Buffy The Vampire Slayer
As a teenaged grievous bodily harm opera , Buffy the Vampire Slayerhad a lot of romance plots . It but would n’t be the same if Buffy was n’t falling in love with absurdly attractive men about every time of year . But there was one love affair subplot from theAngelspin - off show that just never sat right with some fans . luckily , theBuffycomics perfectly explain why this romance had to materialize .
After the end of theBuffy the Vampire SlayerTV show , the series extend on in a serial from Dark Horse Comics . The in - continuityBuffycomics went all the way up to temper twelve before being rebooted , which gave the comedian plenty of chances to retcon or add together additional details to parts of the show that rooter felt were missing .
A relationship that plenty of fan thought was out of character for Buffy was retconnedinBuffy the Vampire Slayer : Season Eight#1 by Joss Whedon and Georges Jeanty . With one simple throwaway crease about doppelgangers - and one who date the Immortal instead of therealBuffy - Buffy ’s full relationship with the Immortal was fixed and ended up take in agency more sense for her theatrical role and the larger game .
Plot Hole Officially Fixed: Buffy Summers Never Dated The Immortal
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight#1 by Joss Whedon, Georges Jeanty, Andy Owens, Dave Stewart, Richard Starkings, and Jimmy
During the instalment " The Girl in head " from time of year five ofAngel , it was revealed that not only was Buffy in Rome , but she was seemingly date the Immortal . In the sequence , both Spike and Angel get into increasingly derisory situations as they try their good to get Buffy ’s aid . Angel had n’t seen Buffy in several years , and the last sentence Spike saw Buffy , he was on flak and sacrificed his life to lay aside the world . It ’s unclear if Buffy was even aware that Spike had been brought back to living at that point .
Buffy the Vampire Slayer had tidy sum of big bads over the years , and with a revival on the horizon only one villain deserves to take the spotlight .
As Angel and Spike continually attempt to get Buffy ’s attention , they are invariably bilk by the Immortal , who had been the rival of both Angel and Spike for hundreds of years . The Immortal had a substance abuse of always one - upping the two lamia , doing affair such as saving a group of nuns from Angelus , getting Spike arrested for taxation nonpayment , and managing to have a troika with Darla and Drusilla , something the girls never permit either Spike or Angelus do . Now it seemed the Immortal had won Buffy ’s warmheartedness as well .
Buffy Being with the Immortal Never Made Much Sense
It Wasn’t That Long Ago That She Told Spike She Loved Him…
Buffy has been with mess of men over the class of the series , but her two greatest love were always Angel and Spike . Buffy ’s relationship with Spikeis often praise as one of the smashing ho-hum - suntan romances in goggle box history , as they very much start from enemies to lovers throughout oodles of episodes . When Spike first seem , he was a roughshod vampire who was famed for specifically hunt down and killing killer . That ’s the entire reason he decided to go after Buffy , but their relationship turn into something much more than just vampire - and - slayer over the years .
Spike tried to kill and otherwise harm Buffy numerous metre , but Spike was later catch by the Initiative , who planted a chip inside of Spike ’s brain that prevented him from harming humans . This chip turned Spike fairly harmless , as he could n’t even perforate someone , permit alone bite them , without suffering utmost pain . Because of his fresh , radically harmless state , Spike had to seek aid from Buffy and her protagonist , and when Spike realized that he was still able to harm demons without any issue , he decide to extend fighting alongside themto simply have some way to hurt something .
Buffy ’s final words to Spike were that she loved him .
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From there , Spike and Buffy start drop more and more time together , which lead in Spike fall in love with the killer . While Buffy was initially disgust by him , their touch easy became mutual . This romance culminated in Spike sacrifice himself to save the world and dying in good order in front of her . Her final words to him were that she get laid him . With that emotionally brutal death scene in thinker , it ’s especially severe to believe that Buffy would be out partying and dating someone else less than a class after . It ’s simply wildly out of character for Buffy .
ThisBuffy the Vampire SlayerRetcon Fixes Buffy Seemingly Not Caring About Spike
As Goofy as the Episode Was, It Didn’t Make Buffy Look Good
Buffy has always been fabulously fast to the men she ’s loved , and it ’s never been easy for her to move past them . While she ’s had fling here or there , her three biggest erotic love interests have always been Angel , Spike , and Riley . WhenBuffy could n’t be with Angel due to the cursehe was afflict by , it was annihilative for her . It was only after being secern from Angel for a while , and accepting that she could n’t be with him due to the curse , that she was finally capable to move on and be with Riley . But Riley ’s job in the military also ended up submit him away from Buffy . Once again , she was devastated .
The episode " The Girl in doubt " is very funny ; it has some great bickering between Spike and Angel splash throughout the intact episode , and their shared hatred of the Immortal is fantastic . But the instalment does n’t make Buffy appear very good . Being out in Rome and partying with someone she was apparently in a intimate kinship with a few months after Spike ’s grievous expiry i d just an absurd thing to ask the fans to believe , even for the sake of a joke . When Buffy get hold of so long to get over Angel , who was n’t even dead , her willingness to move on from Spike after his sacrifice seemed wildly out of character .
Dark Horse Comics publish the prescribed sequel of Buffy the Vampire Slayer with time of year 8 onwards , posing some challenge for the reboot .
After the events of season seven , Buffy empower every potential slayer on Earth to be an active slayer . She then became the leader of a new killer organization , leading over two hundred other slayers . Naturally , her leadership made a fortune of people want Buffy drained . To stay safe , Buffy had to utilise doppelgängers who would be able-bodied to throw off her enemies . The reveal that the girl in Rome was merely one of Buffy ’s many doppelgängers completely fixed her characterization .
Buffy Would Never Move on So Fast After Losing a Loved One
She Took Months to Get Over Angel When He Was Still Alive
Buffy is a complicated part , and she ’s a lot of thing , but one of the truest things about her is just how deeply she loves . She ’s loved her friends , her home , and every man she ’s ever been with . She ’s never been one to quickly stick out from one man to the next , not when there was a legitimately mysterious connexion between them . The comic book are true pretty wild , escalating the characters and patch to the point where Buffy was fly and invulnerable , but one thing they did right was retconningBuffymoving on from Spike way too promptly .
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a television serial create by Joss Whedon , focusing on Buffy Summers , portrayed by Sarah Michelle Gellar , a immature woman chosen to battle against lamia , demons , and other supernatural forces while navigating the complexity of teenage life .
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