...Glory just went all out on Buffy? Say Buffy didn't have the key. She didn't have that power over Glory. Buffy was just an opponent to be eliminated quick. How long would Buffy last if Glory went at her with all her might?
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I actually think that Clare Kramer would've been a great Cordelia if Charisma hadn't come on the scene.
shareVirtually anything, really. I mean, if Buffy wasn't the Key's protector, it's unlikely Glory would have still come to Sunnydale in the whole wide world, much less go up against Buffy. In their two major confrontations, Buffy got lucky, but it's a necessary conceit of the narrative; Buffy manages to slip away, and immediately after Glory destroys the structural integrity of the building she's in, preventing her from pursuing; or Glory has a leg up on Buffy, and Glory gets hit by a semi-truck, and reverts to Ben. These things almost have to happen, because in any scenario where Buffy actually goes toe to toe with Glory and dies, the series is over. And it would be virtually impossible for Buffy to engage her and hope to achieve anything better than a stalemate in which she narrowly escapes; because she cannot defeat her, without knowing Ben is her weakness, and even when she does know that, she refuses to kill him (because he's not a knight, and they're not on top of a bus...)
Meanwhile, if Buffy does get away, Glory has no motivation to go after her specifically. Glory was mortified she was fighting someone as common as a Vampire Slayer, and she was myopically focused on finding the key. She'd be more apt to brain-suck Buffy were she to have her on the ropes, than to kill her. If Buffy doesn't have the Key, and genuinely doesn't know where it is, then she's nothing more than a gnat to her; and she holds personal vendetta.
"Sorry, I mistook you for a corpse."
I don't know. I think if Buddy didn't have the key she would have called in Angel to help her and Buffy, Spike and Angel all teaming together against Glory might have given Buffy a better of defeating her. I also think Buffy would have killed Glory when she was in the form of Ben or Angel would have.
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