Fx, and this is actually explained in Captain America.
If you have the ability to regenerate, the metabolism would regenerate too, making it unnecessary for you to eat, and here comes the important part.
It would become impossible to become drunk or receive any kind of intoxication, because there would be no substance that would be able to produce that feeling in a constantly regenerating body.
That's not really the plot hole I was worried about. Plus, he isn't really shown to regenerate. He's shown to have invulnerability. Sure, when he's injured he can then heal to full capacity, but he wasn't also inebriated at the time so you can't really know if that affected anything.
I was more disappointed by the poor execution of the fabulous idea at the core of the movie (basically a Superman who doesn't want to be a Superman).
So a completely fake superpower that has no existence is a plothole because it doesn't follow a rule?
You realize there's ZERO science to support super powers, right? It's a super power. They aren't real. Any rules the writers make are how the super powers work. Unless of course, you'd like to present to me the real life case in which a guy was impervious to bullets and couldn't get drunk. Then I'll totally be on board with your ridiculous view of how fiction works.
So many stupid people, so little time...
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Alcohol serves to intoxicate a person because it is interfering with neurotransmitters, not damaging them. There's no reason to expect that the pharmacology of alcohol wouldn't work on a being like Hancock.
What would be expected is that the excessive strain on the liver wouldn't end up giving him cirrhosis as a result.
In addition, they never said that he'd die if he didn't eat. What he said was that he eats, and his body functions are able to process and metabolize food properly, or so we are to believe, as we're never shown a moment when he's seated on a toilet.
If you're going to start trying to be a movie analyst, it would help if you actually learned a few facts about your subject matter prior to beginning your post.
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In Superman 3 Superman got drunk in a bar and started destroying everything, this was after he became exposed to the manufactured Kryptonite which affected his emotional state and turned him into a 'normal person'.
I dont think Hancock is that type of superhero and his powers stretch that far because otherwise he would not become drunk, alcohol affects you internally physically and your emotional state.
As an immortal, I believe that you probably don't have to eat or drink, but since you have five senses, it pleases you to do so.
What happens to the food/drinks when it enters their body is anyone guess. I'd imagine it simply disintegrates at some point.
So when are you going to post a Plot hole ? Also there is no science when it comes to make believe Super powers.
shareIt's not really a plot hole. It's all about suggesting a lack of identity; he's not happy being who he is, so he's looking for ways to escape his reality (whether you feel he can or he can't).
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Too many people don't grasp what a plot hole is. If everything fictional was considered a plot hole, movies, novels and plays wouldn't exist. A movie "fact" is whatever the writer says it is. It only becomes a plot hole if it contradicts itself once it's established in the film's fictional universe.
For example, if a character is specifically described as not being able to do something, then later we inexplicably see that happen, that would be a plot hole. Same thing if a character is shown in two different locations with no travel time in between or reasonable explanation. Plot hole.
A fictional super-power that you think is implausible because it was described differently in a DIFFERENT fictional work is NOT a plot hole.
Good point.
An example of a plot hole: Sam gets fired from his job, goes to the bar, talks to his friends and then goes to work the next day as if nothing happened (i.e. the writers forgot that he was fired in the script).
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nooty is correct another famous example is back to the future 2 when old biff goes back in time to give himself a sports results almanac, he does this then returns to the same future he left leaving time machine where he found it, in fact he shouLd of travelled to the future he'd just created by leaving the book behind!
shareShepherdMorons is totally f-retarded
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