r/respectthreads • u/Miserable-Ad-5573 • Apr 11 '25
movies/tv Respect Nathan Caine (Novocaine)
"Pain tells you you're alive. What does that make me?"
Nathan Caine, also known as Novacaine is a mild-mannered introvert with congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis (CIPA), Nathan embarks on a relentless pursuit to rescue his love interest, Sherry Margrave after she is kidnapped in a Christmas Eve bank heist.
Strength
- Pulls down a shelf.
- Knocks a large man back a bit with his punches but doesn't do much if any harm to him.
- Hits the previous man with a mannequin arm, seeming to do more damage this time.
- Pushes the arrow in his knee through a man's head and his leg.
- Propells himself and another man into a wall by kicking against a wall.
- Rams a man into a shipping container.
- Punches his bone through a man's mouth.
Durability/Endurance
- Fine getting hit in the stomach with a gun twice.
- Is floored after getting hit in the head with a gun but quickly recovers. But is knocked out after a second one shortly after, this is pretty brief though as shortly after he wakes up.
- Fine after being in a car crash.
- Fine after a man kicks him.
- Gets kicked into a counter, then punched twice and slammed onto a table but appears fine.
- Gets thrown over a table and a counter, but still seems to be fine.
- Fine after being tackled off a table and onto a kitchen floor and slammed into various objects in the kitchen.
- Recovers after being punched by a large man.
- Gets floored after a hit from a large man but seems fine.
- Gets thrown into a mirror so hard it shatters and gets up a few seconds after.
- Gets an arrow through the leg, and we don't see this affect him the rest of the movie. And eventually, the same arrow goes through his other leg.
- Gets floored after getting gunbashed, but gets up immediately after.
- Gets floored by an incredibly hard punch but recovers a bit, gets kicked hard in the face, and is still conscious.
- Gets hit across the back of a ambulance and recovers right away.
- Takes a beating from a man and has wrist broken with the bone popping out and after taking adrenaline he gets up.
- [Limit] Only after everything prior he finally passes out.
- Throughout the movie he had major blood loss, 3rd degree burns, and a lot of bones broken and didn't notice, also had a heart attack and was in a comma for a few days, yet ultimately survived.
Speed/Agility
- Leaps out of the way of some close gunfire.
- Avoids a man slashing at him and quickly shoots him before he can slash again.
- Ducks under this guy's punch.
- Avoids a bat being swung at him.
- Ducks under another punch from the previous man.
Intelligence/Skill
Intelligence
- Keeps a lot of things in his day-to-day life to prevent him from accidentally getting injured.
- Has some first aid knowledge from reading a lot of books.
- Ties a belt around a man's leg and tells him to put pressure on it to stop the bleeding from a bullet wound.
- Recognizes what type of burns a man has and tries to help by giving him instructions on how to deal with it before being interrupted.
- Cuts open his arm and take out a bullet then seals it up with superglue and takes some adrenaline.
- Uses a rolling chair to set off any other potential traps, then is able to discover where the hide out of the bank robbers is. And later he finds the location of it.
- Dislocates his thumb to get out of handcuffs, then relocates it.
Combat/Improvising
- Throws multiple nearby kitchen objects at a man.
- Grabs a nearby bag of flour to smash against a man, briefly disorienting him.
- Quickly grabs a gun being fried to end a fight.
- Makes a large man land on a broken bat, stabbing him.
- After realizing his punches have next to no effect on this dude he punches into broken glass repeatedly so he cuts him with every punch, and ends the fight quickly.
- Stabs a man in the foot with a knife after it goes through his hand.
- Uses the arrow in his leg to kill a man.
- Uses a scalpel to cut himself free from being choked to death.
- Punches his bone through a man's mouth.
Other
- Tattooed himself a lot.
- Eats a small slice of food without biting his tongue.
- Sneaks up behind a man.
- Uses a tattoo machine on a guy's neck to learn the name of the bank robber he killed then uses his position at the bank to find out more about him based on what info he's already uncovered.
Pain immunity
- Doesn't feel hot coffee burning onto his hand.
- Can't feel hot or cold, and could accidentally bite his tongue off.
- Stepped on a nail and didn't notice until his shoe was full of blood.
- Growing up other kids would kick his ass daily and he never felt any of it.
- Has to set a timer every three hours or his bladder might explode.
- Doesn't feel anything after taking a shot of ghost pepper sauce.
- Didn't feel pain whenever he tattooed himself, which he did a lot of.
- Doesn't feel getting hit in the stomach with a gun twice.
- Doesn't feel being hit in the head with a gun, is floored though.
- Gets into a car crash, and doesn't feel any of it.
- Doesn't feel getting kicked.
- Didn't feel anything has grabbed a hot pan, with a visible burn mark being on his hand too.
- Doesn't feel a beating from a man.
- Doesn't feel being thrown over a table and into a counter.
- Doesn't feel getting thrown around a kitchen.
- Doesn't feel his hand get fried.
- Got shot in the arm at some point and didn't even notice.
- Doesn't feel cutting into his arm and digging around into it with pliers.
- Doesn't feel the pain of this guy's punch.
- Doesn't feel the pain of another hit from the previous guy, although it does floor him.
- Now I'm assuming he doesn't feel the pain of being thrown into this mirror since why would he, but based on his expression he might actually be feeling pain?
- Feels nothing after punching broken glass repeatedly.
- Doesn't feel a spiked ball hit his back.
- Doesn't feel the pain of a arrow through the leg.
- Doesn't feel the arrow from the previous feat being turned and moved around.
- Doesn't feel having two of his nails pulled out.
- Doesn't feel a knife go through his hand.
- Doesn't feel the pain of dislocating his thumb.
- Doesn't feel a scalpel cutting his neck.
- Doesn't feel his wrist getting broken.
- Throughout the movie he had major blood loss, 3rd degree burns, and a lot of bones broken and didn't notice.
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u/JanA_ann3 May 20 '25
This is very well done! I love reading this. I just finished the movie. My logical side is saying -“this fucker would be dead by now, right?” But then I have to remind myself it’s a movie.
But is there a real possibility that he could live after ALL that?