wolfwand wrote:I never thought someone will dare to fight a werewolf! I have always imagine them having an epic stare...
Thought... Werewolves always fight physically... Which... Makes them vulnerable to a strong human... How revealing!
Yeah, everybody looks to the horror films for inspiration about werewolves, which in turn were inspired by ancient writings and drawings. In the times described in these old writings, the vast majority of potential werewolf victims would have been beat up, out of shape, starving peasants, or over fed out of shape dignitaries, none of who would be able to put up much of a fight against a modern human either. So, they would need a weapon.
In movies, because cinema is a relatively recent medium, which grew up in a world rapidly becoming better fed, more fitness savvy, and physically and mentally skilled, the chances of a mangy old werewolf of the ancient texts meeting its match in a bog standard modern human grows ever more likely. But, in movies, the werewolf is usually the bad guy, and having a bad guy that some big bruiser could just beat into submission unaided simply would not do. So, we made the werewolf ever more potent and powerful, till today they can throw cars around, whereas before in all the originating text, all they had to do is give you a nasty nip (well ok, they can huff and puff and blow your house down, but I'm pretty sure that's just metaphore
).
Of course, from a crop of increasingly healthy and stronger humans, a werewolf can be spawned with these stronger humans as a template host, so I can't be sure what aspect of a werewolf's strengths grows with the human prosperity, and what humans can do to match a werewolf in spite of this. In other words, will the power afforded by being a werewolf eventually get lost in the shuffle of overbearing human health, leaving it more or less redundant as a power of, let's face it, destructive force.
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