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Plot Holes

Nothing is safe from these, however, there are chances to address these....
So plot holes ( and yes, I'm working on requests), this is something nothing safe from, however there are often reasons behind them but are rarely explain unless who ever created the book, movie, or whatever comes and explains it. Plot Holes are those gaps in a story where things happen without a logical reason. When it involves something essential to a story's outcome, it can hurt the believability, for those who are bothered by such thing.
Now this term is often thrown around loosely because of so many reasons : never really watched/read/played the media they're talking about, loose adaptation, lost in translation, it's explained in a sequel type deal/ explained in the media that was taken to create said thing. etc. 

Like in Naruto, Naruto failed the graduation exam three times.So shouldn't he be older than everyone. Well we don't know how often the exam is given. So he could have taken the exam his first year in the academy and failed it. Which brings up how Rock Lee passed the exam since he lacks any talent in genjustu and ninjustu, many assumed there are multiple exams a student can take in order to pass. Another "plot hole"( I'll explain the parentheses) is the fact that Shikamaru, Ino, and Choji don't know each other( well Choji and Shikamaru don't know Ino), even though their families are pretty close. The thing is, the set of the village makes many of the big clans are like small communities, so there is a chance they know members of each other's respective clans, but not know each other personally.  Fans of the series get a sequel to explain some gaping plot holes. 

In Mortal Kombat, yes we're going there, we have a few plot holes in terms of multimedia. As in, we have comics that the game largely ignore. Now some plot holes have been patched due to the whole timeline split and that reset essentially retconning a few things, but punches a few holes as well. But with another reboot, who the hell knows what we should expect. 

Now Disney actually create a plot hole during the race to the palace segment. Now Kronk and Yzma are struck by lightning, yet they make it back to the palace first. Both of them, when called on this, acknowledge that they have no way to explain how this happened, and Kronk even has a diagram of the enormous (plot) hole they fell into. Another one is in Beauty and the Beast. Lumiere mentions that the curse was on them for 10 years, which means Adam ( that's the Beast's name) was like 10-11 years old. A witch literally cursed a child, and child are known to say some pretty rude things because they're still learning. 

Marvel even did this, and half the plot holes are explained in another movie via references to other movies. In Captian America:Civil War, Zemo managed to pass himself off as the UN's top shrink, so you'd think he'd have a entourage of bodyguards, right? Wrong. Zemo intercepted him, took on his identity with on type of makeup or that thing Natasha used in Winter Solider. He just faked the paperwork that Tony could have looked up and spot it's a fake and could have prevented Bucky breaking out of the facility. They could have looked the dude up on Twitter...or Facebook and saw he looked nothing like his pictures. 

So how exactly does plot holes happen? Well, again, a lot of reasons. For one, the author really wants a specific scene in the story, but the scene is so out of place it won't make sense in the storyline. The author can even forget about something due to how long the story is. Hell, it may even be a dubbing/ adaptation thing. For example, the two Percy Jackson movies ( thank god),in the first movie rather than have Percy find out on his own after coming across a guy from the 70s, Poseidon tells him telepathically that he and his friends were trapped for five days. Why wait FIVE DAYS to tell your son, who is on a deadline mind you to find the Master Bolt, that he's trapped in a hotel is beyond me. In this show called Winx Club ( just think Magic Girls if you're into anime)there's an episode where Tecna shot a "Sphere of Truth" at a teacher she thought was evil without any ill effect, but then the teacher turned out to be an evil clone much later (the very kind of thing her spell was supposed to expose). The show is...I think French in origin, so I'm guessing there are some different policies when it comes to televsion over there. 4Kids never bothered to cover this up at all. It had been originally a plasma sphere, and one can assume that 4K changed it because it was violent...4Kids ruined a lot shows due to dubbing. 

So how does one avoid plot holes? You can start by keeping a checklist of subplots that acnc effect the main plot. Some people have proofreaders  or even beta readers to look over somethings. Be in the event of a plot hole, you can always explain it later, but try not to put too much detail or too little. Or even work backwards.  

Plot holes happen, but you can explain them if you actually put in the effort to correct them.