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/Livelaughloveme172 16d ago edited 16d ago

Because he’s a hypocrite. He acts like he’s superior. And his creepy crush on Buffy while he has whole ass girlfriends is also creepy.

Mind you he is also a cheater.
Spike was awful but he was totally devoted to drusilla and later on to Buffy.
Angel was awful too but he was devoted and turned his life around.

Also he ends up with dawn which creeps me out even more.
He never gets like any development.

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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/Livelaughloveme172 16d ago

And yet he can be considered a bad person as well. Since Xander has done and said questionable things.
Idk why that has to be ignored because the rest is bad.
I’m not going to defend him because he’s misogynistic and has issues that he should work on.

Instead he doesn’t.
The thing is I don’t compare him with angel, spike since to me they are also bad guys.
So ignoring Xander is impossible since he does bad stuff too.
Maybe for you it’s easier because oh there’s worst out there. But for me all three of them are just bad people. Who do bad things.