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		dragonwriter on July 6, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The golden age of the aging actor > I was rewatching earlier seasons of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and it's hilarious that the character Xander Harris(0) was perceived as a scrawny high school nerd. Uh, except he wasn't perceived as scrawny, and was a jock-adjacent slacker, almost an anti-nerd.

MiddleEndian on July 7, 2022 [–]

Yeah maybe nerd was the wrong term, but he was definitely perceived as being wimpy, even by people outside of the gang.

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