Quote Originally Posted by Amaru
Please don't take any offence out of this next line, or my entire post for that matter, but people who usually say that something has a plot hole, are those who didn't take time to understand the story.

So did Sephiroth, so did Jenova's head. Both were recovered. So what's this plot hole again?


I take it that you missed the entire section of the game where Burgenhagen explains about the Weapons and Holy. The Weapons were made to protect the Planet. Humans were seen as aiding in the Planet's slow decay. By summoning Holy, there was a chance that the Planet would wipe out humanity itself, this was a giant risk that the group had to take and formed a huge plot point in the game. How could you miss this?

Again, no offence, but play the game again, and listen to the story elements (I mean, it's hard not to - they are everywhere) about the Reunion, about Jenova's abilities, and about Sephiroth himself.

There are no plot holes here. You just didn't understand the story.
#1- Sephiroth's body was found in Northern Crater encased in hardened Mako, it was never "recovered" in any way. As for Jenova's head, where in the game does it say anything about it being thrown in the lifestream, much less recovered? And even so, it states directly in the game that "Sephiroth is the only person who can weild that sword"

#2- The Weapons were awakened after Meteor was summoned, to try to protect the planet. Weapon and Holy are two seperate entities with the same general purpose. You make it sound as if Weapon was awakened as part of Holy. My point here is that why would Weapon attack Mideel, a town that only causes damage to the world's fish population, and leave all the town's with reactors at peace. As I said before, the other attacks on Junon and Midgar make sense, but attacking a small fishing villiage doesn't. And even if Holy and Weapon were connected, why would Weapon go after the town when the actual spell only went after Midgar?

#3- Jenova couldn't have freed itself from captivity, if it could have it wouldn't have waited around for however long, that's just common sense,it couldn't actually be Sephiroth because he is dead and encased in Mako and the clones are shown as being physically weak so often through the game up to reunion that it's implausible for one to make it through a crapload of ShinRa guards, free Jenova, and kill the President with a sword it can't weild. As for the Black Materia and Aeris' death, no matter what anyone says it is it is just theory, nothing is ever stated about either as concrete evidence .

Also, don't question the intelligence and understanding of someone when your best argument is "go back and play the game again" and you provide no real evidence to support your point.