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Is Buffy a Superhero?? (Livestream #3) (Patreon)

Published:
2022-02-14 01:04:20
Edited:
2022-03-21 04:51:31
Imported:
2022-06

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Viera Galikova

of course - Buffy has superpowers, and her ethical choices make her a hero

cs

Adding to my former comment: it might interest you that the Funny Games remake is a shot-for-shot remake by the same director. So that makes for a very interesting comparison. There would be a lot to talk about regarding the director's original intentions that were perhaps less realised in the original.

ghostofdurruti

The supervillain thing is a very good point, and I think it is definitely one thing that sort of sets BTVS apart from "typical" superhero stories. For the most part, superheroes don't kill supervillains; they disable them or lock them up so that later they can break free and be part of the story going forward. Buffy's villains (thus far, at least) are almost always dead by the time she's done with them. Buffy *does* have a superhero-like aversion to killing even evil humans, but since her villains are mostly demons, vampires, and various other "creatures", she (again, thus far) hasn't accumulated much of a "rogues gallery" the way most superheroes would. That said, I think there are a *lot* of superhero tropes that BTVS does follow, and just one major point that distinguishes it is probably not enough to exclude it from the genre altogether. Not to mention the fact that BTVS' influence can be seen in the way a lot of later superhero-genre TV shows are structured (like Smallville, Agents of Shield, the Arrowverse shows, and so on). And the "one-and-done" nature of most Buffy villains may just be down to the fact that it's a TV show, not a comic; TV shows eventually end, while comics are meant to be able to go on indefinitely, so TV shows can afford to kill off their most iconic villains while comics really can't. Those other superhero-genre TV shows also have more of a tendency to be rid of major villains after a season or so than comics do, likely for the same reason.