Buffy The Vampire Slayer hid its best character of an arc on the eyes

According to Chris Snellgrove
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Buffy The Vampire Slayer Fans often discuss which characters are the most entertaining, the saddest, etc. But the biggest question about these beloved heroes and villains is the one that few fans never Bother to ask: Which character has the best arch? According to Buffy The creator of Joss Whedon, a surprising answer to this is Spike, a villain’s vampire, whose arc in the show ended in sacrificing his life to save the whole world.

Spike gets the best arch

Given the amazing path that Buffy will undergo, it may sound a little surprising that Whedon thinks Spike has the best arch of all. But his logic is quite simple: as Showrunner said Science fiction TV, Spike came out of the way to earn his soul in an effort to become a better person. Whedon contrasted it directly with Angel, who claims that “he pushed his soul on him and conjured up.”

The Buffy The comparison of the Creator is quite inevitable. Angel and Spike had very Similar narrative arches, which almost makes it impossible to compare them. Of course, Angel’s whole agreement is that he was cursed by the soul of people Kalderash after killing their favorite daughter. The purpose of the curse felt that Angel felt immense due to everyone he killed like a vampire, and forced him to experience the endless life of misery and shame before his arc met Buffy and became a champion against evil.

While he was from season 2, it was Buffy The Vampire SlayerThe sixth season, which established the primary arch Spike by revealing the figure at its lowest. This was the season when he and Buffy (newly resurrected from the dead) had a toxic but physically passionate relationship, complete with rough sex that literally overthrew the house down. But at the end of the season Spike tries to rape buffy, moral event horizon For many fans, this character meant that the character was out of redemption.

It really seemed Buffy The Vampire Slayer Then he could never redeem Spike, but Joss Whedon gave him an arch in season 7 to do it. We found that Spike took a number of difficult tests to gain the soul, his love for Buffy motivated him to become the kind of man who eventually sacrifices his life to save the world. It was an arc that surprised the fandom but it really shouldn’t be because Whedon laid his foundations for years.

For example, Buffy He has always presented Spike as a character whose arch turns around love. In season 2 Spike actually helped Buffy to save the world largely because he was sick, his girlfriend Drusilla hung all over Angel. This strange buffy out (“Do you need my help because your girlfriend is great him?”), But this incident has strengthened that Spike in the language of meat would do anything for love.

Speaking of the episode of the season 5 “Fols for Love” revealed that when he was still man, Spike (or William Bloody, named for his “bloody terrible poetry”) was a huge Simp for a lady named Cecily. It was effectively his muse, inspiring poems, which she later refused together with Spik himself and declared that there was a poet of mediator under it. It sets his transformation in the hands of Drusilla, but it also proves that Spike was always … well, crazy for love long before there was immortal blood, and he is always He was motivated by more romance than anything else.

For all funny sarcasm Buffy The Vampire Slayer It is known, Spike’s arch reveals a serious, emotional core of the whole show: Revelations that really loves Yes conquer everything. Love convinces a mindless violent of a bulk -killing vampire to become a hero who gives his life in the final episode to save the world. By switching from the lowest depths to such dizzying heights, Spike unexpectedly achieved the best arc in Whedonverse, as no one other than Joss Whedon himself planned.