Malcolm Reynolds' history of injuries...
POSTED BY: Goldbrick
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 20:38
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Interesting indeed. I'd noticed before how Mal suffered barely unscathed, especially in the movie, but hadn't thought of the full extent.
Please forgive my tendency to correct:
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Originally posted by Goldbrick:
Mal remarks to Simon while being sewn up that he’s had “many worse” wounds.
I do believe he says 'plenty' worse. That could mean he had several, or 'many' worse wounds, or it could mean he's had one or two that were far worse than this one.
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Hamilton Wing. (Ref: Shindig)
Atherton.
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Mal is tortured to death by Adelai Niska.
And he lost his ear, which was reattached and showed no visible damage.
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shot in the back by the Operative
Though I would think the real injury there came from falling first onto the railing, and then onto the floor. The weapon used by the Operative was a sonic blaster, a smaller version of the weapons we saw the Alliance using in 'Ariel,' which seem designed to knock someone down and possibly wind them, without doing any real damage. I think there are at least some members of the Alliance who prefer more humane weapons and methods, despite the inhumanity we see from them as well.
Mal also gets socked in the face by Shepherd Book in 'Those Left Behind'
He does take a lot of punishment. Most of the crew seem to. Really, it seems like most characters in most forms of entertainment take more punishment than most human beings could be expected to survive.
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After TTJ barfight, his hand could use a weave, but he declines Simon's offer.
Does he not get whacked about battling the survivor at the end of Bushwhacked?
Does sticking himself in the heart with adrenaline count in OoG?
He has an ear removed in War Stories.
He gets beat a bit by Niska's henchman while Zoe tells everybody not to help him.
And Jayne whacks him in the wounded gut "Hey, wife soup."
He did seem to battle a bit with nekkid Tracey.
He gets decked by Simon in the BDM. After surviving the crashlanding of the mule in the cargo bay.
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The film added a tidbit of showing a scar in his chest at the location where Crow threw the blade into him in The Train Job.
Alas, while that was cool, it didn't jive with the fact that in "Trash" he was nude, sans scar.
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Don't forget the concussion, shrapnel and emotional scarring he took as Captain Hammer as the deathray exploded on him and killed Felicia Day.
"...we need a hood ornament..."
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Originally posted by Bytemite:
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Interestingly, I read the script to Objects in Space recently, and the nerve cluster thing is actually first revealed there, when Jubal Early hits him, fails to incapacitate him, then knocks him out another way. I always thought Joss pulled that one out of no where for Serenity, turns out he'd been planning it for a while.
That's Joss through and through. Nicely observed Bytemite
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Quote:Early and the Operative both like to touch Mal's "nerve cluster". That is a perverted fascination because that-nerve-cluster-of-painful-paralysis does not actually exist in human anatomy books. I'm a curmudgeon about it -- Joss Whedon needs to move the script along and he goes all J. K. Rowling and makes facts up. That's okay for Buffy/Angel/Harry Potter, where magic rules, but not so much so for science-fiction. If the script is going to be real, then go for the big laugh and paralyze Mal by punching him in the balls (
Originally posted by Bytemite:
I read the script to Objects in Space recently, and the nerve cluster thing is actually first revealed there, when Jubal Early hits him, fails to incapacitate him, then knocks him out another way. I always thought Joss pulled that one out of no where for Serenity, turns out he'd been planning it for a while.
ultimate dirty fighting -- hitting below the belt ). Mal can take it 'cause he is tough.Here are the "nerve cluster" lines from the Firefly Script for "Objects in Space" Written & Directed by: Joss Whedon.
I think they're funny.
www.twiztv.com/scripts/firefly/season1/firefly-110.htm
Start of ACT TWO
INT. RIVER'S ROOM - NIGHT
River is lying in her bed. She senses something, pulls the covers over her head.
INT. FOREDECK HALL - CONTINUING
Early looks around the hall. No one around. He holsters his gun, moves back to the hatch, puts his helmet in there and seals it shut.
He comes back into the hall and Bumps into MAL, who's headed back to the dining room. Mal is completely taken by surprise -- and Early is a blur, a little bit ninja as he pops Mal in the throat to keep him from screaming, gets in close and punches a #nerve cluster# in Mal's back, Mal pushes him off and swings, connects only glancingly --
INT. WASH AND ZOE'S ROOM - CONTINUING
Zoe stirs - - is something going on upstairs?
INT. FOREDECK HALL - CONTINUING
Early slams his foot into Mal's face, slamming the back of his head into his own ladder, Mal starts to drop -- and Early shoots forward, GRABS him by the shirt, keeping him from falling.
INT. WASH AND ZOE'S ROOM - CONTINUING
Zoe rolls over. Nothing.
The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity", where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two
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Probably the "nerve cluster" being referred to is the one that makes getting kidney punched hurt like a bitch. It's in the right area. Sometimes the surprise of the pain can be enough to stun someone, if done properly it can feel a little like getting kicked in the balls.
Nothing like induced paralysis, though, but then maybe that's just something with the Operative's technique. :)
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