I feel like every story has a plot hole.
Especially time travel stories, none of them ever has a consistant rule of time travel.
I feel like every story has a plot hole.
Especially time travel stories, none of them ever has a consistant rule of time travel.
A character acting out of character may not technically be a plot hole, but for the consumer of the media, it is tantamount to the same thing. The character’s previous characterization is equivalent to “the existing rules of the story”.
Not to say that characters cannot change, but you can tell when a character suddenly does something out of character simply because the author decided that some event has to happen for the plot to work, and it makes the plot seem impossible.
Yeah, say you have a story about Gandhi, and in act 3 he stabs a British soldier in the neck, and chomps on a hamburger. I’d call that a plot hole, even if the events are entirely possible.