Sarah Michelle Gellar Plays 'Shag, Marry, Kill' With Buffy Characters

04/05/2017 10:56 am EDT

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is enjoying its 20th Anniversary in 2017. Buffy fans are never ones to miss an opportunity to discuss their favorites ship from the series, and both creator Joss Whedon and star Sarah Michelle Gellar have indulged fans their questions about who Buffy Summers should have ended up, though usually Gellar has answered from the perspective of her character.

As a guest on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Gellar was taken out of the role and forced to get real about Buffy's relationship with a game of "Marry, Shag, Kill." A fan asked Gellar to "Marry, Shag, or Kill" Angel, Spike, and Xander.

Gellar was pretty quick to volunteer to marry Angel and shag Spike. She was more reluctant to kill Xander, which is probably fair since he was already denied a happy ending with Buffy.

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Buffy went into more details about her thoughts on Spike vs. Angel during the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reunion.

"People ask who I thought was Buffy's ultimate and I get a lot of hate and a lot of death threats — seriously," says Gellar. "There was something so beautiful to me about the Buffy and Angel story. I think that Spike understood a different part of who Buffy was and I think she needed to understand that and discover. But for me as Buffy, I think Angel."

Joss Whedon has previously commented on the Angel-Spike debate, saying. "I'm a Buffy/Spike shipper. I always felt like he was a more evolved person, but that's like saying Juliet's going to be so happy with Benvolio and everyone will love it. Buffy/Angel is for the ages; Buffy/Spike is maybe for me."

Xander may have drawn the short straw, but at least he isn't Riley, Buffy's Season 4 and Season 5 boyfriend who never seems to be mentioned at all in these conversations.

While Gellar and Whedon seem to favor the dependable, if cursed, Angel over bad boy Spike, things have not gone in that direction in Buffy The Vampire Slayer Seasons 8-11, which have been told in comic book form as published by Dark Horse Comics. Buffy and Angel had a pretty bad falling out after Angel was possessed by his and Buffy's child, a sentient alternate dimension, and became the supervillain called Twilight (it's complicated).

For his part, Spike showed up on an interdimensional spacecraft (it's complicated) to help save the day. As of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 10, he and Buffy are an official couple, and by official, we mean that they both admit to in public and don't skulk around in secret because they can only tolerate each other when they're having sex.

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