That troll hammer...
Dec. 21st, 2010 09:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deird1I'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...)
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...)
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Date: 2010-12-21 02:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-21 02:57 am (UTC)Generally speaking on the strength of vampires and slayers--if they're more even keeled, it wouldn't make a difference. But since slayers are inherently stronger? It makes a big ass difference.
Not to mention, and this is just Buffy specifically at the moment, but she'd have to be very much stronger (proportionally speaking) for someone 5'3" and under one hundred pounds, taking on demons and vampires alike so much larger than she is. A good example of this would be Jonathan "dressed up" as a demon very much larger than himself, but he only had the strength of his human/non-magicked self.
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Date: 2010-12-21 04:26 am (UTC)