No, I simply find it inadequate proof to her having superhuman reflexes in combat. It proves that she occassionaly can pull off stunts like that. But from everything I have ever seen it's random, based a lot on luck, and something she has no concious control over. Perhaps that changed after Season 5 but I rather doubt it.In other words you refuse to acknowledge the incident. Great. Next I'll have to post the Superhuman Reflexes List, won't I?
The fact that the Nerd King tagged her for one?Where's your evidence for that?
Can you explain what the relevance of that thing is? Because right now it's just dead weight.No, it shows only what has caused her injury. Did you even read the list?
That's what I gathered from your less than perfectly coherent postings. If that's not what you're advocating, I have no problem.Hold the phone. That's a blatant strawman. That is not my stance at all. I appologise if that is what I may have painted it as, but that was not my intent at all. The only claim I was making was that Buffy herself has superhuman reflexes. The Average vampire or monsters generally doesn't.
Which given that she's supposed to have had some martial arts trainging is utter unsuprising. It doesn't require anything superhuman to be able to come out ahead. If you don't believe that, challenge a trained amateur boxer to a fight. Or a blackbelt. Trust me, you won't get in a hit.For an apt example, check out every time Buffy has fought human opponents ("Band Candy", "Spiral"), she usually gets in more blows than her opponents in those cases.
I disagree, their advantage seems to be a natural indifference to pain and a somewhat quicker healing.I disagree. Though not truely obscene, I still think the durability against such weapons is worth noting.
Depends on the person, there is a fair amount of dense muscle over that which could feasably protect the organ. And it would be particularly effective if the stake didn't penetrate cleanly but at any angle what so ever.Did from what I saw. It's in the right location, and given how much of a twig she is and the depth of the wound, it more than likely hit the organ.
Does anyone know how far below the skin the Kidney lies?
There's no hard evidence for it.Yeah, but one of my points is that her flesh is slightly denser than a normal human. Damnit, I can just see it sinking...
Well, it was killed by magic. Hard to take away much hard evidence from that.It's the real deal Indian knife (Had to be for the spirit in question to be killed by it). Given the general skill they had in making flint tools, I'd say it's pretty sharp. I doubt it fulled much snce then. Most flint blades I've read from that period are still functonal. But I could be wrong.
But yes, a well preserved flint knife could indeed be functional. However, we have no idea whether the Sunnydale museum treated it well or not. But in general I'd imagine it's reasonably sharp.
True but that's not necessarily because of any weird inhuman density. The far more likely explaination is that he simply didn't get a good cut in. And which is more likely?Which is why I cited the incident, since a blade that sharp did NOT produce that much of an injury.
It would definitely help.Damnit, someone (likely me) should check--but it'd have to be in a few days (Darn you College!)
I would assume that a Slayer is no cringing violet and I'm not debating that. But getting a pimp slapped and not bruising is not nearly the same as taking a round kick to the head and not feeling it. There are degrees of violence and Ted's Father of the Year concession slap isn't really up there. Honestly I would put her fisticuffs with Spike far higher.Do you want the list of "Blows taken without injury?" In fact, in season 2's "Ted" it was a plot point that he struck her and she showed no visible wounds at all.
Pro-wrestling moves will generally inflict harm, it's just most are impractical with out a willing or semi-willing participant.Metanarritively, you've hit the nail on the head in terms of how the fighting really works. This is a world where pro-wrestling moves work on monsters, after all! Razz
Question: does this hold true when both combatants have skills in the fighting arts you site.
As for martial arts, yes it holds true. The idea behind any real martial art (as to some modern schools that are mostly sport and/or show) is an economy of blows. The idea is, as Alyeska pointed out, to utilize actions that end the fight, no matter what. Obviously a pair of skilled opponents are going to be able to evade, blocks, or otherwise prevent the opponent from getting a good hit. But once a good hit lands, it should affect them the same as any.
The whole unrealism doesn't exactly help things.Hell, When Buffy cut someone's throat in Season 2's "What's my line" the original script had gallons of blood, but non appeared on screen.
And we know it hit the heart how? And do we know where and how badly? Techinically, just nicking it still counts as hitting. And it would explain how she bleed out so slowly. Unless she's got blood retaining forcefields, her blood would have been all over in a matter of a few seconds.Thankfuly it hit the heart. Still not sure how deep it penetrated. I'll have to wait for Wensday in order to make both checks. But given the Information GGS posted...my hypothesis may depend on how deep that sucker went.
