I thought it was only problematic with the Spike character.
Because, well, either Spike is special, and his journey isn't really relevant to other vampires, or other vampires also have the choice to be not all that evil.
And that's an issue when your main character and hero has great fun in killing them, many times before they even do anything evil.
Other than the very specific issue of vampires because I don't want to think I've been cheering for a mass murdering psychopath who enjoys killing possible innocents, I don't have a problem thinking of Demons as another word for aliens.
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Because, well, either Spike is special, and his journey isn't really relevant to other vampires, or other vampires also have the choice to be not all that evil.
And that's an issue when your main character and hero has great fun in killing them, many times before they even do anything evil.
Other than the very specific issue of vampires because I don't want to think I've been cheering for a mass murdering psychopath who enjoys killing possible innocents, I don't have a problem thinking of Demons as another word for aliens.