Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) Plothole

So all the elementals are holographic projections made by Mysterio and all the damage we see them do was done by Tony's battle drones. The drones can shoot out bullets, flamethrowers, concussive blast and electricity which is fine but given they are projections certain things are going to be missing that will give away the holograms. For example, [here spiderman and Mysterio are fighting Hydroman](https://youtu.be/v0AyEpFDi48?si=EAsc3w4QUFZe3wUd), it's going to look really strange that there is a water monster splashing all about but no one is getting wet. [Molten man](https://youtu.be/is4ZtB0U7Vo?si=XQfXm7HQRqWrBlhH), I can kind of see him being able to fake it through the use of the flamethrowers but there is nothing in those battle drones that can mimic water splashing all about.

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AquaFatha2025-10-05 17:47

Simple. There’s drones down on the water surface using the concussive blasts to direct water up at whatever.

Ranos1312025-10-05 17:48

And yet we saw people getting wet. The drones have concussive blasts so it’s likely they use those to blast water on people and buildings. Or maybe they have a way of picking water up and dumping it on stuff.

lk792025-10-05 17:52

Didn’t Peter get soaked at one point during the fight?

Edit: “point” not “pony”. Damn autocorrect!!!

DoubleStrength2025-10-05 17:58

Its right there at the 1:05 mark in the first link OP shared

statelesspirate0002025-10-05 18:01

Yeah a lot of the stuff caused by Mysterio in that movie didn’t make sense. Reminded me of old Scooby Doo episodes where ghosts touched people and interacted with everyone and everything and ran through multiple hallways and around giant properties, and then in the end they are revealed to be projections on dry ice

harmoniaatlast2025-10-05 18:03

The main character gets soaked immediately though. Did you watch the movie?

amags122025-10-05 18:10

This is one of those things...

In a movie about a teenager who can stick to walls and swing on webs who has connections to a billionaire and access to a high speed jet who is being attacked and manipulated by a dude with a sphere on his head using drones with flawless holographic abilities that terrorizes cities...

This is the kind of thing that really pulls me out of it.

Defiant_Wheel48882025-10-05 18:56

First, congrats. If you were Peter Parker, you would have knocked down Mysterio in the first attack itself just by shaking his hand and finding him out.

The problem is, we all see it from Peter Parker’s point of view. He lost his beloved mentor, and when he saw a superhero who looked good like Tony Stark, he trusted him. So we just followed it as usual. *(Sorry, I say “we” — many might know that guy is an illusionist, but I was new at that time.)*

The water scene — the drones can absorb water and pump it out. So basically in Venice, Italy, around the **Grand Canal** near the **Rialto Bridge**.that place Peter visits was full of water His friends are in a boat, and you can see Peter sense something coming out of the water — “*something coming out of water*.” When it comes, it splashes Peter first, and then the destruction begins.

The drones don’t have water on their own, because they’re in orbit (in space) and inside the satellite. So the water is drawn from the canal (or nearby lagoon), and they flood the area using multiple drones. Maybe the part where Mysterio attacks was a hologram or illusion, because Spider‑Man can’t fly underwater, right? But the surrounding water is **real canal water** from Venice.

So the splashes are real, and Peter is affected. *(Even behind the scenes, he got splashed by real water.) \[ refer :* [*https://youtu.be/5v3l2Pg42Mw?si=0-KjmNdf0odSUwEo&t=260*](https://youtu.be/5v3l2Pg42Mw?si=0-KjmNdf0odSUwEo&t=260)

When you see it from Peter’s perspective, you see that he is the new Iron Man, and Peter got a burden — he wants to hand it off to someone else, the “Avengers‑level burden.” So we didn’t spot the illusion when it was happening.

But when you view it outside Peter’s view, you can clearly see it's an illusion.

You can fast-forward to the last few scenes — there, they show how drones pump water out from water.
[https://youtu.be/Kx60mveRxOA?si=JyRSPqtnOFzNMIMl&t=8](https://youtu.be/Kx60mveRxOA?si=JyRSPqtnOFzNMIMl&t=8)

juances192025-10-05 19:35

> I can kind of see him being able to fake it through the use of the flamethrowers but there is nothing in those battle drones that can mimic water splashing all about.

Can't you just replace the liquid fuel of the flamethrowers with water and bam, you got an improv water gun.

Flamethrowers are really just liquid or gas throwers with a flame on the tip to ignite whatever gets shot out. Put water on them and they should be able to shoot slightly hotter water.