Your #2 says a lot about which knife would make it out unbroken in the knife world. A well made fixed blade would be the most likely knife to survive when twisting a knife out of wood or where batoning came into play, or punching through metal, "depending on which fixed blade knife also". I don't think many folders would fair well, and the Izula it a tough little brute. But hey to each their own as everybody likes something different. Like they say sooo many knives so little time.