I promised my patrons they could send me two armor suggestions each and I would review them
all and I also promised you on the community tab that I would review your most upvoted comments
so let's continue with that because my gosh you all love it to your list top tier is I'd
wear it it looks good and comfortable enough that I would consider wearing it as a costume
it makes sense within the story and in context it looks reasonably protective even if in real
life it's actually made of cardboard and glitter. pretty good is for things which are mostly solid
but have a couple of weird choices or just look a bit off for some reason. Not actually armor is
where we shove all of the stuff that I am asked to review but that's not actually armor like say
princess Leia's metal bikini or Samus's zero suit still not over those hideous boots though Samus
what can I say it can be quite a useful category moving on down we have could be worse either it
looks okay but wouldn't really be protective at all or it would be kind of protective that
looks terrible and our bottom tier and everyone's favorite tier to the point that some of you have
asked for it on a mug just stab me now because that's what would happen if you went into battle
wearing this basically it's supposed to be armor but it's actually just an active hindrance or so
ugly that I can't get over it or contains a lot of really weird gaps that happens a lot let's go
Aziraphale and Crowley in good omens now obviously I cannot
speak to the historical accuracy of the armor because youtube has
like other people for that but look serious full plate with all the trimmings including mail
lots of mail it looks fairly well articulated which is always important for movement and it
looks good from a character perspective too you've got the very clear color differentiation
between Aziraphale and Crowley obviously and you've got stuff like crowley's demonic toes
being extremely pointy and Aziraphale's angelic toes being somewhat less pointy and of course
aziraphael's white and cream cape flamboyantly unnecessary and impractical which is very
Aziraphale because he could just miracle it clean top marks I'd wear that and I'd wear that as well.
Batman in Batman begins somewhat infamously the Batman begins suit was so restrictive that
Christian Bale could hardly move in it at all and while filming for the dark knight rises he
needed to take off his coal on a semi-regular basis because he was seeing stars like he was
feeling faint it was not good so if we're being a Doylist about this then non-diegetically speaking
we should just stab him now preferably in the back because he can't turn his head to see you
or move very well or even breathe comfortably if we're only considering his in-universe
flexibility then due to the quick cuts and general darkness we seem to be under
the impression that he can move around all right you could argue that from a strictly
diegetic perspective it could be worse but I'm gonna go with just stab me now because
I feel like that's the fairer representation of how restrictive it was regardless of whether or
not it looked cool I cannot look past the fact that he cannot look past 15 degrees either way.
Conan the Barbarian I get asked to review this a lot mostly in a ‘ha gotcha Conan's armor is
skimpy too!’ kind of way but clearly these people have never actually watched one of my
tier lists because this is not actually armor he's wearing pants and a headband. pants and a
headband and and some leather things which look a bit like bracers or vambraces I suppose but
you're really pushing it to call that armor let me attempt to illustrate the difference between these
categories with two completely different pictures: this one is not actually armor I wouldn't wear
it while going into battle either but you know, not actually armor this one is just stab me now
because it's clearly trying to be armor given the amount of I assume that's metal
on her body but it's just failing really hard at it okay okay great so Conan clearly not actually
armor in the same way that Grace Jones's outfit in Conan the Destroyer also not actually armor
there is of course this stuff pretty good I mean they've made an attempt at historical accuracy
you know it's fairly well covered but you have to balance being able to move with heat moving on!
Leliana Leliana Liliana well I found this picture... why is the armor aesthetic we seem to
be going for here sexy schoolgirl? we've got what looks like bare skin under leather and what looks
like bare skin under metal never a fun time and not even a piece of cloth under the arms seriously
why is the arm that bends to draw the bow covered all the way down with armor whereas the arm
that is straight to hold out the bow not so much? Just stab me now. This concept art although it
looks uncomfortably tight for a real person who has to breathe you do at least have more coverage.
Kale from league of legends okay full disclosure this is one of those outfits that to me looks
super cool until you start thinking but how would I put this together for a cosplay and
then it all kind of falls apart I appreciate the coolness factor and I appreciate the color
scheme and of course I appreciate the helmet you know it's me but I must ask
what material is this and what material is this are they meant to be the same? because
they look the same but clearly they cannot be the chest piece is obviously meant to be
solid and the gloves are fully articulated like they're made of cloth. This version has the
brilliant oversized shoulders that always remind me of warhammer but at least you know you can see
that there's cloth under there you know I think I give the red and gold one and I'd wear it because
it does look fun and it does have a helmet I know it's got the giant shoulders but she's
probably magic so you can probably fudge that a little. The purple white and gold one though
I mean I'm going to give it a could be worse because I have seen much worse
but it's just a little bit too nonsensical even though it also kind of looks cool.
Lu Lingqi from dynasty warriors 9. so a friend of mine asked for this and when I said why
he said well Jill I feel like you would have something to say about this one
and boy boy do I! I mean the top half of this one I would rate pretty good
even though it doesn't have any head protection and it does look a bit unrealistically tight
and she does have a big shield so that's always good but from like the hips down
it's just a hot mess is that leather underwear or worse is that metal underwear? the bottom
half drags us all the way down to just stab me now territory so now you know.
The 2021 version of Macbeth with Denzel Washington ordinarily I would say my kingdom for a helmet but
he is meant to be a 17th century Scottish chap and I think they might have been basing their outfits
on this guy picture c who is a 16th century scottish chap so
you know we're in the ballpark I mean if nothing else it covers pretty well and it looks comfy I
think because it's a theater adaptation even if it is a film I'd still wear it because I
I do just give theater a little bit more leeway because covering the actors faces is just tricky
and generally not a very good idea as they say in my stage combat classes ‘this is the money maker’
Sisters of battle from warhammer 40k okay these are reasonably workable I'm not sure about this
one basically the thing that's giving me pause here is the leather corset is the leather corset
just for support in which case okay that means it's probably bendy enough that you have range of
motion but if you're supposed to be using it for protection if it's stiff enough to be protective
it's probably too stiff for you to bend forwards or sideways at all the major things that stopped
me from giving this one the highest rating are that metal fleur-de-lis and the censer that's
dangling between her legs like it's a cat bell if the fleur-de-lis is actually metal that's
not going to bend and so neither can you and the censer that looks like a giant cat bell around
her waist is really going to get in the way if she leaves it there that is not a good place to have
it if you're just going to be walking around or especially if you're going to be fighting I mean
if it's an extra weapon I get it but just don't put it in front of your legs when you're not using
it that's just asking to trip up but at least we have cloth here that's actually cloth and so
it's not a self-castration plate. Dual wielding two single-handed weapons means that range of
motion is going to be a little bit less of an issue and so you can get away with those
shoulders I would not wear it and we really need to move that censer but you know what pretty good.
Last up we have Mordred from Excalibur dang I reviewed Morgana from Excalibur in an earlier
video and correctly guessed that she was in fact not actually wearing armor but Mordred boy
he is superbly extra and I am here for it. He is gold-plated he's got this Greek tragedy
looking helmet slash mask on him there is a woman in this picture throwing glitter at him
I mean yes it looks a bit 80s but you know it was the 80s so what can you really do about that
I have to tell you I'm... I'm just here for this level of extra for this clearly
over-the-top evil character I'd wear it my friends I really would.
If you'd like to see me reviewing a different collection of costume
armor then there is a link next to my face and if you're a patron or channel member then you
should look that episode up because there is an extended version which I think you will enjoy.
There isn't an extended version of this video but if you're a patron or channel member you
should go watch the bonus video which is about the thing which i'm doing
which isn't going to show up on youtube for a couple of months but i'm quite excited about
it so I made a video about it for you victory is mine victory is mine I drink
from the keg of glory Donna bring me the finest muffins and bagels in all the land
see you soon!