continuity: Clark enters the barn to fiddle with his green crystal. When he exits, a huge amount of stuff from his childhood has magically appeared around the place.

Continuity: When Superman is walking with the kid towards the UN, they pass by a fire hydrant. In the immediate wide angle of the place the hydrant is gone, but reappears in the following shot a couple meters ahead of Superman.

Continuity: In the gym, the amount of sport bags on the back differs between shots.

Continuity: Lex's fat assistant enters the place with the missiles' control panels. Outside he is seen entering through an open door. From the inside, the door is closed and he enters a second later.

Continuity: After Superman lets go of the elevator on the surface of the moon, the cables fall down with the elevator, but in the close-up the cables are up and fall down again.

Continuity: While Superman walks to UN, the way Jimmy holds his camera changes in a split second.

Continuity: While Superman walks with the kid to the UN, the sky changes from sunny to cloudy in a nano-second.

Continuity: Before Clark steps down off the trolley, a group of people surrounded by suitcases are seen on the back, but disappear when the angle changes.

Revealing: When the net full of nuclear missiles is thrown into the sun, the footage of the explosion is exactly the same as the explosion of the single rocket with the DNA of Nuclear Man attached.

Continuity: During the volcano eruption scene, an old man with a black hat on the right appears and disappears depending if the shot is a close-up or a wide shot. This even happens when the shot changes follow one another immediately.

Audio problem: On the moon, Superman smashes Nuclear Man's head against his knee. The clonk is heard before the hit (even forgetting that sound can't be heard on the moon).

Continuity: When Nuclear Man lands on Metropolis a cop on the right is opening the door of his car. In the next shot he is repeating the movement.

Continuity: When Nuclear Man arrives to earth, full of energy from the sun, his footsteps don't glow; neither do they when he arrives to the balcony, several scenes later. Then a couple of seconds after they glow but stop glowing when he walks towards Superman and keep that way for the rest of the film.

Continuity: When Superman is taking the missile with the rest of the weapons, its colour changes from dark black to light grey.

Revealing: Nuclear Man fires close to a school bus and a guy in a white car comes out with a flame burning close to his head. Watch him and you'll see he's wearing a fire proof hood.

Revealing: When Nuclear Man hits Superman by the Statue of Liberty's grounds, Superman reacts to the kick before actually being hit.

Continuity: When Nuclear Man is destroying Metropolis, the same stuntman with a gabardine and a hat is seen close to a shop window, then a second later in the middle of the street and a second afterwards getting thrown through the air with a group of people. He looks and dress just like Clark Kent, guess it's his stand in doing some extra work.

Visible crew/equipment: After Superman is seen aged holding the green glass, Nuclear Man is seen ascending and wires are visible.

Revealing: Near the end of the movie, Superman descends on the tower, by the elevator room, and his supporting wires are visible.

Continuity: Superman land on the middle-top of the missile, but a second later he is further down and on the side of it.

Continuity: When Lois gets in the subway train it is packed with people, in the close shot they are gone.

Continuity: Lois visits Clark and takes her coat off, folds it and places it on her arm. A frame later the coat is lying on the couch.

Revealing: When Superman and Nuclearman are fighting for the first time in outer space, you can see them both standing on a small platform.

Continuity: Superman traps the supervillain (whose power depends on sunlight) inside of an elevator to incapacitate him. Superman then ripped the elevator out of the building. He then plants it on the far side of the moon. Later on, sunlight starts to shine into the elevator through a slit at where the doors meet. The villain of course recharges and comes after Superman again. Now, if light could get through that crack there, then why couldn't it get through when the elevator was ripped out of the building in BROAD DAYLIGHT?

Continuity: When the volcano erupts, a wide shot shows a group of people behind the cop and the priest. In the following shot a woman appears in front of the cop.

Continuity: In the museum, while the guide is walking towards Superman's hair, people suddenly appear on the left taking pictures.

Factual error: When the villain takes the reporter into space (the earth is just a circle off in the distance), then weakens and lets go of her, not only does she start to fall, she starts to fall straight down and has to hang onto him. (Oddly enough, HE's NOT falling). Did somebody inject gravity into mid-space?

Continuity: When Superman flies towards a mountain, the lava on the volcano behind him disappears.

Continuity: Superman walks towards the UN and there are benches in front of him. In the next wide angle they've disappeared.

Continuity: When the train driver passes out, several (speeded-up) shots of the tunnel and the shots of the bystanders on the platform show that the train is moving really fast, but in between there's a shot of Lois at normal speed, and the lights of the tunnel seen through the windows show that the train speed is quite low.

Continuity: When Nuclear Man destroys Metropolis, he stands by the Metropolis Tower entrance, but disappears and reappears randomly depending on the angle.

Continuity: When Clark is about to enter the subway train, the people by the door appear and disappear all the time: A cop, a man with a hat, a lady in a leather jacket.

Continuity: Lois visits Clark at his appartment and a wooden duck, with the head painted green and white and a black coloured body, appears on the table next to her.

Continuity: Before lava covers the Italian village, furniture under the two arches on the right, as well as a vase, cart wheel and table on the left disappear between shots.

Continuity: When Lois opens the terrace doors in the hotel suite, the angle changes and the furniture on her right moves several meters to the left, appearing close to Lois.

Continuity: The close shot of the Great Wall exploding shows an edgy architecture, with straight lines. The wide shots show a curvy construction.

Continuity: On the Great Wall, a woman with a turquoise jacket stumbles and is about to fall off the edge. From a new angle two seconds later, she is three meters behind and stumbling towards the edge again.

Continuity: Luthor holds a sealed champagne bottle with both hands on the neck of it. He doesn't move them, nor his shoulders, nor do we hear any sound revealing that the bottle's being opened. However, when Luthor leaves, the bottle's seal appears opened and 20 centimeters away when the scene ends.

Continuity: In the gym, a man leaves a towel on a low wall. Watch the blue and grey stripes and you'll notice that its position is different between shots.

Revealing: Before Superman brings the cosmonaut safely to his spaceship the entrance door wiggles as if made of cardboard. There's no air in space and it's supposed to be a strong, solid structure.

Continuity: When the satellite knocks the Russian cosmonaut, they are both dragged into space, but the immediate wide angle shows him alone in the void, no sign of the huge satellite.

Continuity: When Superman flies away from the tower holding the elevator, the first angle shows him leaving towards a 10 o'clock direction. A frame later the position of the cable shows him leaving to a 7 o'clock direction.

Continuity: When Nuclear Man and Superman fall off the balcony and fight, the position of their bodies has no continuity in the wide and close shots.

Continuity: When Superman throws the rock into the volcano, it flies from right to left into a huge cloud of smoke. In the following angle, it is falling from the blue clear sky, up away from the smoke.

Continuity: The UN building that Superman walks towards and the one he arrives at in a new shot look entirely different.

Continuity: Shortage of extras in this film: Inside the UN hall, the arab man that greets Superman is the one that a second before was in the entrance.

Continuity: When Superman falls straight and unconscious off the Statue of Liberty he's facing a 9 o'clock direction. In the next angle he is facing 5, then lands facing 7.

Deliberate "mistake": The same front shot of Superman flying is used over and over and over again.

Continuity: When Luthor introduces Nuclear Man to Superman, a towel on a chair changes from ironed and flat to a big bundle in less than a second.

Continuity: When the lava is flooding the village, a big green plant appears close to a priest. When Superman cools the lava and the smoke goes away, we see that the plant is much smaller and less leafy.

Revealing: In this scene, all the SWAT cops have the same type of rifle, except for the guy that gets his melted by Nuclear Man, which is a thick rubbery prop.

Continuity: After smashing his head, Superman sends Nuclear Man flying away. At first, Nuclear Man is conscious and with his head pointing upwards. A frame later he is unconscious and the head is laying down.

Revealing: When Clark Kent enters the subway, the set is the same as the rampage later in the film; only that the second time we see this set, the subway entrance has vanished.

Visible crew/equipment: In the quarry, when the cops' car flies up the air you can see the ramp used to lift it on the lower left side of the screen.

Continuity: When Superman arrives at the UN, Jimmy Olsen stops in the middle of the street to take a picture of him. A shot later he's six feet behind a dark car.

Continuity: A couple seconds after Lenny insults Nuclear Man, when he is about to be lifted up, the place he stands in is different from where he was before.

Continuity: When the window shops explode, the grey car close to them disappears in the following shot.

Deliberate "mistake": Nuclear Man asks Superman "where's the girl", to which Superman replies to him that he'll never find her. All the plot involving Nuclear Man and Lacy was cut out, so both guys talking about "a girl" (which they both know about) is useless and senseless here.

Revealing: After they fall off the balcony, Superman chases Nuclear Man, but the boats beneath don't move.

Continuity: When Nuclear Man is about to land on the Great Wall, the aerial view shows it's empty; a second later it's filled with people.

Continuity: After the volcano erupts, the boy standing to the right of the girl disappears between shots.

Visible crew/equipment: When Nuclear Man turns Luthor's assistant around on the air, supporting wires are visible.

Continuity: While Superman is taking the Statue of liberty back to its place the sky keeps changing between violet and blue, sunny and cloudy.

Revealing: When Superman flies towards the volcano, the scene of the eruption he is superimposed on is exactly the same one we saw 2 minutes earlier.

Revealing: After Nuclear-Man kicks Superman in the air after putting the Statue of Liberty back, Superman does flips and part of him disappears.

Continuity: When Superman takes off after saving the boy in the Great Wall of China scene, you see him heading up, as if leaving, but in the next cut, he's on the ground next to the wall.

Continuity: Outside the UN, the crowd looks up to the sky and watch Superman come flying. When he lands, 2 seconds later, all the stunts on the first row are either gone or standing somewhere else. A kid on the right with dyed hair, for example, is now standing way behind the crowd.

Continuity: Seen from inside the train-driver's seat, the tunnel is darker and with lights on both sides, but a shot of the tunnel alone shows it brighter and with no lights on the left side. Then it cuts back to the previous angle and everything changes back.

Continuity: On the moon, nuclear Man grabs a rock with a huge hole underneath and holds it over his head. The angle changes and the rock has changed to a different one with a solid bottom.

Continuity: Nuclear Man lands in Metropolis and the cab driver on the left swaps several times from having his arm inside the car in the wide angles, to outside the cab's window in the close-ups.

Continuity: When Nuclear Man arrives at the Statue of Liberty he lowers his arms twice.

Continuity: When Mrs. Warfield waits for Clark in her office, there's a white sculpture on the table. From the back it's away from a brown object, from the front it's very close to it.

Revealing: When in space, Superman punches Nuclear Man on the back, he turns around and his face has turned blurry and black, but his body keeps the same colour. In the immediate close-up the face's colour is fixed.

Continuity: On the terrace, when Superman and nuclear Man are about to fight, the rope next to the lamp on the wall keeps changing positions between shots.

Revealing: When the subway train is supposedly running wild, watch the man to the left of Lois: He throws Lois's book violently away on the sly, as if the (fake) rumble inside the train had done the mess.

Continuity: By the colour of the new stones repaired, you can tell that the first gap that Superman fixes at the Great Wall is smaller in size and triangular shaped, instead of the original rectangular and huge gap made by Nuclear Man.

Continuity: When Superman and Lois are flying together, the train below drives from right to left, but half a second later it is moving in the opposite direction.

Continuity: When Superman leads nuclear man inside the building to find lacy, an old man turns sideways to let Super in. A frame later he is back facing the door.

Continuity: After Lois and Clark read the headline with the "Drop dead" to kid, shots alternate between each of them and there's no sync in the graphics appearing on the computers behind each, while for the rest of the whole film all computers are in sync.

Continuity: Lois hands the newspaper to Clark, with the headline "Superman says drop dead to kid", and a guy in a red shirt in the background stands up and leaves, followed by a bunch of people behind; in the following angle he is sitting down and the whole choreography is repeated.

Continuity: After Clark takes the green crystal from the hole on the ground and hides it, the cloth covering the hole has a different position to how it looked a second before.

Audio problem: When Lex is giving instructions to launch the missile, a young man puts on his earphones and talks to Lex, but his mouth doesn't move.

Continuity: After the SWAT van is lifted, it tilts forward. A frame later, it's looking sideways.

Continuity: Nuclear Man sends the 2 police cars back and the one on the right skids and faces slightly to the right, but a second later, when they explode, both cars are perfectly aligned.

Continuity: When Nuclear Man explodes a window shop with a TV in, the reflection of the window on the taxi on the right shows a clear blue sky and a low building; nothing to do with the skyscrapers and the rampage that we see in other shots.

Continuity: After the volcano erupts, a big black cloud covers the city, but a wider angle shows the sky clear.

Revealing: When Lois and Superman are flying together, they turn green, specially Lois's arms and hands.

Continuity: After nuclear Man crumples the cab's hood, there's another taxi behind starting to drive slowly towards the damaged cab. A frame later, a new angle shows that taxi repeating the previous movements but really fast.

Continuity: In the hotel, right before Lacy enters the elevator, the hall of the hotel is filled with plants, couches and people. A second later, while Clark is on the trolley, the hall is a vast, empty place for the trolley to wander around.

Continuity: When Superman is out on the balcony with Lois, a tall, wide building is reflected on the glass behind, but when the angle changes to Superman's POV the building is gone, and now there's just a vast open space and a thin skyscraper.

Continuity: When Lacy shows the mock front page of the Daily Planet she holds it covering the red circle on the top right. A frame later she's holding it several inches down.

Continuity: When Superman and Nuclear Man fight on the balcony the high powered binoculars disappear.

Continuity: When the Soviet missile is about to be launched, the sky changes from daytime to dusk.

Continuity: The Soviet missile has legible CCCP red letters, but in the following shot it's covered in snow, although the close-ups don't show any snow falling.

Continuity: When Nuclear Man sends the police cars back, there's a man close to a mailbox on the left. There's a very brief cut before the cars explode but when the explosion takes place, the man has vanished.

Continuity: After Perry White delivers his final speech a woman in a yellow dress goes up the escalator. In the following shot, no one's there.

Audio problem: When Nuclear Man knocks out Superman on the moon we hear some growling, but their mouths aren't moving.

Continuity: When nuclear Man watches the newspaper on the table, the lighter is by the side of the phone. In the following shot it's in front of it.

Continuity: When Nuclear Man fires at the fire truck a short piece of hose comes out. A second later, in the following shot, the hose is 10 meters long and all over the place.

Continuity: When Superman throws Nuclear Man down the chimney, the sky is grey and cloudy, but a second later it's pitch black.

Continuity: Before Nuclear Man burns Luthor's dollar bill, Luthor looks to his right, immediately after, the shot from behind shows him looking straight forward.

Continuity: The SWAT van is lifted next to the curb, but a second later appears in the middle of the street surrounded by cars.

Continuity: When the statue of Liberty is about to crash on the street, a close shot is seen of jammed cars and hysterical people. When the shot changes to Superman flying to the rescue, the jam, the cops and the people have disappeared, and all is nice and quiet in Metropolis.

Continuity: Nuclear Man watches the Daily Planet paper with the "New publisher for your favourite paper" headline. The first shot shows the paper slightly wrinkled on the left and bent to the right. In the following angle it is straight and perfect.

Continuity: When the SWAT van is turning around, the cars on the street are different than the ones in previous shots (try to find the destroyed taxi cabs that collided).

Continuity: When Lois gets in the train, an old man with a grey gabardine enters first and is seen behind her. Then the shot changes and the man has changed to a baldie middle aged guy.

Revealing: Nuclear Man is shown blowing up the Great wall twice, but it's the same shot reversed.

Continuity: Before Superman rebuilds the Great Wall, he flies up with a woman in his arms. He flies past a stone arch and starts to descend. However, the following angle shows him yards behind descending right by the center of the arch.

Continuity: During the volcano scene, a girl is holding on to the priest's arm at wrist level. A split of a second later her grip changes to above the elbow level.

Continuity: When the volcano erupts, there's suddenly a lot more snow on the crater.

Continuity: Before nuclear Man lands in the city, there's barely any smoke. A split second later, the close shot is completely filled with smoke. Then it disappears when we see the old lady with the yellow bag, and reappears when we go back to Nuclear Man.

Continuity: Luthor extends his arm with a dollar bill in hand for Nuclear Man to light. From the front his arm is fully extended. From behind it isn't.

Factual error: Superman and Nuclear Man fly around the world fighting at incredible speed. Everywhere they go, including places as widely spread as New York and China, it's daytime.

Continuity: Superman walks to a building in front surrounded by grass and with no people or traffic nearby. However, immediately after, a close-up shows him approaching a totally different place, crowded with people and a traffic jammed street.

Continuity: When Superman flies together with Lois his hair moves a lot because of the wind; but when he flies alone it stays perfect.

Continuity: When Superman rescues Lucy in space she is placed on his right side. A frame later she is on the left.

Continuity: When Nuclear Man is thrown down the chimney, he is unconscious with his arms and head looking down. A frame later he is stiff, with his arms up and pointing to the sky.

Revealing: Although Lois and another passenger move violently to show that the train is running wild, the rest of the passengers and the straps to hold one self remain perfectly still.

Other: When the visitors are leaving the museum, the first man from the cue stares at the camera for a brief moment.

Continuity: While the volcano explodes close to the Italian village, a man jumps off a balcony but disappears just a frame later from the following wide shot of the place.

Revealing: While flying together, Superman let's go of Lois and she plummets at first, but then, with the snowy mountains behind, she's able to float on air and keep on moving at the same time for 5 seconds.

Continuity: In the hotel suite, the kitchen door is always open, except for the moment when Superman has to look through it, when the door appears magically shut.

Continuity: When Superman saves the falling woman at the Great Wall, he flies in a 1 o'clock direction. A frame later he is positioned in a 12 0'clock.

Continuity: When Nuclear Man flies through the Daily Planet floors, the last place he breaks into has the exact same decoration as Lex Luthor's penthouse, despite the fact that in previous scenes we saw that Luthor lives in a totally different building.

Continuity: Before Lacy opens the red car's door at the UN, a lot of people walk towards her and stand inches away. A second later they've vanished.

Audio problem: When Lenny drives his car into the quarry, the sound of his radio changes depending on where the car is; but when he drives away, suddenly it stays constant. It should have decreased, and increased when we get to the close-up.

Continuity: While Nuclear Man moves the 2 police cars backwards, the first shot shows the car on the right ahead of the other. A frame later, in a new angle, it is way behind the other car.

Continuity: A couple walks behind the hot dog stand in the same direction twice in less than half a second.

Continuity: While Superman flies with Lois, the sky keeps changing colour all the time.

Continuity: When the crowd follows Superman to the UN the mounted cop changes from being on the left side to the right.

Continuity: In the beginning of the UN sequence, we see a brief outside shot of the real UN building, but the further shots of the fake building have none of the elements from the shot we just saw: Flags, white stone wall.

Continuity: Outside the UN, the hot dog in the kid's hand suddenly disappears.

Continuity: While the crowd follows Superman to the UN, the man with the balloons is first seen far away from him, but half a second later he is very close.

Revealing: While the subway train is gone wild, there's a brief shot of bystanders on the platform. Then the train keeps going on for several seconds, and when it finally comes to a stop the actors are the same ones used previously.

Revealing: When Superman drops the elevator containing the imprisoned Nuclear Man on the moon, he flies off and lands to straighten the American flag. In this shot you can plainly see the wires helping him land.

Continuity: When Superman is entering the UN, an Arab man greets him and turns his head around from right to left. In the following closer angle he repeats the movement.

Revealing: When Lenny's car, with the cops in it, flies into the air you can see it's empty.

Continuity: Superman is on the moon, about to cause the sun eclipse, and flies to the left, as if he were to exit the moon. In the next shot Superman is seen coming from the void towards the moon again.

Continuity: When Nuclear Man walks towards the newspaper on the desk, the phone cable's position changes through shots.

Continuity: After Lenny calls Nuclear Man "experiment freako", the stool from the drum disappears.

Continuity: When the Soviets are about to launch the missile in the snowy field, there are two soldiers on the right and a third with a black hat running away. A second later there are three soldiers plus the one with the black hat who's now there.

Continuity: When Nuclear Man is destroying Metropolis his hair suddenly changes from messy to perfectly brushed.

Continuity: The SWAT people that are falling off the truck when it gets lifted disappear in the next angle where we see the pavement and a close up of the front of the truck.

Deliberate "mistake": When the window shops explode, a taxi cab door is widely open to show a Budweiser ad on it. In the following wide angle from above the door is closed.

Continuity: When Lois is packing Superman's cape and Lacy says "I had nothing to do with it", there's no continuity with the passers-by seen behind. A kid in a red t-shirt, for example, appears from nowhere.

Revealing: When nuclear Man shoots at the cops, the scene is being played backwards.

Continuity: When Superman saves the girl from the Great Wall of China and starts rising, a woman with a white hat behind lifts her arm to say goodbye. In the following angle she is repeating the movement.

Revealing: The rock that hits the prop-astronaut blows his head off. Seconds later the head is back in place.

Continuity: In a split second, all of the snow on the mountain cut by Superman disappears.

Revealing: In the aerial shot of Nuclear Man entering the crater of the volcano the smoke coming from it is still, thus revealing it's a painting.

Continuity: When in the subway, Superman is standing by a 6 foot poster of the Statue of Liberty. When the shot changes to a flying Superman, he is a third of his size and the poster is huge.

Visible crew/equipment: When Nuclear Man's laser beams send Superman flying away on the moon, the shadow of the crane moving him is visible.

Continuity: Clark runs towards the subway train and stops. Then from a different angle he is several meters behind, running and stopping again.

Other: In the rest of Superman movies, whenever he used his eyes to do some trick a beam came out. In this (really cheap) movie the beam is gone.

Continuity: Superman crosses flying the Golden Gate Bridge together with Lois, heading close to the bay area. Half a second later they are next to the bridge again.

Plot hole: Nuclear Man arrives at Luthor's apt. and steps into a dark corner, where he loses his powers. From the opposite angle the place is filled with light, so Nuclear Man shouldn't have lost his strength.

Continuity: While Nuclear Man is destroying Metropolis, two police cars get moved backwards. The first shot of the cars moving show a lot of people by a shop window. The angle changes to a close shot, with no people there, then back to the previous wide angle, now with the cars moving backwards, and the bunch of people reappear.

Continuity: When the baddies are waiting for Lex Luthor to arrive, before he fires them, the position of the cork on the table changes between shots.

Revealing: Outside the UN, a woman in a red coat appears behind the hot dog stand and when the angle changes to the opposite side, in front of her, she's also there.

Revealing: While Superman carries the Statue, there's a close shot of Nuclear Man showing his fingernails. The movie behind is playing the wrong way, and gives the sensation that Nuclear Man is flying backwards.

Continuity: The smoke coming out of the volcano changes direction in a split second after nuclear Man enters the crater.

Revealing: When Superman is wounded on the neck, and when the italian villagers are saved, the same male falsetto voice is used to add a (crappy and out-of-sync) "Oooh!" and "Aaaah!".

Continuity: When Superman stops the subway train, there's a black man with a moustache, red shirt and a gabardine suit in the first line. Then he manages to appear meters behind, despite the jam on the platform. Then Lois appears behind him. Then she magically disappears and he appears back on the front.

Continuity: When Lacy is about to enter the elevator, a light brown rug has appeared on the floor behind, which disappears in the next wide shots.

Continuity: When Superman enters the UN hall, a back shot shows the people in the upper bleacher clapping, but a frame later, the front shot shows them sitting still.

Continuity: During the volcano eruption the animal on the right (goat or sheep, I don't know) keeps changing from brown colour to white.

Continuity: In the quarry, Lenny parks his car to the very right of two wagons. Seconds later the car is in front of them.

Continuity: When Superman stops the Soviet spaceship from turning around the solar panel is facing upwards, a second later the spaceship has changed position and the panel is sideways.

Continuity: Before the firemen arrive at the truck, there's a lot of smoke around, but half a second later it's all gone.

Revealing: After Nuclear Man rampages Metropolis, Superman cries "Stop!" and a SWAT agent descends from the sky on visible wires.

Continuity: When Superman is rebuilding the Great Wall all of the people near the hole vanish.

Revealing: The close shot of people panicking when the Statue is about to crash against the pavement shows an old woman with a red wool hat and a white scarf. Many scenes later, when Nuclear Man lands on Metropolis, the same lady is seen, wearing the same clothes.

Continuity: When nuclear Man makes the engine of the taxi explode, there's a guy with a red jacket behind it that appears and disappears between shots.

Continuity: Swat agents hide behind the van and start to shoot. A second later they've all vanished.

Continuity: Nuclear Man lands on Metropolis and all the traffic in both lanes is jammed and no cars move. When he walks a couple of feet suddenly the right lane, which had space for a car the most, is empty and with space enough to let two taxis appear from nowhere and run for several feet.

Audio problem: When Nuclear Man puts Lenny down on the floor, Lenny babbles some things but his mouth doesn't move.

Visible crew/equipment: When NuclearMan enters the building after being told he would be taken to Lacy, he flys upward through different floors. As he's doing this you can see support wires attached.

Factual error: When Superman addresses the UN, the delegate presumably representing the United Kingdom appears behind an "England" sign - "England" is not an international entity represented at the UN, while the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is.

Continuity: In class, Jeremy has his body bent over his desk. When the angle changes he is sitting properly on the chair.

Continuity: When Superman lands near the UN, Lois and Jimmy disappear from the crowd, only to appear half a second later, in the closer angle.

Continuity: At the Great Wall of China, Nuclear Man points his hands forward and explodes the wall in front. As of then, there's no continuity between the position of his hands and the location of the places exploding.

Continuity: While Superman is in awe reading the "Drop dead" headline, there's a group of journalists on the background and an empty chair on the right. When Clark stands up, a man appears seated on the chair.

Revealing: The elevator cables that Superman holds should be greasy, or at least dirty, but they are not, revealing he's merely holding a black rope.

Revealing: While Nuclear Man and Superman are falling off the balcony, their skin switches from pink to natural. When Nuclear Man finally flies away he looses all of his colour and becomes semi transparent.

Continuity: Before Lex presses the red button to launch the missile, the phone next to it is hung-up. Then someone grabs it and the phone cable covers the control panel, but the immediate close-up of Lex's finger shows that the phone is hung-up, as in the first position.

Revealing: After the SWAT van is lifted, a sky and a low building are reflected on its side, instead of the skyscraper we see on the opposite angle.

Revealing: While flying with Lois, Superman lets her go and when he picks her up all of the wires holding him are visible.

Continuity: When Luthor and Superman exit to the balcony to meet Nuclear Man, Superman gives a step down. A frame later he is up, and several seconds later he steps down again.

Continuity: During the Great Wall of China scene, a tree suddenly appears by the wall just when Superman is leaving.

Continuity: One of the general shots in the subway shows Superman flying slower than usual and inches away from the bystanders. The problem is that their coats and hair don't flutter nor do they notice him passing by or seem nervous in any way. However, the next close shot of their faces show them nervous and in awe at the action.

Plot hole: Nuclear Man flies through the floor and ceilings of the Metropolis tower without touching anything or anyone; but an outside shot shows the facade exploding for some reason.