plot hole

See also: plothole

English

Alternative forms

• plothole

Noun

plot hole (plural plot holes)

1. (authorship) A gap or inconsistency in a storyline that goes against the flow of logic established by the story's plot.
   • 2012, Allan Brown, Inside the Wicker Man, Birlinn, →ISBN:

     Invited to collaborate with Hitch, Shaffer watched several of the director's previous films and noticed in North by Northwest a glaring plot hole; Cary Grant hides aboard a train that he has selected randomly yet, somehow, his pursuers lie in wait aboard the same train.

Related terms

• fridge logic

Translations

an inconsistence within a storyline

• Finnish: juonellinen virhe, juonellinen aukko, juonellinen epäloogisuus
• French: intriguérence f
• German: Ungereimtheit (de) f
• Hebrew: חור בעלילה m
• Italian: buco di trama m
• Spanish: laguna argumental f