Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Fridge: Difference between revisions

** Except, it's not really racism, it's a survival instinct. You wouldn't willingly walk up to a lion, tiger, or bear (oh my) without some sort of protection. He's wary of vampires for the same reason most people are wary of psychopaths (people with no emotion): They're big nasty predators.

** Xander's introduction to the supernatural culminated with him having to stake someone he'd known for his entire life and had grown up with since kindergarten. Lack of screen time on the show prevented it from being made obvious, but Xander and Jesse had to have been as much like brothers as Xander and Willow are [[Like Brother and Sister]]. Which other vampire hunters do we know had to personally destroy a close family member after they had been turned? Gunn and Holtz. Both of whom are as hardcore down on vamps as Xander is, if not more. Xander's had one of the classic vampire hunter origins, and the one out of them all that produces the ''most'' dedicated vampire hunters, so how is it remotely surprising that he's 100% anti-vampire? The mildly puzzling thing is that Gunn is as accepting of Angel as he is, but presumably the factors of 'not a teenager when they first met' and 'no romantic complications at all' helped there.

* The trio are some of the weakest enemies in the series, that Buffy would usually whup without a sweat. Three things: one they are human and Buffy is really hung up on killing humans, two she has so much on her plate there's scarce little time to focus on anything else, three she begins the season by being ''ripped out of heaven by her friends, clawing her way out of her own grave, seeing the Buffybot decimated, running for her life, wondering if she had somehow ended up in hell, and attempts to commit suicide.'' It takes her all season to get over this, had the threat been Angelus for example she wouldn't have lasted long.