Miss Indestructible: Hayden Panettiere as Claire Bennet Character Discussion

[Tanin]

I was taught the human body has involuntary control to keep one from lifting too much.

This is supposedly why one can not lift a car unless undress stress, like saving a kid.

Maybe she can get over this and really push her body to it's full limit.

 

[Fanticon]

ok so in last episode...we see she has a weakness...obviously damage that severs or comes grusomely close to decapitation is dangerous for her.
but i have to say....the makers of the show are starting to make her look way to accident prone...I mean...what are the chances she gets pushed, falls, and impails her neck! ?...c'mon...it makes her look clumsy...its a cheap way to display her powers imo. I know they'll get it right later on down the line...but again...ring down the drain? hit by football player (and it breaks her neck?!), then getting pushed falling and accidentally stabbing yourself in your fall in the neck?
Is she just as easily damageable as she is regenerative?

 

[AnimeJune]

I could believe the neck-impaling scene, because that guy was pushing her around, but I agree the neck-breaking scene was WAY overdone - it's like they're looking expressly for things to hurt her just so that they can show her powers.

They need to show off her powers, even though realistically people don't get hurt that badly THAT often.

 

[fangrl06]

Well think about it. Ordinary people don't put themselves in situations where they can get hurt. She doesn't really care because she will heal.

 

[AnimeJune]

Well think about it. Ordinary people don't put themselves in situations where they can get hurt. She doesn't really care because she will heal.

True...
Kinda reminds me of that last episode of Grey's Anatomy - the one where the little girl who has an undiagnosed nerve disorder thinks she's a superhero because she can't feel pain.

She ends up having super internal bleeding because she's always asking people to punch her in the stomach to prove her powers. She comes into the hospital covered with bruises she can't feel, with an arm laceration she stapled (!) shut herself, and a complete Superman complex.

Her foster parents were in hysterics because they really had to convince the doctors that she was naturally getting hurt this badly all the time, and that they weren't abusing her.

 

[fangrl06]

True...
Kinda reminds me of that last episode of Grey's Anatomy - the one where the little girl who has an undiagnosed nerve disorder thinks she's a superhero because she can't feel pain.

She ends up having super internal bleeding because she's always asking people to punch her in the stomach to prove her powers. She comes into the hospital covered with bruises she can't feel, with an arm laceration she stapled (!) shut herself, and a complete Superman complex.

Her foster parents were in hysterics because they really had to convince the doctors that she was naturally getting hurt this badly all the time, and that they weren't abusing her.

Wow...I don't watch Grey's Anatomy, but that is a great way to put it into perspective. Here's what I want to know: Who are Claire's parents? Is she related to that girl who was looking at her funny at the party(and looked a lot like her)? Are one of her realitves one of the other heroes? Did her parents give her up, or was she taken by her evil adoptive father?

 

[Gamma Ray]

First off all, that was sick and awesome. But how the hell is she going to get her chest back??

http://youtube.com/watch?v=iMBUyv8eobI

 

[deathshead2]

She heals from any wound?

 

[Gamma Ray]

So her boobs and skin will just grow back?

 

[SouLeSS]

Her hand did when she threw it down a garbage disposal, so probably.

 

[Spyda-Man]

they didnt cut her chest OFF.. they jsut cut her open.. like a book

 

[X-Ray]

^^^yep. Luckily for Claire she woked up before the lady started taking out organs. Now that would've been something

 

[symbioticspaz]

With 13 different CSI's, and countless other shows where an autopsy is performed, how would one not know how they are done? Upon reading that, my mind has officially been blown.

 

[AnimeJune]

Okay, am I the only one who's lost faith in her character since yesterday's episode? She committed murder, and all the discussion about the episode what about how people were so glad she did it. WTF?

She murdered a 16-year-old boy! It was a COLD-BLOODED, PRE-MEDITATED act! That's not a heroic action by any means! It makes her an interesting and a conflicted character, but not a hero. There was no excuse for what she did.

 

[X-Ray]

The guy had it coming. Just think of Claire as the Punisher.

 

[Hiruu]

Okay, am I the only one who's lost faith in her character since yesterday's episode? She committed murder, and all the discussion about the episode what about how people were so glad she did it. WTF?

She murdered a 16-year-old boy! It was a COLD-BLOODED, PRE-MEDITATED act! That's not a heroic action by any means! It makes her an interesting and a conflicted character, but not a hero. There was no excuse for what she did.

I wouldn' say it was premature...she started getting pissed off when he made light of his crimes, and she reacted...as a young teen girl going thru a stressful time. It's not a matter of justifying anyting, it simply a matter of putting something in a believable framework. I'm not looking for a "TV SHOW" that perfectly matches my sense of morality...kinda like the rednecks who hate Nikki.

 

[ragdus]

Who said the guy is even dead yet?

 

[AnimeJune]

I wouldn' say it was premature...she started getting pissed off when he made light of his crimes, and she reacted...as a young teen girl going thru a stressful time. It's not a matter of justifying anyting, it simply a matter of putting something in a believable framework. I'm not looking for a "TV SHOW" that perfectly matches my sense of morality...kinda like the rednecks who hate Nikki.

If you read my post clearly, you would see that I'm not criticising the show at all - we all need villains and antiheroes to add interest - I'm criticising the people saying "Yeah! Go Claire! Claire's a hero!" When she clearly isn't. She may redeem herself later on, but what she did with the rapist was evil.

 

[The Question]

I wouldn't say it was evil. Evil is a very extreme term. And one I'm personally not comfortable using in most situations. Yes, what she did was bad. But, there was one positive side effect: The kid was basically a serial rapist, and would have hurt more people down the line. I'm not defending what she did, simply pointing out how it could be justified by someone else.

 

[Morg]

If you read my post clearly, you would see that I'm not criticising the show at all - we all need villains and antiheroes to add interest - I'm criticising the people saying "Yeah! Go Claire! Claire's a hero!" When she clearly isn't. She may redeem herself later on, but what she did with the rapist was evil.

Killing a rapist isn't evil, it's like putting a rabid dog down

 

[fangrl06]

So, I think we've established that Claire is a darker hero. This isn't justice league.....not every character is going to be clean-cut lovers of justice.

 

[symbioticspaz]

^ Amen! You gotta think though, what would you do? If you knew you couldn't die, some guy tried something like that, and then you find out he's done it before. Its human nature to want revenge. Thats why I like her character. She's a real person. Its not common to see a teenage girl on TV act like a teenage girl.

 

[Poeman]

i realized this is the girl from remember the titans .. def coordinator's daughter

 

[spider-neil]

Killing a rapist isn't evil, it's like putting a rabid dog down

that's for the courts to decide. if society starts deciding who lives and who dies that is one small step to anarchy and chaos.

morg I've been reading your posts, and I wont pretend to understand how you feel or what you've gone through but to just out and out kill people who break the law with no trail makes you no better than the criminals you punish.

there is a difference between justice and vengence

 

[ragdus]

And if she goes to the cops, don't you think it might come out that she had a log go through her skull? Maybe her little trip to the coroner?

That's a lot of explaining to do...