Ah, you know my deep love for Xander! I thought this would be hard to narrow down, but I came up with three immediately (although there's lots of other moments too):
1. In "Into the Woods" his declaration of love for Anya always makes me cry:
XANDER: I've gotta say something... 'Cause ... I don't think I've made it clear. I'm in love with you. Powerfully, painfully in love. The things you do ... the way you think ... the way you move ... I get excited every time I'm about to see you. You make me feel like I've never felt before in my life. Like a man. I just thought you might wanna know.
2. I think you already know this but I love his inspirational speech to Buffy in "The Freshman":
Xander: Buffy, I've gone through some fairly dark times in my life, faced some scary things, among them the kitchen at 'The Fabulous Ladies Night Club.' Let me tell you something, when it's dark and I'm all alone and I'm scared or freaked out or whatever, I always think, 'What would Buffy do?' You're my hero. Ok, sometimes when it's dark and I'm all alone I think, 'What is Buffy wearing?'
3. So for my final moment, I was all decided (the "I like the quiet" line in "The Zeppo") until I realized that there's a much bigger Xander-saves-the-world-moment that I love so much, and always makes me cry;
WILLOW: You can't stop this. XANDER: Yeah, I get that. It's just, where else am I gonna go? You've been my best friend my whole life. World gonna end ... where else would I want to be? WILLOW: (scornfully) Is this the master plan? You're going to stop me by telling me you love me? XANDER: Well, I was going to walk you off a cliff and hand you an anvil, but ... it seemed kinda cartoony. WILLOW: Still making jokes. XANDER: I'm not joking. I know you're in pain. I can't imagine the pain you're in. And I know you're about to do something apocalyptically evil and stupid, and hey. (spreading out his arms) I still want to hang. You're Willow. WILLOW: Don't call me that. XANDER: First day of kindergarten. You cried because you broke the yellow crayon, and you were too afraid to tell anyone. You've come pretty far, ending the world, not a terrific notion. But the thing is? Yeah. I love you. I loved crayon-breaky Willow and I love ... scary veiny Willow. So if I'm going out, it's here. If you wanna kill the world? Well, then start with me. I've earned that. WILLOW: You think I won't? XANDER: It doesn't matter. I'll still love you.
Of course these are all mostly sad moments, and Xander's a very funny guy so I thought I'd cheat (which I've basically done in all my answers) and include a couple of my favourite funny moments.
In "Bad Eggs" when they discover that Xander boiled his egg:
Giles: Technically that would be cheating, yes?
Xander: No! It's like a short cut. You know, when you run a race?
Buffy: That would also be cheating.
Willow: You should be ashamed.
Giles: I suppose there is a sort of... Machiavellian ingenuity to your transgression.
Xander: I resent that! Or possibly thank you.
In "Family" when they're researching Glory, and have no clue:
XANDER: (melodramatically) The answer is somewhere here. It's right in front of us and we're too blind to see it!
And since I just watched "The Puppet Show":
- Xander with Sid saying "red rum! red rum!" - the Scoobies doing the scene from Oedipus
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1. In "Into the Woods" his declaration of love for Anya always makes me cry:
XANDER: I've gotta say something... 'Cause ... I don't think I've made it clear. I'm in love with you. Powerfully, painfully in love. The things you do ... the way you think ... the way you move ... I get excited every time I'm about to see you. You make me feel like I've never felt before in my life. Like a man. I just thought you might wanna know.
2. I think you already know this but I love his inspirational speech to Buffy in "The Freshman":
Xander: Buffy, I've gone through some fairly dark times in my life, faced some scary things, among them the kitchen at 'The Fabulous Ladies Night Club.' Let me tell you something, when it's dark and I'm all alone and I'm scared or freaked out or whatever, I always think, 'What would Buffy do?' You're my hero. Ok, sometimes when it's dark and I'm all alone I think, 'What is Buffy wearing?'
3. So for my final moment, I was all decided (the "I like the quiet" line in "The Zeppo") until I realized that there's a much bigger Xander-saves-the-world-moment that I love so much, and always makes me cry;
WILLOW: You can't stop this.
XANDER: Yeah, I get that. It's just, where else am I gonna go? You've been my best friend my whole life. World gonna end ... where else would I want to be?
WILLOW: (scornfully) Is this the master plan? You're going to stop me by telling me you love me?
XANDER: Well, I was going to walk you off a cliff and hand you an anvil, but ... it seemed kinda cartoony.
WILLOW: Still making jokes.
XANDER: I'm not joking. I know you're in pain. I can't imagine the pain you're in. And I know you're about to do something apocalyptically evil and stupid, and hey. (spreading out his arms) I still want to hang. You're Willow.
WILLOW: Don't call me that.
XANDER: First day of kindergarten. You cried because you broke the yellow crayon, and you were too afraid to tell anyone. You've come pretty far, ending the world, not a terrific notion. But the thing is? Yeah. I love you. I loved crayon-breaky Willow and I love ... scary veiny Willow. So if I'm going out, it's here. If you wanna kill the world? Well, then start with me. I've earned that.
WILLOW: You think I won't?
XANDER: It doesn't matter. I'll still love you.
Of course these are all mostly sad moments, and Xander's a very funny guy so I thought I'd cheat (which I've basically done in all my answers) and include a couple of my favourite funny moments.
In "Bad Eggs" when they discover that Xander boiled his egg:
Giles: Technically that would be cheating, yes?
Xander: No! It's like a short cut. You know, when you run a race?
Buffy: That would also be cheating.
Willow: You should be ashamed.
Giles: I suppose there is a sort of... Machiavellian ingenuity to your transgression.
Xander: I resent that! Or possibly thank you.
In "Family" when they're researching Glory, and have no clue:
XANDER: (melodramatically) The answer is somewhere here. It's right in front of us and we're too blind to see it!
And since I just watched "The Puppet Show":
- Xander with Sid saying "red rum! red rum!"
- the Scoobies doing the scene from Oedipus
er, stopping now!!