No one seems to be driving the truck Bella and Charlie stop for.
In “Twilight,” when Charlie first drives his daughter, Bella, into Forks, he pauses at an intersection and a large blue truck passes by.
This seems like a fairly normal moment, but viewers paying close attention may notice that there isn’t a visible driver in the truck, so it appears to be driving itself.
Forks High School is based on an actual school, and the film even used its real mascot and colors.
Throughout the first three films, there are several scenes set at Bella’s school, Forks High School, which was based on a real institution in Forks, Washington — even though the movies weren’t shot there.
Just like the real-life high school, Forks High School’s colors in the “Twilight” series are blue and gold and its mascot is the Spartans, based on a few scenes in the gym and around the building.
Bella’s classmate, Mike, is even shown wearing a blue-and-gold letterman jacket with a large “F” on the front that was lent to the production by the actual school.
During the cafeteria scene, Edward reacts to the realization that he can’t read Bella’s thoughts.
The first time Bella sees Edward is when the Cullens walk into the school cafeteria for lunch.
While Jessica and Angela are explaining who the Cullens are, Edward is smirking — which makes sense since vampires have enhanced hearing and Edward can read minds, so he knows what they’re talking about. Once Bella looks over at his table, Edward’s eyebrows narrow, Alice glances at him worriedly, and they both seem confused.
These simple facial movements appear to be Edward’s real-time reaction to realizing he can’t read Bella’s thoughts, which viewers find out later in the film.
Emmett has a bag full of eggs in the cafeteria scene even though vampires don’t eat.
When the Cullens enter the school cafeteria for the first time, Emmett is carrying a plastic bag full of hard-boiled eggs.
The vampires don’t eat real food, so he never does anything with the eggs, and most fans didn’t even notice them until a TikTok pointed them out in April.
Director Catherine Hardwicke told Insider’s Olivia Singh that actor Kellan Lutz actually inspired the quirky detail by bringing a dozen hard-boiled eggs to the set as his meal.
“I was just laughing so hard,” Hardwicke said. “I’m like, ‘OK, [Emmett] has to have those eggs. You have to carry that in that scene,’ because it was just outrageous.”
The Cullens all wear jewelry that features their family crest, which isn’t in the books.
Each member of the Cullen family has a piece of jewelry featuring the same symbol. This isn’t in the books, and it’s never fully explained in the movies, but the symbol is largely agreed to be the Cullen-family crest.
In a few of the films, Edward, Emmett, Esme, and Jasper all wear the crest on a bracelet, Carlisle has the crest on a ring, and Rosalie and Alice both have it on their necklaces.
Bella just pretends to put ketchup on her burger at the diner.
When Bella goes to the diner with Charlie, she orders a burger and fries. But when she goes to put ketchup on her plate, she merely lightly shakes the squeeze bottle a couple of times and puts it back down.
It’s very clear that no actual ketchup comes out.
During a scene where Bella falls, Kristen Stewart seems to be wearing knee pads.
There are several moments throughout “The Twilight Saga” that show how clumsy Bella is.
One such moment shows her slipping on ice when she’s walking outside, and during this scene, the knee pads actress Kristen Stewart seems to be wearing for the “stunt” are rather noticeable under her skinny jeans.
In the scene, Bella falls on her butt — not her knees.
Bella and Edward win the golden onion in biology.
During the first biology lesson that Edward and Bella talk to each other in “Twilight,” they’re working on studying onion cells under a microscope. The teacher announces that the first group to correctly complete the assignment will win “a golden onion,” which actually looks like a spray-painted vegetable.
After the classroom scene, Bella is holding said onion prize as they walk down the hallway, which apparently means they won the challenge even though it’s never mentioned.
Edward holds an apple during the film to recreate the “Twilight” book cover.
While talking to Edward in the cafeteria, Bella drops an apple. When Edward catches it, the camera lingers in a close-up shot of his hands cradling the red apple.
This moment mimics the image on the “Twilight” book cover, which shows a red apple being held in two hands.
James has a tattoo in the movie despite the fact that he’s a vampire with diamond-hard skin.
James’ appearance in the first film is fairly different from how he’s described in the book. For example, the movie show James with blonde rather than light-brown hair.
However, in addition to these understandable minor changes, the fact that James has a visible tattoo seems like a mistake.
Vampires in the “Twilight” universe only seem to scar when they are bit by other vampires, so a vampire having a tattoo should be impossible as their skin would heal from any needle capable of penetrating it.
When Bella is turned at the end of the series, her human scars disappear, so it also doesn’t seem like this could’ve been left over from before he was a vampire.
James’ visible ink is the actual tattoo of the actor portraying him, Cam Gigandet, but it perhaps should’ve been covered up for the film to avoid confusion.
Apotamkin are from a real Indigenous American legend, but they aren’t synonymous with vampires.
When Bella is researching vampires, she sees a result for “The cold one: Apotamkin.”
Apotamkin are creatures from real Indigenous American legends, but they aren’t described as vampires. Instead, the actual legend describes them as a type of sea serpent with fangs.
There’s a door that leads to nowhere in Edward’s room.
When Edward shows Bella his room, they only discuss the lack of a bed — which he doesn’t need because vampires don’t sleep.
But the other odd feature of the room is the set of open double doors that don’t lead anywhere. The room is on the second floor, but there isn’t a terrace or deck on the other side of the doors.
Victoria stole the shirt of the man she killed with James and Laurent.
When Victoria, James, and Laurent kill Waylon on his boat, he’s wearing a “Kiss Me I’m Irish” shirt.
In Victoria’s next scene, she’s wearing an altered version of the shirt under her furry jacket.
When Edward is in the sunny meadow, his face is sparkly but his hands are not.
In the “Twilight” universe, vampire skin sparkles in the sunlight, so when Edward is lying with Bella in the sunny meadow, his face goes all glittery.
However, his hands are also exposed — and even though the film makes it look like there is only one ray of sunlight shining down, they are in a shadeless meadow — so they should probably be sparkling too.
Bella wears the same ring and bracelets throughout several movies.
Bella wears a thick, dark bracelet on her left wrist in “Twilight.” She also has a ring that she wears on her right pointer finger and another bracelet on her right wrist.
All three pieces of jewelry can also be spotted on Bella during the later films in the series.
According to “Twilight: Director’s Notebook,” Hardwicke wore an identical $2 “saints” bracelet to Bella every shoot day, and the character wore it in all but three scenes of the first film.
The Cullens’ house has several features that aren’t actually necessary for vampires.
When Bella first visits the Cullens’ house, they mention that the kitchen had never been used before since vampires don’t need to eat food. However, despite not needing the room at all, when they go to make her dinner for Bella, they have all the necessary gadgets and housewares at the ready.
There is also a working fireplace, which we see lit in “Breaking Dawn – Part 1” — another seemingly impractical home feature since vampires don’t need temperature control like humans do.
Robert Pattinson is actually playing the piano in one of the first movie’s most memorable scenes.
Edward plays the piano for Bella when she first visits his house, and the intimate scene is one of the most popular in the series.
But fans may not have realized that actor Robert Pattinson is actually playing the piano, and he does it again during “Breaking Dawn – Part 2” when he plays a lullaby for his character’s daughter.
Pattinson also has two original songs on the “Twilight” movie soundtrack.
Bella and her father sit in the same booth both times they go to the diner in “Twilight.”
At the beginning of the first movie, it’s stated that Charlie gets the same dessert at the diner each Thursday, so it’s not that surprising that he also seems to have a regular booth.
Bella and Charlie sit in the same corner booth both times they visit the diner in the film.
Meyer makes a cameo in one of the diner scenes.
In one of the diner scenes when Charlie and Bella meet up for dinner, the book series’ author, Meyer, makes a cameo.
She’s seen sitting at the counter working on her laptop.
It’s unclear if vampires have reflections throughout “The Twilight Saga.”
At the end of the first movie, Edward fights James in a dance studio full of mirrors.
During this scene, both vampires have clear reflections in the mirrors around them. However, during the opening of “New Moon,” Edward doesn’t have a reflection when he stands in front of a mirror in Bella’s dream.
As she discusses with Edward, Bella’s dream is about her fear of growing old while Edward will always be the same age. Since it was already established that vampires in the “Twilight” universe do have reflections, Edward’s lack of a reflection in the dream sequence could be an error.
Victoria can be seen at the school dance before her grand reveal.
When Bella and Edward first walk into the dance at the end of “Twilight,” Victoria is actually standing by the entrance.
The villainous vampire isn’t revealed until the very end of the movie, when viewers see her standing above the dancing couple, but the inclusion of her in the entryway scene shows that she was actually at the dance the entire time.
Edward talks about the Volturi in public, despite knowing how seriously the society takes its secrecy.
The Volturi are an elite society of powerful vampires that enforce rules for other vampires to live by. They help keep the existence of vampires a secret from humans and end up becoming a major part of the series.
Edward knows how seriously the Volturi take the secrecy — and that they would kill him if he publicly revealed the existence of vampires — however, the first time he talks to Bella about the Volturi is while they are watching a movie in a classroom full of fellow students.
This seems like an unnecessary risk given that anyone in the classroom could have overheard their conversation, and Edward could have waited to talk to Bella about the Volturi until they were alone.
The dream catcher Jacob gives Bella can be seen hanging from her bed in several movies.
Jacob gives Bella a dream catcher for her birthday in “New Moon,” and she hangs it on her bed, where it can be seen throughout the rest of the movie.
Hawk-eyed viewers can also spot the dreamcatcher hanging from the same spot on her bed in “Eclipse.”
Vampires show up in pictures in the “Twilight” series.
During the birthday party she throws for Bella in “New Moon,” Alice uses Bella’s camera to take a picture of Edward and Bella, suggesting that vampires can appear in pictures in the “Twilight” universe.
This is confirmed when Bella prints out the pictures and Edward is clearly visible — this contradicts many vampire myths that claim the creatures can’t be caught on film.
The Cullens’ piano is destroyed in “New Moon,” but it’s replaced before “Breaking Dawn – Part 2.”
In “New Moon,” while the family is preventing Jasper from attacking Bella, the Cullens’ piano is destroyed. But the piano is back in the same spot in perfect shape by the last movie.
The blood and gauze Carlisle sets on fire resemble the art on the “New Moon” book cover.
As Carlisle tends to the cut on Bella’s arm after Jasper’s outburst, he drops the used gauze into a bowl. When he is finished treating her, he sets the bloody gauze on fire, likely to remove the scent of blood for the other vampires in the house.
The camera lingers on this bowl, and the blood and gauze seem to resemble the red-and-white tulip on the cover of the “New Moon” book.
Edward alludes to being damned in the first movie.
Bella has a conversation about the fate of vampires when Carlisle is tending to her injured arm in “New Moon,” and in the same film, Edward explains that the main reason he doesn’t want to turn Bella into a vampire is because he doesn’t want to damn her.
But that’s not the first time he’s referenced these beliefs.
In “Twilight,” after driving Bella to school, Edward alludes to his own damnation when he says, “I’m breaking all the rules now anyway, since I’m going to hell.”
