surviving by the skin of your teeth is
one thing these are something else
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for another top
10 scenarios the hero could not have
survived much like our first list we’re
taking a look at the most disastrous and
dangerous scenes in movies that our
favorite characters somehow managed to
survive again we’re discounting the use
of magic and we’re only counting human
characters so Caesar the ape surviving a
fall after being shot is on another list
for another day also as you may have
expected a spoiler alert is in order
number ten
saving Letty Fast & Furious 6 oh look a
bridge they say speed kills
but Vin Diesel would beg to differ
there’s gotta be a break over after the
group of speedsters chases down a tank
in an awesome action climax Letty ascent
sky rocketing into the air with nothing
but the ground to break her fall thing I
make a nice yeah morning seizing his
opportunity to prove Sir Isaac Newton
wrong Dom launches himself from his car
to catch her by jumping from one side of
the bridge to the other thankfully a
random car windshield is on hand to
bring the two back to safety completely
and impossibly unscathed
number 9 space jumping star trek into
darkness
launching activation sequence on three
two
captain the physics in this scene are
most illogical sir
Kirk is headed for collision at point
four three two captain there is debris
directly ahead table with Kirk and
Khan’s space jumping their way towards
the USS vengeance they hit a few tiny
snags in their flight namely some stray
debris whoa Jim you’re way off course I
know I know
Kirk manages to maneuver his way to
safety while picking up several serious
cracks in his helmet not to mention the
odds of them actually hitting their
target to begin with our astronomically
small I’m working my way back
we run into that goal right ad in Kirk
and cons hard-hitting yet somehow not
bone-breaking landing and you have one
impossible scenario sorry about this
know what let’s just got open the door
number eight many henchmen one giant
explosion commando a scene that
perpetuates the uselessness of every
henchmen featured in this movie sees
Arnie at his most death-defying amid a
massive gunfight with hundreds of
bullets flying at him and no reloading
Arnie shrugs off the attacks of his
wannabe killers by literally running
away in a straight line even the worst
stormtrooper in real life would have
scored at least one lucky shot getting
bored with his sprint John matrix sets
off a massive explosion which takes out
his attackers but not himself hey it’s
just another day in the life of arnold
schwarzenegger number 7 plane crashes
and kidney stabbings World War Z
if there’s anything that film teaches us
it’s that airport security should have
tougher screening processes for
potential zombie passengers
after an infected passenger manages to
run riot across a plane Gerry takes the
best course of action and uses a grenade
to send the flight smashing into the
land below zombie attack and the plane
crash aren’t enough of course no our
hero awakens with what looks like his
kidney stabbed by a piece of aircraft
debris after which he falls hard on his
side yet he lifts reminding us all that
you don’t really need your vital organs
anyway number six the trailer-truck the
lost world
Jurassic Park if you make enemies with
the dinosaur make sure to make friends
with gravity hot is nothing hey is done
day after incredibly hefty truck is
pushed off the edge of a cliff logic
decides to take a day off and allows the
weight of the bulky vehicle to remain
suspended by a mere cable instead of you
know falling ah meanwhile inside the
truck Julianne Moore is balancing
precariously on a window that cracks
every time she breathes oh god please
no her tactic of lifting her hand when
actually speed her demise by putting all
of her weight onto one pressure point on
the week in class but despite literally
hanging by a thread
it seems that Jeff Goldblum was right
all along and that life finds away or
was that dr. grant
she’s give me your hand your hand honey
number five Frank castle will not die
The Punisher it takes a certain kind of
man to survive attacks that wily coyote
would have had a hard time crawling away
from
retired FBI agent Frank Castle attends a
family reunion in Puerto Rico only to
meet an unfortunate end at the orders of
John Travolta or so you think
Castle suffers multiple bullet wounds
gets the snot beaten out of him his shot
point-blank in the chest and then when
the donkey’s on is doused with gas and
set ablaze he’s blown to a watery doom
except he survives and is nursed back to
perfect working order maybe does it work
in the comic books but on screen it’s
impossible to suspend enough disbelief
to buy it
number four the bunker Captain America
the Winter Soldier Steve we got a bogey
short-range ballistic thirty seconds
tops who fired it shields after
discovering a hidden bunker built by
Hydra the cap and black widow are
subjected to a horrendous fate five
minutes of pure exposition we are both
of us out of time adding insult to
injury they then learned that an
imminent drone strike is headed their
way at that very moment being the quick
thinking guy that he is cap manages to
shield himself and widow under a nearby
great as fire and rubble consumed the
bunker
assuming they survived the blast which
is unlikely to begin with how the heck
could he withstand the weight of an
entire building on his head and then
push his way out of it oh well I guess
he’s just that strong number three the
dam the fugitive
dr. Richard Kimble certainly makes a
name for himself by cheating death in
this early 90s classic I didn’t kill my
wife
I don’t care after escaping his journey
to death row and being hunted down by US
Marshal Samuel Gerard Kimball is
cornered at the edge of a viaduct with
no way to escape except for a 220 foot
dive towards the deadly waters below
chancing his fate he takes the plunge
and crashes into the deep water
surprisingly though he doesn’t get
dragged under by the current like
science might suggest with his
impressive diving skills Kimball
survives to carry on his mission to
clear his name and find the one-armed
man number 2 jumping from an exploding
roof diehard hello John what the fuck
are you
a street-smart New York cop has been
given the superpower of cheating death
crumbs no never even think about going
up tall building a good
it seems that walking through glass
barefoot is it enough for Bruce Willis
as he gets his adrenaline flowing once
again by leaping from the exploding roof
of the Nakatomi Plaza this time barefoot
and shirtless a good time and what is
keeping him from plunging to his
inevitable doom the loose grip of a fire
hose
you don’t need a degree in physics to
see how this might not be possible and
it wasn’t the last time John McClane
would survive an epic jump out of a
window
when exactly is McClane gonna die hard’
himself before we unveil our top pick
here are a few honorable mentions
would you come for a man where he comes
wrong
saved us
number one the stairwell plunge The
Bourne Identity
Matt Damon tries to make out that he’s
an invincible videogame character but
even in video games you take damage from
falling stuck deep in a tense firefight
across many flights of stairs Jason
Bourne decides to grab himself the upper
hand by using the body of a Down
henchman as both a human shield and a
crash mat falling through the building
making sure to shoot a bad guy on the
way down
Bourne takes a few minutes to catch his
breath before standing tall on his feet
once again no obvious broken bones or
shattered teeth just a slight cut on the
forehead the dude walks away like
nothing unusual just happened do you
agree with our list
no what’s your favorite scenario that
the hero could have never survived for
more death-defying top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
one thing these are something else
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for another top
10 scenarios the hero could not have
survived much like our first list we’re
taking a look at the most disastrous and
dangerous scenes in movies that our
favorite characters somehow managed to
survive again we’re discounting the use
of magic and we’re only counting human
characters so Caesar the ape surviving a
fall after being shot is on another list
for another day also as you may have
expected a spoiler alert is in order
number ten
saving Letty Fast & Furious 6 oh look a
bridge they say speed kills
but Vin Diesel would beg to differ
there’s gotta be a break over after the
group of speedsters chases down a tank
in an awesome action climax Letty ascent
sky rocketing into the air with nothing
but the ground to break her fall thing I
make a nice yeah morning seizing his
opportunity to prove Sir Isaac Newton
wrong Dom launches himself from his car
to catch her by jumping from one side of
the bridge to the other thankfully a
random car windshield is on hand to
bring the two back to safety completely
and impossibly unscathed
number 9 space jumping star trek into
darkness
launching activation sequence on three
two
captain the physics in this scene are
most illogical sir
Kirk is headed for collision at point
four three two captain there is debris
directly ahead table with Kirk and
Khan’s space jumping their way towards
the USS vengeance they hit a few tiny
snags in their flight namely some stray
debris whoa Jim you’re way off course I
know I know
Kirk manages to maneuver his way to
safety while picking up several serious
cracks in his helmet not to mention the
odds of them actually hitting their
target to begin with our astronomically
small I’m working my way back
we run into that goal right ad in Kirk
and cons hard-hitting yet somehow not
bone-breaking landing and you have one
impossible scenario sorry about this
know what let’s just got open the door
number eight many henchmen one giant
explosion commando a scene that
perpetuates the uselessness of every
henchmen featured in this movie sees
Arnie at his most death-defying amid a
massive gunfight with hundreds of
bullets flying at him and no reloading
Arnie shrugs off the attacks of his
wannabe killers by literally running
away in a straight line even the worst
stormtrooper in real life would have
scored at least one lucky shot getting
bored with his sprint John matrix sets
off a massive explosion which takes out
his attackers but not himself hey it’s
just another day in the life of arnold
schwarzenegger number 7 plane crashes
and kidney stabbings World War Z
if there’s anything that film teaches us
it’s that airport security should have
tougher screening processes for
potential zombie passengers
after an infected passenger manages to
run riot across a plane Gerry takes the
best course of action and uses a grenade
to send the flight smashing into the
land below zombie attack and the plane
crash aren’t enough of course no our
hero awakens with what looks like his
kidney stabbed by a piece of aircraft
debris after which he falls hard on his
side yet he lifts reminding us all that
you don’t really need your vital organs
anyway number six the trailer-truck the
lost world
Jurassic Park if you make enemies with
the dinosaur make sure to make friends
with gravity hot is nothing hey is done
day after incredibly hefty truck is
pushed off the edge of a cliff logic
decides to take a day off and allows the
weight of the bulky vehicle to remain
suspended by a mere cable instead of you
know falling ah meanwhile inside the
truck Julianne Moore is balancing
precariously on a window that cracks
every time she breathes oh god please
no her tactic of lifting her hand when
actually speed her demise by putting all
of her weight onto one pressure point on
the week in class but despite literally
hanging by a thread
it seems that Jeff Goldblum was right
all along and that life finds away or
was that dr. grant
she’s give me your hand your hand honey
number five Frank castle will not die
The Punisher it takes a certain kind of
man to survive attacks that wily coyote
would have had a hard time crawling away
from
retired FBI agent Frank Castle attends a
family reunion in Puerto Rico only to
meet an unfortunate end at the orders of
John Travolta or so you think
Castle suffers multiple bullet wounds
gets the snot beaten out of him his shot
point-blank in the chest and then when
the donkey’s on is doused with gas and
set ablaze he’s blown to a watery doom
except he survives and is nursed back to
perfect working order maybe does it work
in the comic books but on screen it’s
impossible to suspend enough disbelief
to buy it
number four the bunker Captain America
the Winter Soldier Steve we got a bogey
short-range ballistic thirty seconds
tops who fired it shields after
discovering a hidden bunker built by
Hydra the cap and black widow are
subjected to a horrendous fate five
minutes of pure exposition we are both
of us out of time adding insult to
injury they then learned that an
imminent drone strike is headed their
way at that very moment being the quick
thinking guy that he is cap manages to
shield himself and widow under a nearby
great as fire and rubble consumed the
bunker
assuming they survived the blast which
is unlikely to begin with how the heck
could he withstand the weight of an
entire building on his head and then
push his way out of it oh well I guess
he’s just that strong number three the
dam the fugitive
dr. Richard Kimble certainly makes a
name for himself by cheating death in
this early 90s classic I didn’t kill my
wife
I don’t care after escaping his journey
to death row and being hunted down by US
Marshal Samuel Gerard Kimball is
cornered at the edge of a viaduct with
no way to escape except for a 220 foot
dive towards the deadly waters below
chancing his fate he takes the plunge
and crashes into the deep water
surprisingly though he doesn’t get
dragged under by the current like
science might suggest with his
impressive diving skills Kimball
survives to carry on his mission to
clear his name and find the one-armed
man number 2 jumping from an exploding
roof diehard hello John what the fuck
are you
a street-smart New York cop has been
given the superpower of cheating death
crumbs no never even think about going
up tall building a good
it seems that walking through glass
barefoot is it enough for Bruce Willis
as he gets his adrenaline flowing once
again by leaping from the exploding roof
of the Nakatomi Plaza this time barefoot
and shirtless a good time and what is
keeping him from plunging to his
inevitable doom the loose grip of a fire
hose
you don’t need a degree in physics to
see how this might not be possible and
it wasn’t the last time John McClane
would survive an epic jump out of a
window
when exactly is McClane gonna die hard’
himself before we unveil our top pick
here are a few honorable mentions
would you come for a man where he comes
wrong
saved us
number one the stairwell plunge The
Bourne Identity
Matt Damon tries to make out that he’s
an invincible videogame character but
even in video games you take damage from
falling stuck deep in a tense firefight
across many flights of stairs Jason
Bourne decides to grab himself the upper
hand by using the body of a Down
henchman as both a human shield and a
crash mat falling through the building
making sure to shoot a bad guy on the
way down
Bourne takes a few minutes to catch his
breath before standing tall on his feet
once again no obvious broken bones or
shattered teeth just a slight cut on the
forehead the dude walks away like
nothing unusual just happened do you
agree with our list
no what’s your favorite scenario that
the hero could have never survived for
more death-defying top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
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