oswal13

9th May 2018

Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

Correction: No, she does not. The first shot after she breaks the hammer, her hands are free. She then caresses her own hair and turns them into her trademark thorny helmet. She does conjure up a sword 27 seconds *before* the hammer but either the resulting shockwave blew it away, or she dismissed it for the theatricality of it. She loves theatricality.

FleetCommand

Corrected entry: After the big cannon blast to open the gate the ground turns red as the salt is blown clear, but when Luke is fighting Kylo it's white again.

oswal13

Correction: The salt is falling from the sky constantly during this bit. We don't see that set-piece for about 2 minutes after or so. Enough salt has accumulated onto the ground during the time that has passed.

Corrected entry: While Howard Stark is leaving the military base, in the background there is a white guy with black hair who resembles Loki.

oswal13

Correction: And? Just because someone resembles Loki doesn't mean that it is or was ever intended to be a reference to Loki.

LorgSkyegon

Correction: Think about it, probably Loki traveled in time exactly at the same point Tony retrieves the Teserract but we don't know yet, maybe will be explained in Loki's T.V. series and also it's very unlikely that a single guy with long hair and hippie look is on a military base in the 70's.

oswal13

This is way too speculative to be a valid argument against the correction. Until and unless the Loki TV series confirms that this character is indeed Loki, then this is not valid trivia.

Phaneron

Corrected entry: Clint calls his daughter Hawkeye - the very first time that that name is actually used in the whole saga.

oswal13

Correction: This is incorrect. Nat calls Clint "Hawkeye" during the battle of New York. Even his wife calls him "Hawkeye" in "Age of Ultron."

Bishop73

15th Oct 2018

Justice League (2017)

Corrected entry: While Superman uses his heat vision against Cyborg he hits a police car behind him with two police officers which disappear and reappear between shots.

oswal13

Correction: We briefly see the officers after the police car is destroyed. Obviously, they left the area because they realised that there was nothing they could do, so they tried to keep other people away from the dangerous scene.

But they reappear in the next shot.

30th Jul 2019

Superman II (1980)

Corrected entry: In Richard Donner's cut, after Superman saves the kid in Canada he speaks with Lois and his hair keeps changing from dry then wet then dry back again between shots.

oswal13

Correction: Richard Donner's is not a finished movie, but an experiment of how S2 would have looked like had he finished it. It is made with material from different sources: Richard Lester's film, auditions, previously unreleased scenes, newly filmed stuff... Thus, it is impossible for it to have any continuity whatsoever and was never intended to have any.

Sacha

2nd Jul 2018

Deep Blue Sea (1999)

Corrected entry: Carter doesn't have any tracker device or any other to find the lost shark in the open sea, so it would be impossible to find him.

oswal13

Correction: There was no need to look for the shark because the shark was looking for them, as its intelligence was vastly increased.

Correction: The shark was not looking for Carter - it's established that the sharks are very intelligent but they are still animals.

oswal13

13th Jul 2019

Captain Marvel (2019)

Corrected entry: After Danvers steals the bike she hides her suit, but does not have any bag or any other item to store it in.

oswal13

Correction: Her suit could easily be worn beneath the clothes she stole. Even if they couldn't, we've seen that the helmet portion of her suit can appear from nowhere. It's not exactly a stretch to believe that the entire suit can be stored in a similar way, not unlike Peter Quill's helmet or Iron Man's most recent nano-tech suit.

13th Jul 2019

Captain Marvel (2019)

Correction: Fury is like THE secret agent. As Tony said, his secrets have secrets. It's not too hard to believe that he would lie about this.

Quantom X

Correction: Fury's statements aren't entirely incorrect. He specifies that SHIELD is building weapons due to what occurred the year before (Thor's battle with the Destroyer), and that "we" have learned we are not alone in the universe. The Skrull/Kree incident would have been kept pretty secret, but the incident with Thor would be much more well known, especially to the people in the room. He never actually says that Thor was the first alien that had been encountered.

The statement though was about "how we are hopelessly, hilariously outgunned", too. With the Tesseract in their possession and proof of entire alien races at work, research on weaponizing the Tesseract should have been already years and years in the making - while in Avengers it was also said that it's starting the work on weaponizing the Tesseract that drew Loki to it. Of course that statement could have been wrong, but surely nothing before this movie justifies over 10 years of time just sitting on the notion that there are aliens that can reach Earth and use high tech energy weapons and spaceships (a bunch of which is casually dropped on Earth, too).

Sammo

Corrected entry: Peter gets some bruises and wounds on his face when he meets Miles, but the next day those are gone.

oswal13

Correction: Spiderman has an accelerated healing power.

DetectiveGadget85

14th Apr 2019

Captain Marvel (2019)

Corrected entry: There's a flashback of Danvers playing the arcade game of Street Fighter II: Champion Edition in the bar, but that wasn't released until 1992, and she left earth in 1989.

oswal13

Correction: She's playing what appears to be a pinball machine in the memory. Look at the position of her hands, and also there's a clear image of the pinball machine's title that starts with "fligh..." behind her head.

This comment is correct. You can look up and there are promo pictures with Brie Larson playing the pinball machine - the game itself is Flight 2000, a machine from 1980 so amply within the boundaries of the movie timeline.

29th May 2019

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

Corrected entry: Peggy should be around 50 years old when Steve sees her through the window in the 70s at the secret base, because she was born in 1920-21. She looks exactly the same as in the first Captain America movie and Agent Carter.

oswal13

Correction: Actually if you look closely, she has some streaks of gray in her hair and a few wrinkles on her face. Additionally, her makeup will help to make her appear a little younger.

Phaneron

29th May 2019

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

Corrected entry: Spidey could not swing around the battleground because there are no trees or buildings.

oswal13

Correction: He swings off the Leviathans, Valkyrie's horse, Wakandan ships that are flying around and also Giant-Man.

DetectiveGadget85

30th May 2019

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

Corrected entry: While Clint's family is vanishing from his Iowa farm it should be night. The snap was in Wakanda, the other side of the world.

oswal13

Correction: Clint's farm is in Iowa - Wakanda is roughly near Uganda, which is 8 hours ahead of the US. So without a clear-cut timeframe it would be perfectly possible for the snap to take place at say 4pm in Wakanda, which would be 8am in Iowa. Or even as late as 6pm/10am.

I believe the correction is wrong. I may be mistaken, but wasn't the family eating hot dogs? Unless you are positing that they were having that for breakfast, which is highly doubtful, it doesn't make sense that it was early/mid morning at Clint's farm.

Well, we later see in Spider-Man: Far From Home that the snap happened while kids in New York were in school. So maybe the snap happened at 7 p.m. Wakanda time just before sunset, and 11 a.m. in NY and 10 a.m. in the Midwest where the farm supposedly was, and they were enjoying a nice hot dog brunch.

Vader47000

25th May 2019

John Wick (2014)

Correction: Not really trivia when you take into account that Kevin Nash has been appearing in movies and TV shows outside of WWE, WCW, and TNA programming as early as 1991 and has numerous films on his résumé.

Phaneron

24th May 2019

Casper (1995)

Corrected entry: There is no way that the mansion could have electrical service - it has been abandoned for years.

oswal13

Correction: It definitely could. The power companies sometimes miss disconnecting service, either by accident, incompetence, or laziness. For example, my company moved into a building a few years ago, and two years later during an inspection the power company realised of our three meters, one of the meters had fallen off their books and we were getting free power. So had the company before us I later learned. The service simply may have never been disconnected even though it was no longer being paid for.

jimba

Correction: During an interview, Matt Salinger said he did contact the director to say he'd be interested in a small cameo-type role. The casting director said they were shooting in England and if there was anything available when they got back to the States, they'd be in touch. Salinger didn't push the matter and does not appear in the film.

Bishop73

Correction: If by "alongside" you mean he is the man sitting next to Stan Lee, that is decidedly not Matt Salinger. He looks nothing like him, in fact. Additionally, Matt Salinger is not credited in the film's cast list on IMDB, and his own IMDB filmography indicates that he appeared in no films or TV shows from 2011 through 2013.

Phaneron

Corrected entry: Before the last battle, while Cap is walking alone towards Thanos and his army, he's holding the shield on his left, but in the wide view he has it on his right.

oswal13

Correction: It's just a quirk of the distance, angle and lighting - as he walks you can tell by the way his arms swing that the shield is still attached to his left arm.

15th Apr 2019

X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

Correction: She did have a reason. She showed up to the fight appearing in something very provocative so as to get in, and get the guard's attention so she can knock him out and cut the power. Once that was done, she "changed" into something less conspicuous to make a good on her escape. Keep in mind, Raven/Mystique is hardly ever wearing clothes at all. The clothes we see are a result of her manipulating her appearance, and she can change her appearance at will, in a matter of seconds, and for whatever reason she pleases.

jshy7979

1st May 2019

Shazam! (2019)

Corrected entry: At the carnival Shazam says the magic word to become Billy among several kids and people. The lighting hits him but the people around are not affected by the blast like the monsters were.

oswal13

Correction: The lightning only affected the monster because it was directly on top of him. The bystanders weren't.

Correction: But he uses the blast to hurt Sivana and it works.

oswal13

It's a magical bolt of lightning. It reacts to what he wants to do with it, when he can control it.

lionhead

That, plus the bolt hit an ice rink which exploded so that would have knocked Sivana back as well.

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