- Why did Bakuto survive point blank shots of a handgun?
- Why did no one from the cops or SWAT had a battering ram to open that door?
- Why did Jessica Jones was the one used as bait when Luke Cage actually has bulletproof skin?
- The fingers kept saying that they wanted to go home and that they needed to open that door to do that. Why? There are no portals there, only dragon bone marrow to make them immortal. Are they seriously saying that's the reason? Alexandra was the only one that would die soon, or at least that the story implied. Murakami put himself in danger many times but without the marrow he could still survive if he started taking precautions. Sawande has almost no back story other than the part he talks when he's a prisoner and his introduction.
- Why no one used Judas Bullets against Luke Cage, if the Hand is actually an evil mastermind organization why did no fucking one had a single bullet that could hurt Cage?
- The Hand actually uses ninjas, but where are them? Only appeared during a flashback scene them poof, disappeared like true ninjas.
- Power levels all over the place. Daredevil could hold himself against two fingers, Luke Cage captured one like someone would do with a random goon. Nobu was an underling and smashed DD like he was nothing, and actually had a decent fight in S2.
- Stone from the Chaste. Gone like the wind.
- The cops dropping the charges like nothing happened, even though they had no one to put the blame on. It's not like they captured one finger or had anyone prove what happened there. Misty saw them wanting to blow the whole thing up / the explosives / Bakuto, but did not see the hole or anything else herself, it could just as easy be a fabrication of the group.
- How was Misty able to shoot through the door when it was secured by a bent pipe independent of the lock
- Why does hand immortality work differently every time its on screen
- Harold Meechum - died of cancer, came back, now spontaneously regenerates in swamp
- Hand ninjas - died, have no heartbeats, have autopsy scars
- electra - died, no autopsy scar, revived in jar, no heartbeat
- Hand fingers - some impervious to bullets, but stabbing kills them permanently? Or is it a highlander thing with the heads? and if it is just the head removal that stops them coming back, why is Alexandra worries? also they have heartbeats.
- how Strong is everyone? Luke brushes off punches, then doesn't. Electra fucks up Luke with one kick, but multiple straight shots on DD leave him standing. Danny has to summon the fist to even knock Luke down...
- Fingers want to go back to Kun Lun. Kun Lun has been slaughtered by the Hand as shown in IF. Never explained why having more of the substance would allow them to go back. Why not go back when they HAD substance over the past, say, 1,000 years or so.
- removing dragon bones from under one building in NY will collapse entire parts of the city. Collapse into what? The bones were about a foot thick, ffs.
- why cant the cops get into the skyscraper if only the stairwell door was blocked. And don't say "the building was on lockdown" because a) the hand would WANT the cops to take out the Defenders for them, and b) the entire front entrance is made of GLASS
If people want to say "There are plot holes and the writing is uneven, but my affection for the characters was enough to look past it and I enjoyed it nonetheless" - great! I am super happy for you. I found it hard to look past the flaws, love of Marvel notwithstanding, and I found it below average - and it makes me worry for any future Marvel-Netflix collaborations, as it seems like they aren't willing to invest sufficient budget for decent writers and production design.
Now, we don't need to run the plot holes thing into the ground any further, I think the point is well proven.