Best adventure TV character mistakes of all time

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Pilot - S1-E1

Character mistake: When Clark flies to see his parents for the first time, he is wearing a maroon shirt and jacket. When he lands at his parents farm he is still wearing his jacket and maroon shirt. In the next shot, he has taken his jacket off which now has a rip in the shoulder, as he enters the house his shirt is blue, and then in the following shot at the table having dinner his shirt is again maroon. (00:30:00 - 00:30:50)

Mike Paul Wilson-Barrett

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Tests - S1-E3

Character mistake: Bruce and Alfred play a short game of chess, after which Alfred remarks, "I don't know why we bother playing this game - you never lose." The problem is, Alfred moved into a position wherein Bruce could take his king; this is called "moving into check" and is not allowed in chess.

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Q & A - S1-E8

Character mistake: In s01e08, "Q and A", Yelena moves her bishop to B6. The announcer says that's going to win it (the game gets interrupted at this point). However, that move does not put the computer (her opponent) into checkmate, it doesn't even put it into check. Her bishop is on a dark square and the computer's king is on a white square.

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Sword of Shikata - S1-E11

Character mistake: When Shikata disappears after she loses her powers, Peter drops the sword and he, Mary Jane and two pedestrians behind them are shown looking in the direction that Shikata was just standing in. A third pedestrian, standing to the left of the shot, can be seen but is looking in a completely different direction to the others. (00:18:37)

Casual Person

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Episode #1.1 - S1-E1

Character mistake: In the opening minutes of the first episode, as the Erasmus is struggling through a storm, Blackthorne is told that the boatswain is dead. He checks the corpse and then says, "Get the body aloft," which would entail carrying the deceased up the mast. The correct order would be "Get the body topside."

mdwalker

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Rescue - S4-E1

Character mistake: When discussing Ensor, Avon says he'd spent 20 years of his life in hiding. Yet in 1-13 "Orac" Blake said he hadn't been seen for 40 years.

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Smoking Gun - S1-E2

Character mistake: When the bad guys put the generator in front of the air vent, Nigel looks at the white smoke and pointing at it says "Carbon monoxide." Carbon monoxide is colorless, white smoke is mostly condensed vapor. (00:35:20)

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The Enemy Within - S1-E15

Character mistake: At the border crossing during the car chase there is a mistyped sign below the window reading "Bunesrepublik Deutschland". it should be "Bundesrepublik Deutschland" (00:07:45)

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