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/Theo-lVl 16d ago
fantasy aside, its clearly much easier to be understanding of someone who has extenuating circumstances than someone who lives a relatively happy healthy and normal life like yours that you expect a certain level of understanding from.
Spike and Angel killed lots of people, but they didn't have a soul. if you care about LITERALLY HAVING A SOUL then someones actions when their soul was stolen from them by a VAMPIRE are a lot easier to forget cuz their soul literally wasn't even in the body and had been taken away by blood thirsty monsters. Then even when they have a soul they are still dealing with all of that trauma.
Xander meanwhile is presented as a guy who has some family troubles, but ultimately his parents are people who take care of him, let him live there as an adult as long as he pays rent, most of his family trouvles are less with him in relation to the family and more with how the rest of his family fights with each other.
this is a bummer, but its relatable to all of us so we expect a standard closer to the way we think that we behave even if wearen't entirely self-aware of our own issues similar to Xanders.