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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Real life example: [[Rasputin]], if the stories are to be believed (which they aren't -- his killers made him out to be an all-but-unkillable monster because it made ''them'' look like incredible badasses). He was supposedly stabbed, shot, poisoned, and drowned, [[Rasputinian Death|naming another trope]] in the process. Cause of death? Hypothermia, from being drowned in an icy river. And he was in the process of clawing his way up from under the ice when he died.
* Has happened [http://www.greenharbor.com/fffolder/ffallers.html a few times] in real life.
* [[wikipedia:Tsutomu Yamaguchi|Tsutomu Yamaguchi]]. Dude survived both nukes and outlived the pilots.
* Hitler survived a briefcase bomb detonating just a few feet away from his legs. All that was ruined as a pair of trousers. Averted however since that while the blast appeared to be something that should have been fatal or at least crippling, the [[MythBusters]] proved that where and the way Hitler had stood made it much less dangerous than it had seemed.
* British Airways Flight 5390 was going to be a routine flight for Timothy "Tim" Lancaster and his crew as they were bound for Málaga Airport in Spain. But shortly after takeoff, one of the BAC One-Eleven's windscreens separated from the plane, causing an explosive decompression which shot Lancaster partway out of the plane
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