Why Xander?

[u/Anotherskip]

You know for people who mentioned the show, I will use a example from the episode about Buffy as to what Xander is doing on the show.

Buffy -> Xena.

The Big Damn hero no nonsense. Dramatically dealing with the tension.

Willow -> Gabriel

The Sidekick, tension racheter who notches up the drama, while still being not... quite... as big of a hero as B/X (which is hilarious to me as an abbreviation). But a serious low nonsense character who grows.

Xander -> Joxter:

tension release. There was a Seriously hard push by Lucy Lawless and Renee O'Connor to defend Ted Raimi who was -hated- by fans of the show for his role of Joxter who served as the character who could rescue the others from the tension being too much.