@@clientwolf3637I thought that too, but idk where the lizard league came from but you’d think they have some sort of Guardian AP ammunition if they were using guns. Lol
my favorite artist’s interpretation of why Rex survived is because his brain is so small that the bullet missed it completely and just went in one way and out the other side
He didn’t need some over complicated explanation. People have survived shots like these before, I think Rex was just lucky enough to survive and stubborn enough to finish the job
Yeah people forget Rex also has super toughness cause he got his ass beaten by Monstergirl, but just seeing him take punches from Komodo who literally pancakes Kate with ease makes you remember.
A man in Florida woke up with a pounding head ache. Went to the hospital and found a bullet lodged in his head. Turns out his wife shot him in his sleep.
I’ve heard of that one. And there’s another one where a man shot his girlfriend in the head and, since she didn’t remember what happened, convinced her they both were in a car accident. She spent weeks home with a grueling headache before going to the hospital and finding a bullet in her head. There’s also another one where a man shot his girlfriend in the head…but her high quality weave protected her! True story - news report and everything 😂
A man (not from Florida) took a railway spike straight through the frontal lobe of his brain (went in near the nose and came out of the scalp) and was fine other than a complete personality shift. And that was before modern medicine.
Just because he's denser doesn't change the fact that there was a hole in his brain. I think he survived because people can survive hits like that IRL. We think of the brain as the kill button, which largely it is. But if you actually look into it you'll find dozens of stories of people losing chunks of other brains, having a radicle personality change, and dying years later from losing parts of their brain.
And The way he acts throughout The rest of The Episode does sound like Someone who Just Lost part of their brain Plus, at First i Just thought he survived because he was dumb as a Brick and had a small brain
People have been shot in the head and survived so even if it wasn’t due to his slight durability increase, it could just be luck. Cuz they do say 10% of headshot victims survive the initial injury. It’s usually the after care is when they die since it can take a long time to receive care in general.
Yeah, I was shocked to learn that people back on the day COULD walk off being struck in the head with something like an Axe. It was just that they would guaranteed die later, due to the level of severity of such an injury, and no one had such amazing medical expertise back then.
True, my step father was in the military and he took a sniper bullet to the head and survived. He was lucky and the bullet kind of hit the side of his head and he got medical attention relatively quickly. They had to replace the missing part of his skull with metal plates. Once he physically recovered he had to relearn how to talk but didn't get any major disabilities and he is a functional person today. Only thing is he gets tired faster and he sometimes has trouble converting his thoughts into speech but its not really noticeable. Like you said one of the factors is how fast you get care but another major factor is what part of the brain gets hit and the way it happens (if debris from the skull or the bullet hits other parts of the brain or if those debris or the bullet itself get stuck in there)
@@Norinia one of the most ridiculous head/brain related injuries in history is even taught in some classes (usually psychological ones). Phineas gage, dude had an iron rod shoved through his frontal lobe due to a blasting powder accident, survived.
I forget the guys name but someone in the 1800s survives a rail spike being fired back out the hole from an explosion going througj their eye and out the top of their skull. Pulled it out and bits of brain matter were literally sloshing out, went home. A few weeks later got a fever, a doctor went to examine him and he had mold growing on his brain, treated it with silver, dude made a recovery. He lived a while but after a few years started developing mental health issues and died insane, you see it with some TBIs, personality changes but over years rapid degeneration, but that spile looked to be almost 2 inches wide, its a wild story 😅@Norinia
@joshyc2006 phineas gage is the man your thinking of, his condition pretty much birthed the idea of mental health psychology. Railroad spike backfired due to him packing the explosives to hard.
Its also because you can survive it in real life, if you're very lucky People have had entire metal poles through their head and come out of it alive, it all depends on what parts of the brain are destroyed One man had his brains center for "anger and aggression" destroyed by a bullet, he survived and was found by everyone he knew to be a completely different person, personality wise
@@migegent4413IF it goes thru a perfect sppt. Look up the guy who took a dynamite packing iron through his skull. He lived lost chunks of brain through his mouth, uhhgg, but loved albeit personality changed and impulsively
It's not unheard of to survive a gunshot to the head in real life. It's also more probable to survive if the bullet pierces all the way through and doesn't stay in the brain. It depends on many factors such as the type of a bullet. If it goes "smoothly" through the brain you're more likely to survive than getting shot with some other type of bullet that is designed to tear the tissue.
Rex is hands down my favorite Character on the show. He’s that guy in every group that can lighten the mood and bring everyone’s spirit up. What he lacks in power makes up for in boosting morale.
Still somewhat realistic, in real life they are various instances of bullets going through the cranial cavity clean and the patients ends up surviving. Even if they don't survive, headshot don't automatically kill you, that's a TV/Movie thing. The brain still functions, it wouldn't just quickly cut to black.
@@neojenshi4055 Also we saw that there wasn't as huge an exit wound as there could have been, which means that for whatever reason the bullet went more or less clean through rather than "blowing his brains out." Mind you this could have just been an artistic thing, but I chose to believe that's further proof that Rex's resilient physiology dampened the damage. Which, on top of the fact that if you're lucky you can survive a brain injury, would explain how he survived
In the comic it goes through the middle of his head more but in the show it was more the upper right side so it made a bit more sense for him to survive in the show, in the comic he basically survived a straight up instakill shot which is barely explained
In the show, I’m fine with them going back and elaborating on that later, but I’m super glad they left it open to interpretation in the episode, because it’s very easy to believe that Rex as a person can just do that
@@xanderlaskey2753 When you have to animate each individual movement instead a single frame, things tend to get a little downgraded. That's why almost every animation kinda sucks, it's awesome seeing everything in motion but the coolest looking scenes will always be cooler in the comics.
@@xanderlaskey2753 There's a few, I wouldn't say "tons". Almost every single anime now resorts to quantity over quality, making most anime look the exact same. U.S animation doesn't do either lol
It's still a super feature. A normal man definitely would have succumbed to their injuries but probably since a hollow point round wasn't used, his high density fibers just worked like Kevlar, all the way through, in and out.
Hollow points will actually stop faster than full metal jacket rounds by design. They slow as they expand in soft tissue where full metal jacket will slow some in soft tissue it will keep on trucking more than hollow point rounds. AP rounds may have done better but probably not.
Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart was a British soldier who fought in the boer War and both world wars suffering 11 wounds, including being shot through the eye and losing his hand. He survived them all and died at the age of 83 in 1963
I love how the enemies are essentially Cobra troops from GI Joe and that was Cobra Commander 😂 They even had Serpentor getting killed in the show. That was awesome 😂
Also the bullet was extremely shallow. It would've barely gone through the top part of his brain, whereas usually when someone shoots someone in the brain it goes straight through.
My brother was shot in the back of the head over 20 years ago at point blank range. Bullet came out of his eye. He lost an eye but he’s still living to this day with zero cognitive issues
@@TonyJaaFan1587a normal human would have lost their head, another example of Rex enhanced strength and durability is when he fought Komodo, Komodo was basically making Kate explode with each punch, and Rex took three solid punches from Komodo with only minor damages. Rex is pretty much a super soldier.
He needs his own special episode like Atom Eve, though Erickson is involved as well with this “experiment”. Wonder if they will do it or not as Lance Reddick was the VA for Erickson
Their have been cases of people getting shot in the hear and surviving, mainly depends on the bullets angle, what it ends up hitting but especially if you're HIM like our boy Rex is
from what I learned from the series in general , is that no one truly 'dies' . Makes for awesome brutal fight scenes but what the point story wise if they just keep coming back
That bullet pierced his skull fully. My guess is it's both a combo of his resistance to his own explosions and that fact that headshots have a 10% survival chance. Rex was durable enough that his chances were higher, and he was durable enough for the injury to not be debilitating, which is what happens to most headshot survivors.
Can also easily be that he got real lucky. There are actually cases where people did survive head shots. But with that you have to be lucky that the bullet hits you in a way that doesn’t completely scramble your brain
In the comic, they took care to show how he got shot from a really bad angle. Looks like it went from the left side of his head to the forehead. Everything in between isn't immediately required to live.
I just assumed it was how Carl, from The Walking Dead, who, as far as we're aware, was NOT made super-durable, survived a much more brain-hitting gunshot.
It's also just something that is normally possible to survive, the government augmentations didn't do anything really. It went through his skull and out the other side, the skin didn't stop it at all
Phineas Gage survived a massive portion of frontal lobe being destroyed by a metal pipe. I knew a guy in college who survived a deadly car crash where parts of his brain were found on the hood of the car. It's called neuroplasticity, your brain's uncanny ability to adapt to damage and repurpose other sections of the brain to substitute what was lost in the area that was destroyed. It's not hard for me to believe that Rex survived a gunshot wound to the brain because people do it in real life, and he's also potentially superhuman in his durability on top of all of that.
In other words: He's built different.
😂
It means we gotta get experimented on to be built different 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️@@ghosttaki8547
Literally
Literally
Okay, so it wasn't just his determination. He is actually super durable
It would've ricochet, but it went thru his head
It's also not just his durability he had to be quite determined to survive
She's an experiment superhero
@@clientwolf3637I thought that too, but idk where the lizard league came from but you’d think they have some sort of Guardian AP ammunition if they were using guns. Lol
fr i was wondering like
no way they gave him this much plot armor…
my favorite artist’s interpretation of why Rex survived is because his brain is so small that the bullet missed it completely and just went in one way and out the other side
brain can dodge
@@fartinfpooping8801yujiro hanma moment
I saw this once and until this short, i thought it was canon
I mean there was a story of a guy who got shot by his wife in his sleep n survived
@@user-mg7wh8zq6v i remember that, he survived a long time with a bullet in him right?
He didn’t need some over complicated explanation. People have survived shots like these before, I think Rex was just lucky enough to survive and stubborn enough to finish the job
Rex survived…but Rae…our girl…
@@Two-for-One_half-off she survived too
But kate our girl..@introvertion6460
She alive too
@@c00lgu7drawsI’m pretty sure she’s also alive lol…😂
Yeah people forget Rex also has super toughness cause he got his ass beaten by Monstergirl, but just seeing him take punches from Komodo who literally pancakes Kate with ease makes you remember.
Don't forget about what he did to shrinking ray
Yea, well rae took punches from Battle Beast, who is far more powerful than komodo......its super inconsistent and just done for the gore factor.
Rex gets shot in the head Rex 2 minutes later how dare you
Rex has always been my best character
>gets shot in the head
>"Holy shit dude can you just SHUT UP ALREADY?"
“I can’t believe you’ve done this”
Bro was like "Shut the fuck up and run the 1s, pussy!"
@@wontonschannel This is why Rex is my man. Gets fucking shot and has the audacity to tell the man who shot him to shut the fuck up.
A man in Florida woke up with a pounding head ache. Went to the hospital and found a bullet lodged in his head. Turns out his wife shot him in his sleep.
I’ve heard of that one. And there’s another one where a man shot his girlfriend in the head and, since she didn’t remember what happened, convinced her they both were in a car accident. She spent weeks home with a grueling headache before going to the hospital and finding a bullet in her head.
There’s also another one where a man shot his girlfriend in the head…but her high quality weave protected her! True story - news report and everything 😂
Nah bro Floridians are something else
That's Florida Man
This is my stand! Florida man!
A man (not from Florida) took a railway spike straight through the frontal lobe of his brain (went in near the nose and came out of the scalp) and was fine other than a complete personality shift. And that was before modern medicine.
He was like Deadpool this episode
I saw someone say he’s basically a super soldier gambit and it’s pretty spot on
A straight Gambit is already spot on
Just because he's denser doesn't change the fact that there was a hole in his brain.
I think he survived because people can survive hits like that IRL. We think of the brain as the kill button, which largely it is. But if you actually look into it you'll find dozens of stories of people losing chunks of other brains, having a radicle personality change, and dying years later from losing parts of their brain.
So it depends on your luck
The 1800's American railroad worker Phineas Gage survived being impaled through the head with a railroad spike launched in an explosion.
Yeah, for a headshot to be absolutely lethal it has to destroy the brainstem, which is located lower down than lizard king was aiming
In the show, the hole was moved slightly off as opposed to it being centered in the comics which I think supports that theory
And The way he acts throughout The rest of The Episode does sound like Someone who Just Lost part of their brain
Plus, at First i Just thought he survived because he was dumb as a Brick and had a small brain
the indomitable human spirit
Wow looking at his design in the comics, im so glad they made adjustments in the show. The darker skin tone fits his costume so much more
Could've put some muscle on Lizard King though. Dude is a twerp in the show
@alejandroromagnoli9519 nah I like him slim, he gives me team rocket vibes and I love it
He is literally The courier who got shot in The Head
From fallout?
I want his own special episode now just like Eve.
"You fool ! you only hit me in the brain !"
Love the jet set radio music
He survived because he was extremely lucky. I'm pretty sure he even has a "holy shit, I should not have survived that" reaction in the comics.
Rex's sacrifice is one of the hardest things in Invincible
People have been shot in the head and survived so even if it wasn’t due to his slight durability increase, it could just be luck. Cuz they do say 10% of headshot victims survive the initial injury. It’s usually the after care is when they die since it can take a long time to receive care in general.
Yeah, I was shocked to learn that people back on the day COULD walk off being struck in the head with something like an Axe.
It was just that they would guaranteed die later, due to the level of severity of such an injury, and no one had such amazing medical expertise back then.
True, my step father was in the military and he took a sniper bullet to the head and survived. He was lucky and the bullet kind of hit the side of his head and he got medical attention relatively quickly. They had to replace the missing part of his skull with metal plates. Once he physically recovered he had to relearn how to talk but didn't get any major disabilities and he is a functional person today. Only thing is he gets tired faster and he sometimes has trouble converting his thoughts into speech but its not really noticeable.
Like you said one of the factors is how fast you get care but another major factor is what part of the brain gets hit and the way it happens (if debris from the skull or the bullet hits other parts of the brain or if those debris or the bullet itself get stuck in there)
@@Norinia one of the most ridiculous head/brain related injuries in history is even taught in some classes (usually psychological ones). Phineas gage, dude had an iron rod shoved through his frontal lobe due to a blasting powder accident, survived.
I forget the guys name but someone in the 1800s survives a rail spike being fired back out the hole from an explosion going througj their eye and out the top of their skull. Pulled it out and bits of brain matter were literally sloshing out, went home. A few weeks later got a fever, a doctor went to examine him and he had mold growing on his brain, treated it with silver, dude made a recovery. He lived a while but after a few years started developing mental health issues and died insane, you see it with some TBIs, personality changes but over years rapid degeneration, but that spile looked to be almost 2 inches wide, its a wild story 😅@Norinia
@joshyc2006 phineas gage is the man your thinking of, his condition pretty much birthed the idea of mental health psychology. Railroad spike backfired due to him packing the explosives to hard.
Its also because you can survive it in real life, if you're very lucky
People have had entire metal poles through their head and come out of it alive, it all depends on what parts of the brain are destroyed
One man had his brains center for "anger and aggression" destroyed by a bullet, he survived and was found by everyone he knew to be a completely different person, personality wise
Sure, his body is stronger... But the bullet still pierced through his head and came out the otherside...
You can survive a shot to the head
I GOT SPURS THAT JINGLE JANGLE JINGLE
@@migegent4413IF it goes thru a perfect sppt. Look up the guy who took a dynamite packing iron through his skull. He lived lost chunks of brain through his mouth, uhhgg, but loved albeit personality changed and impulsively
He has pretty much the abilities of captain America and gambit
Can we agree he looks so much better in the show design wise?
The Fallout New Vegas protagonist: Look at what they have to do to mimic a fraction of our power.
He wasn't resilient to his own explosions during the invincible war
It's not unheard of to survive a gunshot to the head in real life.
It's also more probable to survive if the bullet pierces all the way through and doesn't stay in the brain. It depends on many factors such as the type of a bullet. If it goes "smoothly" through the brain you're more likely to survive than getting shot with some other type of bullet that is designed to tear the tissue.
Rex is hands down my favorite Character on the show. He’s that guy in every group that can lighten the mood and bring everyone’s spirit up. What he lacks in power makes up for in boosting morale.
The bullet literally goes through his head how!
Still somewhat realistic, in real life they are various instances of bullets going through the cranial cavity clean and the patients ends up surviving.
Even if they don't survive, headshot don't automatically kill you, that's a TV/Movie thing. The brain still functions, it wouldn't just quickly cut to black.
@@neojenshi4055 Also we saw that there wasn't as huge an exit wound as there could have been, which means that for whatever reason the bullet went more or less clean through rather than "blowing his brains out."
Mind you this could have just been an artistic thing, but I chose to believe that's further proof that Rex's resilient physiology dampened the damage. Which, on top of the fact that if you're lucky you can survive a brain injury, would explain how he survived
In the comic it goes through the middle of his head more but in the show it was more the upper right side so it made a bit more sense for him to survive in the show, in the comic he basically survived a straight up instakill shot which is barely explained
I mean, many people have survived headshots, although they tend to suffer brain damage.
@@neojenshi4055 actually in most cases the shock would make you go to black, and you wouldn't wake up until much later
Makes sense tho I can’t remember to much reading comics but I knew for sure that Rex lived u til later in the comics
He ends up dying when he blows himself up during the invincible war.
Yeah he lives for quite a few years until the earth gets attacked by an army of Invincibles from other dimensions sent by angstrom levy
I like how king lizard is just a guy with a gun essentially with no other superpowers
This is the origin story for Junkrat
The indomitable human spirit is real, the lizard thought it was a myth
"A person who behaves rudely and offensively, yet still has a kind and compassionate side."
In the show, I’m fine with them going back and elaborating on that later, but I’m super glad they left it open to interpretation in the episode, because it’s very easy to believe that Rex as a person can just do that
Easy
Adrenaline
the lizard guy looks cooler in the comic
Everyone does the show’s animation isn’t the greatest
I think his show look fits how he really doesn't do the fighting better
@@xanderlaskey2753 When you have to animate each individual movement instead a single frame, things tend to get a little downgraded. That's why almost every animation kinda sucks, it's awesome seeing everything in motion but the coolest looking scenes will always be cooler in the comics.
@@MrNiker Bro there is tons of anime’s that prove that wrong even some that are over decades old
@@xanderlaskey2753 There's a few, I wouldn't say "tons". Almost every single anime now resorts to quantity over quality, making most anime look the exact same. U.S animation doesn't do either lol
It's still a super feature. A normal man definitely would have succumbed to their injuries but probably since a hollow point round wasn't used, his high density fibers just worked like Kevlar, all the way through, in and out.
Which would explain why the exit wound looks so "slim" for lack of a better term.
@hfar_in_the_sky makes sense. Usually at point blank range, the muzzle gasses would cause more damage to the brain than the actual bullet.
Hollow points will actually stop faster than full metal jacket rounds by design. They slow as they expand in soft tissue where full metal jacket will slow some in soft tissue it will keep on trucking more than hollow point rounds. AP rounds may have done better but probably not.
Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart was a British soldier who fought in the boer War and both world wars suffering 11 wounds, including being shot through the eye and losing his hand. He survived them all and died at the age of 83 in 1963
in real life , very few normal humans have survived shot to head and impalement to head
Grit, spit, and a whooooole lotta duct tape.
I love how the enemies are essentially Cobra troops from GI Joe and that was Cobra Commander 😂
They even had Serpentor getting killed in the show. That was awesome 😂
Also the bullet was extremely shallow. It would've barely gone through the top part of his brain, whereas usually when someone shoots someone in the brain it goes straight through.
Where most people have grey matter, Rex has sarcasm.
Its what all explosions are built from
He became one of my top 3 characters after that. That shit was awesome.
I honestly just thought king lizard didnt shoot straight and that rex's brain was most undamaged
this is the actual answer, this video just wants to sound smart lol.
My brother was shot in the back of the head over 20 years ago at point blank range. Bullet came out of his eye.
He lost an eye but he’s still living to this day with zero cognitive issues
That scene of him using his amputated arm to beat that guy up was brutal.
Now that I think about it. He took a punch for monster girl. She was probably holding back but still.
He lost a bunch of teeth from that hit
@@TonyJaaFan1587a normal human would have lost their head, another example of Rex enhanced strength and durability is when he fought Komodo, Komodo was basically making Kate explode with each punch, and Rex took three solid punches from Komodo with only minor damages. Rex is pretty much a super soldier.
@@swampfire_edits8976 show me where I said he wasn’t extra durable, I’ll wait
The bullet went through his brain’s right side only. His left side was untouched, something that certainly contributed to his survival.
I love what they're doing with Rexplode in the series, actual full redemption arc
Loving that Jet Set Radio music in the background.
He’s practically… Title theme plays out
Apple cider is the third Christmas drink
Honestly favourite scene of the whole show so far. Really turns rex into a hero.
Nahh, he is just too angry to die
He's literally built differently.
People can survive shots like that IRL and he works for an agency that can borderline bring back the dead.
He needs his own special episode like Atom Eve, though Erickson is involved as well with this “experiment”. Wonder if they will do it or not as Lance Reddick was the VA for Erickson
The dopest scene fr. Had me on the edge of my seat man, I will not lie
nah, he just got dat indomitable human spirit
Local man literally too angry to die 💀
Bro killed komodo dragon with an unstable perk 30
Plus, with the way that the bullet seems to have entered his head in both the comic and the show, it's a survivable headshot
*gets attacked by evil Invincible
*Rexplodes
Their have been cases of people getting shot in the hear and surviving, mainly depends on the bullets angle, what it ends up hitting but especially if you're HIM like our boy Rex is
And here I thought it was just adrenaline & shock. 😳
Nano machines.
from what I learned from the series in general , is that no one truly 'dies' . Makes for awesome brutal fight scenes but what the point story wise if they just keep coming back
I call that the Dragon Ball syndrome
That bullet pierced his skull fully. My guess is it's both a combo of his resistance to his own explosions and that fact that headshots have a 10% survival chance.
Rex was durable enough that his chances were higher, and he was durable enough for the injury to not be debilitating, which is what happens to most headshot survivors.
Rex is one of my favorite characters by far
Ngl was not expecting to hear jet set radio - humming the baseline on an invincible video
That explains why he has taken so many hard hits without taking much real damage.
I figured they were gonna make a joke about his brain being so small the bullet missed
Can also easily be that he got real lucky. There are actually cases where people did survive head shots. But with that you have to be lucky that the bullet hits you in a way that doesn’t completely scramble your brain
This argument doens't work because the bullet went all the way through his head 💀
The answer is simple: *There is nothing between his ears*
Rex is built different. Atom Eve hot af
All over the series he was just a dick with some powers, but that episode made him a fuc*ing badass. Respect.
Show depicted his death far more rememberable than it was in comics
In the comic, they took care to show how he got shot from a really bad angle. Looks like it went from the left side of his head to the forehead. Everything in between isn't immediately required to live.
Man too angry to die
ok season 2 episode 5 was the most traumatizing episode like that part with shrinking rae and that buff guy....... I never wanna go back to that
Dawg was pissed, that’s all it takes sometimes
Rex is just a soldier he’s just built like that all the others got killed and Rex held his own I honestly thought he was dead
In another words plot armor
"has denser skin and muscles"
*survives a gunshot to the brain...which has no skin or muscles in it
It's just like Avdol, just in the back
My honest reaction to him surviving the shot in the show was “Huh. Guess he doesn’t use his brain that much.”
He survived because he was a fan favourite. In the comics he died then and there
We finna ignore how he straight stood on business and killed all of them
I didn’t even know Rex had powers 😭thought he made his explosives with tools not his body 🤣😭
But the bullet went through his head (BRAIN ) not his body 😅😅
He was simply angry enough
Just realized his powers are basically a copy of gambits
His brain dodged the bullet but its tight in his skull so he ended up giving himself a concussion
“He’s a superhero”
I just assumed it was how Carl, from The Walking Dead, who, as far as we're aware, was NOT made super-durable, survived a much more brain-hitting gunshot.
In the comics, the angle almost seems like the shot just barley managed to miss the brain, pretty much just shooting only through bone/the skull
The jetset radio OST is nice
It's also just something that is normally possible to survive, the government augmentations didn't do anything really. It went through his skull and out the other side, the skin didn't stop it at all
Phineas Gage survived a massive portion of frontal lobe being destroyed by a metal pipe. I knew a guy in college who survived a deadly car crash where parts of his brain were found on the hood of the car. It's called neuroplasticity, your brain's uncanny ability to adapt to damage and repurpose other sections of the brain to substitute what was lost in the area that was destroyed. It's not hard for me to believe that Rex survived a gunshot wound to the brain because people do it in real life, and he's also potentially superhuman in his durability on top of all of that.
its a comic, the only people who dont survive gunshots are uncle ben and the wayne family lmao