Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-24859393-20160609220233/@comment-2059440-20160609223114

read my comments if you wish Lucid on the matter, I feel Ryan is a "nasty monster of the week" but just narrowly avoids CM like Darin did.. however CM is a very tricky trope when dealing with Buffyverse, which (being a blend of action, dark comedy and horror) has extremely dark villains in every episode.. even generic vampire goons are mass-killers when you get down to it and even the comic relief villains like olaf the troll are child-murderers:

olaf: "you there! do you know where there are babies!?" (to eat)

Spike: "what do you think? hospital?"

Xander: "one.. shut up!"

(and that's a comedy moment, still dark when compared to some shows (if disguised well due to the inherently silly nature of these action-horror shows) )

I feel Ryan could easily of grown into a CM like Darin (complete uncaring for anyone) or Caleb (serial-killing, capricious madnman) but he could easily of been the next "Judge" (a demon that was "made of evil" and literally had no purpose than to kill any that had a soul)