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HEY GUYS, SPECIAL REQUEST. We all know that Joss Whedon is a cruel god, and loves to inflict suffering upon his creations. Could you all list some of the nasty things he's done to his characters? I don't need Dr. Horrible or Firefly examples, but anything else he's written would be great. Doesn't have to be a death, although those are A++ too.

I need this. For a project. Yes.

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Hm I think I'll leave out Angel because I think he was only involved in the first and fifth season (though the fifth was the worst lols).

OKAY FOR BUFFY: Buffy and Angel were adorably in love for about a season in a half. And then they had sex. And then Angel turned evil and tortured her for months on end. And just as he got his soul back, Buffy was forced to send him into hell.

In season five, Buffy's mother died and Buffy was forced to take care of the house and her little sister. On top of her Slaying duties, this took a toll on her so much that by the end of the season she was pretty much happily jumping to her death.

Though I think my favorite was in season seven when she was leading an army of potential Slayers and one of them died and she buried the poor thing herself.

Also: Willow. Willow is that character that is supposed to be like the window of what the characters are feeling. So if she's crying or horrified then you probably should be too.

The biggest case, I think, was near the end of season six where she and her girlfriend, Tara, finally got together after bad break up and then Tara gets randomly shot and dies in Willow's arms.

Thank you~

See, I'm writing a song. Entitled "Joss Whedon Is a Prick (to his characters)". Sung from the perspective of his characters about how they live in constant fear, just waiting for that other shoe to drop. :|

...that will be beautiful.

"They thought that they were safe
when Fox Network pulled the plug
Then along comes the Big Damn Movie
And there's more graves to be dug"

loooool okay what brought this up.

Nothing in specific, I was just going out to get the Christmas tree with the family this morning and on the way there a few lines popped into my head randomly. And I thought the concept was hilarious so I spent the whole time thinking of new ones.

haha i look forward to more

Also: Yarr, I be Xander, the one-eyed vampire slayer accomplice!

He got CLAMPed? Damn, I really liked what little I saw of him.

It was in season seven and Willow has magic so maybe he can get it back?

MOSTLY I'M NOT OVER THE PART WHERE HE LEAVE ANYA AT THE ALTER AND THEN JUST AS THEY WERE MAYBE GETTING TOGETHER AGAIN FOR GRATE HOTNESS SHE DIES. joss has issues with happy romances.

Hmmm... What else did he do?

What about having Evil Angel kill Giles' girlfriend way back when (I think it was Season 2) just as she had figured out how to restore his soul? (Fortunately, she'd copied it to a disk they later found).

Does being turned into a Muppet count as suffering? That happened to Angel in "Smile Time" (an Angel episode).

There's also all the trauma that was heaped on Faith (I'm talking Faith's POV in this case, not the Scooby Gang's).

And in Angel, I'm pretty sure (I read this, so it needs confirming) that he offed one character by having her body permanently turned into a vessel demon called Illyria.

I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THE SUBJECT but oh my god this song sounds like it will be seriously epic

Uh, Wesley got killed after his girlfriend's soul was obliterated and her body overtaken by a demon who grew to have some affection for Wesley, but who had to watch him die in the end. FYI, soul-obliteration means that Wes is never seeing said girlfriend in any afterlife, because she's not only dead, she's been wiped from existence.

Also, Spike only had love/hate relationships, and pretty much all women treat him like shit except for Buffy's mom, who died.

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