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/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 🤙🏻