That troll hammer...

[deird1]

I've seen a few comments recently on Buffy picking up Olaf's hammer - and how the fact that she could so easily when Spike couldn't lift it shows just how much stronger Buffy is than the average vampire.

Which I'm finding odd, because I always assumed it was because the hammer is a mystical item. So Buffy, as the Slayer, has special picking-up-hammer powers that are denied to Spike.

...am I completely alone in this assumption? Does everyone else in the whole world take it as Buffy being ridiculously strong compared to Spike?



(Yes, she's stronger than him. But not by that much...)

Comments

[deird1]

To clarify, I don't think it's an inbuilt property of the hammer, per se. It's not like anyone is going to create a troll hammer and go "Hmm, let's add a Slayer-friendly characteristic, too."

It's more that there's an inbuilt property in Slayers, of an over-all affinity with mystical items...

[shipperx]

It's all fanwank so one is as good as another, but this one has never crossed my mind. I simply assumed Spike couldn't pick it up. Buffy could. Buffy's stronger.