XANDER FEVER
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Monday, December 12, 2005 06:52
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Xander is my favourite character. What's his funniest line/scene?
The Xan-man is always great with the funny...
but I love him the best when he is serious.
Nick Brendon does a brilliant job with the heart felt rants:
why Buffy should go after Riley,
telling Anya he loves her for the first time,
telling Dawn why their role is the hardest...
oops, sorry...that last one is a spoiler for Season 7...but that is my point:
Xander is recognized as the heart of the group in the Super combo Buffy at the end of Season 4,
but he never gives up that role...
no other character could have done what he did at the end of Season 6!
(see? I AM trying to avoid actual spoilers)
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Best moment: Snoopy Dance
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ScruffyXANDER: Don't be scared, Will. Just listen. It's me, Xander.
[Willow puts her books on the bed, looking confused.]
ScruffyXANDER: And I can prove it.
WILLOW: Um ... okay. [Sits on the bed]
ScruffyXANDER: Let's see. [paces] Stuff only you and me know. Okay! On my seventh birthday ... I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real fire trucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me. [grins nervously. Willow doesn't respond. He paces more.] For a while last year, I thought I was lactose-intolerant, but it was just some bad Brie. Oh! [points at Willow] Every Christmas, we watch Charlie Brown together, and I do the Snoopy dance.
[He begins to do the Snoopy dance, wearing a big grin. Willow watches for a moment and then gets up. ]
WILLOW: (smiling) Xander ... stop dancing.
ScruffyXANDER: Aha! You called me Xander!
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"One more anal-probing gyro-pyro levitating ectoplasm alien anti-matter story and I'm going to take out my gun and shoot somebody."
- Fox Mulder "The X-Files"
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Quote:Now I know what you're talkin' about- I agree!!!!
Originally posted by MER:
*Dracula- all Xander parts...talking of Draci, eatring bugs, and the butt monkey rant.
ChrisisallXandered
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Oh dear, I think I'm going to do a troll...
***BIG BRIGHT FLASHING TROLL WARNING***
I don't like Xander. He has his moments, but from the very first moment I disliked him. We see him skateboard into something -not impressive- then after ogling Buffy he speaks to Willow *specifically* because he wants her help with his schoolwork.
He obsesses over Buffy.
He hates Angel when he doesn't deserve it, then goes around being proud of that fact when suddenly Angelus does.
He is an absolute asshole to Spike...this is how he behaves to the only person who is below him on the totem pole.
He dumps Anya at the altar (complete asshole).
He is nasty to Buffy after the reveal in Apathy.
He is so very pathetic through it all...dumb, awkward, and useless.
...And the bitch doesn't even compensate by being pretty.
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Ummm... the linoleum line was good...
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Originally posted by VisitingMyIntentions:
He obsesses over Buffy.
And who can blame him?
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Originally posted by VisitingMyIntentions:
He hates Angel when he doesn't deserve it, then goes around being proud of that fact when suddenly Angelus does.
He's a 16 year old boy and you're begrudging him a little jealousy?
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He is an absolute asshole to Spike...this is how he behaves to the only person who is below him on the totem pole.
Why should he treat Spike well?
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He dumps Anya at the altar (complete asshole).
...because he thinks marrying her is going to wreck both their futures. Kinda noble IMO.
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Originally posted by VisitingMyIntentions:
He is nasty to Buffy after the reveal in Apathy.
Um there is no episode called Apathy...
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Originally posted by VisitingMyIntentions:
He is so very pathetic through it all...dumb, awkward, and useless.
He's the comic relief - he's supposed to be awkward! Dumb and useless? Well he does bring Buffy back to life and save the world a couple of times, but I suppose he shouldn't get credit for that cause he dislikes Angel so much...
Having said all that, he doesn't get a hell of a lot to do for the last three years : (
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VisitingMyIntentions wrote:
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He obsesses over Buffy.
As Buffy obsessed over Angel
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He hates Angel when he doesn't deserve it, then goes around being proud of that fact when suddenly Angelus does.
You are kidding right? Angel... The vampire !!!! Of course he deserves to be hated!!!!
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He is an absolute asshole to Spike...this is how he behaves to the only person who is below him on the totem pole.
Because Spike is a MURDERING VAMPIRE!!!!!! who kills, and kills, and kills... oh and tries to rape Buffy, Xanders best friend....
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He dumps Anya at the altar (complete asshole).
While not very noble I grant you Anya was a DEMON for a thousand years, she should be able to handle a regection at the altar. "Hey what goes around comes around right"
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He is nasty to Buffy after the reveal in Apathy.
Not sure which episode this is... But lets face it Buffy had her moments when everyone had a right to be 'nasty' to her.
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He is so very pathetic through it all...dumb, awkward, and useless.
Er teenager....Then when an adult saved the world.
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...And the bitch doesn't even compensate by being pretty.
Ahhh the true intent into your hatred. 'He be ugly so slay the wretch eh?' Don't forget he did bring Buffy back to life... Something her precious Angel couldn't do.
... D'you have any other reasons?
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I kind of have to agree with Visitingmyintentions on the not loving Xander thing. He does have great moments--some of my favourites, in fact--but I think the Angel and Anya things are unforgivable. I just re-watched Revelations, and he got Faith to try to kill Angel after he was good again. Fine, so he's a jealous teenage boy--but what gives him the right to KILL him behind Buffy's back? I don't like him making that kind of decision for her.
Anyway, sorry to be a bit of a troll, so here's some of my favourite Xander moments:
"Check, cancel spanking."
Anya: "Pervert."
Xander: "Other pervert."
"I'm thinking principal school. I wanna walk in your shoes. Not your actual shoes, 'cause you're a tiny person."
"These things are selling like hotcakes, which is ironic, 'cause the hotcakes really aren't moving."
All of The Zeppo and Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered.
And the scene where he re-enacts one of Buffy's vampire stakings using fish sticks--"Mother!"
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but,but.... Xander lost his best friend Jesse to vamps, so he's entitled to be a touch miffed at them. Plus if I may use an anaology here, if you'd been biten by a dog, however cute that dog may then go on to be, the next time you saw that dog you'd be wary. You wouldn't entirely trust that dog. It's only human instinct.
Likewise with Xander and vamps, and I must say the girl he had the hots for, favoured a dead guy over him!!! How would you feel!!! :)
Personally I think he does well not to dust 'em more readily.
It's only natural. Xanders character is the one of reason, in the show, the one that doesn't give in to the idea that some vamps are better than others, and he may have a point. Better they all get wasted and so problem solved.
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Originally posted by VisitingMyIntentions:
He is nasty to Buffy after the reveal in Apathy.
Um there is no episode called Apathy...
urgh... I meant Entropy, sorry.
(...please tell me I got it right this time.)
I don't think he gets away with being unpleasantly irrational just because of his age or sex. And I think that he chose the worst possible time to break up with Anya (oh, except he wants to keep seeing her...). He had a long engagement period --during any of that time he could have spoken up. I don't think he deserves praise for not saying something until supernatural forces and impending marriage vows force him too.
And after all that he turns on Buffy for not telling him a secret he would react very badly to. He turns on Anya for having sex with someone else after he broke up with her and broke her heart, and then when he talks to both Buffy and Anya he gets angry at them, knowing how horrible he has acted.
Sorry, just not a Xander fan.
It's a matter of types of comic relief. The "he's incompetent, ha ha" type seems unkind at best, at worst it makes the character pathetic and unpleasant.
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Simon: I can't keep track of her when she's NOT incorporeally possessing a spaceship, don't look at me --
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I definitely agree they missed a few opportunities to have Xander's misdeeds come back to haunt him.
But on the altar-leaving issue, I can't quite understand how you can hate Xander for that. Maybe you need to rewatch Hell's Bells...not that I'll be doing that of course. Bloody awful episode...
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