No One Should Survive That: Difference between revisions

* The cast of ''[[Torchwood]]'' seem to get this a lot. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in that it's accepted by the characters that Torchwood agents are lucky if they live to see their first grey hair. Particuarly there's leader Jack, who is [[Immortality|immortal]]. You can make a case for whether he counts, since he ''doesn't'' usually survive, he just refuses to ''stay'' dead. His list of deaths to date include (but are in no way limited to): shot by a Dalek, thrown off a 100 foot building, being stuck on the outside of the TARDIS inside of the vortex, electrocuted, shot in the head, blown up via a bomb implanted in his stomach, encased in concrete, stabbed for days on end by Italians, poisoned... the list goes on.

** Also {{spoiler|Owen}}, who eventually ''does'' die. And comes back as [[The Undead|a sentient but not technically alive]], unhealing, never sleeping, never eating, incredibly grumpy corpse.

* On [[Saving Grace]], Grace and Neely fall off a building and survive. Given the nature of the show, it's heavily implied that God did it.

* Two minutes into the first episode of ''[[Harry's Law]]'', a suicidal man jumps off of a six-story building and lands on Harriet. Both survive with minor injuries. Two minutes later, she distractedly crosses a street and gets hit by a car. She lands on a mattress being loaded into a moving van, and doesn't even break any bones. In both cases, it's completely unexpected, even interrupting her internal monologue. It's portrayed as serendipity, because both the suicidal man and the car driver end up joining her law firm by the end of the episode.