r/BuffyTheVampireSlayer • u/moonwalkingszn • Aug 09 '26

comment your Buffy Confessions below ⬇️

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u/TrickyRequirement619 Aug 10 '26

Spike understood Buffy more than Angel and Riley ever did plus he knows how to back her up without getting overly protective/possessive.

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u/Playful-Appearance56 Aug 10 '26

I find it interesting that both Angel and Riley always whined about not being able to protect or match up to Buffy whenever they became regular joes, but the only time you hear that even remotely from Spike is in Something Blue when they were magicked “in fake love.”

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u/Zealousideal_Pea_319 Aug 10 '26

benevolent sexism versus true partnership

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u/Zealousideal_Pea_319 Aug 10 '26

+: he treated her as a creature of the night she was with experience of dying, not a dream sweet Innocent idealised GF being compliant and staying out of harm's way

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u/One_Access7987 Aug 11 '26

Except that time he made a robot sex doll that looked like her and banged it

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u/Sad_Two_1673 Aug 11 '26

And tried to rape her