From Chris Snellgrove
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Fans often discuss which characters the funniest, the saddest and so on are. However, the biggest question about these beloved heroes and villains is one that only a few fans never The effort to ask: Which character has the best arc? Accordingly Buffy Creator Joss Whedon, the surprising answer to this is Spike, the malignant vampire, whose bow ended in the show with sacrificing his life to save the whole world.
Spike gets the best sheet
In view of the astonishing journey that Buffy has undergone, it may sound a bit surprising that Whedon believes that Spike has the best arc from everyone. However, his logic is quite simple: as the show runner said Sci-fi TV, Spike has tried to earn his soul to become a better man. Whedon contrasted this directly with Angel, from which he claims that he had “painted a soul on him for a hundred years and wiped it”.
The Buffy The comparison of the creator is quite inevitable. Angel and Spike had very Similar narrative arches that make it almost impossible not to compare them. Angel’s whole business is, of course, that he was cursed by the Kalderash people with a soul after killing her most popular daughter. The curse should make angels to feel immense to blame for everyone he had killed as a vampire, and forced him to experience an infinite life of misery and shame before his bow and became a champion against evil.
While he has been 2 since season 2 Buffy the Vampire SlayerThe sixth season that Spikes has set up primary arch by unveiling the character of its lowest. This was the season in which he and Buffy (recently risen from the dead) had a toxic but physically passionate relationship that was complete with rough sex that literally brought the house down. But towards the end of the season Spike tries to rape Buffy, a moral event horizon For many fans, this character meant beyond salvation.
In fact it seemed Buffy the Vampire Slayer After that, Spike could never redeem, but Joss Whedon gave him an arch in season 7 to do exactly that. We find out that Spike took a number of difficult exams to get a soul. His love for Buffy motivated him to become the kind of man who ultimately sacrifices his life to save the world. It was an arc that surprised the Fandom, but it really shouldn’t have had Years.
For example, Buffy Spike has always presented as a character that turns in love. In season second, Spike Buffy actually helped save the world primarily because he was fed up with his girlfriend drusilla hung all over the angel. This strange buffy out (“You need my help ‘because the girlfriend’s girlfriend is a big ho?”), But this incident consolidated that this spike in the language of meat would do everything for love.
Speaking of the fifth season “Fool for Love” revealed that when he was still a person, Spike (or William the Bloody, named so named after his “bloody terrible poetry”) was a big Simp for a lady named Cecily. She was effectively his muse and inspired poems, which she later refused with Spike herself, and explained that the medium -sized poet was among himself. This puts on his conversion in Drusilla’s hands, but it also proves that Spike always … well, a fool for love, long before he was an immortal bloodsucker, and he is always was more motivated by romance than anything else.
For all the funny sarcasm Buffy the Vampire Slayer Spikes bow is known, reveals the serious, emotional core of the entire show: the revelation, the really love does conquer everyone. Love convinces a soulless rapist of a mass vampire to become a hero who gives his life in the last episode to save the world. By switching from the lowest depths to such dizzying heights, Spike unexpectedly reached the best character arch in the Whedon verses, as planned by none other than Joss Whedon himself.
