In Movies and TV shows, its always ambiguous if someone is dead or merely knocked out.
I can never know if someone is supposed to be dead or not. Okay so the protagonists beat a bunch of the anatagonist's goons in battle, did you kill them? Or did they become unconcious?
It's literally never explained.
If they are attacked with non-lethal weapons or hand-to-hand: they are merely unconscious unless tossed off a fall or into a fire/pit/acid/lava/etc (and even then, sometimes falls aren't deadly if the character was cool enough. See: Boba Fett and Darth Maul).
If they are shot, stabbed, exploded, etc: they are dead.
In star wars you have to see their physical moment of life leaving them or their ghost to confirm their death. Anything else and they're able to come back.
If Palpatine had come back as a ghost would that have been better or worse? 🤔
What about getting zapped by electricity?
Is that a death by eletrocution? Or is that just like getting tazed?
If they don't move for a good minute its safe to say they are dead. Most knockouts don't last long without atleast brain damage
Oh well, the protagonists hit the goons in the head, then spent 10 minutes hacking into the systems, I guess they are all dead.
But don't worry tho, the actual mastermind will always get spared. 🙃
I think it's humorous how much media acts like blunt force trauma doesn't happen.
Batman has likely killed hundreds from internal bleeding.
Knocking someone in the head is apparantly equivalent to anesthesia in the media
That's the unwritten rule. Unless you see an obvious corpse, they're still alive, no matter what happened.
"Did Jet just die?"
"You know, it was really unclear"
As iconic as that line is, it's always confused me. It was super obvious to me that he was dead/dying in that scene
What movie is that from?
I think oftentimes the point is that it's ambiguous.
Schrodinger's Moral Event Horizon
A-Team were mass murderers
Watching fights in mma, someone who is knocked out usually doesn’t look dead.
Here’s an idea: watch less violent movies! Sound of Music, Amelie, Toy Story…
I see nobody else noticed the sarcasm here... Or doesn't remember Sid or the fact that Sound of Music has Nazis.
Counterpoint: Watch more violent movies.
If someone gets decapitated or fed through a wood chipper then you know for sure they're dead and not unconscious.
When Andy walks into the room, are the toys unconscious or dead?
Yes.
Neither, they are haunted dolls.
Amelie
Watched that a couple of months ago, had a good time. Was pretty surprised to find the origin of FitGirl's profile pic.