How did Batman survive being stabbed in the Dark Knight Rises movie? (lemmy.world)

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Apologies if this is not an Ask Lemmy worthy question, but I couldn't guess an appropriate community to post it to and welcome suggestions to where to move such a question to.

Question is as in the title: how could Batman survive what really seems like a deadly stab by Miranda Tate (=Talia Al Ghul) at the end of the movie and still have the strength to go chase the bomb, the lucidity to set up the autopilot and the coordination to jump off of the bat(wing) to safety?

Wouldn't he have bled to death (and very quickly too, even if she was trained to miss internal organs)?

We're shown that she twists the blade too and he feels the pajn (so the armor didn't really protect him).

Of course, the standard joke answer is that he's the Batman (so he can take it when others can't).

The movie is fiction and not intended to be realistic, so there really is no need for an explanation, but at other times it explains things to us. For example, the autopilot explanation at the end of the movie or that, even if it is unrealistic to heal his spine and be able to withstand several botched falls from prison, at least we're told that he's nursed back to health by the doctor inmate.

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[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Oh there are these things I call Hollywood wounds. All these wounds that are supposed to be survivable in action movie land but would be very real life threats. Stabbings are nasty, specially in the abdomen. You just got signed to play craps with loaded dice and the casino is abdominal cavity infections. You might survive the bleeding, but the fever can still take you out several days later.

There are others like being shot in the leg or the shoulder. Technically survivable, but will destroy your mobility forever. Another one is vertebral spine fractures (which this batman also miraculously survives). If you can walk again after that it would be after years of rehab, and even then you'd still be in pain the whole time until the day you die. Superhero movies are very unrealistic on their handling of human anatomy.

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

One time, when I was around thirty, my dad said to me "I was stabbed once." I don't remember how it came up or the exact words, as thirty was a while ago.

Anyway, according to him, "it was just a little stab." Apparently, during the story in question, he was on an associate's boat and the associate became jealous of Dad's interactions with a woman, instructing him to leave. Dad objected, as the boat in question was not docked. The associate stabbed Dad in the shoulder (just a little), Dad jumped off the boat and swam back to shore and never went to get checked out.

Dad wasn't generally the type to make up stories, so I believe it happened. I don't know when, but I think it was well before even my eldest sibling was a sparkle in Dad's eye and Dad has since passed; as such, I don't know any details. However, I would have a. Been getting a tetanus shot after getting stabbed and b. DEFINITELY gotten checked out after having a fresh, open wound exposed to untreated water. Even if it was just a little one.

[-] EvilBit@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

vertebral spine fractures (which this batman also miraculously survives)

Yes but have doctors tried “hanging you from ropes for a while”?

[-] ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

You're right and I know it's fiction and not realistic, but since we're shown he's suffering while she stabs him, it still bugged me because I imagined him bleeding all the way

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Indeed he would've. By all accounts it makes no sense.

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