Real BLADE Vampire Stake kinda sucks? I made one to find out...

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Todays Video Lets have a look at the classic vampire Stake both from blade and history...
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[@geoshark12]

So apparently the reason a stake was used was entirely because of the normal intention of a steak , to prevent something from rising, in this case the undead , so its intended as a steak through the heart into the coffin to keep them from rising

[@geoshark12]

I know i miss spelled stake twice but mobile doesn’t let me edit my comment

[@markfergerson2145]

@@geoshark12The spielchuckers on mobile devices aren’t as good as on most tablets or “real computers” either so you get a pass.

[@LKDesign]

If you are not using the browser but that dreadful KZbin app, then you should be able to edit your comments. That is at least my experience as an android user.

[@FreyGrimrod]

@@geoshark12 Autocorrect will get you every time.

[@backstabba]

"Is my hear beating? No. Am I dead? That is another question entirely" Zelig van Kruger, Templehof

[@arythane743]

"Okay, we finally got the vampire in his lair. Let's find his coffin and end him..." ... "... What do you mean you LOST the stake?"

[@Olorinii]

Blade needed a silver plated Rondel Dagger for fighting the undead.

[@gaberielpendragon]

I mean, Blade does also just try random stuff against vampires to see how well they work. That's one of the sub plots of the first blade movie. They also double as shotgun ammo.

[@LazyGhostHunter]

Blade: "Some muthaf*ckas always trying to ice skate uphill." Tyranth: "Challenge excepted."

[@kolemannpatton4628]

I always imagined they were dull on purpose because Blade just hated the vampires so much and wanted it to hurt worse going in adding insult to injury

[@kevinmorrice]

same, its basically the big silver middle finger to the vampires

[@ScreenTested]

I mean would you actually want a bad weapon in a life or death situation?

[@kolemannpatton4628]

@@ScreenTested Definitely not lol it reminds me of that funny Robin Hood quote ”Why a spoon, cousin? Why not an axe? Because it's DULL, you twit. It'll hurt more.”

[@insertname3977]

@@ScreenTested As a normal human without the super strength, speed and regeneration and don't have the equipment and training of Blade? Sure I want every advantage as I can get. If I was Blade though, who has no issues with your typical vampire chump? I might want to flex a little.

[@ande151f]

a fun gadget to try next could maybe be "Oddjobs hat" from the James Bond movie Goldfinger :O

[@skeleleleton]

Oh shit that actually would be really cool. I loved roasting all my friends with that hat in Goldeneye lol

[@ThisUserNameWasNotTaken]

​1 hit kill and mad accurate​@@skeleleleton

[@skeleleleton]

@@ThisUserNameWasNotTaken Dude I almost lost childhood friendships cuz of me playing Oddjob lol it was peak

[@MrGhosta5]

It's just a chakram attached to a hat.

[@skeleleleton]

@@MrGhosta5 Which I would LOVE to see irl maybe a sawblade of some sort would be a cool version too :o

[@Lord_Durza]

I love your content. Getting it recommended in a Shadiversity video a couple weeks back was the best thing that happened to me in a while.

[@boychowskibrothers]

Blade wears the silver steaks like bullets in a kind of bandolier. They are used as projectiles and shot from an integrated underslung double barrel launcher on his shotgun. My guess is Blade also used them to stab vampires instead of reloading in the heat of battle, to stop them from regenerating the wounds... and because it looks cool, Legolas does it with his arrows too (Blade did it 1st though).

[@Kingdoms.Kobolds_81]

A triangular tip would probably be more effective for puncturing while still being a "stake"

[@Rando31able]

I think a silver tipped spear would have been very cool in the movie

[@nanaki-seto]

LOL the look of surprise at the end haha A sharpened wood stick would do pretty well in punching through flesh and as the heard is behind the ribs the point being slight enough would be able to find it's way between 2 ribs then for them apart giving access to the heart behind the ribs. Ribs are damn strong to impact coming from straight on say a punch kick or in a car crash. But when force is applied in any other way they move away from each other fairly easy. My cousin shot a deer in bow season once with an arrow that was broken with no point his last shot and managed to take down a deer with it and very effectively the shaft found it's way between the ribs and straight on heart shot dropping the deer where it stood

[@AlexMartin-n9y]

Fun fact the reason it's a stake instead of a knife is because they believed they were pinning the vampire back to the Earth so it's a form of exorcism sort of. In short it is magic

[@86holt]

I had heard that the stake is only half of it. Vamps were staked through their heart while in the coffin so they couldn't escape where their head was being chopped off.

[@AlexMartin-n9y]

@@86holt yeah they also had blades and they put bricks in their mouth as well

[@bungeetoons]

Not gonna lie, I read that and first thought of the cartoon situation of someone being stapled to the wall/floor along the outline of their body

[@Ash-Winchester]

@@AlexMartin-n9y Got to keep them from trying to bite you when you're hammering a stake into their heart.

[@Schlumpsha]

Stakes running real high, I see.

[@levrienthebaconlord9776]

In most things I've seen the vampire hunters normally use a cross to force a vampire into their coffin and keep them there or they sneak up on them while they're asleep to stake them

[@markfergerson2145]

At 5:31 you got the Blade stake simulacrum to poke all the way through a water bottle and out the other side a bit which raised my hopes for success. I mean, to get to the average human’s heart you have to get through around four inches of other tissues like muscle and fat, assuming your aim and knowledge of anatomy is good enough that you get between the vampire’s ribs every time. Water bottle aren’t four inches wide of course which is why I only had hope, not certainty. However, even with the melon you didn’t get sufficient penetration to touch the heart much less pierce it, severely degrading the hope I had. It only went downhill from there. Even allowing for Blade’s superhuman strength, it looks to me that his stake, and yours, are just too short to hit the heart unless there just aren’t other tissues present- meaning a vampire’s heart has to be right up against the inside of the ribcage and the flesh outside is ridiculously thin. Even then you will only do superficial damage. That’s another thing to think about- does a stake only have to touch the heart to permanently kill a vampire? See, in Eastern European lore, if you remove the stake the vampire revives. That’s counter to what we see in Blade.

[@ShinKyuubi]

According to United Cutlery who made officially licensed prop replica of those stakes, they were 10 and a half inches long....so yeah, these ones used in the testing are a little short cause even at a glance they ain't looking like 10 and a half inches long. I got wooden bbq skewers that are over 11 inches long and taking one and chopping off enough to make it 10 and a half? Yeah the ones made for this testing video are nowhere NEAR that length from the looks of it.

[@captainbear6188]

In Vampire Lore, the wooden stake was "had to be" fashioned out of Ash Wood, and its purpose was to hold the Vampire to the ground. Stakes did not actually kill the vampire in the original lore. To kill a vampire, you had to decapitate it or expose it to sunlight. There were lots of methods to incapacitate vampires, steaking, cutting a lemon in half and shoving into the vampires throat, or wrapping them in silver chains. you could slow them down by making them count the number of objects being thrown onto the ground (i.e. grains of rice or beads), you could throw ropes with notes tied in them which would force the vampire to untie all the notes before moving on. Warding them off you would use Garlic or Wolfsbane.

[@markusmeridian321]

This episode was freakin' great. 😂 The wooden stake had me laughing good. Loq

[@Grandwigg]

I have no stake in three matter, but much of it seemedto be just for style points in the movie. Silver verses ash or other special wood (sometimes specific woods were needed in certain stories) is likely for supernatural properties rather than normal composition characteristics.

[@kikixchannel]

Silver is generally considered somewhat 'holy', and is the weapon of choice against lycanthropes (werewolves and such). As lycanthropes were commonly related to vampires (often as vampires slaves, that also often wished to rebel against their masters), having a weapon that can work against both the vampires and their slaves all in one would be nice. Except...the original stories related to the stake specifically were calling for a certain type of wood, so a silver stake has no special effects on them...If a steel stake wouldn't work, neither would silver.

[@Grandwigg]

@@kikixchannel I thought I remembered something along those lines. Ash and Elm (and one other specifically that i can't remember) were considered to have special holy, purifying , or otherwise mystically significant. There's even a song about them.

[@kikixchannel]

@@Grandwigg Aspen stake is what I know. Reason for that being that the cross that the bible claims Jesus died on was made from it. Naturally, the specific wood that is tied to the 'myth' is likely going to change not only from region to region, but even from language to language. But yeah. One way or another, a specific wooden stake is needed so silver doesn't work.

[@DShiflet01]

Blade's shotgun has an underslung stake launcher. He mainly carries the stakes as reloads for the gun, but in mid fight when he doesn't have a chance to reload(or when he left the shotgun behind for whatever reason) he uses them as basically shanks(and since he has enhanced strength he's able to get better penetration).

[@TheNetsrac]

Good Stuff Congrats on the 20K subs 👍🏻

[@ScreenTested]

Thank you hopefully we keep going up 👍🏼

[@Jus7aguy]

Stake to the heart was partly for the "total dustruction of the heart", whacking something large enough to destroy it, with a pointy enough end to separate the ribs and get through to it, if you used a large enough mallet.

[@Giosuke_Giogashikata]

I think the point of Blade’s stakes is just another option for when he feels like it. Just another tool to kick some ass. Doesn’t matter how good it works, he’s the type of character who makes it work.

[@Ash-Winchester]

"You can't just carry around a bunch of silver steaks to fight vampires with. You cannot resist the will of the Khan Maykr! You can't just shoot a hole into the surface of mars!" Sounds like a lot of yappenin' and not a lot of happenin'.

[@gregorylieber8362]

MY WORD! The banter in this vid sound more like one titled: "Tyranth's Titillating Adventure"

[@justjeff45]

You forgot the superhuman strength so you don't need a hammer to shove it in. I love what you do. keep up the good work.

[@InsaneGeraldo]

The aluminum suppository of DEATH

[@Blindy_Sama]

I mean instead of a steak what I would have done is make something essentially like a traditional stiletto with a triangular profile blade for stabbing and thrusting... Make it out of steel but on the flat sides of the spike has silver inlays it's not only would it be cheaper to manufacture it would also be stronger and you still have Anna silver to help with the damage

[@GabrielScar]

Always a joy to check out one of your videos. Musical greetings from Belgium, Gunther (singer and lyrics writer of Gabriel Scar)

[@L0neW0lfL0gan]

other then the vampire lore behind using the stake keep in mind blade also uses the stakes as ammo for his shotgun so really they are duel purpose and that would also explain the size of them.

[@NMbones98]

We also have to take into account blade has superhuman strength so him staking vampires and others with ease might explain why it looks plausible.

[@TheLordArion]

There is a man from the middle ages in a museum in Varberg, Sweden. Called Bockstensmannen. He was staked in a bog after he was murdered. So evidently it is both possible and was done. Probably out of superstition and might be connected to the origins of the staking of vampires.

[@bartlester591]

Well, if you seen the movie, you noticed that he also carries a shotgun and he uses the silver steaks in the shotgun

[@BMO_Creative]

Flashlight works great for self defense too! they could make silver flashlights... so the light burns vamps and the stake part for jabbin... lol

[@williamhoeft2903]

I think there is a dangerous answer to upright vampire staking. The gun powder( I think it's gun powder) hammers with nails though technically its a nail and not a stake not to mention it could go through all the way. they are kinda scary though. I was thinking about a ramset hammer-shot

[@jdp3578]

Blade also used the stakes to literally pin guys to wall..

[@franohmsford7548]

TBF Blade is super strong and Vampires in the lore are susceptible to Silver meaning that Silver may just magically go through their skin far easier. Buffy uses wooden stakes but she's super strong too - The annoying thing with Buffy was when the likes of Williow and Xander were running round staking Vampires with normal below average human strength {neither of them are meant to be particularly athletic after all}.

[@tehkill3r]

that depends on which lore.

[@franohmsford7548]

@@tehkill3r The susceptible to silver thing? That's in Blade's lore...Why else would he be using silver stakes!?! In most Vampire lore it's a wooden stake but Blade uses silver....and no he's not hunting Werewolves, he's going after Vampires!

[@jun_sheng]

Can totally see it... Tyranth the Red, Vampire Hunting Sith Lord Dhampir. Understandable that the "lost" stake was used on an actual vampire off camera.

[@iitim2152]

The steak was original meant to hold them in the coffin and not as a means of execution.

[@Jaster_Mereel]

A pointy metal object? Of course it works

[@thatfatguy4508]

I wonder if there is any lore backing this up but I'm assuming, like sunlight silver is an basically an allergy for them, and because of this prolonged contact is needed, i can see the silver steak being rather useful for this for a few reasons, being blunt like you mention it splits things instead of slicing, and with it being so thick it should get wedged in pretty good, making it much harder to remove than a blade, and on top of that its handle less, making it that much harder to remove in a panic, now there could be designs that are hard to pull out of flesh, while getting in easier, but with blades super strength being able to overpower how blunt it is, the shape is real hard to beat when it comes to making them in large numbers, and if it was plated silver and solid silver they would be borderline disposable.

[@blood5898]

I love this channel on such a deep, primal level.

[@Gterr1971]

Hey Tyranth ! I've always liked sharpening short sticks a foot or so on both ends . They are multi use, free , throw easy .I also saw benicio do it in the hunted movie.

[@MrGhosta5]

The problem with using aluminum instead of sulver is that silver is much softer and denser then aluminum. The stakes would be extremely heavy and wouldn't be able to hold an edge.

[@TakNaMarginesie]

Staking was in slavian culture reserved for dormant vampires - who had daily break from harming people.

[@kurokaze511]

You do bring up a point that I've wondered about since I saw those movies when I was a kid. There's a lot of folklore reasons for the wooden stake but for most of modern media, for example let's say Buffy, it's because a piece of wood through the heart kills them and a wooden knife is too fragile to fight with. But Blade doesn't have that problem so there's no need for the silver stakes. Since all he needs to do is get the silver into their hearts, which is why his sword and guns work, then he should be putting it on knives. Mankind has already perfected the stabbing implement, I'm sure learning to throw knives is way easier to get good at than stakes and I'm sure it would use less silver. So there is no good reason for the silver stakes except as ammo in that one shotgun he has and silver buckshot would work way better anyway.

[@konstellashon1364]

Weapon ideas against Silver-vulnerable monsters have crossed my mind when watching things Vampire, Werewolf and Witcher type media. I want to know people's thoughts on: 1) Abraham Lincoln's axe. Originally a plain woodcutter axe that had molten silver poured on the edge. Seems more economic than pure silver weapons, but does this method mean a dull blade? 2) Skall suggested a normal, steel sword with silver to fill in the fuller (yes fuller, not blood groove). He noted that if the lore is the monster can only be harmed directly by silver, this wouldn't work. Only in case of a monster with regeneration disrupted by silver. 3) A war hammer with a silver spike, anyone? I thought this up like a year after Skall's video mentioned above, so hardly anyone noticed. Instead of switching between steel and silver swords, you have one weapon to lay the bonk hurt on everything, then finish of the monsters with the spike.

[@randlebrowne2048]

An axe doesn't have to be very sharp to cut through skin and bone. Also, keep in mind that silver is far more brittle than steel. A (solid) silver spike on a war hammer would run a much higher risk of breaking on impact. Silver plating might work better in that case.

[@yewtewbstew547]

Silver arrow tips maybe. Not exactly an original suggestion when silver bullets are already a thing, but it's all I could think of lol.

[@Roland3ld]

Here is the usual full support for channel growth.

[@DemonAbyss10]

A good analogue to that stake would be an icepick, like the sort mafia hitmen would use.

[@CreepyMF]

That's always an ice pick.

[@InsaneGeraldo]

My mom has had a Blade stake in her sock drawer all this time!?!?!?

[@player1_fanatic]

First Nathan, then Marcus. A lot of cameos in these videos...

[@hraefn1821]

Blade should have used some retractable silver fist blades instead. I'm thinking triangular cross section THRUST ONLY blades that he can quickly deploy then punch into vamps' hearts. That would be endlessly more practical.

[@alphamike87]

I think the silver stakes were used in Blade's shotgun, maybe in a launcher

[@ssegrub]

Movie used a stake for "tradition" sake. However I agree that a silver short sword or dagger would be much more practical in the Blade universe. In addition to his normal sword.

[@tvoyelitsoglupoye2326]

You are powerful, skilled and coordinated. You often pull off next level shite. You should consider cardio and strength training to complement and maintain this. As you get older it will fade if you don't work for it. You'll reach a point where you have to choose. Your power and speed will cause you injuries if you don't have the strength training needed to support the joints and structure. While body builder and vanity training can slow you down, training for strength and explosive power will make you faster. Deadlifts, squats, rows, overhead, cleans, snatches, some bench. Cardio will improve how long you can be fast and explosive, it'll increase your footwork and agility. It will make you and others take your skills more seriously. Getting winded easily isn't a trait admired in martial arts for good reason. Mark Hunt, Roy Nelson, George Foreman, all robust large men (fatties) with big power but also tremendous conditioning and strength. It's not about weight, it's about being fit and able to deliver power for long periods without getting sloppy and tired. I'm saying this because I consider you a powerful, uniquely talented martial artist. You're gonna still desire that when youthful vigor passes. You'll need to work for it. Better to establish habits of training now.

[@NeBuLiSt]

Amazing stuff as always!!! Still nothing tops your fiery Blades of Chaos video!!!! That was INSANE!!! 😱🔥 Please next can you do the PREDATOR wrist blades!!!!! They are super iconic for anyone that grew up in the 80s!!!! ❤😮 So much better than Assassins Creed blade or Wolverine claws!!! You know!!!

[@franohmsford7548]

To the question of why a stake and not a blade and whether the shape is part of the reason - A Blade slides into the heart but it doesn't destroy it {well unless it's a big enough blade}. - Stakes are actually meant to stay in NOT be immediately pulled out again - I think this is actually from Doctor Who's Vampire lore but a Vampire's heart can regenerate unless you stick a bloody great lump of wood through it and leave it there!

[@konstellashon1364]

Well, the Blade movies mostly operate on sci-fi over magic. "Blood god" aside. Viral mutation with allergies and blood deficiency. So stake thickness seems to be the important part, with using silver an added kick. Didn't he kill a vamp with bone in one movie? So yeah, I think the point is to cause more damage to the heart than a knife would.

[@franohmsford7548]

@@konstellashon1364 Didn't he kill a vamp with bone in one movie? I wouldn't know, I haven't watched any of those frankly not very good movies in years. I've always considered the Blade trilogy massively overrated, The Underworld movies are better and they're not great either. - But if he did kill a Vampire with a bone I would assume there would have been a special reason given why that was so.

[@AnuonRinor]

I love the inclusion of Blades weapons. For the silver stakes, they did decently well. But I do think they would benefit from being just a little bit larger in scale by about 20% to improve grip and also having the tip be more acute to reduce its resistance when penetrating. Same with the wooden ones.

[@insertname3977]

Don't forget in the movies, he's repeatedly shown using the stakes as shotgun ammunition. Him using them in hand to hand is mostly just a flex thing.

[@AnuonRinor]

@@insertname3977 Ah yes. Firing them from a shotgun would definitely be effective. But using them as a melee weapon is also effective since he has them on hand and could reuse them.

[@xxxlonewolf49]

Silver coated should work just fine

[@oaksparoakspar3144]

Blade's wouldn't be solid silver anyways - no point to it. Steel or aluminum (durability or weight) could be silver plated without much cost or difficulty. Only the surface would be in contact with the vampire anyways. Of course, Blade uses silver coated blades (the glaive), a silver coated sword, and silver coated bullets - all of which work well. I seem to recall him using silver wire in a coat or a vest in one of them and even just silver powder in the air. It seems that any means by which you can get prolonged surface contact between vampire and silver will dust them in short order. Enough so that the vamps can't get a good body count on the rave massacre because there was silver all over the place afterwards making it too dangerous to even assess the scene. The only value I could see for Blade's thick, round stakes penetrating vampires non-consensually is that by being round they have more surface area contact than a flat blade would. A 1" wide dagger would give 2" times depth in surface area past the point while a 1" wide round stake would give 3.14" time depth in surface area past the point.

[@Green-HairedAnti-Liberal]

I can't not laugh at the crude jokes. There's no way to get through this without making them. 🤣🤣🤣 well done pounding it into Tony. 👏👏👏

[@dandragon8595]

Keep in mind that most modern day Vampires are wearing normal modern day clothing that aside from Jacket or pants would be Jeans silk or cotton clothing. So you need to test that out as well.

[@alphamike87]

The silver stakes were also being used by a superhuman in Blade lol

[@tremblingcolors]

Blade operates on a budget the size of a large company apparently with all the silver he has to use in bullets and weaponry

[@konstellashon1364]

@@tremblingcolors he's specifically seen robbing the servants of vampires to afford his weapons and gear 😆😆😆

[@Lighthammer072]

They're not exactly The March of Dimes.

[@tremblingcolors]

@@konstellashon1364 one thing doesn't discount the other, he has to steal a shit load to have that much silver.

[@insertname3977]

@@tremblingcolors Luckily he does steal a hit load, pretty sure he also robs the bank accounts of wealthy vamps.

[@Alvin-wx2ep]

W000000000t another tyranth vid

[@shawn6860]

with stakes I think material matters and so does Blades strength. vulnerabilities are the key.

[@leemansius6078]

Alfred Hitchcock used honeydew melons for his stabbing scenes-mostly for the sound

[@lorenox]

It's open season on all Tonys!

[@kevinmorrice]

i think because silver according to general lore can harm impure creatures, he uses blunted silver stakes because its more painful for the vampires in the comics i believe he has some high tech method of sharpening his stakes to a nanometre wide point edit: also from experiences ive found silver is a softer metal than steel, so a stake is a more efficient shape to maximise rigidity, a silver knife can bend and warp way easier than a cylinder, so its a combination of both shape and material

[@ShinKyuubi]

Silver has a long history of being considered "Pure" and thus evil creatures can't abide it, it's also why Vampires don't show up in mirrors according to myth, mirrors of the past and even some made today use silver in the process for making them reflective. The Roman empire had silver mirrors and the the Chinese made silver coated metal mirrors themselves in 500 CE...so the fact that Silver is a "pure" metal with mystical evil repelling properties in many myths means Vampires can't see their reflection due to the silver in the mirror....and it just spread to ALL mirrors eventually.

[@randlebrowne2048]

@@ShinKyuubi Silver oxide (tarnish) actually has antibacterial and antifungal properties. People used to drop silver coins into water barrels to help keep the water from going bad in storage. Many flasks were also lined (at least on the inside) with silver for the same reason.

[@randlebrowne2048]

A solid silver bullet would actually perform worse than one made out of lead. Silver is far lighter than lead (leading to much less impact force) and a solid silver bullet would have a tendency to fragment while still inside the gun barrel due to the forces imparted by both the acceleration and the barrel's rifling (friction).

[@konstellashon1364]

@@randlebrowne2048 how about modern copper hollow point bullet, but pour a few drops of molten silver into the hollow? Hmmm 🤔 Wouldn't the silver bullet myth originate from the time of flintlock muskets?

[@randlebrowne2048]

@konstellashon1364 Larry Correa's "Monster Hunter International" series of novels hs the characters use hollow points with a silver pellet in the hollow as a work around. Great books, btw.

[@refan5876]

I think you are correct that the steak as a weapon used in combat is not the greatest idea the shape makes it hard for penetrate flesh and bone, that said even though you used a lighter material in aluminium you do not have Blades super human strength, this would make the stabbing possible in my opinion that and in some lore (not Blades type of vampire granted) the vampire is supposed to be strong and heal fast but their flesh is not as resistant to initial damage. But when you have a shotgun like Blade, vaporising the head with buckshot would be a far better option.

[@saphcal]

i had to google rockmelon. didnt realize it was the same thing as what we in the US call a cantaloupe.

[@demonichunter7925]

Sewing a knife wound is easy, now a quart inch diameter hole is a completely different horror in its own right

[@bruticus1496]

That’s why triple edged bayonets were and still is a war crime I believe

[@demonichunter7925]

@@bruticus1496 ahh idc, don't break into my home and you'll make it to see the next rising sun

[@insertname3977]

@@bruticus1496 Triangle wounds aren't as difficult to patch up anymore, our techniques for it have improved over the years.

[@shrootskyi815]

@@bruticus1496 Triangular cross-section (triple edged) bayonets were never banned. That's a popular legend that unfortunately gets circulated online. Triangular bayonets fell out of use for the simple reason that better weapons were developed, namely, sword bayonets and effective military rifles. Triangular bayonets were originally adopted because the shape is easier to forge, and the thicker cross-section makes the blade more rigid and better at piercing clothing.

[@shrootskyi815]

The real issue with wounds from bayonets, stakes, etc. is that they are puncture wounds. Unlike cuts or lacerations, puncture wounds couldn't be stitched. The had to be left open (and sometimes even held open with forceps or pieces of cloth) so they could drain and heal from the inside outwards. This meant that puncture wounds were difficult to treat, took longer to heal, and were extremely painful. This was true of all deep puncture wounds, including one's from bullets, knife stabs, stakes, etc. In fact, a blade with a thinner cross section, like a knife or sword blade, may be able to create a deeper puncture than something thicker, like a stake. This would make the sword/knife stab harder to treat than the stake stab.

[@chipsdubbo6983]

It would be nice if some vampire killing movie would base the stake shape off of a late medieval throwing lance head, which are sort of triangular and far better at piercing than a regular steak. I think that kind of design would add a level of realism without ruining the whole 'Hey look I did the vampire killing thing!' that's just my opinion though. Also yeah like other people said using a steak is meant to be symbolic more than anything else, though I think adding layers of realism makes things more compelling.

[@randlebrowne2048]

In lots of media (and possibly in the original folklore) a wooden stake through the heart is supposed to both paralyze the vampire and keep it pinned in place in it's grave. Beheading them is what was suppose to actually kill them.

[@konstellashon1364]

@@randlebrowne2048 yeah, I think burst into flames from a stake to the heart was a Hollywood concept. Finish the fight scene sooner, with a dramatic visual. I'm pretty sure I've read that original myth was to pin the vampire down.

[@mechanicalbow]

This channel is so much more pleasant than shad's.

[@joshuabates2200]

You already have a metal pencil to add to the collection. Now as an American adding gunpowder to those and turning them into impractical and comically large bullets sounds amusing to me. Although turning those into rail gun projectiles would be way more practical. Coil guns to. Helical rail guns would be more difficult but more rewarding. Also probably not legal as anything other than arrow or crossbow bolt tips.

[@KhairulFadzlyAKarim]

Blade is a dhamphire, way stronger than a human. Maybe there is his arm strength recorded somewhere but the best to see if it works is to make a mechanical model of his arm and make it stab. Marvel Vampires are different front traditional vampires because if you stab a vampire in the heart with a wooden stake you are not really killing it because if you pull it out again it comes back to life.

[@nigelmacbug6678]

a suggestion for a daft weapon 2 handed disk mace with a spike vs Bec de corbin

[@SquishyFletcher]

Even Buffy knew all those years ago that stabbing most things through the heart with a stake would kill it... In Blade, the reason the stakes were made of silver is because vampires are apparently severely (fatally) allergic to silver (as well as garlic); which means that a heart stab isn't necessarily necessary, as even a flesh wound would lead to death-death. Technically all that would have been needed was a silver coating on a more readily available and durable metal.

[@insertname3977]

I still think the heart or brain needs to at least be damaged, because he does mention that the silver and garlic infused bullets still need to make hearts and head shots to be lethal.

[@konstellashon1364]

Oh, yeah. I remember that scene. Good point, but then again, that was when he was giving the woman a small handgun. Maybe wound size and exploiting Vampire allergies has a scale. Didn't he kill a Vamp with a bone at one point?

[@insertname3977]

@konstellashon1364 Yeah at the end of the first movie, he grabs some broken bones and jabs a few vamps in the heart, and it seems that decapitation is just lethal no matter the material. So I guess the silver and garlic act as wound enhancers, like what otherwise wouldn't have been a fatal stab/shot to the heart or brain, becomes fatal.

[@konstellashon1364]

@@insertname3977 right. I remember now reading what would've been a small extension of the final fight. The doc tried to help more with the regular shotgun she stole by firing on Blade's attackers from above. She only killed some human henchmen, and got frustrated each time she saw she wasted a shell on a Vamp who shrugged it off. Only point blank at the heart followed by falling off the ledge managed to kill the Vamp she took the gun from in the first place. Recap: 1) "Remove the head or destroy the brain" (to borrow from another franchise, haha) or extreme damage to the heart seem to be the only ways to kill Vamps without the allergy exploits. 2) Small wounds made of allergens have to be head or heart to be lethal. 3) The #1 Henchman at the start of the movie was staked through the SHOULDERS and survived. Was there some sort of excuse given that he was more durable, like "age = stronger" or some rpg junk like that? So wound placement + wound amount + material got to add up.

[@chrislaws4785]

Plus you have to consider that MOST of the other characters in the Blade movies DON'T just use steaks, they normally have something like a shotgun that fires them or something. BLADE uses the steak with his hands because he has "super human strength" from being a vampire and can actually stab it into a vampire. lol.

[@dudeman-z6d]

I always forget Australians call cantaloupes rock melons

[@fluffs1243]

this just proves that dynamite is best when dealing with the undead

[@syrtycon7299]

Blade is half vampire so he has the superhuman strength to push that blade through.

[@ndeathel]

Blades Original weapons were Wood (Teak) Daggers back in the 70's. So you saying shape them like a knife was true back in the day.

[@javonboothe04]

Blade is also throwing these silver spike mixed with the fact that he’s much stronger than a human.

[@autophreaktrishield]

Enough strength behind an object makes a piercing weapon. And blade is WAY stronger than most think. Prss and lift of 1 ton. Around captain america level

[@ramzen89]

I want to know why they never put the stake on the end of a sitck, just make a spear out of it.

[@cgleewhite]

Sometimes blade's stake has been fired through a shotgun. and Blade is a lot stronger than a human so hammering it would be close to him stabbing someone

[@javonboothe04]

Plus u ask why not a knife, cause a knife is a knife ; he’s a vampire hunter lol. Silver + Wooden spike = deadly for Vamps. If he misses the heart the silver would still cause damage. So I think it’s an appropriate weapon for him

[@jasonpng8322]

Guys U must remember Blade's Stake is wield by who ? Blade himself who is half vampire with superhuman strength so pushing a stake through somebody will be more easily than someone than mild strength force. Maximum Grip force + kinetic energy + potential energy against tensile strength of leather or vampire bone will work. Normal vampire hunter have to do the classic work than Blade who opted for straightforward task a stake through the heart for more action XD.

[@matttyree1002]

This is such a good series!

[@forgerofsouls9126]

Remember, Blade has super strength, hence why he is able to use a stake as a weapon. Also, I do believe his are even...pointer than normal stakes. Do not know. That said, stakes...really are not made for hand to hand combat. Or combat in general. After all, you can, technically speaking, make anything a "weapon". But, just because you can do so, does not mean they can be effective weapons in the hands of normal people, some would require super human strength. Take paper for example, you can give people cuts with paper...but...how well that would make it a weapon...is dubious at best. I can see it being a torture device though...lol

[@pietroventriglia3165]

It could be nice an Hammer with stake as a picke thatbyou can take off and putt. As design May raccomand the Hammer in lies of p as bloodborne reference. In particolar the exploding pickaxe

[@miloslazovic8842]

Try to go tro coconut with an aluminum knife lol

[@aionlion]

stakes are kinda like kunai they are ment for utility but in a oh shit situation you can fight with one blade using silver makes sense but silver throwing knives would have been better

[@DestroBB]

My wife has this exact thing. Except hers takes AA batteries.

[@asleep-crate8644]

did you already basically make this via the john wicks pencil video

[@BradLad56]

2:07 He uses them as ammo for his guns so I think they get more than enough force.

[@ScreenTested]

And ? He also uses them as normal stakes

[@BradLad56]

@@ScreenTested He also has enhanced strength due to the whole dhampir thing.

[@spiritofarkham1235]

Thing is that Aluminum does not hold an edge well.

[@MrGhosta5]

Silver holds an edge even worse and is a lot denser. An actual silver stake would perform even worse.

[@spiritofarkham1235]

@@MrGhosta5 true. but thats why we use steel

[@jamesfigler6576]

You might even say you blew Tony's back out... I'll see myself out.

[@SolarisWesson]

Vampires/Kindred are slaves to tradition and if the stake is "universally" considered a stake then it is a stake. And it also depends on the media of the Vampire/Kindred

[@daviiidavo5100]

I wish I had thick skin as Tony