Metal Corsets and Combat Wedges: An Armour Tier List 

Hey, Jill, about Melenia, i'm sure a lot of people will tell you but: The Golden right arm isn't armor, it's her arm. She has a prosthetic Magic arm.

same for the metal leg, it's actually her leg

@@amineelyoussoufi4371 true, I forgot it

Malenia's armoured arm is actually a magical prosthesis. I think her original arm rotted away thanks to the disease scarlet rot.

9:44 Hi Jill. A minor point regarding leather clothing and chafing: I used to reenact the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. I wore suede breeches and experienced no chafing even when they became damp from sweat. They were very good on horseback, also. I found them much better than denim while riding.

it's also cannonacly bullet proof

That's the best explanation ever!

And allows for easy use of cheap Sentai footage

In Super Sentai isn’t supposed to be chi enhancing

Well, whatever material Power Rangers suits are made of, we know the one thing they're very definitely NOT made out of: "THAT IS *NOT* SPANDEX!" - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lrAZUV8eEKc.html

Can’t hear anything over the “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers,” theme tune playing in my head. You mighty morphin power rangers, go go power rangers, make it stop.

Awwwwwww, I thought I was the only one! 😂

I was thinking the same thing, haha

lol! Me! "No capes!"

Having been on reddit for some time now, seeing this quote make me almost twitch convulsively

not if you plan properly, then the enemy that is in range of your archers doesn't have matching ranged weapons.

@@kenbrown2808 But if the enemy plans properly, your archers are in range of something of theirs capable of stopping you from raining unopposed fire onto their troops. Any plan that relies on the enemy co-operating is a bad plan.

@@rmsgrey well if you're on the walls of a castle on a hill the enemy kinda doesn't have a choice to be within your range without having you in range for a while. Emphasis on "for a while", they will be within range sooner rather than later anyways so you're wearing some armor because it's stupid not to, especially helmets and vital organ protection

@@rmsgrey if the enemy is capable of getting their archers in range of yours, you didn't plan properly.

@@tommihommi1 If you're dug in, and if the enemy decides to assault you anyway, then, yes, they have to pass through a region where they're in range but you aren't (though the presence of cover in the terrain potentially changes that). And, yes, a competent enemy will either stay out of your range, or get into their range as quickly as possible.

That huge long sword, lot of leverage, so much force on that shoulder joint... Maybe it should have broken off in that fight against radahn for other reasons.

@@FFKonoko probably, but this is also the universe where welding a bunch of swords haphazardly together makes for an even more powerful sword 😂 Of course them all being demi-gods and other nearly as powerful entities helps add credibility to the over-the-top nature of it all. Perhaps Melania holds a weight in her other hand so she can balance the extra long sword??

Yeah it's not really like, an issue with the video or anything but technically the only *armor* Malenia is specifically wearing would be the helmet.

@@MadHeart-rw9xh I thought she only has prosthetic arms and the legs are covered by greaves. Is it ever explicitly mentioned she lost her legs as well?

@@itsaUSBline Yeah they also seem to be prosthetics if I recall.

Looks like your keyboard had a lucky escape. 🤣

"See? Do you _see_ why your armour is bad?! Do...you...get...my... _point???"_

They are asking for it.

Well when it comes to a certain undead WOW archer, I'm pretty sure even most horde players are at the point where they want to stab her.

@@K__a__M__I _"I think that enemy got... the point!"_

Yeah, but I'll bet the number of people Jill has actually stabbed IRL is very close to zero.

Is there a "just stab me now" hoodie that fits over a cuirass?

@@thatHARVguy Might depend on the size of the cuirass.

@@AccidentalNinja Then a "just stab me now" tabard. EDIT: The *stabard.*

@@thatHARVguy The "Not actually armor" tabard would funnier, but both would be pretty hilarious.

@@AccidentalNinja More like which style it is made along - because Kastenbrust and some late cuirasses like the ones used by Napoleonic Cuirassiers and german/italian Stormtroopers are pretty tight, while other types look like you are wearing a barrel on your torso.

To be fair, she was young and didn't have to worry about some aspects. Plus jedi rarely had armor so getting shot in general was very bad...

Jill Valentine in Resident Evil 3, her standard outfit is a boobtube...

Yeah, when you're a Jedi, it's generally assumed that you will be deflecting all blaster fire with your saber.

I want to have /very angry words/ with George Lucas and Dave Filoni thinking it was okay to introduce a 14-year-old girl in a tube top and mini skirt, especially on a battle field.

@@Rachel-fi4sc I mean from the perspective of an adult looking at it, sure, but when I was that age, that's how most of the 14-year-old girls around me dressed, and so it read as realistic to me, not to mention sort of fits her character considering how reckless and flippant she is at first. Obviously in retrospect, it could use a bit of a tweak, and it's partly portrayals of young women like that in media that are responsible for young girls dressing that way, so I guess I'm not really trying to defend the culture around these kinds of portrayals at large, but just that I don't think this particular instance is the worst example.

Absolutely. I would wear that every day. Until the world ends.

I was debating between the two current options, but Could Be Worse would be a definite yes for me

i was surprised to find it wasn't in the merch list, because it's the first thing i imagined myself enthusiastically wearing in public when she mentioned tier list merch.

“Could be raining”

or when i go on a date :P

Fun fact, they still feel things to a degree. So they're still feeling the heat/cold and cuts from their own metal armour.

It's Blizzard... of course they don't care about women lol

I wanna know how they don't bash their own heads in with the pauldrons every time they draw their bow. Like impractical is one thing, but WoW armor has this awful habit of usually defying physics and clipping.

@@ghostbirdofprey A good 90% of the pauldrons in WoW would be self-decapitating.

The company full of rapists isn't big on treating women seriously!?! Say it isn't so!

Sylvanas got more armour-y armour in Shadowlands. Dude-bros everywhere cried and whined about it. Because of course they did. 😂

Yay goddess with very funky abilities. Oh no the abilities are also eating her own body away...

@@daefaron "You wished to be deadly to people. Well, you happen to be a people too, so..."

@@thatHARVguy She was actually born with the ability unfortunately.

@@itsaUSBline That explains the root of the matter.

They are inspired by real world historical armor! The Earth Nation is inspired by Qing Dynasty China, and Fire Nation has elements from Thailand and Cambodia.

Googled it: I’m pretty sure the pauldron is part of the arm. Probably made to go with her full suit of armor, and not very removable. In short, “not actually armor”.

Another fun fact, the archer ladies are all zombies with an inherent resistance to stabbings. One of them is even a Banshee that can possess any dead body if their own body was damaged beyond repair.

@@yannym4605 true, but they still do get hurt from stabby stabbies...it is Warcraft right? I've been so long away from WoW that a lot doesn't look familiar except for the annoying requirement for obnoxiously cleaveaged armor and chainmail-kinis.

Aww man that is a fun fact. That’s so cool

So, not actually arm? 🥁

@@thatHARVguy her sword is a very literal ARMament!

I dunno - maybe not right in the middle of another tier list? Tier list-ception sounds like a hell of a way to footgun yourself...

@@KernelLeak But what if it's a tier list of tier lists?

Variation thereof: "What is holding up that top anyway?" "Some boob glue and the prayers of her mother."

My hubby and I reference this movie whenever I don't know what to wear to an event. "Just wrap some strips of leather around your boobs and hope nothing freezes off".

Haven't heard that since Puss in Boots said it to Donkey.

Millennial moment

Link to video?

Shh! :D People who aren't Patrons haven't seen that one yet! :P

@@JillBearup oops, fixed!

Redheads unite!

That would an amazing crossover.

Also: IIRC if that body gets destroyed she can almost immediately just... Possess another one? It's not her original body, after all.

@@danniluxgarbe429 It actually is her original body. She got it back and possessed it a while after becoming a banshee. You are right that she could just possess another body if she ever lost her original one though.

@@Cabamacadaf My apologies. It is canon that she was, at one point, possessing a Night Elf body instead of her original High Elf body as a nod to her being a re-skinned Night Elf in 'vanilla' WoW, right?

i mean, it's the warcraft IP, so it's also worth reminding that the metal lingerie for most of the major female characters and the female PCs is a deliberate design choice for the male gaze, and everything in canon to justify its viability is just retconning. it doesn't matter that it's magic or she's super powerful. at the end of the day, it's always the female characters who are dressed like they're about to short an X rated movie and the male characters who are reasonably covered.

Well she can die (before shadowlands) and has done so a few times. But she trades spot with her servants(valkyrie) that takes her place in the afterlife / shadowlands so she can keep going. And yeah her story was ruined by new writers at blizzard. Going from an understandable revenge case to just a split personality nut job that claimed she wanted free will for everyone but instead went for mind control / brain washing and straight up genocide. Glad she is gone.

Why not both?

Because it's plot armour?

@@calalaeraI used to be an Adventurer like you.

I made the mistake of Googling. I have two words: Metal. G-string.

To be fair...she's already dead...

I mean, welcome to World of Warcrack armor? I can still recall how long my fiance spent probing WoWhead and other sites trying to find what armors would actually _look like armor_ for his female Blood Elf Paladin, instead of instantly turning into a tin bikini upon equipping, then hunting down entire sets of vanilla-era tier and rare-drop gear after the transmogrification vanity effect became a thing to fulfill his plans. He was always so annoyed because he'd made that toon with the idea of a serious character in mind (even though she was initially created as a joke, because our guild all created Paladin alts who were genderswapped from the player, dubbed the "Pally Alt Squad"), and it was impossible for him to take her completely seriously or be taken seriously with a toon in a tin bikini. Meanwhile, I mained a warlock who only once ever had to suffer the terrible fate of a female WoW toon, shortly after entering Hellfire Peninsula...where she got stuck with the pants that looked like a bikini bottom and thigh-highs, along with a shirt instead of robes that were the first upgrade rewards in the zone. Yet another reason I hauled butt to get out of that zone and into something better. >_>

I’ve done archery, and honestly the boobs weren’t an issue? I just didn’t hold the bow directly against me, and I assumed that was the way everyone did it? I don’t remember ever getting my boob snapped by the bowstring. I had the bowstring rip the brace off a few times which hurt like mad, but that was it. For the record, I’m not small chested, there’s an irritating amount of boob. It’s possible we wore chest guards, but I don’t really remember wearing one, but it was a while ago. And to the point of the straps holding the boobs down, that setup would never work for anyone bigger than a B cup: Keira got away with it because there’s not much to hold down, but if I tried archery with that setup, I’d definitely hit my boobs. Putting a strap just over the nipples to flatten things would result in the tissue above and below the strap to bulge, because the fat has to go somewhere, which creates two bumps to hit instead of one. A fully wrapped chest, from collarbone to waist, with the boobs pushed towards the sides, would be much more effective at battening down the hatches and getting things out of the way than a thin leather cord. I haven’t seen this movie, but I feel there’s no way to justify that outfit. It’s winter, she’s going into battle, it’s restrictive, and leather gets cold faster than cloth. It’s just a bad design, and clearly was done for eye candy. I’m not trying to be combative, btw. No negative vibes, just sharing my two cents as a lady doing archery.

@@AskMia411 Yeah, I am and know a lot of female archers that go into (Larp-) battle but none wears a chest guard, either full upper body protection against the stabby stabs or none for ease of movement (and because good armour is expensive and rare for women). But I am pretty sure most wear at least a bra underneath even the thinnest summer battle tunics, because, you know Larp battle is a sport. That alone gives some protection against a snapping string and if it is a sports bra that gives you boob loaf, the string would not even have a place to be stuck against. I've only regular seen chest guards on Kyudo archers, but these might also be more of a protection for the expensive kimonos underneath.

@@AskMia411 Yep, same. Larger-chested but I've never slapped my boob with a bowstring. My arm? Oh hell, yes. But the girls are completely safe.

@@AskMia411 Well, apparently I don't know anything about boobs :D Makes me wonder though why some women need/use chest guards though. Might be simply a difference in how someone draws their bow. And yeah, I agree on the fact that an outfit like that wouldn't make a lot of sense, just tried to give an explanation on why it might be as tight as it is

@@mirabellegoldapfel6256 oh yeah, bras are definitely a must, in any physical activity! I took a college fencing course, and we had some kind of plastic chest guard in various sizes, but limited amounts of each size, if you were unlucky and got one too small… well, boobs got stabbed. Not fun. Would not recommend. Anyways, back to the bras, a thing a lot of the writers and designers of the “just stab me now” class of armor don’t realize is that boobs aren’t just bags of fat, they’re mostly connective tissue and nerves and aren’t more elastic than anywhere else on the body. So going into battle in a chain mail bikini is impractical not only for the lack of coverage, but also because it would be literally painful to run around in without support! I had issues going on an old rollercoaster because my bra wasn’t supportive enough and it hurt like *hell*. Depending on cup size Even jogging without good support is painful. The male equivalent would be running around a battlefield in full armor, except with their entire groin area exposed, only protected by a tiny chain mail thong that doesn’t even cover the whole thing. I apologize for that image, but it’s useful when talking with the “It’s just a video game/movie, men are sexualized too!” crowd. Gets them to realize how bizarre boob plate actually is. Tldr; bras keep things steady enough for battle, chest protection is a must, and I get way too into these discussions because it’s fascinating to me. Sorry for the essay 😅

Eh, the prosthetic has a bracer like section, and the sword is built into it, so they are at least partly designed around being used in battle. Close enough.

There all prosthetics made by her brother Made of a special material to resist her scarlet rot. She is missing her legs and an arm as well as her eyes

Patrons/channel members are up to S4E6, so we're getting there. Once they've seen all (probably 13) episodes I'll put it up for general release :)

@@JillBearup I may have to face my moderate technophobia and look into how one becomes a RU-vid patron in that case. 😉

To be fair though, the Knights of the Round have decent armor. Everyone else in that movie is laughable at best.

Intro: Sarmatian great cavalery First scene, they ride into battle and dismount. Later, Gwen/Keira draws a bow with her mangled fingers. Sorry, I was distracted, there is a problem with the armor? 😂😂😂

@@etherealicer Ah, but Arthur fixed her mangled fingers by gently caressing them while staring deeply into her eyes, then warning her "This will hurt" and crunching them back into place.

@@beckymurphy4714 Just re-watched it to apprais the armor... got distracted by them not using that perfectly good wall to shoot their arrows from. And by all those spinning moves in combat. But worst of all revers gripping swords. Thumbs up for Gwens tactical roll though.

Absolutely! I would also love to hear Jill's thoughts on those.

Seconding the request of Galavant. Big fan of that show

@@adamn8156 Oh that is a delightful show. A good silly.

Working title: actual badass heroine

I like this, but I feel like it would work better on a longer time-frame. Because supermodels are kind of like bodybuilders in that they may work out a lot, but the goal is aesthetic- rather than performance-based. And on a female power-fantasy level, it would be really cool to see her bulk up, and upgrade her armor as her body changes. Especially if you opt for a sci-fi setting and she can repurpose advanced alien materials for armor.

@@Eloraurora The unofficial title of the movie is going to be Plot Convenience: the Film. "Oh look! An entire suit of armor that is both historically accurate, functional, and also fits me perfectly!" There is no way in hell this movie would be going for realism. LOL. Also, based on a conversation I had with another friend about this idea, I want these supermodel to be played by Melissa McCarthy. Not for laughs or cheap gags or anything. I just want to see her kicking ass with a broad sword!

@@GolemsandGoblins if the supermodel is to be played by Melissa McCarthy then she simply *must* be accompanied by "Spy" co-star Jason Statham! I envision his "armor arc" as inverse to hers; starting with sensible tactical gear and ending up in a fuzzy loincloth and chest-baring leather vest, with ridiculously oversized pauldrons, bracers, greaves, combat wedges, and impossible fever-dream weaponry. (edit: and, of course, a cumbersome cape) I'd even return to the theater to watch that! Twice! :D

😂

Cleaning is important!

I enjoyed the first couple seasons and I might one day go back to it but they lost me around... I wanna say Season 3. Like you said, heavy-handed messaging.

Anduin, _really?_

@@Brievel He forgot to be a river in Middle Earth and became a dude.

@@Brievel So, spoilers, his dad is dead at this point, Andiun is king, and he (again) thinks he has to be a warrior like his father instead of the priest he really is.

@@johannageisel5390 My husband (who is a big WoW player and despises Tolkien) and I (who am very meh about WoW and am a Tolkien devotee) have an on-going disagreement about just how much Tolkien has inspired the WoW devs. I'm fairly certain my position has more merit.

Yeah but nothing justifies *bare armpits*. I think of Jill every time Rayla is on screen. I really like her season four look though!

The thing that finally persuaded me was that it's written by some of the same people who made Avatar, so the characters and story are really strong for a kids' show.

its terribly written though

@@gregsmw What do you mean?

@@gregsmw Wow, what descriptive criticism! I'll keep that tip in mind next time I write something.

@@AleyK I mean the show has bad writing I got about maybe half way through season one before I couldn't cope with it anymore Characters constantly behave out of character whenever the plot needs them to Arguements and confrontations happen for no reason purely because the writer knew there needed to be a confrontation there Every episode feels as though it has been written back to front, they had an end point in mind, and worked backwards "we have Z, so how do we get that, idk maybe Y happens, but why does Y happen, how about X happens to cause Y" etc etc without any real thought into those events, they need Z to happen so the characters must do X, why would they do X? They wouldnt it makes no sense logically in context or in character, but they have to because Z needs to happen It was a badly written show

And remember, that is Sylvanas with her armor reduced... From like... Wrath to BFA her armor was even less, no corset just bikini and pants

on the plus side they added stomach protection to Sylvanas and Alexstrasza so I like to think someone on the art team is paying attention!

I found another Shea-ite!!! Yep, I always think of Kit during these videos and I think of Jill and "Just stab me now" when I'm reading Retha. 🤣🤣

Yes! Yes, yes, yes! So glad to find other Champions!

King Arthur twice and Dragon Prince not even once is clearly the wrong way round.