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Would the dude actually die in Avatar 2 from that shoulder bullet wound?

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coppercone2:
I assume its a special bullet coated with naqada or whatever they had there.

you would think its some kind of caseless semi frangible but also armor piercing explosive superalloy meta material self adjusting poison bullet.

The gun might look from its 1980's but weyland put the R&D money into the projectile

I generally assume if they can leave the solar system and have space aircraft carriers, bullet technology also advanced appropriately. You can afford the $500 bullets when your enigneers make 6.50 an hour and live in low income housing made out of rejected excavator roof panels. 

Anything in that universe cluster needs to be thought of as a extreme outsourcing globalization zero regulation corpocracy with extreme competition between department heads to deliver costs so low with so little regulation that only their imagination is the limit.

I imagine those bullets were designed to kill not only a humanoid but also a space horse and even a space rhinosaurus.

And also all of james camerons work probobly have killer robots in mind, if its Alien like, then synthetics like replicants and combat droids not seen in the motion pictures, so the bullets have some tricks up their sleeves

Haenk:
The Black Knight from Monty Python comes to mind, a flesh wound might not kill you ;)
It's probably a matter of luck, hit arteries - you die. Hit flesh or bone - you don't die (at least not within minutes).

David Hess:
jpanhalt identified the issue; shots to areas which are otherwise non-vital may cut arteries causing exsanguination (critical loss of blood) in short order.  This is why there is no such thing as a non-lethal limb shot to disable someone; there is always a good chance of cutting an artery.

Of course this is just Hollywood; the wound was fatal because of plot.

Bud:
It is like in Cameron's Titanic movie- people on Internet were saying there was enough space on that piece of wood to fit 2 people. Cameron said it did not matter, DiCaprio's character was to die according to the plot, so he died.  :box:

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