 What's going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overload here so I'm talking about Buffy the vampire slayer in this video here again today We'll be going over some characters that you may or may not have known about who originally had Alternate fates before we actually got the arcs that we got for them in the universe as it exists between the two shows that of Course being Buffy the vampire slayer and Angel the spin-off series So just to kick it off speaking on Angel himself Angel Buffy's boyfriend who we met back in walking to the hellmouth during season one those two develop a relationship early on Buffy discovers Angel is a vampire. The love continues to blossom And they have sex on Buffy's 17th birthday Which causes the vampire to lose his soul and break the curse that the gypsies had set on him Which is why he appeared to be so harmless in the first place which made the shocking revelation He's a vampire a bombshell to Buffy and her friends So and jealous his evil form We know ended up teaming up with old friends spike and Drusilla to newcomers in town at time or at the time But during the season two finale will always able to restore Angel's soul But Buffy is still forced to send him to hell in order to close the mouth of a kathla to save the world now It's rumored that this would have been the vampires final stand up until the point of WB deciding that they wanted to do A spin-off series with David boring as so in the events of season two when he is killed It would appear according to rumors and other things that I've been able to find online That David boring as his exit was supposed to be in that moment when Buffy killed him at the end of season two Now if Angel had stayed dead Imagine all of the things that wouldn't have happened would faith have ever been redeemed as a character Would Cordelia have ever gone on this amazing arc that she ended up having in Los Angeles Working with Angel and of course the spin-off show what would Wesley's life post-Sunnydale have looked like who would Doyle have teamed with in LA in terms of of course being granted with the Visions from the powers that being all these other things that we know have played out given that Angel is still here So jumping into another person who almost bit the dust earlier than expected Is spike spike is another case of a character who in fact wasn't meant to stick around But it seems that the higher-ups at the WB who were forced or who forced Joss Whedon to do something He didn't want to do is why The character stuck around as long as he has now during Michael Rosenbaum's inside of you podcast back in 2020 James Masters recalled how spike was intended to be a run-of-the-mill character That was off at some point during season 2 Whedon wasn't interested in exploring spike and at one point according to masters Whedon was bothered and backed him up against the wall one day and said I don't care how popular you are kid You hear me you're dead dead Masters says that Whedon was not joking around and was dead serious because the situation bothered him now Here's my thing as toxic as that sounds and a lot of the other things we've been hearing about Joss Whedon over these past couple years Masters sticking around the character of spike sticking around Did more good than bad to the show and spike went on to have one of the most tremendous arcs that culminated with him going out in his own terms to save the world now again Imagine if spike had died in season 2 where would the show have ended up at who would have been in that position in season 7? What had it been angel would it have been somebody else so many things that could have gone differently, you know There's also the love that Developed between spike. Well that spike develops for Buffy I should say and then that unhealthy relationship so many things that could have played differently if spike had died in season 2 as planned So another person is faith faith is another character who almost bit bit it much earlier in the series after killing the deputy mayor Instead of aligning with Mayor Wilkins going into a coma becoming a criminal on the run and going down a redemption arc Faith was apparently going to commit suicide All of this is going to be too much for the character to bear and she was supposed to offer self after killing the deputy mayor Now Eliza Dushku is said to have addressed this during a Q&A and allegedly this information has been circulated online Due to commentary tracks from the series home media release Imagine that though imagine faith killing herself after her actions instead of what we got so much If this is just an eye-opener to me to see how vastly different the show's legacy could be if these changes Weren't made and if they had stuck to some of their original plans Eliza impressed we didn't so much that she was able to stick around and ultimately return to Sunnydale During the events of season 7 like we know to be present for the final fight in the hell mouth with Buffy against the first evil With the other potential slayers as well as spike and all the others that were doing their part Above ground and not battling in the hell mouth So if faith had died again Imagine how different it would have been imagine her not going on her redemption arc Imagine her not going over the angel imagine her just not being saved And I get what faith was supposed to be like a dark reflection of Buffy But maybe that would have been too dark for her to commit suicide Now the last person we'll talk about here because I know there's several others I'm not gonna be talking about who you might think it is. It's not Anya It is Alexis Dinosoft's character of Wesley Wyndham Price who was another character who was almost killed during season 3 of Buffy He allegedly Said this during some recent interview or recent reports Where he had revealed that the character of Wesley was supposed to be somebody who came along Did filled in the annoying part like we know Wesley did in season 3 and then he was supposed to die He wasn't going to stick around he wasn't going to be going to angel and he wasn't going to go on this Eye-opening and kind of shocking character growth that he ended up going down It was like wow this characters in the complete through six if I'm someone I can't stand so like I love Wesley They're then of course Wesley still ended up dying That's one of the things that I found to be unique with some of these characters Some of them for the most part one way or another still ended up dying I mean they came back, but they still ended up dying at some point It's just it was prolonged and I guess it made it better on honestly because when Wesley died I cared when spike died. I cared when angel died I I would say I cared I cared faith. Of course. She's she's the exception She never died but you guys can let me know what you think about this down the comment section below If you haven't already course make sure you subscribe turn on post notification numbers video in the description I will have links on my social media accounts I'm on Facebook Twitter and Instagram you can message me there Of course let me know if there any movies news or reviews let me cover in the future and with all that in mind guys I will see you in the next video