River vs Buffy
POSTED BY: Fredikayllow
UPDATED: Monday, March 29, 2010 19:04
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Y would they be fighting in the first place? Remember Buffy is LOOOONG dead, River is living in the future guys!
If they did of course River would win anyway, she's way cooler and doesn't need a scooby gang to kick ass. Plus she's crazy which makes her far more interesting and the interesting one's ough to win.
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Originally posted by Causal:
Even if I grant you that, River still cannot kill anyone with her brain. She'd have done in the fight with the Reavers, would have been more efficient. Woulda done to the Alliance troopers came crashing through the wall afterward (instead of tightening her grip on her weapons). Nope, she can't do it; she was trying to scare Jayne (and it worked) and Joss was trying to make us laugh (and it worked).
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I wish I had a magical wish-granting plank.
Keep in mind that it was a movie, and that fit the plot better. Also, maybe she can kill only one person at a time. She was trained as an assassin, is a super athlete, and she can read Buffy's mind and use her worst fears against her.
In other words: RIVER WINS!!!
River: "The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds, given adequate vaccuuming systems."
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Okay, that was the serious arguement. Now: If you think Buffy should win, you belong on the Buffy site, not the Firefly site! Leave us loyal Flans in peace and stop babbling nonsense!! RIVER WINS!!! SHE WINS HANDS DOWN!!! SHE TOTALLY KICKSASS ON ANYONE!!!
River: "The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds, given adequate vaccuuming systems."
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Where, oh where is that eye-rolling emote when you need it?
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River would kick the living shit out of Buffy.. She´s better in every way except strength, which doesn´t matter if you can´t get a hit in.. River is a much better fighter and her stamina would probably be at the peak of human ability. Buffy has problems with normal vampires at times, vampires that Giles and Xander and the likes can fight and seemingly almost match in strength. She wouldn´t get a hit in and River would totally kick her ass. She would get her down and break her neck or something..
"Summer Glau can simply walk into Mordor.."
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Despite Buffy being a supernatural being, River would be my dog in this fight. If she survived the fight long enough to realize that Buffy was extraordinary (which I expect she would), she’d conjure a way to defeat her. I think there was a layer of truth when she said to Jayne,”I can kill you with by brain”. River would just do the math. Assuming there were no hidden variables, she’d figure out how to defeat Buffy. To River, a fight is not an emotional contest of speed strength and will; it’s simply a dynamic problem to be solved and she is extraordinarily good at solving those problems.
In the scenario set up by FREDIKAYLLOW, River’d see Willow as the real threat. She’d try to bypass Buffy to eliminate her. In River's mind she’d have already choreographed how the fight would play out. But when Buffy fails to fall to River’s first kick, the opening gambit, which, if successful, would end with Willow being removed from the game, and is instead knocked to the floor by Buffy, she has to recalculate. She’d enter Buffy’s mind. Learn her strategy, her tactics, her capabilities, her weaknesses, and what she was planning to do right now, as she’d have already done and would still doing with Willow. Like a chess master on speed, River’s mind would flash through the millions of permutations of how events would play out given any action she initiated. She’d calculate not only the mass and velocities of the objects in space, but the actions and reactions of all the people in play. She’d find the solution. Retreat behind Jayne, leaving him to delay Buffy. Scoop a firearm up as she passed and fire two precise shots from behind Mal killing first Willow and then Buffy.
River is a creation of the Alliance. Like the Operative. There is no nobility in her battles only cold logic and steel. It is the calculus the Alliance used to win the war. In Buffy’s universe good defeats the forces of darkness. The “Powers that be” control the game. Serenity Valley disillusioned Mal of any belief that the “Powers that be” exist in his verse. That Right has any place on the battlefield. In Mal’s world guns decide a fight not God or what’s right.
If River’d been transported to Buffy’s universe, Buffy’d win, but in Mal’s verse, Buffy ends up with a bullet in the brain.
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