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Fire Made Flesh - S1-E3

Character mistake: When Cyclops is expressing his opposition to sending his infant son into the future to cure his virus, he states he won't be like his own father and abandon his son. The problem is Cyclops' father didn't abandon him, but rather saved his life. Their family airplane was being attacked, and they were about to be abducted by the Shi'ar. Cyclops' father strapped a parachute to him and got him out of the plane before it crashed. Cyclops learned and made peace with all of this in the original series episode "Orphan's End." (00:25:04)

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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)

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Kidnap - S1-E3

Character mistake: During the briefing for the rescue mission, several Russian locations appear to be made-up (or could simply be misspelled beyond recognition), but "Vladivostok" was mentioned before, and it's not spelled "Vladiostok" like in the map. (00:17:35)

Sammo

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Invasion of the Ferb Snatcher/Ain't No Kiddie Ride - S2-E28

Character mistake: In 'Ain't No Kiddie Ride' Carl reminds Major Monogram that he has no sense of smell and that he was born without nostrils noting it on his resume. But in 'Brain Dead' when Major Monogram sees Perry wearing a face mask he points out that Carl is also a germaphobe. Carl corrects him saying "It's not the germs sir, it's the garlic smell." He wouldn't be able to smell anything since he has no nostrils. (01:10:00 - 01:35:00)

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