Brandon Sanderson and Wren's Weichman Five Favorite Superpowers!
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2024
- Brandon Sanderson and Wren Weichman from @CorridorCrew sit down to chat about there favorite super powers and which ones they'd personally want to have!
This interview was filmed in 2023
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Chapters
(0:00) - Introduction
(5:37) - Matter Destabilization (Gambit)
(10:36) - Precognition (Spider Man / Shulk)
(14:38) - Regeneration / Healing Factor (Wolverine / Deadpool)
(18:04) - Time Travel (The Terminator / Link)
(26:22) - Flying (Superman / Storm)
(28:50) - Regeneration (Siris / Deathless)
(32:18) - Manipulation of Metal (Magneto / Vin)
(37:38) - Telekinesis (Professor X / Sarah Kerrigan
(41:31) - Portals (Doctor Strange Portals / Portal the Video Game)
(49:12) - Teleportation (Nightcrawler / Raven)
Artists
Gambit - David Yardin
Spiderman - Michael Cho
Shulk - fuwamoko_momen_toufu
Wolverine - John Romita Jr.
Deadpool - Inhyuk Lee
Link - Nintendo
Superman - Clay Mann
Storm - Greg Land
Siris - Epic Games
Magneto - Mike Deodato Jr
Vin - Miranda Meeks
Sarah Kerrigan - Blizzard
Professor X - Marvel
Raven - Laura Braga
Nightcrawler - Todd Nauck 
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I still can’t believe we didn’t get a legit backup intro where I wasn’t joking 😅😅😅. Thanks for much for having me on the show! It was a blast to discuss super powers with someone so knowledgeable about them. I shouldn’t have been surprised when he whipped out a triple tier ranking system, cuz of course he would!
See you all at Dragonsteel Nexus!
-Wren
It is because of Wren's audible ads about the Cosmere books he was listening to at the time (This was a while ago when I was binge watching older content), that got me onto Brandon Sanderson and the Cosmere as a whole. At this point I have read all books in the Cosmere and am excited for the 5th books release in the Stormlight Archive. Thank you Wren and Brandon Sanderson!!
Thanks Wren for shouting ot warbreaker in an audible ad years ago you introduced me to the cosmere and i am truly thankful for tht
Awesome!!!
What the what!!! Years of wearing cosmere shirts on corridor paid off!
Wren also appeared in Brandon's Book Club for The Sunlit Man.
I never noticed his shirts.
There are cosmere shirts? I own the Kings Wild Project Mistborn cards and no shirts. Disappointed in myself
@@Sound_TechHe's worn a bridge four shirt for one of their Seth Rogan episodes.
Wren is the reason I started reading BrandoSando's books
Same!
Me too!
When has he talked about them before?
@@thefullmetaltitan9732 he has mentioned them before. back in the "sam and Niko" Vlog days Im pretty sure he talked about Mistborn and Way of KIngs for audible ads, as well as verious other mentions.
Me too!
True story: what actually got me into Sanderson books was Wren doing a sponsored bit on a Corridor video. He talked about Mistborn: The Final Empire as a way to promote Audible and I was like "hey, that sounds like a fun book, I haven't read fantasy in awhile." And now I'm most of the way through Brandon's body of work.
We had the same experience
Do you know the video?
@@davidprice6172 I found it! It's called "Man vs Coyote" on the Corridor Crew channel.
Same here, back when the channel was called Sam & Niko, the day that video dropped i went to a bookstore and found it, havent stopped being a Sanderson fan
@@davidprice6172 ruclips.net/video/QZgxyMsw31A/видео.html
Wren sticking with the gimmick of mispronouncing names even in the face of one of his favourite authors. The mad lad. Legend.
I still can't believe we didn't get an alternate intro. I was just joking! Now we're stuck with the joke!!
@@SirWrender What are you talking about? It was perfect! Why Wren in video if not Wren style?
@@Juan_DeSantis I don't know Wren, but the style fit in well into Sando's videos XD
Wren meets with Brandon for a light, fun video about superpowers...
Goes home with a reading list of 20+ books to make time for.
Just wanted to say: Wren is the person who got me into Brandon Sanderson's books. Years ago, he recommended The Way of Kings on a Corridor Digital RUclips video, and I, having never heard of Sanderson before, decided to give it a go. Almost have all of Sanderson's Cosmere now, hardback, paperback, and ebook. Thanks, Wren.
I remember seeing wren wearing a cosmere shirt in one of their videos while reading the books. It was the first time I realized how large the Fandom is lol.
Brandon with the internet's favorite good boy? Yes please!
Androl was one of my favorite WoT characters in the later books, and now I know why. Him ripping a portal to the bottom of the ocean was one of my favorite moments.
Ayyy Wren! Livin the fan dream.
Wren will one day be hired as the Visual Effects director on Brandon’s movies. Mark my words!
I'm waiting for it! It would be sad for Corridor to lose him though
Feruchemy has always struck me as one of the most actually useful abilities, in part because it’s actually a bunch of abilities rolled into one. Sure none of them are the most powerful version of that ability, but I don’t need anything extreme in my day to day life.
Just the simple things like never feeling too hot or too cold, being able to fall asleep whenever I want to, being able to suddenly make my sense of hearing really strong when I’m trying to find a vibrating phone, etc.
Allomancy is more fun though
Feruchemy is my favourite Cosmere power. I just love the idea that you only get out of it what you put in, and being able to save up attributes of yourself for later use is so cool.
For the daily life feruchemy would be amazing. Just the power to store and recover heat would improve the life of many people...
I've said it before, but Feruchemy has all the powers I wished I had in college.
@@Landis963 Appropriate, because it was in school that Brando Sando came up with it, when he couldn't sleep at night and wished that he could store up his sleepiness from the day to use at night.
Allomancy would be very scary in real life, especially if you havent managed to control it yet
I like the paradoxical answer to causality in Off to be the Wizard. Which goes something like: "No, you can't go back in time and fix this thing. Because here we are, and you didn't"
Ooo, I like that
Unlimited Shapeshifting, all day every day. It covers a healing factor because you can shapeshift the injury away, you have tons of variety to interact with, you get great new perspectives both as people and as things like birds or bugs, theoretical immortality as you shapeshift back to a younger age, go places with ease turning into birds or fish, etc etc etc.
Damn that's true. It'd even be good for stealth since you could shape shift into a cloud of vapor, a pebble, etc. Imagine shapeshifting into a genius to solve the world's problems
@@gaiusfulmen I'd never considered the genius thing, but i suppose that's cause I'd always want my brain intact. Don't wanna risk breaking that.
Search omnifarious. That's like the highest state of things you can do with shape-shifting.
So, like Nimona?
Now you might think I'd be all over this shapeshifting business Jasonwolf, but if comic books, cartoons, and Sci-Fi Original Movies have taught me anything, it's that shapeshifting comes with a bunch of boring rules and restrictions that limit its potential Turn-Into-A-Bulldozer-Whenever-I-Wantity. You can turn into a machine gun but not bullets, contemporary jazz turns you back to normal, you can only turn into presents your grandma's knitted for you. Crap like that. For example, let's say I could turn into any species... OF BALLOON ANIMAL!!??
I just love Wrens enthusiasm for everything he talks about.
Wren you're just hitting ALL the right notes here, and this is my 3rd comment on this video. Teleportation is my #1 super power, and it is also specifically because of Jumper. From that day forward, all the little daydreams we all have of that super power we want, and how the nuances of it worked, became about that style of teleportation.
This episode was a real treat, thanks guys
Doing an existing thing in a cool/ new/ interesting way is absolutely a healthier mindset to have than needing to be original.
Fire Force has everyone be pyromancers, and that’s ok because they all do it a bit differently
I really like the distinction between 2nd and 3rd gen.
Does this mean that there is a future collab with Corridor Crew and DragonSteel? Awesome to see both Wren and Brandon in the same room!
The TV Show Person of Interest was almost exactly what Brandon described for precognition.
Yeah, I also thought of that during the description. I thought the tag line for the show was kind of dumb, something like "you know the person is involved, but don't know if they are victim or perpetrator", but the show is actually really very good. Smart and fun scifi snuck into what appears as a "normal" procedural but develops into so much more.
One of my favourite shows ever. Really clever. Also a bit ahead of the current AI craze which makes it even smarter.
It’s almost exactly describing the show Manifest as well!
Wren was exactly as much of a giddy fanboy as I was hoping. Thanks for the video, I always like seeing my favorite channels collide like this
Awesome video, nice to have Wren on! He's got some fun insights on the topic and bounces off of Brandon really well. As a sidenote, whichever editor decided to feature Shulk as a character for the precognition power, you have my respect and appreciation!
Wren casually predicting we'd have a Secret Project 5.
I love to hear your take on different superpowers, and love all the energy that Wren brought to the conversation, energized but without exploding
Another sleeper movie that was similar to Jumper for me was Push. I loved that movie growing up
Brandon's use of portals in the finale of Wheel of Time is one of my favorite moments in any book. I think about that portal savant all the time.
Let corridor run with some stormlight content please!!!!!
Oh wow, them talking about precognition totally brought back memories of the Early Edition TV show.
When they said hearing a voice telling the future I immediately thought of that cat delivering the newspaper.
The flying conversation is really interesting in my opinion because watching invincible now one of my favorite things with mark in the show. I feel like it’s used in a very casual way but with giving a good sense of wonder as well and learning
The whole of this video I was just thinking about Worm, a web serial written online by a guy named Wildbow. It's an incredibly well written and extremely creative superhero fiction that will give you a lot to think about creatively and with regards to a story. I sincerely could not recommend it enough!
You reminded me that I have to finish it
I love Worm. It's got some of the best displays of creative power uses, and great limitations put in to explain why some powers don't just immediately break the setting.
I was looking for this!
And don't forget Ward too, it has pretty much everything that makes Worm great, just with a new protagonist.
I was scrolling the comments hoping that someone would mention Worm! I’m pretty sure every power mentioned in this video is done in a unique, interesting, and traumatic way in Worm.
Even the powers that Brandon said aren’t as interesting to write about are done in Worm and Ward in incredibly fascinating ways that stay fresh for millions of words of story.
I wish we could get these "Five Favorites" episodes as podcasts.
I couldn't believe my eyes when i saw these two on the couch together! Wren's infectiously passionate Audible ad where he talked about Shardblades and Shardplate was literally what got me to pick up the Stormlight Archive, which is now my favorite series of all time (besides Tolkien). I'm so happy that Wren got the chance to meet Sanderson after how much he's repped his work, hahaha! Corridor is such a great, innovative channel overall, I'm glad that Brando himself is a fan!
Shardblade corridor video when
Do you know how long i've waited to see you two collab?!? 🤩
1: luck
2: flying
3: metamorphosis -> changing body parts with creature parts
4: teleportation -> shadow travel
5: healing -> self-healing
My recommendation for the Wheel of Time series is to do the audiobooks. Listen to them when you're doing chores, on your commute, at lunch, etc. It will help chunk them in memory, and keep momentum going through the slower parts of the series.
I've started the Wheel of Time on audio. First-time reader/listener of the series.
Unfortunately, the books lost me. Must have been a slower part of the series. I think I stopped listening at around book 4-5?
Maybe I'll give it another go at some point
If I shared a story idea with Brandon Sanderson and he responded with “That’s a great concept!” I wouldn’t sleep for the next 72 hours due to stressing over making it more of a concept.
I remember one day wren suggested listning to Stormlight Audiobook on a Audible sponsorship. And now we are here.
About portals, there's a great french animation based of some mmorpg game and the main characther is of a race that are born from eggs togheter with dragons. It's whole hability deck is based on portals. The name is wakfu. Great one.
Woo on Sanderson mentioning the Pern books @38:38, I absolutely loved those as a kid, makes me think of the smell of a library.
Wren got me into Stormlight back in 2017/18 - what a legend! Loved Brando Sando ever since
Same! He did a audible sponsor bit at the end of a corridor vid, then when I was looking for a long book to use my single credit on I picked it up.
Dude lol I can't believe these crossovers. All of my favorite creators. Now we need XP to Level 3 on here
Can you imagine? Hilarity would ensue
I had no idea two of my favorite creators are already fans of each other! Incredible!
Two of the best channels uniting. Beautiful!
With the healing factor, I immediately thought of Gold compounding. Like you can heal yourself as much as you want, maybe even to the extent of massively extending your life, but if you ever get tired of it, you can let yourself die and pass on.
Wren getting to do a long interview with Sanderson must be such a dream come true for him.
I love it when creators that I follow independantly do a crossover
They have great chemistry together.
I've always wanted a version of Magneto where an Electrical Engineer and a Plasma Scientist were co-authors of a couple issues of X-Men, just so we could see an omega level mutant whose power really was just generating and manipulating magnetic fields. Imagine a scary combination of regular Magneto with Cyclops, Thor, and the Human Torch (who also has x-ray vision).
This is a crossover I've been wanting in the corner of my mind for a while now!!!
Now this is the crossover episode I have always been waiting for!
This is the collab I’ve been wanting to see for years! Congrats Wren!
I'd love to see the Corridor Crew do a short video showing what a world with spren would look like.
The Final Destination films are essentially what happens when you see a tragedy, the difficulty of preventing it, and the ramifications of the aftermath. Particularly the last film in the franchise does some really fun stuff with the concept.
Teleporting is such a fun one. It's probably my #1 to have.
I've always loved the idea and crazy stuff teleporters do in fiction. Like Night Crawler.
And it's incredibly convenient as well as cool. So often I have to go back somewhere to get something
A crossover I did not expect, but welcome.
Sando's Precognition story idea is similar to the show Early Edition! I loved that show. 100% would read a book similar.
Wren?!?! This is probably the second best collab you have done. Will Friedle is still number one
Wren's favorite quote is also mine! It's in the Way of Kings epilogue, by Wit. What man values most is novelty. Changed my perspective on so many things in life.
The stopping the plane thing, is basically the plot of the 1st final destination movie
What, Wren is on Brandon’s’ show? That is awesome!
Two of my favorite creators! Love it
It's the latest RUclips Team-Up! And it has two of my favorite RUclipsrs!
47:16 It's interesting that he says that he uses mind control spearingly given that it's a key factor in at least two of his biggest novels.
Great conversation!
Speaking of teleportation, Larry Niven's Fleet of Worlds series has a technology where you can teleport between plates on the ground but they have to take into account the different angular velocities on different parts of a planet, and they can only add or dissipate a limited mount of energy. So to travel to the opposite side of a planet you must do it in several steps. Pretty neat detail but I have no idea if it's explored in any depth in the series as I've only read book 1.
Imagine Gambit charging a handful of sand and using it to scatter shot a wide area
Ok Wren's teleportation idea was amazing
I LOVE how Sanderson's mind work. As soon as he said "Gambit" I thought: oh, man, I can think of so many ways to better use his powers than just small bombs. And the he goes as says the same thing 😂
Fantastic guest!
I think my favorite power to have would be kitty from xmen. Phasing through solid matter is pretty OP OP and basically counters all physical threats while also being incredibly useful in maneuvering and any time you need to move an appliance in your house 😂
I like that we can now identify archive interviews that were held for some reason by if Brandon has a beard or not.
Fantastic.
Great Video Idea!
His mistborn recommendation, they way he described it, got me interested in the books to begin with, and i never looked back
I like the idea of a power to share experience. Feelings, emotions, memories.
I was reading wheel of time, then suddenly the characters got a little quirky and more interesting. I really,, really enjoyed it. Then I realized I was reading brandon sanderson. Then I read elantris and haven't stopped.
Well that was great. I am a big fan of both Brandon and Wren from Corridor and knowing what a big fan Wren is of Brandon and his work, it was a lot of fun to see the two of you together having the type of conversation that my friends and I often have about superpowers and pop culture references. Thank you both for taking the time to do this. It was genuinely fun!
This video is gold
The greatest crossover event of the year
That precognition Wren is talking about is very similar to Sixth of Dusk's aviar's ability!
I did not know Androl was Sanderson's work! I absolutelly love him!
I am stealing that teleport power idea for my book!
I am not sorry.
Love you guys ^^
1. Invisibility
2. Immediately learn anything just from seeing/hearing it once
3. Speak and understand all languages, including ones not invented yet, dead ones and conlangs
4. Time travel (but in the quantum entanglement/self generated kinda way, not the spaceship/wormhole/Delorian kinda way)
5. Duplicate any material object at will, in any amount, out of thin air
Wren's first superpower is exactly what my star wars oc is.
Brandon and wren, in the same room, geeking out?! THIS is what the internet was made for.
wow, what a collab a didnt expectttt
Counter point to the low score on readability for healing factor: read Fire Punch by Tatsuki Fujimoto!
I love Brandon’s #1. Androl is my favorite side character in WOT.
NO WAY THERE’S A COLLAB WITH MY TWO FAVORITE SERIES VFX ARTISTS REACT AND INTENTIONALLY BLANK!!
I am from Brazil, Amazonas, and I love your books Sanderson
This made my day
The collab I didn’t know I needed
Both these guys ❤
52:02 this is super fascinating to me. Forget about rocks; you could teleport into your enemies and take chunks out of them with your own body. I'm sure it could get even more OP.
Anderol is one of my favourite characters in the books
Woahhh I knew Wren was a fan but didn't expect this!
The other issue with invisibility is that, unless whatever you are touching also becomes invisible you have to walk around in the world naked. Which seems highly uncomfotable to me in the best of times, and you add in incliment weather, or hot pavement and suddenly not being able to wear pants or shoes becomes a much worse prospect. Also raises the question of, if you are invisible can you still get sunburned. No fun.
Its so cool hearing BrandoSando talk about Giskard and Giskard's Law ! You gotta appreciate an author who is juggling a million worlds and stories and putting words to paper and yet he remembers his favorite stories that he had read back in the day with minute details ! 😀
Holy shit, didnt expect to see those two in a vid. I'm gladly taking it.
This is great! Was super excited when Wren was in Sunlit Man bookclub, was hoping he would get a chance to do something like this with Brando!
Invisibility and teleportation are the ones I would most want to have, mostly for avoiding social interaction and convenience. Telekinesis too, even limited to say, only what you could physically pick up. Just very useful.