Inferred Holocaust: Difference between revisions

** It's not totally ignored; there's the Professor's line that "there have been casualties; losses on both sides". It's just swept under since there's only ten-ish minutes of the film left, and there are other plot points to wrap up.

* The ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' reboot may suffer from this. The drilling laser Nero fires at Earth is stopped, and the wreckage conveniently lands in the water right where the beam had hit, but there is still a massive hole in the mantle beneath San Francisco bay. This may cause lots of water to rush in, it would hit the magma, it would flash-vaporize, there would be an earthquake, the earthquake would plug the hole, and that would be that or something potentially more catastrophic.

* ''[[Live Free or Die Hard]]''. Okay, folks, imagine you had basically shut down the country's entire infrastructure, including police and firefighter communications, not to mention programmed traffic lights to give contradictory instructions, ''and'' done your best to inspire a mass panic by transmitting nationwide a (faked) video of the White House blowing up. Merely shooting the bad guy is not going to clean all this up.

* ''[[Evil Dead|Army of Darkness]]'' has this in both endings. In "I slept too long", his problem is pretty obvious, and in "Hail to the King", Deadites can still freely possess anyone, anywhere, and Ash is essentially doomed to live in a randomly zombifying world. The comics rolled with this.

* ''[[True Grit]]'' (the 2010 version) in regards to Matt Damon's character LaBoeuf. His last appearance consists of him being left behind as Rooster rides off to get Mattie's snake bite treated. But the problem is that just a few moments ago he had suffered a horrible whack over the back of the head with a large rock, bad enough to knock him out cold, and at this point he is visibly bleeding from the mouth and his speech is slightly slurred. That, added with the length of time it takes for Rooster to get help for Mattie (it's night when they reach a doctor) it's entirely possible that LaBoeuf died of his head injuries before Rooster could get back. That's supported by Mattie's comment 25 years later that she never heard from Laboeuf again after the shootout, and the fact that this head injury ''did'' kill LaBoeuf in the original 1969 movie.

* ''[[Supergirl (film)|Supergirl]]''- [[Supergirl]] flies a spaceship through a wormhole to Earth in order to look for a [[MacGuffin]] that will save Argo City. Earth's yellow sun gives her superpowers and Argo's red sun takes them away. At the end of the movie we see Supergirl flying through the wormhole with the [[MacGuffin]] and then the film ends. As soon as the radiation from the red sun hits her she's going to lose her powers and die in the vacuum of space and everyone in Argo will die.

* ''[[RoboCop]] 3'': During the climax of the film, a self-destruct device is set off that Robocop and two other characters narrowly escape from by flying away on a jetpack. The implications of a ''thermo''-failsafe device obliterating OCP's headquarters (the tallest and largest building in the the city) and causing an explosion that engulfed the entire surrounding area are never discussed or elaborated upon. Apparently, the viewer is supposed to be happy that Robo and his friends successfully stopped McDaggett and OCP from bulldozing Old Detroit, while ignoring that at least dozens of OCP employees (and presumably a large chunk of Detroit's downtown core) was just destroyed.

* Military-history experts agree that none of ''[[Kelly's Heroes]]'' would have had much chance to spend any of the gold they stole. Kelly's group would have been shot at and/or arrested when they tried to move back across the American lines in a German truck, and Oddball's crew would've almost certainly gotten killed, leaving the scene in a defective Tiger while the General's forces are securing the area.