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** ''Doctor Who'''s initial explanation for how the TARDIS crew could understand the Daleks was explained in ''The Dalek Book'' as being because the Dalek "voices" are a form of electronic telepathy, so they can speak in their own language and anyone can understand them. Fine, but how can the crew understand the Thals? The eventual explanation for AliensSpeakingEnglish, implied by the time of the Fourth Doctor's tenure and outright stated in the revival series, is the much less cumbersome {{handwave}} that the TARDIS has a translation matrix which allows its passengers to understand the aliens (as well as making them unaware that it is doing this, although a few sufficiently clever companions have noticed).

*** This is not directly addressed, but indirectly explained in a Sixth Doctor audio drama, [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho124PatientZero "Patient Zero"]]: the TARDIS ordinarily cures/protects her inhabitants from any diseases she's capable of eliminating as long as they are travelling within her (the fact that she doesn't do that for the current companion and why she doesn't is one of the main cruxes of that story. While this explains why it doesn't happen all the time, there is still no explanation for why Dodo's cold caused this problem exactly once.

*** This is not directly addressed, but indirectly explained in a Sixth Doctor audio drama, [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho124PatientZero Patient Zero]]: the TARDIS ordinarily cures/protects her inhabitants from any diseases she's capable of eliminating as long as they are travelling within her (the fact that she doesn't do that for the current companion and why she doesn't is one of the main cruxes of that story. While this explains why it doesn't happen all the time, there is still no explanation for why Dodo's cold caused this problem exactly once.

* At the beginning of ''Series/{{Animorphs}},'' Elfangor gives the kids an alien disk (something that doesn't happen in the books), which they spend the first season trying to unlock. While a good idea in theory, as it gives a fresh mystery to viewers who have already read all the books, when they finally unlock the disk the explanation for it is really weird and makes no sense. It's programmed to only open when Tobias uses it (as Elfangor is really his dad), contains a message for him, and is able to cure his ShapeshifterModeLock. There are several problems with this: how did Elfangor ''know'' Tobias was his son, or that he had a human son? And if he did, how did he know Tobias would be there when he crash-landed in the first place? If the disk can fix people who are stuck in a morph, why does it only work once (as Tobias himself says)? Why didn't he tell the other Andalites he had discovered the cure for ''Nothlit''-ism (being stuck in a morph)? It [[FromBadToWorse gets even worse in the next episode,]] where he gives the disk to Rachel so she can morph into a Yeerk and hide in his head, with the "explanation" that the disk has Yeerk DNA on it. This raises the following questions: 1. How can a disk have DNA on it? Is it somehow ''made'' out of Yeerks? 2. Why did none of the Yeerk scientists notice it had Yeerk DNA on it? 3. Why would Elfangor put Yeerk DNA on it? How would he know that one of the Animorphs would need to morph into a Yeerk at some point?

** ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'': In the earlier episodes [[TheStarscream Darkonda]] gets destroyed multiple times, [[UnexplainedRecovery only to come back after an episode or two.]] This would eventually be explained by saying he has nine lives, [[CatsHaveNineLives like a cat.]] This just raises the question of ''why'' he has nine lives (particularly since he doesn't look even remotely like a cat), which the show never explains. It doesn't help that [[spoiler: we only see him actually die seven times, with the last one being when he's KilledOffForReal in the penultimate episode, so what happened to his other two?]]

** ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'': In the earlier episodes [[TheStarscream Darkonda]] gets destroyed multiple times, [[UnexplainedRecovery only to come back after an episode or two.]] This would eventually be explained by saying he has nine lives, [[CatsHaveNineLives like a cat.]] This just raises the question of ''why'' he has nine lives (particularly since he doesn't look even remotely like a cat), which the show never explains. It doesn't help that [[spoiler: we only see him actually die seven times, with the last one being when he's KilledOfForReal in the penultimate episode, so what happened to his other two?]]

* ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'' has this in the ''very same episode the plothole comes from!'' When Miratrix takes one of the Poseidon scrolls, Dax just stands there, even though he could do anything to stop her. It is later revealed it was a fake, just in time for the FinishingMove. Except for the fact that he ''never'' had any reason to suspect Mira and acted as if he lost the real thing.

* ''Series/SecretInvasion'':

** Early on, it is revealed that lead character James "Rhodey" Rhodes (a.k.a. War Machine) has been replaced with a female Skrull, ostensibly as part of a long gambit by the Skrulls to replace key officials in the U.S. government dating back several years. The plot suggests this has been in effect since ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', since the real Rhodey is wearing the hospital gown he had on partway into that movie. This was clearly not planned ahead, since it clashes with both the plot of this series and some previous continuity:
*** 1. "Rhodes" was a Skrull during the events of ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', when the Avengers were in contact with Captain Marvel and Rocket, and would know about different planets that might be suitable settlements for the Skrulls. (Not to mention that "Rhodes" actually visits one of these planets at the beginning of the film, to find and stop Thanos, which has land available for farming).
*** 2. It's shown in the series that Skrulls [[AlienBlood bleed green]] even while shapeshifted, but there are scenes in ''Endgame'' where Rhodey bleeds red.

* Early on in ''Series/SecretInvasion'', it is revealed that lead character James "Rhodey" Rhodes (a.k.a. War Machine) has been replaced with a female Skrull, ostensibly as part of a long gambit by the Skrulls to replace key government officials in the U.S. government dating back several years. The plot suggests this has been in effect since ''at least'' the time of ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', if not earlier in the franchise's timeline. This causes ''massive'' problems with Rhodes' character, both due to his character as a whole and his interactions with other characters.
** "Rhodes" was a Skrull during the events of ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', when the Avengers were in contact with Captain Marvel and Rocket, and would know about different planets that might be suitable settlements for the Skrulls. (Not to mention that "Rhodes" actually visits one of these planets at the beginning of the film, to find and stop Thanos, which has land available for farming). Moreover, it makes the heartfelt final moment between Rhodes and Tony at the end of ''Endgame'' functionally pointless, as it means that a Skrull was grieving (or pretending to grieve) over [[spoiler:the death of Tony Stark]]).
** The series suggests that both Rhodey and Everett Ross were kidnapped and replaced with Skrulls long before the events of the series, putting doubt on the sequence in ''Endgame'' where the Secret Avengers walk in on Rhodes arguing with Ross over the current course of action -- which makes no sense if both are already aligned with each other and have no reason to hide their true intentions.
* Another reveal given in ''Secret Invasion'' is how Nick Fury was such a successful {{Spymaster}} during the Infinity Saga: namely that he had Talos, Soren, Gravik and a number of other Skrulls working for him in the shadows during that time, who helped him rise the ranks in S.H.I.E.L.D. This however brings into question why the Skrulls were absent and/or unable to help with major issues in previous entries, particularly [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier the rise of HYDRA]] within S.H.I.E.L.D.

* The first-season finale of ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'' has an infamous example of this, as pointed out in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ-FRSXypUE this series review]] by WebVideo/SuperEyepatchWolf. The season ends with a sequence where [[HopeSpot an otherwise calm and hopeful moment]] with Archie and his father is broken when a robber enters Pop's diner, threatens both Pop and the waitresses at gunpoint, and (as Archie looks on) threatens him before Archie's father Fred ends up TakingTheBullet for him when the robber fires at him and flees. The second season then attempted to {{retcon}} this; the gunman was not a robber at all, but a serial killer known as the "Black Hood" who was targeting Fred. While this creates a number of inconsistencies with the original scene, such as why he went after Pop first when Fred was sitting in plain sight, one the writers do try to address later is why when he finally does turn his gun on Fred, he demands that he hand over his wallet rather than firing immediately. It's suggested that the Black Hood planned to use the wallet to find out where he lived so that he could kill him in his home at a later date... a theory which falls apart as soon as the Black Hood is revealed to be [[spoiler: Hal Cooper]], who, in addition to creating several new glaring inconsistencies, should already know full well where Fred lives considering ''[[spoiler: he's his next-door neighbour]]''.
* Early on in ''Series/SecretInvasion'', it is revealed that lead character James "Rhodey" Rhodes (a.k.a. War Machine) has been replaced with a female Skrull, ostensibly as part of a long gambit by the Skrulls to replace key government officials in the U.S. government dating back several years. The plot suggests this has been in effect since ''at least'' the time of ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', if not earlier in the franchise's timeline. This causes ''massive'' problems with Rhodes' character, both due to his character as a whole and his interactions with other characters. Notably, "Rhodes" was a Skrull during the events of ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', when the Avengers were in contact with Captain Marvel and Rocket, and would know about different planets that might be suitable settlements for the Skrulls. (Not to mention that "Rhodes" actually visits one of these planets at the beginning of the film, to find and stop Thanos, which has land available for farming). Moreover, it makes the heartfelt final moment between Rhodes and Tony at the end of ''Endgame'' functionally pointless, as it means that a Skrull was grieving (or pretending to grieve) over [[spoiler:the death of Tony Stark]]).

* The entire shared continuity between ''Franchise/KamenRider'' and ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' is this when it comes to crossovers not only with each other, but within seasons of the same franchise. Sometimes every season takes place in their own universe, sometimes all Rider and Sentai seasons take place in two different worlds, other times both series take place within the same world. This hasn't stopped crossovers to have characters who previously met to acknowledge each other, handwaving whichever logic the current season goes by that may contradict what was pre-stablished. And that's not getting into continuity errors this may cause. For a simple example, ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'' has it clear that humanity is still struggling to journey into space, but ''Series/DengekiSentaiChangeman'' already had an organization that built vessels capable of space travel. Of course, a lot of this can be handwaved as both being LongRunners with different writing teams each season, but sometimes this may even contradict how historical events went down: ''Super Sentai'' has had at least '''''6''''' retellings of the extinction of the dinosaurs that have no connection to one another, while ''Kamen Rider'' has had multiple different depictions of UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga that are nothing like each other.

* At the beginning of ''Series/{{Animorphs}},'' Elfangor gives the kids an alien disk (something that doesn't happen in the books), which they spend the first season trying to unlock. While a good idea in theory, as it gives a fresh mystery to viewers who have already read all the books, when they finally unlock the disk the explanation for it is really weird and makes no sense. It's programmed to only open when Tobias uses it (as Elfangor is really his dad), contains a message for him, and is able to cure his ShapeshifterModeLock.There are several problems with this: how did Elfangor ''know'' Tobias was his son, or that he had a human son? And if he did, how did he know Tobias would be there when he crash-landed in the first place? If the disk can fix people who are stuck in a morph, why does it only work once (as Tobias himself says)? Why didn't he tell the other Andalites he had discovered the cure for ''Nothlit''-ism (being stuck in a morph)? It [[FromBadToWorse gets even worse in the next episode,]] where he gives the disk to Rachel so she can morph into a Yeerk and hide in his head, with the "explanation" that the disk has Yeerk DNA on it. This raises the following questions: 1. How can a disk have DNA on it? Is it somehow ''made'' out of Yeerks? 2. Why did none of the Yeerk scientists notice it had Yeerk DNA on it? 3. Why would Elfangor put Yeerk DNA on it? How would he know that one of the Animorphs would need to morph into Yeerk at some point?

* The way ''Series/CrazyExGirlfriend'' [[MusicalWorldHypothesis explained the musical numbers]] counts as one. At first it was just assumed they were all happening in Rebecca's imagination, particularly given there are a few cases in the earlier episodes where Rebecca would try to sing for real and be [[HollywoodTonedeaf lousy at it]]. After the first season characters would sometimes have their own musical numbers with Rebecca not even being present. To explain this, WordOfGod said that Rebecca's own mental illness was spreading throughout the town of West Covina and making people have their own musical numbers. This just raises more questions, such as, how can a mental illness be contagious to begin with? And even if you accept that, why do all of the other characters who have musical numbers otherwise act exactly the same as before they were "infected"? Finally, and weirdest of all, there is a character who is basically a personification of the Santa Ana Winds (or "Devil Winds"), who gets a couple musical numbers. So, how can a ''meteorological phenomenon'' catch a mental illness?