Weapons for super strength revisited! FANTASY RE-ARMED 

"That thing was too big to be called a sword. Too big, too thick, too heavy, and too rough, it was more like a large hunk of iron."

Idea! Step 1: Wear very, very heavy armor Step 2: Run in a straight line

I've always said superman should have made himself a huge suit of lead armour to counter the effects of kryptonite in combat

The thumbnail is Shad once he takes his coat off.

Just give em' a 20000 pound draw weight bow so they can fire mach 3 arrows that nuke cities from orbit.

Why not using the ennemy as a weapon... If it breaks, too bad, pick up another one.

I want to see a fight scene with two people with super strength and durability fight with weapons that bend and break after like 2 hits against the opponent or environment. There would be an array of choices scattered about for them to use.

Dark Souls: Accidentally realistic.

My friend and I once talked about Spider-Man using a giant sword. With his agility, speed and strength. He could control it or ride the inertia. But more importantly, his sticking powers means he could find leverage wherever he stands. Also he could remove the handle and just hold the blade relying on his Spider-sense to not grab the edge.

Super strength and durability could imply that we could use our fingers to minimize surface area, making fingerpunches incredibly effective. Call it the backup dagger of a superstrong and durable person. Combat sports like jiu jitsu, which favor grappling over striking, would be incredibly advantageus as well. You could simply squeeze and crumble people to death, although that would be gruesomely graphic.

There's one weapon that they could definitely make use of: steel/depleted uranium etc spheres. Assuming you have super strength but not super-mass (but definitely super durability since you would basically just rip yourself apart otherwise), you basically just pitch a baseball made of a strong material. You're letting go of most of the momentum you generate except for the momentum of your arm and rotation of your body. You might fly forward and spin a bit but you could basically be a human tank gun/rail gun depending on your exact strength.

It's actually a topic raised in an old manga "Dragon Quest: the adventure of Dai". The hero at some point becomes so strong that he breaks the weapons he uses, and he has to find a great weaponsmith and a special metal in order to be able to fight full force again. I thought you might like to hear about it. (It's a very small part of the adventure which lasts 37 volumes but still)

I always find these fantasy re-armed videos in particular very interesting.

Some of the super strength issues like breaking things when trying to lift them could make for an interesting plot. Instead of the classic "I don't control my own strength" a super strong character could have full control over the strength but be ignorant to the ways it actually works(so maybe he would need a friend with lots of knowledge about physics that helps him apply his power efficiently). If someone tries to make a book out of it, I believe the friend should be called Shad

Boulder would be best. Throw boulder, Smash with boulder. Or if by body of water, throw boulder into water so hard it makes a tidal wave.

Clubby sword? Clord. Or.... SLUB!

I love how dark souls is THE reference when it comes to medieval over-sized fantasy weapons (and armor) :P

So here we were, thinking Sauron and the Witch King had magical weapons, when really, they are just super strong and wearing very heavy armor and wielding very heavy weapons. Which is why Sauron can just blast enemies into the air with his mace, and the Witch King can break shields to pieces with a single swing of his flail xD

6:01 Havel The Rock. Beautiful reference and a really sad story.

I'm just imagining someone with super strength having a Spartan shield. That shield bash/punch would be absolutely devastating!

Shad: "Just keep Spinning like a helicopter of death!" Garen: *Demacia Intensifies*

Now, what's the best weapon for fighting emus? Oh, wait. I probably shouldn't ask an Australian...

Imagine a weapon that is just a chainmail bag of pommels on a long chain rope.

20:00 so use the goblin slayer stratagem then hit someone with a weapon, it breaks, pick up their weapon hit the next person.

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Giant Dad was right, heavy armor really is the way to go.

So... Adamantium Clubby Swords with detachable pommels, so you can end them rightly? Just 1 question though, what about dragons?

Love the video but you have a MAJOR misconception about how muscle fibers work Shad: Slow twitch fibers and fast twitch fibers aren't called slow or fast because they create fast or slow movements. They are to distinguish muscles fibers which produce low amounts of force for very long periods of time (slow twitch) or great amount of force for a short amount of time (fast twitch). Slow twitch fibers use oxygen to be very energy efficient, but cant produce massive amount of force at once. They are relatively weak, but have high endurance. Marathon runners for example have exeptionally good developed slow twitch fibers (yet they aren't running slow in any way) Fast twitch fibers need much less oxygen, and can produce much stronger contractions, resulting in more force output (which, depending on training, can result in both more speed AND strength). However, they fatigue very quickly, often depleting there energetic potential within seconds, before having to recover. Both powerlifters (strength) and Boxers (speed) train in a way to improve their fast twitch fibers. So, in regards to the biology of super strength, having enhanced slow twitch fibers WON'T make you super strong, it will give you super human endurance. Enhanced fast twitch fibers would give you both super strength AND super speed, and which one is more dominant depends on how well you brain is able to send signals to your motor units (bundled muscle fibers) quickly, and how many motor units it can access at once. Hope that helped clear things up a little bit, still like the video, just had to address it. Keep up the good work.

At top-tier strength, when dedicated weapons are not capable of surviving prolonged, or even one-time use, improvised weapons come in play. Basically grab the largest piece of rock, or machinery you have around and hit your enemy with it. If you happen to be near a baobab, uproot it in one swift motion, use it as a club once or twice and discard in pieces.

7:17 We saw that We all saw that You can't hide Shad

i love how you used dark souls pics, just started playing it again actually lol, thats a good point as well about the weight of the armor allows for a heavier weapon, however what about thrown weapons, if you have super strength and work on you hand eye coordination until you can nail a bullseye @ a km with super heavy thrown darts, or even a bow that only someone with super strength could bend (scorpion king/ game of thrones giant bow hybrid)

At the super-superstrength levels you'd use normal-material weapons to lower the lethality of combat.

I saw the thumbnail and thought, 'Hmm. Looks like Shad's been working out over Christmas!'

I don't think this Clubby Sword could be called an actual sword. It's too big, too thick, too heavy. It's more like...

14:58 It was too thick, too long, and too wide to be a sword. Really, it was more like a sharp hunk of iron

I love this video. It justifies one of my (as a DM) a super-strong Brownie's limitations (ally to the party). Brownies are tiny, by the way. He was super strong, about equal to a burly human fighter. He used a human-sized (normal) longsword. He had to specialize in his lower body mass being an issue, being more like the motor to the sword and having to use the economy of motion. He used his super strength to spring far and wide and had to spin and tumble when he missed in a martial arts recovery. Being super-strong does not mean you have the mass and leverage to not have other issues, great video Shadiversity.

Hulk knows the answer: hit tank with tank.

Make the weapon whatever size you want... So long as you can end 'im rightly with it. :D

Shad, that bit about some of the issues with weapon size came up in Utawarerumono. The character Karura is so strong that she cant use regular weapons as when she swings them she'll just break them as soon as they hit something. She once tried to get around this by basically taking two swords and staking them on top of each other, but even that wasn't enough. She eventually had to have a sword custom made for her strength. Problem was that in order to fit her requirements, the sword ended up so big and thick that it was more of a huge club with a sharpened edge than a sword. Additionally, it was so heavy that even the biggest and strongest warriors around could hardly lift the thing off its stand. Karura was the only one able to wield it.

The Farron Greatsword in Dark Souls 3 in conjunction with the dagger used to anchor oneself to a surface to allowing spinning with the sword's momentum without flying off is a good example of a more agile fighting style moving with the force of such a large weapon; like what you mentioned in your video.

Hmm....there's the real challenge: How do you make realistic weapons for god-like characters? Also Shad, now you know you gotta make this a spin-off of Fantasy Re-armed, called "Super Re-armed" where you talk about the best medieval weapons for certain super powers. XD

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Your videos are so damn interesting everytime, so interesting in fact, that I am going to take extra history classes, that when I see/hear something I know you have/might have talked about i will compare and see how much of the two informations from both sides add up to eachother. I fuckin' love medieval history! Keep doing what you're doing and best of luck!

Came from Jazza's channel, and got hooked... This is about video number 20 in two days... *Subscribed*

Hehe. Imagine yourself hitting a heavier object with super strength. You'd see yourself flying back to last Sunday~ 😂😂😂 That anchor by weight is brilliant. Another example like you (a super human) trying to open a vault door. It doesn't matter how strong you are, if you're not heavy enough to have traction or anything to hold on to have leverage... you'll only pull yourself towards the door.

But what about dragons?

Revisiting this video after seeing your newer content... I can really see how much your recent surgeries have helped you out. Glad to see you doing so much better now, Shad.

Shad has a great personality and I think is perfect for a good educational show doing these discussions. Be nice to watch

Best weapon for someone with super strength... something that won't break when you hit something with it.

So that's why the giant sword in ocarina of time breaks so easily!!!! DDDD: *MIND BLOWN*

This is hilarious and informative at the same time. It’s amazing.

Great content, great video, great follow-up!

Note to self: " don't forget to bring my clubby sword on next Friday's trip to the pub! "

Medically and mechanically, super strength can be regarded as having extra sarcomeres in parallel and super speed can be regarded as having extra sarcomeres in series.

8:11 to 8:14. Liked the video right there for the Simpsons reference. 😁

14:41 Anyone else had a voice in his head saying "It was too big to be called a sword. Massive, thick, heavy, and far too rough. It was more like a large hunk of Iron."?

The Clubby Sword shall hence forth be known as a Shadsword.

There is a single frame at 8:01 where the video blinks, if you pause and advance the video frame by frame you'll see a Shadiversity logo. Cool.

Love all the Warhammer art you put in the video

All of the Dark Souls snd 40k images made my day lol

I love this channel. Stuff like thinking about this is just so nice and interesting And I love the community thinking along with vids like these

The superman movies would be So Much better if he wears big heavy armor and big medieval weapons

10:45, Shad has invented Garren from League of Legends.

As a person with super strength myself I found this to be very helpful thanks man

I see a Space Marine, I like the video

Now this is education

Subbed because you have the ENTIRE Wheel of Time series in your bookcase. A seriously underrated series that definitely deserves a Netlix Series Adaptation! Seeing the Aes Sedai weave their magic with modern day CGI would certainly be a sight!

Shadiversity: "Do you know who I am?" The Mountain: "Some Dead Man!"

Ha! Once you said "super heavy armor" I thought SPACE MARINES and then 7:27 Tadaaa!

would love a warhammer (the setting) video type or kind,

I love the fact that you also have an entire shelf dedicated to the Wheel of Time series.

Good comic book recommendation. I'll have to check that out

I love the fact that Havel's armor is what's displayed when you start talking about armor and then it just continues with the Dragonslayer armor

Shad I think to some extent you are underestimating the strength of steel 100kg is 220 lbs most bar bells can hold that at the extreme ends with just a little flex. heck I've seen knives hold that weight on very small handles, I think a well designed, properly tempered blade could hold itself together with a wieght much more than 100kg.

You had me at " additional/POWER " then at " additional/INCREASE " good cuts!

I‘m from Austria and I love your Castle Videos!🙃

I feel like the way to go is to treat every item as disposable imagine it Runs up to tank then rips the tank barrel off with his bare hands slams the top of the tank with its own barrel then kicks the tank slideing it into a trench

Heavy armor covered with hooked spikes. Then dual wield... In one hand, a heavy duty sword catcher with a pointed end so that it can thrust. And in the other hand, a very heavy club with a large spike at the end. Both weapons don't need to be that long, baseball bat length would be perfect for super quick movements. The armor or sword catcher would trap attacks then the club could strike... shattering them. Both weapons would do massive bludgeoning damage, you'd also be able to do thrusting with the point and with the spike you'd be able to hook opponents, spike shields and tear them away or puncture whatever needs a hole.

I love when he is talking about heavy stuff its just pictures of the hulk and my big stoned friend havel from the dark souls series.

Thinking on this: Fervor of Battle talent for an Arms warrior makes much more sense! Thanks, Shad!

A great video once again shad. I believe that a great example of what yuou just said about huge swords and armors is the shardplates and the Shardblades in the Storm Light Archive series.

this video makes me think of Hulk in a Tungsten suit of Plate Armor.... thank you for that

I'm so glad I found this channel

Hey, just wanna point out that with any melee weapon, even fists, you don't want to stop when you hit the target, you want to try and go through the target with the attack. Say you're swinging a sword at someone trying to cut through their left arm with a horizontal strike, you want the sword to go as far as it can, even through their torso, not to just strike the arm. Or if you're punching someone in the nose, you don't aim for the nose, you aim for behind the nose, even the back of the skull(as my old sifu once said) so you can impart the maximum amount of force, you want to keep the acceleration as high as possible when you make contact. Bloody, top-notch video, dude

Please, could you make best weapons for constructs(warforged, golems, etc) next?

Love the Crimson Fists pic

As a long time strength and conditioning coach, Shad really, REALLY knows what he is talking about.

For your next Fantasy Re-armed I'd like to see a vampire. I think the fact that they wouldn't necessarily want a lethal weapon and would probably have a more grappling focused fighting style and would want to get in close to give their opponents a good neck bite could make an interesting episode

"He can throw his punches at near the speed of light!" Pretty sure he can go several times faster than the speed of light to be honest. Comic book superheroes get pretty out there. Hulk also has super-speed though. Not as crazy-fast as Superman, but he can run at hundreds of miles per hour at the absolute minimum, and he's fought (and defeated) characters who, like Superman, go at or beyond the speed of light themselves, such as the Silver Surfer etc (also he can see ghosts). Pretty much every super-strong character in comics also possesses super-human speed, at least implicitly, based on their showings and on the type of opponents they get pitted against.

Awesome series btw I love this sort of topic discussions and deep dives.

All that Warhammer and 40k artwork is quite fitting!

"Clubby sword" might i propose the glorious FUGS

Could you do An episode regarding the lizardmen and the Skaven? specifically their types of Shields and weapons. the Crescent shields and macuahuitl's of the lizardmen the perfect Triangular shields of the Skaven.

It feels like I'm wearing nothing at all..nothing at all...nothing at all.

I know it's 100% off topic but I can't help myself, that dragon statue is GORGEOUS.

On the subject of super strength and weapons being destroyed by the forces, I was expecting to hear you actually talk about the way a hammer resolves much of this conflict. By placing the mass at the end of a lever, be it something on the measure of a maul, or even as small as a single-handed mallet, something rather interesting happens. The shaft has very little mass, and therefore experiences very weak forces upon impact IF you do not continue to apply pressure through the strike. In practice, when using a weapon of such mass, this is the proper practice regardless of super strength because the energy of the hammer is already a multiple of the effort used to accelerate the head to that point, meaning any forced follow-through is a tiny fraction of additional energy transfer, and simply not worth the exertion involved. By this means, a solid mass with enough toughness to withstand the impact (achievable by simply making it very large) on the end of a lever is an ideal weapon for super strength. All you need do is accelerate it as hard as you can, and let the weight of the hammer carry that multiplied energy into the target. The only limitation at that point is a haft must be strong enough to both support the weight of the head and the forces of the initial acceleration. This is not as big of a problem as it might seem. An ordinary steel bar used for power lifting can hold over 400kg. If you placed just 100kg on one end of such a bar and had the strength to swing it at the same speed an average person can swing a 20lb sledge hammer, the forces would be almost incomprehensible by human standards.

Based on your analysis, perhaps a super strong character might wish to give the spiked-weapons family a try. Ex: flails, morning stars. Or if they still want a bladed weapon that is still functional when it loses some of its edge, perhaps a battle axe? Maybe even an unconventional weapon, such as a pickaxe?

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One interesting thing they did in the Live-Action adaptation of Rurouni Kenshin is what they did with Sanosuke's sword; it was much wider in the comics, but they slimmed it down considerably. Also, even the comics took into account the thing you pointed out about the blade by having Sano explain that his sword really didn't have much of an edge anymore, but he could still use it to smash and crush. I love that movie for taking a middle road between the ridiculous level of athletics of the anime/manga and the limits of live-action.

I submit the mace-sword-club-spear hybrid. You have four wide “blades” that are attached in an X that has a disc guard and comes to a flare (much like a mace head) before coming to a point. You keep the blade just narrow enough that you can grip it, and as long as can be managed.