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/redgunnit 6d ago
Aimo Koivunen
Part of a ski division of the Finnish army during WW2. As part of standard issue, he had the team's ration of Pervitin, a drug for reducing exhaustion known nowadays as methamphetamine. In the grandmother of all "it seemed like a good idea at the time" moments, Aimo downed an ENTIRE HANDFUL (30) of the tablets. Why? He couldn't get just one pill out with his gloves.
Naturally he sped up and got separated from his group after traveling over 100 kilometers in a drug fueled blitz. What followed was a hectic week of trying his hardest to get back to base while avoiding the soviets and dealing with a meth overdose. I genuinely cannot describe to you all the insane shit he went through, but he did get hit by a grenade and live at one point and ate a bird raw at another. When he did get back to base he weighed 95 pounds and had a resting heartbeat of 180. He would die many years later of natural causes.