Angel

Rest in peace to the incredible Anthony Stewart Head (20th February 1954 - 1st June 2026)

you talk to him and then when he asks you to go somewhere with him you AGREE (??) and make him turn around while you get dressed

NOT EXIT THE ROOM AND HOUSE but just turn around yeah good pet vampire he’s not gonna look and he can just stand there yk bit of company while I put my clothes on

and all that time, all that stuff with her literally knowing he can come in any time be it to stalk her or her family or steal stuff or idk what a silly thought kill them

she doesn’t revoke the invite, doesn’t even bother doesn’t even care

and the only time she DOES care is when she knows he has feelings for her, when it’s obvious now he doesn’t kill her cause he loves her

he could come in any time, put poison in their drinks idk set the house on fire, leave the gas stove on

THERE’S SO MANY WAYS TO KILL SOMEONE like cmon or at least harm them

btvs | passion

1. Willow

2. Tara

3. Dark Willow

4. Willow: “Actually, this isn't about you. Although I'm fond, don't get me wrong, of you. The other night, you know, being captured and all, facing off with Faith. Things just, kind of, got clear. I mean, you've been fighting evil here for three years, and I've helped some, and now we're supposed to decide what we want to do with our lives. And I just realized that that's what I want to do. Fight evil, help people. I mean, I-I think it's worth doing. And I don't think you do it because you have to. It's a good fight, Buffy, and I want in.”

5. When Xander is trying to prove to Willow that he is the real Xander in ‘The Replacement’ and he does the Snoopy dance. Their PLATONIC relationship is adorable.

6. Xander and Harmony has the BEST fight scene in the whole show. Don’t deny it. 👌

Oh, alright. The demonstration fight scene in ‘Fool For Love’ with the clever editing transitions of Spike fighting the previous Slayer and then cutting back to him fighting Buffy even though he can’t hit her.

7. The Enjoining Spell. Not only is it cool as fuck but it brings about the First Slayer consequences and the genius of ‘Restless’ at a result. How could I not love it?

8. ‘Nightmares’

9. ‘Becoming Part 1’

10. ‘Doppelgängland’

11. ‘Restless’

12. ‘Family’

13. ‘Once More, With Feeling’

14. ‘Conversations With Dead People’

15. The Scooby meeting in ‘Hush’ with the projector and the Danse Macabre music and the absolutely hilarious misinterpretations of each other’s ideas because none of them can say what they mean.

16. Willow/Xander/Anya/Tara reactions in ‘The Body’.

17. ‘Under Your Spell’ even though I hate watching the end of the musical number alongside it because of the context of it.

18. Giles: “She was truly the best of all of us.”

Xander: “Way better than me.”

Giles: “Much, much better.”

19. Professor Walsh: “We thought you were a myth.” Buffy: “Well, you were myth-taken.”

20. Willow: “And remember, if you hurt her I will beat you to death with a shovel.

*Riley looks alarmed*

A vague disclaimer is nobody’s friend. Have fun.”

21. “First day of kindergarten. You cried because you broke the yellow crayon, and you were too afraid to tell anyone. You've come pretty far, ending the world, not a terrific notion. But the thing is? Yeah. I love you. I loved crayon-breaky Willow and I love... scary veiny Willow. So if I'm going out, it's here. If you wanna kill the world? Well, then start with me. I've earned that.”

22. “Yes, it’s terribly simple. The good-guys are stalwart and true. The bad-guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats and we always defeat them and save the day. Nobody ever dies...and everybody lives happily ever after.”

23. “You listen to me. I've been alive a bit longer than you, and dead a lot longer than that. I've seen things you couldn't imagine, and done things I prefer you didn't. I don't exactly have a reputation for being a thinker. I follow my blood, which doesn't exactly rush in the direction of my brain. So I make a lot of mistakes, a lot of wrong bloody calls. A 100+ years, and there's only one thing I've ever been sure of: you. Hey, look at me. I'm not asking you for anything. When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman. You're the one, Buffy.”

24. Spike and Buffy

25. Willow and Tara

26. Willow and Giles (Only if Willow was bisexual and after Tara so she’s a consenting adult)

27. Buffy and Willow

28. I vaguely remember watching ‘Nightmares’ when I was a child. I wasn’t completely oblivious to the show. I just didn’t give it a chance until much much later.

29. I like the Season 6 opener the best because it includes the Willow and Tara dance scene from ‘Family’ which is my favourite W/T scene.

Buffy

Dawn (is she supporting or main? Unsure - but I'm basing this off of who's in the scooby squad from season one vs who comes in later)

Dark Willow, but in terms of episodic villains then The Gentlemen from Hush.

"You're Willow. The first day of kindergarten, you cried because you broke the yellow crayon. And you were too afraid to tell anyone. You've come pretty far, ending the world not a terrific notion. But the thing is? Yeah, I love you. I love crayon-breaky Willow, and I love scary, veiny Willow. So if I'm going out, it's here. If you want to kill the world, well then start with me."

"We're family" as they stand semi proudly, semi-awkwardly, perfectly positioned in the frame.

Easily the part exposition part fight scene at the end of Fool for love, makes me want to marry the editing.

Bargaining resurrection spell, for just how wonderfully dark and messed up and messy it is allowed to be, like bringing Buffy back doesn't just have nebulous consequences on balance, but tangible disturbing consequences for Willow especially in the real world. Plus the demon they create out of it for Afterlife that has some fantastic little horror sequences.

Prophecy Girl.

Innocence.

Lovers Walk.

Restless.

The Body.

Tabula Rasa/Once more with feeling (can't choose).

Conversations with dead people.

Cut to Giles fighting a miserable-looking skeleton in Tabula Rasa. "GET A DIFFERENT BOOK! TRY ANOTHER SPELL YOU HEAR ME? NOT - THAT - BOOK!"

The opening long take of The Body in which Buffy has to call 911 and do cpr...

Rest in peace easily. Love the musical style and James' vocal performance is godly. It's also very funny how in the middle of it he just randomly wrecks a funeral that's happening in the middle of the night for some reason.

Buffy getting suuuuper creative in Superstar with "Shut up Spike!" "Woah, semi harsh language from Betty!" "It's BUFFY. You big - bleached - stupid guy."

"I walk. I talk. I shop, I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out, and I don't sleep on a bed of bones. Now give me back my friends."

"Well they're the bad guys. I'm not a bad guy!"

"Look. When it's dark, and I'm all alone, and I'm scared, or freaked out, or whatever, I always think, what would Buffy do? You're my hero."

Demon: "My debt to you has now been repaid in full." Willow: "What did you do?" Giles: "I introduced him to his wife."

Buffy: "I don't want to be the one." Spike: "Well I didn't want to be this good looking and athletic. We all have our crosses to bear."

Spike and Buffy

Willow and Tara

If they were going to have a Willow romance in season 7, and Faith was going to come back...then at least try putting them together. Even if it's with the implication that it won't work out in the long run.

Willow and Xander.

I mean I watched the show from the beginning as a total newbie, so technically episode 1, after a childhood of cartoons and only one live action show (Star Trek Deep space nine). However growing up my parents quoted Beer Bad so excessively that it felt familiar to watch even on a first time viewing.

I have a special love for Anne, even though I think the best Scooby content for characters who aren't Buffy in a premiere is Bargaining. So...Anne just edges it out because Buffy is my favourite.

She’s supporting but the narrative does wrap around her quite a bit in Season 5. It’s intentional.

“Dark Willow, but in terms of episodic villains then The Gentlemen from Hush.”

Agreed. They’re my favourite monster-of-the-week.

“"We're family" as they stand semi proudly, semi-awkwardly, perfectly positioned in the frame.”

I’ve changed my mind on mine for this. I choose this scene too. Especially because Spike is in the frame because I love that he is declared family too. I can’t believe I never thought of this scene. It’s THE Scooby moment. The one that really resonates with everyone.

“Easily the part exposition part fight scene at the end of Fool for love, makes me want to marry the editing.”

I swear we have the same brain sometimes.

“Restless easily. Love the musical style and James' vocal performance is godly. It's also very funny how in the middle of it he just randomly wrecks a funeral that's happening in the middle of the night for some reason.”

You mean ‘Rest In Peace’. Easy mistake to make when the episode ‘Restless’ is so good. 😊

“If they were going to have a Willow romance in season 7, and Faith was going to come back...then at least try putting them together. Even if it's with the implication that it won't work out in the long run.”

Gods I so wished for this to happen too. Such a missed opportunity to pair them up in Season 7. Like you said… even if it ultimately wouldn’t have worked out for them.

Really great picks. Thanks for responding.

I guess Dawn is technically supporting but she's so prevalent in my mind that I cannot imagine her as anything but a main character. In a way that spell the monks did worked on me lol.

2. Cordelia (I’m counting her as supporting here even though arguably she’s an OG scooby because she leaves after season 3)

3. Glory is my favorite Big Bad, Sweet for my favorite MoW

4. “The spark. I wanted to give you what you deserve, and I got it. They put the spark in me and now all it does is burn.”

5. I agree with what someone said above, it has to be the scene in Family

6. Spike and Buffy in School Hard, Buffy and Angel in Becoming part 2, Buffy and Faith in This Year’s Girl. I love when Buffy fights her love interests clearly lmao

7. Spell at the end that awakens all the slayers. “Every girl that could have the power, will have the power”. The girl with the baseball bat and the girl who gets up after her boyfriend hits her, I just love that spell so much.

8. Prophecy Girl

9. Passion

10. Homecoming or The Wish

11. Something Blue or Hush

12. The Body or Fool for Love

13. Once More With Feeling

14. Chosen

15. The scene between Spike and Buffy in Touched, it’s just so vulnerable and intimate.

16. When Buffy finds her mom in The Body, god I can’t even imagine, poor girl.

17. Rest in Peace but I’m also partial to Walk Through the Fire.

18. “What is your childhood trauma?!” Gotta love Cordy

19. As a response to Cordelia asking if she’s campaigning for bitch of the year: “As defending champion, you nervous?”

20. “That’s me as a vampire? I’m so evil and skanky… and I think I’m kind of gay.”

21. “A bitca?”

22. “Do you like my mask? Isn’t it pretty? It raises the dead! Americans.”

23. “That’s a big rock. Can’t wait to tell all my friends, they don’t have a rock this big.” And obviously his whole speech to Buffy in Touched.

24. Spike and Buffy.

25. Willow and Tara

26. Giles and Anya, their scenes in Tabula Rasa had so much chemistry

27. Buffy and Willow

28. Once More With Feeling like years and years before I actually watched the show

29. Bargaining- just seeing how her friends and Dawn are coping with Buffy’s death was so interesting.

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