Buffy The Vampire Slayer’s the most hated villains are secretly perfect

According to Chris Snellgrove
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IN Buffy The Vampire SlayerTrio is one of the most hated villains, especially after one of their members (Warren) ends up randomly killing Willow’s girlfriend Tara. Most fans now retrospectively see these villains as perfectly symbolic problematic and otherwise substartments of the sixth season. But the trio is in fact perfect Buffy villains, because they emphasize one of the strongest themes of horror: that unpredictable people are ultimately much more dangerous than any monster.

Trio

Those who were Buffy Fans often claimed from the beginning that the trio is poor villains because they are not as metaphorical as other iconic characters. This is a show where fantastic was always a mirror for secular. For example, Angel, who turns evil after sex with Buffy, is a deliberate metaphor for young men who, after sleeping with his girlfriends, reveal that they are a jerk. In comparison with BuffyMany other metaphors (as spells representing sex and the master representing Buffy’s alienated father), three dissatisfied stupid stupids may seem a little boring.

But these evil were secretly and brilliant Creating the writers of the show because they embody one of the longest topics in horror. Specifically, people are inherently more dangerous than the monsters that fight. Zombie movies like Dawn of the Dead and shows as The Walking DeadFor example, they emphasize how the unpredictability of people is more dangerous than the predictable danger of zombies. IN BuffyThis idea is represented by the fact that vampires are driven by instinct but that human threats cause chaos outside nothing Vamp can do with his dark magic.

There are many other examples of people Buffy To be more dangerous than a show of a flock of bloodshed. The main Synder was an early example of a human enemy that could successfully endanger our characters during the day of daylight, and Caleb’s accessible friendliness allowed him to kill a lot of victims (including observers’ advice) that could be able to reflect another mindless monster. And while both have been redeemed, Willow and faith prove that people who receive their inner dark side can cause more damage than the smartest vampires.

Great villains

What does it do Buffy Lesson of the history of the villain has to do with why the trio is such great villains? For one thing, Warren fits directly into the form of the above human villains. He kept a killer on his feet for almost the whole season 6 by employing a number of schemes of driven magic and technology. How many vampires or werewolfs do you think would be able to capture (even temporarily) our favorite killer va Hromnice day Time loop?

For another thing BuffyThe evil trio fits directly into the season, which for the better or worse caused increasingly relative problems on our title hero. Sure, Slayer was still fought from fantastic monsters from week to week, but these boys were cake -walking compared to challenges, such as paying mortgages, playing a surrogate mother and digging her toxic friend. In the season, when the secular was made in a monstrous, pitiful human villain like Warren, it fits directly in.

Finally, BuffyThe trio was a perfect reflection of the main topic of the season 6: Danger of magic. The same season, which showed that Willow was dependent on the dark forces, also showed that the danger of hate of small non -citals gains access to their own magical abilities. Certainly, Season 7 went back this controversial story (magic was no longer addictive), but at that time the trio served as a reflection of this story, even though we were distracted from the growing threat of Willow.

No one can deny that Warren accidentally shoots Tara, is a jerky tragic moment, but this terrible scene brings us back to an ever -story that people are more dangerous than monsters. You can invoke a number of magical departments to protect from the things that hit at night, but no one can prevent Warren from showing up with a weapon and randomly killing a strong witch. Lesson is clear: Monstrosity in men is something that buffy can never kill, and it’s something everyone in Sunnydale and Anyone who follows must be careful forever.

If it sounds bleak, well … what else did you expect from the 6th season?