10 Film Characters Who Inexplicably Shrugged Off Fatal Injuries

6. Rambo (2008) €“ John Rambo

Rambo I€™m putting this one down to action hero logic €“ after all, this does feature Sylvester Stallone, and you aren€™t going to kill him until he€™s damn well ready for it. But still, John Rambo takes biscuit in his 21st century outing, especially when he gets shot by a bleeding boat-mounted cannon. No really, that actually happens. Midway through blowing away countless thousands of Burmese soldiers in possibly the worst foreign-relations advert ever committed to celluloid, Rambo ends up getting shot through the shoulder with a preposterously large machine gun. Looking at the size of that beast, the calibre of the bullets must be pretty damned formidable, enough to sever limbs and punch holes in people. Yet Rambo just deals with the pain with the well-known medical sedative known as manly screaming, before getting up and committing internal logic hara-kiri €“ he takes up his smaller weapon and proceeds to liquefy anonymous goons and trees with it. Really, this is amazingly strange €“ we see a cannon which is unable to tear Rambo limb-from-limb yet his comparatively less impressive weapon can rinse hordes of Burmese like it isn€™t even a thing. I€™m aware that Rambo is some sort of killing machine, but he€™s still bloody human,held together by a precarious bag of bones and sinews which would fall apart if hit by a weapon that large. It would do more to you than the equivalent of a vicious punch in the arm, yet Rambo€™s able to hold his gun relatively untroubled, with only lip service being paid to the wound later on when he just frowns a bit at it. It€™s baffling, is what I€™m saying.
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