(Nicholas Brendon)

The heart and hands of the group, Xander Harris bounced back from losing an eye to the sinister Caleb and reaffirmed his love for Anya when she was briefly brought back as a ghost and then made solid, thanks to his own self sacrificing efforts, and he'll soon be Mrs. Anya if their wedding plans go ahead second time around!

But as the baby draws closer, Xander feels his priorities start to shift away from his friends for the first time in his life, and the pull of the real world, and the responsibilities that come with it, may finally take hold...