Author: Chris Snelgrove Published
buffy the vampire slayer Not just a popular urban fantasy drama. It’s a show that changed the television landscape with its crackling writing, while also making us fall in love with its eclectic characters. Perhaps none of these characters is more fascinating than James Marsters’ Spike, who enters the show as a soulless, selfish vampire and heroically sacrifices himself to save the world by the end of the series. many Buffy Fans are hoping that Spike is real, and maybe he is… at least, that’s what some fans are saying after a Reddit user spotted a perfect lookalike of Spike in the Joy Division documentary.
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This story started on r/Buffy (chief buffy the vampire slayer subreddit), u/PotentialLanguage685 posted an image that looks very similar to Spike, and it’s very realistic. This user is watching the 2007 documentary Joy Division Focuses on the band of the same name and includes extensive footage from the late 1970s. Users also helped snap photos of the Spike doppelganger, who appeared on screen in a montage that highlighted the British punk scene of the era.
At this point, it’s worth emphasizing that this unknown man doesn’t just look like James Masters, the actor who brought our favorite bad boy vampire to life. On the contrary, this Buffy Fans noticed that the man looked a lot like Spike himself, making it seem like the vampire might have once existed in the real world. After he posted the photos, fans rushed to point out the irony that the man didn’t necessarily look like Spike… rather, Spike was intentionally designed to look like this archetypal punk character.
on the one hand, Buffy Showrunner Joss Whedon wanted Spike to be based on the real-life punk scene, and later Happy Division The documentary captures it so lovingly. In a previous interview, Whedon clarified that he wanted his vampire creation to be a “British punk rock vampire.” This required a makeover and some voice training from the truly Englishman Anthony Stewart Head, and all that work on a British accent was doubly ironic since Masters originally auditioned with a thick Louisiana accent , an accent that would be more at home in his hometown. true blood.
there Buffy In the Reddit subreddit, many fans discussed how much the unnamed man looked like the fictional Spike and real-life music legend Billy Idol. As many fans already know, Spike’s look on the show was deliberately modeled after American Idol, so much so that we later got a funny line about how Idol stole his look from Spike , rather than the other way around. But in the real world, Idol’s look was more inspired by bands like the Sex Pistols, which brings things full circle: Joss Whedon wanted Spike to be more like Sid Vicious, and Mars Thes insists he should be more like Johnny Rotten.
sadly enough Buffy Fans everywhere, Spike isn’t actually real. If he were, half the people would be constantly pursuing him and the other half would be yelling at him for season six. This influence led to the creation of Spike. In that sense, well…you could say the real Bloody William is always within us.
