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• Revealing mistakes: When Victor Von Doom is shown proposing to Sue Storm in the space station, for a brief moment you can see a reflection of the blue screens they used to create "space".
  
  
• Continuity: As Susan Storm is containing the Super Nova being created by Johnny Storm her nose begins to bleed, but seconds later there is no sign of blood on her face.
  
  
• Errors in geography: During scenes that are supposed to take place in New York, you can clearly see the Burrard and Granville bridges. These bridges are in Vancouver, not New York.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: When The Thing walks into the bar his footsteps are heavy enough to bounce the pool table and make the jukebox music jump, yet the drinks on the tables don't move at all.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: During the motorcycle show you can hear the announcer speak, during an overview shot, but you can clearly see that he doesn't have the microphone near his mouth.
  
  
• Continuity: As Von Doom is watching Mr. Fantastic on his monitors as he's doing the equations on the blackboards, the final underlined statement is already on the board - then Mr. Fantastic goes and writes it on the board, underlines it, and retracts his arm.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the "Thing" gets out of the police van, you can see a blanket under the van which hides the hydraulic rams (so the van can move up and down because of the Thing's weight.)
  
  
• Continuity: When Sue Storm picks up the memories book that she finds in a drawer in the Baxter Building, she opens the book twice.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Johnny jumps off the building to avoid the missile, he flames up. As he shouts 'woo hoo' the 4 on his costume is back to front and on the other side, meaning that this shot was mirrored. This was fixed on the DVD release.
  
  
• Continuity: When Reed accidentally walked in on Sue in the bathroom, her towel changes from burgundy to a greenish color.
  
  
• Continuity: When Johnny Storm is coming out of the motorcycle show, he has his arms round the shoulders of two women. In the next shot he is linking arms with them then in the next shot, his arms are back round their shoulders.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the bird lands on the Thing and poops on him, the bird dropping is in front of the bird, not back.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the first interview scene on the bridge, Johnny hugs Ben and you can see that his shoulder is actually soft foam, not rock.
  
  
• Continuity: When the waitress sets the stack of pancakes in front of Ben in the diner (with Von Doom), the butter pat slides off the side. In the next shot, the butter has magically jumped back to the top center of the stack, and stays there for the rest of the scene.
  
  
• Plot holes: When Doom is fighting with Sue Storm, we can see the flash of Ben changing back into the Thing in the penthouse of the Baxter Building which is several blocks away. Less than a minute later, Thing crashes through the wall to save the day.
  
  
• Continuity: In the fight scene between Ben and Doom, they fall into a hotel pool, showing a guest on the floor below looking at the ceiling as water starts to leak. In the sequence they keep jumping from the man trying to get in his room to the ceiling. As the water is rushing down the hall, from Ben's prospective we see the hall empty, but then they switch back to the man just getting in the door in time as the water rushes by.
  
  
• Continuity: When Thing and Doom fall through the pool into the hallway, the guy with the champagne glasses appears and disappears between shots.
  
  
• Factual errors: Alisha's stick is white with red stripes. This means she's deaf (or partially deaf) as well as blind, but she obviously isn't.
  
  
• Errors in geography: The logo for CityTV (a Canadian TV station) is clearly visible in a street scene.
  
  
• Continuity: The Thing's weight is inconsistent throughout the film. For example, at the beginning, he's heavy enough to collapse a hospital bed while simply laying in it, but when he's thrown into a moving car by Dr. Doom at the end of the film, he does little more than dent the hood and apparently has little impact on the vehicle's maneuverability.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sue goes invisible for the first time on the bridge, she has high heeled boots on, as she disrobes... her feet are bare but she didn't take off her shoes nor is there any sight of them when Johnny picks up her clothing from the road.
  
  
• Factual errors: FDNY firefighters wear leather boots not rubber ones as seen in the film.
  
  
• Errors in geography: FDNY Ladder 54 is housed in the Bronx nowhere near the Brooklyn Bridge.
  
  
• Factual errors: New York City Fire Department Ladder 54 is an aerialscope style "Tower Ladder" featuring a platform at the end of the ladder, not a "straightstick" that lacks the platform. In fact the FDNY currently has no midmount straightstick in service.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Doom hits Ben with the light pole and Ben hits the ground, concrete from the street comes up before he actually hits the pavement.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Ben stands on the beam that the jumper has retreated to on the bridge it bends several inches under his weight. After he jumps down onto the bridge surface it springs back to normal. Not only would a bend in such a beam be a permanent deformity, a mass large enough to cause such a bend would hit the asphalt with enough force to cause a similar depth crater - which does not happen. In fact if his weight remained at this level through out the movie every foot step he made would break paving slabs, floor tiles and pretty much every thing he walked on, and put him crashing through any floor not reinforced to bank vault levels in any multi-story building he tried to enter.
  
  
• Continuity: Victor Von Doom's facial injuries after the space station incident change from scene to scene. Starting at similar size on both the left and right, then only on his right (and longer) with no trace of the ones on his left. Although the increasing length of the right one could be due to his condition, this does not explain why the left one vanished.
  
  
• Factual errors: Reed and Sue's warning to Johnny about approaching 4000 degrees kelvin is wrong on two counts. Not only is this not approaching the temperature of the parts of the Sun that actually 'burn' hydrogen (the Core and the Corona, which are a thousand times hotter) but as a single point of heat only the air in the local vicinity would burn - not the whole planet's atmosphere. A far greater risk would be what in fact happened: objects near by would set alight and burn/melt.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ben squashes the bag of oranges to make juice, none of them are actually squashed.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After Victor changes Ben back to human, he attacks Ben with a backhand strike. Ben flinches just before Victor starts his swing.
  
  
• Factual errors: Trucks aren't allowed on Brooklyn Bridge: this bridge is for passenger cars and pedestrians only.
  
  
• Continuity: When Johnny goes to see the "doctor" a nurse taking his temperature takes the thermometer out of his mouth, and then the very next camera angle shows Johnny removing the thermometer from his mouth a second time.
  
  

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