Was that a HI knife on Heroes S4E14?

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Watching Heroes S4E14 and was wondering if the Khukuri was supplied by HI, it certainly looked like one of those. Bennett was holding it and we got to see it quite clearly - one of the 2 belonging to the speedster guy from the carnival.
 
I doubt they are real khuks. Most likely they are aluminum props. They did have a very authentic look to them though.
 
I'm sure that HI isn't in the movie business. However, if the prop designer had any taste in khuks, maybe he based a model/prop on an HI.....
 
Often for "hero" shots (i.e. closeups and walking around) they'll have a real one, and then aluminum or lexan props for fight scenes.
 
I have it recorded, and just took a close look at it. Definitely not HI, but it could be a prop based on HI. It looks like it's about a 15" AK. There's no blade markings on either side, and no fullers either. It's a very thin blade (by HI standards anyway)... the spine is 1/4" thick at the most.

I've seen khuks in a couple other shows as well over the last year, although I can't remember which shows at the moment. I wonder if khuks are becoming a little more mainstream.
 
It certainly sounds like it, doesn't it: Heroes, Halo, and Resident Evil. (And of course, D&D has included them for years.)
 
C.S. Graves said:
Really? I didn't follow it after the third edition rules.

"Saving throw versus chop.... FAILED!"
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They have them available, I think, as an Exotic Weapon (i.e. strictly optional), plus adding variants of the khopsh/sapara, etc. They didn't seem to understand it very well (they had a bunch of B.S. about being usable for trip attacks, due to the "hooked" blade), but there it was.
 
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Nicholas said:
They have them available, I think, as an Exotic Weapon (i.e. strictly optional), plus adding variants of the khopsh/sapara, etc. They didn't seem to understand it very well (they had a bunch of B.S. about being usable for trip attacks, due to the "hooked" blade), but there it was.
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Severing a leg definitely counts as a trip attack.
 
Wow! D&D? I haven't played for years. I was an avid (rabid) player in the 80's. Learned it when I was stationed in South Dakota. Even my wife used to play. Heck, she just about had to, being around us nerds all day! Stopped sometime after 2nd edition came out. Still got the books and dice.
 
Yeah I know who Gary Gygax is, still have my manuals and dice in storage. Not much to do in saskatchewan winters as a kid. Infected me with sword and blade fetish since 8 years old.

very cool with Dracula having the first western khukuri reference, never read the book.

I only have ghurka house representations. Very solid but compared to HI (only held one) it is like putting a stock ford ranger against a loaded tacoma.
 
I played all through high school and my time in the army, but I've run out of folks to play with since then. My lovely Cynthia won't even touch my dice for fear of contamination. She insists that my nerdiness is attractive but D&D goes beyond nerdiness and into something else. *sigh* Oh well. Perhaps the mods should move this to the Cantina, as it's gotten a bit off topic.
 
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