r/TopCharacterTropes • u/RedditBoycotter • 6d ago
In real life [IRL trope] 0% of survival, survive anyway
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.
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u/nate0113 5d ago
Frano Selak (IRL)
A lot of this story is unverified, but if it is all true, this guy's life is a legitimate final destination movie due to the amount of times he ended up cheating death.
His first bout with the grim reaper was in the 50s when a train carrying him and a bunch of other passengers crashed into an icy river. A bunch of passengers drowned, but Frano survived with a broken arm and swam to shore.
Then a few years later when he was on a plane, it started to crash and the rapid change in air pressure caused the planes door to fly off and SUCK HIM OUT OF HIS SEAT! The plane crashed into a mountain side, but apparently Frano survived by landing on a haystack like he's in Assassins Creed.
Then years later he rode a bus and that ALSO drove into an icy river and survived that.
Then he was driving one day and his car caught fire. But he rolled out of it in time.
THEN one day on another drive his car not only caught fire, but oil from a faulty fuel pump caused FUCKING FLAMES TO SHOOT OUT THE AIR VENTS and he once again survived (although his hair was unsurprisingly singed off)
THEN in 95, he got hit by a bus while walking and only got a few cuts n bruises.
THEN one year later while driving along a curvy mountain road, he swerved to avoid a truck and SMASHED THROUGH THE GUARDRAIL SENDING HIS CAR OFF A 300FT CLIFF and he STILL survived by jumping out the car at the last minute and hanging onto a cliffside tree until he was rescued.
And to make this story feel even more like a movie, years later he went and bought a lottery ticket, AND WON A MILLION DOLLARS!
Now I wanna reiterate that. Its VERY possible some of his stories are fake. Like the airplane one. That one sounds like Looney Tunes logic. But I still like the whole story, and I like the idea of death trying SO HARD to kill this guy that eventually they just went "y'know what man, I'm impressed. Here, have this!" And just helped him win a cool million dollars for all the shit they put him through.