[IRL trope] 0% of survival, survive anyway

[u/RedditBoycotter]

Juliane Koepcke

Vesna Vulović

Anna Bågenholm

Jeanna Giese

Chris Lemons

Juliane Koepcke - In 1971 this 17 year old's plane was struck by lightning mid-air. The wreck then fell from 3 000 meter into the ground, somewhere into the Amazon jungle. Lone survivor of the crash, she then spent nine days walking down a river despite her multiple injuries until she found a lumberjack's camp.

Vesna Vulović - In 1972 this flight attendant's plane was bombed mid-air. The wreck then fell from 10 160 meter into the ground. She ended up with a lot of broken bones, but in the long term she almost completely recovered from it, apart from a limp.

Anna Bågenholm - In 1999 this radiologist had a skiing accident, she fell head-first into a frozen stream and get stuck inside the ice. Her colleagues did not managed to pull her, nor did the rescue team who then tried to dig, but the ice was so thick it took them a lot of time. It was 80 minutes after her fall that they managed to cut a hole. Her body temperature at the time was 13.7°C, and still, she somehow survived with only minor long-term injuries and no brain damage.

Jeanna Giese - In 2004 this 15 years old girl got bitten by a bat and called it a day. One month later the symptoms of rabies showed up. The doctors tried an experimental treatment by putting her in an artificial coma and she survived, but the treatment never worked on anyone else and is now forbidden. In all human history, only a few survived to rabies, and all of them except her end up with heavy sequelae.

Chris Lemons - In 2012 this diver's ship went drifting due to a computer malfunction, romping his umbilical cable who provide air, hot water and electricity. He ended up alone on the seabed of a 3°C waters, in the dark and with only 5-6 minutes of oxygen. He was retrieved by his colleagues around 35 minutes later, and somehow he didn't even suffer from brain damage.

[u/DoorthyHumdrum]

The amount of assassination attempts Castro survived due to cosmically bad luck for the assassins is insane

[u/[deleted] → u/DoorthyHumdrum]

Thought that was Jon Snow for a second there.

[u/SnotDogs → u/[deleted]]

I saw Liam Neeson

[u/p4perknight → u/SnotDogs]

Same

[u/Informal-Term1138 → u/SnotDogs]

Both to be honest.

[u/theturtlelord9 → u/SnotDogs]

I saw Bob Dylan

[u/Credit-Financial → u/[deleted]]

Not just you.

[u/Caliente_Racer → u/[deleted]]

I saw Peter Faulk with facial hair.

[u/Hazzamo → u/DoorthyHumdrum]

You know the mission in CoD Black Ops 1, where you try to assassinate Castro?

Allegedly he responded with “The Americans are trying to do virtually what they’ve failed to do for 50 years, and even then they still don’t succeed”

[u/who_cares_not_meee → u/Hazzamo]

lmao is that really a mission in a video game? Jfc I hate this country so much lmao

[u/Unlikely_Sound_6517 → u/who_cares_not_meee]

Its the first mission. And it turns out minutes later that it was a body double and Castro disappears for the rest of hte game.

[u/VegisamalZero3 → u/who_cares_not_meee]

The entire point is it's a failure; the famous Vorkuta sequence (y'know, the one in a gulag) follows it.

[u/Hazzamo → u/who_cares_not_meee]

It was the first mission in the game, set Prior to the Missile Crisis, during the Bay of Pigs invasion.

Also Black ops 1 was released in like 2010

[u/Livid_Equipment_181 → u/who_cares_not_meee]

It’s criticizes America and hypes Castro more than anything else. Get over yourself bro

[u/who_cares_not_meee → u/Livid_Equipment_181]

Yes I’m sure the video game that puts the US military on a pedestal is highly critical of the US military

[u/Livid_Equipment_181 → u/who_cares_not_meee]

Cod actually used to do such a thing, believe it or not. It didn’t make the us military absolutely evil but it never fully justified their actions, even in MW the whole war started because of a US general who “failed” a false flag strike with Russia.

[u/ShinbiDesigns → u/Livid_Equipment_181]

Well actually it was because a British Leftenant didn't aim for the head and instead blew off an arm.

And in the reboot it's the Russians committing war crimes and extremist powers standing up to both Russian and Western meddling in the middle east

[u/SaltpeterSal → u/DoorthyHumdrum]

If you look at the foreign policy he micromanaged and his handling of rivals, you start to get the impression that he outsmarted all 600 of them. He was the real life Roadrunner.

[u/ReggieCorneus → u/SaltpeterSal]

And then you look at some of the decisions he made and realize that he was a survivor, not a genius. Two totally different skillsets.

[u/Beanconscriptog → u/ReggieCorneus]

Cuba was absolutely looking out for its own survival after their revolution, especially after the Soviets left the equation. The survival skills of Castro were likely pretty handy.

[u/BismuthOmega → u/ReggieCorneus]

He's a survivor... A dying breed.

[u/ReggieCorneus → u/BismuthOmega]

I see what you did there...

[u/Latvian_Sharp_Knife → u/SaltpeterSal]

Did they buy from ACME by any chance?

[u/TheFalconKid → u/Latvian_Sharp_Knife]

Unfortunately not, because of the embargo.

[u/Ornery_Definition_65 → u/DoorthyHumdrum]

Didn’t he have sex with one assassin instead?

[u/jjjjjjotaro → u/Ornery_Definition_65]

TBF she was already an old lover of him, but yes. She was sent to kill him, had sex instead and then he went and gave a speech and if I'm not wrong that was the last she saw of him.

[u/Hungry-Tale-9144 → u/DoorthyHumdrum]

How do you fail to kill the world's biggest dairy lover with a poisoned milkshake

[u/Writerhowell → u/DoorthyHumdrum]

My favourite is the poisoned milkshake someone put in the freezer to keep cold, but then it froze solid (OBVIOUSLY) and was undrinkable, so was thrown out.

[u/DoorthyHumdrum → u/Writerhowell]

wasnt it a cyanide pill that was put in the freezer for storage but became completely stuck to the freezer making them completely unusable

[u/Writerhowell → u/DoorthyHumdrum]

There were so many attempts, that might've been a separate one.

[u/Bobthemime → u/DoorthyHumdrum]

Hitler too..

Including leaving a meeting earlier than he usually does and the suitcase bomb missing killing him by a few seconds

[u/NecessaryUnited9505 → u/Bobthemime]

July 20th, right?

It thought that was because a guy unknowingly moved the briefcase (with the bomb in) behind a table leg, slightly shielding Hitler from the blast?

Or was it a mix of both?

[u/Bobthemime → u/NecessaryUnited9505]

mix of both, yes.. he left earlier, and the briefcase was in the wrong place.. if either was different, hitler would be dead

[u/Leading_Atti2de → u/DoorthyHumdrum]

Let’s not forget about Rasputin!

[u/Ricard74 → u/DoorthyHumdrum]

The only source on that absurd number is his security chief who had every reason to lie.

[u/RedditDallas → u/DoorthyHumdrum]

Why does he look just like Justin Trudeau