I still can’t believe we didn’t get a legit backup intro where I wasn’t joking 😅😅😅. Thanks for much for having me on the show! It was a blast to discuss super powers with someone so knowledgeable about them. I shouldn’t have been surprised when he whipped out a triple tier ranking system, cuz of course he would! See you all at Dragonsteel Nexus! -Wren
It is because of Wren's audible ads about the Cosmere books he was listening to at the time (This was a while ago when I was binge watching older content), that got me onto Brandon Sanderson and the Cosmere as a whole. At this point I have read all books in the Cosmere and am excited for the 5th books release in the Stormlight Archive. Thank you Wren and Brandon Sanderson!!
For so long, I’ve been commenting on almost every “Visual effects artists react” video where Wren’s sporting his Cosmere T-shirts. I’m so happy to see this!! “Wren before geekness”!!
@@thefullmetaltitan9732 he has mentioned them before. back in the "sam and Niko" Vlog days Im pretty sure he talked about Mistborn and Way of KIngs for audible ads, as well as verious other mentions.
True story: what actually got me into Sanderson books was Wren doing a sponsored bit on a Corridor video. He talked about Mistborn: The Final Empire as a way to promote Audible and I was like "hey, that sounds like a fun book, I haven't read fantasy in awhile." And now I'm most of the way through Brandon's body of work.
Same here, back when the channel was called Sam & Niko, the day that video dropped i went to a bookstore and found it, havent stopped being a Sanderson fan
If I shared a story idea with Brandon Sanderson and he responded with “That’s a great concept!” I wouldn’t sleep for the next 72 hours due to stressing over making it more of a concept.
On the one hand, it would obviously mean a lot to get such positive feedback from such a revered figure in the field. On the other hand, coming up with a great concept is probably by far the easiest part of developing a great story, and he could always just be responding politely/encouragingly instead of honestly.
Just wanted to say: Wren is the person who got me into Brandon Sanderson's books. Years ago, he recommended The Way of Kings on a Corridor Digital CZcams video, and I, having never heard of Sanderson before, decided to give it a go. Almost have all of Sanderson's Cosmere now, hardback, paperback, and ebook. Thanks, Wren.
I remember seeing wren wearing a cosmere shirt in one of their videos while reading the books. It was the first time I realized how large the Fandom is lol.
1. Invisibility 2. Immediately learn anything just from seeing/hearing it once 3. Speak and understand all languages, including ones not invented yet, dead ones and conlangs 4. Time travel (but in the quantum entanglement/self generated kinda way, not the spaceship/wormhole/Delorian kinda way) 5. Duplicate any material object at will, in any amount, out of thin air
Unlimited Shapeshifting, all day every day. It covers a healing factor because you can shapeshift the injury away, you have tons of variety to interact with, you get great new perspectives both as people and as things like birds or bugs, theoretical immortality as you shapeshift back to a younger age, go places with ease turning into birds or fish, etc etc etc.
Damn that's true. It'd even be good for stealth since you could shape shift into a cloud of vapor, a pebble, etc. Imagine shapeshifting into a genius to solve the world's problems
Now you might think I'd be all over this shapeshifting business Jasonwolf, but if comic books, cartoons, and Sci-Fi Original Movies have taught me anything, it's that shapeshifting comes with a bunch of boring rules and restrictions that limit its potential Turn-Into-A-Bulldozer-Whenever-I-Wantity. You can turn into a machine gun but not bullets, contemporary jazz turns you back to normal, you can only turn into presents your grandma's knitted for you. Crap like that. For example, let's say I could turn into any species... OF BALLOON ANIMAL!!??
Wren you're just hitting ALL the right notes here, and this is my 3rd comment on this video. Teleportation is my #1 super power, and it is also specifically because of Jumper. From that day forward, all the little daydreams we all have of that super power we want, and how the nuances of it worked, became about that style of teleportation. This episode was a real treat, thanks guys
Feruchemy has always struck me as one of the most actually useful abilities, in part because it’s actually a bunch of abilities rolled into one. Sure none of them are the most powerful version of that ability, but I don’t need anything extreme in my day to day life. Just the simple things like never feeling too hot or too cold, being able to fall asleep whenever I want to, being able to suddenly make my sense of hearing really strong when I’m trying to find a vibrating phone, etc. Allomancy is more fun though
Feruchemy is my favourite Cosmere power. I just love the idea that you only get out of it what you put in, and being able to save up attributes of yourself for later use is so cool.
@@Landis963 Appropriate, because it was in school that Brando Sando came up with it, when he couldn't sleep at night and wished that he could store up his sleepiness from the day to use at night.
I like the paradoxical answer to causality in Off to be the Wizard. Which goes something like: "No, you can't go back in time and fix this thing. Because here we are, and you didn't"
I LOVE how Sanderson's mind work. As soon as he said "Gambit" I thought: oh, man, I can think of so many ways to better use his powers than just small bombs. And the he goes as says the same thing 😂
Androl was one of my favorite WoT characters in the later books, and now I know why. Him ripping a portal to the bottom of the ocean was one of my favorite moments.
Came here to say something similar. Androl makes so much more sense knowing He was "Brando sando's" outlet. I distinkly remember reading about him digging a trench with Portals and thinking "Damn that's a cool use of that" Though as I'm writing this, Did RJ ever write a moving portal? or did Brandon add that change?
I couldn't believe my eyes when i saw these two on the couch together! Wren's infectiously passionate Audible ad where he talked about Shardblades and Shardplate was literally what got me to pick up the Stormlight Archive, which is now my favorite series of all time (besides Tolkien). I'm so happy that Wren got the chance to meet Sanderson after how much he's repped his work, hahaha! Corridor is such a great, innovative channel overall, I'm glad that Brando himself is a fan!
Yeah, I also thought of that during the description. I thought the tag line for the show was kind of dumb, something like "you know the person is involved, but don't know if they are victim or perpetrator", but the show is actually really very good. Smart and fun scifi snuck into what appears as a "normal" procedural but develops into so much more.
Before that there was a show called "Early Edition" that also did it really well. The main character got tomorrow's newspaper a day early and then tries to prevent the worst stuff that happens in city.
Doing an existing thing in a cool/ new/ interesting way is absolutely a healthier mindset to have than needing to be original. Fire Force has everyone be pyromancers, and that’s ok because they all do it a bit differently
I think my favorite power to have would be kitty from xmen. Phasing through solid matter is pretty OP OP and basically counters all physical threats while also being incredibly useful in maneuvering and any time you need to move an appliance in your house 😂
Awesome video, nice to have Wren on! He's got some fun insights on the topic and bounces off of Brandon really well. As a sidenote, whichever editor decided to feature Shulk as a character for the precognition power, you have my respect and appreciation!
I was reading wheel of time, then suddenly the characters got a little quirky and more interesting. I really,, really enjoyed it. Then I realized I was reading brandon sanderson. Then I read elantris and haven't stopped.
The flying conversation is really interesting in my opinion because watching invincible now one of my favorite things with mark in the show. I feel like it’s used in a very casual way but with giving a good sense of wonder as well and learning
I still remember Wren's Audible sponsor ad where he talked about Stormlight Archives. It's cool seeing my favorite author and the guy who introduced me to him in the same room. That's the only ad I'd happily watch again.
Teleporting is such a fun one. It's probably my #1 to have. I've always loved the idea and crazy stuff teleporters do in fiction. Like Night Crawler. And it's incredibly convenient as well as cool. So often I have to go back somewhere to get something
Wren's favorite quote is also mine! It's in the Way of Kings epilogue, by Wit. What man values most is novelty. Changed my perspective on so many things in life.
Well that was great. I am a big fan of both Brandon and Wren from Corridor and knowing what a big fan Wren is of Brandon and his work, it was a lot of fun to see the two of you together having the type of conversation that my friends and I often have about superpowers and pop culture references. Thank you both for taking the time to do this. It was genuinely fun!
The whole of this video I was just thinking about Worm, a web serial written online by a guy named Wildbow. It's an incredibly well written and extremely creative superhero fiction that will give you a lot to think about creatively and with regards to a story. I sincerely could not recommend it enough!
I love Worm. It's got some of the best displays of creative power uses, and great limitations put in to explain why some powers don't just immediately break the setting.
I was scrolling the comments hoping that someone would mention Worm! I’m pretty sure every power mentioned in this video is done in a unique, interesting, and traumatic way in Worm. Even the powers that Brandon said aren’t as interesting to write about are done in Worm and Ward in incredibly fascinating ways that stay fresh for millions of words of story.
The Final Destination films are essentially what happens when you see a tragedy, the difficulty of preventing it, and the ramifications of the aftermath. Particularly the last film in the franchise does some really fun stuff with the concept.
About portals, there's a great french animation based of some mmorpg game and the main characther is of a race that are born from eggs togheter with dragons. It's whole hability deck is based on portals. The name is wakfu. Great one.
With the healing factor, I immediately thought of Gold compounding. Like you can heal yourself as much as you want, maybe even to the extent of massively extending your life, but if you ever get tired of it, you can let yourself die and pass on.
I've always wanted a version of Magneto where an Electrical Engineer and a Plasma Scientist were co-authors of a couple issues of X-Men, just so we could see an omega level mutant whose power really was just generating and manipulating magnetic fields. Imagine a scary combination of regular Magneto with Cyclops, Thor, and the Human Torch (who also has x-ray vision).
Great conversation! Speaking of teleportation, Larry Niven's Fleet of Worlds series has a technology where you can teleport between plates on the ground but they have to take into account the different angular velocities on different parts of a planet, and they can only add or dissipate a limited mount of energy. So to travel to the opposite side of a planet you must do it in several steps. Pretty neat detail but I have no idea if it's explored in any depth in the series as I've only read book 1.
I love that when Brandon started talking about how Precognition could make for a really good story he just basically described Stephen King's The Dead Zone! Great minds think alike clearly
The time travel stuff is interesting, good point that you can avoid paradoxes by essentially just having 'post-cognition', or seeing into the past without changing it. Honestly it could be used not just to observe historical events but to gauge a deeper understanding of your surroundings, if you are able to search the world from a couple minutes in the past to see where potential that's are coming from in the present
Wren's audible ad on Corridor talking about Mistborn was what got me to read it. If I recall correctly, it was him describing some of the magic system that interested me. So cool to see him here!
My recommendation for the Wheel of Time series is to do the audiobooks. Listen to them when you're doing chores, on your commute, at lunch, etc. It will help chunk them in memory, and keep momentum going through the slower parts of the series.
I've started the Wheel of Time on audio. First-time reader/listener of the series. Unfortunately, the books lost me. Must have been a slower part of the series. I think I stopped listening at around book 4-5? Maybe I'll give it another go at some point
as opposed to the usual teleportation system of converting the body to energy and beaming to another location and then re-assembling I always wanted something more like a gate i.e. folding space and stepping through to the destination (tesseract transportation) that way you could look through the gate to see what's on the other side.
magneto's prison escape in the first film was such a cool use of his power, and magneto being immediately so potent with access to so little material made him seem like such a powerful and dangerous adversary.
Love to see teleportation at the top of both lists. In recent times, I've seen examples where characters, who's main abilities are teleporting, act in support roles in teams--my two examples being Leonardo from the Rise of the TMNT cartoon and Aoi Todo from the anime Jujutsu Kaisen. Leo and the rest of the turtles get magic artifacts which gives them powers. Leo has two types of teleportation: swapping places between his swords (or whatever is touching the swords whether someone's holding it or if it's embedded in something) and cutting the air to make portals. In two major fights Leo has excellently shown to be the support for his brothers due to his control of the space. One of the fights has them fighting someone in the air as they all fell. While Raph and Donny were doing all the damage, Mike and Leo handled the support. Mike's powers lets him ignite his nunchucks and extend its range seemingly infinitely. Then we have Leo reposition everyone in order to give them some control in the air. Aoi Todo's teleport is restricted to just swapping places, but he still uses it effectively. His ability is called Boogie Woogie and he is able to swap two things whenever he claps his hands so long as both subjects have cursed energy, the mana of their world. What makes him a great user is how he uses bluffs in order to trick his opponents. He usually starts the battle by only swapping himself and something else. After a point he'll start swapping his opponent with other things with cursed energy. If he has teammates he'll swap with them too. He can even clap his hands and NOT swap anything at all to further confuse and mess with the enemy.
My top 5 powers to have 5. Healing 4. Teleportation 3. Technomancy (ability to control any item running on electricity) 2. Universal communication 1. Superior edge (whatever you attempt to do you are a top 10 in the universe at it)
Love Invincible explanation of flying and how Omniman teaches to throw a punch. They don't use earth to push off from, they fly, their punches don't require force from ground and bodyweight to push through.
I still can’t believe we didn’t get a legit backup intro where I wasn’t joking 😅😅😅. Thanks for much for having me on the show! It was a blast to discuss super powers with someone so knowledgeable about them. I shouldn’t have been surprised when he whipped out a triple tier ranking system, cuz of course he would!
See you all at Dragonsteel Nexus!
-Wren
It is because of Wren's audible ads about the Cosmere books he was listening to at the time (This was a while ago when I was binge watching older content), that got me onto Brandon Sanderson and the Cosmere as a whole. At this point I have read all books in the Cosmere and am excited for the 5th books release in the Stormlight Archive. Thank you Wren and Brandon Sanderson!!
Thanks Wren for shouting ot warbreaker in an audible ad years ago you introduced me to the cosmere and i am truly thankful for tht
Awesome!!!
For so long, I’ve been commenting on almost every “Visual effects artists react” video where Wren’s sporting his Cosmere T-shirts. I’m so happy to see this!! “Wren before geekness”!!
I'd love to see a corridor video tutorial on how to use lumar spores.
Wren is the reason I started reading BrandoSando's books
Same!
Me too!
When has he talked about them before?
@@thefullmetaltitan9732 he has mentioned them before. back in the "sam and Niko" Vlog days Im pretty sure he talked about Mistborn and Way of KIngs for audible ads, as well as verious other mentions.
Me too!
Wren sticking with the gimmick of mispronouncing names even in the face of one of his favourite authors. The mad lad. Legend.
I still can't believe we didn't get an alternate intro. I was just joking! Now we're stuck with the joke!!
@@SirWrender What are you talking about? It was perfect! Why Wren in video if not Wren style?
@@Juan_DeSantis I don't know Wren, but the style fit in well into Sando's videos XD
What the what!!! Years of wearing cosmere shirts on corridor paid off!
Wren also appeared in Brandon's Book Club for The Sunlit Man.
I never noticed his shirts.
There are cosmere shirts? I own the Kings Wild Project Mistborn cards and no shirts. Disappointed in myself
@@Sound_TechHe's worn a bridge four shirt for one of their Seth Rogan episodes.
True story: what actually got me into Sanderson books was Wren doing a sponsored bit on a Corridor video. He talked about Mistborn: The Final Empire as a way to promote Audible and I was like "hey, that sounds like a fun book, I haven't read fantasy in awhile." And now I'm most of the way through Brandon's body of work.
We had the same experience
Do you know the video?
@@davidprice6172 I found it! It's called "Man vs Coyote" on the Corridor Crew channel.
Same here, back when the channel was called Sam & Niko, the day that video dropped i went to a bookstore and found it, havent stopped being a Sanderson fan
@@davidprice6172 czcams.com/video/QZgxyMsw31A/video.html
Wren meets with Brandon for a light, fun video about superpowers...
Goes home with a reading list of 20+ books to make time for.
Wren will one day be hired as the Visual Effects director on Brandon’s movies. Mark my words!
I'm waiting for it! It would be sad for Corridor to lose him though
If I shared a story idea with Brandon Sanderson and he responded with “That’s a great concept!” I wouldn’t sleep for the next 72 hours due to stressing over making it more of a concept.
On the one hand, it would obviously mean a lot to get such positive feedback from such a revered figure in the field. On the other hand, coming up with a great concept is probably by far the easiest part of developing a great story, and he could always just be responding politely/encouragingly instead of honestly.
Just wanted to say: Wren is the person who got me into Brandon Sanderson's books. Years ago, he recommended The Way of Kings on a Corridor Digital CZcams video, and I, having never heard of Sanderson before, decided to give it a go. Almost have all of Sanderson's Cosmere now, hardback, paperback, and ebook. Thanks, Wren.
Brandon and wren, in the same room, geeking out?! THIS is what the internet was made for.
I remember seeing wren wearing a cosmere shirt in one of their videos while reading the books. It was the first time I realized how large the Fandom is lol.
1. Invisibility
2. Immediately learn anything just from seeing/hearing it once
3. Speak and understand all languages, including ones not invented yet, dead ones and conlangs
4. Time travel (but in the quantum entanglement/self generated kinda way, not the spaceship/wormhole/Delorian kinda way)
5. Duplicate any material object at will, in any amount, out of thin air
Brandon with the internet's favorite good boy? Yes please!
Brandon's use of portals in the finale of Wheel of Time is one of my favorite moments in any book. I think about that portal savant all the time.
Unlimited Shapeshifting, all day every day. It covers a healing factor because you can shapeshift the injury away, you have tons of variety to interact with, you get great new perspectives both as people and as things like birds or bugs, theoretical immortality as you shapeshift back to a younger age, go places with ease turning into birds or fish, etc etc etc.
Damn that's true. It'd even be good for stealth since you could shape shift into a cloud of vapor, a pebble, etc. Imagine shapeshifting into a genius to solve the world's problems
@@gaiusfulmen I'd never considered the genius thing, but i suppose that's cause I'd always want my brain intact. Don't wanna risk breaking that.
Search omnifarious. That's like the highest state of things you can do with shape-shifting.
So, like Nimona?
Now you might think I'd be all over this shapeshifting business Jasonwolf, but if comic books, cartoons, and Sci-Fi Original Movies have taught me anything, it's that shapeshifting comes with a bunch of boring rules and restrictions that limit its potential Turn-Into-A-Bulldozer-Whenever-I-Wantity. You can turn into a machine gun but not bullets, contemporary jazz turns you back to normal, you can only turn into presents your grandma's knitted for you. Crap like that. For example, let's say I could turn into any species... OF BALLOON ANIMAL!!??
Wren you're just hitting ALL the right notes here, and this is my 3rd comment on this video. Teleportation is my #1 super power, and it is also specifically because of Jumper. From that day forward, all the little daydreams we all have of that super power we want, and how the nuances of it worked, became about that style of teleportation.
This episode was a real treat, thanks guys
Feruchemy has always struck me as one of the most actually useful abilities, in part because it’s actually a bunch of abilities rolled into one. Sure none of them are the most powerful version of that ability, but I don’t need anything extreme in my day to day life.
Just the simple things like never feeling too hot or too cold, being able to fall asleep whenever I want to, being able to suddenly make my sense of hearing really strong when I’m trying to find a vibrating phone, etc.
Allomancy is more fun though
Feruchemy is my favourite Cosmere power. I just love the idea that you only get out of it what you put in, and being able to save up attributes of yourself for later use is so cool.
For the daily life feruchemy would be amazing. Just the power to store and recover heat would improve the life of many people...
I've said it before, but Feruchemy has all the powers I wished I had in college.
@@Landis963 Appropriate, because it was in school that Brando Sando came up with it, when he couldn't sleep at night and wished that he could store up his sleepiness from the day to use at night.
Allomancy would be very scary in real life, especially if you havent managed to control it yet
I like the paradoxical answer to causality in Off to be the Wizard. Which goes something like: "No, you can't go back in time and fix this thing. Because here we are, and you didn't"
Ooo, I like that
I am stealing that teleport power idea for my book!
I am not sorry.
Love you guys ^^
Ayyy Wren! Livin the fan dream.
I LOVE how Sanderson's mind work. As soon as he said "Gambit" I thought: oh, man, I can think of so many ways to better use his powers than just small bombs. And the he goes as says the same thing 😂
1: luck
2: flying
3: metamorphosis -> changing body parts with creature parts
4: teleportation -> shadow travel
5: healing -> self-healing
Androl was one of my favorite WoT characters in the later books, and now I know why. Him ripping a portal to the bottom of the ocean was one of my favorite moments.
Came here to say something similar. Androl makes so much more sense knowing He was "Brando sando's" outlet. I distinkly remember reading about him digging a trench with Portals and thinking "Damn that's a cool use of that"
Though as I'm writing this, Did RJ ever write a moving portal? or did Brandon add that change?
i dont remember if the trolloc meat pulverizer was in knife of dreams or later, but thats the biggest moving portals scene for me
also i was just thinking about androl and pevara's double bonding the other day. cant remember what i was thinking about it tho
Does this mean that there is a future collab with Corridor Crew and DragonSteel? Awesome to see both Wren and Brandon in the same room!
I couldn't believe my eyes when i saw these two on the couch together! Wren's infectiously passionate Audible ad where he talked about Shardblades and Shardplate was literally what got me to pick up the Stormlight Archive, which is now my favorite series of all time (besides Tolkien). I'm so happy that Wren got the chance to meet Sanderson after how much he's repped his work, hahaha! Corridor is such a great, innovative channel overall, I'm glad that Brando himself is a fan!
Shardblade corridor video when
I love to hear your take on different superpowers, and love all the energy that Wren brought to the conversation, energized but without exploding
The TV Show Person of Interest was almost exactly what Brandon described for precognition.
Yeah, I also thought of that during the description. I thought the tag line for the show was kind of dumb, something like "you know the person is involved, but don't know if they are victim or perpetrator", but the show is actually really very good. Smart and fun scifi snuck into what appears as a "normal" procedural but develops into so much more.
One of my favourite shows ever. Really clever. Also a bit ahead of the current AI craze which makes it even smarter.
It’s almost exactly describing the show Manifest as well!
Before that there was a show called "Early Edition" that also did it really well. The main character got tomorrow's newspaper a day early and then tries to prevent the worst stuff that happens in city.
I just love Wrens enthusiasm for everything he talks about.
Doing an existing thing in a cool/ new/ interesting way is absolutely a healthier mindset to have than needing to be original.
Fire Force has everyone be pyromancers, and that’s ok because they all do it a bit differently
I really like the distinction between 2nd and 3rd gen.
I wish we could get these "Five Favorites" episodes as podcasts.
I think my favorite power to have would be kitty from xmen. Phasing through solid matter is pretty OP OP and basically counters all physical threats while also being incredibly useful in maneuvering and any time you need to move an appliance in your house 😂
Woo on Sanderson mentioning the Pern books @38:38, I absolutely loved those as a kid, makes me think of the smell of a library.
Wren was exactly as much of a giddy fanboy as I was hoping. Thanks for the video, I always like seeing my favorite channels collide like this
Wren getting to do a long interview with Sanderson must be such a dream come true for him.
Awesome video, nice to have Wren on! He's got some fun insights on the topic and bounces off of Brandon really well. As a sidenote, whichever editor decided to feature Shulk as a character for the precognition power, you have my respect and appreciation!
I was reading wheel of time, then suddenly the characters got a little quirky and more interesting. I really,, really enjoyed it. Then I realized I was reading brandon sanderson. Then I read elantris and haven't stopped.
Oh wow, them talking about precognition totally brought back memories of the Early Edition TV show.
When they said hearing a voice telling the future I immediately thought of that cat delivering the newspaper.
The flying conversation is really interesting in my opinion because watching invincible now one of my favorite things with mark in the show. I feel like it’s used in a very casual way but with giving a good sense of wonder as well and learning
The greatest crossover event of the year
I still remember Wren's Audible sponsor ad where he talked about Stormlight Archives. It's cool seeing my favorite author and the guy who introduced me to him in the same room. That's the only ad I'd happily watch again.
This is the collab I’ve been wanting to see for years! Congrats Wren!
Now this is the crossover episode I have always been waiting for!
I had no idea two of my favorite creators are already fans of each other! Incredible!
Teleporting is such a fun one. It's probably my #1 to have.
I've always loved the idea and crazy stuff teleporters do in fiction. Like Night Crawler.
And it's incredibly convenient as well as cool. So often I have to go back somewhere to get something
Sando's Precognition story idea is similar to the show Early Edition! I loved that show. 100% would read a book similar.
Wren's favorite quote is also mine! It's in the Way of Kings epilogue, by Wit. What man values most is novelty. Changed my perspective on so many things in life.
This is great, I love Brandon Sanderson and I also love Wren!
47:16 It's interesting that he says that he uses mind control spearingly given that it's a key factor in at least two of his biggest novels.
Do you know how long i've waited to see you two collab?!? 🤩
Another sleeper movie that was similar to Jumper for me was Push. I loved that movie growing up
Well that was great. I am a big fan of both Brandon and Wren from Corridor and knowing what a big fan Wren is of Brandon and his work, it was a lot of fun to see the two of you together having the type of conversation that my friends and I often have about superpowers and pop culture references. Thank you both for taking the time to do this. It was genuinely fun!
The whole of this video I was just thinking about Worm, a web serial written online by a guy named Wildbow. It's an incredibly well written and extremely creative superhero fiction that will give you a lot to think about creatively and with regards to a story. I sincerely could not recommend it enough!
You reminded me that I have to finish it
I love Worm. It's got some of the best displays of creative power uses, and great limitations put in to explain why some powers don't just immediately break the setting.
I was looking for this!
And don't forget Ward too, it has pretty much everything that makes Worm great, just with a new protagonist.
I was scrolling the comments hoping that someone would mention Worm! I’m pretty sure every power mentioned in this video is done in a unique, interesting, and traumatic way in Worm.
Even the powers that Brandon said aren’t as interesting to write about are done in Worm and Ward in incredibly fascinating ways that stay fresh for millions of words of story.
Wren got me into Stormlight back in 2017/18 - what a legend! Loved Brando Sando ever since
Same! He did a audible sponsor bit at the end of a corridor vid, then when I was looking for a long book to use my single credit on I picked it up.
What, Wren is on Brandon’s’ show? That is awesome!
I love that Wren basically pitched Dr. Who.
Two of the best channels uniting. Beautiful!
Wren?!?! This is probably the second best collab you have done. Will Friedle is still number one
They have great chemistry together.
It's the latest CZcams Team-Up! And it has two of my favorite CZcamsrs!
The Final Destination films are essentially what happens when you see a tragedy, the difficulty of preventing it, and the ramifications of the aftermath. Particularly the last film in the franchise does some really fun stuff with the concept.
I like the idea of a power to share experience. Feelings, emotions, memories.
About portals, there's a great french animation based of some mmorpg game and the main characther is of a race that are born from eggs togheter with dragons. It's whole hability deck is based on portals. The name is wakfu. Great one.
This is a crossover I've been wanting in the corner of my mind for a while now!!!
Wren casually predicting we'd have a Secret Project 5.
Dude lol I can't believe these crossovers. All of my favorite creators. Now we need XP to Level 3 on here
Can you imagine? Hilarity would ensue
I'd love to see the Corridor Crew do a short video showing what a world with spren would look like.
I like that we can now identify archive interviews that were held for some reason by if Brandon has a beard or not.
With the healing factor, I immediately thought of Gold compounding. Like you can heal yourself as much as you want, maybe even to the extent of massively extending your life, but if you ever get tired of it, you can let yourself die and pass on.
I love it when creators that I follow independantly do a crossover
I remember one day wren suggested listning to Stormlight Audiobook on a Audible sponsorship. And now we are here.
The stopping the plane thing, is basically the plot of the 1st final destination movie
A crossover I did not expect, but welcome.
I've always wanted a version of Magneto where an Electrical Engineer and a Plasma Scientist were co-authors of a couple issues of X-Men, just so we could see an omega level mutant whose power really was just generating and manipulating magnetic fields. Imagine a scary combination of regular Magneto with Cyclops, Thor, and the Human Torch (who also has x-ray vision).
Great conversation!
Speaking of teleportation, Larry Niven's Fleet of Worlds series has a technology where you can teleport between plates on the ground but they have to take into account the different angular velocities on different parts of a planet, and they can only add or dissipate a limited mount of energy. So to travel to the opposite side of a planet you must do it in several steps. Pretty neat detail but I have no idea if it's explored in any depth in the series as I've only read book 1.
Ok Wren's teleportation idea was amazing
I love that when Brandon started talking about how Precognition could make for a really good story he just basically described Stephen King's The Dead Zone! Great minds think alike clearly
Let corridor run with some stormlight content please!!!!!
His mistborn recommendation, they way he described it, got me interested in the books to begin with, and i never looked back
100% agreed on the immortality front, better to live than not to live, and your view on life would change with time.
Imagine Gambit charging a handful of sand and using it to scatter shot a wide area
The time travel stuff is interesting, good point that you can avoid paradoxes by essentially just having 'post-cognition', or seeing into the past without changing it. Honestly it could be used not just to observe historical events but to gauge a deeper understanding of your surroundings, if you are able to search the world from a couple minutes in the past to see where potential that's are coming from in the present
Wren's first superpower is exactly what my star wars oc is.
Two of my favorite creators! Love it
Wren's audible ad on Corridor talking about Mistborn was what got me to read it. If I recall correctly, it was him describing some of the magic system that interested me. So cool to see him here!
My recommendation for the Wheel of Time series is to do the audiobooks. Listen to them when you're doing chores, on your commute, at lunch, etc. It will help chunk them in memory, and keep momentum going through the slower parts of the series.
I've started the Wheel of Time on audio. First-time reader/listener of the series.
Unfortunately, the books lost me. Must have been a slower part of the series. I think I stopped listening at around book 4-5?
Maybe I'll give it another go at some point
as opposed to the usual teleportation system of converting the body to energy and beaming to another location and then re-assembling I always wanted something more like a gate i.e. folding space and stepping through to the destination (tesseract transportation) that way you could look through the gate to see what's on the other side.
Bro I clicked because Wren was in the thumbnail! Can't wait for wholesome excitement to ensue!
Fantastic.
Fantastic discussion and has changed my mind around a few things. Wonderful thank you
This video is gold
magneto's prison escape in the first film was such a cool use of his power, and magneto being immediately so potent with access to so little material made him seem like such a powerful and dangerous adversary.
I did not know Androl was Sanderson's work! I absolutelly love him!
Androl being the #1 reference is giving me life out here.
Love to see teleportation at the top of both lists.
In recent times, I've seen examples where characters, who's main abilities are teleporting, act in support roles in teams--my two examples being Leonardo from the Rise of the TMNT cartoon and Aoi Todo from the anime Jujutsu Kaisen.
Leo and the rest of the turtles get magic artifacts which gives them powers. Leo has two types of teleportation: swapping places between his swords (or whatever is touching the swords whether someone's holding it or if it's embedded in something) and cutting the air to make portals. In two major fights Leo has excellently shown to be the support for his brothers due to his control of the space. One of the fights has them fighting someone in the air as they all fell. While Raph and Donny were doing all the damage, Mike and Leo handled the support. Mike's powers lets him ignite his nunchucks and extend its range seemingly infinitely. Then we have Leo reposition everyone in order to give them some control in the air.
Aoi Todo's teleport is restricted to just swapping places, but he still uses it effectively. His ability is called Boogie Woogie and he is able to swap two things whenever he claps his hands so long as both subjects have cursed energy, the mana of their world. What makes him a great user is how he uses bluffs in order to trick his opponents. He usually starts the battle by only swapping himself and something else. After a point he'll start swapping his opponent with other things with cursed energy. If he has teammates he'll swap with them too. He can even clap his hands and NOT swap anything at all to further confuse and mess with the enemy.
Great Video Idea!
Fantastic guest!
My top 5 powers to have
5. Healing
4. Teleportation
3. Technomancy (ability to control any item running on electricity)
2. Universal communication
1. Superior edge (whatever you attempt to do you are a top 10 in the universe at it)
Wow im so hyped, just love this collab
The seeing a few seconds into the future is actually a nick cage movie lol
Love Invincible explanation of flying and how Omniman teaches to throw a punch. They don't use earth to push off from, they fly, their punches don't require force from ground and bodyweight to push through.