generous. She begins as a mirror image of Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar), who has all the ingredients to be a Mean Girl but has been forced to grow up much more quickly due to the responsibility of being the Slayer. Throughout the three seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in which she appears, Cordelia goes from presenting herself as a ditzy, superficial queen bee (the self-described “nastiest girl in Sunnydale history”) to a full-fledged member of the Scooby Gang. Cordelia’s journey involves realizing that she’s allowed to have a full spectrum of emotions, including the painful ones
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