Today’s version of the bullet stopping bible of the Old West is the iPhone.
My favorite version of those stories was a WWII Bill Mauldin cartoon of Willie and Joe in a foxhole in Europe, and one of them is penning a letter to Margaret Mitchell, starting with, "Dear Miss Mitchell, I was carrying a copy of your big book 'Gone With The Wind' in my breastpocket..."
Perhaps the victim had just downloaded a Bible App on to his iPhone?
And then there was Clark Kent's "lucky silver dollar":
Source: Adventures of Superman: Season 2 - Episode 5: "Shot in the Dark"
- Original Broadcast Date: October 12, 1953Excerpt:
Inside a locked safe, there was the picture of Superman changing into to Clark Kent. Now, thanks to heat vision, it is nothing but ashes. The Man of Steel has also refused to give into Burnside's threats. He has flown away before Jimmy Olsen arrives with Inspector Henderson and his men. Shortly afterwards, Clark Kent joins the group. Desperate, Burnside intends to prove that Clark and Superman are the same person before he is sent to prison for fraud and murder. Kent steps back while Burnside grabs a gun he had hidden. The weapon fires, but the bullet doesn't hurt Clark. The mild mannered reporter explains that a lucky silver dollar inside his jacket pocket had stopped the projectile. As Burt "The Tulip" Burnside is arrested, Henderson, Jimmy and the police officers all laugh at the notion that Kent is Superman. Clark doesn't find it amusing.
"Aw, don't worry, Mister Kent," Jimmy says. "We think you're all right just like you are."
"Thanks, Jimmy," Clark replies with a smile to the audience.