By Claire FitzSimmonds **SPOILERS ahead When you think ‘strong female character’ Cordelia Chase probably doesn’t pop to mind first thing. Buffy Summers, I bet. Willow Rosenberg, most likely. Maybe even Anya Jenkins because, yes, she is pretty obsessed with marriage, but she also doesn’t take any crap from anyone and she speaks her mind. Well, come to think of it, that describes Cordelia pretty well. We meet her in the first season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and she’s a shallow twerp (I don’t think she’d take too much offense to that description). She speaks her mind, sure, but it’s to say stuff like, “Buffy, love the hair. It just screams street urchin,” so how commendable is that? Popularity and money are the two most important things to her, and any moment of kindness is short-lived. But the best hero used to be a villain, if the transition is done believably. With Cordelia the transition is painstakingly slow and therefore believable. She starts to date Buffy’s friend Xander, whom she describes as ‘planning a life as a loser’, but she insists on keeping the relationship a secret because of what it would do to her social life. From time to time she helps out Buffy’s gang, but usually only when she needs saving herself, and she insults them at every turn, with the excuse that “Tact is not saying true stuff. I’ll pass.” Still, she gets a little experience with life and death situations, and by the time she graduates from Sunnydale High and moves to LA, she’s in a good position to team up with Angel, vampire vigilante.
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