Twilight (novel)/Headscratcher/Sandbox

Please notice that this is now Headscratchers, not It Just Bugs Me. We don't want Complaining, and we don't want long drawn out conversations. This is a place to report and ask questions about Plot Holes, and to have people explain them to you.

There are enough places on the net where you can just complain about Twilight.

Be sure to check out the 2007 Q and A for answers to common question


 * What happened to Bella's superhuman ability to smell blood? It's given an entire chapter of focus in the first book, comes up once in the third, but then just disappears. Not even the haters mention it.


 * Why is it considered okay for Edward to claim he's holding off on sex for Bella's own good? Respecting someone's wishes makes sense, but if they say it's for your own good, they are trying to control you.
 * Edward's reasons to not have sex are both to protect Bella from physical harm, to protect her soul and because that is the only "sin" HE has not committed. He is not withholding sex only for her sake but his too.


 * How would Edward sparkling in public cause people to realize he's a vampire?
 * In general, it would probably just tell them something was off about him. I'd be more afraid about vivisection than being shredded and burned, but then again I haven't been an angsty, sworn-to-secrecy vampire for the last century. It's a lot more unusual than it appeared in the first film's Special Effects Failure.


 * Jasper goes berserk at the scent of a single drop of Bella's blood, yet Good Vampire Carlisle seems to have no issues sending him to a school where someone is bound to get a bloody nose or a cut at some point. Now, Alice can keep an eye on the future and possibly get him out of there, but then why didn't she foresee the paper-cut disaster?
 * Didn't James say that Bella's blood smelled better than most others (he said it was almost floral)? Nose blood has snot mixed with it, and is very quickly "dead" like dead blood.
 * Although the "dead blood" explanation makes no sense in Real Life, there is some argument that menstrual blood could be unappetizing, if not downright revolting. Menstrual blood is actual blood and tissue, so it's possible that the tissue might turn them off, like eating a hamburger with buns made of leather.


 * So why in the world didn't Jasper go crazy in the first book when Bella's delicious blood is splashed all over the ballet studio after James' attack?
 * It might be down to an instinct to attack...and James was right there. And all Bella can see is some fighting, Alice might've fought him off.


 * Wasn't Jasper the newest Cullen to the "vegetarian" diet? Carlisle was on it longest, so that would explain why he was the most controlled. Still, the series is pretty inconsistent about whether or not the Cullens can hang out with Bella cheerfully or be driven mad with the desire to nom on her.
 * Actually it's not a matter of time. Carlisle's compassion was so big that he never was able to bring himself to kill another human being for their blood and the other Cullens were turned by him so they were introduced to respecting human life from the get go so is easier for them to resist to be around humans. Jasper has problems because he was turned by a normal vampire and was trained as a vampire soldier of sorts.


 * Bella becomes a vampire. Why are we not told how her human friends and family take this or her crazy pregnancy?
 * Well we do see her dad's reaction: he basically just pretends it's not happening, saying he doesn't want to know any details. As for her friends, she wasn't really planning on ever seeing them (or her mother) again, bless her heart. Although that's going to be kind of hard considering that they still live in the same town and Esme built them a little fairy tale cottage and everything. And that Carlisle was having trouble passing for 30 at his job by the second book...


 * Which leads to another issue - the Cullens left Forks in New Moon partly because of the Jasper incident but also because they apparently had been there too long and would start to raise suspicions. At the end of the book, they all come back like it's nothing. No one questions this and apparently there's no issue with Carlisle going back to work or Alice and Edward starting up at school again.
 * It's been a while since I read the book, but I thought that was just Edward straight-up lying to Bella (again).
 * Which still leaves the question of how the Cullens were able to reclaim their house, property, job, and places at school, even though they were gone for months, with no intention of returning.
 * Actually, to Stephenie Meyer's credit, she did seem to grasp that writing Bella's pregnancy from Bella's POV was not a good idea. Other than that, though...


 * Upon reading Edward's mind in Breaking Dawn, Aro finds out everything...  Bella even mentions several times how good it is that Aro hasn't figured it out yet, basically pointing out the Plot Hole. Is there any explanation for this?


 * In the first book, why did the Cullens think it was a good idea to take Bella to Phoenix? They jumped through hoops to ensure that her dad wasn't attacked, wouldn't someone think that hiding in the same city as Bella's mother was not such a good idea? There's plenty of places to go, and the Cullens have a lot of money.
 * In the movie, at least, one of the big reasons she wants to go to Phoenix is so the Cullens do not get blamed for her disappearance. It's a logical place for her to go.


 * If Bella has a Magic Mind Shield that makes it so no vampire powers work on her how does Alice keep seeing her future? For that matter why does Jasper's emotion control work on her (as seen, at least in the movie, when he makes her happy about her Birthday party)?
 * In the books, it explains that she's only immune to mind powers. Alice doesn't get inside her head, she just sees what's coming for her. Jasper effects her body chemistry, not thoughts. Granted, the line between mind and body is blurry at best but this is never brought up in the books.


 * Okay, so depressed Edward wants to rip open his shirt and sparkle in public, thus revealing the existence of vampires and goading the Volturi into killing him. It's sort of a roundabout and melodramatic way to commit suicide, but whatever. What I want to know is this: who the hell is going to look at someone glittery and think 'vampire'? I mean, seriously, if I saw some guy glittering in the sunlight, I'd think he had too much of a thing for body glitter. Vampires aren't exactly noted in lore for their sparkliness, so why would the Volturi (or Edward) find the idea of him ~sparkling~ so terrible? He'd just look like some stoned kid with leftover rave herpes (i.e., glitter). No average person is going to look at some prismatic teenager and go, "Gasp! He's sparkly, he must be a vampire, guys!" They'd probably be more likely to ask him how much he had to drink before he went crawling through a glitter factory.
 * This is a fair complaint in the movie, where Edward's "Look" can easily be achieved with enough glitter lotion. But bear in the mind that in the book, Edward didn't just sparkle. He was like a human diamond that you could use to blind people in the street if you wanted to. No cosmetic products can produce the same results, so even if they don't realize that he's a vampire, they're going to be elbowing their buddies going "Dude, that guy is sparkling, WTF?" which is more attention than they Volturi want. His choice of suicide makes more sense in the book as well. The only way to kill a vampire is to tear it apart and set it on fire. The only thing strong enough to pull a vampire apart is a werewolf or another vampire. Edward didn't know the wolves were around again, his family clearly wasn't going to kill him, and the whole "kill it with fire" aspect made it impossible, or at least really hard to do it himself. The easiest way to find other vampires was to go find the Volturi. It was also said, or at least implied (I think, it's been awhile since I read the books) that he tried just explaining his reasons for wanting to die and asking them to kill him, but they said no, which was why he resorted to making a scene.

Emotionally: I think this what you actually meant, but I guess it's similar to looking at a woman you randomly woke up with. It's weird, freaky, and he's just trying to keep a straight face. Metaphorically: Don't you get it, eating=sex! Edward is an intentional virgin. Do you realize how hard that can be at 17 and every girl is throwing themselves at you?
 * How do you look at someone like they're something to eat?
 * Physically: I think it's like looking at someone you want to bone, but with more drooling.
 * Hey, Freud Was Right.


 * So a dude who is over 100 years old wants to bang a 16-year-old girl? I've not read the books, does it address this at all?
 * You really ought to read before posting a Headscratcher. Bella is seventeen in Twilight and eighteen by New Moon. She's legally old enough to consent to a relationship. Not mature enough, probably, but the law doesn't set limits on maturity.
 * Technically Edward is also 17 years old. Sure, he's been 17 for awhile, but he's only 17. The book says they are stuck at that age. Also, he doesn't want to 'bang' her, it's the other way around, Bella wants to have sex with Edward, but he adamantly refuses until they get married.


 * In New Moon (the movie anyway; I can't remember exactly how it happened in the book) Edward takes Bella to the middle of the woods, then proceeds to dump her. He drags her all the way out just to do that, and she accepts him back later like nothing happened? Shouldn't he constantly be having to make it up to her?
 * Well, he did offer to beg for forgiveness. It's not his fault that Bella decided to just take him back. And, anyways, Edward spent all of Eclipse punishing himself for it--it would have been kinda cruel of Bella to kick him when he was down.


 * Why does the book go into so much detail about how people look? Isn't that really superficial? I know Bella's a teenager, but isn't this supposed to be an ethical look at sex?
 * Yes, but it's also a teen love book. The entire idea is to capture how a teen looks at the world.
 * It's a story without pics so describing his looks is important. Bella doesn't fall in love with Edward till she knows the whole truth about him. Edward's looks didn't made his life better or easier, neither of the Cullens and specially Rosalie had their looks make their choosing to be vegetarians any easier.
 * But she doesn't describe his looks. "Gorgeous" isn't really a description, it's a value judgment. We have no real idea what he looks like, other than that he's red-headed, pasty and sparkly with a crooked smile.
 * You must not have been paying attention: Hair is tousled bronze (reddish-brown) his eyes are liquid topaz with purplish almost bruise like circles under them... they lighten and almost disappear when he has fed. Long, black lashes, perfectly sculpted face with high cheekbones, straight nose, perfect full lips with razor sharp, straight, white teeth and is a bit feminine given that he looks like his mother Elizabeth, pale skin perfectly smooth, alabaster white and his body its more boyish, but lean and strong. I think Smeyer was describing a bishonen.


 * Jacob's Character Derailment: how could he grow from a friendly nice guy into a total jerkass in Eclipse? Is it just a way to deal with the Love Triangle?
 * He started to behave like a Jerkass the moment Edward came back on New Moon. It's not character derailment; it is Jacob getting jealous and hating Edward. The girl he loves is in love with the enemy. It would be Character derailment only if it happened offscreen and for no good reason.


 * How can Eddie be constantly cold to the touch? Things are cold in real life because they are drawing heat from their surroundings; such as your hand. He'd have to dissipate the heat somehow in order to stay cold... or does magic not obey the Laws of Thermodynamics and I'm just reading too much into this?
 * Well, things frozen in time would be cold. I think Meyers just didn't realize it would be colder than anything in the universe.
 * I honestly don't think this of all things is impossible. Some metals and rocks feel cold to the touch because they're good conductors.
 * Upon reading this comment, I hereby declare Edward Cullen to be a lightning rod.
 * I thought Edward was cold because, being a vampire, he's actually dead. One of the few things the Meyerpires have in common with your average idea of a vampire.
 * It does explain why his body temperature is below average (i.e. way below 36°C). It does not explain why he's apparently cold as ice and doesn't really seem to get warmer.
 * Yeah, it's just a magic/supernatural thing that isn't the same as reality. You know, a Trope.


 * How the heck do the get the energy they need to transform. All I ever saw was four of them eating muffins! True, a large pile of muffins, but is that it? Is that where the food budget for this poor tribe goes?
 * I'm pretty sure they do a lot of hunting. There's a lot of energy in matter if you can convert it differently than via combustion.


 * The tourists taken in by the bad vampires in Rome just disappear? What about their families, what about the investigations that would have to be done in order to find out why so many groups of people keep disappearing!
 * The Volturi all have magical powers. Maybe they can do really good cover-ups.


 * Don't the vampires ever question their existence or wonder why they are the way they are?
 * Normal vampires are controlled by their thirst. Quenching it is like a drug: it makes them content and lazy. They don't really have time to think. The vegetarian vampires are different, but it's not like they have anyone they can go ask about all of this. The Volturi seem to be the only people who know anything, and they completely don't understand them. And even the Volturi are fallible: They didn't know a vampire could make a human pregnant under certain circumstances.


 * If sparkling is such a threat, why can't they put on concealer, face paint, foundation, etc.?
 * Their skin would "eat" this human products I'm sure Rosalie would had found a way to use make up if she could get away with it.
 * How do, to quote Meyer, "cells with a singular facet of crystal with vampire venom lubrication," "eat" makeup? If venom is acidic, and Edward inseminates Bella with venom, injects Bella with it, and every vampire on EARTH is injected with it THROUGH TEETH... AAAHHHH!!
 * The venom destroyed Bella's contacts, so it looks like it applies to inorganic material (maybe not even all of them or on the same way), but when in contact with human living blood cells it transforms them, or when the venom that is mixed with sperm is transformed into vampire sperm. So that one shouldn't be acid to make sure that in the hypothetical case it finds a human egg it fertilizes it, instead of destroying it. Of course I'm not saying is perfect science I'm speculating how it works according to the events of the books.
 * The biggest problem with that, though, is she should have just been vamped from the sex. No way sex that rough didn't provide some vaginal tearing, and if kissing open-mouth was too dangerous for fear of getting vamped, sex should definitely be. I think the possibility of Edward tearing Bella a bit is a lot more likely than her having a nasty case of gingivitis.
 * Well if Bella was properly lubricating, even if the sex left her bruised it doesn't mean her lady parts are going to get torn up. (Vaginas are very elastic--a baby comes out of it, after all!) Also, I don't think Edward knew at the time that his gentleman parts had also venom; he was working under the impression that his saliva was the only poisonous part of him (ha so going down on Bella for the first time). It looks like they hadn't really researched vampirism at large given that they didn't know about the hybrids, not even the Volturi that are more ancient than the Cullens.
 * But they know that the eyes contain venom as well. And yeah, the vagina is elastic, but extremely rough sex will cause at least microscopic tears in the vaginal canal. If the sex was enough to leaves bruises, it was enough to leave tears.

"Jessica/Angela/Mike/Tyler: Hey Edward.
 * For that matter how do they get their Kaleidoscope Eyes past everyone?

Edward: What?

Jessica: Weren't your eyes yellow this morning?

Edward: No.

Jessica: Yes they were, I saw them. Angela, Mike, and Tyler say them. All of our teachers saw them!

Edward: No they weren't."


 * Its stated that they didn't got close to humans before Bella entered Forks. Not to mention that they could have told everyone that sometimes they use contacts. Edward just didn’t think of that because he was too busy feeling the "urges he never felt before on a century." People often miss that Edward became a big dork around Bella.

"Bella: Hi.
 * Vampires eat humans. Wouldn't this be more likely?

Edward: (reveals fangs and kills her)"

"Bella: Hi.
 * The END!
 * They've went to high school forever without incident. It would more likely go like this:

Edward: Go away.

Edward : Hey, Carlisle, could you tell the school I transferred until we move? There's this girl at school that smells very delicious, and I don't think I can handle not biting her if we share any classes.

Carlisle: Sure, son! I'm glad you understand the importance of keeping our secret, and since we'll be moving soon you'll be re-learning the things you missed in another two years anyway. I'll ask [any non-Jasper sibling who attends school] to take a look at this girl to make sure you're not just trying to skip classes, but I'll send a sick note for tomorrow. Now, let's go play a game of catch!"


 * And this is actually what happened. Edward left for two weeks, but he both missed his family and got resentful.


 * So, you know how Smeyer says that female vamps can have sex with human men, but not get pregnant, because their bodies don't change? If their bodies don't change and can't stretch, then the vaginal canal can't tent, meaning it's about two inches deep. Her vamps also are freezing cold, and all their bodily fluid has been replaced with acidic venom. How's that for a treat, gentlemen? A smoking hot babe with two whole inches of freezing cold, acid-filled lady bits just waiting for you!
 * I think you're being entirely too literal. "Their bodies don't change" means "they don't age and the biological functions required for conception no longer occur". It doesn't mean things don't bend, stretch or tent (otherwise it would be impossible for them to do things like walk or smile).


 * And yet another plot hole - it was implied in Breaking Dawn that Tanya and her sisters usually killed the men that they slept with. And no one notices that men go off to some remote part of Alaska and are never heard from again? In this day and age? Not to mention the fact that it sort of undermines their clan being "good" vampires for abstaining from human blood, since they're still providing death by screwing (arguably a more pleasant way to die, but still...)
 * Actually that was long time ago they didn't lived in Alaska all the time that was a settlement they got after they became vegetarian and they haven't killed men for at least as long as Carlisle had known them. They are good "reformed" vegetarian vampires.


 * What was the point in calling the werewolves in Meyer's world "shapeshifters"? While they may not turn at a wolf on a full moon, don't really see why she would care. Just look at how she raped Vampire folklore, I don't think she would care about werewolf mythology either.
 * The closest guess I can give is that she didn't want her so-called 'shape-shifters' to be the monsters that werewolves are made out to be, chucking away prospects like slaughtering the ones they love when the full moon shines down or being killed by silver. But then again, it's only a guess.
 * My guess is that when she continues to write the books from Leah and Renesmee POV, she might have a last real werewolf storyline/character to be part of the story and needed to make a differentiation to plant the seed of it, again just a guess.
 * Wasn't it mentioned somewhere that "real werewolves" had been hunted to near extinction by the Volturi in an attempt to show just how badass the Volturi were supposed to be?
 * Why not just make it that the tribe was one of the few werewolves left? It's seems Meyer just wanted to create some small, instantly solvable conflict between the Volturi and the Quileute tribe.
 * Or she plans to introduce the last real werewolf on future stories. Maybe he would be Leah's love interest, given that is odd that she left her unpaired, specially on this books.
 * According to Meyer's FAQ, the thing with the werewolves/shapeshifters was just a loophole brought up so that the Volturi wouldn't have an excuse to launch an attack. She said that under most circumstances, everyone would just go with it and call the Quileutes "werewolves", they only used the shapeshifter card for the Volturi.


 * In the new novella, Victoria is apparently hiding in a house in the woods. A house that's painted bright pink and blue and green and white and has elaborate trim and looks like a gingerbread cottage. For God's sake, why??? Why is there a house like that in the middle of the woods of Washington? Are there fairy tale LARPers or something? And why would Victoria live there? It sounds like a house like that would just attract a ton of unwanted attention. Or was it Victoria the one who made the house look like that? Because again, why? That's just stupid! It makes no sense at all!
 * Makes perfect sense to me. Who would be expecting someone to be hiding there?
 * But why is it there to begin with? Are there a lot of abandoned cottages in the woods around Forks? At least Bella and Edward's dream home had the excuse that Esme fixed it up for them. Either someone built a brightly-painted storybook cottage in the middle of the woods, or Victoria painted it that way. Which leads again to the question of why? Did she take time out of her meticulous revenge scheme to make her hideaway look like a Easter egg?
 * It could also be someone's vacation house, with her super sense she could had known how long there had not been humans around and she is smart making some questions, and doing some digging she might had know for how long the house was safe or in any case she could had just looked for a home of someone that would not be missed (and elderly couple, a loner that had few or none family and friends or with a habit of disappearing often enough that their loved ones wouldn't go looking for them till months passed, a drug dealer's hideaway...) and ate them to make space for herself. There are many ways to get a house once you are a merciless, smart and powerful killer.
 * There's a lot of oddballs living in the pacific northwest, not all of whom keep reliable contact with civilization in general. If the house isn't on a major road, it might be days or weeks between other people seeing it. Victoria eats people. I see no reason to assume that the cottage was abandoned when she found it, and if it's unreasonable to think she'd take time to make her hideout look like an Easter egg, it also seems like a good bet that she wouldn't take much time to make her hideout not look like an Easter egg, especially if she already chose a spot that was out of the way.


 * So, how is it that James can't smell Bella until he's downwind of her, and then can suddenly follow her scent all over town despite the fact that she drives everywhere? No one leaves that much genetic residue, which is why bloodhounds can't follow a trail if the person gets into a car. Even with SOOPER VAMPIRE SENSES, if he couldn't smell her five feet away, he also can't smell her in a car.
 * I assume that James could smell her before, he just didn't remark upon it because he assumed the smell was just a residual from someone who had passed through before, until he realized that she was right there. This still doesn't make much sense, because if her smell is so fantastic, why wasn't he going, "Hey guys apparently there's a real hottie in town, let's go find her" or something? But it makes at least a little more sense. And he still shouldn't be able to smell her in the car, either.
 * It is clearer in the books: James and his coven were not even close to town they were passing by when they hear the Cullens playing. They also didn't think it possible for a human to be alive amongst seven vampires, so, if they did smell her, they'd think they'd just eaten and she was dead.


 * One thing that occurred to me recently is the birthday scene in New Moon. I recently turned 16, and my best friend has another month to wait until she's 16, which means I'm older than her. it doesn't piss me off though. In fact, I'm often happy that I'm older. So why is Bella wangsting about being older than Edward? Heck, she isn't really older, anyways.
 * It was probably meant to give her a reason to try and get Edward to turn he. Other factors probably included the stereotype that guys have to be older than girls (not a problem for Edward since he's been around for over a century) and Bella afraid of being old and wanting to hang onto her youth.
 * She's 18. Edward stopped aging at 17. Paedo!Bella (technically, Ephebo!Bella) would have no longer been able to legally have sex with Edward in all fifty states if he remained a legal entity and his chronological age had stopped increasing at the time of his original death. For some reason, this matters to her. It was also a milestone towards her becoming wrinkly and dead.
 * Of course, that's only assuming that the age of consent in all states is 18. It really shouldn't be a problem since some states like Washington have sixteen as the age of consent. No problem there.
 * But that doesn't make sense: presumably, Edward's legal age would not be fixed at 17, because that would be really freaking suspicious.
 * "...in all fifty states..." "...if he remained a legal entity and his chronological age had stopped at the time of his death..." I never said it made in-universe sense, and followed it up with what seems to be the author's intent ("...a milestone towards her becoming wrinkly and dead").


 * Why does Edward Cullen pass around as a 17-year-old when he could pass himself off as a an 18-year-old with full legal rights? If I were a 100-something-year-old vampire with the body of someone in his late teens, I would still prefer to be treated as a young adult than as a teenager.
 * The books state that the Cullens started to study there two years before Bella arrived so Edward 17th year old person passed himself as a 15th year when he first entered school, and has been "aging" accordingly. So he will legally reach 18 at some point, guessing he can play a slowly aging young adult he might be able to graduate from college, again, and pretending to be 23 or 24, before starting all over again. You have to wonder how did he passed as just 15 years old and Rosalie and Emmett passing as 16 year old ones, specially Emmett that is already big for his age.


 * If the object of a werewolf's imprinting were to become a vampire, would the werewolf reject his imprintee? Canon makes out that they truly hate each other, smell awful to the other, and have a biological impulse to kill is triggered. But then Breaking Dawn has Jacob imprint on a half-vampire and be totally cool with it? WHAT IS THE LOGIC?


 * It just bugs me that when the Truck is delivered to Bella upon arriving in Forks, the Jacob and Billy Black don't bring a ride home. Did they walk--well, wheel--there?
 * Wasn't Jacob only 15 at that point? He wouldn't have been old enough to drive, at most he'd have had a learner's permit. And the reason Bella gets the truck is that Billy can't drive it any longer because of his accident, isn't it? Perhaps they didn't bring another vehicle because they couldn't actually drive it home. Maybe Charlie took them home? I can't remember :P


 * Why do they call the vampires "vegetarian" just because they drink animal blood rather than human blood? Maybe this is just my inner Granola Girl talking, but vampires drink blood, and since there isn't any such thing as plant blood, vampires cannot be vegetarian.
 * It's more of a injoke between vampires than an actual scientific definition. Normal vampires see humans as little more than food (or blood), and have no qualms sucking them dry. "Vegetarian" vampires see people as living, sentient beings and thus only eat things they perceive to not be intelligent, self aware beings. In other words, it's taking an incredibly simplistic view of meat-eaters and vegetarians and apply it to a vampire perspective; from their point of view sucking you dry is no different from you enjoying a nice steak, and drinking animal blood is not that different from refusing to eat meat for moral reasons. Or in short, just apply the MST3K Mantra and don't think about it too much.


 * How come The Second Life of Bree Tanner is told in past tense and first person if the narrator dies at the end?
 * Maybe because that's how she normally writes and she didn't want to be a spoiler?


 * So, Aro keeps Marcus on because he has a useful power. Aro himself is a mastermind who also has a useful power. Then...there's Caius. He doesn't show any useful power; in fact, he seems to have no special power at all. On top of that, he's extremely belligerent. You'd think that a group whose plan relies on subtlety wouldn't pick a total hothead as one of its leaders. And if he does have some awesome power that we don't know of, what could possibly be Meyer's motive for not telling us?
 * I don't know about the first half of the question, now that you mention it, but a possible motive could be leaving herself a backdoor to come up with a good explanation for keeping Caius on hand. Y'know, somewhere down the line.
 * How exactly is the live action version of Edward hot? I know little of these books, but his actual book self seems appealing. Robert however turns him into Uncanny Valley.
 * Uncanny Valley isn't the same for everyone. The fact that many girls find him hot is enough. He doesn't have to be as hot as described in the book, as that's just Bella's description.


 * Question - If Edward can foresee that leaving Bella will make her do insanely stupid crap to get herself killed and/or to see Edward again, why does he decide that that's a better plan? The worst thing that could happen if he stays with her is that Bella gets turned into a vampire, and even that's pretty unlikely from what we've seen of her resilience (and having a vampire doctor nearby doesn't hurt. But, if he leaves her, chances are that both Bella and he will DIE.


 * Bella's sudden moral to do this the right way at the end of Eclipse. As someone who doesn't seem really want to save herself till marriage it annoyed me right at the end of Eclipse that she only wanted to have sex after they were married? She never cared before, so why now?
 * She also only wanted a baby two seconds after finding out she was pregnant, after openly admitted that she never, ever wanted to be a mother.


 * What was up with the climax of New Moon? So Alice has a vision that Bella was dead, and immediately decides to tell everyone that it already happened, even though it was a vision of the future. She then sees that Bella is very much alive, and decides to hang around for girly time, instead of calling her family and letting them know, oops, her bad, Bella didn't die! And then, when they find out what Edward would do, why didn't they call the Volturi and give them warning of Edward's plan? She said the Volturi were fond of Carlisle and would possibly spare Edward out of charity, plus they want him to join their group. Why not tell them that Edward is suicidal and misinformed, and could the Volturi just restrain him when he goes to expose himself?


 * If newborns are so much more powerful, then why couldn't Bree protect herself when the Volturi tried to kill her?
 * I don't think they're necessarily more powerful than any other vampires, they just have less control. They go into violent rages and are almost incapable of stopping themselves (except Bella, of course). As a result, they tend to inflict a lot more damage than older vampires that will pick their battles and feed with discretion in order to avoid being exposed to humans or get into that next big fight that might end with them being torn to pieces.
 * On top of this, it seems that the Volturi are so feared specifically because they are so much more powerful than the average vampire and nearly all have special abilities. It wouldn’t make sense if they weren't more powerful than the newborns, at least. Why would anyone fear them.


 * One problem that I just cannot get out of my head is that of the werewolf origin myth, specifically the actions of the wife. First, she kills herself rather than, say, slicing her palm or cheek or some other non-fatal area. If the vampire was so bloodlusty as to have slaughtered an entire village, you'd think it wouldn't take all that much to distract her. Second, there are literally bodies piled up around her (In the film at least, not certain about the book). She has to have spilled liters of blood by now, and still be smelling it, and yet the addition of just a tiny bit more distracts her from her fight long enough for the werewolf to kill her. Although, maybe the wife just had the same Fresh Steak Blood™ as Bella.


 * James is said to have supernaturally keen senses and his sense of smell is acute enough to tell that a vampire wearing Bella's coat brushed against a tree to try and throw him off. If his sense of smell is THAT good, hitting him in the face with Mace or Pepper Spray should have overloaded his senses and sent him into catatonia or unconsciousness.
 * Vampires can't lose consciousness.


 * Did I miss something or will Bella will live her eternity with her bloody stomach in pieces? I mean, Smeyer told that when someone becomes a vampire, their body freeze in time somehow, which means they can't heal, and didn't Bella became a vampire when Edward was tearing her belly apart to make her give birth?
 * Nah, the venom conveniently heals everything. That's why Esme, who jumped off a cliff, is not eternally confined to her bed. And Emmett was mauled by a bear, but he's fine now, obviously.


 * In Breaking Dawn, Renesmee's bites are described as non-venomous. However, Nahuel, another Dhampyr, is said to have turned his aunt. So does the status of a Meyerdhampyr venom differ on a case-by-case basis or is this another example of inconsistencies?
 * When did he turn her? Dhampyr venom may manifest post puberty or maybe only in males.
 * Original Tropette here: According to the Twilight wiki, Nahuel turned his aunt soon after birth.
 * Well, doesn't Renesmee turn Bella? Maybe they have venom before and soon after birth but lose it later.


 * Why do the Cullens even associate with humans at all? I mean, no one goes to their house (or anywhere near there), they never age, which does end up bringing some awkward questions (as evidenced by New Moon), they don't need food, they don't need to keep buying clothes, etc. so the money is almost pointless. And, as an added bonus, keeping the kids away from humans will prevent anything from going horribly, horribly wrong! Other vampires seem to be able to do this. What makes the Cullens so special that they have to?
 * I think it's the father's doctor instinct. Plus I think they are all doing their best to reject their vampirism. Remember, Carlisle turned them to save their lives, not because he wanted them to actually be vampires.


 * It makes me scratch my head that there's no way to get back to the main Twilight page from here. Oh, hey, now there is!