It's like vampires and sunlight. They don't get more resistant to sunlight by becoming more powerful. Fables are highly resistant to conventional damage. Even the Tweedle dumbasses can take a beating and not be much worse for it in a few hours. Exceptions are when more significant damage occur, like when parts of the body are removed. They can shrug of lacerations or puncture wounds, because the damaged parts are still mostly there, just need to stitch itself together. It's a different story when the head is lopped off or vital organs are removed, unless resistance to that is a part of the fable.Megalodon said:Denamic said:Bigby is a wolf. Like, just a big-ass wolf. His human form is not a glamour; he was turned into a werewolf which makes him able to assume a human form. So he's kinda a reverse werewolf? Werehuman? Anyway, werewolves are weak to silver in the stories, which in turn makes Bigby weak to silver. That he's both a werewolf and the big bad wolf probably also explains his enormous strength, though that's just guessing on my part.
Yes, but my point is, even in fairy tales human characters are susceptible to deadly things, like axes in the brain. Yet Woody didn't even need to bandage his head for more than a day. So I still find it somewhat strange that a silver bullet put Bigby down pretty much like you'd expect in any werewolf story, while an comparably deadly assault didn't even leave a mark on Woody.
Bottom line is that Fables are what the stories say they are. If the story says they explode in water, they explode in water, even if they have the power of a god.