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* Grover timing how long Percy can stay underwater in the beginning, even asking him how he does it. Considering Grover is there to protect Percy from finding out he's a demigod since that will attract monsters to him, even if Grover wasn't sure Percy was the son of Poseidon yet, he should have been dissuading Percy from testing something like that.
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* Rather than just having Percy come across the guy from the 70s on his own like in the book, the film Poseidon has warn him telepathically about being trapped inside the casino before he thinks to investigate anything. But Poseidon only does this ''after'' Percy and his friends have been inside the casino for five days, raising the question of why he waited so long.
* Less of a plot hole, but more of a strange unaddressed issue happens in the movie due to Percy's group having different initial motivations. In the book, Percy was sent by Chiron to reclaim the stolen master bolt from the Underworld under the assumption that Hades stole it. In the movie, Chiron instead wants Percy to go to Olympus to convince Zeus of his innocence in person, but Percy bails on him in order to rescue his mother from the Underworld, having been given no reason to think the bolt is there since Hades actually demands it in exchange for Sally's release. But since the war of the gods will be apocalyptic and Percy ditched his best hope at preventing it, logically, [[DidntThinkThisThrough Percy's mother is doomed after the winter solstice deadline whether or not Percy's group rescues her from the Underworld.]] If anything, the underworld might be one of the ''safer'' places for someone to be in a war of the gods, provided Hades stays neutral, but neither Anabeth nor Grover ever point this out, even as they react with worry and haste to signs of the coming war in the news and lose several days to the Lotus Casino.

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* Rather than just having Percy come across the guy from the 70s on his own like in the book, the film has Poseidon has warn him telepathically about being trapped inside the casino before he thinks to investigate anything. But Poseidon only does this ''after'' Percy and his friends have been inside the casino for five days, raising the question of why he waited so long.
* Less of a plot hole, but more of a strange unaddressed issue happens in the movie due to Percy's group having different initial motivations. In the book, Percy was sent by Chiron to reclaim the stolen master bolt from the Underworld under the assumption that Hades stole it. In the movie, Chiron instead wants Percy to go to Olympus to convince Zeus of his innocence in person, but Percy bails on him in order to rescue his mother from the Underworld, having been given no reason to think the bolt is there since Hades actually demands it in exchange for Sally's release. But since the war of the gods will be apocalyptic and Percy ditched his best hope at preventing it, logically, [[DidntThinkThisThrough Percy's mother is doomed after the winter solstice deadline whether or not Percy's group rescues her from the Underworld.]] If anything, the underworld might be one of the ''safer'' places for someone to be in a war of the gods, provided Hades stays neutral, but neither Anabeth Annabeth nor Grover ever point this out, even as they react with worry and haste to signs of the coming war in the news and lose several days to the Lotus Casino.

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