Buffy the Vampire Slayer fought many demons, vampires and forces of darkness but there was a particular “big bad” for each season. Some were actually bad and a few were just kind of a nuisance, so we are ranking them. Since we have finished discussing Buffy the Vampire Slayer season by season I thought that we would rank all of the Buffy “big bads”. This list is going to take into account what these villains did as far as power, and character development go. Good villains challenge your main character in ways that don’t involve just physical strength. So my criteria for this list is based off of the Big Bads that got Buffy to another emotional level. That may or may not line up with how they physically challenged Buffy but the raw strength is most definitely not the purpose of this list. Eventually might rank the Scoobies as well but let’s just do the bad guys for now.
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Like I said Buffy had some great big bads, and a lot of them were a perfect fit for the show because they had something to say about what the scoobies were going through. They were representative of a part of growing up that isn’t often reflected well in television. That said some of the villains were terrible because the best parts of Buffy the Vampire Slayer were the parts that Joss Whedon didn’t write and when he came back to the show from Angel everything got rapey and weird. Marti Noxon was the saving grace of this show and I do not feel like that gets said enough. Joss Whedon may have started the show but she really made it what it was supposed to be.
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