15 Movie Characters That Survived Getting Shot In The Head

Do not try this at home. Seriously.

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The adult human skull is a hard protective shell that looks out for the brain, the body's command center. It can withstand a considerable amount of abuse, but a speeding bullet? A bit beyond its capabilities. So it's rare that a person gets shot in the head and walks away from it. Unless that person is in a movie.

Take Bangkok Revenge, martial artist Jon Foo's (Tekken) new action drama, in which a young boy looks on as a team of masked gunmen shoot and kill his parents. Not ones to leave a potential witness or vengeful survivor, they pop his top as well, only instead of killing him they merely destroy the part of his brain that feels emotion, so when he's all grown and trained in ass-kicking he doesn't feel the slightest remorse for beating anybody associated with the crime to death. That is what's known in the hit man community as a fail.

With head trauma on the brain, Complex gives you even more people who couldn't be brought down by a bullet to the bean: 15 Movie Characters that Survived Getting Shot in the Head.

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Written by Justin Monroe (@40yardsplash)

Wood Harris as Ace in Paid in Full (2002)

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Hugh Jackman as Logan/Wolverine in X2 (2003)

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Harrison Ford as Henry Turner in Regarding Henry (1991)

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Christian Slater as Clarence Worley in True Romance (1993)

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Jon Foo as Manit in Bangkok Revenge (2012)

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Michelle Rodriguez as Luz/Shé in Machete (2010)

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Thomas Wodianka as Micky in Snowman’s Land (2010)

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50 Cent as Marcus in Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (2005)

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Geena Davis as Samantha Caine/Charly Baltimore in The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)

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David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder in The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998)

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Robert Carlyle as Renard in The World Is Not Enough (1999)

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Arnold Schwarzenegger as Terminator in The Terminator (1984)

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Ed Norton as The Narrator in Fight Club (1999)

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Uma Thurman as The Bride in Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

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Peter Weller as Officer Alex J. Murphy/RoboCop in RoboCop (1987)

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