The history of cinema is rife with severe injuries that both heroes and villains somehow manage to survive as often as not. Now, Dr. Antonio J. Webb has assessed the real-life chances of surviving memorable physical injuries in films including The Dark Knight Rises, The Amazing Spider-Man, and Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange.
Dr. Webb’s experience includes completing combined neurosurgery and orthopedic spine surgery fellowships at Texas Back Institute. Furthermore, he served as a medic and licensed vocational nurse with the US Air Force for eight years before practicing in San Antonio, Texas.
In Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, Batman manages to track down Bane in the sewers of Gotham City only to be defeated when the villain breaks the Caped Crusader’s back in a scenario Dr. Webb describes as “pretty unlikely” to result in significant injury. After being incarcerated in an underground prison, Batman receives treatment for his injury from a fellow inmate who tries to push his vertebrae back in place with the help of a rope. While Dr. Webb notes that the technique is similar to a practice called the wide-strap, in which a patient’s spine is pulled, that is not usually the route taken in real-life. “When we see a bone, especially a spine, sticking out of someone’s body, that patient most likely will not survive,” said Dr. Webb before giving the injury as survival rating of 1/10.
Afterward, Dr. Webb examines the death of Gwen Stacy in Sony’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Much like the comics, Spider-Man attempts to stop Stacy from plummeting to her death by catching her with his web just seconds before she hits the ground. According to Dr. Webb, the injury, as depicted in the film, merits a 0/10 survival rating. “The chance of someone snapping their back like this and surviving is pretty slim,” he said. “The major vessels in your body […], these things are pretty fragile and when there’s a lot of force applied to the body it can rip these vessels pretty easily, especially from a height like this. When her body is snapped, that can actually tear and cause injury to the spinal cord and the nerves that are in the back as well.” However, Dr. Webb does concede that Spider-Man had few viable options to save Stacy at this point.
Dr. Webb also assesses the car accident that severely damaged Stephen Strange’s hands in Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange. While Webb observed some mistakes made, including a failure to immobilize Strange before removing him from the damaged vehicle, he ultimately concludes that there is a 6/10 chance of surviving the crash.
The extensive list of films covered by Dr. Webb is not limited to superhero blockbusters. The chances of surviving the bear attack in The Revenant, the neck injury sustained by Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby, Keanu Reeves’ fall from a building in John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum, and many more scenes are also explored.
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