Real ZEUS Thunderbolt Throwing Glaive!? Does it WORK?

[Music] hello and welcome back to another episode of screen tested I am your host Tyrant where we take things from movies TV shows pop culture try to create them in the real world and test them one to one from the media that they come from now today's episode is something that I am very excited about we are finally testing a one of my childhood favorite weapons and that is Zeus's Thunderbolt this is a weapon that I have been fascinated with ever since I was a kid not only this weapon but these types of weapons and what I'm talking about specifically is Godly weapons the they are my favorite type of class of weapons we have like you know chaos blades Thor's hammer uh Poseidon's trident there's so many of them and I a big fan of all of them but today's episode specifically we'll focus on Zeus's Thunderbolt specifically this design here this is a I would say this is a popular pop culture interpretation of Zeus's Thunderbolt uh but we should acknowledge that it is from mythology we can acknowledge that but what we're going to be testing in today's episode is specifically how good is Zeus's Thunderbolt as a throwing weapon a throwing glaive I called them all glaes now so this kind of jagged Thunderbolt design I would say is the most common interpretation of Zeus's Thunderbolt but that doesn't mean that there aren't others out there for example one that I want to do a dedicated episode on at some point it's just really it's really big hard to make is uh Liam Nissan's uh ThunderBolt from I think Clash of the Titans or Wrath of the Titans one of those movies it's a very interesting take on Zeus's Thunderbolt that I think actually might be a functional weapon but that's for another time so this is the Thunderbolt interpretation that we're going to be going with for today's episode this one here is from Thor love and thunder uh this is a very common pop culture interpretation uh something very similar would probably be uh Zeus's Thunderbolts from the Hercules movie uh the Disney movie and in that Zeus is my favorite character you get to see his Thunderbolts fighting the Titans and all that sort of stuff that is I think that's probably where my obsession with Godly weapons started like it has to be right I think back and that's probably like the first time I saw like a you know a thunderbolt being hurled thanks Disney today's episode we specifically want to see how good this thing is at being thrown now honestly I do think this design will be like it's going to have sharp points it's going to be made of metal it's going to have heft I think it'll be all right at being thrown however if I was to truly optimize the design I think it needs to be longer I do think that this is a little I think it's a little bit short I think making this a bit longer would actually make it a bit more realistic in terms of a weapon because right now it's kind of it's kind of a throwing weapon but at the same time it's so short that you would kind of want to use it as a melee weapon we're not going to be doing this sort of in half crap I'm not I'm not doing that we are specifically testing how good of a throwing weapon this this is let's get to it so the Zeus's Thunderbolt isn't really a complex build it doesn't really have anything that's interesting visually happening to be honest what I'm going to do is use the foam uh replica as my guide to cut all my different shapes because it does have some interesting I say some complex geometric shapes that I have to cut out of a square steel bar so that's kind of all I'm doing I'm just using the angle grinder doing some cuts and then they get welded together I didn't do the welding I want to preface at that right there but that's pretty much the entire build very simple very quick it's not a difficult build at all my only concern with it was actually making sure that it was strong enough I'm hoping that because we have a lot of right angle geometry uh that will give it some added strength uh specifically with the steel we are here we have our functional real real Thunderbolt and we are ready to get testing so what we're going to do is we're going to break up today's episode into a couple of different things we will test out the points and the thrusting of this weapon wow that is super duper sharp ow uh and then we'll get to the throwing portion because that's what we're here for we want to see if this is a good throwing weapon a throwing glaive if you will now uh you might be wondering about the quality of the build look I didn't have that long to work on it and I didn't do the welds so if you're feeling like you want to up a welder's day just send him a photo of these welds I'm sure he'll have a great time I didn't do them so don't blame me anyway let's get started with the testing cuz I'm actually super duper curious to how this thing is going to perform one of the interesting things that I noticed right away before I've even done anything with it is these angled points now because I'm wearing gloves my hands are protected so I don't have to worry about sharp or rough edges whatever but it kind of acts as a stopper cuz I can thrust and stop which I find interesting now this obviously isn't a long thrusting weapon however I do have that security of my hand being locked into place so I'm not going to lose the weapon there is an interesting Dynamic at play here because where I am thrusting the top of my wrist is where the top of the point is so I can kind of aim my wrist and that's where my point of the Thunderbolt is so point and you're right on target it is a little offset but it's offset in a way that I don't think is that detrimental we also have the two points we have a shorter point which is what I would personally use for actually thrusting if I was using it as like a melee weapon and then the longer point so I can go from thrust over to throw just right off the bat that's what I'm observing and I think that's pretty cool pretty interesting right I'm fan boying a little bit over this weapon okay I'd like these things uh but for a Thrust that is soing garly another we shall do another for another thrust that is so effortless I I can't even feel it okay I was worried that this thing was going to break today because of these uh the welds I was worried that this thing might break but it's giving me more confidence and that's why we're working our way up to the throwing cuz I do think that it has a genuine chance to break when being thrown next up we have Tony though cuz I think these spikes will get through his armor I think Tony's going to get today so uh Tony what do you guys think what what do you think is going to happen do you think it's going to get through or this is going to break in my hand I think it'll get through actually I have faith that was pretty [Music] good okay thrust thrust now I can't wait to throw this thing cuz this ising working awesome thrust oh no that one didn't go through all right all right it works as a thrusty boy now is it good at being thrown if you haven't already you should consider subscribing I'd really appreciate it there's always one the AO Dynamics are a little interesting so far as [Music] expected bit low it's deep though that's what she said that's what she [Applause] said please the is the interesting thing is this is upside down from how I threw it I threw it this way that is that's deep again it ended up upside down from the way that I threw it that is fascinating I mean it took him down the interesting thing about this is it really does embed itself in there it's very difficult to get it to hit tip on because of the up aerodynamics of this thing but when it does [ __ ] is lethal the worst possible outcome let's throw it into some other mediums let's throw it into a tree and see if it holds up or if it'll break man trees the most armored opponents that Zeus comes across this way so uh that's in there it's like Galer and we can see where it got in about to there full penetration and still have an edge still solid let's keep going Zeus's throwing glaive it actually works who would have thought the sound that that makes the depth that I'm getting okay like it may be in a kind of dumbass shape but the deadliness of this thing ising crazy like look at that so Zeus is Thunderbolt honestly what do I think of it the thrusting capability is absolutely kind of Second To None uh and when it comes to armor like it can embed itself right in there no joke in terms of its aerodynamics though that's where it's a little bit more complicated it's kind of terrible to throw this thing getting these points to a line kind of difficult so why don't we rate this on my I don't know what we should call it Tyrant functionality score let me know in the comments what you think we should name it with the functionality score what we do is we rate it on four different types of criteria with a maximum of 10 points in each category so a final score that could be a perfect score of 40 so starting off with Comfort it's actually quite comfortable I liked how this felt uh it through kind of fine in terms of how it felt to thrust into things also kind of fine uh it was a little wonky in the throw though if I'm being completely honest so I would give it probably about a seven in terms of comfort it's not too bad at all I thought it would be a lot worse then when it comes to the design I personally love the design I also think there's some cool Dynamics at play in terms of a Thrust then over to a throw I think that's kind of cool however we are rating its practicality of the design and I don't know in what situation I would choose to wield this in terms of what we've made here real world version of the Thunderbolt over a different weapon like a spear or just anything that is made for thrusting even a sword design I'm probably going to have to give like a three it's not it's not that good uh in terms of its Effectiveness this is interesting I do think it's quite deadly it can be quite deadly however if like a perfect Effectiveness score 10 out of 10 is something like a gun or a sword this thing Falls far below it and I would be on like a four it's quite deadly and it can be deadly in a lot of situations however in the grand scheme of things it's not that effective then for the final and last category wield ability how hard or easy is it to use this is where it gets a little bit interesting because in terms of using it as a melee weapon it's perfectly fine I actually found it quite quite cool and I would give it a higher score however it is a throwing weapon it is Zeus's Thunder bolt that is meant to be thrown at the end of the day and because its aerodynamics are [ __ ] uh I would have to give this for its wield ability as a throwing weapon in terms of its concept like a three it's very bad uh it could be a lot worse and I was able to find that you can kind of get used to it maybe if you made it a little bit longer there's a whole bunch of caveats in there but I'm sitting on around about a three it's not the worst thing in the world but there are weapons that are far far better far more effective in its uh you know in its practical use and that gives us a total score of 17 out of 40 for Zeus's Thunderbolt uh his throwing glaive as I like to call every single throwing weapon now my spear is a is a spear is a is a throwing knife a knife glaive that's what a spear is everything is a glaive these days but that's all for today's episode I genuinely hope you enjoyed remember to like And subscribe leave a comment down below let me know what you thought of today's episode and if I was wrong in my ratings and what you would rate these weapons in all the different criteria remember we are not testing the law we are not testing the magic we are taking things creating them and seeing how they perform in the real world Zeus's throwing glaive