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There's also the point that her weapon of choice would most certainly not 'turn to tin foil' in real life. Samurai swords where used for hundreds of years in Japan to great effect in many battles. The traditional authentic swords still hold up today and they date back as far as the 15th century in many cases before.

Excellent choice of weapon silent, quick and final no chance of a Walker getting back up with his head missing. Also requires less effort to use than say swinging an axe.
 
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Bullet said:
I'm talking about the same scene. Even at that point we where months into the outbreak, plenty of time for her character to have been shaped by the world around her. There's also the fact she clearly has trust issues therefore it's entirely plausible she was aggressive and unsociable well before the Zombies appeared. The world she find's herself in now was always probably more suited to her than the one before. She's a Loner.
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That scene was only the night after the farm was attacked. They were only on the farm for like 2-3 weeks, and Season 1 only took place over the course of a few days. Rick was in a coma for 3 weeks, and the zombie outbreak didn't even start until a few days after he was shot. Thats about 5-6 weeks give or take.

Bullet said:
There's also the point that her weapon of choice would most certainly not 'turn to tin foil' in real life. Samurai swords where used for hundreds of years in Japan to great effect in many battles. The traditional authentic swords still hold up today and they date back as far as the 15th century in many cases before.

Excellent choice of weapon silent, quick and final no chance of a Walker getting back up with his head missing. Also requires less effort to use than say swinging an axe.
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Most of the ones that still survive today only do so becuase they were never used.

Real ones required constant polishing with a special powder and oil or else it quickly rusts and becomes useless.

Not to mention the fact that they chip and notch ridculously easily, and constantly slicing through walker's skulls would reduce that thing to the sharpness of a toothbrush within minutes. In the extremly unlikely event that you even survived your first zombie hord, you would end up with a handle attached to crinckled up foil.

The only reason the samurai used them in the first place is becuase thier only advantage was in being drawn quickly, and samurai were more about messing with thier enemy's heads rather than actual fighting.

On top of everything else, it only has one edge to it, making it the least effective out of all the swords.
 
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That scene was only the night after the farm was attacked. They were only on the farm for like 2-3 weeks, and Season 1 only took place over the course of a few days. Rick was in a coma for 3 weeks, and the zombie outbreak didn't even start until a few days after he was shot. Thats about 5-6 weeks give or take.
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https://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Television_Show_Timeline

Scroll down to day 83 that's the day Michonne saves Andrea almost 3 months after the outbreak starts. Or 12 weeks if you prefer.

The gap between season 2 and 3 is nearly 7 months
 
Bullet said:
There's also the point that her weapon of choice would most certainly not 'turn to tin foil' in real life. Samurai swords where used for hundreds of years in Japan to great effect in many battles. The traditional authentic swords still hold up today and they date back as far as the 15th century in many cases before.

Excellent choice of weapon silent, quick and final no chance of a Walker getting back up with his head missing. Also requires less effort to use than say swinging an axe.
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I have been told and have read that, because of the use of a katana, which was supposed to basically not be involved in long sword fights but rather used once and against flesh at the beginning of a fight (one swipe, one kill) that the traditional blade would last only through three or four kills. Now obviously modern ones are made with different materials and can last much longer...

A test of a modern katana. [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHm_pJceN5Q[/ame]
 
skooternb said:
I have been told and have read that, because of the use of a katana, which was supposed to basically not be involved in long sword fights but rather used once and against flesh at the beginning of a fight (one swipe, one kill) that the traditional blade would last only through three or four kills. Now obviously modern ones are made with different materials and can last much longer...

A test of a modern katana. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHm_pJceN5Q
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Never heard of them only being used for 3 or 4 kills. They took a long time to construct and where the primary weapon of the Samurai I can't see them having a new sword made every 3-4 kills. They where and still are passed down from generation to generation in Japan. But then I'm no expert so perhaps.

They where used in conjunction with a much shorter Wakizashi or Tanto sword.
 
Bullet said:
Never heard of them only being used for 3 or 4 kills. They took a long time to construct and where the primary weapon of the Samurai I can't see them having a new sword made every 3-4 kills. They where and still are passed down from generation to generation in Japan. But then I'm no expert so perhaps.

They where used in conjunction with a much shorter Wakizashi or Tanto sword.
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Yeah. I think a lot of the surviving swords were ceremonial/dress swords...
 
Bullet said:
Never heard of them only being used for 3 or 4 kills. They took a long time to construct and where the primary weapon of the Samurai I can't see them having a new sword made every 3-4 kills. They where and still are passed down from generation to generation in Japan. But then I'm no expert so perhaps.

They where used in conjunction with a much shorter Wakizashi or Tanto sword.
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The reason they were ok with them lasting only 3-4 kills is becuase thats more than the samurai needed.

The samurai weren't these elite warriors constantly wandering the countryside having daily adventures. They were a bunch of overly romaticized poverty-stricken servants who gained power by messing with people's heads. Simply drawing the sword quickly was enough to win most arguements.

Most of the swords wouldn't even be useful if they had to fight, as they are so fragile that even storing them in the wrong directional orientation can cause them to lose thier edge even if it has never left the shieth.
 
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The reason they were ok with them lasting only 3-4 kills is becuase thats more than the samurai needed.

The samurai weren't these elite warriors constantly wandering the countryside having daily adventures. They were a bunch of overly romaticized poor servants who gained power by messing with people's heads. Simply drawing the sword quickly was enough to win most arguements.
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Additionally, I think that Japan is rather low on certain iron deposits that lead to hardened steel.
 
Not liking the Samurai huh lol. Personally I think there is a lot to be learnt from a Warrior who would rather die by his own sword than be defeated and escape the sword of his enemy.
 
karamazov80 said:
You can create a poll that allows multiple choices.

I like the idea of weighting votes in some circumstances. For example--"what is your favorite movie ever?" But here, we are trying to determine which figure is most likely going to get the most sales from Iminime team. Considering that, is a given voter 5 times more likely to buy the first choice on their list than the 5th choice? Or is a given voter likely to buy any character they list? If the latter, then I would not go with the weighted vote option, because this is not a poll tapping into how passionate people are about given characters vis-a-vis other characters on a scale, but counts of how many characters would be purchased vs. others.

Personally, I think the best solution is a) not to force people to pick 5 characters, but to list as many as they would actually seriously consider buying (could be 1, could be 10); and b) to weight them all equally. So in other words, do a poll that allows multiple options to be chosen.
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See buttmunchs post above the obvious limitation of a poll.
 
Bullet said:
Not liking the Samurai huh lol. Personally I think there is a lot to be learnt from a Warrior who would rather die by his own sword than be defeated and escape the sword of his enemy.
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Mostly that a rumor could have a large psychological effect on your enemy.

Seppuku (ritual suicide) was pretty much only done as a last resort when capture and execution by the enemy was imminant. The samurai were as practical as any other person, and killing yourself for an intangible sense of honor when you could simply retreat and live to fight another day made about as much sense to them as it does to us.
 
Bullet said:
Not liking the Samurai huh lol. Personally I think there is a lot to be learnt from a Warrior who would rather die by his own sword than be defeated and escape the sword of his enemy.
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Oh man, I love the Samurai. But it is true about their relegated class structure and the evolution of actual warrior to 'statesman' then peasant etc...
 
1 - Michonne
2 - Glenn
3 - Tyrese
4 - Shane
5 - Zombie Sofia (Season 2)
 
ShadowX81 said:
Mostly that a rumor could have a large psychological effect on your enemy.

Seppuku (ritual suicide) was pretty much only done as a last resort when capture and execution by the enemy was imminant. The samurai were as practical as any other person, and killing yourself for an intangible sense of honor when you could simply retreat and live to fight another day made about as much sense to them as it does to us.
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Of course! Living far out weighs dying regardless of the cause or reason for death. It's amazing how conversations can drift from the original point lol. Less than an hour ago we started with Michonne and the Walking Dead now we are discussing the in's and out's of Samurai culture :lol

I personally hold a lot of respect for the Samurai and believe a Katana would be a good choice of weapon for a Zombie apocalypse (even though it's not going to happen). I also believe the 3+ months that Michonne has been out on her own in that world would be more than enough to amplify her obvious pre existing characteristic's and would explain exactly why she acts the way she does now, both in the comic and on the show.
 
Bullet said:
I personally hold a lot of respect for the Samurai and believe a Katana would be a good choice of weapon for a Zombie apocalypse (even though it's not going to happen). I also believe the 3+ months that Michonne has been out on her own in that world would be more than enough to amplify her obvious pre existing characteristic's and would explain exactly why she acts the way she does now, both in the comic and on the show.
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I read an article a couple days ago that quoted a Katana/Bushido master (one of 10 in the world) that said a Katana would not be a choice weapon for the zombie apocalypse! :rotfl
 

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