There have been real cases of people suffering brain trauma and surviving.

Maybe the bullet hit nothing vitally important in one of those one in a million outcomes, or if it did, the robotic system his brain got attached to fixed or maybe overrode the damage by being like a new set of neural pathways. Then again maybe the damage was a moot point since for example his arm was a complete prosthetic and it probably didn't need functioning nerves to move.

Not that it wasn't a stretch though for him to survive his ordeal

My cousin got three .22 caliber rounds in his brain pan. I think all it did was give him a limp and maybe some mental issues. He seemed fine to me though. There are stories of people with very hard skulls having bullets bounce off. It all depends where the damage occurs in the grey matter.

@MongoLloyd said:

My cousin got three .22 caliber rounds in his brain pan. I think all it did was give him a limp and maybe some mental issues. He seemed fine to me though. There are stories of people with very hard skulls having bullets bounce off. It all depends where the damage occurs in the grey matter.

Oops.😕

@Taco was the cure said:

Thoughts?

Another thing that came to mind afterwards was RoboCop has a resurrected messiah motif.

Alex Murphy in a way is Jesus. He survives torture, mutilation and being crucified so to speak by arising from death in a new form that, as the movie shows, can even walk on water

@MongoLloyd said:

My cousin got three .22 caliber rounds in his brain pan. I think all it did was give him a limp and maybe some mental issues. He seemed fine to me though. There are stories of people with very hard skulls having bullets bounce off. It all depends where the damage occurs in the grey matter.

If I was your cousin I'd be very happy but maybe a little bit upset I wasn't in the Robocop program.