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Stupidity: Neither Joel, Tommy nor Sarah think to put on their seatbelts or tell someone else to during the car ride in the prologue, even as things start and get increasingly dangerous and likely to result in a crash (which it does). They're all young enough to have grown up with seatbelts and, in Sarah's case, cars that sound alarms if someone isn't wearing a seatbelt. Had Joel or Sarah worn belts, they could have recovered from the crash far better and possibly averted Sarah's death.

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Factual error: Gasoline expires in a matter of months, but throughout the game, not only do numerous characters drive cars, but siphon gas out of ones that have been sitting derelict for years, and restart generators that date back to the start of the outbreak about 20 years ago.

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Stupidity: When Harry finds the Sword of Gryffindor at the bottom of the frozen pond, he breaks a man-sized hole in the ice, then strips down and jumps in. He could have broken a far larger hole in the ice, negating the risk of being unable to locate the hole upon coming back up. But because he doesn't, he nearly drowns when the locket resists and he can't surface (he couldn't have anticipated the locket's resistance, but that such a small hole would be hard to get out through was easily foreseeable.)

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Stupidity: A detective who explicitly frequents morgues not being able to tell the difference between a real slashed throat and fake blood spurted on a neck is one thing. When he returns to the room and finds the body missing, instead of becoming alert, drawing his gun, putting his head on a swivel, and warning his friend outside, he slowly walks over to examine the razor and figure out how the magic trick was performed, allowing the killer to ambush and kill him almost comically easily.

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Worlds Apart - S1-E2

Stupidity: The bad guy kills the deputy in the swamp, then later sees a little girl who witnesses the killing run away. He then searches the boat for a weapon and runs off after her after he finds a machete, without even considering the officer's gun still in its holster. Abby proceeds to make the exact same mistake later when she finds the dead officer (meaning there's danger nearby) and hears the girl screaming and runs in the direction of the screaming without taking the gun to protect herself.

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The Funeral - S1-E3

Deliberate mistake: Though it serves the drama and black comedy of the scene, it's highly unlikely a modern, let alone future broadcasting network would neglect the importance of delay (usually around 30 seconds) between recording and "live" broadcast. Specifically, to prevent unexpected gruesome incidents like the exploding head seen in this episode from making it to air.

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Other mistake: The character of Roger Warwick, or at least the one the player meets during the game, is confirmed by dialogue and terminal entries from the Institute, his farm, and Roger himself, to be a Synth. But killing him and looting his corpse will not reveal a Synth Component, as it will for every other Synth in the game, including ones like Deacon that the player is never supposed to be able to kill.

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Audio problem: During the prologue, when Kellogg shoots your spouse in front of you, you hear a shell-casing clinking on the floor. But Kellogg is using a revolver, which does not eject shell-casings automatically.

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Stupidity: Wes is characterized as one of the more careful characters early on, buying both a stun gun and pepper spray. When he comes home after the meeting where the dangers of Ghostface were further laid out, he proceeds to set both his weapons down and takes a shower after his mom tells him he'll be alone in the house, which is exactly how Tara and countless victims of previous sprees were attacked. The fact he even lived through his shower is lucky enough.

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Stupidity: When Chucky was hanging Karen using the forklift, why didn't she just lean back and sit on the forks to stop the anchor of the rope from going higher than her? Not anything a forklift-operator would recommend, but it beats being hanged.

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Plot hole: When the kids barricade themselves in the basement, Brent and Kendall try to cut through the door, but Josh fends them off with a pistol he stole from his dad. After that scene, though, the pistol completely disappears from the plot; Brent and Kendall don't consider it when they try to gas the children out, and neither kid appears to have it after they escape into the house.

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