10 Film Characters Who Inexplicably Shrugged Off Fatal Injuries

9. Snatch €“ Boris The Blade

Boris Yes, I€™m aware that invulnerability is sort of the point of Boris the Bullet-Dodger, but what actually happens to the man is so goddamned ridiculous that I just have to mention it. If we catalogue the misfortune that falls Boris€™ way throughout Snatch, it reads like a whole night€™s report in Accident and Emergency. If we put it in order, Boris is (deep breath) violently beaten off-screen, battered while in a boot for a high-speed crash, knocked silly by a speeding car, shot, shot again and shot some more before he eventually accepts his ticket to the afterlife. Well, technically we don€™t know if he€™s actually dead €“ for all we know he€™s able to shrug off bullet-proof Tony€™s headshot like it isn€™t even a thing. I mean, it€™s not like the original gunshots did much to him €“ he€™s still swearing throughout getting perforated by a desert eagle magazine (which my psychopathic friends and Tomb Raider 3 inform me house quite formidable bullets) before Tony bothers to aim and put the Uzbekistani nutcase out of his misery. Really, there€™s just so many times he should€™ve died €“ I€™m willing to accept that a violent beating wouldn€™t kill the bloke, but suffering a high-speed crash in a boot then being smacked by another high-speed vehicle would certainly result in some sort of damage. However, Boris isn€™t even bothered by these bone-breaking occurrences €“ in fact, he€™s just peeved, and still possesses the physical wherewithal to easily walk home and crush Stephen Graham€™s testicles. It€™s incredibly impressive, and poses the question of just what the hell they feed people in Uzbekistan to create such hardiness. If they bottled the formula, you could probably sell it for millions.
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