Can outlier happened in real life?

[Rarcelroy]

Recently I have debate with someone that claim a trained soldier alone could beat Levi Ackerman.
I said
"impossible Levi literally tanking explosion and he have building level attack potency, how come he could lose to a athlete level soldier"

then he said

"Oh well U.S soldier has recorded surviving and tanked a japanese bomb in pearl harbour and also even an normal human could beat Levi himself, there's a soviet scientist who tanked a nuclear from short range in Chernobyl"

Well then can outlier happened in real life?

 

[Antoniofer]

There exist instances of humans performing feats above what they can do in normal conditions, mostly due body functions such adrenal activation and possibly others. Humans surviving stuff that would generally kill the average individual is not something unheard of neither.

 

[DarkDragonMedeus]

Most IRL outliers are more or less commonly seen as possibilities or likelihood there is a higher power out there. But there are cases of humans performing feats that they normally can't when desperation calls for it. Scientific studies have also shown that pure impulse and instinct does have the power to make a human react far faster and thus grant them much greater momentum than normal.

 

[FinePoint]

Real life is extremely complicated.
The mathematics and biology which go into whether or not someone survives something is far more complex than the simple energy-based math we simplify to on the wiki.
Angles, obstructions, material properties, surface area, and other physical factors can play massive mitigating roles in damage done to people in certain situations.
Someone getting lucky enough to survive an explosion in specific circumstances does not mean they can do so in normal circumstances.