Even the best movies make mistakes. Every once in a while, when you’re rewatching your favorite film, there might be something that pops out at you. A key moment or plot detail that was missed in the first several viewings but all of a sudden unravels the entire plot of the film. This could be a simple choice that isn’t made, a key detail that is seemingly forgotten, or something that was done to further the plot that really doesn’t make much sense on a second viewing. Then there are the holes that aren’t holes in the movie itself, but are made into plot holes by a subsequent sequel.

Despite the fact that a movie has a plot hole, it doesn’t mean that the movie can’t still be enjoyed. It just means you have one more way to dissect it and to potentially fill in the answers for yourself. So here are ten plot holes in movies that were so good that we completely forgave them.

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10 The Avengers

     Marvel Studios

We learn in Guardians of the Galaxy that Thanos is trying to collect all the Infinity Stones in the galaxy for some nefarious purpose. This is kind of surprising when rewatching The Avengers. In that film, Thanos sends Loki to not just retrieve the Tesseract but to conquer all of Earth. In order to do this, he presents Loki with a scepter that contains the Mind Stone. In the opening minutes of The Avengers, Loki steals the Tesseract, which is secretly the Space Stone.

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If Thanos really wanted to make his Infinity Gauntlet, he could’ve had Loki return with both stones. Then he could’ve been well on his way to building the Gauntlet without ever forcing the Avengers to team up. This was all a big mistake for someone who supposedly spent a lifetime scheming over how to pull off an intergalactic culling.

9 Star Trek

     Paramount Pictures

The future in Star Trek is supposed to be a utopia, right? It doesn’t quite seem so in 2009’s Star Trek when Spock maroons Kirk on a dangerous ice planet where he is nearly eaten by a monster within a few seconds. Sure, Kirk broke quite a few rules, but the Enterprise had a fully operational brig that would’ve been much more logical.

Still, this scene led to the cameo appearance from Leonard Nimoy, so it’s hard to complain too much about it…

8 The Dark Knight

     Warner Bros.

For many, Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight is The Godfather of superhero movies. Its story is often referenced as one of the best in the last few decades. After it came out, pretty much every film from Skyfall to Star Trek: Into Darkness ripped it off. There is one aspect of the plot that makes pretty much no sense but no one ever talks about it. That would be the part of the film where Gordon fakes his death only to reveal himself later on when they catch the Joker.

It seems almost impossible that Gordon could fake his death without anyone from the Mayor to his family to a single cop in his department knowing about it. He even manages to drive in Harvey Dent’s convoy while he’s under heavy threat. Why would they trust someone whose name they didn’t know and whose face they’ve never seen if they were worried about Joker’s potential moles? None of it works under even a few seconds of scrutiny.

7 The Mummy

         Universal Pictures

The entire plot of The Mummy revolves around the undead Imhotep having to gather various body parts from living humans so that he can be revived to his full form. This works out pretty well, but one of the choices is perhaps not the smartest. Imhotep takes the eyes of Bernard Burns, who is one of the few characters in the movie who wears glasses.

This means that Imhotep is likely either near-sighted or far-sighted throughout the film. He shouldn’t have had as easy a time reading the Book of the Dead. Perhaps it would’ve destroyed the dramatic tension if they had Imhotep squint.

6 Zack Snyder’s Justice League

     Warner Bros. Pictures

In Zack Snyder’s Justice League it’s made clear that Darkseid once tried to conquer Earth eons ago and found that it was the home of the Anti-Life Equation which would allow him to have complete dominance over the universe. Later in the film, he is surprised when Steppenwolf makes this same discovery. Did Darkseid forget where Earth was? Did they somehow hide the Earth after defeating his forces? Even if the injuries Darkseid sustains causes him to forget, as Zack Snyder suggests, wouldn’t someone have a record of the coordinates?

5 The Batman

Batman is supposed to be the world’s greatest detective despite the fact that most of his film appearances feature very little detective work. That gets rectified in The Batman which has Bruce Wayne go head-to-head with a Zodiac-inspired take on The Riddler, complete with ciphers, vicious crimes, and a hidden criminal mastermind. All of Riddler’s clues are a game within a game that’s made so that Batman will basically act as his partner in bringing the sinners of Gotham City the justice he thinks they deserve. Only there’s one giant clue that Batman misses that’s staring him right in the face. The photographs!

Throughout the film, the Riddler shares photographs with the media that are clearly taken right above the Iceberg Lounge. Each one of these pictures reveals some sinister secret about one of the powerful people who work in Gotham City. All Batman had to do was consider the angle of these photos and realize that the Riddler was taking them right outside the Iceberg from an apartment window. The very same apartment he’s revealed to have been living in the whole time. He may not be the world’s greatest detective after all.

4 The Matrix

The horrific premise behind The Matrix is that most humans of the world are trapped in a giant shared dreamscape while they are actually used as human batteries by the giant machine empire that rules the entire world. This is a great premise for a scifi/horror action movie. It is not a great plane for harnessing energy though. Humans don’t really generate that much more heat than similar mammals do.

Not only that, but the Matrix seems like a massive waste of energy. There’s no way the server farm that is used to run that computer program is at least the size of Iowa. Instead of putting all humans in a shared, computerized dream state, why not just leave them unconscious all the time? That would cut out any chance of a human messiah breaking free of his containment and breaking the entire world order. These machines are supposed to be smart, right?

3 Black Adam

There is a great philosophical conflict at the heart of Black Adam. Hawkman and the Justice Society of America are strict in their beliefs that heroes do not take lives. Black Adam, on the other hand, considers taking lives to be essential to doing the job. This may match the ethics of DC Comics, but it does not match the DCEU where heroes kill their enemies all the time. Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and the Suicide Squad all kill without much of a second thought.

Now one could argue that Hawkman is responding to how these other heroes act. This could explain why he wasn’t a part of the Justice League despite the fact that he was already an active hero leading his own team. What makes this more confusing though is the fact that he explicitly works for Amanda Waller who is well known to be the shadiest person in the DCEU. Peacemaker even ends with the world seeing just how messed up Waller is. So this couldn’t even have been a secret.

2 John Wick

     Lionsgate

John Wick may be the most formidable action hero to ever exist. Fans of his seem convinced that he could take down Jason Bourne, James Bond, Rambo, and the Terminator without really breaking a sweat. So that makes it really surprising that Wick gets utterly owned by a bunch of idiots within the first half hour of the franchise.

Sure, John is a little off his game after a long retirement. Still, considering how many super assassins he’s slain throughout the series, one would think that a group of unskilled, spoiled punks wouldn’t be able to get the drop on him. Think about how many incredible killers who have gone to insane lengths to take him down. None of them have gotten as far as Alfie Allen’s idiotic Iosef Tarasov. Who, by the way, would’ve probably earned himself a seat at the High Table had he actually finished the job.

1 Harry Potter

It’s made explicitly clear in the Harry Potter series that Voldemort cannot end Harry Potter’s life through conventional means. A simple killing curse will not work. Voldemort ends up borrowing other wands, torturing the greatest wandmakers alive, confronting Grindelwald, and even exhuming Dumbledore just to get the Elder Wand…which still doesn’t work. All of this is a lot of effort when he could’ve just bought a gun and shot Harry with no effort at all. Even a bow and arrow, a javelin, or a well-aimed slingshot could’ve done the job.

Perhaps Voldemort just refused to use Muggle weaponry. Well, what about all the other ways to destroy someone in the Wizarding World. Voldemort is a master of nearly every form of magic from wicked potions, to control of magical beasts, to the use of enchanted objects, and everything in between. Could he really not have thought of one way to poison the kid’s pumpkin juice? Seriously, the stupidest wizard in the entire world, Gilderoy Lockhart, does more magical damage to Harry than the most powerful dark wizard of all time.