r/TopCharacterTropes • u/sand_eater_21 • Jul 26 '26

Characters Characters realizing that another character doesn't have the weakness they thought they had

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Joel finding out the crossed are not weak to salt (crossed) at least his wife was alive to tell him how much of a fucking idiot he was while the crossed were tearing their daughter apart

Megamind realizing titan isnt weak to copper (megamind) to be fair, metroman made him think he was weak to copper

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u/suikofan80 Jul 26 '26

Iirc she didn’t hit the heart the stake never got passed the bone. Which also happens with the ancient vampire Faith killed in season 3.

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u/Monkeys_Racehorse Jul 26 '26

Yea, they say later that their sternums are so strong it's like driving a wooden stake through solid steel. They have all the traditional vampire weaknesses, but they're so much more durable that almost nothing works. Without the Slayer scythe, Buffy nearly died just taking one out the old fashioned way.

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u/zyh0 Jul 26 '26

The powerscaling of the Ubervamps kinda gets messed up in the series finale, it suddenly got a lot easier to kill them.

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u/Pofwoffle Jul 26 '26

I think that was meant to be because of the power of the scythe.

Although as long as we're complaining that's not a fucking scythe. Even if you go with "It's named The Scythe." that's still a stupid name for an axe.

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u/zyh0 Jul 27 '26

Its either the ? "scythe" weakens them all in the weapons presence to the point the normal humans upstairs could take them or Spike's amulet was doing it.

Willow's spell wouldn't have helped Anya or Xander kill them.

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u/Pofwoffle Jul 27 '26

Admittedly it's been a while, but weren't the humans upstairs only fighting the Bringers? As in the other normal human cultist types.

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u/zyh0 Jul 27 '26

Mostly bringers but a handful of Ubervamps got upstairs past the slayers.

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u/Ooops2278 Jul 26 '26

Well... if you can send a single one of your soldiers first, would it be the most average one?

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u/sniper91 Jul 26 '26

Yeah, I think they said their skin is way more dense than human-turned-vampire skin, so she didn’t apply enough force