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  • As more and more comic books burst to life on the big screen, the action, storylines,

  • and casts are only getting bigger and bigger. As a result, some of the simple mistakes and

  • errors that would normally be caught in editing are slipping through more than ever. And as

  • audience grow more and more excited to see their favorite heroes on screen, some massive

  • mistakes have gone completely unnoticed. Here are Screen Rant’s 10 Huge Mistakes in Superhero

  • Movies.

  • General Zod’s Faulty Clock

  • Although Man of Steel star Clark Kent spent his entire life keeping his alien heritage

  • a secret from the world, General Zod spills his secret to every corner of the world. When

  • the Kryptonian first arrives at Earth, he broadcasts a message in multiple languages

  • around the globe, telling people in America and Asia that "they are not alone." Seeing

  • people huddled around their campfires or TVs, and learning that an alien lives among them

  • is a powerful image, but all the scenes being set at night, no matter which side of the

  • planet they're on doesn't quite add up. Since the message of the scene is to unite all of

  • Earth in fear, fans will likely be willing to overlook it.

  • Turned Around Tumbler

  • Christopher Nolan isn’t afraid of leaving a few errors in his films since the thrills

  • or twists they bring with them are usually worth it in the end. In the case of his re-imagined

  • Batman, the director bet that audiences would be too thrilled to see the new Dark Knight

  • in actionalong with his signature set of wheelsto notice a few major mistakes.

  • During Bruce’s first test drive of the camo-patterned Tumbler, he brings the vehicle to a dramatic

  • stop with a sudden slide. But a closer look reveals that Bruce turns the wheel hard left

  • to stop, while the car ends up sending the car sliding to the right before stopping instead.

  • Making eagle-eyed viewers wonder just how difficult the vehicle must be to pilot.

  • Crowded Chase

  • When Batman finally takes his new Tumbler into the field, a Gotham City Police pursuit

  • has him cornered atop a large parking structure. With cops swarming, Nolan clearly hoped audiences

  • would be too excited or caught up to notice the massive group of crew members and camera

  • men on set, completely exposed by a police chopper’s searchlight. And he was probably

  • right.

  • Wolverine’s Faulty Skull

  • When Wolverine and Rogue pay a visit to Bobby a.k.a. Iceman's family in X2: X-Men United,

  • the mutant's brother calls the police, ambushing the entire group on the house's front porch.

  • A jumpy police officer drops Wolverine with a bullet to the head, taking the situation

  • from bad to worse. Fans knew that Wolverine’s healing factor would bring him back to the

  • fight in no time, but the actual shot doesn’t make much sense considering the nearly-invincible

  • hero’s usual fighting skills. The first question is how the bullet managed to lodge

  • itself in his head in the first place: a skull made of indestructible Adamantium means the

  • bullet should have glanced off harmlessly, instead embedding itself in the millimeter

  • of skin on his forehead. Why he was knocked unconscious doesn’t make sense either. Despite

  • making his claws and bones unbreakable, is the same metal useless at protecting his brain?

  • Of course, there’s always the chance that the cop was firing Adamantium bulletsbut

  • that seems like a long shot.

  • Shield Logic

  • Once Steve Rogers finally starts to prepare for field work during the first Captain America,

  • he stumbles upon a prototype of his famous vibranium shield. Described ascompletely

  • vibration resistant”, it succeeds in not deflecting bullets, but stopping them dead

  • in their tracks. It isn’t just bullets, either. In The Avengers, its invulnerability

  • is tested, stopping even Thor’s hammer, directing his godlike attack into a massive

  • shockwave. Unfortunately, in the effort to make the Winter Soldier sequel a more grounded

  • and realistic adventure, the strengths of Cap’s shield flew completely out the window.

  • Not only was Steve able to use his shield to deflect bullets at his enemies, but kicks

  • and punches were able to knock him around, and a single RPG sent him tumbling through

  • the air.

  • A Shifting Pentagon

  • Considering just how much X-Men: Days of Future Past deals with time travel and re-writing

  • history, plenty of inaccuracies can be explained away as slightly different in the alternate

  • timeline. – although were fairly certain that in all realities, the Pentagon is technically

  • located in Arlington, Virginia, not Washington D.C. as the movie claims.

  • A Rogue Kitty

  • Most fans know that the original cut of the movie had the team of future X-Men seeking

  • help from Rogue after an unconscious Wolverine mortally wounded Kitty Pryde. With Kitty’s

  • health failing, Rogue was brought in to absorb her power, and take over. In the end Kitty

  • was simply shown to tough it out in the finished version, but the filmmakers didn’t remove

  • the previous storyline completely. When a wounded Magneto slides to the ground as the

  • final battle reaches its conclusion, Kitty is supposed to be maintaining the link to

  • the past, but can just be spotted slumped on the floor next to him.

  • Extremis Measures

  • Not every Marvel fan was happy to see Tony Stark separated from his signature armor in

  • Iron Man 3, but his gift for invention and careful planning showed he was a threat with

  • or without his suit. Even so, the filmmakers may have turned a blind eye to a few mistaken

  • details. The brilliant Doctor Maya Hansen threatening to inject a syringe carrying “1200

  • cc” – an amount equal to 1.2 litresis an odd mistake for her character to make,

  • but it wasn’t the movie’s only inaccuracy.

  • Tennessee Express

  • Iron Man 3’s questionable math continues when Tony realizes his suit in Tennessee has

  • finally been powered online, asking the henchmen on hand exactly what distance the armor pieces

  • need to travel to reach him. The suit bursts in just minutes later: a major problem once

  • fans start doing the math. The payoff is worth it, but the idea that the pieces could travel

  • around 7,000 mph proves comedy beat out actual physics in this case.

  • Identity Crisis

  • For all its action, the first Thor movie served to prove one point: that godly power was a

  • gift, not a privilege, and that the Asgardian hero needed to learn some humility. He learned

  • his lesson in the end, saving his father and kingdom from his brother’s betrayal. Once

  • Loki was beaten, the would-be king chose to fall into a wormhole in space, eventually

  • making his way to the villain Thanos, and back to Earth to fight The Avengers years

  • later. But his family mourned him all the same, with Thor taking a private moment to

  • tell Odin that he could never be as good a king as his father. The sentiment is returned

  • to at the end of Thor: the Dark World, when Odin asks Thor if he still believes that the

  • father should rule, and not the son. It’s a subtle callback for the die-hard fans, but

  • there’s one problem: the film ends by revealing that it isn’t Odin on the throne, but Loki

  • in disguise. A slip-up on the writer’s part is likely to blame, since there’s no way

  • Loki should know about the pair’s conversation as he was drifting through space. Some might

  • argue he was eavesdropping from across the universe, but we like to think Loki has better

  • ways to spend his time.

  • So what do you think of our list? Did we miss any of your favorite mistakes or plot holes

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