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** Gunn and the street-gang members he used to lead fought vampires with more success and less casualties, ''using improvised melee weapons'', than the US government's secret black-ops demon-fighting organization was able to manage even using chemically-augmented super-soldiers and energy weapons. Admittedly, the government wasn't just hunting, but studying...
** Xander Harris is an example as well. He faced down Angelus while Buffy was in the hospital and faced down a zombie with a bomb. By Season 7 he's also able to go toe-to-toe with vampires, demons, and all sorts of nasty beasties, and even acquired a badass eyepatch. He's a seven-year war veteran of battles against everything from vampires to GODS, and he's made it out alive. That's more action than a lot of Slayers see.
** Halfway into the second season (exhibiting signs as early as the Season 1 episode "The Ring") [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap|Wesley started to evoke some measure of usefulness]] besides being [[The Smart Guy]] and hit his [[Took a Level In Badass|stride in the third season]] while growing a [[Perma
*** Until the series finale, when he suffered a mild case of {{spoiler|being stabbed to death.}}
*** And at that point he [[Badass Abnormal|wasn't really normal anymore]], as he had acquired enough skill with magic to create fireballs at will.
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