10 Film Characters Who Inexplicably Shrugged Off Fatal Injuries

2. Iron Man €“ Tony Stark

Tony Stark As anyone who€™s been skydiving will know, you€™ve got to take your safety very seriously. A human being can die from a fall after just one storey if they fall in the wrong way, so when you€™re cresting the air in a plane and are going to jump out, a parachute is always called for. Unless, of course, you€™re Tony Stark. Let€™s set the scene €“ Tony€™s been kidnapped by the terrorist group the Ten Rings and forced to develop missiles. In what turned out to be one of the most audacious and ridiculous bluffs in recent memory, he actually builds a not-at-all-similar-looking iron suit and massacres everything. He then flies away before it all goes balls-up pretty darn quickly €“ Tony plummets to Earth in a powered descent before slamming into a sand dune at a good speed. Yet strangely, though the suit is pulverised Tony is remarkably ok, with no major injuries of any kind. Granted, he€™s not as high up as a skydiver, but he€™s definitely going faster than terminal velocity €“ remember, until moments ago he was catapulting around in a giant suit €“ so when he smacks into the sand, he€™s surely in for a world of pain. After all, his suit€™s been smashed to bits, implying a hell of a lot of force. Yet he€™s curiously unharmed, and for no good reason. You can€™t tell me there were fail-safes in that suit, because it€™s totally primitive, and it suffers damage everywhere. Yet when we see Tony again, he€™s got his arm in a cursory sling, - implying injury €“ but he€™s still walking around. I€™ve got to ask €“ how the hell is this possible? If Tony hadn€™t been turned into paste by the crash, he would most certainly be in a wheelchair, yet he later refuses one. It€™s completely bonkers, is what I'm saying.
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