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* In ''[[Naruto]]'', {{spoiler|the title character is the son of the Fourth Hokage}} but none of the kids in his class are able to figure that out. Considering the Fourth Hokage's face is ''sculpted onto a mountain'', surely at least one kid would have made the obvious connection, considering that [[I Knew It!|it was blatantly obvious from the start]]. It might be argued that a few had figured it out and kept it a secret, but then why wouldn't they treat [[The Messiah|Naruto]] with more respect?
** He is also said to have failed the final exams three times (and the exam at the start of the series is his fourth), but is in the same age group as others from his class (who are presumably taking it for the first time). This would mean he must have advanced through the earlier classes much faster than others (notably [[The Rival|Sasuke]] and even [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy|Neji]]) and yet he is called a failure and a dropout.
*** This is explained by how the Japanese school system differs from the Western system. In Japan, students never get held back a grade regardless of how poorly they perform. Failing your end-of-year exams simply means that you hose your overall class ranking and can't get accepted into the better schools after completing primary school.
*** An alternate possibility is that he was allowed to start school two years early, but that would still beg the question of 'Why? Usually only prodigies get to do that,<ref>In-setting example: Kakashi was already in genin training when he was ''six years old''.</ref> and yet Naruto doesn't remotely achieve like one during this time period.'
** Further, if he did repeat the classes, he must have been in the same class as [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy|Neji]], Tenten and Lee in the previous year, though they do not seem to know him much when they first meet.
** Now that it has been confirmed that {{spoiler|Both of Naruto's parents died very shortly ater he was born (maybe hours later)}} this begs the question: From that day to where the story starts, {{spoiler|who raised Naruto when he was too young to take care of himself}}? This is even made further confusing when it is mentioned several times that Naruto was treated like a pariah in his childhood and that people wouldn't even want to go near him.
** Naruto's nine-tailed demon fox beast must be 'exorcised' last, not down to a case of numerical order; as numbers 1 to 8 don't need to be harvested in any particular order - no explanation for this has been issued - all seems a case of simple convenience.
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* In the ''[[Dragon Ball]] Z'' anime, Garlic Jr. shouldn't exist being that the movie he mentions his backstory in, ''Dead Zone'', contradicts the first episode (No one knowing of Goku's son, Gohan).
* In ''[[Trigun]]'', Vash possesses a special revolver that has a hidden function of grafting to his arm and mutating it into an energy weapon of mass destruction. When Vash tries to stop Knives at the city of July, Knives exerts some control over the gun that forces Vash to destroy the city against his will. The same thing happens decades later in another city, leaving Vash emotionally devastated and fearful of causing more harm. So...why doesn't he just destroy the gun?
 
 
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