Was Warrens Repentance real, or just out of fear?

[CordelliasHeart]

I think, personally, it makes the scene a bit more poignant to assume he was genuinely aware now of what a horrible person he was... then that he was just trying to mollify her.

 

[Blaze]

To me it sounded like he wasn't genuine at all. He was saying what he thought he had to say in order to survive, it was a bull poop.

 

[Black Eye Guy]

Totally just fear, Warren had crossed a line of doing evil, while souled and not under the influence of anything else. He was vile to the core, but was basically a giant child, once he realised things weren't going his way he resorted to begged, he didn't mean a word of it.

 

[Xin Rong]

Without a doubt fear, as we saw in Season 8, he didn't seem to show remorse

 

[BuffyElevated]

He only said what he thought Willow wanted to hear in order to spare his life. He wasn't sorry for anything he did, as proven by his actions in the comics.

 

[CordelliasHeart]

Granting all that, think that Buffy should have left him to Willow, instead of trying to keep him alive.

As xander so snidely put it "From the mouths of babes"

 

[thetopher]

The guy was a mysogonistic coward to his core, I don't think he would've ever repented, not even in prison.
I thought Warren was bad news ever since 'I Was Made To Love You.' 🙁