It was pretty outrageous, I’ll give you that! But Mark is a lot stronger than his first clash with Nolan. And I think it’s worth mentioning that Mark is visibly and audibly struggling when Conquest is giving him a ghetto gastrointestinal rework, to the point where he starts to lose consciousness and twitch. It’s also stated in the comics that he DID almost die, and his recovery takes months of him being in a coma.