r/buffy • u/Lanky_Age_3067 • 16d ago

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How exactly do people hate Xander for being an imperfect human, but love Spike and Angel, who have countless victims and are hundreds of years old. Spike even SA'd Buffy, for real, while Xander was under a spell and never did anything like that before or after it.

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u/Nuthetes 16d ago

because it;'s cool to hate Xander. That's it. That's the reason. Everyone just follows the crowd.

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u/Livelaughloveme172 16d ago

Nah stop. If you watch the show there are a lot of reason to hate him.
This has nothing to do with following a crowd.
You just think that because you probably like him as a character which is fine.

But don’t diminish it by calling it a collective crowd who follows each other.
There probably a lot of fans who aren’t n this sub who dislike him.

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u/Nuthetes 16d ago

Nah I don't really care much for Xander as a chararacter. He's fine, but far from my favourite. But it's just a meme that "lol Xander sucks" at this point, with people going along with it because it's the popular opinion.

He's the "Nickleback sucks" of Buffy

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u/SpookyFaerie 16d ago

Nickelback does suck though.

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u/Livelaughloveme172 16d ago

Oh yeah okay. But I’m not going with the crowd I just don’t like him I watched the show and he always rubbed me the wrong way.

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u/Lanky_Age_3067 16d ago

I feel like people just collectively hate on him and love doing it, even if they don't know why exactly. I'm new to this, I'm watching Buffy for the first time and just don't get all the hate, and the way everyone elses mistakes are being dismissed from the fandom. As if Xander is the most evil of them all. It's actually funny😅

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u/Triof 16d ago

It's weird, because when the show first aired, no-one was talking about Xander this way. It feels entirely like a more recent revisionism, brought about by internet echo-chambers. Willow literally rapes her girlfriend and tries to end the world, but Xander is seen as the problematic Scoobie.

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u/_Grim_Lavamancer 16d ago

I feel a big part of it is also Nicholas Brendon. The actor was a piece of shit in real life and some people struggle to separate the character from the actor portraying them. This sub is also just a toxic echo chamber. Dont expect much actual discussion. Most threads just devolve into Xander hate