Probably Nolan’s explanation that he could make it is in her words because she told Bane she wanted him to survive a bit longer.

I don’t even want to imagine the kind of pain you get from being stabbed, but I know I sliced my index finger this year while cutting bread and it was an immense pain (for a short time)

You’re right and I know it’s fiction and not realistic, but since we’re shown he’s suffering while she stabs him, it still bugged me because I imagined him bleeding all the way

That’s a unique point of view, thanks!

You also just unlocked a memory of mine: a close friend’s mom once got stabbed close to the heart by a mugger. She went back home and drove herself to the hospital and the nurse was shocked since she couldn’t understand how my friend’s mom made it in her condition.

I guess sheer determination can do miracles!

Well, it is a meme kind of thing in the How It Should Have Ended YouTube channel and often given as an explanation that he can do anything he wants (putting him on par with Superman). Here’s a post about this

Who told you to tell the truth?

You had no right!

Cameras with stronger security will become more and more important, though on a theoretical level, they could be cracked or forged, but I suppose it’s the usual cat and mouse game

True, sooner or later there might be ways to make sure that a picture or video are digitally signed and probably it would be very hard to crack, but theoretically a fake video might still pass for real (though it would require a lot of resources to make that happen)

Right, but anyone would like to not be in a video implying them in a crime, but I was wondering what would happen if fake videos of said person were to appear implicating a crime that actually did not take place

… And also Eternity is uber cool!

Question: how do you update extensions?

I’m curious because I normally just update Firefox when it notifies me and normally reboot my machine once a day and I notice I never ever have seen ads with uBlock Origin + Firefox, not even on my phone.

Doesn’t uBlock Origin update automatically?

Even if they did so, isn’t Firefox entirely open source? At least their work could be forked (though I agree if they don’t have the resources, hardly anyone else could make it)

Brouhaha is its twin brother!

Flabbergasted

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Hahahahahahaha, touché!

The hero we need, but not the one we deserve

You’re right! I initially ruled Daredevil out but, as I was reading answers, I concurred Daredevil actually has a “believable” origin story (in that chemicals heighten his spatial senses)

That’s an interesting take, because it is a plausible origin story arising from an “implausible” one! What I mean is that, according to the (admittedly not well defined) “bounds” of my original post, mutants have a less believable origin story since they’re just born with powers, but Deadpool becomes a superhero since he already lives in a universe where mutants and healing factors exist and so it makes sense they make experiments on it!

I didn’t know Norman Osborn tried to kill Deadpool with a cure for cancer. That’s a neat plot device!

I’m trying to answer everyone and you pointed out correctly something I didn’t define well in my original post: I was trying to find either “believable” powers (in the sense of being well constructed) or “believable” origin stories. They didn’t need to come from radioactivity only. The reason I was excluding mutants in my original post was that they have powers since they have a different gene, but that is a very “cheap” way of creating a superhero, since no other explanation is necessary!

Wolverine (as pointed out in the first answer to your comment) is born a mutant and later on given an indestructible skeleton.

Make no mistake: the post is not about superheroes being or not being cool because of their origin story or super powers. I really like Wolverine and Sabertooth!

These are all great answers. As discussed in another answer to a comment (the one on Poison Ivy and Mr Freeze), I agree that “believable” experiments gone wrong based on actual science provide a source of “believable” super powers.

On the other hand: Ghost Rider and Spawn have really nice origin stories which also place restrictions on what they can do not to make the characters god like.