Could a Lightsaber Cut Through Wolverine’s Adamantium Claws? (Because Science w/ Kyle Hill)

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Thanks to a viral photo, we get to combine two of our favorite weapons, Star Wars’ lightsaber and Wolverine’s adamantium claws! Specifically could a Jedi’s weapon cut through Weapon X’s weapons? Kyle is cutting through the contraversy on this week's Because Science!
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[@Nerdist]

How fast are Jedi? New mini-episode over on my Insta (instagram.com/sci_Phile/)! Thanks for watching, let the nerd fights rage below. -- KH

[@Yellowdigigod]

Nerdist Will Nerdist be at Momocon? Matthew Mercer will...

[@tlotloselei8085]

Nerdist Kyle. Now that your twin(Thor) cut his hair.Will you do the same?

[@ayeshfernando894]

Nerdist I dont want to make an instagram account cant you compile and put em on youtube?

[@axeltenveils6816]

Nerdist Would Wolverine be extremely weak to force lightning if it is behaving more or less like real lightning.

[@cosmicgrub360]

in case you didnt know the film didnt follow comic lore in which case adamantium can cut anything besides adamantium or "magical/cosmic manipulated items". neither can adamantium be melted once the vibranium steel alloy when cooled into adamantium is not meltable unlike the films its not natural or from space

[@ucantbhatin]

yeah ok... but could a lightsaber cut the hulk's purple pants? those things are truly indestructible!

[@Ghostrunner55]

Alexander Gill depends, does hulk have a raging boner?

[@TacSon]

Hulk's raging boner can destroy an entire planet and flood the entire star system in Gamma radiation.

[@mattnobrega6621]

Alexander Gill The hulk was once reduce to skeleton as was wolverine and yet they both fully regenerated. I think wolverine regenerated faster than the hulk though. Can't remember.

[@electroflames]

@@mattnobrega6621 what the hell reduced both of them to skeletons

[@Agonis100]

A duel similar to this actually happened in the Star Wars EU/Legends novel "Shatterpoint." To quote Mace Windu in the novel: "And the metal itself... well, that's an interesting story of its own. It seems to be an alloy that the fungi don't attack. It is extremely hard, and never loses its edge. Nor does it rust, or even tarnish. It also seems to be a superconductor. This is why my blade could not cut it: the entire shield is always the same temperature throughout. Even the energy of a lightsaber is instantly conducted away. Hold a blade against it long enough and the whole thing will melt, but it cannot be cut. Not by an energy blade."

[@LoisoPondohva]

That is much more like Vibranium.

[@Agonis100]

Indeed! Great observation! I hadn't even thought of that. Interestingly, like Vibranium, the metal in the novel "Shatterpoint" (called Ultrachrome) was used in sharp, teardrop shaped shields called Vibroshields, the Ultrachrome having been salvaged from the armor of an ancient derelict Starship. Rather like how Captain America uses a Vibranium shield. Mace Windu notes in the novel: "I use my sword as a shield. They use their shields as swords."

[@NargaDestroyer]

Except that Vibranium (at least the Wakandian) doesn't "conduct" the energy away, it absorbs it. The vibrations in the metal don't cause it to heat up, at least to a certain point. At some point, a shield made from pure (Wakandian) Vibranium would violently explode when exposed to an energy source like a Light Saber. Because that's what (Wakandian) Vibranium does.

[@dugyfresh92]

Those teardrop shaped shields sound like prince rupert's drops.... which would make them basically indestructible if they can dissipate the energy caused by vibrations

[@batman81022]

The real question Kyle is, if Logan was a Jedi would he have plasma claws?

[@SexyLag]

sacduolcno the stupidity is strong with this one

[@andruulrich4021]

sacduolcno in the marvel mangaverse wolverine has one robot arm with lightsaber like claws on it

[@eanna3781]

That's just a bad day to be a stormtrooper

[@aliyassin8920]

Yes, Yes he would.

[@qwerty3165]

sacduolcno wouldn't the heat from his claws melt his skin? Making it counter productive

[@kevenmaharaj8893]

I think there was a problem with your calculations, you calculated the 4MW using the entire area of the lightsaber when plunged into the blast door. More realistically the lightsaber would only be using its tip to melt the blast door as it was melting the material in front of it. This means the surface area used to melt the door would be much much smaller, more like the surface area of the outside of a semi sphere with a diameter of 3 cm.

[@2vectors708]

i still don't think that scene from the wolverine is valid, heating the metal ,as you said in this, would make it weaker thus the unheated version of the metal would be stronger and able to cut through the heated version, in that scene the heated sword should have been cut to pieces by wolverines claws.

[@EdgeOfDarkness86]

2 Vectors That scene was just stupid.

[@nickdura]

never thought of that. makes sense. how the hell did he heat the blade up though. i would assume that would of taken awhile. maybe that robots ass is a plasma forge

[@ignaciovillegas5645]

2 Vectors According to comics Silver Samurai's katana can be "charged" with tachyons but... you know, pure bullshit

[@gawain0]

Especially since, if my memory is correct, Wolverine later got the sword and when he held it in two hands (the the "proper Japanese fashion") it automatically heated up to the glowing white hot stage in an instant. Not sure if that actually happened as I watched the movie a few years ago, but I seem to recall that happening.

[@KR7PT]

I just absolutely love your videos for the sheer planning and effort that they look to take. Serious hats off to you Kyle, I only regret not discovering you sooner.

[@diegoaviles13]

0:56 "even friendship 😂😂

[@whitherwhence]

3:31 Like the Wilhelm Scream in there. It's a nice touch. Wait! No! Did his hand just scream?

[@pouchun]

Awesome!!! - Been waiting for this episode like, forever... Thanks Kyle. Looking forward to the "Surprise Lightsaber" shirt!

[@ankoku37]

I seem to distantly remember watching an episode of the X-Men cartoon as a kid that involved Cyclops getting trapped in an adamantium room and he eventually escaped by concentrating his laser on a single point saying, "If I can't cut my way out, then I'll burn my way out."

[@beauhenry105]

WAIT YOU FORGOT SOMETHING!!!! Adamantium is magnetic, and given the Lightsaber (Plasma sword) is controlled by immensely strong magnetic fields, wouldn't it severely distort and crush Wolverine's claws when the two weapons clashed? I'm just thinking of this because of magnetos constant control over Wolverine in every battle. And you explained in a past video that light sabers were plasma tubes controlled by a magnetic field that was created by the hilt of the blade.

[@gawain0]

Adamantium would be ferromagnetic since he's not sticking to every metal object (like car keys for example). Therefore the domains in his claws would just align themselves with the lightsaber and the lightsaber would be just fine. I'm not sure if this next sentence is accurate but the aligned domains might actually make it easier for the lightsaber to cut through the claws. Good point though.

[@benhowardDG]

This needs to be the top comment

[@Invirulent]

I don't know why people insist on treating Wolverine charging at Magneto as some kind of fight. If a piece of paper yelled and threw itself into a fire would it be considered a fight? How about if a bird cursed and threw itself into an oven? Because everytime Wolverine charges Magneto, everyone acts like "OH MAN HERE WE GO FIGHT OF THE CENTURY" and i just go "Oh look Wolverine is still stupid."

[@PsypherWolf]

I believe the magnetic field is there only within the saber circumference, otherwise it would stick to metallic surfaces the whole time it's active or unintentionally pull small metal objects to it constantly.

[@SSVjoker]

Beau Henry problem is, lightsabers can cut through iron (durasteel is made out of iron), and that is magnetic too, so that wouldn't make a difference

[@MysteriRiot]

you forgot that stryker also said "and you gotta keep it that way, because when it's cold, it stays cold."

[@Jonny5Fails]

I'd like to point out that, even if (somehow) adamantium can't be melted twice, it can still heat to a point where it becomes malleable. In fact, melting really isn't even the issue here. All that needs to happen is for the metal to be heated to a point where it's shape starts to warp and for a significant enough force to be applied to split it. When it gets heated in an area, that area becomes weak and easier to separate. It's also not "destroying" it because it's technically still intact. So the real question should be whether or not a jedi's swing of a lightsaber has enough force behind it.

[@tigersebel]

In think that a lightsaber couldn't cut through adamantium because in the star wars universe itself there are some materials that can withstand lightsabers. For example: Mandalorian Iron, Phrik, Cortosis (sort of) etc. Adamantium has amazing durability feats and i think it could be even stronger than some of those materials here. So i think that a lightsaber could not cut through Wolverines Claws. Thank you for the Video btw.

[@GoldenWhistle]

tigersebel wolverine took a nuke to the face , only his admantium skeleton survived and quickly healed. also it cools down in seconds . imagine the heat of the nuke. so no, no amount of heat can melt admantium

[@tomc.5704]

Hm, if the admantium does cool down in seconds, then it must also heat up in seconds. Unless it's magic, in which case why are we even trying to use math?

[@0xEmmy]

In this particular case of adamantium claws v lightsaber, one needs also consider the thermal radiative properties of adamantium - if adamantium is conductive and radiative enough, it could dissipate all 4 MW as thermal radiation without any part reaching its melting point. This very property of thermal conductivity and radiativity is why (for instance) magnesium - a metal with a notable reputation for its flammability - can be safely used in automotive engine parts, provided the magnesium pieces are big enough.

[@Stolas002]

Have you covered how lightsabres actually make physical contact with other sabres? If it is only plasma, it should just pass through one another. What I think is the lightsabre's 'blade' actually has some kind of solid core and is surrounded by a layer of plasma. Please correct me if I'm wrong... I don't know too much about Star Wars or Physics.

[@thalastianjorus]

The repulsion of the magnetic fields that contain the plasma. They bounce off the strong fields as opposed to the plasma itself. Same reason that Electro-Staves and weapons can deflect Lightsabers. It's generated magnetic field, caused by electrifying the weapon, pushes against the magnetic field of the lightsaber with the effective solidity of a wall. This is actually how the Darksaber draws other Lightsabers to it. It's magnetic field lines is a flattened out oval shaped field, as opposed to the helical structure of the field of a regular Lightsaber - which makes the poles of that field uniform across all Lightsabers so it contains plasma. The Darksaber, however, has simply circular field lines, and as thin as it is the opposite pole can actually effect an opposing saber. Thus it "draws" other Lightsabers to itself like a, well, magnet.

[@TheSanien]

"...EVEN FRIENDSHIP" LOL at that ^_^

[@terak4786]

Without watching past the intro: The answer depends on how hot the lightsaber is. We've seen them used to cut blast doors on a star ship. We also know that adamantium has to be able to be melted, or it could not have a liquid state that it could be injected into Wolverine in, where it hardens into the skeleton we know. So, if a lightsaber can generate enough heat to melt adamantium, then yes.

[@TekaidaMoto]

My comeback to the essentially a post credit scene is "healing factor anyone?"

[@Wingdnadlla]

Can you do a video about Spartans from halo and the Science need to make them

[@Foxxie0kun]

So if Wolverine parries instead of blocks and shunts away the saber blade whenever possible instead of maintaining contact, Wolverine would win. If the Lightsaber wielder can force Wolverine into locking weapons, the Lightsaber wielder would win. Basically it comes down to who can recognize and exploit the weaknesses of their opponent first. Granted, Wolverine's claws are made of bone and coated with adamantium, so they'd grow back as non-coated bone again and could potentially be re-coated later on. The same goes with the rest of his skeletal structure. We've seen what getting stabbed or shot does to a Jedi, but Wolverine has survived getting ripped in half and most of his flesh being burned off in a nuclear explosion, so it'll really come down to whether Wolverine can get a good hit in on the Force user or not.

[@azimalif266]

3:32 Aww man! I was hoping for a wolverine or deadpool style grow back...😁

[@erick-hp7ce]

But there is something called the force which jedi' s have witch they could just hold wolverine up and then cut him in half

[@revan1047]

and there's something called healing factor which would just regrow wolvies body every single fuckin time

[@PartialKredit]

If Wolverine can withstand holding off Cyclops eye blasts with his claws he could take on a lightsaber. Plus his healing factor gives him an edge over a Jedi.

[@danballestero2288]

Now, if Wolverine freezes up his claws or electrifies them? You know in Star Wars electrified strong metals are weapons against lightsabers. He can use some little machine on his arms that connects to the claws electrifying them but not electrifying him. Beast could make that I guess... Or, a system that freezes them up so they will never melt.

[@minh9026]

Adamanitum > Atomic Bomb a Atomic Bomb at impact is 7 million degrees Celsius. Wolverine survived that with his claws and shell still intact so....

[@Zappina]

An atomic bomb(nuclear or atombomb) as you called it produce 300000 degrees celsius of heat at ground zero. Not too much isnt it? Thats why concrete bunkers can withstand a nuclear explosion very close to ground zero. An H-bomb(thermonuclear) however produce 10 million at ground zero. Both cases the heat decrease rapidly. While 30 meters from ground zero the temperature is "only" 4000-6000 degree celsius with the A-bomb, with the H-bomb its still 3-400000 celsius. Under the fireball everything is burn or vaporize however further from the fireball the heatwave can only hurt you if you are directly exposed to the light. In the Wolverine movie, the nuke was the worst imitation of a real nuclear explosion. Heat rays are instantaneous as well as neutron radiation. The blastwave is not hot that far away from the fireball and it dont follows you inside a hole. At that distance they would suffer 3rd degree burns the instant when the exposion happened as well as temporaly blindness but nothing that cause instant death even to a normal person. If Wolverine would survive the explosion at ground zero, then he would probably survive a lightsaber attack, but i guess he would be instantly evaporate as any other person would.

[@sniktheadthemunki2709]

Wolvie survived(well, his bones did) a nuclear blast at ground zero in the Civil War storyline... I was trying to figure out if the heat from that was comparable to a lightsaber

[@DemonMj]

Anyone remember the time he was thrown into the sun? His skeletal structure was just fiNe.

[@pavanbhaskar2173]

hope wolvie watches this video before going to fight a jedi...

[@chris2shotgun]

Surprise Lightsaber never gets old.

[@rickydane333]

Nerdist Very nice video, I enjoyed it! I must make one comment concerning your last statement about Wolverine losing because of his skin and bones being incinerated. That is not necessarily correct, Wolverine has been stripped down to just his Adamantium skeleton and still full regenerated.

[@MichaelGaryScott90]

I think we're all missing the real question here... How did Thor grow his hair back so fast???

[@heckingbamboozled8097]

Wigs.. and makeup artists

[@EndravenMusicChannel]

Can Wolverine exercise endlessly?

[@Invirulent]

Yes.

[@suwiee0600]

No.

[@Supermynci9000]

It depends.

[@madcatmeow196]

Yes, because science

[@mortyjhones4068]

what about the fact that the center of the claws are bone? how does the changes in decency and resilience at the middle affect the outcome?

[@sidr2679]

I know this is an old video but a major problem with this video is the fact that you ignore the fact that Wolverine's claws have already taken heat much hotter than the lightsaber for extended periods of time and not melted. As it hardens the atomic structure is changed and it no longer liquifies at the temperature it previously did.

[@kshark6043]

Wolverine's claws took on laser eyes from that Deadpool from X-Men Origins Wolverine and in that film Deadpool got it from cyclops and I think cyclopsis heat vision is just as powerful as a lightsaber.

[@gandalftheantlion]

But cyclops "laser" is not a laser at least I'm repeatedly told it is a concussive beam... What ever that is.

[@brothatscrazy3418]

k shark Lol, Cyclops uses a concussive beam.

[@kshark6043]

Be honest how many of you believe a lightsaber can go through adamantium come-on its anamabtium you can't break it

[@kshark6043]

I'm not too sure what Cyclops uses hell maybe he's a Kryptonian. That can only release solar radiation from his eyes

[@kshark6043]

It doesn't really matter Does Qui-Gon or Darth Vader have a sweet ass supercharged healing Factor 😜

[@brianmccracken4880]

I think I said this before, and I realize this is knowledge best used for culinary school, but one substance that has a higher melting point after being melted then solidified is cartilage/gelatin. Like, from beef stock.

[@travis_scotch1454]

there is also the latent heat ( is that the english name) that is required to melt the metal once it reaches it's melting point. That is usually alot more than the sensible heat ( also dont know if thats the correct word) that is required to bring the metal to it's melting point

[@GryphonBrokewing]

Wonder how Cyclops' blast compares to a lightsaber, then? Wolverine has used his claws to block Cyke's beam before. They did heat up, but didn't melt.

[@KalijahAnderson]

The only problem I have is that a still solid adamantium sword (that is one that is below 1500 F) can cut through instantly. Something 10 times that heat would do the same.

[@Pikazilla]

Wolverine survived a nuke; a lightsaber isn't that hot

[@dustinchambers4172]

What about the wolverine comic where he fought like 50 weapon x weapons that had laser claws and healing factors? Where those laser claws anything like lightsabers? And there's that cyborg guy in marvel named deathlok who has laser claws also. Wolverines healing would come into play with the heat transfer but, could the Jedi block an enraged wolvey going full beserker mode?

[@crimsoncaper6784]

Hey there Kyle, another sabre question 4 ya: could a lightsabre burn Superman's skin?

[@TheSucidalpanda]

If it's a red lightsaber yes.

[@sideswipeholic1087]

S&k Studios Green*

[@TheSucidalpanda]

That

[@sideswipeholic1087]

Kryptonite saber activate!

[@sickkunt1573]

No of course not, why would it?

[@johnwerner6445]

No a lightsaber cant cut the claws or true adamantium. The melting point of the metal is not the adamantium itself but the compounds that mix to become adamantium. True adamantium like the metal that cases wolverins entire skeleton is made of vibranium mixed with other alloys. According to the comic books, the components of the alloy are kept in separate batches - typically in blocks of resin - before molding. Adamantium is prepared by melting the blocks together, mixing the components while the resin evaporates. The alloy must then be cast within eight minutes. After it cools it can NEVER be remolded again. So no you cant melt true adamantium with a lightsaber. And you cant cut it either because the amount of force to even swing a saber remotly fast enough would break the saber. Adamantium wins

[@johnwerner6445]

Adamantium bullet is the movie stuff. So no and no again. Lightsaber loses every time

[@teoli67]

John Werner . I agree. I thought that was so lame and inconsistent when they shot him in the head. Stick to the script. Its indestructible once formed.

[@Nukestarmaster]

+ArchmageTech Lightsabers do not have magnetic fields, if they even are plasma swords (doubtful) they would use some other mechanism to contain the plasma (like, say, the Force).

[@elijahfoltz3755]

How can a lightsaber break from attempting to cut through adamantium? I've never heard of lightsabers being broken by anything but the blade of another saber cutting through it (for instance, the final battle in The Phantom Menace when Darth Maul's saber is split in two). I dare you to logic THAT.

[@vincentj2587]

ArchmageTech of course the force wielder can also use the force to rip his adamantium skeleton out or use the conductivity of one of the alloys used to make the adamantium to their advantage by force lighting-ing him thus electrocuting his organs

[@tiffanywelton5116]

3:23 This is why you can't melt a cubic inch of Aluminum and why your aluminum heat sink in electronics will make a pop sound when heated by a low heat source. Let's say a taking a single propane or butane torch for the 1000 degree knife challenge won't melt aluminum in under minute but an Oxy-acetylene torch for brazing can melt when it's room temp to melting point as fast as a hot knife through refrigerated butter.

[@thomasesr]

Other way that adamantium could resist higher temperatures is by forming an adamantium oxide layer like aluminium which can have a very high melting point and different temperature differential from the metal itself.

[@swosheeplays9453]

jedi V wolverine jedi wins because force

[@KingOpenReview]

The dark earth tannards Wolverine can take on most jedi knights because jedi have a tendency to forget they have telekinesis.

[@gabemerritt3139]

Phesheya Bhembe Wolverine could probably take on jedi knights but not masters

[@brandonmyers1876]

It's the magneto problem for logan.

[@aname3288]

Let me help you a little tiny bit. If it was a situation where all the Jedi had to do was push wolverine back and prevent him pressing a button or something. Its a pretty easy win for the Jedi due to his force powers. However in terms of fight to the death? The Jedi dont really have the power to kill Wolverine in their pocket. They can badly injure him, but he would fully recover in seconds., if they was to attempt to force choke him, it would take AWHILE, and I mean AWHILE as in a week or maybe even a month. (So Jedi`s do have a ability to kill wolverine, but I highly doubt they could sustain it for the time needed. And Brandon, I guess you only watched the movies. Magneto a bit like the jedi would just throw him away and maybe do a lot of harm to him. But magneto did his full power against him, and wolverine survived. He ripped the adamantium from him, molecule by molecule. And what happened? Wolverines healing factor got quite a bit supercharged. And he just fully regrown his skeleton very quickly. So even the guy who counters Wolverine on a large scale, struggles to actually kill him, that being said. In order to kill him. You need to literally do damage equivalent of a planet hitting/crushing him.

[@hazardous8301]

Niall Quinn you don't have to kill him to beat him and if we are talking about a Jedi master then they would be much better trained and even faster then wolverine could ever hope to be. Malgus without his light saber vs wolverine could be interesting though.

[@keenanbartlome8153]

I think it would after a couple minutes of constant intense pressure. The biggest advantage of a lightsaber is he can't take it and break it.

[@derekchase5714]

How does the "laser tattoo" machine in Starship Troopers work?

[@averypossiblememelord1566]

Just a quick fact: in the comics adamantium has a melting point of 5,475 Fahrenheit instead of the fox-stated 1500

[@growsystemsnorthwestinc.1432]

It’s called an alloy. The base metal can be melted only before being reformed into an alloy. Like steel.

[@edelweissgaming4828]

I feel like this premise was what the Mandalorian finale had its basis on

[@timwilliams3216]

@5:18 Wouldn't wolverines claws start at body temperature instead of room temperature? How fast would they cool down outside the body?

[@PachucoDesigns]

Wouldn't that be a wound Wolverine couldn't heal from, as well? Or at least, not easily. I imagine his body would at least have to shunt off the burned flesh, because even if his cells duplicate fast enough to heal, they'd still have to be living, functional cells to do so.

[@dragongames1182]

What about Captain America's shield? That's pretty iconic

[@5y9h3r]

I think you under estimated the power of the lightsaber by comparing Multiple Blast Shields meant to stop Plasma Laser Beams to the steel doors we have on earth XD

[@moguldamongrel3054]

Star wars starship materials are made of durasteel. Durasteel was an incredibly strong and versatile metal alloy, created from carvanium, lommite, carbon, meleenium, neutronium, and zersium Which is a composite metal combining such properties as diamonds and super dense neutronium, along with other ores. Its built to withstand high amounts of heat, cold and stress, even when made into sheets. The power required to cut threw it would scale into the most experimental metals humanity can currently make and then some. So its power output would be significantly greater then this.

[@djjodav]

Vibroblades exist in the StarWars universe, and a skilled duelist could cross blades with a jedi so yeah, it really does depend on how well the weapon is used!

[@mar_speedman]

Actually, I think the whole "adamantium cannot melt unless in its pure form" might be retconned. You see, Wolverine died by being coated in adamantium, but Marvel's working on a comic that will revive him, meaning he will be freed if adamantium. The most logical explanation is that it's going to melt. a second time. So here you go, Adamantium can melt. Y'know, unless what actually happens is Magneto comes and rips off the adamantium covering him.

[@PotatocannonLol]

I think you should have used the rotation time it took to cut after re watching the phantom menace. I think when the light saber is first inserted it length is shortend untill the metal is viscosity is low enough for the blade to reach full length. because there is a delay from when the light saber is plungged in till when the other side of the door starts to melt. And after the blade is plunged there appears to be a fair ammount of resistance when actually cutting the door, on top of that there is a lack of material leaving the door untill it melts through. For steel using an oxy acetylene that burns at roughly 3500 degress while the tip the length of the flame at the hottest temperature is under a 1/4 inch. Steangly When cutting steel of the said 1/4 inch or a little more the time it takes to cut that per inch is comparable to the light saber cut scene. Could be a mystery metal And i might not be factoring how long the steel that thick takes to heat even at that extreme lightsaber temps.

[@blakepax2768]

Could you do a comparasion between a HF Blade of Metal Gear vs a Lightsaber of Star Wars?

[@reaper77200574]

I would LOVE to see this battle

[@scribinaut7761]

So basically what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object or the merchant who said that the shield could block anything and the spear could pierce anything

[@tylerrobbins-linford2671]

Also the stuff in the blast doors in Star Wars are made of something called Plasteel it's a plastic Durasteel mix plastic for weight reduction Durasteel for protection

[@sraonline9151]

You know what this means? Now we need Wolverine vs Luke Skywalker on Death Battle

[@luiscervantes7789]

I have a follow up question. The example of the bullet going through the lightning bolt said it would not melt but it would still go through it. Following the same logic would wolverines claws go through the lightsaber or would they bounce off it?

[@matthewsummers3251]

hey um quick question with your X-23 vs Logan vid even though Logans individual claws would have less power still all the force of Logans hit would be there just more spread out

[@SerLoinSteak]

Unless Wolverine is magnetically charged, there wouldn't be anything to keep a lightsaber locked in contact with his claws. According to Marvel, only godlike beings and incredibly powerful magnetism (pretty much only fields made by Magneto) can alter adamantium. So it stands to reason that the field containing a lightsaber blade wouldn't have any effect on Wolverine's claws if he were to try to block the blade. In other words, the claws would go right through the gas of the blade and the lightsaber would pass through an attempted block. Lightsaber: 2 Adamantium: 0

[@didakad4207]

7:42 I was thinking the same thing. Not only that but his whole body would burn.

[@stevenpeven258]

One key thing you forgot to factor in is that wolverines claws are actually bone, the adamantium is essentially a coating

[@ivanstayner8818]

No. There really isn't a "depends" answer to this. The claws cant cut trough the light saber but the light saber can cut through the claws so the light saber would win in any situation. The claws cant get the upper hand in any situation because the Jedi can force a lock in. If wolverine decides to try to move his hands out of the way to prevent his claw from getting cut. Wolverine would get cut through. So wolverine would have to engage in the lock in and he would always lose those lock in's every time. So the light saber wins. Also the Jedi have basically unlimited stamina unlike wolverine would eventually get tiered and lose.

[@spiderjeranimo4992]

Wolverines claws could cut through the 'saber' part with ease, taking the hand with it. If his adamatium blades get cut off he'll have bone claws in 30s, cut off an arm and he'll bite your face off, cut him in half and walk away, he'll follow your sent and kill you in your sleep. He's Wolverine. Darth Maul - Cut in Half. Snoke - See above. Kylo Ren - "Bested by a girl who'd never held a lightsaber" Vader - Beaten by love. i don't see him fighting Jedi, unless he's reprogrammed via mindwipe, in that case he'd have a teleporter and Magnetos helmet ;)

[@ivanstayner8818]

@@spiderjeranimo4992 I like the response.

[@davemarx7856]

1:21 bomb bowling

[@JOH_44]

If the adamantium skeleton "breaks", could wolverine healing factor help in some way?

[@leigon4390]

However if we give the adamantum the bot melting ability it would be able to with stand the lightsaber.

[@Velocity9_Games]

I agree with the video but.if the plasma is contained inside the lighsaber by a magnetic field.couldn't wolverine's magnetic claws just disrupt that.so the plasma just falls out of the lightsaber.cause I don't think his claws have any chance to win.if the lighsaber is protected by an extradimensional force and his claws are just meltable

[@Muzzy3645]

This is wrong as in x2 stryker says once the admantium has cooled it can never be melted again therefore there is no melting point. when he says the lightsaber could be held long enough to cut through because of heat its impossible because its a solid and cant be melted please respond to correct me if im wrong

[@dontbanmerage416]

Today on questions I never realized I needed to know the answer to

[@lonebigfoot1317]

What would happen to a T-1000 from Terminator if it came in contact with a lightsaber

[@drownoble]

Since Jedi use quick fast attacks, using Force enhanced speed, Wolverine would win the fight. Unless the Jedi figured out to try and maintain contact, though I doubt Logan would allow them to do so. If he felt the heat transfer he break off the block, allow the healing factor to kick in and resume fight. The saber Kylo uses is defective. The cross-guard exhaust is draining power from the blade so the blade itself is putting out less power than a normal lightsaber. This would then require more contact time to equal the same heat transfer of the Jedi saber. In addition Kylo is less experienced in melee combat, wounded he couldn't beat an untrained Rei. Wolverine (or X-23) were born with the claws and have been using them their whole life. So combat experience favors them.

[@wolfegaming36]

Awesome video as always!

[@dudemood435]

The reason that wolverine would win is he regenerates rapidly and he wouldn't be harmed by the heat if it were to happen because in some comics he can regenerate from about a single drop of blood I dont know why the other blood drops would not also form another wolverine but still he would eventually win

[@RedStriker212]

Damn. 4 MW is a fuckton when compared to other sci-fi icons. Take the original RX-78-2 Gundam for example. It has a generator output of 1,380 kW, or 1.38 MW. Even the Unicorn Gundam, the peak of technology nearly twenty canonical years later, only has a generator output of 3,480 kW (3.48 MW). It takes more energy to power a lightsaber than it does an 18m tall high-tech mech.

[@jessikapiche6097]

One thing though... even if the claws contact with the lightsaber .1 of a second, the heat will overcome the owner of them as the metal absord the heat and want to transfer it. So wolverine would have his blood boiled anyway...fight over...jedi/Sith win.

[@icewrack9152]

How are you so smart... I'm jealous. You videos are innovative and interesting to watch. Thank you for all the time you put in to make these videos.

[@maxcorrice9499]

Yes but you're forgetting that in most new canon lightsabers are less and less science and more mystical, there also a few types of materials you could've compared adamantium to

[@monsterbash9758]

Can't argue with science.

[@roshawnsims8390]

So what is the output of Cyclops optic blast?

[@etonmf79]

This show is so freakin awesome

[@xechufriend]

One thing is not cutting wolverine claws and other is passing through them even if they still unbroken (in a way you showed the bullet does pass throught a bolt) The truth is that wolverine won't be able to parry a jedi slash even if he was skilled enough.

[@KeyboardKingStanley]

The calculations about the power output of a lightsaber are incorrect, as ship-grade doors (and especially blast doors) are not made of steel, but more likely of durasteel. What the difference in properties is, I'm not certain, but it's most certainly higher than normal steel here on earth.

[@revampedharpy09]

7:01 so essentially, from wolverines point of view, blocking is out, he HAS to deflect?

[@midgerm]

i still wanna know if a xenomorphs molecular acid could get through adamantium

[@harrow2580]

But what about Raiden High Frequency Murasama Blade vs Lightsabers?

[@TheOmegaGenerator]

This is a good video but in the comics it is shown that adamantium is highly resistant to heat.

[@BlackPanther-hp6ed]

Is this a re upload cause I can swear that I have seen this before???

[@charliesnark6535]

What if anamantium is like a super duper strong glue? It is liquid at first but then once it is hard it doesn't liquidize again?

[@timomarkson]

if you change it from plasma to a later beam, as in a lightsaver not a lighting saver

[@raniedelfajardo742]

Can it cut through adamantium? Kyl: Well yes but actually no.

[@matthewhenthorn3343]

Nerdist: How do you think galactic communication works in Star Wars. bearing in mind in the Revenge of the Sith Yoda reacted to the death of the Jedi before his clone troopers received order 66? there is a delay, there must be a reason for that and a rough time delay estimate. what's you thoughts. (if you have an explanation on that already, by all means refer me to it)

[@Dragoomega]

For all those who bring up wolverine's regen it won't help the heat transfer would basically boil his brain to mush or a hard boiled egg equivalent

[@brogibear381]

THE CLAWS ARE BETTER BECAUSE in the X-men film when weapon x fires the laser beams out of his eyes and it slices through concrete like butter which will have a higher thermal capacity that metal and it's thick as its part of the cooling tower and he blocks this with his claws for a while so shouldn't the thermal capacity for adamantium be higher so you could compare the laser beams to the power of the lightsaber which would put wolverines claws as being the better weapon