Spike vs angel who is better

Calling Spike vs. Spike was always a bit of a showboat regarding his power, but often portrayed as a wimp, especially when compared to Angelus and even Drusilla, his centuries-long girlfriend. Spike shows the capacity for emotional attachment from the start with Drusilla. He does not seem to fall in love so much as get infatuated. To justify Buffy having an ongoing relationship with a vampire without constantly going for the kill on both ends , the show introduces the chip in season 4.

A government military faction called The Initiative captures Spike and inserts a chip in his brain that prevents him from so much as attempting to harm humans. This effectively neuters him. Buffy and co. Here is where we run into the first problem. Spike is a soulless demon at this point, who has killed many without remorse.

Even though he is harmless, for all intents and purposes he is not a man. Yet Buffy herself shows that she can look at a vampire as something more than a demon in her choice not to kill Spike. Later, she is disgusted at the prospect of Spike being in love with her, and denies it is even a possibility.

Spike does, however, betray Drusilla for her. Then he gets a Buffy a sex bot. But then, he conceals the information about Dawn while being tortured, in the same episode.

Angel is drawn as uncomplicated good or evil, as Angel or Angelus, respectively. He is either the demon of the vampire with a human soul. Spike is not. It is unclear to me whether he is truly capable of loving Buffy, but some of his other relationships seem genuine.

He seems to like Joyce and care for Dawn. This leads me to the question: Does the vampire they become reflect the human these people were? The show seems undecided. With Willow and Angel, for example, it seems to suggest, not much. The demon takes over, and there is hardly a shadow of the human left.

Both are almost unrecognizable and undeniably evil. Though Liam, the man he was before he was turned, seemed to be a drunken player, from what little we got to see of him on Buffy.

Then there is Hope. She remains the same as she was as a human. She doesn not seem to be evil so much as mean. In her guest appearances on Buffy, she seems to be trying hard to be evil to fit in with the vampires, in the same way she tried had to fit in with the popular crew as a human. As for Spike, it is not until season 5 that we get our look at who he was as a human. Everyone makes fun of his poems, and later the woman he loves rejects him, and he goes off to cry in a corner.

He also suffers from a bit of Nice Guy Syndrome. Drusilla finds him, validates him a little bit, and he is a goner. This aligns pretty well with who Spike becomes as a vampire. Spike proves capable of crying as a vampire, when Buffy echoes the words spoken by his 19 th century crush. This not only proves he has feelings, but that those feelings can still echo who he used to be. So, does the vampire reflect the human? Seems so. If so, this makes Angel and Willow look not so great.

Angelus, as portrayed in Buffy, seems to be pure evil. Even the strange blue demon they summoned in season 2 said it detected more humanity in Drusilla and Spike than in Angelus.

For me, the most interesting part in all of this, are the dynamics of losing and recovering souls that both Angel and Spike go through. Both times Angel recovers his soul against his will. When he has his soul, he is broody and serious, he suffers in silence but does not want to lose it. He does dedicate his energy to try to right his wrongs, for the most part. For Spike, it is very different. His motives are not completely unselfish.

He thinks by getting his soul back it will be a magic fix and Buffy will want him like she did Angel. Yet after he does, he cannot bring himself to face her and tries to claw it out of himself.

Because he's older and more cunning with his brutality, he's worse than the younger and more impulsive Spike. Spike took direction from Angelus, and any depraved activity Angelus participated in, Spike was right there beside him.

Spike proved a violent deviant every bit as unpredictable as Angelus, and wouldn't stand in the way of his leader's torturous depravity, ensuring that hundreds of people were hurt at the hands of the two vampires.

Buffy and Angel have a bond that almost transcends space and time, with the sort of soul-crushing depth of emotion that only vampires and their human lovers seem capable of. Angelus, on the other hand, did numerous things to strain his connection with the Slayer , including mocking her after their first night of intimacy.

Angel knows he can never be with Buffy because of the destructive nature of their relationship, but that doesn't stop him from dangling his affections in front of her from time to time. Even after he left her to go to Los Angeles, he appeared back in Sunnydale in Season 4 and again in Season 7, knowing it would be incredibly difficult for Buffy to see him. When Spike made his debut appearance in the series in Season 2's episode "School Hard," he did so with a plan to drain Sunnydale.

He didn't count on the Slayer and the Scooby Gang, and certainly didn't expect Angel to be advising them about his habits. Spike chooses the high school's parent-teacher conference night for his official coming out party, where he battles and nearly kills Buffy, until her mother intervenes with a blow to his head. He flees, but vows revenge on all involved. She was discovered to be a member of Kalderash, the Romani clan who cursed Angelus with a soul centuries before.

This brutal attack devastated Giles, and nearly got him killed as well when he tried to take revenge on Angelus. Luckily Buffy intervened, but Angel's path of destruction had been vast, as shown in "Amends. Beginning with his first appearance, when Spike was intent on killing the Slayer, and has actively tried to accomplish the task several different times.

I've personally always been team Spike, although his attempted sexual assault is a blemish that many fans simply cannot get over. This plot would probably not fly by modern standards, but Spike always seemed like the more adult relationship for the Buffster. Angel was her high school sweetheart, but his attraction to her always felt statutory to me.

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