# Willow Rosenberg: charming cutie, irresponsible brat, or dyed-in-the-wool villain?

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**Created:** [August 5, 2011, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willow-rosenberg-charming-cutie-irresponsible-brat-or-dyed-in-the-wool-villain/591601 "2011-08-05T15:28:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willow-rosenberg-charming-cutie-irresponsible-brat-or-dyed-in-the-wool-villain/591601/61 "2011-08-07T00:12:17Z")

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> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#):
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> This. If I’d been thinking of Tara when I voted, I’d definitely have put her in the evil camp.
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> And the scary thing about the situation is that she doesn’t _think_ it was evil. I don’t think Willow ever really acknowledged why what she’d done to Tara was so horrible. That’s both before and after Tara’s death. Willow was like a guy who genuinely believes he’s helping his girlfriend learn how to behave with the back of his hand.

As I’ve mentioned before on SDMB, I think Willow’s problem is a predilection for looking for shortcuts - shortcuts to get out of an argument, shortcuts to feeling better after finding out that she pulled Buffy out of heaven (just erase Buffy’s memory of heaven!), shortcuts to getting out of feeling guilty for kissing Xander (offer to sleep with Oz, cast a “delusting spell” on herself and Xander), shortcuts to feeling better after endangering all her friends (cookies!). Magic just makes this weakness more dangerous, but it’s there without the magic.

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