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Headscratchers for ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. Spoilers abound.
 
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* So. the mayors brilliant plan was to ascend to a super demon. A super demon that is really large and noticeable, and not stealthy in any way. A super demon that can be killed by explosives. What on earth was the mayor thinking? That he'd muck around and kill a few hundred people before the army noticed and shot him with a missile launcher? How on earth was this a benefit over being completely invincible?
** I always wondered about that until ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'' introduced us to {{spoiler|Knox}}, a modern-day worshiper of Illyria who secretly worked his whole life to bring her back. Looking back on it with that in mind, Wilkins was probably a similar worshiper of Olvikan, and his long-term goal was to ascend and become Olvikan's new vessel on Earth. The transformation wasn't a means to an end, it was the entire end-goal in itself; that the transformation also retained some of his human personality was just a lucky break for Buffy. Also, going by his dialogue to his vampire henchmen about how he had to feed to "sustain the change" (and the last ascension of Olvikan being stopped by a volcanic eruption) the form might be vulnerable in its newborn state in a way that, if Buffy and the class hadn't intervened, would have worn off.
** We don't really know that the transformed state of the Mayor is any less invulnerable than the Mayor was previously. Yes, we've seen the Mayor recover from quite a few injuries, some of which certainly would have been lethal, but his giant snake demon form was also supposed to be unkillable by most means. We don't know that the Mayor could have regenerated from being exploded into paste any better than his transformed snake demon form could.
 
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