Sequels That Disregarded Key Scenes From The Original Movies

What They Forgot About:

This is the first time we learn that Tony has thousands of attack drones in satellites orbiting Earth, which completely undercuts all those lessons he supposedly learned in previous movies. In the first Iron Man, Tony puts a stop to his weapons manufacturing business after witnessing its damage firsthand. Then in Iron Man 3, a traumatized Tony can't stop making Iron Man suits, which he eventually realizes is just a new form of weaponry that can also be exploited by his enemies. So he blows them all up.

Walt Disney StudiosWhich might not be the best way to address a flying munitions dump, but whatever. You do you, Tony.

We've seen Tony come to the realization that massive arsenals can easily fall into the wrong hands, and are therefore a bad idea, multiple times. So it's more than a little questionable that he would secretly be harboring the most pants-wettingly destructive weapon system in human history. And that he would casually hand it over to a teenager with less instruction than you get with an IKEA bookcase. Peter in turn hands it over to a dude he barely knows in a bar. It's too bad none of these characters could have watched Iron Man first.

What They Forgot About:

The reason The Shining is a horror movie and not a nudity-filled ski resort comedy is that the Overlook Hotel is closed during the wintertime. That's why Jack Torrance was hired to be the live-in caretaker; it was too darn expensive to plow the mountain roads in order to make the hotel accessible through the snow.

Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

Warner Bros."You're signing up for a horror movie, Jack. You can't just pop down to CVS."

Doctor Sleep painstakingly recreated the Overlook sets, but they couldn't throw in one line of dialogue explaining why the famously perilous roads are easily handled by a mid-sized sedan? Dick Halloran had to rent a Snowcat to get up there; he didn't just swing by a Toyota dealership. Most oddly, in Doctor Sleep, it looks as though the roads have been plowed. But the Overlook is abandoned, so who's bothering to clear the way for it? The Grady twins? Did one of the spooky bartenders get demoted to snow and ice removal?

What They Forgot About:

In the end of X-Men: Apocalypse, Jean lets her powers loose to defeat the titular villain, played by an Oscar Isaac seemingly on his way to a Power Rangers convention. In doing so, a fiery phoenix shape appears around her.

20th Century Fox

20th Century FoxDon't get us wrong, if we had the requisite superpowers, we'd roll around looking like a van mural too, but it still seems like a weird coincidence.

But Apocalypse is set a decade earlier. So if Jean hadn't come into contact with the Phoenix Force yet, what the hell is happening in this scene? Is it a different power that coincidentally has the same motif? It's as if Apocalypse never happened. Which, come to think of it, is probably how everyone involved would like to keep things.

Mando's ship is full of people frozen this way, which presumably takes up more storage space but means dealing with fewer pesky bathroom breaks.

Walt Disney Studios"Hang on, there's a fugitive in this one. Where's the block with all my Lean Cuisines?"

What They Forgot About:

This is obviously a callback to that time Han Solo was frozen in carbonite so Boba Fett could transport him to Jabba the Hutt's palace. But while The Mandalorian makes it seem as though this is something bounty hunters do on a regular basis, that's not how it went down in The Empire Strikes Back. There, Darth Vader wanted to freeze Luke in order to take to the Emperor, presumably because Luke is strong in the Force (and again, bathroom breaks). They only freeze Han as a test run to make sure the process won't liquefy Luke's organs.

20th Century Fox

20th Century Fox

Even Fett, a man who wears a fully operational jetpack indoors, thinks it's a risky idea.

20th Century Fox"Don't let the cool helmet fool you; I really need this win."

And it's a reasonable concern, seeing as Bespin's facilities are used to freeze gas, not handsome space smugglers. There's even an episode of Clone Wars in which Obi-Wan and Anakin freeze themselves in order to sneak into a prison, which retroactively explains where Vader got the idea. Of course, it's possible that Fett's successful experience with carbon freezing got a write-up in the local mercenary newsletter, and now every bounty hunter post-Return Of The Jedi encases their targets in large coffee tables for long journeys.

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