Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Willow Rosenberg from Buffy The Vampire Slayer

​Nerd Cred:

• Spent all her free time at the library

• Member of Math, Science and Computer Clubs at Sunnydale High

• Thought Seth Green was sexy

Evidence of Sheer Badassitude: Willow’s badassery is sometimes forgotten, because it’s buried in what is largely considered the worst season of Buffy, its sixth. Sure she does some pretty badass things in the previous five seasons, like helping beat up a hell-god, re-ensouling a vampire, and levitating pencils. But it’s the sixth season, amidst all the ham-handed drug allegories, where Willow lets rip.

Literally, she lets rip. As in the skin. Off of a kid. Nonchalantly, even. Granted, the kid killed her girlfriend, which is at the least, poor form. So she ties the kid to a tree, (so far so good,) and has fun abusing him, (what you give is what you get,) then she announces her boredom, and with a wave of her hand, completely flays a living person (fuuuuuuuuck). From dude to meat at 190 mph. I feel like I’ve accomplished something if I can peel an orange in one continuous motion, no breaks in the rind, in under 30 seconds. Willow peeled a whole human in 0.2 seconds.