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

submitted 3 weeks ago by ConstipatedWatson to c/asklemmy

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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

He only survived because she let him live. As a trained assassin, she would have known exactly where to strike if she had wanted the blow to be fatal. She even tells Bane to keep him alive until Gotham is reduced to dust.

The Bat suit might have absorbed some of the impact, but she still drove the blade in deep. Given the location and depth of the wound, he's fortunate to have only been temporarily incapacitated. If you've ever read or heard firsthand accounts from someone who’s been stabbed, you’ll know it’s one of the worst pains imaginable. It’s as if your brain can focus on nothing but that foreign object inside you. Had he not been in peak physical condition, he likely would have passed out from the pain. Instead, we hear only his moans and gasps for air as he kneels over.

Also, maybe Bane is a medical expert.

[–] ConstipatedWatson 2 points 3 weeks ago

Probably Nolan's explanation that he could make it is in her words because she told Bane she wanted him to survive a bit longer.

I don't even want to imagine the kind of pain you get from being stabbed, but I know I sliced my index finger this year while cutting bread and it was an immense pain (for a short time)