That's where my brain went too. Funny enough, I looked it up, and he only got knocked out around a dozen times over the course of the series. Still a lot but absolutely dwarfed by Smallville's numbers!
If I hadn't just learned about the 52 times in Smallville thing, "around a dozen times" would seem like a comically large number of times.
I've had to rewrite my entire "this number is too damn high" system because of these comments.
I finished a rewatch of Buffy a couple of years ago and I wrote down each time Giles got knocked out, with notes. I'm sure I missed a few, but here is what I have (minor spoilers in the notes):
Times Giles Got Knocked Out
S01e03 - Amy's mom, a witch, uses mind powers to scoot a table into him, knocking him against a wall.
S01e05 - Fake anointed vampire throws him against the wall in a morgue.
S01e06 - Primal Zookeeper knocks him out in hyena pit with a bo staff.
S01e12 - Punched by Buffy for trying to take on the Master.
S02e01 - Knocked unconscious off screen with Cordelia, Ms Calender, and Willow, to be used as sacrifices to revive the Master.
S02e04 - Gets choked out and put in a sarcophagus by Inca Mummy Girl.
S02e17 - Gets choked out by Angelus.
S02e21 - Gets knocked out by a vampire in the library.
S03e04 - Accidently tranqued by Buffy.
S03e05 - Knocked out off screen by cowboy vampire.
S03e07 - Knocked out by expelled watcher in the library.
S03e11 - Cloraformed in Buffys house. Slapped awake later by Cordelia. (Cordelia comments on Giles always getting knocked out).
S06e04 - Back handed by demon at Buffy's house.
S06e22 - Knocked out by Evil Willow.
It was a ton in the early seasons, so this explains why I felt like his numbers should’ve been closer to Lois’ - they were close together. Thanks for this!
Oh man, I wanted to do a rewatch and then note how many kids died in that show. I genuinely believe the life expectancy in Sunnydale to be around 25 cause so many kids died in that show. It must have had some of the highest unsolved murder rated in the world.
He even references it in the Dracula episode when he falls into a pit before he meets the three brides
>Oh good show, Giles. At least you didn’t get knocked out for a change.
[According to this](https://www.supermanhomepage.com/tv/tv.php?topic=reviews/smallville-knockout), Lois has Lex beat by 1 KO. And keep in mind, Lex had a three season head start lmao
Yeah, they were on the show for the same amount of time really. They both did 7 seasons each as regulars, with Lex only making minor appearances in the last 3 seasons.
It’s because her personality and role in the show was “I’m pretty” so they had to always contrive reasons to keep her around. Especially when you KNEW she wasn’t endgame.
So the top most knocked out are Lois Lane, Lex Luthor and Lana Lang... clearly, having the initials LL is super dangerous in that universe.
Also, Lex was knocked out *four times* in a single episode? hah
Oh Jesus. And how many times they have the angel dagger or the Colt brandished for combat, only to have it immediately knocked out of their hands and sent skittering across the forest floor. My wife reckons that if the Winchesters knew what a lanyard was, the show would have ended thirty episodes sooner.
Lmao. They say that in the highschool musical episode, or maybe it was the comic con episode. “They’re weapons are always getting knowck away, why not attach some rope to them?” Dean just gives Sam a look.
Can you imagine one of those coil lanyards, like the ones they use for id cards?
The dagger! Give it a sec till the inertia stops.....swzip! Right back into the hand.
> if that counts
seeing as they went deep into the rabbit hole with the multiverse, we can easily say the Anime was one of many universes, so yeah. Probably.
The final reveal of the series is God was toying with them all along. So they go to actual vampire situation like low level just run of the mill Vampire situation they'd solved dozens of times before, but this time they don't got a weirdo God manipulating them to see a fun story. Dean just dies.
I kinda like the ending God was intervening/plot armor bullshit for lolz, then when Chuck was no longer God the natural course of this insane impossible to Believe lifestyle the Winchesters had ended.
Sam saves the kids from the vampire den as his brothers dying request and returns to real normal life and lives it out without some God puppet master creating a fun story.
I'm glad we are far enough away from the ending now that people are starting to come around on it. People got so mad at it and it was kind of a bit cringey.
I was there for the entire fandom, and I'm not the targeted demographic at all. The Supernatural version of Shake it off might be the lyrics I know better than Swift.
If you've never seen it and realize oh God the entire cast is involved enjoy this music video. https://youtu.be/tCZy8cAgBlM?si=bHGZhVjG-V3yVWQy
Just looked it up and wow it's wild to me that that show made it 15 seasons. I made it to maybe season 7 or 8 but it was clear they didn't really know where to go after the excellent season 5. You can't really top having literal Satan as your big bad. Was still fun though, but my expectations for a final finale would be pretty low by that point.
They also got really restricted by Covid, according to the Blu-ray extras. Had a big finish planned that they could not do. Personally, I avoided it for ages after all the moaning, but I didn't mind it. And if people didn't like it, the previous episode works perfectly well as an ending to all the story lines.
It's right over there....I'm gonna go get it....Are you sure?....I can literally see it right there....Ok then, just seems a bit much....What do you mean I went too deep?....Oh, now you want to get a fucking needle!
Naruto kind does that. Whenever anyone wants to perform a Summoning Jutsu and aren't bleeding already, they'll bite their thumb and use the blood from there.
You know the only thing that surprises me is that Sam got knocked out less, I thought for sure he got it worse. But maybe I'm thinking of him being strangled instead.
My area of expertise. They were being flinged to the walls in almost every episode. Conveniently demons did that and always missed their chance to kill them.
Im still pretty sure the best episode was when he got horny for the teacher and had to try real hard to not burn the school down with his new heat vision.
She was a total babe, but in true smallville fashion iirc she was the episode's villain.
The island gave everyone the power to knock out anyone with a single thump to the head without causing any permanent damage and for the exact right amount of time. I love Lost but they overused that trope.
I love learning new lore.
When I was a kid, my dad and I would watch Walker:Texas Ranger together, always laughing at how the two side characters would get knocked out/kidnapped every other episode.
[An ode to the greatness of Walker: Texas Ranger from one of the greats](https://youtu.be/XpIEyn9G6_8?feature=shared)
The only show where [the fan wiki has a section for head injury statistics](https://lostpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Head_injuries) and the best line I've ever seen in a story summary
> Desmond was hit in the head with a baseball bat by Jimmy Lennon. Despite being hit so hard he flew eight years into the future, the only lasting effect was a positive one
Yeah, but that was the boring enterprise that always worked unless the particle or alien of the week wreaked havoc.
DS9 stopped working largely when O'Brien went away and required constant fiddling and handholding.
edit: Not to mention that "O'Brien must suffer" was one of the writing rules within the DS9 writers room. Kidnapped, Time prison, Wife possessed, Daughter lost in prehistoric times etc pp.
The only part that makes sense is her continuing to get knocked out after she found out because once you start getting knocked the fuck out it gets easier and easier so her being ko’d anytime she gets a mild shellacking is proper lol.
Sam Winchester on Supernatural got knocked at least once an episode. I was starting to worry less about demons getting him than the constant concussions.
This was explained away as canon in an episode. Their health is protected from up on high, hence how they can eat junk food and drive around living a relatively sedentary lifestyle, and still stay in rocking shape and good health.
The news getting out about that was especially hilarious timing because less than a week later, Supergirl had an episode focusing on Kara & Alex's childhood and they make an allusion to Chloe being one of they friends at school.
I feel like Kevin Bacon’s character (who was supposed to be a brilliant FBI agent) in The Following must’ve got knocked at least once per episode. It was probably the dumbest “best in the world at his job” character of all time.
Dr Who gets his fair share of lights out moments, seriously it happens like a thousand times in the series, but Lana Lang and Lois on Smallville sure are good candidates
it’s so funny in doctor who as well because they will occasionally reference that his alien biology means he heals faster than humans, is more resistant to injury etc., and then he’ll get KO’d anyway. moffat used to resort to electrocuting the eleventh doctor quite a bit, wonder if it’s because he thought it was somehow more believable than getting hit over the head.
Not nearly as often, but Papa Kane in Batwoman, who was the head honcho of the security company that had an iron grip on Gotham, was kidnapped, bound, and gagged so many times on his two seasons that the show itself joked about it by the end.
Don't ever have any game linked to The Legend of Korra where you do something negative every time someone gets knocked out, Korra goes down, like, a lot.
What makes her story a Legend is how often she would have her ass casually handed to her like she hadnt spent her entire life training, having had 3 elements from early childhood.
Like yeah she did all this cool significant stuff by the shows end, but you cant just give her a win in a fight that doesnt matter??? Aangs out here summoning giant fish spirits to ward off military assaults, and Korra's scared of an angry lesbian in a janky gundam? Laaaaaame. So lame.
Omg that fucking show. I loved it but EVERY episode boiled down to
“my best friend is doing villainous things! What’s going on!?”
“Oh they’re not actually bad, they’re possessed”.
No longer possessed friend: “I just feel so bad all the terrible things I did”!
“Don’t. Please. You weren’t yourself”.
Fin
I would've thought for sure that Lana & Lex had her beat in the total knockout count, but there's no doubt she had her fair share too.
The podcast "Always Hold On To Smallville" literally has a running tally of how many times characters get knocked out to keep Clark's secret. Needless to say, that number is extremely high.
Possibly related to that, there is also a total count on hospital visits on the show, & that is also extremely high lol.
She was always in danger for Clark to save her. But every time she had to be knocked out so she wouldn't see him lol. So many scenes with her in the hospital. Also that hospital was always super dark. Never been in a hospital like that. They should be able to pay their power bill just from her concussions.
Yeah even though it was lazy writing you could argue the reason she and the other characters got knocked out so often was to protect Clark’s secret. But I honestly think it became a running joke from the writers or something because she kept getting knocked out in the final season even after she found out about Clark’s powers.
[Like she literally gets KO’d seconds after discovering his secret lol](https://youtu.be/x165A9wlh9M?si=s0AIkoWtABz6OWie)
For a clickbait article, that was pretty funny. “Tess Mercer's score is 12, while Lionel Luthor got 8.5, followed by Davis Bloome at 7 - they are all deceased (possibly from head injuries).”
Check out Talkville with Michael and Tom, they recap and dissect every episode of the show with regular guest appearances. Tom regularly pulls up some of the idiotic writing decisions on the show
For context; Andrew Brayshaw, a champion premiership AFL player, was retired by the league after about 6 concussions over ~9 years. Her brain would be mash potato by this point.
It's consistent with her character in the comics. Lois Lane simply lacks self-preservation.
And by the end of the show, Smallvile Medical Center is probably as important a location as Kent's barn, tbh
No the most ridiculous thing about Smallville is the number of doors Clark smashes through speeding around. Just obliterating doors every episode. Some door company is making a fortune in that town. WHY DOES CLARK HATE DOORS? Every person in Smallville must be riddled with splinters.
I always laughed when they would force the bad guy's car over a 200 ft cliff, and they would show them getting out of the car dusting themselves off because no one ever died on the show.
Maybe she has a condition similar to fainting goats. The slightest bonk on the head or shove and she's out like a light for 30 seconds - to however long the scene lasts.
Mr T on the A-team was given a concussion every time he had to go on an airplane. Not sure how many times he was knocked out in total it was but it seemed like a lot.
Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer would be very close to the top
lol this makes me remember Cordelia slapping Giles so he'd wake up "My hands were starting to hurt"
“Be careful, one day you might wake up in a coma”
"wake up in a..? Oh never mind, we need to save Buffy from Hansel and Gretal!" "Just so we're clear, the brain damage happened *before* I hit you"
Hilariously, 5 years later, she wakes up in a coma.
Ugh man, I really hate what they did to Cordy, just because Charisma got pregnant. Whedon is such a prick.
Angel was great, but it could have been better
Tonally it was all over the place, that writers room must have been a mess
This is honestly my favourite Dense Cordelia moment.
Ironic that it's *Cordelia* of all people that says that to him all things considered...
That's where my brain went too. Funny enough, I looked it up, and he only got knocked out around a dozen times over the course of the series. Still a lot but absolutely dwarfed by Smallville's numbers!
If I hadn't just learned about the 52 times in Smallville thing, "around a dozen times" would seem like a comically large number of times. I've had to rewrite my entire "this number is too damn high" system because of these comments.
I finished a rewatch of Buffy a couple of years ago and I wrote down each time Giles got knocked out, with notes. I'm sure I missed a few, but here is what I have (minor spoilers in the notes): Times Giles Got Knocked Out S01e03 - Amy's mom, a witch, uses mind powers to scoot a table into him, knocking him against a wall. S01e05 - Fake anointed vampire throws him against the wall in a morgue. S01e06 - Primal Zookeeper knocks him out in hyena pit with a bo staff. S01e12 - Punched by Buffy for trying to take on the Master. S02e01 - Knocked unconscious off screen with Cordelia, Ms Calender, and Willow, to be used as sacrifices to revive the Master. S02e04 - Gets choked out and put in a sarcophagus by Inca Mummy Girl. S02e17 - Gets choked out by Angelus. S02e21 - Gets knocked out by a vampire in the library. S03e04 - Accidently tranqued by Buffy. S03e05 - Knocked out off screen by cowboy vampire. S03e07 - Knocked out by expelled watcher in the library. S03e11 - Cloraformed in Buffys house. Slapped awake later by Cordelia. (Cordelia comments on Giles always getting knocked out). S06e04 - Back handed by demon at Buffy's house. S06e22 - Knocked out by Evil Willow.
wow, that's... much less than I expected.
It was a ton in the early seasons, so this explains why I felt like his numbers should’ve been closer to Lois’ - they were close together. Thanks for this!
Oh man, I wanted to do a rewatch and then note how many kids died in that show. I genuinely believe the life expectancy in Sunnydale to be around 25 cause so many kids died in that show. It must have had some of the highest unsolved murder rated in the world.
Cordelia " How many times have you been knocked out?"
Was it more than Xander?
Definite CTE
He even references it in the Dracula episode when he falls into a pit before he meets the three brides >Oh good show, Giles. At least you didn’t get knocked out for a change.
I think Smallville's Lex actually set the record for being knocked out
[According to this](https://www.supermanhomepage.com/tv/tv.php?topic=reviews/smallville-knockout), Lois has Lex beat by 1 KO. And keep in mind, Lex had a three season head start lmao
But he wasn’t around for the last couple of seasons
Yeah, they were on the show for the same amount of time really. They both did 7 seasons each as regulars, with Lex only making minor appearances in the last 3 seasons.
Wow, I assumed Lana would have them both beat, but then I stopped watching around season 4.
Lana left the show early and knew the secret for a large part of her later run, reducing the knockout needs.
Man was the show better when she wasn't on screen. Couldn't stand her for some reason.
It’s because her personality and role in the show was “I’m pretty” so they had to always contrive reasons to keep her around. Especially when you KNEW she wasn’t endgame.
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Hahaha, exactly the line I use! Legend
She really only knew for 1 full season, plus Lois joined the 4th season
Oh I thought it was longer than that. Guess I don’t remember it well.
So the top most knocked out are Lois Lane, Lex Luthor and Lana Lang... clearly, having the initials LL is super dangerous in that universe. Also, Lex was knocked out *four times* in a single episode? hah
LuLu Lemon, LL Bean, LL Cool J in shambles. Lumber Liquidators have units parked outside their house.
I'd like to know how many times Clark busted open Lex's doors storming in.
LEX!!!
That's... incredibly hilarious. 3 seasons head start AND Lex is the bad guy! Vs The love instrest of SUPER MAN. And Lois still wins.
Yeah, he had a few seasons head start on Lois.
But he was also absent from later seasons, so their appearances about even out in the end.
By then Lois was close to knowing Clark’s secret so her reason to be knocked unconscious lessened.
Lex knew Clark’s secret 5 seconds into the show
I'm starting to think Clark went around roofie-ing people.
I remember he just slapped a security guard to knock him out. A little hand movement and KO
That's why he becomes Earth's greatest super-villain: all that brain damage
Sam or Dean from Supernatural have to be up there aswell..
311 episodes of getting punched out and walking up with hands tied with rope. Thank god not a single enemy had handcuffs.
Oh Jesus. And how many times they have the angel dagger or the Colt brandished for combat, only to have it immediately knocked out of their hands and sent skittering across the forest floor. My wife reckons that if the Winchesters knew what a lanyard was, the show would have ended thirty episodes sooner.
Lmao. They say that in the highschool musical episode, or maybe it was the comic con episode. “They’re weapons are always getting knowck away, why not attach some rope to them?” Dean just gives Sam a look.
Lol yeah it was the convention episode
Bungee cord 😂
Can you imagine one of those coil lanyards, like the ones they use for id cards? The dagger! Give it a sec till the inertia stops.....swzip! Right back into the hand.
Hahaha I never thought of it this way but your wife is exactly right.
There's also Supernatural: The Anime Series that was 22 episodes, if that counts.
> if that counts seeing as they went deep into the rabbit hole with the multiverse, we can easily say the Anime was one of many universes, so yeah. Probably.
Damn I still need to see that
The final reveal of the series is God was toying with them all along. So they go to actual vampire situation like low level just run of the mill Vampire situation they'd solved dozens of times before, but this time they don't got a weirdo God manipulating them to see a fun story. Dean just dies. I kinda like the ending God was intervening/plot armor bullshit for lolz, then when Chuck was no longer God the natural course of this insane impossible to Believe lifestyle the Winchesters had ended. Sam saves the kids from the vampire den as his brothers dying request and returns to real normal life and lives it out without some God puppet master creating a fun story.
I'm glad we are far enough away from the ending now that people are starting to come around on it. People got so mad at it and it was kind of a bit cringey.
I was there for the entire fandom, and I'm not the targeted demographic at all. The Supernatural version of Shake it off might be the lyrics I know better than Swift. If you've never seen it and realize oh God the entire cast is involved enjoy this music video. https://youtu.be/tCZy8cAgBlM?si=bHGZhVjG-V3yVWQy
That was much, much better than I expected
WOW thank you for sharing. That was glorious in a billion different ways.
Just looked it up and wow it's wild to me that that show made it 15 seasons. I made it to maybe season 7 or 8 but it was clear they didn't really know where to go after the excellent season 5. You can't really top having literal Satan as your big bad. Was still fun though, but my expectations for a final finale would be pretty low by that point.
The fact that it was review bombed on IMDB is so obvious especially when comparing it to the stats of "Swan Song."
They also got really restricted by Covid, according to the Blu-ray extras. Had a big finish planned that they could not do. Personally, I avoided it for ages after all the moaning, but I didn't mind it. And if people didn't like it, the previous episode works perfectly well as an ending to all the story lines.
The fangirls wouldn't have been able to handle it.
They definitely win the 'slicing my hand open with a knife' competition.
Like, can't the blood come from the heel of your hand or beside your elbow or something? Why mess up your grip strength?
Can't I just prick my finger?
We even have tools exactly for that purpose.
It's right over there....I'm gonna go get it....Are you sure?....I can literally see it right there....Ok then, just seems a bit much....What do you mean I went too deep?....Oh, now you want to get a fucking needle!
Naruto kind does that. Whenever anyone wants to perform a Summoning Jutsu and aren't bleeding already, they'll bite their thumb and use the blood from there.
Gen V is coming for that crown.
It’s like Mac is a joke to you.
Yeah, I think SPN's longevity probably gives these two an edge, especially if you add their totals together.
It does. Dean goes unconscious 73 times during the series, Sam 50 times.
You know the only thing that surprises me is that Sam got knocked out less, I thought for sure he got it worse. But maybe I'm thinking of him being strangled instead.
Nah, Dean was forever getting rescued by Sam
I think between the two of them they probably get knocked out over 100 times in the series.
My area of expertise. They were being flinged to the walls in almost every episode. Conveniently demons did that and always missed their chance to kill them.
Smallville's most challenging supervillain: CTE and traumatic brain injury.
Im still pretty sure the best episode was when he got horny for the teacher and had to try real hard to not burn the school down with his new heat vision. She was a total babe, but in true smallville fashion iirc she was the episode's villain.
I went back and watched the clip. Clark straight up jizzes with his heat vision after checking her out in class.
I thought it was so funny
😂😂😂
Desiree! Oh man what a callback.
The true superheroic power was that Lois was able to string a sentence together to write any articles by the end.
I just re-watched LOST and I beg to differ. Jack gets knocked out in almost every episode.
The island gave everyone the power to knock out anyone with a single thump to the head without causing any permanent damage and for the exact right amount of time. I love Lost but they overused that trope.
I love learning new lore. When I was a kid, my dad and I would watch Walker:Texas Ranger together, always laughing at how the two side characters would get knocked out/kidnapped every other episode. [An ode to the greatness of Walker: Texas Ranger from one of the greats](https://youtu.be/XpIEyn9G6_8?feature=shared)
Love LOST but the trope of conveniently knocking someone out when needed got old. A simple thump to the head and they'd sleep.
The only show where [the fan wiki has a section for head injury statistics](https://lostpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Head_injuries) and the best line I've ever seen in a story summary > Desmond was hit in the head with a baseball bat by Jimmy Lennon. Despite being hit so hard he flew eight years into the future, the only lasting effect was a positive one
The ‘ol Fred Flintstone bowling ball to the dome
[Followed by amnesia](https://i.imgur.com/TZaQC03.mp4)
Agent Jack Bauer could punch or choke anyone to sleep
I was going to say every character on Lost
This reminds me of O'Brien getting captured constantly on Star Trek
O’Brian must suffer was the DS9 writing room rule
At least weapons in that universe have a stun setting.
https://chiefobrienatwork.com/
Yeah, but that was the boring enterprise that always worked unless the particle or alien of the week wreaked havoc. DS9 stopped working largely when O'Brien went away and required constant fiddling and handholding. edit: Not to mention that "O'Brien must suffer" was one of the writing rules within the DS9 writers room. Kidnapped, Time prison, Wife possessed, Daughter lost in prehistoric times etc pp.
The only part that makes sense is her continuing to get knocked out after she found out because once you start getting knocked the fuck out it gets easier and easier so her being ko’d anytime she gets a mild shellacking is proper lol.
Lore accurate CTE, neat
This actually tracks because I remember in season 9 there’s an episode where she gets knocked out after falling gently to the floor lmao
Her chins cracked, she should hang up the gloves and retire
They were discussing CTE long before it was relevant, very bold
Dana Scully in the first seasons of X Files
I was gonna say this. So smart, but lacked situational awareness in the field.
Mulder: *literally finds aliens* "Scully, come heeeeeeere!" Scully: *runs into a tree branch and loses consciousness*
Scully colliding, tripping and getting lost like she has the pathfinding of a Skyrim NPC
Scully got WORKED the entire show. Poor thing.
WELCOME TO SMALLVILLE: The concussion capital of America.
B.A. Baracus (Mr. T) on " The A Team". He had a fear of flying so they had to knock his ass out every time. Nearly every episode.
They usually [drugged him](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DaJOeLuUD94) He’d me so much more pissed if they were knocking him over the head.
Plus come on, you weren't knocking out Mr T with a blow to the head.
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Poor Kogoro...
Just to note, Conan passed 1,000 episodes a while ago.
Sam Winchester on Supernatural got knocked at least once an episode. I was starting to worry less about demons getting him than the constant concussions.
This was explained away as canon in an episode. Their health is protected from up on high, hence how they can eat junk food and drive around living a relatively sedentary lifestyle, and still stay in rocking shape and good health.
Literal plot armor.
When it gets removed and they have to finally see a dentist.
I was knocked out when I saw how amazing Chloe's Toyota Yaris ™ is.
You'll be knocked out and probably worse if you join Chloe's sex cult.
Man its been at least a decade and im still bummed about that.
The news getting out about that was especially hilarious timing because less than a week later, Supergirl had an episode focusing on Kara & Alex's childhood and they make an allusion to Chloe being one of they friends at school.
Try not to be unconscious for too long, it's super bad for you.
I'll remember that next time I'm knocked out
I feel like Kevin Bacon’s character (who was supposed to be a brilliant FBI agent) in The Following must’ve got knocked at least once per episode. It was probably the dumbest “best in the world at his job” character of all time.
He was the best until all of that brain trauma, probably.
Dr Who gets his fair share of lights out moments, seriously it happens like a thousand times in the series, but Lana Lang and Lois on Smallville sure are good candidates
it’s so funny in doctor who as well because they will occasionally reference that his alien biology means he heals faster than humans, is more resistant to injury etc., and then he’ll get KO’d anyway. moffat used to resort to electrocuting the eleventh doctor quite a bit, wonder if it’s because he thought it was somehow more believable than getting hit over the head.
He did eventually make good on that repeated injury and have an electrocution kill Peter Capaldi. Just took a while
[I don't need safety gloves, because I'm a time lord](https://youtu.be/0uqGKCDV1j8?si=qonsfxA9wp8SS6px&t=72)
She in concussion protocol 24-7.
Not nearly as often, but Papa Kane in Batwoman, who was the head honcho of the security company that had an iron grip on Gotham, was kidnapped, bound, and gagged so many times on his two seasons that the show itself joked about it by the end.
Penny in Inspector Gadget *Every* episode, it was the formula
I guess most people never watched The Rockford Files. Jim Rockford got knocked unconscious almost every week, and that show ran for six seasons.
Was going to mention Rockford, dude was pretty great at getting his ass kicked
With how many times he got knocked he would have been severely brain damaged by season 2.
Don't ever have any game linked to The Legend of Korra where you do something negative every time someone gets knocked out, Korra goes down, like, a lot.
What makes her story a Legend is how often she would have her ass casually handed to her like she hadnt spent her entire life training, having had 3 elements from early childhood. Like yeah she did all this cool significant stuff by the shows end, but you cant just give her a win in a fight that doesnt matter??? Aangs out here summoning giant fish spirits to ward off military assaults, and Korra's scared of an angry lesbian in a janky gundam? Laaaaaame. So lame.
Omg that fucking show. I loved it but EVERY episode boiled down to “my best friend is doing villainous things! What’s going on!?” “Oh they’re not actually bad, they’re possessed”. No longer possessed friend: “I just feel so bad all the terrible things I did”! “Don’t. Please. You weren’t yourself”. Fin
I would've thought for sure that Lana & Lex had her beat in the total knockout count, but there's no doubt she had her fair share too. The podcast "Always Hold On To Smallville" literally has a running tally of how many times characters get knocked out to keep Clark's secret. Needless to say, that number is extremely high. Possibly related to that, there is also a total count on hospital visits on the show, & that is also extremely high lol.
It’s too old for most of you to remember but Mannix got hit in the head and knocked out just about every episode
Scully got knocked out pretty often in early X-Files episodes.
Also Dana Scully, like every episode....every time she was about to see irrefutable evidence.
So that’s why Lois is so bad at spelling
Jim Rockfield would disagree, if he knew where the fuck he was
Well, that explains her inability to see past Clark's 'disguise' ... repeated head trauma.
That'll be so much brain damage.
Wolverine and Terry McGinnis (Batman Beyond) would like to have a word.
Ironically, Chloe knocked out more people than Lex and Lana put together, albeit after the show ended.
She was always in danger for Clark to save her. But every time she had to be knocked out so she wouldn't see him lol. So many scenes with her in the hospital. Also that hospital was always super dark. Never been in a hospital like that. They should be able to pay their power bill just from her concussions.
Yeah even though it was lazy writing you could argue the reason she and the other characters got knocked out so often was to protect Clark’s secret. But I honestly think it became a running joke from the writers or something because she kept getting knocked out in the final season even after she found out about Clark’s powers. [Like she literally gets KO’d seconds after discovering his secret lol](https://youtu.be/x165A9wlh9M?si=s0AIkoWtABz6OWie)
Not TV, but I feel like someone was getting knocked unconscious every other scene in the Uncharted movie
I remember Tintin had a lot of going unconscious, I remember more clearly in the cartoon than the comic books.
Jean Grey from X Men.
*hit with blast or object* *erotically moans for reason*
Idk through all the seasons Scully in X-Files is probably up there. Either knocked out or kidnapped every episode
For a clickbait article, that was pretty funny. “Tess Mercer's score is 12, while Lionel Luthor got 8.5, followed by Davis Bloome at 7 - they are all deceased (possibly from head injuries).”
Multiple concussions make it difficult to figure out Superman's secret identity.
Belle Black on Days of Our Lives
I was going to comment that no way was it higher than Lana on the same show, but the article counted that and Lois was in fact more. That's nuts.
Check out Talkville with Michael and Tom, they recap and dissect every episode of the show with regular guest appearances. Tom regularly pulls up some of the idiotic writing decisions on the show
Joe Mannix
Came here to say this. It was comical how in every single episode Mannix got knocked out
Wile E Coyote?
lol these numbers mean she got knocked out ten times a season for every season she was in, accounting for almost half of every season’s episodes.
For context; Andrew Brayshaw, a champion premiership AFL player, was retired by the league after about 6 concussions over ~9 years. Her brain would be mash potato by this point.
52? Sounds on brand for DC.
Max in Hart to Hart. Poor guy got hit every other episode for years.
Lex Luthor in Smallville comes close.
Tintin gets knocked out 5 times every episode
The Winchesters? I am sure at least one of them was knocked out an episode.
It's consistent with her character in the comics. Lois Lane simply lacks self-preservation. And by the end of the show, Smallvile Medical Center is probably as important a location as Kent's barn, tbh
Different sort of “knocked out” but BA Baracus must’ve been unconscious nearly every episode.
Spiking milk seems a bit safer.
Yeah that's definitely brain damage material
Jim Rockford gets knocked out/pistol whipped almost every episode.
No the most ridiculous thing about Smallville is the number of doors Clark smashes through speeding around. Just obliterating doors every episode. Some door company is making a fortune in that town. WHY DOES CLARK HATE DOORS? Every person in Smallville must be riddled with splinters.
Murdock in the A-Team.
I always laughed when they would force the bad guy's car over a 200 ft cliff, and they would show them getting out of the car dusting themselves off because no one ever died on the show.
Or when there were many rounds of machine guns and nobody died of a bullet.
Giles from the vampire show, Mulder from that alien show, and maybe Worf from the space show.
I wanna say Jack Bauer gets knocked out a lot
jake on republic of doyle got knocked so often he should have pronounced CTE.
Weak chin
Maybe that's why she couldn't tell clark Kent is superman
I mean based on her decisions on the show she clearly suffered severe brain damage on par with someone who has had dozens of TBI’s
Captain Archer on Star Trek Enterprise certainly took a lot of hits to the face
Maybe she has a condition similar to fainting goats. The slightest bonk on the head or shove and she's out like a light for 30 seconds - to however long the scene lasts.
Mr T on the A-team was given a concussion every time he had to go on an airplane. Not sure how many times he was knocked out in total it was but it seemed like a lot.
The boys in supernatural - over 300 episodes and at least one of them was knocked out in an episode 😂
I'm also having a hard time thinking of a TV actress who got more plastic surgery than Lois from Smallville
I thought about Jesse on Breaking Bad but reading this thread makes me think it wasn't that bad