ok, here's how it works. It's called the anime/video game method. In animes and video game, THINGS DO NOT MAKE SENSE! See, this is like asking how Cloud got such precise jumping in the Sephiroth scene. It doesn't matter where the bullet hit, cause it wouldn't change anything. It could hit him square in a nut and there'd be no more than a scratch. Cause he's the main character.

But if you must know, the bullet hit his goggles and somehow it didn't kill him, even though a shot at point black range like that would kill you, even if they hit bullet proof goggles. Bullet-proof does not mean bullets cannot pierce something, especially that close.

The thread when yazoo shoots cloud is a decusion of this(Just wanting to point this out).

And yes Yazoo shoot but was just playing with cloud and shoot him so the bullet bounced off the metal edge of his goggles and sent them flying as well as leaving a scar on Cluds forhead.

Also the goggles weren't bullet proof they were just strong enough to knock away a bullet that skims them. Also Yazoo was about half a metre to a metre away because of there bikes he couldn't get close enough for a point blank range shoot.

first whats a metre second i agree it doesnt matter what happens to cloud hes gonna live its the only way to whore out th ffvii series and just look at the end of advent children he got shot and caught in a massive explosion and yet he came back to life that tells you right there that a bullet to the head is nothing big...

I think for being shot in the head, only leaving with a scratch isn't too bad. I wonder how much Cloud is questioning how he's still alive?