#mr. trick

[dont-leafmealone]

why are all buffy's villains so cunty. I should be able to hate them but like. Glory? WAY too iconic for me to fully want her dead, despite the atrocities. To say nothing of drusilla, spike, harmony, even the mayor had a slimy kind of je ne sais quoi. Mr trick too. What were they putting in the water in that writer's room

[elverrie]

mr. trick and glory weren`t in the same season because they would`ve been too powerful together. the style, the face cards, the amount of cunt together they would`ve served, ooooof! nobody would`ve stand a chance against them.

[allchoseny]

Rewatching Season 3 Of Buffy...

and I think I have to re-evaluate my most hated character. For years it has been Xander, and I suspect it will always be Xander. However, Mr. Trick is up there for an entirely different reason. I know the 90s and early 2000s were basically the wild, wild, west, but I really want to know who sat in the writers room and said to themselves, "this Mr. Trick guy is a good character." Aside from him being corny, he is completely problematic. I know what you're thinking, "stop looking at early media with a 2024 gaze." Trust me, I hate that shit with a passion. No, I've always had a problem with Mr. Trick. The fact is that as a teenager, I didn't have the lexicon to describe why I disliked the character. As a teenager watching Buffy in the 90s, all I knew was that there was something skeevy about Mr. Trick, and he made my skin crawl.

Before I go any further, let me preface this by saying. I'm an Afro-Latina who grew up in Harlem, New York. Not exactly your target audience for shows like Buffy other than being a teenage girl. In all honesty, I couldn't relate to the more mundane aspects of the show, but I loved it because somehow I saw myself in Buffy. She was strong. She didn't take crap from anyone (except her friends, but that's another topic of discussion), and she was 16 like me.

Growing up, representation for people who look like me was scarce. There certainly weren't any teen dramas on the WB with a black girl as a main character, so I took what I could get. With that being said, back then, I feel like a lot of people in the writers room thought characters like Mr. Trick were acceptable. It was like they took every negative stereotype of black people--particularly black men, and said, let's create this modern day Sambo for television.

If you're unaware of the history of the Sambo character, please look it up. It's disturbing, and I didn't plan on going into a history lesson.

I wonder what might have been the outcome if they had some POC in the writers room to say, "hey, no, don't do that." Conversely, I loved Charles Gunn when I watched the show. I think I could relate to the black boy from the "hood." But upon subsequent watches, I also see moments when the hood kid got over played. I did admire how he didn't code switch to fit in with his friends, so that's refreshing. I have become a master at code switching, and it is second nature to me. Though there are times when I get second hand embarrassment watching him because he comes off as a cartoon character---over done.

Out of the two of them, Mr. Trick is the absolute worse. I think Principal Wood was a good representation of a black character on the show, but I'm not there yet in my rewatch, and I wanted to get this out before I forgot.

[artuski]

Mr. Trick was so cool I wish he'd stuck around longer

[demonlandline]

I really appreciate the fact that a bunch of the characters that survive the longest on Buffy don’t necessarily survive because they’re the strongest or most skilled fighters but because they just fucking leave when a fight starts to not go their way, Buffy beats them up a bit too much and they just get the fuck out of there. Gotta respect a quitter.

[on-this-day-btvs]

February 16, 1999

Consequences aired for BTVS season 3, episode 15. At the start of this episode Faith has accidentally killed a man, in the previous episode Bad Girls. By the end of this episode Faith has intentionally made several poor choices, including blaming Buffy for the accidental killing to Giles and assaulting Xander. She also officially joins The Mayor.

This is the last appearance of Mr. Trick. He appeared in five episodes, all in S3. Mr. Trick was played by K. Todd Freeman, who originally auditioned for the role of Spike.

[zalrb]

[blackpilledkremlintsarina5294]

Mr. Trick from Buffy the Vampire Slayer