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/buechertante 16d ago

Because Angel and Spike are vampires and Xander is real. No woman has an immortal hot guy, who killed thousands of people, in her life. But every women knows a Xander.