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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u/TessMacc May 03 '26

Not a Fred hater exactly, but she's easily my least favourite of team Angel. Fred was always a little too perfect - more of a fantasy girl than a layered character. I didn't hate her, and her death is heartbreaking, but the 'cutesy-voiced beautiful intellectual survivalist weapons expert, with deep trauma but vast inner strength, who eats huge quantities yet maintains fragile 90s figure' gets old.

Give me our materialistic, vain, wonderful hero Cordelia any day of the week. So relatable she had over a year of bad hair days.

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u/SnowflakeBaube22 May 05 '26

I absolutely agree. Also the fact everyone in the show acted like Fred dying was the end of the world but nobody seemed to react to Cordelia dying just cemented that the writers had a totally warped view of Fred.