Day 6: Favorite Male Character
Spike.
Spike, Spike, Spike.
I love Spike. I would bring down a house with him any time.
He has the cheekbones, the swagger, the trench coat. He doesn't give a fuck and has no patience for ritual or tradition. He's head over heels for Drusilla and later Buffy, and would do anything for them. In his own words, "I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it". He saves the world multiple times.
Basically, he's a complete bad ass.
He was supposed to be killed in What's My Line?, less than ten episodes after he was first introduced. Thankfully, the producers realized how quickly he had become a fan favorite and stuck him in a wheelchair instead. Then he saved the world, got dumped, attempted to win her back, tortured Buffy, got the chip in his head and still struggled to be evil before finally giving in and winning himself a soul.
And he was such a dork when he was alive. He was a poet and is amazingly attuned to other people's emotions. In Something Blue, he's the only one who notices that Willow is having trouble getting over Oz. In the fifth season, he actually treats Dawn like a person when no one else will. And he helps Buffy out of her funk so she can save the world at the end of the seventh season. I honestly don't know what Cecily was thinking. But her loss is my incredible gain.
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| Action Figure Spike! AKA, I am such a geek |
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