The violence in MacGyver is more realistic than of movies today, I think

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If a person rears back and slams you in the face with all of their force, like we often see happen on Macgyver, I am CERTAIN that you would at least be dazed for a little while.

I hate when, in movies, a guy cocks his fist back and slugs another guy with enough force that he could ostensibly knock him through a brick wall, yet the guy just shrugs it off.

WHAT IS THE POINT of showing a guy hit another with THAT MUCH preparation and power, if you're just gonna make it have little to virtually no effect?

This kind of things are highly situational.

There are multiple levels that factor in, you can't categorically say one way or another, because people are different, even luck is involved.

Have you ever heard of people falling down from very high places, taking hits to the face or even into their brains that should've killed them, but didn't? These things have happened, and do happen.

If the whole ground hitting you very hard to one side of your whole body doesn't kill you, it's possible that someone's punch won't knock you out or kill you, either.

However, there are all kinds of people in the world, Shao-Lin-monks probably couldn't even be hanged due to their 'strong neck training', and due to their constant training, sparring and reflexes, probably couldn't be knocked down by anyone's punch, especially since they could probably avoid being hit by it, or protect their head with the Qi-energy (seriously, there are videos of a case where one monk can drill their temples and push the drill into their head very hard while it's at full power, and he isn't injured or harmed - there have been sceptical people examining this case and struggling to cope with the reality of the situation, which they were sure was fake).

If you put some untrained, cheap thug that has never sparred in his life, and isn't really very good at any kind of fight situation against some trained martial artist's punch, and he happens to turn the wrong way, he could definitely be knocked our or even killed. Think of someone like Woody Allen, but weaker.

It depends so much on all kinds of situations, whether the punch lands correctly, whether they're able to dodge or avoid it a bit, what kind of brain and head structure the victim happens to have, and so on and so forth. There's no way to say how realistic or unrealistic it is, because we can't really ever know all the factors. Someone might be suffering from some illness that makes them faint very easily, would it be unrealistic?

You'll be surprised at the amount of punishment a human body can withstand.

I think real life would surprise you both in terms of how strong and how fragile the human body is. It's a lot harder to knock someone down and out with one punch than it is in real life, but on the other hand, it's a lot easier to die falling from a great height, or other stunts like that.

Speaking of "realistic," the fact that he doesn't carry a gun strikes me as one of the most realistic parts of the show, actually. He's a spy (at least at the beginning). Most spies in real life are trying to blend in and not get caught - carrying a gun is just an unnecessary risk more than anything. (Imagine, a Soviet cop pulls you over for speeding... somehow spots that you have a gun... suddenly, instead of "you know you were going over the limit, right?" it's "why do you have a gun? Are you a spy? Out of the car, now!")


That man is playing Galaga! Thought we wouldn't notice. But we did.

A good martial artist once said something along these lines:

"The power of the kick and punch comes from the correct contact at the right spot and at the right moment with the body in perfect position; not, as many people think, from the vigor with which the kicks or blows are delivered."

So the descriptions in this thread of the 'preparing' and descriptions of the punch having so much power, should be re-examined in the light of this quote.