The Worst, Most Self-Defeating "Sword"... Magic Can't Fix That.
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- It's an abomination. What were they thinking?! It's even worse when handling it in person.
I'd sooner forgive Thanos for snapping half the universe out of existence than for using this prime example of how NOT to design fantasy weapons.
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From what I gather the Thanos twinblade was made as a literal joke and reference to the Thanos Helicopter.
Ok.. that’s hilarious
A scene where Thanos holds it overhead, twirls it around, and flies home to his farm would have made that movie a million times more watchable.
I never noticed but it makes perfect sense. Explains why he doesnt really use it in the movies.
I often find it appropriate to give the final villain of an 11 year, 21 film story arc a terrible joke weapon as a reference to a meme.
@@FrozEnbyWolf150 or, the next best thing..make the Trio waited for him to 🚁 down from his mothership using this dual-blade 🤫
'If only it rotated around the handle.' Skall accidentally recreates the Inquisitor lightsaber.
It did rotate around the handle in the film. You can see that right after Thor supercharges Iron Man.
NGL I actually do like the Inquisitor sabers.
@@RhinoBarbarian Yeah, and my question is how!? That thing isn't even fully circular... like the blades would just fly off as soon as you try and make it spin 😂
@@franktheprank7336
Simple: The tracks they are on are longer than the gaps. With the size of the blades, it can be accomplished very easily.
- I wonder, why Loki presented me this sword?
- So you get yourself killed?
- Yes, it makes sense.
This is the perfect weapon for someone who wants his opponent to win
So that’s why Thanos lost
I mean, Thanos's only real weakness in the comics was his subconscious urge to lose.
one wound for you and one for me. Perfectly balanced
Think it was less his choice of weapons as HOW he used it
There's a weapon for everyone
2:50 it only takes a single push to go from "parrying stick" to "parting stick"
The divorcéemaker.
Really making the Klingon Bat'leth look fantastic and practical in comparison.
Hey the bat`leth is a dueling weapon nit really meant for practical combat
@@fernadogonzalez2940 The Rapier was also a dueling weapon... and more than capable of actual combat.
fernadogonzalez2940 I always thought a light batleth would be a good weapon but a heavy ones would make a great duel.
Actually, Skall has experimented with the Bat'leth in the past and concluded that it's surprisingly effective. I highly recommend checking those videos out, even if you're like me and don't like _Star Trek_ much, as they end up being a bit of a study in weapon design theory.
Except that the famous Klingon "sword" has ACTUALLY been tested. Skall himself has even ran test on some such weapons... If your skilled enough with bladed/staff weapons or a mix of them Bat' leths ACTUALLY can make VERY nasty weapons just as designed an intended
I assumed the "bad" design was intentional. The dude's obsessed with "balance" at the cost of everything else, and this is a very literal way to show that.
He's also canonically self-defeating, so choosing a sword that has an equal chance to injure himself makes sense.
Then dual-wield identical swords goddamit!
If anyone puts so much (over)thinking into their fantasy story they should be ashamed, but asking for some originality is not in the realm of thought or mental gymnastics these days, it seems...
@@PatchedSphynx Are you having fun right now? I _hope_ you're having fun.
@@PatchedSphynx I take it you've never read anything about your favorite series and authors. I would encourage you to, knowing things and having critical thinking a lot cooler than being an Internet troll.
3:47
Didn't he literally do that in the movie?
His hand didn't spin but the blades did, that's why the "guard" is curved downward, they are supposed to spin around the handle, that's why they point to opposite sides.
Not to say it's a "good" design, just that he did use it exactly like that.
Yup, it has a Thanos-copter mode inspired by inquisitor lightsabers from Star-Wars, except he couldn't use it to fly.
A short but fun video
The only thing I like about this weapon is that its based on the Thanos coptor.
Sadly not all writers know anything about weapons so they try to just make something cool without keeping functionality in mind which gets us these monstrosities lol
Add a pole through the handle and use it like a helicopter umbrella.
Like the lightsaber parasol used by Kouru.
If you extend the central handle into a pole length. It's much more usable. Polearm form.
On the bright side, it's a great throwing weapon, you can spin it all you want and not care about how it lands. And if your opponent picks it up, that's a free win!
You can't even throw it right.
With telekinesis wizardry it's alright
@@M.W.H. It's said that Thanos could throw it and it would return like a boomerang. My question is how would he catch it? He could also extend the guard into a circle and make it spin (like Inquisitor lightsaber from Star-Wars), but sadly he couldn't Thanos-copter himself with it (unlike inquisitors).
There are actually historical KNIFES with this general shape, primarily the Sudanese double dagger, which is about 22 inches or 56 centimeters long and was one piece of construction. I have forded two blades in this style for the fun of the challenge, and it's the scariest knife I have ever tested.
the blade actually does do the helicopter of death in one scene.
Okay, now this design makes more sense as a fighting dagger. So long as the points don't extend past the user's elbows, fatally injuring oneself would be more deliberate than accidental. And it could also have valid defensive applications, if you brace the downwards pointing blade against the forearm and block with it, like how you would with a tonfa.
This concept just doesn't scale up to a sword design. The best example I can think where a double-ended sword could be practically used was in Transformers: Dark Of The Moon.
Sentinel Prime had a blade like that when he dueled Optimus in the end, but he had his paired with a large shield. In that use case, it just becomes a short glaive without the reach advantage (because you can't slide your hand down the handle to gain extra distance). That's the best I can think of.
As a shorter blade you can at least do two reasonable strikes (slashing up and striking the point down). And someone who didn't train with this would be at a disadvantage trying to pick it up. A big old stick would probably be better still, but if the blade is pointy you could use it to get through armour.
@@Anino_Makata@Anino_Makata (I am not a martial arts user; I am a humble smith, so I can't judge based on use, but I can judge based on design) agreed, but well, the question is, is it a true sword for Thano's who is about the same height as the hulk at eight foot five inches tall or is it just a oversized knife . (going by them fighting in Avengers Infinity war as Thano's height is not listed on marvel fandom but the Hulk is) or is it more an oversized knife? eather way with how its designed, like 2 buster swords ducktaped together it does not work. the advantage of a knife with this shape is it's offensive options.
@@gundanium3126the blades in the movie are proportionally bigger, so it is sword sized for the purple dude.
If some had doubts whether Thanos is crazy, his weapon of choice should answer that :D
@@kombucha_director I was recalling the scaling too. and thinking its the equivalent of a longer dagger approaching short sword size on both ends.
It doesn't even look good (TO ME). You can't even do anything practical with it.
That's an issue with many fantasy weapons for me. Not just they would be impractical irl, they feel impractical even within a setting. Like, even when characters use them on a screen, you don't understand, how they manage to do it. For example, Frostmourne is a badly designed sword, but it looks like a sword still. You believe it can be used like one. And the staff like Thanos' blade... It cannot be used like a sword, neither even like a double lightsaber. Seems like Thanos himself is not completely sure, how to fight with it. He shows neither some cool choreography, nor any interesting ways to use it. He just swings randomly, and somehow manages to defeat everyone. It just looks dumb for me.
I'm waiting for the counter argument from Thanos in his homeworld being like "no this isn't fantasy, here's my not-really-resembling copy of the weapon! I'll show you how i damage enemies and myself with it!"
Thanos: I heard about those cool helicopter lightsaber thingies that some so called inquisitor dudes had, so I ordered one for myself long ago from a galaxy far far away.
If magic can't fix then, then a cutting saw would.
"perfectly balanced" because the center of mass is in the center, and as you strike your opponent you also strike yourself
i like to imagine he did a british museum and got it from a planet of telekinetic beings, that used them as like spinning weapons of death via mind power
This weapon gets clowned on a lot online for being ludicrous and impractical (which it would be, don't get me wrong,) but within its context, I actually think it makes a lot of sense, and is pretty cool.
In the movie, Thanos does just magically spin the thing with some kind of telekinesis, as well as boomerang it the same way, and its shape would make it extremely good at that specific thing, which makes me think that was the entire point.
If that's how it's _intended_ to be used as its primary purpose, and wielding it as a regular weapon is more of just an afterthought, then the design isn't really bad at all, and even makes a lot of sense.
Its unwieldiness could even be a benefit in that case; if its owner lost it, and someone who didn't have telekinesis picked it up, they'd have an extremely difficult time using it.
Of course, the movie does have him swinging it like a regular sword as well, but that could be a case of inconsistency/lack of communication behind the scenes.
But overall, I don't think the Thanos twinblade is as stupid a design as people make it out to be, specifically because of the fact that, in-universe, it can actually spin like a helicopter blade via space techno-magic.
Designs that are smart and functional when supernatural powers are involved never really translate well into real life.
OMG it's the Thanos-copter! Why did I not realize this?
I assume that the Thanos-copter is from the Comics (which I never read) and not from the 1970s animated TV programs or from the Avengers: movies?
A puny imitation of Inquisitor-copter from Star-Wars. He couldn't even use it to fly! >:P
Would make for a great Elden Ring twinblade, so long as it only activates Seppuku on the first attack you perform, not all of them.
Twinblades were the first thing I thought of. The second was "why is the grip so *_SHORT_* ???"
@@NeutralDrow I guess they just wanted to make the Thanos-Copter joke, and a purple CGI-dude isn't gonna complain about how uncomfortable the handle is.
It's like all the disadvantages of a reverse gripped sword, without the few advantages of a double bladed sword. The downward blade is pointing towards you so like, it does less than nothing
@02:51 - World's fastest vasectomy...
There is a Hylian Shield and Master Sword behind him, and he gets the Thanos Copter instead. The sacrifices this man makes...
Hot tip about driving. Do not, and I repeat myself, /do not/ move your hands past each other while turning a steering wheel at any speed higher than a crawl. You'll make it dangerously difficult for yourself to suddenly change directions if you need to swerve to avoid something.
If they lenghten the handle a bit and make the blade face the same way. Might work.
Lengthen the Grip, into a Double headed sword spear and include a mechanism to separate the blades, and it is MUCH more usable.
I couldn't even suspend my disbelief with this during the movie. Giant battle going on and my eye still went straight to the sword and I internally screamed, "WTF were they thinking?!"
I am pretty sure in the movie the blade spinns without Thanos moving the hand, still not sure it was an intended design or it was impossible for the actor to actually perform the motion.
Your parrying device idea works best if held flat on like parrying daggers were. The only two positions I could think to work with this are Di Grassi's broad ward or a high hanging/ox guard.
I AM LOVING THIS SERIES OF VIDEOS. Keep em coming!
Thanos: II require a weapon like no other.
Armorer: Say no more!
(Proceeds to make thee most DOUBLE K.O. weapon ever)
I might be wrong but don't the blades rotate around the hilt? like a physical version of the Inquisitor lightsaber?
I think I found a technique for making the Thanos sword work:
Give it to a rotary drone (since their structure wouldn't be hindered by the design since the sword would be underslung from the drone body) and then Thanos can control it (although from the clips of the Avengers films I've seen he's more the army commander and so when the 2 big armies face off at the end of Endgame he ought to be coordinating strategic and perhaps operational military matters so perhaps should give a drone pilot this job) without it being a biomechanical issue.
I'm loving this; Skall is in rare form; showing stupid fantasy weapons no mercy.
I really hope we reach a renaissance in pop-culture when functional, practical, realistic weapons become popular and prefered over excessively stylized, janky, gaudy abominations.
That Loki staff is the background looks nice though 😁
I'd love to see a follow up or additional testing with the Zombie Tools Sharkalope
I appreciate that lady showing all the silly stuff and talking about it all from the pov of marital artist, business owner & as a fan of various media.
Thanks Miss Cool Lady for doing all this with our boy Skall!
I could watch Mississauga cuts forever 🙌
I love how it says 'double edged sword' in the online shopping screenshot even though this is clearly a double bladed one.
A double edged sword in the figurative sense is something that works against you as much as it helps, and I think it's fair to say this most definitely is that
This randomly reminded me of a silly fantasy weapon idea I had as a kid lol basically it was a sword with a second, smaller blade poking out horizontally from the pommel. The idea was that if you missed a stab or a swing you could throw out a second slash with the pommel blade as you wind back up for another swing. Mostly I just thought it would be funny to have a weapon that looked like you were holding a giant letter
This makes me curious to see Skall review the Warglaives of Azzinoth.
She had WAY too much fun pushing that sword into your nads!
Someone at Marvel saw Cloud's sword and said "we need two of that"
This sword is so cool ... if you need a cooling fan.
I still prefer to think that Thanos needed a weapon really quick, so he plucked the rotor off his helicopter and said, "Eh, good enough."
An exotic weapon that you would never swing in a "normal" way. I rewatched Thanos fight with it and he swings with his arms considerably further away from his body than someone with a normal sword would(props to the choreographer for that fight, that must have been a pain to make look smooth). instead of swinging and using his joints he tends to keep his elbow permanently bent a certain amount to keep the blade far away from his body while swinging with the predictable angles that would require. He also chains attacks along the rotation the weapon requires and uses it as a defensive weapon a lot blocking several strikes with the broad flats and of course beams attacks with the Soi Soi Soi Helicopter.
The thing is, it does actually spin rapidly in the movie. Thanos does that to create a shield against Iron Man's laser fire, like the Inquisitor's lightsabers in Star Wars Rebels. But double bladed lightsabers work where this one doesn't because the blade functions in any direction at any speed, and needs much less leverage to swing, so flicking the back end at someone is easy and still dangerous. This thing would weigh so much that moving it effectively would be ridiculous.
However, it does look cool in action.
i saw this movie and I honestly had no memory of this weapon. I just recall a hazy sword-like object vaguely being swung. so even its bizarre uniqueness didn't really leave any impact, at least the way they showcased it.
Wanna see Skall talk about Prince Nuada's Spear from Hellboy 2 the Golden Army. Whether it's the iklwa inspired short spear or the lance like long spear variant, it is a genuinely amazing fantasy weapon.
The helicopter of death thing you mentioned was actually done by the gelgoog from gundam
I have it! It was meant to be a thrown weapon, but Thanos, like all great military commanders, needed a "pointing stick" more so he never got to use it as it was intended.
It is a wall-hanger only. Even the Klingon _Bat’leth_ has its pointy parts aimed at your opponent.
Ahhhh the reverse canted quillons thing, I just want to cry when I see it, and I see if more and more often for exemple in fantasy designs, Those designs sadly pop up not only in werstern rpg games, western book ilustrations, but also I saw it in relativly new animes and it was in more than 2 titles. I love those reverse canted toward your own wrist quillons, that want to break your own wrisst or deflect incoming bladde straight into your own forearm.
I think they'd intended him to throw it more, hence the helicopter blade...
for fun: if I were to try to use it myself, I would hold it as pictured, so that the reverse blade's sharp edge was away from my body, and I would thrust with it and make a hook-punch motions, levering the spine of the reverse blade on my own ribs.
but I'm pretty sure it's supposed to Comic-Book-Boomerang around, they just didn't do that as much in the films (the did a little bit, if I recall correctly, just not as much as it's designed for).
What did it cost you!?
Thanos: A lot of self-inflicted injuries xD
--3:37... you suddenly reminded of many, of your fellow enthusiasts, trashtalking nunchucks..lol.."actually have a better chance of hitting yourself just as often, if not more". Also, how it's best to have enemies that don't actually move around much..("beginners level footwork skills").
OBVIOUSLY the sword maker should consult with master Skallagrim for a design overhaul
Your sarcasm is no match for my cranky ACKSHUALLY! :p
@@Skallagrim How can I defend against your knowledge, experience. and belligerence? I hereby surrender.
Simple Solution - Backhand-spinning.
Makes it more useful.
And is pretty thematic for it.
Yeah the Thanos war Glaive made absolutely no sense. Especially when it spun arpund rewlly fast.
Hey Skall, one thing I was thinking while playing Warframe and seeing the bows some enemies use, that visually have an energy shield on front:
Are there real-life Shield Bows? Like yes, I know, ridiculous and impossible when you have to keep your arm straight, the "weight" would be unbearable! But right now I'm thinking of something in the vein of a GREATSHIELD that you PUT ON THE GROUND, so it's more of a greatshield with a hole you shoot through, a PORTABLE ARROW SLIT SHIELD if you will.
I would envision such a 'device' being deployed on defensive positions where you can funnel enemies into one area so accuracy would be unnecessary, just shooting from a defensive position minus the investment of a proper wall - and portable.
What’s interesting about double-ended weapons is that the bigger the handle and smaller the weaponized bits are, the more practical it gets.
I’d theorize that the shorter the blades and the longer the handle on a “twinblade” weapon, the more effective and less danger you yourself it’ll be.
That’d eventually just be a spear with a butt spike though.
Or just a quarter staff, which is entirely handle, but significantly more useful than this design.
This arc is looking fire so far ngl
I kinda just assume because he's already so much bigger and stronger than most other humanoids he doesn't need to do large follow-through strikes. And that he mostly uses it to dismantle heavily armoured individuals/vehicles with short powerful strikes, or he uses it as crowd control for when he's surrounded by a lot of smaller weaker enemies, probably employing a lot of pivoting in his style and using the bottom self facing blade as an immediate rear-sweeper when he turns
thanos's... thing... is basically a discount version of Zidane's Butterfly Sword in Final Fantasy IX, which has a bunch of beautiful variations but all featuring a much longer handle between the symmetric blades on the end. almost a double ended polearm more than a sword.
"thanos is still humanoid" Okay now I'm curious, design a fantasy race for which this _Would_ be practical.
Lol it's the first time I notice, that thing is hideous, awesome video Skall
It makes very slightly more sense based on the way that Thanos uses it in Endgame. He swings it sometimes, but the most distinctive thing that it does is spin independently, in the axis in line with the edge. That is why the edges are on opposing sides, since they would cut in the same direction as it spins.
It actually reminds me a lot of the (admittedly much vilified) inquisitor sabers from Star Wars, where the blades can rotate around a stationary ring hilt. If you watch in slow motion, a very similar action is happening here, where Thanos' hand and the grip stay motionless while the ring-like guard and blades spin around them.
How? Idk, space magic. I have serious doubts about the usability of such a design. Lightsabers at least have the advantage of not having to worry about edge alignment. In this case, lining up a cut seems exceedingly difficult. But at the very least, the form does somewhat fit the function: a pair of blades, meant to be wielded with one large hand, that spin around an axis.
3:52 I HAVE actually seen this done in a video game. The Gelgoog has a move like that in Mobile Suit Gundam: Earth Federation vs Zeon for the PS2.
The replica itself is beautiful, what a great work. I know it's a stupid design, but it looks really cool and goes with his "balance" theme
Meanwhile in the comics Thanos doesn't use a sword and instead flies around on his suped-up flying chair complete with its own weapon systems.
the menace of Metron
Lol, I was just going to say what you said just before 4 minutes. Inspector Gadget with that sword would be terrifying.
I think the only way this can work is if you make the handle twice as long as the blades remove the circle guard and you end up with something close to a quarterstaff with blades on the top and bottom that requires immense training to use without cutting yourself
The handle has those pieces jutting out because they connect to each other to make a circle so the blades can spin on the circle, much how the Sith Inquisitors double bladed lightsabers would....
Rewatching the fight from the movie. Thanos doesn't really use it all the much and when he does he's doing this wide swing but also trying not to slice off his arm. Really doesn't make sense. Keep the top half of the sword and just use a shield like Captain America. The helicopter move he does it mechanical. Seems like Thanos really wants a polearm.
thanos sword works best with an overhead slash- gives a new meaning to samurai bump on the head when using longsword after katanas :p
I would call your attention to the blood elven guards in Silvermoon city! (World of warcraft)
I think Thanos' sword was made for him so he could still grip it with his uberglove on. This thing was massive, so the handle would need extra space, but it wasn't meant to be two-handed at all. Maybe he's just that much of a Chad that he just swirls that thing one-handed.
Swing it like you’re throwing a haymaker.
Only dramatic motions. Never in line with your body/center.
Big fancy costumes don’t move organically.
This weapon requires telekinesis or non-biological augments (okay tentacles might be able to use it, but us hard creatures can't) to wield effectively.
Remember the time when Thanos had a Yellow Helicopter?
I think that he just saved the blades for, like, Good memories? XD
If both sharp edges faced in the same direction, then although it would be VERY heavy and clumsy in comparison to a staff, it would be safe to use.
thanos just took the saying double edge sword to a whole different level 😂😂😂
I think that sword was made specifically for that one scene where he spins it to block a beam attack and nothing else cuz even when he uses it for hitting he doesn't really make use of the twin...ness, just swings it like a regular sword.
Has Skal covered the inquisitor lightsaber from starwars? It's quite the thing
I believe he did, when he made a video talking about the "lightsaber umbrella".
And how the Cyberpunk literary genre has been foretelling the rise of AI over 40 years ago and the inherent dangers of it and no one listened. When I first heard about ChatGPT and other AIs getting real good I was not going "Oh cool, artificial sentience, digital life." I was going "Oh shit, we're fucked. Sooner or later this is gonna go sideways." ...
AI could be good for our species... but let's face it, the chance of someone weaponizing it and turning it loose is far higher than it being a good thing. Or hell, even if no one weaponizes it, it will probably lead to mass unemployment.
One AI could probably already replace most administrative office departments and do those jobs faster, cheaper and with better accuracy. They can already do writing at the same level as those Disney hires if not better. They can do 3d models, textures and more for videogames, if not well atm then soon.
They could do programming, which in turn could lead them to make more AIs themselves.
Sir, this is a Wendy's.
Honestly, if they really wanted a second blade on the sword, they could have done some sort of hidden, retractable blade in the hilt. Have some fight where it looks like Thanos is being overwhelmed or ambushed from behind only for him to use the hidden blade to get a hit in that allows him to win.
It is a great win-win scenario for the studio. Thanos wins a fight with some sort of gimmick that could potentially show him as being sneaky/cunning, and they also get to keep the 'cool' double bladed sword idea for toys and such that is not absolutely ridiculous.
I think they are definitely thinking of it too much in "human use" cases that make it hard for a human to you. You're not 8 ft tall and can handle a weapon like that one handed at all times, which he does. He grips with one hand, he spins it with one hand like a staff. A lot of fictional weapons are made by design to work only with within fictional body ergonomics. Impractical for us, not impractical for who it was designed for.
Not to mention, all weapons are impractical or self-harming if someone doesn't train their body to use motions that minimize self-harm. Some are better against self-harm risk control than other and need a more disciplined person.
Of course the way these two would use it would cause accidentally harm potential, but that's literally like any weapons, you train body motions to minimize them and more importantly, you don't judge fiction by what you do in reality. It's not actually fun. Any gun argument is just silly at this point given all the very unrealistic and impractical gun designs in fiction.
You can literally see the motions Thanos uses while wielding it (like using the flat edge as a safe place to secure his hand and his own strength to prevent the back edge coming back at him). He also wears the edge to minimize injury to himself from accidental grazing.
Since the weapon was at least made in scale to a human, but not to their hands, I imagine the stunt actor using it for the green screen test used very specific motions to match Thanos before he was digitized over in post.
Reminds me how I feel about single hand double bladed lightsabers.
Yeah but at least you have infinite edge alignments in the lightsaber, it's just a super stick that you can only touch in the middle.
@@aaronottermann5824 true
Lmfao you said exactly what i was thinking literally the only purpose I could think that would actually work with an abomination sword like that is seppuku unfortunately. But you said exactly what was in my head when I racked my brain trying to think of a situation where a sword like that would be affective in real life.
If I could afford the cosplay Thanos blade I'd make a Thanos hand that looks chopped off and put it up on display lol
this is not a wallhanger blade. this is a CEILING-hanger blade, as then you can fix a motor to it and it doubles as a ceiling fan.
No, see, what actually happened was that Thanos picked up this cursed sword as a child and then spent the rest of his life trying to find a way to get rid of it or at least fix it so it's a usable weapon.
His final attempt was to get rid of half of the universe in hope it'll get rid of half of this monstrosity to be left with a normal sword, but that failed. All that balance stuff was him being too ashamed to actually admit the issue.
I imagine you could potentially try to make small slashing moves as you pull the weapon away from your body, but that's about it. Even the demon hunter glaives from Warcraft are slightly better in that regard since their two blades face the same direction, unlike this sword
It might be more practical if they increased the central hand grip area to properly accommodate both hands and reduce the size of the blades. It would basically become a dual bladed spear
Wait, was it Shadiversity or Robinswords who made a video about these double-bladed swords being quite practical and good in combat? The things were, however, much better designed - they were double-edged and had much longer and better hilts, literally two longswords attached to each other. You then essentially just get a polearm with limited grip options and use it as a polearm which *just might* be fine. I also imagine increasing the handle-to-blade length ratio would help quite a lot. But yes, making and carrying them would be an absolute nuisance, and there are good reasons why these things did not exist.
If this is meant to be a helicopter weapon, there definitely needs to be more space on the handle to comfortably spin that thing. Especially with hands as big as Thanos'
I think if the handle were about five times as long, with the overall length remaining the same, you could probably use it kinda like a quarter staff. It would still be awkward and require specialized training to use, but it wouldn't be quite so bad.
There's an older video by Shadiversity about this sword where he had a wooden version and he didn't like it either.
Good gods... It's like someone wanted to give Thanos a bat'leth, but was told they needed to make it Not a bat'leth.
I'm really enjoying this series