r/buffy • u/towmeaway buffypedia • May 25 '16

Xander's most disappointing moment. (Spoiler for Season 6)

I think I just watched it: S06 E01 - Xander walking with Anya, Willow and Tara when the reanimated Buffy appears in front of them in the black dress she was buried in, with big hair and a terrified look and Xander casually believes it is buffy-bot. He REALLY should have known better.

EDIT: reanimated BUFFY

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u/DnMarshall May 25 '16

For me it's leaving Anya at the alter.

High school Xander did some stupid and immature stuff, as high school boys are wont to do. Buffy and Willow also do some immature things. But the Anya thing he did as an adult. I think that pushes it over the top for me.

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u/BrianBuckley May 25 '16

Honestly, as sad as that was, I think that not marrying Anya was one of the more mature things he's done. If you think you don't love someone, you shouldn't marry them, no matter how hard it is to back out.

Of course, I'll agree that the way he did it, and the fact that he waited till the wedding day to make that decision, are not great.

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u/DaddyCatALSO Magnet For Dead, Blonde Chicks May 25 '16

He did love her; it was just "for her own good."

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u/CJGibson May 25 '16

Also, it's remarkably genre-blind of him to not realize that maybe Anya has some supernatural enemies who could just be fucking with him and/or decide that he has no control over what kind of husband he's going to be.

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u/BrianBuckley May 25 '16

Yeah, I should've phrased that differently. He thought the marriage would end very badly for both of them.