Buffy the Vampire Slayer/YMMV: Difference between revisions

** Angelus, very thoroughly.

** Lothos from the movie was the first example (and the first villain) to be faced by Buffy.

** Zachary Kralik, insane vampire with [[Mommy Issues]] who kidnaps and torments Joyce to lure Buffy in. At a point in the series when vampires were more or less [[Mooks]] he manages to be genuinely threatening on the basis of nothing but his own utter hideousness.

** Der Kinderstod, a Freddy Kruger-esque demon who's murdered children in the sleep [[For the Evulz]], including Buffy's own cousin.

{{quote|'''Buffy''': They're trapped in here. Terrified. Meat for the beast, and there's nothing they can do but wait. That's all they've been doing for days. Waiting to be picked off. Having nightmares about monsters that can't be killed. But I don't believe in that. I always find a way. I'm the thing that monsters have nightmares about. And right now, you and me are gonna show 'em why. It's time. [[Mad Max|Welcome to Thunderdome.]]}}

** Also, in a more unusual example, Xander. By any [[Real Life]] standards, Xander is [[Badass]] simply by merit of the fact that he's still alive after ''seven years'' of fighting the Good Fight (or more, depending on whether you count the Season 8 comics as canon). In many a [[Fanfic]], this is taken [[Up to Eleven]], and Xander effectively becomes the merciless god of his universe.

** D'Hoffryn in "Selfless" after {{spoiler|he kills Anya's best friend when she was expecting to be able to sacrifice herself to bring the people she killed back to life}}. He was more of an [[Affably Evil]] guy before.

*** This moment is made especially disturbing by his casual comment that "he has plenty of girls", making him sound less like an amusing albeit demonic office boss and more like a pimp.

** The Trio were just considered a nuisance until Warren accidentally killed his ex Katrina and made Buffy think she did it. Then, there was "Normal Again"...

** "Family": "Tara, if you don't get in that car I swear by God I'm gonna beat you down."

* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: While most of the things that take place in the universe are pretty creepy and disturbing with a hint of dark humor, Skinless Warren in the comics will haunt you, even if he does still have the same dorky ass persona from before.

* [[One True Pairing]]: Angel and Buffy. While both date other people and fall in love with other people, in the end it always comes back to their [[Star-Crossed Lovers|tragic and doomed relationship]], to the point of them eventually planning to be together when Buffy is ready/when Angel becomes human. Also to the point that it can become extremely annoying.

*** If you want more confirmation of the franchise's opinion on vengeance as a whole (i.e., that it ultimately serves no good purpose, harms the innocent indiscriminately along with the guilty, and ultimately destroys you more than it destroys the target of vengeance) just look at the gypsies that cursed Angelus, or the entire Holtz arc on Angel.

** For that matter, several of the Scoobs would gladly have wasted Warren themselves and said so, they just didn't want Willow OD'ing on black magic to do it.

* [[Villain Decay]]: The Turok-han suffer this hard once there's [[Conservation of Ninjutsu|more than one of them.]]

* [[Wangst]]

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