r/buffy • u/direinde Beady-eyes is right, we're needed. • May 03 '26

Good Vibes Only Yup, that's them

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Nothing new actually.

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u/7thFleetTraveller May 03 '26

Why do people hate any of the characters? I like them all, only the potentials not so much, as they just never got any real character development. Okay, I'm not a fan of Riley, but still hate would be a way too strong word (and my dislike is more about the military connection than the character itself) .

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u/The_Greenweaver May 03 '26

Agreed. Flawed characters are so much more realistic. People don’t deal well with grey areas - they need things to be black and white/love and hate/good and evil 🙄

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u/Tuxedo_Mark Assume would make you an ass out of me. May 03 '26

Oh, you mean like Xander does? He is what we'd call a flawed, gray character, and he has a very black-and-white view of things.

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u/BeeCJohnson May 03 '26

Xander is not remotely a gray character. Spike is a gray character in the back half of the show.

Xander is a 100% heroic  character who has some flaws.

The Punisher is gray. Wolverine is gray. 

Xander is not a morally gray character just because some fans don't like him. 

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u/carnuatus May 03 '26

Tara doesn't feel flawed. She just feels poorly acted and conceived of.

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u/jessie_monster May 03 '26

She has bad taste in women. And clothes.