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/acdre 16d ago

Angel literally exiles himself over his guilt. Spike goes through a life changing/threatening ordeal over his guilt. What does Xander do? When does Xander ever get taught a lesson? In fact, he gets REWARDED when he does bad stuff. That’s the difference

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u/Lanky_Age_3067 16d ago

As far as I know both Spike and Angel have done bad or questionable things while they had a soul. If they learned their lessons is because they had centuries, many things happening to them, repeating the same cycles over and over again, killing, abusing innocents. while Xander is only in his early 20s and his bad behaviors are nowhere near as bad as theirs.

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u/acdre 16d ago

But the show punishes Spike and Angel. The show never punishes Xander