10 Secret Worst Heroes In TV

7. Buffy Summers €“ Buffy The Vampire Slayer

The titular character of a television show is more than just the hero-protagonist: they carry the show on their backs, because they€™re everything the show is supposed to be about. C.S.I. can recast the lead roles, because the show€™s a procedural about crime scene investigators; Eastenders can have a rotating cast of regulars inhabiting Albert Square because it€™s a soap opera about the rotating cast of regular inhabiting Albert Square. Buffy The Vampire Slayer is about Buffy Summers€ but Buffy Summers doesn€™t want to be the Slayer. She€™s a hero-protagonist who doesn€™t want to be the hero-protagonist, and throughout seven seasons of the show, her constant refrain is a valley-girl whine that her life isn€™t the way she wanted it to be. However, Buffy is surrounded by an ensemble cast of friends and allies who are there precisely because of her: who€™ve chosen this life, despite not having super powers and a supernatural calling, because they want to support her. Those people suffer through their voluntary association with Buffy and rarely if ever complain about their lot in life. Giles, Willow and Xander all see their partners murdered during the course of the show. Xander loses an eye, Willow becomes addicted to black magic, Spike is killed€ the list goes on and on. At last, in the season finale, after a whole heap of death and mayhem, the Hellmouth is closed, the entire town of Sunnydale collapsing to cover it. The final shot of the series? Buffy slowly smiles, realising that she can retire now, that with dozens of Slayers in the world she doesn€™t need to be one anymore. Way to be self-obsessed, Summers.