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== In the future, Willow makes Xander, from birth, almost unkillable. ==

The main evidence for this is the abuse Xander suffered throughout the show. Olaf's hammer knocks him out yet it's strong enough to beat the shit out of Glory. Unless the guy has something like this going for him there's no way that could work.

* The fact that he has been physically and psychologically put through the wringer throughout the show (and later comics, and offscreen events in novels, and so on,) *could* be explained by him secretly having some kind of heritage that makes him more resilient to damage and post-traumatic stress. However, Occam's razor says that the simpler explanation is probably the right one. Maybe, he is secretly some kind of non-human or at least only semi-human. But then not one vampire (or any other creature or occultist) *ever* mentions any odd vibes or smells or *anything*, about him. So, yes, the more likely explanation is magic, from one of the people we already to be magical. And of the people who have magic and are acquainted with him, Willow is the most magical and also the most well-acquainted with him. It is entirely possible that she found some way of protecting him retroactively in the future, using magic.

* Why didn't she do the same for Jesse? Well, she very well might have done. But in order for her and Xander to grow into the people they become, they need to start with Jesse's death as Buffy arrives. So, rather than retroactively preventing him from being killed, with a spell that protects him from all harm (paradoxically preventing her from becoming the person capable of casting such a spell, which might render it useless anyway), she simply uses her immense powers to pluck Jesse out of his own timestream, so that now, there are two *equally real* versions of Jesse. One that had died years ago and become a vampire, then been dusted, *and* the still living Jesse who was about to go make out with a girl in an alley, (and be turned) but was brought instantly to the future by his now adult friends, one of whom is now a super-powerful witch.

== Giles HAS been brain damaged throughout the show. ==

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She merely forgot who and what she was. It explains her sexual identity confusion (the PTB's are genderless), her intelligence, and her disproportionately rapid growth of skills with both information systems and magic. It also explains why she grows arrogant the more power she uses (although this has happened in [[Real Life]] to people who gain [[Small Name, Big Ego|only a little power]]).

== [[Claymore]]s are Slayers. ==

Female warriors created by a shadowy organisation by infusing girls with demonic/yoma power. Does this seem familiar? Demonic powers are stronger in the Claymore-verse, making the Claymores more powerful, but Claymores are at risk of succumbing to their demonic nature themselves. Also note that in the Buffyverse, there are no male Slayers known to exist; in the Claymore universe, attempts at creating male warriors were abandoned because they fell to their demonic nature too easily... perhaps the same thing happened when the watchers tried to infuse a male with Slayer power in the Buffyverse?