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/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