10 Best Buffy The Vampire Slayer Characters
Will your favourite Buffy the Vampire Slayer character make it onto the list?
Few can deny the quality of the characters in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Joss Whedon created an impressive number of offbeat personalities and kept viewers hooked with a series of fascinating character arcs.
Condensing so many great characters into a single top ten list is a challenge. Whilst there are a couple of obvious choices, there are so many amazing characters from this show it seems harsh to narrow it down to just ten. And though the high-school era is probably the most beloved amongst Buffy fans, the show continued to introduce outstanding characters throughout its run.
In every season, the core cast grapple with love, loss, tragedy, and conflict. They are forced to adapt and evolve in response to the life-changing situations which are thrust upon them. And the show likes to play with the concept of heroes and villains as well. Indeed, there are a number of characters who change from one to the other and back again.
Even those who are put off by the odd tone of the show can’t deny how great the characters are. If the upcoming reboot wants to succeed, the new writers need to spend a lot of time analysing and understanding the brilliance of these original characters...
10. Cordelia
Cordelia Chase may seem like a strange choice given how mean and self-centred she is, particularly at the start of the show. Throughout Season 1, she carries a level of disdain for many of her classmates and even describes Willow and Xander as ‘losers’.
But Cordelia evolves during her final years at Sunnydale High. Despite her previous dislike of Xander, she ends up ditching her popular friends in order to engage in an intimate relationship with him. (Though it’s fair to say their romance is far from ideal.)
What’s more, there’s something amusing about her brutal honesty. She has almost no filter when it comes to speaking her mind. Even when she becomes a member of the Scooby Gang, she doesn’t mind throwing insults at the others.
It’s just a shame she isn’t featured beyond the high-school seasons. Though her story continues in Angel (the Buffy spin-off), it would have been cool to see her come back to the original show at some point.