Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Character Alignment Chart

[Sullivan]

I did a search of the forum and found a similar thread like this:
https://www.buffy-boards.com/showthread.php?t=47772&highlight=Buffy+Alignment
although its been relegated to the Cemetery section.

Anyway I came across this Character Alignment Chart made by Waltermonkey on Flickr and wanted to share it because I love these Alignment charts made about Movie/TV characters

Note if you're unfamiliar with Alignments this will explain it for you:
LINK

How accurate do you feel about each of the designated characters? Do you feel like more characters should've been included? Discuss

Personally I feel it was pretty accurate.

 

[Kairos]

Nifty! I did a post on this a while back, and I stand by most of the choices I made then. Some are in agreement with this chart, though.

 

[NY State of Mind]

I agree to an extent but theres obviously of lack of characters possibly cause they can't fit that black and white mold

 

[Tome]

I really don't think Faith fits Chaotic Good... More like Chaotic Neutral. At least, until AtS S4. 😛 Buffy on the other hand is a perfect Chaotic Good, she doesn't follow orders, she is open-minded, doesn't like to look at things as black or white. Riley is okay. Spike is fine, but I'd put him Chaotic Good by BtVS S7 and AtS S5. Anya... depends on her mood, lol. I'd say Chaotic Neutral with Neutral Evil tendencies. The rest looks good!

I'd probably put Willow and Xander as Neutral Good. Giles in between Neutral Good and Chaotic Good. 🙂

 

[Gum Gnome33]

I have big problems with this kind of categorization, (no offense! It's a nice idea...) for several reasons.

1) Evolution: Each character depicted here is captured in a moment in time. Not all of them retain this kind of definition throughout the entire series. For example, Faith goes from "chaotic good" as you say, to "chaotic evil." Spike goes from "chaotic evil," to "chaotic neutral," (as you've depicted), to just plain good.

2)These characters are not black and white. For example, Buffy is "neutral good" sometimes; particularly when she is trying to rectify the notion of being a "normal girl" with her unavoidable destiny. But plenty of times, the kind of "good" she is far transcends any of these limited definitions. Riley is "lawful good" at times; particularly when he is still following orders in season 4, and morally adhering to a stringent set of principles which he soon learns are foolish because they are unrealistic, (which speaks volumes about the growth of his character). If Riley were truly just "lawful good," he probably wouldn't have been able to come to the conclusions he reaches as time goes by. (See his attitude toward Oz as a great example). The characters and their motives are far more complicated and multidimensional than this chart would suggest.

Of course, certain characters do adhere to these definitions more or less, as we don't see them develop very much and it is inherently important to the story that they stay pretty two-dimensional. Great examples are the Mayor, "lawful evil," and Adam, "neutral evil."

But in any case, if all of these characters could be boiled down so easily to any one phrase, we'd be able to get just as much from the series from looking at the chart as from watching the show! Just my two cents.

 

[SlayerFest]

I agree with Gum Gnome, that these characters aren't ALWAYS chaotic good or neutral good...etc. Faith did start out as chaotic good but she changed, they all changed. However, this chart is pretty accurate if you associate it with a particular time in the character's development/lives. For example, Faith was chaotic good for most of season 3, so technically this is accurate, but if someone made another chart with Faith labeled as chaotic neutral, I'd accept that as well...if that makes sense.