What would you do
if you find yourself
hanging from the top of a skyscraper?
Or if an angry warrior
rips your face off?
Could you survive
being decapitated?
If these deadly scenarios
sound familiar,
it's because they all come from
some of Hollywood's
most iconic action films.
And if you don't know them,
well, don't worry,
you will soon.
Because they're about to become
your reality.
Better pay attention
if you want to get out alive.
Action movie villains are known
for their master plans
to take over the world,
blow up a skyscraper,
or build a killer machine
out of a dead cop.
But no matter how well thought-out
their plans are,
villains always seem to end up dead
by the end of the movie.
So today we're putting you inside
the top five action movie deaths
of all time,
to find out what these villains
could've done differently to survive.
Grab some popcorn, and beware,
some deadly spoilers are on their way.
The Bride, Beatrix Kiddo,
has only one thing on her mind,
how to kill Bill,
her mentor
and the father of her daughter.
When she finally finds him,
she kills him with
a very fancy martial arts move
she learned from her sensei.
It's called the "Five-Point-Palm-
Exploding-Heart" technique.
How could you survive that?
Well,
the good news is that your heart
cannot explode,
but it can break one of its walls.
Although it's dangerous and terribly painful,
you can survive with emergency surgery
and a long recovery.
Another alternative
would be to wear a bulletproof vest.
Or, wear a Kevlar plate over your chest
since it’s five times stronger than steel
and much lighter.
When the hitwoman, Furiosa,
finally finds her way to the merciless tyrant,
Immortan Joe,
she hooks his mask with a harpoon
and snags it to the car's wheels.
It rips his face off.
Yes, it is a horrible situation.
But losing your face is not a death sentence.
In 2013,
a 33-year-old man in Poland
lost his face and part of his skull
in a work accident.
It was the first emergency
face transplant in history.
After a 27-hour surgery,
he survived.
But, please,
keep your head inside the car
every time you hit the road.
Cyborg cop Alex Murphy,
discovers he was killed due to
the machinations of Dick Jones,
an executive in the company
that made Alex a cyborg.
When Alex tries to take vengeance on Jones,
Alex's programming will not allow him
to harm any senior company official.
But at the last second,
Jones is fired.
The failsafe is removed,
and Alex takes his revenge on Jones.
If you’re into robot programming,
you'll know Isaac Asimov's
Three Laws of Robotics.
First, a robot may not injure a human being.
Second, a robot must obey human orders,
except when they break the First Law.
"Sorry."
And third, a robot must protect its existence,
as long as it doesn’t break the first two laws.
So, if you're the evil Dick Jones,
instead of programming RoboCop
to not harm senior company execs,
you could have survived
by leaving the First Law intact.
In the real world,
in 2007,
the rapid development of robotics
and the many uses of artificial intelligence
spurred South Korea
to contemplate creating
a Robotics Ethics Charter,
proposed as a way to oversee
Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics.
After a crazy journey,
including falling elevators
and a bus that couldn’t stop,
Jack Traven and the evil Howard Payne
finally meet and fight.
Traven lifts the villain
and decapitates him
using a tunnel light.
So, let’s talk about decapitation.
In 2018,
Diane Eubank was riding
her all-terrain vehicle
at her country house in Alabama.
She lost control and hit the fence,
the barbed wire severed her flesh,
throat, and ligaments.
It’s called an internal decapitation.
Her head was only attached to her body
by her spinal cord.
The first responders secured her airways
so she could breathe
until they arrived at the hospital.
So, although you can survive
an internal decapitation,
you should always ride the subway
the right way,
inside the train.
In the final encounter between
the off-duty cop McClane
and the snobby robber villain Gruber,
the villain ends up hanging on
to McClane's wife's watch.
McClane undoes the watch,
allowing the baddie to drop
a long way down to the ground.
How could you survive a fall like that?
Surprisingly,
some people have survived
falling from a skyscraper,
including Alcides Moreno.
In 2007,
Alcides and his brother Edgar
were cleaning the windows
of a 47-story building in New York City
when the scaffold detached from the building.
Edgar fell to the ground and died,
but Alcides held on to the platform.
He fell 144 m (472 ft) and survived.
Experts believe that the platform
absorbed some of the energy
and softened the impact.
So if you’re falling off a tall building,
aim toward a surface that's more flexible
than the street,
like a car or a roof.
It worked during World War II
for the American gunner Alan Magee.
He fell 6,000 m (20,000 ft) from his plane
and crashed through
a railway station’s glass roof.
So, head for a surface that can break
and absorb the impact.
Watching a villain die
can be very satisfying.
But deadly situations can happen
even if you’re not a snobby robber,
a crazy tyrant,
or an evil robot-maker.
And that’s why we’re here.
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