The character of Buffy pretends to be the scaryness of Joss Whedon

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Few Hollywood creatives had quite a rise and a fall that Joss Whedon did: Buffy The Vampire Slayer The creator was once considered to be the final feminist ally, but his ex -wife and costumes later accused him of heartless and misogynous behavior towards women. Most of the fans were shocked at the time because they couldn’t imagine that a man who created his favorite strong female characters could handle women so badly behind the scenes. However, the accusation against Joss Whedon should not be as surprising, but given how problematic he did Xander, his own character insertion.

Joss Whedon & Xander

About special features for BuffyThe first season, Joss Whedon admitted something surprising about the most sarcastic scooby show: “Xander, I always identified as the character I was most as because he had such an inability… to talk to the girl and come and come with the girl and come and come in a great moment . “With the usual self -appreciation of Whedon, Xander is his independent role model is why the character” makes an idiot a lot of himself “. The showrunner stressed that actor Xander Nicholas Brendon is “much nicer and muscular than anyone who behaves like this, but this is a television”, but encouraged skeptics to “overcome it”.

Obviously, Joss Whedon usually wanted Xander to embody the embarrassing but funny aspects of his high school self, and therefore the character gets, in the words of Nicholas Brendon “all the good lines”. Unfortunately there is a dark side of this independent characterization that many fans did not fit until the rise Buffy Rewatch podcasts. When you carefully watch the show from the episode to the episode along with the podcasts as Balancing a vampire killerIt is easy to see that Xander is often a scary jerk whose misogynia reflects the accusation against its creators.

While the problematic moments of Xander are too numerous to be listed here, some of its worst offenses include the cast of the magic of love spoils that they magically shoot the whole city. He also shamelessly cheats cordelii and later tries to divide the shame of Anya and Buffy for sleeping with Spik (my dude, you even even you even see James Marsters in his main?). Xander also dugs Anya on the altar and previously refuses to tell Buffy that Willow will try to restore Angel’s soul and force the killer to kill the love of her life.

So how are the accusations against Joss Whedon reflected by Xander? According to his ex -wife Kai Cole, Buffy The creator is a “hypocritical sermon of feminist ideals” that cheated on her with several unnamed actors from the show while understanding himself as a women’s champion.

This caused actor Cordelie Charisma Carpenter to abandon his own accusation of the bomb that Whedon had a “history of carelessly cruel” and that he called it “fat” when pregnant became pregnant AngelHe asked her if he wanted to keep the child. Most worrying, daw actor Michelle Trachtenberg He claimed that Whedon was not allowed to be on the scene alone.

All these accusations portray a very different view of Buffy Showrunner as someone misogyn, cruel and even potentially dangerous. The most favorable accusation has never been confirmed, but the damage was caused and this veteran showrunner and MCU The director lost his feminist street. Fandom was subsequently destroyed by the accusations, but in fact it should not be …

Interestingly, the upcoming Buffy Reboot has a chance to bring Nicholas Brendon back and eventually redeem Xander’s figure. Whedon – or at least, Whedon’s reputation – now seems to be a bit like his most famous vampire villains: dead and for any hope of redemption.

Source: Vulture