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]

Glory was a god, not a demon. Buffy couldn't take her without the hammer, either. Since some of the demons that Buffy fights are stronger than she is, and Buffy is stronger than Spike, and Spike fights the same variety of demons Buffy does, he's pretty much got to be fighting demons stronger than he is once in a while. (Plus he's killed two Slayers one on one, and presumably they were stronger than he was, just as Buffy is.) Presumably he wins fights against stronger opponents the same way Buffy does - by being a better/sneakier/dirtier/more inventive fighter than they are. While superior strength obviously gives someone an advantage in a fight, it's not the only factor affecting who wins.

[ms_scarletibis]

Buffy fought Glory at least twice without that hammer, and managed to stay conscious. When they first meet, and in "Blood Ties."

And I didn't mean to imply that's the only way to win--clearly it's not since Buffy won with the standard human strength of a 5'3" woman under a hundred pounds. Also, due to her size, proportionally, she'd have to be much stronger than Spike because she is so very, very tiny.