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]

*nods*

That's what I was thinking. But then everyone's using the hammer-lifting as proof that she's way stronger, and that the other instances of them fighting are retcons...

[shipperx]

But fighting isn't simply brute strength. Strategy, speed (and as FFL made clear) luck are also involved. Picking up a heavy object my in some ways involve skill (there are proper lifting techniques) but also brute strength.