Can't Be a Human, Can't Be a Vampire: Spike and Gender Identity
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Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an iconic villain and a genderqueer icon? Natalie Parks investigates gender identity and Spike.
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Names as a Way of Exploring Identity in Buffy, TV Obsessive
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Wesley Wyndam-Pryce: An Underappreciated Hero
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When the Fall is All There is: Women of the Angel-verse
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Was Buffy subconsciously flirting with Faith and Spike over the years or did she know what she was doing but not realize the impact it was having on them. Both ended up
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Immune to Mind Control - TV Tropes
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Angel Archives
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Names as a Way of Exploring Identity in Buffy, TV Obsessive
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