r/Invincible • u/mwthecool Omni-Mod • Mar 21 '24

Invincible [Episode Discussion] - S02E06 - This Must Come As A Shock EPISODE DISCUSSION

Episode 6 - It's Not That Simple

After two challenging missions, The Guardians of the Globe struggle to work as a team. Meanwhile, Mark tries to balance his hero duties, personal relationships, and his future as a college student.

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u/The_Throwback_King Mar 21 '24

HOW THE FUCK DID REX SURVIVE THAT!?!

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u/AFRIKKAN Mar 21 '24

Small caliber round combined with I would assume a Kevlar weave suit and a whole lot of luck. You can survive things piercing your skull aslong as the swelling doesn’t get you and you don’t bleed out or internally bleed. Not a dr tho so take my highschool understanding of biology with a grain a salt the size of a f150.

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u/LordDiddlyWinkle Mar 21 '24

Not a doctor either but yeah there are some crazy stories of people surviving getting their skull pierced, to keep it very broad. Like that one railroad worker who had a 13 pound taping rod blow through his head and lived.

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u/BoxOfNothing Mar 21 '24

This is how I feel when people say "this person got stabbed twice in the back, how are they aliiiiiive, lazy writing" when I have a friend who as a 14 year old got stabbed 9 times in the back, stomach, arm and chest by a middle aged former soldier, but survived. His dad was stabbed more and did die unfortunately, but the 14 year old was a guest of honour at our football team a couple of weeks later, walking and looking nowhere near as rough as you'd expect. He's a fully grown man with no physical limitations now, incredible guy.

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u/Elon-Moist Mar 21 '24

The human body is crazy. I remember hearing about how somebody fell from a helicopter (some flying object) like 50 feet and survived with minimal injury. Then another person fell into an empty swimming pool, a mere 4-6 feet and died.

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u/ManufacturerFun7162 Mar 21 '24

People have fallen literally miles from airplanes and lived. The most famous of which is a 14 year old who fell 2 miles from an airplane into the middle of the rainforest, and hiked for 2 weeks with a broken collarbone and gashed arm infested with botfly larvae before finding civilization. I think the longest fall from a plane while surviving was something like 6 miles..

When it's not your time, it's just not your time I guess.

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u/lemonprincess23 Mar 22 '24

It’s crazy how durable yet also fragile the human body is cause people will survive crazy stuff like this but also die from tripping on concrete

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u/Urge_Reddit Mar 22 '24

Once you reach terminal velocity, how far you fall doesn't really matter any more.

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u/Roeclean May 26 '24

I mean, I feel like if you had bad endurance, couldn't you pass out from the fall and get increased fall damage from hitting the ground unconscious

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u/Leafs17 Mar 24 '24

People have fallen literally miles from airplanes and lived. The most famous of which is a 14 year old who fell 2 miles from an airplane into the middle of the rainforest, and hiked for 2 weeks with a broken collarbone and gashed arm infested with botfly larvae before finding civilization.

How is this not a movie(or is it?)?

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u/ManufacturerFun7162 Mar 24 '24

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7584300/

"GIrl who Fell From the Sky" (I guess they didn't work on that title much :P)

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u/lovecatsbaby Mar 28 '24

Does she also have an invincible gun?

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u/SimoneNonvelodico Apr 14 '24

"Did it hurt when you fell from the sky?"

"Quite a bit, but I recovered nicely."

"Because you look like an ange- WAIT WHAT"

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u/Radix2309 Mar 22 '24

People have tripped and glanced their head on something and died.

It is crazy how easy it can be to die, and also how much someone can survive on the other end.

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u/vangstampede Mar 22 '24

Bruh, why the hell do you feel the need to describe what a helicopter is to us, and even then it's merely "some flying object"?

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u/Elon-Moist Mar 22 '24

Couldn't remember if it was a helicopter or something different. My bad mate, it's not that deep

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u/vangstampede Mar 22 '24

Ooooh that's what that is. Sorry. :/

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u/Elon-Moist Mar 22 '24

No worries. I could have phrased better as well 🤙🏻

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u/GravyBear28 Mar 21 '24

Bruh wtf happened 

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u/BoxOfNothing Mar 21 '24

It's been a while but I believe it was that his aunt (dad's sister) divorced her husband, ex-husband went crazy and attacked them on the way to a football game, I guess in some sort of unhinged revenge plot. Both got stabbed a lot, stumbled to a main road to get help, got taken to hospital, the dad died a few hours later, the son lived. It was absolutely horrific, both of them were universally loved, great people. The killer was on the run for a few weeks before getting caught and got what I believe is the longest sentence in the UK, which is 25 to life.

I actually can't remember if the killer was a former soldier, his dad was but I think the killer was too, but as I say not 100% sure.

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u/finnjakefionnacake Mar 21 '24

i don't know if i would say that for a person getting stabbed in the back / i don't see that that often. what i do see it for, and what i will continue to be astounded by, is joel from the last of us being impaled lol

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u/BoxOfNothing Mar 21 '24

The first example that comes to my head would be Arya getting stabbed twice in the stomach and surviving in Game of Thrones. People were outraged and spoke about it literally for years, but my mate got stabbed in the stomach multiple times and chest and back and arm when he was younger than her and survived.

Also I swear I've seen a thousand stories on the Internet of people surviving being impaled right through the body, wasn't Joel's more of a stab that went a few inches in?

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u/finnjakefionnacake Mar 21 '24

lol no it went literally through his entire body and the reason he survived was due to a 14 year old kid just...stitching it up like nothing happened lol

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u/BlamingBuddha Apr 13 '24

That sounds like such a messed up scenario. I'm sorry that happened to your friend and his dad.

Glad the child survived it and grew up into an incredible guy.

The human body can take quite the amount of punishment sometimes.

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u/aeschenkarnos Mar 25 '24

And on the other end of the scale, recently in my home town a quite large and strong man got poked in the neck with a pocketknife by a street kid at a train station during an altercation and bled out in under a minute.

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u/sonic_dick Apr 01 '24

And also he's a superhero who can generate energy from pocket change.

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u/Comfortable_Shape264 Mar 24 '24

50 Cent famously survived getting shot 9 times.

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u/Pinksters Mar 21 '24

I remember the xray from years ago of a guy with a length of rebar going through his skull.

Dude lived but I dont know how well.

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u/BlamingBuddha Apr 13 '24

Or the scientist who had a particle accelerator ray shoot through the back of his head and out through the front of his face and somehow surviving.