The Obvious Plot Holes (Ending Spoilers)

[Bishop2]

1) Liz melts the crown into slag. Which means she could've melted the princess' piece of the crown at ANY time, thereby ending the threat from the prince. Basically, that one action proves that they could've stopped the Golden Army a long, long time ago if they had even brain one in their heads.

2) This one is much less important. Okay, if the princess was going to commit suicide, maybe she had to work up to it... I get that... but you still gotta wonder why she didn't do it at NUMEROUS points earlier in the movie, when it might've stopped a lot of other suffering and destruction.

Despite this, I mostly love the flick, but #1 REALLY bugs me.

 

[chaseter]

1) I don't think the whole team knew she brought it with her...I think only Abe knew and he hid it with him to save her.

 

[Evil Twin]

While it's sort of a plot hole, part of BPRD's mission is to Research the paranormal, not to destroy it. Destroying it at the end sort of goes along with the idea that they no longer work for BPRD.

 

[Mr. Socko]

Is there something I missed....I thought Abe needed his breathing apparatus to survive when he isn't in water. Yet in most of the film he doesn't even wear it...

 

[chaseter]

While it's sort of a plot hole, part of BPRD's mission is to Research the paranormal, not to destroy it. Destroying it at the end sort of goes along with the idea that they no longer work for BPRD.

Human life > giant thing destroying the city. If something is a threat to their life or a human's life it is destroyed. They were reasearching stuff when they were walking through headquarters. Butt Hellboy was conflicted with this when he was talking to Nuada and when they all quit in the end.

Is there something I missed....I thought Abe needed his breathing apparatus to survive when he isn't in water. Yet in most of the film he doesn't even wear it...

He needs it on long occasions. Like in the first film, he wore it to go out but he was seen without it at headquarters.

 

[Evil Twin]

Human life > giant thing destroying the city. If something is a threat to their life or a human's life it is destroyed. They were reasearching stuff when they were walking through headquarters. Butt Hellboy was conflicted with this when he was talking to Nuada and when they all quit in the end.

Giant plant elemental destroying the city isn't directly related to the crown. Destroying the crown would have done nothing at that point to stop the rampage, although it would have ended the larger potential threat. Then again, they thought the crown piece was secure in BPRD headquarters anyways and when it became an issue again they had more personal concerns.

Kind of like there's the underlying assumption that imprisoning The Joker in Arkham ends his threat.

 

[Uzumaki_Naruto]

my memory's a bit fuzzy but didn't she refuse to give the piece to them and thats the whole reason she was brought with (other then Abe crushing on her of course)? it seemed like she only gave up direct possession of it when she realized that Nuada was in the building

 

[TheVileOne]

I don't get why Abe could suddenly stop using his breathing apparatus for basically the second and third acts. There wasn't a strong explanation for that.

 

[Bubastis]

I dont know if anybody pointed this out, but why didn't Abe use his hand to see the past of what happened at the crime scene?

 

[chaseter]

^He did

 

[Mr. Joker]

Neither of those bothered me much at all.

 

[louiebling$]

Is there something I missed....I thought Abe needed his breathing apparatus to survive when he isn't in water. Yet in most of the film he doesn't even wear it...

In the comics he didn't need anything to breathe outside

 

[Mr. Joker]

To be honest, him not needing anything to breathe on land is best.

 

[odiin]

1) Liz melts the crown into slag. Which means she could've melted the princess' piece of the crown at ANY time, thereby ending the threat from the prince. Basically, that one action proves that they could've stopped the Golden Army a long, long time ago if they had even brain one in their heads.

2) This one is much less important. Okay, if the princess was going to commit suicide, maybe she had to work up to it... I get that... but you still gotta wonder why she didn't do it at NUMEROUS points earlier in the movie, when it might've stopped a lot of other suffering and destruction.

Despite this, I mostly love the flick, but #1 REALLY bugs me.

I'll give the same response I always give when people mention "plotholes" like this in movies:

If the conflict were resolved in the first 15 minutes, it wouldn't be much of a movie, now would it?

 

[Mr. Joker]

My sentiment exactly.

Just look at horror movies. I mean, it'd be rather easy to escape horror villains if they were real, and the whole escapade would be over in minutes. What's the fun if there aren't plotholes in most things?

 

[FireFlys Enigma]

This is just a little off topic since I haven't seen HB2 yet. Is there anything after the credits like how Iron Man ended?

 

[TheVileOne]

Nope. The first movie had something during the credits though. I still never saw the director's cut of Hellboy, so I don't know if that was changed at all though.

 

[Hellmistress]

Regarding Abe's respirator ... there was a scene which didn't make it into the film where Abe sprays something onto his gills to oxygenate them (it accompanied the scene where he puts in the lenses) and it means he can go without the respirator for an increased length of time. Perhaps they might reinsert it if a director's cut DVD comes along.

HM

 

[TheVileOne]

That makes sense if its true. Because the shift happened after he put his new contact lenses in. But the audience should not be expected to make that sort of leap.

I think that was a lazy cut on Del Toro's part. Because he was the one that set up and establish that Abe needed a toilet seat respirator on his head in the first place. While in the comics it's never an issue.

 

[Hellmistress]

That makes sense if its true. Because the shift happened after he put his new contact lenses in. But the audience should not be expected to make that sort of leap.

I think that was a lazy cut on Del Toro's part. Because he was the one that set up and establish that Abe needed a toilet seat respirator on his head in the first place. While in the comics it's never an issue.

Of course it's true.

HM

 

[TheVileOne]

Sorry, I don't know what that source was.

 

[Hellmistress]

Sorry, I don't know what that source was.

Me.

HM

 

[CBGB]

Me.

HM

Oh, well of course!

 

[Browncoat]

I don't get why Abe could suddenly stop using his breathing apparatus for basically the second and third acts. There wasn't a strong explanation for that.

del Toro really should have stuck the comics on that one...no apparatus.

 

[Hellmistress]

Oh, well of course!

I got vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals ...

Well, I asked Doug about that a couple of weeks ago after we saw the film, and that's what he said, so I guess it isn't strictly me . It has also popped up in interview, someone told me, but I haven't seen it.

HM