“I came along and I wasn’t designed to be a romantic character, but then the audience reacted that way to it.
During an episode of the Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum podcast, Marsters recalled how Spike’s popularity infuriated Whedon to the point of physical assault.
After Rosenbaum asked James Marsters if Whedon was angry at him, the latter responded that the showrunner, “was angry at the situation.”
The resulting movie was an odd mish-mash of Whedon and Snyder’s distinct styles of moviemaking and ended up satisfying neither fans nor critics.