23 X-Men Movie Mistakes You Probably Missed

16. The Science Of Logan's Skeleton - X2

Fox
Fox

When Wolverine is shot in the skull, we get a bad-ass moment where the berserker reinforces his cool factor by basically just shrugging it off.

Science tells us that this should not have happened: not because a man with a reinforced metal skull wouldn't be able to exist in his terms, but because exerting any force towards an immovable/unmaleable surface will transfer all of the energy back into the object exerting the force. So instead of simply hitting Wolfie's skull and dropping away, the bullet should have ricocheted away at mostly the same speed as it was fired (allowing for some energy to be lost in sound and heat energy, of course.)

Science.

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