Funny / Shadiversity

• He has several different video intros he likes to do, including this one.
• This video, in which Shad goofs off.
• Shad made a video on using a shield on horseback. In the meantime, he keeps getting distracted by his homemade horse.
  • He made this video in memory of "Frederick". Frederick is the name of his horse. At the end of the video, Shad tries to get Frederick to move, but he refuses. Shad gets so angry he rips Frederick's head off, but he immediately comes to regret this.
• His Mind Screw-y collaboration with Thomas Riley from Medieval Review. In Shad's evolution of the sword video, Riley interrupts the video (and scares the living daylights out of Shad) because Shad interrupted his evolution of armor video... except that the two men did not complete their videos and they somehow interrupted each other anyway. The best explanation Shad could think of is "wibbly wobbly, timey wimey".
• Shad did a collaboration video with Raffaello Urbani (aka The Metatron), Antony Cummins, and Riley, in which they take on five of the most common misconceptions regarding medieval warfare and equipment. The Metatron takes on five misconceptions about the samurai, Cummins about the ninja, and Riley on European medieval armor. Shad, however, says he will address the five most common ways to tie shoelaces with teeth... before saying that he really is addressing the five most common sword myths.
  • Joel Sutherland of Knight Squire, acting as "Ninja Eugene", made a satirical response video in which at one point he claims to be better at tying shoelaces with his teeth than Shad. Shad made this video and took on the challenge.
• Shad's collaborations with his brother Jazza.
  • In this video, Shad comments on the realism and architectural accuracy of Jazza's castle. Later in the video, Jazza appears and they pretend to talk to each other as medievalist professors. At one point in the video, Shad even alludes to Frederick! And he admits that he killed him!
  • Another collaboration, in which Shad and Jazza test each other's armour, break some 3D-printed swords, and generally act silly. Their bantering throughout the video is hilarious. To name one highlight, Jazza says he wears his 3D-printed armour like a sex shirt. He then adds that he is wearing a blank tank top underneath to cover his nipples. Shad replies that he has seen his nipples, to which Jazza makes this comment:
  Jazza: "Stop making this weird!"
  • Here, Shad attempts to show Jazza, with limited success, how to fight with a sword properly. Hilarity Ensues.
• In his "Best melee weapon for mecha GIANT ROBOTS, Sci-Fi Re-Armed" video, he at one point starts to discuss how a Giant Mecha's weapons would fare against "Monstrous, fleshy creatures" (as opposed to other giant mecha, which he had just finished discussing). The instant he says this, a photo of Harvey Weinstein is shown.
• In keeping with his nitpicking of historical combat, he takes a swing at the Spartan Kick from Odyssey, but before that, he decides to try the Spartan Kick on an opponent and the opponent exploded. Normally, that would be the end of the introduction, but Shad was surprised his opponent exploded and then there were more explosions, forcing Shad to take cover and run.
• One of his videos was titled "Skallagrim CALLS OUT Shadiversity." Normally, you'd expect videos titled like that to mean that the subject of said video is his reaction to the calling out. Rather, Shad opens up to him reacting to Skallagrim reacting to the first trailer of Arthur & Merlin: Knights of Camelot, nodding in agreement with Skallagrim several times on how bad it is. Then, Skallagrim sees the show's Excalibur.
  Skallagrim: "Horrendously cheap wallhanger Excalibur, check. I mean, it's exactly the same, low quality, dysfunctional, wallhanger piece of junk that has been floating around the market for... probably decades at this point."
  Shad: *stops smiling, thinks for several moments, moves his chair to the side to reveal "exactly the same, low quality, dysfunctional, wallhanger piece of junk that has been floating around the market" on his wall, and holds it in his hand as Skallagrim's words echoes* "I... I did complain about it in my videos." *drops Excalibur, goes off to grab a more historically accurate longsword, hugs it, and starts rocking back and forth as screen fades to black* "I love historically accurate swords, I love historically accurate swords, I love historically accurate swords, I love historically accurate swords!"
  Skallagrim later in the comments: Suddenly a bunch of comments like '"you hurt Shad"'... I did what now? Someone links to this video, I take a look. So what's this..." notices THE THING in the background
  eyes narrow into death glare "How could you..."
  "HERESY!"
  Shad in the comments: "I have shamed myself. . ."
  • Making this even funnier, Shad later makes a video about taking this purely decorative "Sword Like Object" and applying real sword design techniques to make it both aesthetically attractive and a functional sword. During this video, he casually drops in that this particular sword was a gift from his wife. Cue many, many comments about Shad either justifying his wife's lovely gift for twenty minutes or spending twenty minutes talking about how his wife's lovely and thoughtful gift is garbage.
• Shad's video on "How To Fix The Master Sword" is really interesting and ends up with two pretty neat designs. The comments are worth a lot of chuckles from Zelda fans. Apparently, Shad missed a critical addition to recent Master Sword lore; the sword has a sentient spirit residing in the yellow gem. This is the same gem that Shad discarded from one of his redesigns, believing that it detracted from the Triforce symbol, which he thought should be the sword's main eye draw. Comments about Shad lobotomizing the Master Sword or spending twenty minutes "body-shaming" a spirit bound into a weapon are overwhelming.
• His third video on Boob Armor opens with this gem:
  Shad: (Glasses Pull) I sense a disturbance in my video analytics. (checks stats) Yep, Boob Armor. (beat, looks at audience) Someone has said something really stupid again, haven't they?
• After Shad bought some land where he intends to open a medieval castles museum, in the next video he tells his brother he's come up with a name for the place. He wants to call it "Brookland" (after his surname, Brooks). When his brother points out that that sounds almost identical to the name of a major US city, Shad completely loses it because he never even noticed that!
• After presenting a possible method of drawing a spear and bow from the back (by tying a blunted nail onto the spear or bow and taping a hollowed cylinder onto a baldric), he does an early 1900's-style advertisement in which he promotes this contraption to Shadrick the Adventurer and makes a joke at the expense of Disney and Disney+. Shadrick reading the prompts in the most stilted manner just adds to the humor.
• In a video discussing Mjolnir and Stormbreaker, Shad opens by casually strolling up to his castle, armed and in brigandine (you know, like he does), only to spot Mjolnir on the ground in front of. Well, Shad's never one to back down from a challenge. . .
  Shad: BY THE POWER OF GREYSKU— oops wrong one. Thunder! Thunder! Thunder God ho! (picks up hammer) I knew I was worthy. Nailed it! Or should I say, hammer and nailed it. (rimshot)
• This video, in which Shad comments on the ingenious design of the barrel, while Oz, one of Shad's editors, sits in one of the barrels for the entire video. Oz will occasionally crack a joke, while Shad would torment him.
• In his third nunchucks video (a direct reply to YouTuber Milani Fitness, who Shad is extremely complimentary towards throughout), he devolves into an Angrish rant about nunchuck vs. stick.
  Shad: Nunchucks you actually have to make! You actually have to, like, actually damage a perfectly good stick, make it worse than what it was, to make nunchucks! Why would you ever pick nunchucks when you had— when you had— you had stick! Stick very good! Don't... don't harm stick to make... these crappy things! I mean, nunchucks, what are they if not just mentally disabled sticks?! It's like, seriously, nunchucks are basically like a stick that had a stroke! Nunchucks are just sticks that are suffering from erectile stick-function! And, I mean, it does happen to one out of five sticks, so...
• He made a video testing if one could float in a barrel like in the Hobbit movies. Even the ad-read is funny.
• The entirety of his rant on the double-ended flail from Batwoman. Shad is astonished to find a weapon that is even worse than the nunchucks.
• Shad made a video about how knights (or any melee combatant) could stay relevant in a world where magic exists. To help illustrate the point, the video opens with a series of high quality skits illustrating a knight (Shad) and a wizard (Oz) fighting. Suffice to say, the knight does not fare well. Some highlights:
  • The wizard goes full Palpatine on the knight and shocks him to death with lightning.
  • The wizard turns the knight into a frog.
  • The wizard teleports the knight incredibly high up into the sky, and lets gravity do the rest.
    Shad: Yeah. Knights are screwed.
  • On the flip side, as Shad reconstructs the concept of the fantasy warrior and how they could stand up to wizards, he shows a few skits of the knight getting his revenge:
    • The knight shoots the wizard In the Back with an arrow, then flips him off after he collapses.
    • After the knight tricks the wizard with a "kryptonite" Booby Trap (delivered in the mail, no less!), he slashes him to death... and then teabags his body.
    • The knight blasts the wizard with a fireball from a magic sword and laughs manically as he burns, then starts coughing from breathing in the smoke from his dead opponent's burnt flesh.
• Shadiversity's Fight Scene Autopsy of the battle between the Southlanders and the Orcs in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: An hour and a half of Shad being driven to madness by the baffling tactical decisions made by the main characters.
  • Shad gets increasingly incensed that Arondir doesn't just shoot Adar despite having a clear shot at him from concealment.
  • He points out a bit of Fridge Logic in the way that the tower is seemingly held up by nothing more than wooden scaffolding and rope, asking how this centuries-old tower is still standing if that's the case.
  • He fumes at the uselessness of the burning barricade set up to corral the Orcs, since not only do the Orcs counter the bow-wielding villagers with their own archers, but they easily escape just by kicking a hole to walk through.
  • Shad laughs at the entire fight scene between Arondir and the Orcs since playing it in slow motion shows that he doesn't have a knife despite fighting as he does.
  • He incredulously asks how the Numenorians brought so many horses with them despite arriving by boat, and snarks that their ships must have several levels underwater to have packed them all (which he illustrates with an MS Paint drawing depicting this).
  • In response to Galadriel's infamous dismounting dodge, he asks why the Orc archer didn't just fire again, showing a handy little replay showing that he'd have enough time to fire at least three more arrows before getting gibbed.
  • The highlight has to be this sequence, however. For context, one of the Numenorians, who is for some reason completely unarmed, elects to tackle an Orc from the back of the horse. Shad points out the stupidity of the move, pointing out that not only could he have just trampled the Orc with his horse, he now has to pick up an Orc sword to defend himself. And that's when Nathan notices something:
    Nathan: He's got swords on him!
    Shad: (realizing that he does) YOU'RE RIGHT! WHAT ARE YOU DOING? YOU HAVE TWO SWORDS, YOU HAVE A SWORD AND DAGGER RIGHT THERE! AND YOU CHOSE TO TACKLE SOMEONE UNARMED YOU BLEEDING, ASTRONOMICAL MORON! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!
• Shad was definitely having a field day watching the final duel of Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell. As a bonus, he concluded that the fight scene is legitimately better than those in The Last Jedi, The Rise of Skywalker, and The Rings of Power.

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