Top 10 Biggest Plot Holes in Movie Sequels

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These films just left us more confused! Welcome to WatchMojo, and for this list, we'll be looking at the most glaring plot holes found in movie sequels. Our countdown includes “Spider-Man: No Way Home”, “Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker”, “Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban”, “Spectre”, “X-Men: Dark Phoenix”, and more! Do you have explanations for any of these sequel film plot holes? Enlighten us in the comments below!

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All Comments (21)
  • I just always assumed Bael Organa never told Leia she was adopted and so she was just remembering his wife as her "real" mother. What she said about how she remembered her mother as beautiful but sad would make just as much sense for a woman whose family were staunch opponents of what was happening politically in the galexy and knowingly hiding the daughter of one of its biggest baddies as it would for Padme.
  • @ArabbJrK
    I knew I wasn’t trippin about the Spider-Man no way home. Eletcto never knew Spider-Man identity
  • @KnightofDuroch
    The Vanessa-is-a-fembot reveal is mildly irritating to say the least, especially since Austin doesn't respond with "Dr. Evil will die for this," nor "The REAL Vanessa must be alive somewhere." It's not that kind of movie, but still.
  • @Adam-lw9xp
    Since the Force can sometimes show visions, I always like to think Leia's memories of her mother who died at child birth was actually visions from the Force. So, I never really thought of it as a plot hole. It could when Leia was 2-3, she would have visions of her mother and could never depict the difference between vision and memory.
  • @starbrand3726
    Wonder Woman 84 alone could take up the entire video with all its mistakes and plot holes.
  • @skybonney21
    Leia tapped into the force to see those images of her mother. Yoda mentioned this while training Luke before he saw his friends in trouble.
  • @TylerHBHamilton
    You could fill this entire list with everything from the Resident Evil movies 1. What Happened to Angie Ashford? 2. How did the entire world turn into a desert wasteland in the span of one whole year? 3. If lakes and rivers were all dried up, then how come oceans, waters and lakes CLEARLY existed in the next movie? 4. What Happened to Chris Redfield? 5. What Happened to Jill Valentine, Ada Wong, Leon Kennedy and Alice's clone daughter? 6. The Final Chapter, they said that the T-Virus was created for a girl with a rapid aging disease despite the fact that we were CLEARLY told in Apocalypse that it was to heal Angela Ashford's disease by Dr. Ashford, NOT James Marcus. 7. Speaking of Marcus, the Red Queen was said to be modeled after the head programmer's daughter... Marcus was NOT the head programmer. 8. Why the fuck did Wesker go through all of that trouble to rescue Alice from the Umbrella Prime Facility, give her her powers back (as if she even lost them in the first place), only to betray her later and have all of this be one convoluted ploy to kill her - when he could've done that by just... I dunno, LEAVING HER THERE! 9. If Dr. Isaacs was this high-ranking officer of Umbrella, then why the hell would he have a clone be a low-level scientist taking orders from Wesker and the Board who treat him like shit? 10. What was Umbrella's ultimate goal? Because at first it was to contain the virus and erase any and all proof of their involvement in it, then it was to start the outbreak on purpose for... idk, a cleanse? What I'm trying to say is... the Resident Evil movies are god-awful and you're not gonna change my mind on that. And I'm also gonna say this: Alice is a bigger Mary Sue main character than Rey from Star Wars. There, I said it.
  • @autumbreeze1129
    The problem with that James Bond plot hole is also a plot hole in Star Wars IX. The movie makes it apparent that Palpatine planned everything, including Luke and Anikin working together to defeat him... which makes absolutely no sense at all. So, he planned on the first Death Star being destroyed? He planned Luke surviving his first battle against Vader? He planned on Luke resisting the Dark Side? He planned Anikin breaking through Vader to save Luke and throw Palpatine into the second Death Star's core? He planned on the resistance blowing up the second Death Star? He planned on Kylo failing to capture and contain Rey? He planned on Snok being killed by Kylo thanks to Rey's lightsaber that was also Anikin's? He planned on Kylo returning from the Dark Side? Yeah, no. Not only is there no way he could've planned all that, everything playing out exactly how he'd have planned it all is literally impossible and illogical and we KNOW Palpatine is not illogical. Over confident when he thought he could make Luke go to the Dark Side by using the same psychology on him he did Anikin that turned him into Vader, despite Luke having a very different life and mindset to Anikin's? Yes. Illogical, though? No. Illogical was never something Palpatine was, so that makes no sense
  • @mirthenary
    Ever heard of the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise?
  • If there is a part two of this it should include this. The Origin retcon from Jurassic World Dominion. Say what you want about JW FK. But retconning Benjamin Lockwood's daughter into working at Jurassic Park and impregnating herself because of an unknown illness just made things even more confusing. Having Maisie be cloned because of her grandfather's grief made for compelling backstory to Hammond's business partner. But the sequel throws that out the window. Toy Story 4. Buzz's inner voice. Throughout the Toy Story films we've seen the characters develop such as Buzz. But why is it that he thinks his inner voice is his voicebox. Incredibles 2. Jack Jack's first power. By the end of the first movie we see Jack Jack use some of his powers. So it doesn't make sense that Mrs.Incredible says she missed Jack Jack's first power. When she was there at the end of the first film when Jack Jack used his powers on Syndrome.
  • @vickicole4787
    THANK YOU for #7! I have had some pretty heated discussions on the lack of continuity between Padme dying in childbirth and Leia remembering her mother.
  • Even if the time turner didn’t have a limit, it still wouldn’t change history or stop any major event because as the movie clearly shows you cannot change time and what already happened will still happen. Why is it so hard for people to get that?
  • @ashesbaby266
    The Time-Turner thing is NOT a plothole, just because it wasn't used to go back several years. In the GENERAL CONCEPT of time travel, that would be too drastic of a way to utilize it, and that includes this particular use of the idea.
  • @JWickyJr13
    So for Spectre, they had Christoph Waltz and they needed him to do some really cool villain monologues and
  • @ENREMgame
    The trouble with the Time-Turner is by its own design you cannot actually choose to use it because it creates a closed loop meaning you already used it before you “decide” to use it.
  • @user-bz3fj8hd4j
    Also,im pretty sure if she only saw the vampires being ripped apart in a bloody battlevision it wouldnt take much for her to figure out it was werewolves tearing them up,because what else could do that to them
  • @ShadowJL
    How about Terminator 2: Judgment Day. The T-1000 was made of liquid metal and non-organic things couldn't go back in time. So how was the T-1000 able to go back in time if it was made of liquid metal, something that is non-organic? Don't get the wrong idea; Terminator 2 was a great film. but it was something that always got me.