History WebVideo / ManAtArms

* EverythingTryingToKillYou: The workshop equipment is not to be played with. Tony reminds us on occasion that basically everything in his shop can kill or horribly disfigure you if you aren't mindful, as the TooDumbToLive movie producer described below demonstrates. His old door had a sign on it saying something like "Authorized personnel only. No admittance. Everything inside is hot, sharp, poisonous, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking offensively rude]], or all of the above."

* MasterOfAll: Ilya Alekseyev's specialty is armor, but is there anything he's ''not'' good at? Bladesmithing, etching, leatherwork, he does everything. He also got to demonstrated this as a competitor on History Channel's ''Series/ForgedInFire'', where Ilya won.

** The reason for a katana being the weapon chosen by the ''Reforged'' gang to mash up with a lightsaber. A straight-bladed, double-edged sword would more closely approximate the range of attacks available to a lightsaber wielder, but there's no denying that a katana with a lightsaber hilt and a Galactic Empire emblem tsuba is cool.

* Asta's Demon-Slayer Sword from ''Manga/BlackClover''

With the shutdown of Defy Media, the company behind the AWE Me channel, the future of ''Man at Arms'' was uncertain for a time. The shop team at Baltimore Knife and Sword wanted the series to continue at some point, but until such time they decided to make their own [=YouTube=] content on their own channel: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEjEAxdJLOg4k854j-oESfQ That Works]]''. Rather than recreating pop-culture weapons, ''That Works'' focuses on Vlog-style recordings of the normal work they do (and did, while they were also making pieces for ''Man at Arms''). In June 2019, AWE Me was released from the Defy legal limbo with new owners, allowing them to upload the remaining episodes that had been completed before the company shut down. As of February 2020, pre-production work is being done on new ''Man at Arms'' content with the Baltimore Knife and Sword team, and in the meantime Matt and Ilya have started making some defictionalized weapons on their own time on ''That Works''.

* Ryuko's scissor blade from ''Anime/KillLaKill''[[note]]Made from real scissors.[[/note]]

* Guts' Golden Age two-handed sword from ''Manga/{{Berserk}}''[[note]]Originally misidentified as the Dragon Slayer, [[IconicItem his more iconic weapon]].[[/note]]

* The Daedric battleaxe from ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''[[note]]The design of the weapon is more akin to that of the Daedric war axe, a one-handed weapon. The creators justified their design by pointing out that it may be a one-handed weapon for a muscle-bound adventurer or Dremora (basically a demon), but it would take someone of more average build two hands to swing.[[/note]]

* Kennosuke Tokisada Ōma's sword from ''Anime/{{Kuromukuro}}''[[note]]Commissioned by Creator/PAWorks, the studio behind the anime.[[/note]]

* Sora's pirate keyblade from ''Franchise/KingdomHearts''

* Spat, the Hydrodynamic Spatula, and the Golden Spatula from ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''[[note]]Final episode before hiatus[[/note]]

* Spat, the Hydrodynamic Spatula, and the Golden Spatula from ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''[[note]]Final episode before hiatus[[/note]]

* The Orcrist sword from ''Film/TheHobbit''

* Dawnbringer from ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''

With the shutdown of Defy Media, the company behind the AWE Me channel, the future of ''Man at Arms'' was uncertain for a time. The shop team at Baltimore Knife and Sword wanted the series to continue at some point, but until such time they decided to make their own [=YouTube=] content on their own channel: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEjEAxdJLOg4k854j-oESfQ That Works]]''. Rather than recreating pop-culture weapons, ''That Works'' focuses on Vlog-style recordings of the normal work they do (and did, while they were also making pieces for ''Man at Arms''). They were however able to start making and uploading new ''Man at Arms'' episodes in June 2019.

* ThemeMusicPowerUp: Whenever the violins kick in near the end of a video you know that you are about to see some flagrant weapon porn. And it is ''[[CrazyAwesome awesome.]]''

* SelfImposedChallenge:

** Ghal Maraz, THE titular {{TabletopGame/Warhammer}} of Warhammer Fantasy Battles and TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar.

* Jeanne d'Arc's flagpole lance from ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha''

With the shutdown of Defy Media, the company behind the AWE Me channel, the future of ''Man at Arms'' is uncertain. The shop team at Baltimore Knife and Sword wants the series to continue at some point, but until such a time they've decided to make their own [=YouTube=] content on their own channel: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEjEAxdJLOg4k854j-oESfQ That Works]]''. Rather than recreating pop-culture weapons, ''That Works'' focuses on Vlog-style recordings of the normal work they do (and did, while they were also making pieces for ''Man at Arms'').

* Alucard's Heirloom Sword, from ''[[WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017]]''

* CreatorCameo: Michael Maurino (a.k.a. Iron Stylus), art designer on the game ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'', is seen {{Squee}}ing over the finished Zenith Blade.

* Chaoseater from ''VideoGame/Darksiders''

With the shutdown of Defy Media, the company behind the AWE Me channel, the future of ''Man at Arms'' is uncertain. The shop team at Baltimore Knife and Sword wants the series to continue at some point, but until such a time they've decided to make their own [=YouTube=] content on their own channel: [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEjEAxdJLOg4k854j-oESfQ That Works]]. Rather than recreating pop-culture weapons, That Works focuses on Vlog-style recordings of the normal work they do (and did, while they were also making pieces for ''Man at Arms'').

** There's also the ''Bloodborne'' Saw Cleaver, which is a saw that folds out into a large straight razor of a cleaver.

* MixAndMatchWeapon: The ''TMNT'' super weapon is of course a combination of a bo staff, a sai, a katana and a nunchaku. It comes out as a double-ended polearm, sai on one end and short katana-like blade on the other, with the sai attached to the handle by a chain that can either be secured in place on the end via a bayonet-like locking lug or left hanging loose by the nunchaku chain.

* AuthorAppeal:
** Ilya's speciality is being an armorer. This shows through when they decide to make [[Manga/FairyTail Erza Scarlet]]'s armor on top of her blade. He's also a fan of WebVideo/LifeOfBoris, and spends near all his screen time in the Tapanga Machete video emulating the Slav King and uses the damn thing to make ''Buterbrod'' during the demonstration.
** Matt also really likes making pattern-welded steel, even when it wouldn't be necessary.

** While forging Master Yi's Ring Sword, which is pretty big, Matt mentions that all the crazy huge weapons they've done for ''Man at Arms'' have basically turned Ilya into the country's--if not the ''world's''--most experienced smith when it comes to giant blade forging.

* Rebellion from the ''Franchise/DevilMayCry'' series

** Ilya's speciality is being an armorer. This shows through when they decide to make [[Manga/FairyTail Erza Scarlet]]'s armor on top of her blade.

* AuthorAppeal: Ilya's speciality is being an armorer. This shows through when they decide to make [[Manga/FairyTail Erza Scarlet]]'s armor on top of her blade.

* IMeantToDoThat: Said by Grant Imahara after testing Leonidas' sword on a watermelon and only chipping off a little bit.

* KatanasAreJustBetter: The reason for a katana being the weapon chosen by the ''Reforged'' gang to mash up with a lightsaber. A straight-bladed, double-edged sword would more closely approximate the range of attacks available to a lightsaber wielder, but there's no denying that a katana with a lightsaber hilt and a Galactic Empire emblem tsuba is cool.

* RoyalRapier: Asuna's Lambent Light. We get to see the blade compared to an historically accurate rapier, showing its exaggerated width, frequent with anime weapons.

* ThunderboltIron: Tony bought actual nickel-iron meteorites to forge into Sokka's sword. One of the main challenges of the build was having to layer and fold the crumbly and brittle meteorite metal with higher-quality steel in order to get the blade to properly forge.