10 Movie Universes That Make NO SENSE

When any IP becomes sufficiently huge, it's extremely difficult - if not impossible - to juggle all the spinning plates with a real sense of consistency.

There are too many conflicting characters, power sets, and artistic visions competing for attention, and it just isn't possible for even an appointed franchise "Godfather" to ensure complete logical parity across every movie.

This is without even mentioning the wider continuity in novels, comics, video games and so on.

Though Star Wars has definitely attempted to maintain a measure of sense across its nine mainline movies in particular, the contradictions are nevertheless myriad.

Particularly frustrating is the fact that the prequels have more advanced tech than the original movies, and there's virtually no consistency to the powers of the Force, which are more-or-less deployed as befits the story.

Oh, you can bring someone back to life with the Force now, nine movies into the franchise? "No-one's ever really gone," we're told, a reminder that death doesn't really have much impact or gravitas in this universe.

Also, despite the size of the galaxy, most of the pivotal characters have excessively convenient familial links to one another.

Fans have of course strained themselves to explain away many of the series' inherent contradictions, but you're really better off just surrendering to the silliness and enjoying the Star Wars movies as a mythologically dense thrill-ride, rather than a storytelling tapestry intended to be taken literally.