User blog comment:FaithBuffyTaraAnyaGlory/Favourite Buffy Character???/@comment-5491139-20120806021118/@comment-5327799-20120806095535

I love Xander. Joss Whedon was planning to kill him off but he thought that Xander was too important to the show and the fans wouldn't have enough time to deal with the death. Instead he had the idea of Xander to loose an eye