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(Suggested some fairly in depth possibilities about the idea of Willow having retroactively protected Xander his whole life with magic.) |
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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,)
* 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
== Giles
The results of this is the fact that over the course of the show, he becomes more and more Ripper-like, with him {{spoiler|using dark magic to put a force field in around a man's brain using the guy's own book. The guy can break out of any spell in his own book. [[Your Head Asplode|His brain breaks out of his skull]].}}
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