By Chris Snellgrove
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Buffy against vampires was more than a popular urban fantasy show. It was a television series that transformed the television landscape with its crackling writing while making us fall in love with its eclectic characters. Perhaps none of these characters were only captivating Spike de James Marsters, who enters the series as a soulless vampire and selfish and ends the series by sacrificing heroically to save the world. A lot Buffy The fans would have liked Spike to be real, and perhaps it was … At least, that’s what some fans say after a Redditor has discovered a perfect plain lookalike in a documentary by Joy Division.
The real peak
This story begins on R/Buffy (the chef Buffy against vampires Subreddit), where U/Potentiallangage685 published images of a Spike lookalike which was only too real. The user had watched the 2007 documentary Division of joy which focuses on the group of the same name and presents many clips from the late 1970s. And the user kindly took photos of this Spike lookalike which appeared on the screen during a montage highlighting The British punk scene of that time.
At this point, it should be noted that this anonymous man does not just look like James MarstersThe actor who gave life to our favorite vampire bad boy. Instead, this Buffy A fan noted how much man looked like Spike himself, giving the impression that this vampire may have formerly existed in the real world. And after having posted the photos, the fans hastened to underline the irony of the fact that this man did not necessarily look like Spike … Instead, Spike was deliberately designed to resemble this kind of archetypal punk figure.
On the one hand, Buffy The showrunner Joss Whedon wanted Spike to be based on the real punk scene that later Division of joy Documentary captured with so much love. In a previous interview, Whedon said he wanted his vampiric creation to be “an English punk vampire”. This required a makeover and vocal training on the part of the real English Anthony Stewart Head, and all this work on a British accent was doubly ironic because Marsters had initially auditioned with a strong accent of Louisiana which would have been more comfortable in Real blood.
On that Buffy Subreddit, many fans explained how much the anonymous man looked like both fictitious Spike and the real Billy Idol musical legend. As many of these fans already knew it, Spike’s look in the series was deliberately modeled on Idol, so much so that we then had a funny replica on the way Idol stole his look to Spike rather than the reverse . But in the real world, Idol’s look was more inspired by groups like the Sex Pistols, which loops the loop: Joss Whedon wanted Spike more like Sid Vicious and Marsters insisted that he looks more like Johnny Rotten.
Unfortunately enough for Buffy Fans of the whole world, Spike is not really real. If it were, half of them would covet it constantly and the other half would cry about season 6. But this stranger in a documentary by Joy Division is proof that the various influences of our world Who led to the creation of Spike were all this is too real. In this sense, well … You could say that the real William the bloody has been in us from the start.
