Talk about getting high on your own supply. She's the literal first example of the "tiny women tossing around grown men" trope. As a superhero she is responsible for a lot of the things people hate most about female characters in modern fiction.
The entire Buffy franchise is built on one single trope, and that is that Whedon imagined the stereotypical horror movie archetype screaming blond high school girl running away from the monster turning around and beating the shit out of him instead.
Talk about getting high on your own supply. She's the literal first example of the "tiny women tossing around grown men" trope. As a superhero she is responsible for a lot of the things people hate most about female characters in modern fiction.
I know people who enjoy it but when it came out it wasn’t the norm. Now like you said it’s the template
The entire Buffy franchise is built on one single trope, and that is that Whedon imagined the stereotypical horror movie archetype screaming blond high school girl running away from the monster turning around and beating the shit out of him instead.
I haven’t watched it yet but I plan too. One of my favorite YouTubers is Nerdrotic and he loves it so I’ll give it a chance.
Says more about him than anything else.