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

[rahirah]

It's difficult to gague these things as well because the characters' strength and competence varied wildly at the writers' whim. Sometimes a single vampire had Buffy on the ropes; sometimes she could dust six without breaking a sweat. The same goes for Angel and Spike. (Who both magically became much better fighters when they moved to AtS.)

[ms_scarletibis]

I don't think they became better fighters--just more aerodynamic ;)