If Buffy could kill every vampire...

fredthe3rd

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If Buffy could destroy every single vampire in existence on the planet (maybe she discovers some amulet that when destroyed kills them all... Or something... The how isn't so important to this question...) would she?

No more Angel or Spike, but no more big nasties! And she can retire!
 
I dont think she would, I dont think deep down she actually wants to retire. And she's already shown she will risk other people safety to keep herself happy, by letting Spike stay in the house in season 7.
 
Bear in mind that, while she is Buffy the VAMPIRE Slayer, and slaying vampires is her primary duty, it is not her only duty. There are all sorts of demons in the world who threaten mankind, and as long as there are, the Slayer has a job.

So I doubt that Buffy would ever be able to retire, even if all vampires were suddenly eliminated.
 
I think it would be an interesting story, to see what she would do if faced with being able to kill all vampires but Spike and Angel dying as well.
 
Thanks Buffy Summers. If that IS your real name.

She may not be able to retire but she could save a lot of human lives by doing it, arguably more than Angel could save - unless of course he stops an apocalypse. Which is a distinct possibility.
 
Yeah she would definitely need to weigh the good vs the bad in losing Angel and Spike. I feel like the days of the Vampires being the primary big bads in the Buffyverse are long gone and Angel and Spike are the next best thing to a slayer in combating the other evils of the world.
 
Of course she would, she would sacrifice Spike and Angel like she did in the past. Retirement? Nah, still plenty of demons to slaughter.
 
Well, as others have said, vampires are just one component of Buffy's slaying activities. A big part, sure, but just one.

As for sacrificing Angel and Spike to terminate every vampire in the world? Would she do it? You know, I'm not entirely sure. Buffy's "Greater Good" decisions tend to fluctuate pretty frequently. She kills Angel (or thinks she does) to save the world in S2, then won't even contemplate sacrificing Dawn to stop Glory and, literally, save all of reality, including Dawn, from imminent death. Despite her powers, abilities and capacity to help people, she wants to die for the bulk of S6 because of her own feelings of emptiness. Then in S7 she says she would be prepared to kill Dawn if she could do S5 over again while at the same time resists everyone's advice to eliminate Spike (which, I don't care what anyone says, I felt was the right decision) when it appears he's gone rogue.

So would Buffy do it? I guess it would depend largely on her frame of mind at the time. SHOULD she do it?

No. No she shouldn't.

It's virtually impossible to truly and accurately weigh the figures of which would tilt the cosmic scale of greater good more, but the way I see it, the entire planet, Buffy included, would have been enslaved by Jasmine had it not been for Angel. Without Spike, the Turok-Han would have slaughtered Buffy and all the Scoobies and steamrolled through Southern California before the U.S. military could have gotten a handle on them. How many people were saved because of those two acts alone? Over the course of both series' he and Spike repeatedly prove themselves to be heroes of the first degree. They're both champions who save lives and the world just as effectively as Buffy does.
 
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I think she would do it. Like someone else said, it's not like she would have nothing left to fight.

Buffy admitted that, if she had to do it all again, she would sacrifice Dawn to stop Glory, and Dawn is more important to her than anyone, so sacrificing Angel and Spike would be less traumatic for her, I think. Plus, it's not like it would be the first time she's done it.

I think, if the choice was put to her, rid the world of any and all vampires, I think she would do it.
 
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