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** Another ''Enterprise'' episode sent the ship to investigate the first human colony outside the solar system to find out why it had suddenly stopped communicating with Earth - ''roughly 80 years prior''. Nobody had been sent to check this out earlier, because humans didn't have sufficiently fast ships. When T'Pol points out that the Vulcans had such ships eighty years ago, and could have investigated immediately, Captain Archer says only that asking favors from the Vulcans tended to carry a high price. There is no further elaboration of this point, even though they later discover that prompt Vulcan disaster-recovery assistance would have been extremely helpful to the colonists.

* ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' plays [[How Unscientific|fast and loose with its own rules]] at the best of times, mostly because it's [[MST3K Mantra|more concerned]] with being a [[Rule of Funny|sitcom]]. One notable example of many is a double-whammy: In "Backwards", how are Rimmer and Kryten able to keep in contact with Holly on Backwards Earth when the ship (and thus Holly's mainframe) is in a completely different part of space ''and'' time? And if Holly ''is'' in contact with them, why doesn't she just tell Lister and the Cat what happened to them, instead of leaving Lister and the Cat to trawl through space for ''three weeks'' before finding the time hole?

* The Last season of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' introduces [[Serial Escalation|a new form of Super-Vampire]] called the Turokhan. Turokhans have the same weaknesses as regular vampires. They die by a wooden stake in the heart, or decapitation, or sunlight. But their strengths are massively amplified, to the point that the highly experienced and strong Buffy Summers is unable to drive a stake deep enough through the Turokahn's super tough and thick skin to pierce its heart. A vicious, brutal, lopsided beatdown of curbstomp proportions ensues. Later Buffy is only able to kill this one Turokhan by luring him to a battlefield of her choosing where, after a lengthy battle she finally manages to decapitate him using razor wire. So, clearly the Turokhan are insanely tough right? This was the point. Cue the inverse law of Ninjas. In the final episodes Buffy and her squad of newly activated rookie slayers proceed to casually and effortlessly dust Turokhans left and right. Upstairs, the purely human (but fairly badass by human standards) Robin Wood is also effortlessly killing every Turokhan that comes near him with a simple metal knife to the chest. Nerdy little Andrew and clueless Anya (also both human, and considerably less combat-capable than Robin) are also effortlessly killing Turokhans. Anya kills one with a glancing blow from her sword to the hip. [[Word of God]] acknowledges the inconsistency, but says that the story of empowerment is more important than continuity [http://slayageonline.com/EBS/btvs/DVD_Commentaries/chosen.htm here]

* The Last season of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' introduces [[Serial Escalation|a new form of Super-Vampire]] called the Turokhan. Turokhans have the same weaknesses as regular vampires. They die by a wooden stake in the heart, or decapitation, or sunlight. But their strengths are massively amplified, to the point that the highly experienced and strong Buffy Summers is unable to drive a stake deep enough through the Turokahn's super tough and thick skin to pierce its heart. A vicious, brutal, lopsided beatdown of curbstomp proportions ensues. Later Buffy is only able to kill this one Turokhan by luring him to a battlefield of her choosing where, after a lengthy battle she finally manages to decapitate him using razor wire. So, clearly the Turokhan are insanely tough right? This was the point. Cue the inverse law of Ninjas. In the final episodes Buffy and her squad of newly activated rookie slayers proceed to casually and effortlessly dust Turokhans left and right. Upstairs, the purely human (but fairly badass by human standards) Robin Wood is also effortlessly killing every Turokhan that comes near him with a simple metal knife to the chest. Nerdy little Andrew and clueless Anya (also both human, and considerably less combat-capable than Robin) are also effortlessly killing Turokhans. Anya kills one with a glancing blow from her sword to the hip. [[Word of God]] acknowledges the inconsistency, but says that the story of empowerment is more important than continuity [https://web.archive.org/web/20130303093000/http://slayageonline.com/EBS/btvs/DVD_Commentaries/chosen.htm here]

** One popular fan theory is that the first Turokhan Buffy fought, the one that gave her so much trouble, was the #1 champion fighter of the entire race and significantly more capable than his rank-and-file brethren. (And it would be logical, when sending a lone warrior to attack your enemy's strongest fighter, to send the strongest warrior ''you'' have instead of just randomly picking an average one.)

* Towards the end of Season 1 of ''[[Sons of Anarchy]]'', the [[Cowboy Cop]] ATF Agent Stahl attempts to fracture the charter by setting up Opie to look like he's gone into witness protection. She then cuts Opie loose because she doesn't have enough to hold him, but bugs his phone and car on the chance that he says something incriminating. SAMCRO has every reason to believe that Opie's the snitch and of course they do believe this, which is confirmed in their minds when they find the bugs. Now at this point, the Cops and ATF know that A) either SAMCRO or Opie himself discovered the bugs and destroyed them- in either case they are not going to produce any evidence, B) SAMCRO is extremely likely to murder Opie as a result of their little trick, and C) in 24 hours, the US Attorney will reveal his case, charging Opie and proving that he is ''not'' the snitch. Hale, the [[Fair Cop]], is torn up about what to do - reasoning that if he tells SAMCRO that Opie is not the snitch, he is leaking classified information. But all he needs to do is keep him safe for one night, and the answer should be staring him in the face: ''arrest Opie'' on a trumped-up charge (which is hardly as bad as the crap they pulled to get to this point) and keep him off the streets for 24 hours. The truth comes out the very next day. But he dithers so long that Opie's wife is murdered in a botched hit because he was [[Acquitted Too Late]], setting off the events of Season 2.

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* [http://lunarandkirk.comicgenesis.com/d/20051005.html This strip] of "The Wacky Adventures of Lunar and Kirk" is the first of a series involving a literal hole in the world caused by a plot hole, which will swallow and destroy anyone or anything that enters it.

* The ship in [[I Was Kidnapped by Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space]] veers dangerously near to a Plot Hole, before they are saved by a hasty (offpage) explanation.

* The [[Ciem Webcomic Series]] features a thread [http://dozerfleetprod.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=gerosha&action=display&thread=55 here] seeking to explain what the author fears may become a serious Plot Hole in the form of [[Anachronism Stew]].

* The [[Ciem Webcomic Series]] features a thread [https://web.archive.org/web/20130602093307/http://dozerfleetprod.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=gerosha&action=display&thread=55 here] seeking to explain what the author fears may become a serious Plot Hole in the form of [[Anachronism Stew]].

* [[Acrobat]] has a villain called Plot Hole, [[Arch Enemy]] of Plot Twist. He keeps coming back, after getting killed multiple times, without any explanation and believes that Plot Twist created him

{{quote|'''Plot Hole:''' That's what plot twist does! Creates plot holes!}}