From what I gather the Thanos twinblade was made as a literal joke and reference to the Thanos Helicopter.

@julianvenegas642

24 күн бұрын

Ok.. that’s hilarious

@FrozEnbyWolf150

24 күн бұрын

A scene where Thanos holds it overhead, twirls it around, and flies home to his farm would have made that movie a million times more watchable.

@ohdannyboy4727

24 күн бұрын

I never noticed but it makes perfect sense. Explains why he doesnt really use it in the movies.

@Hassohappa

24 күн бұрын

I often find it appropriate to give the final villain of an 11 year, 21 film story arc a terrible joke weapon as a reference to a meme.

@sipenarekbecha7193

24 күн бұрын

​@@FrozEnbyWolf150 or, the next best thing..make the Trio waited for him to 🚁 down from his mothership using this dual-blade 🤫

'If only it rotated around the handle.' Skall accidentally recreates the Inquisitor lightsaber.

@RhinoBarbarian

23 күн бұрын

It did rotate around the handle in the film. You can see that right after Thor supercharges Iron Man.

@johannessmith1369

14 күн бұрын

NGL I actually do like the Inquisitor sabers.

@franktheprank7336

6 күн бұрын

​@@RhinoBarbarian Yeah, and my question is how!? That thing isn't even fully circular... like the blades would just fly off as soon as you try and make it spin 😂

@RhinoBarbarian

6 күн бұрын

@@franktheprank7336 Simple: The tracks they are on are longer than the gaps. With the size of the blades, it can be accomplished very easily.

- I wonder, why Loki presented me this sword? - So you get yourself killed? - Yes, it makes sense.

This is the perfect weapon for someone who wants his opponent to win

@johnkeyes9482

24 күн бұрын

So that’s why Thanos lost

@RhinoBarbarian

23 күн бұрын

I mean, Thanos's only real weakness in the comics was his subconscious urge to lose.

@HiopX

23 күн бұрын

one wound for you and one for me. Perfectly balanced

@robertagu5533

23 күн бұрын

Think it was less his choice of weapons as HOW he used it

@vitriolicAmaranth

23 күн бұрын

There's a weapon for everyone

2:50 it only takes a single push to go from "parrying stick" to "parting stick"

@whyjay9959

23 күн бұрын

The divorcéemaker.

I assumed the "bad" design was intentional. The dude's obsessed with "balance" at the cost of everything else, and this is a very literal way to show that.

@biohazard724

24 күн бұрын

He's also canonically self-defeating, so choosing a sword that has an equal chance to injure himself makes sense.

@assarhadon

23 күн бұрын

Then dual-wield identical swords goddamit!

@PatchedSphynx

23 күн бұрын

If anyone puts so much (over)thinking into their fantasy story they should be ashamed, but asking for some originality is not in the realm of thought or mental gymnastics these days, it seems...

@FarseerOfCearath

23 күн бұрын

@@PatchedSphynx Are you having fun right now? I _hope_ you're having fun.

@Empathy_is_Logical

23 күн бұрын

​@@PatchedSphynx I take it you've never read anything about your favorite series and authors. I would encourage you to, knowing things and having critical thinking a lot cooler than being an Internet troll.

Really making the Klingon Bat'leth look fantastic and practical in comparison.

@fernadogonzalez2940

23 күн бұрын

Hey the bat`leth is a dueling weapon nit really meant for practical combat

@Xyler94

23 күн бұрын

@@fernadogonzalez2940 The Rapier was also a dueling weapon... and more than capable of actual combat.

@aaftiyoDkcdicurak

23 күн бұрын

fernadogonzalez2940 I always thought a light batleth would be a good weapon but a heavy ones would make a great duel.

@irrelevantfish1978

23 күн бұрын

Actually, Skall has experimented with the Bat'leth in the past and concluded that it's surprisingly effective. I highly recommend checking those videos out, even if you're like me and don't like _Star Trek_ much, as they end up being a bit of a study in weapon design theory.

@robertagu5533

23 күн бұрын

Except that the famous Klingon "sword" has ACTUALLY been tested. Skall himself has even ran test on some such weapons... If your skilled enough with bladed/staff weapons or a mix of them Bat' leths ACTUALLY can make VERY nasty weapons just as designed an intended

3:47 Didn't he literally do that in the movie? His hand didn't spin but the blades did, that's why the "guard" is curved downward, they are supposed to spin around the handle, that's why they point to opposite sides. Not to say it's a "good" design, just that he did use it exactly like that.

@LordDragox412

23 күн бұрын

Yup, it has a Thanos-copter mode inspired by inquisitor lightsabers from Star-Wars, except he couldn't use it to fly.

On the bright side, it's a great throwing weapon, you can spin it all you want and not care about how it lands. And if your opponent picks it up, that's a free win!

@M.W.H.

23 күн бұрын

You can't even throw it right.

@yuvx8516

23 күн бұрын

With telekinesis wizardry it's alright

@LordDragox412

23 күн бұрын

@@M.W.H. It's said that Thanos could throw it and it would return like a boomerang. My question is how would he catch it? He could also extend the guard into a circle and make it spin (like Inquisitor lightsaber from Star-Wars), but sadly he couldn't Thanos-copter himself with it (unlike inquisitors).

A short but fun video The only thing I like about this weapon is that its based on the Thanos coptor. Sadly not all writers know anything about weapons so they try to just make something cool without keeping functionality in mind which gets us these monstrosities lol

"perfectly balanced" because the center of mass is in the center, and as you strike your opponent you also strike yourself

Add a pole through the handle and use it like a helicopter umbrella.

@FrozEnbyWolf150

24 күн бұрын

Like the lightsaber parasol used by Kouru.

@siekensou77

23 күн бұрын

If you extend the central handle into a pole length. It's much more usable. Polearm form.

I'm waiting for the counter argument from Thanos in his homeworld being like "no this isn't fantasy, here's my not-really-resembling copy of the weapon! I'll show you how i damage enemies and myself with it!"

@LordDragox412

23 күн бұрын

Thanos: I heard about those cool helicopter lightsaber thingies that some so called inquisitor dudes had, so I ordered one for myself long ago from a galaxy far far away.

There are actually historical KNIFES with this general shape, primarily the Sudanese double dagger, which is about 22 inches or 56 centimeters long and was one piece of construction. I have forded two blades in this style for the fun of the challenge, and it's the scariest knife I have ever tested. the blade actually does do the helicopter of death in one scene.

@Anino_Makata

24 күн бұрын

Okay, now this design makes more sense as a fighting dagger. So long as the points don't extend past the user's elbows, fatally injuring oneself would be more deliberate than accidental. And it could also have valid defensive applications, if you brace the downwards pointing blade against the forearm and block with it, like how you would with a tonfa. This concept just doesn't scale up to a sword design. The best example I can think where a double-ended sword could be practically used was in Transformers: Dark Of The Moon. Sentinel Prime had a blade like that when he dueled Optimus in the end, but he had his paired with a large shield. In that use case, it just becomes a short glaive without the reach advantage (because you can't slide your hand down the handle to gain extra distance). That's the best I can think of.

@guyincognito959

24 күн бұрын

As a shorter blade you can at least do two reasonable strikes (slashing up and striking the point down). And someone who didn't train with this would be at a disadvantage trying to pick it up. A big old stick would probably be better still, but if the blade is pointy you could use it to get through armour.

@gundanium3126

23 күн бұрын

​@@Anino_Makata@Anino_Makata (I am not a martial arts user; I am a humble smith, so I can't judge based on use, but I can judge based on design) agreed, but well, the question is, is it a true sword for Thano's who is about the same height as the hulk at eight foot five inches tall or is it just a oversized knife . (going by them fighting in Avengers Infinity war as Thano's height is not listed on marvel fandom but the Hulk is) or is it more an oversized knife? eather way with how its designed, like 2 buster swords ducktaped together it does not work. the advantage of a knife with this shape is it's offensive options.

@kombucha_director

22 күн бұрын

@@gundanium3126the blades in the movie are proportionally bigger, so it is sword sized for the purple dude. If some had doubts whether Thanos is crazy, his weapon of choice should answer that :D

@gundanium3126

16 күн бұрын

@@kombucha_director I was recalling the scaling too. and thinking its the equivalent of a longer dagger approaching short sword size on both ends.

i like to imagine he did a british museum and got it from a planet of telekinetic beings, that used them as like spinning weapons of death via mind power

If magic can't fix then, then a cutting saw would.

It doesn't even look good (TO ME). You can't even do anything practical with it.

@user-xx1hv4yj2d

24 күн бұрын

That's an issue with many fantasy weapons for me. Not just they would be impractical irl, they feel impractical even within a setting. Like, even when characters use them on a screen, you don't understand, how they manage to do it. For example, Frostmourne is a badly designed sword, but it looks like a sword still. You believe it can be used like one. And the staff like Thanos' blade... It cannot be used like a sword, neither even like a double lightsaber. Seems like Thanos himself is not completely sure, how to fight with it. He shows neither some cool choreography, nor any interesting ways to use it. He just swings randomly, and somehow manages to defeat everyone. It just looks dumb for me.

This weapon gets clowned on a lot online for being ludicrous and impractical (which it would be, don't get me wrong,) but within its context, I actually think it makes a lot of sense, and is pretty cool. In the movie, Thanos does just magically spin the thing with some kind of telekinesis, as well as boomerang it the same way, and its shape would make it extremely good at that specific thing, which makes me think that was the entire point. If that's how it's _intended_ to be used as its primary purpose, and wielding it as a regular weapon is more of just an afterthought, then the design isn't really bad at all, and even makes a lot of sense. Its unwieldiness could even be a benefit in that case; if its owner lost it, and someone who didn't have telekinesis picked it up, they'd have an extremely difficult time using it. Of course, the movie does have him swinging it like a regular sword as well, but that could be a case of inconsistency/lack of communication behind the scenes. But overall, I don't think the Thanos twinblade is as stupid a design as people make it out to be, specifically because of the fact that, in-universe, it can actually spin like a helicopter blade via space techno-magic. Designs that are smart and functional when supernatural powers are involved never really translate well into real life.

OMG it's the Thanos-copter! Why did I not realize this?

@davidweihe6052

23 күн бұрын

I assume that the Thanos-copter is from the Comics (which I never read) and not from the 1970s animated TV programs or from the Avengers: movies?

@LordDragox412

23 күн бұрын

A puny imitation of Inquisitor-copter from Star-Wars. He couldn't even use it to fly! >:P

It's like all the disadvantages of a reverse gripped sword, without the few advantages of a double bladed sword. The downward blade is pointing towards you so like, it does less than nothing

Hot tip about driving. Do not, and I repeat myself, /do not/ move your hands past each other while turning a steering wheel at any speed higher than a crawl. You'll make it dangerously difficult for yourself to suddenly change directions if you need to swerve to avoid something.

@02:51 - World's fastest vasectomy...

Would make for a great Elden Ring twinblade, so long as it only activates Seppuku on the first attack you perform, not all of them.

@NeutralDrow

14 күн бұрын

Twinblades were the first thing I thought of. The second was "why is the grip so *_SHORT_* ???"

@umbranoctis4348

14 күн бұрын

@@NeutralDrow I guess they just wanted to make the Thanos-Copter joke, and a purple CGI-dude isn't gonna complain about how uncomfortable the handle is.

There is a Hylian Shield and Master Sword behind him, and he gets the Thanos Copter instead. The sacrifices this man makes...

Thanos: II require a weapon like no other. Armorer: Say no more! (Proceeds to make thee most DOUBLE K.O. weapon ever)

I couldn't even suspend my disbelief with this during the movie. Giant battle going on and my eye still went straight to the sword and I internally screamed, "WTF were they thinking?!"

I am pretty sure in the movie the blade spinns without Thanos moving the hand, still not sure it was an intended design or it was impossible for the actor to actually perform the motion.

Lengthen the Grip, into a Double headed sword spear and include a mechanism to separate the blades, and it is MUCH more usable.

I'm loving this; Skall is in rare form; showing stupid fantasy weapons no mercy. I really hope we reach a renaissance in pop-culture when functional, practical, realistic weapons become popular and prefered over excessively stylized, janky, gaudy abominations.

I AM LOVING THIS SERIES OF VIDEOS. Keep em coming!

Your parrying device idea works best if held flat on like parrying daggers were. The only two positions I could think to work with this are Di Grassi's broad ward or a high hanging/ox guard.

If they lenghten the handle a bit and make the blade face the same way. Might work.

I appreciate that lady showing all the silly stuff and talking about it all from the pov of marital artist, business owner & as a fan of various media. Thanks Miss Cool Lady for doing all this with our boy Skall!

I have it! It was meant to be a thrown weapon, but Thanos, like all great military commanders, needed a "pointing stick" more so he never got to use it as it was intended.

Someone at Marvel saw Cloud's sword and said "we need two of that"

I still prefer to think that Thanos needed a weapon really quick, so he plucked the rotor off his helicopter and said, "Eh, good enough."

I could watch Mississauga cuts forever 🙌

She had WAY too much fun pushing that sword into your nads!

Meanwhile in the comics Thanos doesn't use a sword and instead flies around on his suped-up flying chair complete with its own weapon systems.

@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369

23 күн бұрын

the menace of Metron

I think I found a technique for making the Thanos sword work: Give it to a rotary drone (since their structure wouldn't be hindered by the design since the sword would be underslung from the drone body) and then Thanos can control it (although from the clips of the Avengers films I've seen he's more the army commander and so when the 2 big armies face off at the end of Endgame he ought to be coordinating strategic and perhaps operational military matters so perhaps should give a drone pilot this job) without it being a biomechanical issue.

No, see, what actually happened was that Thanos picked up this cursed sword as a child and then spent the rest of his life trying to find a way to get rid of it or at least fix it so it's a usable weapon. His final attempt was to get rid of half of the universe in hope it'll get rid of half of this monstrosity to be left with a normal sword, but that failed. All that balance stuff was him being too ashamed to actually admit the issue.

"thanos is still humanoid" Okay now I'm curious, design a fantasy race for which this _Would_ be practical.

OBVIOUSLY the sword maker should consult with master Skallagrim for a design overhaul

@Skallagrim

23 күн бұрын

Your sarcasm is no match for my cranky ACKSHUALLY! :p

@danstotland6386

23 күн бұрын

@@Skallagrim How can I defend against your knowledge, experience. and belligerence? I hereby surrender.

This sword is so cool ... if you need a cooling fan.

This randomly reminded me of a silly fantasy weapon idea I had as a kid lol basically it was a sword with a second, smaller blade poking out horizontally from the pommel. The idea was that if you missed a stab or a swing you could throw out a second slash with the pommel blade as you wind back up for another swing. Mostly I just thought it would be funny to have a weapon that looked like you were holding a giant letter

"...just supposed to look cool." But it looks stupid. Stupid can never be cool.

That Loki staff is the background looks nice though 😁

I love how it says 'double edged sword' in the online shopping screenshot even though this is clearly a double bladed one.

@Madman13K

19 күн бұрын

A double edged sword in the figurative sense is something that works against you as much as it helps, and I think it's fair to say this most definitely is that

I'd love to see a follow up or additional testing with the Zombie Tools Sharkalope

thanos just took the saying double edge sword to a whole different level 😂😂😂

It is a wall-hanger only. Even the Klingon _Bat’leth_ has its pointy parts aimed at your opponent.

I think Thanos' sword was made for him so he could still grip it with his uberglove on. This thing was massive, so the handle would need extra space, but it wasn't meant to be two-handed at all. Maybe he's just that much of a Chad that he just swirls that thing one-handed.

What did it cost you!? Thanos: A lot of self-inflicted injuries xD

Good gods... It's like someone wanted to give Thanos a bat'leth, but was told they needed to make it Not a bat'leth.

Yeah the Thanos war Glaive made absolutely no sense. Especially when it spun arpund rewlly fast.

Simple Solution - Backhand-spinning. Makes it more useful. And is pretty thematic for it.

This makes me curious to see Skall review the Warglaives of Azzinoth.

this is not a wallhanger blade. this is a CEILING-hanger blade, as then you can fix a motor to it and it doubles as a ceiling fan.

i saw this movie and I honestly had no memory of this weapon. I just recall a hazy sword-like object vaguely being swung. so even its bizarre uniqueness didn't really leave any impact, at least the way they showcased it.

The thing is, it does actually spin rapidly in the movie. Thanos does that to create a shield against Iron Man's laser fire, like the Inquisitor's lightsabers in Star Wars Rebels. But double bladed lightsabers work where this one doesn't because the blade functions in any direction at any speed, and needs much less leverage to swing, so flicking the back end at someone is easy and still dangerous. This thing would weigh so much that moving it effectively would be ridiculous. However, it does look cool in action.

Lol, I was just going to say what you said just before 4 minutes. Inspector Gadget with that sword would be terrifying.

Magic can fix that. I have never seen Scalla throw lightnings.

Ahhhh the reverse canted quillons thing, I just want to cry when I see it, and I see if more and more often for exemple in fantasy designs, Those designs sadly pop up not only in werstern rpg games, western book ilustrations, but also I saw it in relativly new animes and it was in more than 2 titles. I love those reverse canted toward your own wrist quillons, that want to break your own wrisst or deflect incoming bladde straight into your own forearm.

Remember the time when Thanos had a Yellow Helicopter? I think that he just saved the blades for, like, Good memories? XD

If this is meant to be a helicopter weapon, there definitely needs to be more space on the handle to comfortably spin that thing. Especially with hands as big as Thanos'

This shows what a badass Thanos is. He fights with the worst possible sword to embarrass his enemies. "I don't need a decent sword to finish you off, I can even use this piece of crap" That's how you show your enemies who's the boss.

The replica itself is beautiful, what a great work. I know it's a stupid design, but it looks really cool and goes with his "balance" theme

Thanos spun it in one had, and also threw it like a boomerang

An exotic weapon that you would never swing in a "normal" way. I rewatched Thanos fight with it and he swings with his arms considerably further away from his body than someone with a normal sword would(props to the choreographer for that fight, that must have been a pain to make look smooth). instead of swinging and using his joints he tends to keep his elbow permanently bent a certain amount to keep the blade far away from his body while swinging with the predictable angles that would require. He also chains attacks along the rotation the weapon requires and uses it as a defensive weapon a lot blocking several strikes with the broad flats and of course beams attacks with the Soi Soi Soi Helicopter.

You're looking at it as a double-bladed sword when you should be looking at it as a half-swordable double-headed spear.

What’s interesting about double-ended weapons is that the bigger the handle and smaller the weaponized bits are, the more practical it gets. I’d theorize that the shorter the blades and the longer the handle on a “twinblade” weapon, the more effective and less danger you yourself it’ll be. That’d eventually just be a spear with a butt spike though. Or just a quarter staff, which is entirely handle, but significantly more useful than this design.

Wanna see Skall talk about Prince Nuada's Spear from Hellboy 2 the Golden Army. Whether it's the iklwa inspired short spear or the lance like long spear variant, it is a genuinely amazing fantasy weapon.

thanos's... thing... is basically a discount version of Zidane's Butterfly Sword in Final Fantasy IX, which has a bunch of beautiful variations but all featuring a much longer handle between the symmetric blades on the end. almost a double ended polearm more than a sword.

Perhaps a subtle nod at why Thanos's obsession with his philosophy of "Balance" is ultimately self defeating?

I think they'd intended him to throw it more, hence the helicopter blade... for fun: if I were to try to use it myself, I would hold it as pictured, so that the reverse blade's sharp edge was away from my body, and I would thrust with it and make a hook-punch motions, levering the spine of the reverse blade on my own ribs. but I'm pretty sure it's supposed to Comic-Book-Boomerang around, they just didn't do that as much in the films (the did a little bit, if I recall correctly, just not as much as it's designed for).

The helicopter of death thing you mentioned was actually done by the gelgoog from gundam

That weapon always struck me as a piece of machinery, not a weapon, but Thanos used it as one because it was just barely weapon-shaped enough, and made of indestructible material that could even cleave vibranium. Maybe he destroyed an enemy ship of otherwise impossible material, and this blade was something he salvaged from it.

I believe Thanos never felt the weight of this blade, and it was mostly to show of his skill rather to be useful. Its like handicapping oneself to prove you are better than others.

If I could afford the cosplay Thanos blade I'd make a Thanos hand that looks chopped off and put it up on display lol

I'm really enjoying this series

Lol it's the first time I notice, that thing is hideous, awesome video Skall

Either this was Marvel's bright idea or Thanos had a bigger ego than sense.

I think that sword was made specifically for that one scene where he spins it to block a beam attack and nothing else cuz even when he uses it for hitting he doesn't really make use of the twin...ness, just swings it like a regular sword.

This arc is looking fire so far ngl

--3:37... you suddenly reminded of many, of your fellow enthusiasts, trashtalking nunchucks..lol.."actually have a better chance of hitting yourself just as often, if not more". Also, how it's best to have enemies that don't actually move around much..("beginners level footwork skills").

OOOOOOOO it's a reference to Thanos' Helicopter!

Dude is channeling his inner AVGN

It could be a neat symbolic executioner's sword? Kind of like, "we calm ourselves in ending this life, lest our rage end our own." That's the best plus side I got.

I would call your attention to the blood elven guards in Silvermoon city! (World of warcraft)

Lmfao you said exactly what i was thinking literally the only purpose I could think that would actually work with an abomination sword like that is seppuku unfortunately. But you said exactly what was in my head when I racked my brain trying to think of a situation where a sword like that would be affective in real life.

I kinda just assume because he's already so much bigger and stronger than most other humanoids he doesn't need to do large follow-through strikes. And that he mostly uses it to dismantle heavily armoured individuals/vehicles with short powerful strikes, or he uses it as crowd control for when he's surrounded by a lot of smaller weaker enemies, probably employing a lot of pivoting in his style and using the bottom self facing blade as an immediate rear-sweeper when he turns

Reminds me how I feel about single hand double bladed lightsabers.

@aaronottermann5824

23 күн бұрын

Yeah but at least you have infinite edge alignments in the lightsaber, it's just a super stick that you can only touch in the middle.

@AEsir_Goji

23 күн бұрын

@@aaronottermann5824 true

3:52 I HAVE actually seen this done in a video game. The Gelgoog has a move like that in Mobile Suit Gundam: Earth Federation vs Zeon for the PS2.

I might be wrong but don't the blades rotate around the hilt? like a physical version of the Inquisitor lightsaber?

That’s not a sword that’s a helicopter tail rotor - which is infinitely more terrifying.

Love it SKALL

If both sharp edges faced in the same direction, then although it would be VERY heavy and clumsy in comparison to a staff, it would be safe to use.

Swing it like you’re throwing a haymaker. Only dramatic motions. Never in line with your body/center. Big fancy costumes don’t move organically.

Thanos was one of those “too strong to care” type of characters. Also, most of his swings from the side, sort of like throwing a haymaker, but with a sword. So the extra blade would be covering his flank from would be melee attackers.

Well...self defeating sword. Oh...just noticed it in the title)