Other mistake: Supposedly the one difference between this universe and the movie canon is that Janet was infected by a zombie virus before she was saved by Hank and Scott. However, in the original movie Janet actively led them to her by 'possessing' Scott and while intelligent, these Marvel zombies can't communicate. Also, Vision is settled in Camp Leigh, which appears to be in perfect shape despite being hit by a missile powerful enough to penetrate in the bunker in Winter Soldier.
Sammo
22nd Dec 2021
What If...? (2021)
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Suggested correction: As I said in my other correction, differences between the MCU movies and this show cannot count as mistakes, since they are showing us different universes with different outcomes. Just because Janet lead Scott to them in the movie doesn't mean that's what happened in the show's universe. Same with the "Winter Soldier" discrepancy.
Without Janet leading them, they wouldn't have even learned about her existence based on what was shown in Antman and The Wasp, and they show the laboratory scene pan out as it did in the movie. Althought technically she could have been infected by the zombie virus in the minutes it took them to get to her inside the Quantum Realm. You realise that it's flimsy and it relies on people essentially not remembering the movie, though.
21st Dec 2021
What If...? (2021)
What If... Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands? - S1-E4
Plot hole: The episode has wonderful writing from a pure storytelling perspective, however it has zero coherence with the MCU it is supposedly part of. The show was written way before "Loki", for instance, and concepts like "Absolute points" are at odds with it. Likewise, Strange and the Ancient One's powers are radically different (Strange can't foresee the future but can go back at will without rewinding and his mentor can seemingly see past her own death).
21st Dec 2021
Jet Robot (1975)
An Insidious Trap! The Flying Fleet - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: The little bird that falls with Genki from the top of the building (surely that kid is something else, being unscathed falling face first from that height) lies in a different spot of the pavement between shots. (00:02:35)
21st Dec 2021
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Plot hole: The original "Make everyone forget that Spider-man is Peter Parker except..." spell went horribly wrong and Strange at the end of the movie is struggling to prevent a complete collapse of reality because people from the whole multiverse who fit the exception shoehorned by Peter have been drawn to this reality. Strange then does a new spell that supersedes the other by making everyone forget Peter Parker, period. The problem is, by that logic everyone would forget who Peter is also in all those universes involved and so Maguire and Garfield's life are likewise ruined and one wonders if they are even allowed to remember their own name (after all, the initial spell did affect them, so the radical undoing of it should too).
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Suggested correction: There is no indication that Strange's spell works on the multiverse. I'd say that is a bit of a stretch. The spell was focussed on MCU's spiderman, and him being forgotten fixed the multiverse (temporarily probably). The initial spell was flawed and broke down the multiverse barriers, causing other universes to spill in. The new spell fixed that, not change those universes.
I came here because I had realised the exact same thing Sammo had. The villains are not there because they know who MCU-Peter is, they are there because they know that Peter is Spider-Man in their universe. The first spell is still active, the second spell adjusts the consequences of it, because why else would the second spell send them back? The only way the villains can vanish is if they forget who Peter is in their universe as well, which means the other two Spideys are in the same situation.
The spilled over Spider-Men and villains can vanish because the second spell restores the flaws of the first spell, which caused the barriers of reality to come down. With the flaw restored, everything that spilled over is returned automatically. Not because they too don't know who Spider-Man is now, but because reality is restored.
That's not really the way they presented it in the movie. The second spell is "Make everyone forget who Peter Parker is." If it works the way you say, wouldn't they have been able to accomplish the same with a spell with less severe consequences, like "make everyone forget my middle name"?
MCU's Peter Parker, because MCU's Spider-Man is not forgotten. My point was that since the spell failure DID affect people from the whole multiverse, "everyone who know that Peter Parker is Spider-man" even when it's not THEIR Peter Parker, why would the fix (which happens when the beings have already broken in) be a selective one on a specific Peter? Happy if they address it in one of the next movies.
The first spell was also focussed on the MCU's Peter Parker but the failure caused tears in the multiverse and caused people to spill in, the spell didn't directly affect them. The fix was again specifically aimed at the MCU's Peter Parker, to supersede the failed spell and cause the tears to heal and the spilled over people to return. This one did work and thus only the MCU was affected whilst the others were returned (still with memories from changes by MCU's Peter).
As I said, hard to say it "didn't directly affect" those people when they were sucked into a different universe against their will, and they were because they had one peculiar trait the movie keeps hammering in; knowing that Peter Parker, any Peter, is Spider-man. It's the characters that use it in the exposition and then in the resolution, with two different meanings that don't match.
It was stated near the beginning that the spell went out of hand because it was changed six times mid-spell. Changing a spell while it's in the middle of being cast causes the spell to go berserk. The spell cast at the end is not changed mid-cast, so it was more controlled than the old spell.
If he just needed to cast properly, he could have casted it again in a more controlled way, but he cannot since "they're here." So it is a different spell, but if the condition "being Peter Parker" was not sufficiently clear the first time around (and Peter even interrupted the spell saying "everyone who knew that *I* was Spider-man before", not "everyone who knows Peter Parker is Spider-man"), there's no reason why it should be now.As I said, I'm pointing out that the meaning keeps shifting.
20th Dec 2021
64th Street: A Detective Story
Other mistake: Finishing the game with one coin, you are rewarded by the game acknowledging your "PARFECT" run.
20th Dec 2021
Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)
Stupidity: Venom is sensitive to sounds (the first movie mentioned frequencies from 4,000 to 6,000 hertz, but in this movie both him and Carnage are utterly discombobulated by things like bells and alarms, to the point that if only the prison didn't have literally one alarm siren Carnage would have had a harder time escaping). So naturally he goes to hang out...at a concert. At the end of his soapbox speech he even literally drops the mic, causing a high-pitched Larsen that fails to get any reaction. (00:47:20)
20th Dec 2021
Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)
Revealing mistake: In a random act of road rage, Carnage sticks out a couple of tentacles, effortlessly lifts up a truck that was driving by, and tosses it off the bridge. Great, but no matter how strong Carnage and each tentacle of his is, it can't nullify physics; it lifts that vehicle stopping entirely its momentum, and Carnage's car does not even remotely budge for the added weight. (00:45:25)
20th Dec 2021
Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)
Audio problem: Eddie Brock is trying to find where Carnage might be headed. To draw inspiration he listens to the recording of the last time they spoke (when incidentally he was never seen retrieving the tape). However, the lines in the recording are different takes from the original scene, spoken at a brisker pace without dramatic acting pauses. (00:38:00 - 00:42:40)
20th Dec 2021
Kindaichi shônen no jiken bo (1997)
Opera House Murder Case: File 3 - S1-E23
Plot hole: For the murder to happen, the killer needed to be next to the alarm bell and at the same time up in the stage rafter to cut the support cable, all while making sure the victim stayed exactly on the spot she needed to be for this demented trap to work.
19th Dec 2021
Lust Epidemic
Character mistake: Throughout the whole game, a verb used quite extensively is misspelled as "mastErbate."
19th Dec 2021
The Punisher (1993)
Other mistake: In the ending of the game, "its" is misused in place of "it's" twice in a single sentence ("it's support structure badly damaged collapsed, it's dying echo reverberating", etc). Also, first it mentions that Kingpin's dead and his empire of crime collapses over time gradually, then in the last sentence it makes clear that he's not dead at all.
19th Dec 2021
The Punisher (1993)
Character mistake: At the end of the penultimate stage, Frank menacingly says "Kingpin! Your LUCKS finally run out."
19th Dec 2021
Kindaichi shônen no jiken bo (1997)
Opera House Murder Case: File 1 - S1-E21
Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the episode you can see on the deck only Miyuki, a guy to her right, and to her left Kindaichi and her female friend. When Kindaichi starts throwing up, the whole drama club is there and everyone's position has changed. (00:01:45)
19th Dec 2021
Kindaichi shônen no jiken bo (1997)
Hida Mechanical Mansion Murder Case: File 3 - S1-E20
Plot hole: Even considering the fact that the corridor was dimly lit (but not in complete darkness), it is impossible to plan the 'switch' the way it happened. For the plan to work, the killer needed to go through a revolving door at the same time as Kindaichi; there was no guarantee which of the two halves of the door he'd make spin, though, and he needed precise timing (against someone running through the door at full speed) and not make a sound with the keys he was carrying. The corridor (and therefore the door) is also so narrow that you wouldn't be able to ever pull it off.
19th Dec 2021
Kindaichi shônen no jiken bo (1997)
Hida Mechanical Mansion Murder Case: File 1 - S1-E18
Plot hole: At the beginning of the episode, Kindaichi and his friends have an encounter with the mysterious figure that will be murdered later (allegedly). Three episodes later the identity of this mysterious figure is revealed, creating an impossibility when you consider who played that role. (00:03:10)
19th Dec 2021
Kindaichi shônen no jiken bo (1997)
Demon Suite Murder Case: File 2 - S1-E17
Revealing mistake: When Kindaichi looks the name up in the French dictionary, the pages are entirely made up of the same paragraph repeated over and over. (00:08:50)
19th Dec 2021
Kindaichi shônen no jiken bo (1997)
Demon Suite Murder Case: File 2 - S1-E17
Continuity mistake: Inside Arisa's room when she screams for the arrow incident, Miyuki's top is the same color as the sleeves of Kindaichi's polo, instead of being yellow. (00:04:00)
19th Dec 2021
Kindaichi shônen no jiken bo (1997)
Demon Suite Murder Case: File 2 - S1-E17
Continuity mistake: When the butler arrives in the room where Arisa was wounded, the arrow in the foreground is at an impossible angle considering it should point towards him. (00:04:10)
19th Dec 2021
Kindaichi shônen no jiken bo (1997)
Demon Suite Murder Case: File 1 - S1-E16
Continuity mistake: In the second murder, the toy tops on the floor are in a different position depending on the shot. (00:12:55)
18th Dec 2021
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Plot hole: Sandman's only wish is, as he repeats, to go back and see his daughter again. He helps Spider-man a few times, but at the same time he does not trust him entirely, so he does not act as full time ally. In the final battle though, at one point he explicitly sides with the Sinister Five, making for cool visuals in the battle but no sense; Electro and the others want to destroy the device that will send him home. He has no reasons to support them and every reason to prevent this from happening.
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Suggested correction: He doesn't side with the Sinister Five. He demands for Spider-Man to hand him the box during the final battle. It's clear that his intention is to hit the button and be taken back to his universe. He is fighting for himself in the final battle.
As I said, cool visuals in the battle at the price of not making sense. At one point he's doing coordinate attacks on them with Electro and Lizard, he fights without chasing the box, and again, he's visually and in actions on the side of those whose victory will spell the end of his only wish, just because he wants those who wanna help him to do it faster? At no point in the battle it would make sense to do what he does.
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