Gunshots...of all things.
Heretic_Red:
My partner and I were just joking about this the other day! We especially noticed that if the plot calls for a character to get a non-fatal GSW they’ll usually take a shot to the shoulder, then grit their teeth, wrap their arm in a sling or something and say “I’m fine” before carrying on with their mission.
Now maybe it wouldn’t be immediately fatal but that’s a section of the body with a major joint, tendons, muscles, blood vessels; all of which would be absolutely shredded. Bare minimum you’re passing out from pain (let alone blood loss).
Peptuck:
On of the more realistic depictions of surviving a gunshot wound comes in the Extraction movies. At the end of the first movie, the main character gets shot by a sniper and falls off a bridge into a river. In the second movie, he's shown being recovered from the river and barely stabilized and shipped off to a hospital.
He then spends months in the hospital in a coma and then rehab, relearning how to walk, and even after he gets done he has to basically retire to a cabin in the countryside to continue to recover, and then when he gets his next mission he has to spend months going through intense physical training to get back all of the muscle he'd lost over the previous months of recovery.
Heretic_Red:
My partner and I were just joking about this the other day! We especially noticed that if the plot calls for a character to get a non-fatal GSW they’ll usually take a shot to the shoulder, then grit their teeth, wrap their arm in a sling or something and say “I’m fine” before carrying on with their mission.
Now maybe it wouldn’t be immediately fatal but that’s a section of the body with a major joint, tendons, muscles, blood vessels; all of which would be absolutely shredded. Bare minimum you’re passing out from pain (let alone blood loss).
Peptuck:
On of the more realistic depictions of surviving a gunshot wound comes in the Extraction movies. At the end of the first movie, the main character gets shot by a sniper and falls off a bridge into a river. In the second movie, he's shown being recovered from the river and barely stabilized and shipped off to a hospital.
He then spends months in the hospital in a coma and then rehab, relearning how to walk, and even after he gets done he has to basically retire to a cabin in the countryside to continue to recover, and then when he gets his next mission he has to spend months going through intense physical training to get back all of the muscle he'd lost over the previous months of recovery.