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 Two Watchers: Wesley and Giles
In the fictional Buffyverse established by the television series Buffy and Angel, a Watcher is a member of a secret organization, the Watchers' Council, which seeks to prepare the Slayer to fight demonic forces.


Contents  [hide]
1 Description
2 Powers and abilities
3 Shadow Men
4 Watchers' Council 4.1 Methods
5 Guardians
6 List of Watchers
7 References
8 See also

Description[edit]
Watchers are devoted to tracking and combating malevolent supernatural entities (particularly vampires), primarily by locating individuals with the talents required to fight such beings and win. More specifically, Watchers are assigned to Slayers, girls that are part of a succession of mystically powered individuals who are destined to face said foes. Upon a Slayer's demise, the next Slayer is called into duty and is assigned a Watcher.
The Watchers' Council trains new Watchers in a private school of some kind. In "Never Kill a Boy on the First Date", Giles implies that Watchers are, to a certain extent, "called" or assigned to become Watchers before going to university. This idea is supported by Watcher families such as the Giles and Wyndam-Pryces.
Rupert Giles was Buffy's Watcher in the beginning of the series. It was revealed that he has never been invited to the Watchers' retreat. After being fired by the Council for having "a father's love" for the Slayer in season 3, he remained her unofficial Watcher for much of the rest of the series. Wesley Wyndam-Pryce became Buffy and Faith's Watcher for a short period of time. Wyndam-Pryce was fired after Faith turned rogue and Buffy "quit". Rupert Giles was reinstated as Buffy's official Watcher in the season 5 episode "Checkpoint," and he remains so until the events at the end of Season 5, though Giles maintains his contacts with Buffy.
Powers and abilities[edit]
A standard Watcher has at least some proficiency in the use of magic with certain individuals being more powerful than others. One episode in Angel (Sanctuary) reveals that numerous members of the board of directors are alchemists. They are students of demonology and as such have a wide knowledge of various incarnations of evil, but their expertise is usually the vampire. They are also highly educated and can speak a wide variety of languages, both human and demonic in nature.
Watchers are typically well versed in hand-to-hand combat techniques, though they generally confine themselves to training Slayers or supporting them in battle, as their relatively lower strength limits their effectiveness in directly engaging vampires.
Shadow Men[edit]
"Shadow Men" redirects here. For the urban legend, see shadow people.



 The Shadow Men
In ancient times, a group known as the Shadow Men used magic to infuse a captive girl with the essence of a demon, thereby creating the First Slayer, whom they use to fight demonic forces. The descendants of the Shadow Men go on to form the Watchers' Council.[1]
In 2003, Slayer Buffy Anne Summers uses a strange mystical device to meet with the Shadow Men about the threat she faces from the First Evil. She learns how the Slayers were created and is shown a vision which reveals the First's massive army of Turok-Han Vampires in the Hellmouth.[2] They attempt to repeat history by infusing an unwilling Buffy with the same demonic essence that they used on the First Slayer to increase her power; however, Buffy refused, as she had come to seek only knowledge, not power, especially if that power meant that she would lose her humanity. After Buffy defeats them, one of the Shadow Men gives Buffy what she wants: knowledge of what's coming. He shows her a vision of the First's army of Turok-Han in the Hellmouth, causing her to start to reconsider her decision, but she's brought back by her friends before she can do anything else.
The Shadow Men first appeared in Fray issue #3, and were later shown onscreen in the episode "Get It Done".
Watchers' Council[edit]

Watchers' Council
The Watchers' Council, assembled at their headquarters.
First appearance
Welcome to the Hellmouth
Last appearance
Never Leave Me
Created by
Joss Whedon
Information

Purpose
Find, train, and support The Vampire Slayer
Membership
Key members:
Rupert Giles
Quentin Travers
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
Merrick
Andrew Wells

The Watchers' Council of Britain is an organization dedicated to finding, training, and supervising Slayers. Over the years, however, the Council had become increasingly arrogant and egocentric, believing themselves to be the supreme authority while the Slayers were just their tools.
The Council eventually bases its headquarters in London, England. It tries to locate potential Slayers and then send Watchers to inform and train them. It is not always successful in doing so, and therefore some Slayers are fully trained when they are called, while others know nothing of the heritage or purpose of their power. Each potential Slayer is assigned her own Watcher – a Council employee who is responsible for training the Slayer in combat techniques as well as researching demons, vampires, and magics. Watchers also maintain diaries chronicling the lives of the Slayers under their charge.
In late 2002, the Council learns that The First is systematically eliminating potential Slayers around the world in an effort to end the Slayer line. Unfortunately, before this information can be acted on, the Council headquarters is destroyed by agents of The First, specifically Caleb – "At long last. All this time. All the work I've done for you... Blowing up the Council". The Council leadership is killed, and the Council is not able to offer assistance in the struggle against The First.[3]
In the aftermath of the battle with the army of The First and the destruction of the Sunnydale Hellmouth, the Watchers' Council begins the process of rebuilding. The work to be done is considerable, especially in light of the creation of hundreds of active Slayers around the world.[4] The structure of this new Council is unknown, but it appears that Rupert Giles is its new head and is training Andrew Wells as a Watcher.[5] Only three members of the Watchers' Council have been shown to have survived the First's attacks: Rupert Giles; an acquaintance to him named Robson who survived a Bringer attack; and Roger Wyndham-Pryce. His son, Wesley, and Rutherford Sirk were ex-members of the Council and thus not targeted by the First Evil.
In the canonical comic Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Giles informs Faith that he is, for all intents and purposes, the Watcher's Council. Andrew, Xander Harris, and Robin Wood are functioning as Watchers (though Xander dislikes that term and insists that others do not call him as such), assisting in the training and supervision of the new Slayers in separate squads around the world (Rome, Scotland, and Cleveland respectively). Their duties have expanded to monitoring Slayers as well; Giles offers Faith Lehane a new identity in exchange for her undertaking the mission to kill Genevieve Savidge, a sociopathic Slayer. Later, the two form a "Slayer social worker" program to try to prevent more Slayers from going rogue.
According to the comic Fray, a Slayer in the 21st century banishes all demons and magicks from the world. When evil returns, a new Slayer – Melaka Fray – is called. The Watchers' Council in this era apparently retains the resources to locate Slayers. Melaka Fray is approached by her assigned Watcher, but rather than assist or train her, he immolates himself in front of her.[6] Melaka is instead trained by a demon who says that the remaining Council consists of fanatics and fools.[7]
Methods[edit]
The Watchers' Council has been known to use ethically questionable methods to accomplish its goals. The Council employs a trio of operatives known as the Special Operations Team.[8] This team is responsible for some of the more unsavory aspects of the Council's work, such as interrogations, smuggling, and, if necessary, assassinations. When Faith Lehane stakes and kills a human, the Special Ops Team was dispatched to retrieve the rogue Slayer, circumventing local and international authorities.[9]
The Council is also known for placing its principles and perceived goals ahead of the well-being of the Slayer. A test known as the Cruciamentum involves suppressing the Slayer's natural abilities with a drug and pitting her against a particularly dangerous vampire on the Slayer's eighteenth birthday in order to test the Slayer's intelligence and practical capabilities. When one particular Watcher, Rupert Giles, defies the rules of the test and interferes in the Cruciamentum of his Slayer – Buffy Summers – he is dismissed from his position immediately.[10]
In 2001, representatives of the Council visit Sunnydale, California to deliver vital information on the seemingly unstoppable Glory to the Slayer, Buffy Summers. However, the Council refuses to turn over the information until an extensive review of Buffy's abilities is completed. This assessment includes a review of Buffy's combat skills, as well as interviews with many of her closest friends. Eventually, the Slayer turns the tables on the Watchers, declaring that they need her to validate their existence more than she needs their help. She defends the frequent assistance of her friends (Slayers typically operate alone) and demands that Rupert Giles be reinstated as her Watcher, with retroactive pay to the time of his dismissal. The Council agrees to this, changing the nature of the Council/Slayer relationship until the Council's destruction two years later.[11]
When the Scoobies rebuilt the Council after the war with the First, they did so under better circumstances. Thus, the new Council is far more moral and ethical, in contrast to the moral ambiguity of the original.
Guardians[edit]
The Guardians are an organization of long-lived women who developed parallel to the Shadow Men and Watchers. They forge a weapon, the Scythe, for the Slayer to use. They are apparently mistrustful of the Shadow Men and Watchers who followed, as they keep this weapon, along with their very existence, a secret. They allow the Watchers to observe and manage the Slayer for centuries, but all the while the Guardians are watching the Watchers. They remain in hiding until Buffy Summers discovers the Scythe and tracks its origin to an Egyptian-style tomb, where the last Guardian waits. Immediately after explaining herself to Buffy, the Guardian is killed by Caleb, putting an end to the organization.[1]
List of Watchers[edit]
Note: Some Slayers have had more than one Watcher in the course of their careers.

Watcher
Slayer(s)
First appearance (as a Watcher)
Merrick Buffy Summers Buffy the Vampire Slayer (non-canon), "Becoming, Part One"
Giles, Rupert Buffy Summers
 & Faith Lehane "Welcome to the Hellmouth"
Zabuto, Roger "Sam" Kendra Young Mentioned in "What's My Line, Part One"
Post, Gwendolyn* Faith Lehane "Revelations"
Wyndam-Pryce, Wesley Buffy Summers
 & Faith Lehane "Bad Girls
Travers, Quentin none (chairman of the Council) "Helpless"
Crowley, Bernard Nikki Wood Mentioned in "First Date"
Sirk, Rutherford Unknown "Home"
Wyndam-Pryce, Roger Appears as a robot in "Lineage"
Wells, Andrew Many "Damage"
* Watcher fraudulently "assigned" herself to Faith after being expelled from the Council.
The following have been featured with no significant details known about them. Not all of these are true Watchers, some of them are merely operatives on payroll.
Blair
Hobson
Lydia—Wrote a thesis on William the Bloody
Nigel
Phillip
Robson
Faith's first Watcher
Giles' father
Giles' paternal grandmother (named Edna in a Tales of the Vampires comic by Joss Whedon)
Collins, Weatherby and Smith—The Council Special Ops Team
Faith's nurse
Wesley's thugs
The (non-canon) novels and comics, specially those focusing on previous Slayers, show or mention other Watchers including: Michaela Tomassi (The Gatekeeper trilogy), Archibald Lassiter (Giles), Harold and John Travers (Pretty Maids All in a Row), Yanna Narvik (watched over the Slayer, Sophie Carstensen in Pretty Maids All in a Row), Marie-Christine Fontaine (watched Slayer, Eleanor Boudreau in Pretty Maids All in a Row), Diana Dormer (the name given to Faith's first Watcher in Go Ask Malice).
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b "End of Days". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 7. Episode 21. 2003-05-13.
2.Jump up ^ "Get It Done". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 7. Episode 15. 2003-02-18.
3.Jump up ^ "Never Leave Me". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 7. Episode 9. 2002-11-26.
4.Jump up ^ "Chosen". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 7. Episode 22. 2003-05-20.
5.Jump up ^ "Damage". Angel. Season 57. Episode 11. 2004-01-28.
6.Jump up ^ Whedon, Joss (w), Moline, Karl (p), Owens, Andy (i). "Big City Girl" Fray 1 (2001), Dark Horse Comics
7.Jump up ^ Whedon, Joss (w), Moline, Karl (p), Owens, Andy (i). "Ready, Steady..." Fray 3 (2001), Dark Horse Comics
8.Jump up ^ "Who Are You". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 4. Episode 16. 2000-02-29.
9.Jump up ^ "Sanctuary". Angel. Season 1. Episode 19. 2000-05-02.
10.Jump up ^ "Helpless". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 3. Episode 12. 1999-01-19.
11.Jump up ^ "Checkpoint". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 5. Episode 12. 2001-01-21.
See also[edit]
Slayer
Rupert Giles
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce


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 The character Darla, displaying her vampiric features.
In the fictional world of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off series Angel, a vampire is a unique variety of demon that can only exist on the earthly plane by inhabiting and animating a human corpse. In Fray, a Buffy comic book spin-off, vampires are also called lurks.


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2 Creation
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

Description[edit]



 The vampire Amilyn in the non-canonical film.
The vampires in the canonical Buffyverse differ greatly from those that appear in the 1992 Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie. The non-canonical vampires are able to fly, look pale but relatively human, and don not crumble to dust when killed. The canonical vampires, introduced in the first episode of the television series, are demons that inhabit human corpses.[1] Because of their partly human nature, vampires are considered impure by other demons who sometimes call them "blood rats".
When the ancient race of demons called the Old Ones were banished from Earth, the last one fed on a human and mixed their blood, creating the first vampire.[2] According to Illyria, vampires existed during her time as an Old One—long before the rest were banished from the realm. Vampires possess all the memories, skills, attributes, and qualities of their human predecessors. They also retained much of their host's personality, including any mental illnesses. For example, Spike retained his love for his dying mother and Harmony kept her vain, shallow valley girl personality and her love of unicorns. Darla tells the newly-turned Liam/Angelus that "what we were informs what we become" and after her resurrection as a human she says that the darkness he unleashed as Angelus was always in him as a human, years before they met.
Vampires possess superhuman abilities, such as increased strength, speed, endurance and agility, heightened senses, and accelerated healing—all of which increase as they grow older or when they drink the blood of powerful supernatural creatures. They can drain animals—including humans—of their blood in a few seconds. Vampires are immortal and can live indefinitely without any signs of aging, though extremely old vampires acquire demonic features such as cloven hooves for hands, and lose their resemblance to humans. Vampires—except those who are skilled with powerful magic such as Count Dracula—cannot shape-shift.
Vampires in the Buffyverse live on a diet of blood—preferably that of humans. They prefer fresh blood and seem to dislike the taste of non-human blood. They can determine by taste which type of animal blood is from. They require no other food or drink, and although they can ingest it they experience a dull sense of taste. Prolonged deprivation of blood can impair a vampire's higher brain functions and they become "living skeletons",[3] but lack of blood will not result in a vampire's death. They do not need to breathe air—although they can breathe to speak or smoke—and they cannot pass breath on to others via CPR. They are affected by drugs, poisons, and electricity and they can be sedated and tasered. Some vampires enjoy both alcoholic and caffeinated beverages, and tobacco.
Vampires can change at will between human appearance and a monstrous form with a pronounced brow ridge, yellow eyes, and sharp teeth. They make a roaring sound when angered. In human form, they can be detected by their lack of heartbeat and lower body temperature. They do not cast reflections, although they can be photographed and filmed. The are largely immune to telepathy.[4] However, Willow Rosenberg can telepathically communicate with vampires such as Spike.[5]
Vampires can be killed by beheading, burning with fire or sunlight, or by penetration of the heart by a wooden object. When killed, a vampire explodes in a cloud of dust. They heal quickly from most injuries but do not regrow lost limbs and can acquire scars. Their flesh burns in direct sunlight, and on contact with blessed objects such as holy water, a Bible, recently consecrated ground or a Christian cross. They can enter consecrated buildings but appear to feel ill-at-ease. If vampires acquires a mystical ring known as the Gem of Amarra, all their known weaknesses are removed, leading to them becoming essentially invincible while wearing it.[6] Vampires are attracted to bright colors and are said to dislike garlic.[7]
Vampires cannot enter a human residence without having been invited once by a living resident; however, once given, such an invitation can only be revoked by a magic ritual. If all living residents die, vampires can enter freely. Areas open to the public and the homes of other vampires, demons, and non-humans are not protected. Some private residencies may be entered by loophole: Angelus once entered a school that displayed sign outside inviting all who sought knowledge to enter.
To reproduce, vampires must drain a human being of most of his or her blood, the forcing the human to drink some of the vampire's blood.[2] This process is known as "siring", and the extant vampire is called a "sire". Sires often act as mentors to their 'children' and form small covens of related vampires for various purposes. Some vampires can be telepathically linked to those that they have sired.[8] The amount of time it takes for a new vampire to rise seems to vary; Buffy often kills vampires as they rise from their graves but other vampires rise after only a few hours. There is no explanation given for this in the series. They cannot normally reproduce sexually, but Jasmine manipulates events that allow Angel and Darla to conceive a son, Connor, who has a human soul with vampire-like abilities, but none of their weaknesses or need to drink blood. When pregnant, Darla's endurance, speed, cravings for blood, and strength increase as a result of the hormones produced to control her reproductive cycle and the effects of the presence of a human soul inside her unborn child.
Vampires in the Buffyverse do not have human souls, but Giles in "The Harvest" says the human corpse a vampire is born into is infected with a demon soul via vampiric blood, and therefore lacks a conscience. Angel and Spike—vampires who have had their souls restored to them—feel remorse for their previous actions. However, soulless vampires are capable of feeling human emotions such as love, though these tend to be expressed as twisted and obsessive behavior.
Physical contact with regenerative blood from a Mohra demon can restore an ensouled vampire to be human again.[9] In the canonical comic book series, Angel: After the Fall, powerful magic from the Senior Partners of Wolfram & Hart can also banish vampirism. The Shanshu Prophecy—which is of great interest to Angel and Spike—foretells that a vampire with a soul will play a pivotal role in an apocalyptic battle (for good or for evil) and that vampire may become human as a reward for his actions.
Variations of vampires are seen on both Buffy and Angel. In the Angel season two episode "Through the Looking Glass", Angel and his team travel to a parallel world, Pylea, where he becomes a "Van-Tal" demon with green skin, spines and a bestial appearance. This form is described by Wesley as the vampire (specifically the demon that creates the vampire) in its purest form. While in this form, Angel lacks the ability to reason, possessing neither the compassion his soul gives him nor the sadism he possesses as Angelus.
The seventh season of Buffy introduces the Turok-Han, an ancient species of vampire analogous to Neanderthal man.[10] These Turok-Han, colloquially referred to as "über-vamps", are stronger and harder to kill than common vampires, can usually withstand a stake to the chest without dusting and show only minor burns when doused with holy water, but can still be killed by beheading and sunlight. The Turok-Han show very little intelligence and cannot speak.
At the end of Season Eight, Buffy destroys the Seed of Wonder, affecting the magical world but not active demons and vampires on Earth. All new vampires sired after the Seed's destruction rise as mindless, feral creatures that Xander Harris dubs "zompires". However, at the end of Season Nine, after rogue slayer Simone Doffler's experiment to create an ultimate vampire upon the slayers who followed her, one slayer, Vicki, has risen as a vampire after Doffler's death who exhibits the abilities of immunity to sunlight and shape shifting. During the beginning of Season Ten, it shows that Vicki and the new breed of vampires she sired is also as strong and can withstand a stake to the chest as Turok-Han, however exhibiting a new vulnerability to silver as werewolves.
Creation[edit]



 A vampire "dusting". The writers felt that having vampires disintegrate after death would be convenient for the story.
The idea of the "vamp faces" — to have vampires' human features distort to become more demonic — was implemented because Whedon wanted to have high school students that the other characters could interact with normally. these would turn out be vampires, creating a sense of paranoia.[11] He also wanted to make the vampires look demonic, stating, "I didn't think I really wanted to put a show on the air about a high school girl who was stabbing normal-looking people in the heart. I thought somehow that might send the wrong message, but when they are clearly monsters, it takes it to a level of fantasy that is safer."
In early episodes, the vampires appeared "very white-faced, very creepy, very ghoulish". This was changed in later seasons to make the vampires look more human because of the sympathetic vampire character Angel and because elaborate make-up was time-consuming. Whedon said that people thought the white faces were "funny looking" but found it creepy, comparing it to the monsters in zombie movies such as Day of the Dead and The Evil Dead.[11] The character of the Master was designed to be in permanently in vamp face to highlight his age and make him appear animalistic. Make-up artist John Vulich based the Master's appearance on a bat, saying that the character has devolved to a more primal, demonic state over the years.[12]
It was decided that vampires and their clothes would turn to dust after they died. The introduction to one episode, "The Wish", parodied this vampiric trait; when Buffy kills a non-humanoid demon, Willow wonders why the demon corpse "doesn't go poof" and must be buried. Joss Whedon had the vampires explode into dust because it was practical, it demonstrates that they are monsters, he did not want a high school girl killing bad guys every episode and have them clean up bodies for 20 minutes, and it also "looks really cool".[citation needed]
In the first episode, vampires' clothes reflect the era in which they died. Joss Whedon felt this concept was a "charming notion" but rejected it because he believed that if every vampire in the show was dressed in old-fashioned clothes they would cease to be scary.[11]
When creating the vampire "rules" that they would use in the show, the writers used elements from existing vampire lore. They decided the vampires would not fly as in the Buffy movie because they could not make flying vampires look convincing on a television budget. Garlic is mentioned in early episodes as a vampire deterrent but is seldom used. Some established rules, such as a vampire's inability to enter a home uninvited, both helped and hindered the storytelling. Whedon said that whereas shows such as The X-Files spend time explaining the science behind the supernatural and making it as real as possible, Buffy and Angel are more concerned with the emotion resulting from these creatures and events than justifying how they could conceivably exist. The shows therefore tend to gloss over the details of vampire and demon lore, simply using the Hellmouth as a plot device to explain unexplainable things.[12]
See also[edit]
Vampire fiction
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Lie to Me", Season 2 episode 7
2.^ Jump up to: a b "Welcome to the Hellmouth", pilot episode
3.Jump up ^ "Pangs", Season 4, episode 8
4.Jump up ^ Earshot
5.Jump up ^ The Gift
6.Jump up ^ The Harsh Light of Day
7.Jump up ^ The Wish
8.Jump up ^ Angel - Season 1 episode "Somnambulist"
9.Jump up ^ "I Will Remember You
10.Jump up ^ "Never Leave Me" Season 7 episode 9
11.^ Jump up to: a b c Joss Whedon (2000). Commentary for Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Welcome to the Hellmouth" (DVD (Region 2)). United States: 20th Century Fox.
12.^ Jump up to: a b Joss Whedon (2000). Commentary for Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "The Harvest" (DVD (Region 2)). United States: 20th Century Fox.
External links[edit]
Vampires section at "All Things Philosophical on BtVS and AtS"


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Sunnydale
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Notable locations
Sunnydale High School
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Notable characters
Buffy Summers
Rupert Giles
Xander Harris
Willow Rosenberg
Cordelia Chase
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Sunnydale is the fictional setting for the U.S. television drama Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Series creator Joss Whedon conceived the town as a representation of a generic California city, as well as a narrative parody of the all-too-serene towns typical in traditional horror movies.
Sunnydale is located on a "Hellmouth"; a portal "between this reality and the next", and convergence point of mystical energies.[1]


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1 Environs 1.1 Sunnydale itself
1.2 Sunnydale's surroundings 1.2.1 The Sunnydale Effect
1.3 Maps of Sunnydale
1.4 Filming locations
2 History 2.1 Prior to Buffy's arrival 2.1.1 Mystic artifacts
2.2 During the series
3 References

Environs[edit]
Sunnydale itself[edit]
Sunnydale's size and surroundings are implausible but justified given its origins — to sustain a human population for supernatural evils to prey upon. The town's founder spared no expense to attract a populace, and Sunnydale thus contains many elements of a large city — which the show's writers utilized fully for comic effect and narrative convenience. During the first three seasons, Sunnydale is shown to have 38,500 inhabitants,[2] very few high schools,[3] forty-three churches,[4] a small private college,[5] a zoo,[6] a museum,[7] and one modest main street. Even so, it has twelve gothic cemeteries.[8] These cemeteries are so heavily used that services are sometimes held at night.[9]
In later seasons it is revealed that Sunnydale contains a campus of the University of California system, as well as a profitable magic supply shop. The town is also seen to include a large park containing a creek and a lake,[9] and one of its cemeteries is shown to be adjacent to a lake.[10] Sunnydale has a number of parks: Weatherly Park, Glebe Park, Radcliff Park and Nelson Park are just some of the examples.
Sunnydale has a train station,[11] a bus station,[12] a small airport,[13] and a small military base.[14]
Directly beneath Sunnydale High School is a Hellmouth, a subterranean, mystical portal that attracts evil forces. This functions as a major plot device in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as it explains why vampires and other demons are so prevalent in Sunnydale.
Sunnydale possesses many common horror-movie characteristics, such as an abundance of dark alleyways, abandoned mansions and factories, and an adult population that is either clueless or perpetually in denial, in stark contrast to the demon-fighting, supernaturally aware teens.
By the show's seventh season, set in 2002–03, the city's population had fallen to 32,900.[15] In the spring, the town is almost completely evacuated before its destruction.
Sunnydale's surroundings[edit]
Sunnydale has a somewhat isolated location.[16]
The town is situated near several acres of woods and forest, including Miller's Woods.[17] Breaker's Woods is a 45-minute drive from town.[18]
Sunnydale is located on or near the Pacific Ocean. An ocean port with several docked ships is nearby.[19] Kingman's Bluff stands on a tall cliff overlooking the sea.[20] There is a beach not too far away.[21]
Close to or in Sunnydale is an old quarry house built beside a deep lake, located a few feet from a cliff edge.[22] In addition, there is a hydroelectric dam in the vicinity of Sunnydale.[23]
Within a day's drive of Sunnydale is a desert.[24] It is stated several times that Sunnydale is approximately two hours' drive north of Los Angeles.[25]
In the final episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer ("Chosen"), and also in the first issue of the Buffy: Season Eight comic book, Sunnydale is depicted being surrounded by desert terrain.[26]
The episode "Pangs" reveals that Sunnydale is in the former homeland of the Chumash people, which is the area northwest of Los Angeles, centered on Santa Barbara County. The episode references a lost Spanish mission, which might be a reference to a historical mission originally located near Point Conception which was destroyed by an earthquake and relocated inland.
The episode "Shadow" (5.08) contains a telephone directory ad for the Magic Box, which uses an 805 area code. This would indicate that Sunnydale is located in Santa Barbara County, or possibly Ventura County or San Luis Obispo County (all are along the coast north of Los Angeles but south of Monterey).
The Sunnydale Effect[edit]
Despite the number of calamities, mass murder sprees, incidents of unexplained behavior and property damage that occur throughout the town, people do not leave or adopt significantly different lifestyle choices (including continuing to go out at night as normal despite a staggering number of vampire induced deaths). It has been speculated that the Hellmouth or some individual (most likely Mayor Wilkins) have caused a passive memory easement field to exist over the town, wherein most individuals, if not continually prompted, forget or explain away unpleasant events, causing them to view Sunnydale as, at worst, having a slightly high crime rate. Younger people or persons without the ability to leave seem to be affected less strongly (such as the students of Sunnydale High seeming to be somewhat aware of how dangerous their lives are), but this does not extend to personal safety in general, as basic protective actions such as staying inside after dark do not seem to occur to the majority of people.
Maps of Sunnydale[edit]
Maps of Sunnydale have appeared at various times during the show:
A large map of "Sunnydale County" hangs on the wall of Principal Snyder's office and also on the wall of Mayor Wilkins' office.[27] This is actually a map of Santa Barbara County, California with the words "Sunnydale County" superimposed on it. According to this map, Sunnydale is located at a bend on the California coast. To the south and west of Sunnydale is the Pacific Ocean. Joss Whedon stated in November 1998 that "Sunnydale is in fact near Santa Barbara."[28]
Giles uses a street map of Santa Barbara as a map of Sunnydale when he is plotting sightings of the Initiative commandos in the series' fourth season.[29]
A street map of central Sunnydale is used by the Scooby Gang twice in the seventh season.[30]
In the seventh season, Andrew draws a map of Sunnydale to track the First's activities.[31] The general shape of the coastline matches the map used in season three. According to Andrew's map, there are woods between Sunnydale and the ocean to the west and to the south, and directly southeast of the town, at the location where the coast bends, there is a dark forest. There are also woods to the east of Sunnydale, as well as railroad tracks.
Filming locations[edit]
Main article: Buffy the Vampire Slayer filming locations
Various southern California locations are used as stand-ins for Sunnydale:
The exterior shots, and some interior shots, of Buffy's home are of an actual home located in Torrance.
The exterior shots of Sunnydale High School (seasons 1–3) are of Torrance High School in Torrance, California.
The exterior shots of The Mansion (seasons 2–3) are of Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House in Los Feliz near Griffith Park.
Most of the University of California, Sunnydale scenes (season 4) were filmed at the University of California, Los Angeles, and in a closed sound stage designed to match the UCLA architecture. Some of the later scenes were filmed at a private business park.
The exterior shots of Sunnydale City Hall is the Iowa Courthouse Building, an office building in Torrance.
The exterior shots of New Sunnydale High School (season 7) were filmed at California State University, Northridge in Northridge, California.
History[edit]
Prior to Buffy's arrival[edit]
Long before humans settled the area, an entrance to the Hellmouth existed at the site of the future town of Sunnydale.
In ancient times, a magic scythe was used at the site of the Hellmouth "to kill the last pure demon that walked upon the Earth." After this, the scythe was hidden, and its last guardian remained, waiting in a pagan temple that would somehow remain unnoticed for centuries.[32]
Centuries later, Navajo and Chumash peoples lived in this area. One or more groups of monks or friars also settled in this area.[33] As in general California history, these friars can safely be assumed to have been Spanish Franciscans, who arrived in California in the late 18th century.[34] In 1812, there was an earthquake in the Sunnydale region that caused a cave-in during which an entire mission was lost; the very existence of the mission was soon forgotten. (The Mission La Purisima Concepción, originally sited near Point Conception and relocated to Lompoc would fit this description.)[35]
Richard Wilkins arrived in California in the late 19th century, looking for gold. He founded Sunnydale (after considering the alternate names "Happydale" and "Sunny Acres") in a demon infested valley after a Navajo Slayer died there [36] in 1899. He made a pact with the demons to found a town atop the Hellmouth for them "to feed on", in return for the promise of immortality by becoming a pure demon himself. Wilkins became Mayor of Sunnydale.[37]
In the 1930s, there was at least one more major earthquake in Sunnydale. This caused a cave-in that swallowed up the Master and his lair, as well as the temple on Kingman's Bluff. (The date of this earthquake is given as either 1932 or 1937, although it is possible these were two distinct quakes.)[38]
Sometime in the 1980s or 1990s, Richard Wilkins was again elected mayor, now under the name of "Richard Wilkins III", and served more than one term.[39]
By the 1990s, Sunnydale appeared to have become a typical town on the California coast, with a popular mayor, a police force, and a local newspaper (the Sunnydale Press[40]). However, Mayor Wilkins had instructed the police to cover up any supernatural or mysterious violence occurring in the city, and had instructed Principal Snyder to cover up supernatural violence occurring at Sunnydale High.[41]
Mystic artifacts[edit]
At some point in Sunnydale's history, the following mystic artifacts were hidden throughout the town's cemeteries and perhaps elsewhere:
the du Lac Cross (found in "What's My Line, Part One")
some, but not all, of the scattered remnants of the Judge (found and reassembled in "Surprise"); other pieces were found elsewhere and shipped to Sunnydale
the Glove of Myhneghon (found in "Revelations")
the Amulet of Balthazar (found in "Bad Girls")
the Gem of Amarra (found in "The Harsh Light of Day")
During the series[edit]
The series begins when Buffy Summers, the current vampire slayer, moves to 1630 Revello Drive, and begins attending Sunnydale High School. There she meets new friends, including Willow Rosenberg, Xander Harris, and her new watcher, Rupert Giles. This "Scooby Gang", eventually including popular cheerleader Cordelia Chase and Willow's boyfriend Oz, often hangs out at the Bronze, the Espresso Pump (a local coffee house with a retro gas station motif) and the Sun Cinema. Buffy's mother, Joyce, works in an art gallery in Sunnydale.
During their time in high school, Buffy and her friends fight a number of vampires, most notably the Master, Spike, Drusilla, and (when he had lost his soul) Angel. Another slayer, Faith, arrives in their senior year of high school (Season 3) and lives at the Downtowner Motel[42] until she joins forces with Mayor Wilkins.
In the third season episode "The Wish", Cordelia angrily wishes that Buffy Summers had never arrived in Sunnydale, and her wish is granted by vengeance demon Anyanka. Cordelia finds herself in an alternate universe where The Master has risen to the surface and completely taken over the town, with the surviving human population living in terror of the vampires. The school is sparsely populated; curfews are strict; humans sport crosses and drab colors to avoid attracting vampires; and almost all of the people she knew are either dead or turned into vampires.
At the end of the third season (June 1999), Sunnydale High School is destroyed in a great conflict that kills Mayor Wilkins and Principal Snyder. After this point, there is no mention in the television show of the political leaders of the city. The police occasionally appear, but the police chief does not. There is no further discussion of the police covering up supernatural evidence, although one newspaper headline suggests this may have continued.[43]
As the fourth season begins (fall 1999), Buffy and Willow begin attending the University of California, Sunnydale. There they discover that the United States government was operating a secret military complex, the Initiative, in a cavern beneath the UC Sunnydale campus. The Initiative is closed down at the end of the season (spring 2000) after a climactic battle with the cyborg Adam. By this time, Tara Maclay and Anya have been added to the Scooby Gang. Later this same year, Giles purchases a magic shop named The Magic Box.[44]
Sometime between the fourth and fifth seasons (during the summer of 2000), the mysterious "Key" is transformed into Buffy's younger "sister", Dawn Summers and the evil goddess Glory arrives in the town, leading to an increase in the number of mentally ill patients, due to her ability to suck the sanity of their brains to maintain her own sanity. The next year brings the deaths of Joyce Summers and also Buffy herself, although Buffy manages to return from the grave. After this point, Buffy and Dawn become co-owners of the family house.[45]
Before Season 5's end, a scene in the city would be shown at least once in the second season of Buffy's spinoff, Angel. In the episode "Disharmony", Cordelia Chase calls Willow from Los Angeles when her high school friend Harmony Kendall turns up. We see Willow's side of this call in a rare Sunnydale scene for this series. Angel himself returns to Sunnydale at least four times in Buffy seasons 4, 5 and 7.
At the end of the sixth season (spring 2002), the Magic Box is destroyed in a battle between Willow and Buffy. At the beginning of the next season (fall 2002), Sunnydale High School is rebuilt, on exactly the same location as before — directly over the Hellmouth.
By this time, knowledge of supernatural phenomena seems to be slowly growing in the town.[43] Sunnydale's population is also revealed to have dropped to 32,900.[46]
In the second half of the seventh season (early 2003), supernatural manifestations at Sunnydale High reach unprecedented levels. Within less than a month, virtually the entire population of the town flees in a mass evacuation.[47] Soon thereafter, the cataclysmic showdown between the Scooby Gang and the First Evil results in the complete obliteration of the town, which collapses into a giant pit, closing the entrance to the Hellmouth.[48]
During the weeks between the series finale of Buffy and the Season 5 premiere of Angel, Lindsey McDonald makes an off-screen trip to the crater and digs up the amulet worn by Spike in the final battle. He sends it to Angel at Wolfram & Hart where it releases an incorporeal Spike. The destruction of the city is mentioned several times during Angel's final season, mainly tying into Spike's brief ghostly status. It is seen one more time when a military general oversees the crater in Season 8. The destruction of the town has also led the U.S. government to brand the Scooby Gang and their Slayers an international terrorist group.
In the final arc of Season 8, the Scooby Gang return to the ruins of Sunnydale to secure the Seed of Wonder, an artifact that is the source of all magic on Earth, and serves as a battleground between themselves and a massive legion of extra-dimensional demons.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Welcome to the Hellmouth (1.01) introduces the Hellmouth, which is referred to numerous times throughout the series. The entrance to the Hellmouth is seen under the school in The Zeppo, Doomed, Conversations with Dead People, and throughout the second half of season seven.
2.Jump up ^ The "Welcome to Sunnydale" sign says 38,500 in two early episodes: School Hard (2.03) and Lovers Walk (3.08).
3.Jump up ^ In Some Assembly Required (2.02), the three dead cheerleaders attended Fondren High, which is "across town" from Sunnydale High. In Reptile Boy (2.05), Kent Preparatory School is mentioned. In Dead Man's Party (3.02) Joyce mentions a local all-girls school named Miss Porter's. Yet in most episodes "the high school" refers specifically to Sunnydale High.
4.Jump up ^ Giles is surprised at this figure in What's My Line, Part Two (2.10).
5.Jump up ^ Crestwood College is featured in Reptile Boy (2.05) but never mentioned again.
6.Jump up ^ there are three visits to the zoo in The Pack (1.06), including a class trip and one trip by Buffy on foot.
7.Jump up ^ The museum director who receives the box containing the demon Acathla in Becoming, Part One (2.21) refers to Giles as being "right here in Sunnydale".
8.Jump up ^ According to Giles in Revelations (3.07).
9.^ Jump up to: a b Once More, with Feeling (6.07).
10.Jump up ^ Help (7.04).
11.Jump up ^ Buffy finds dead bodies in the train in Crush (5.14).
12.Jump up ^ The bus station is shown in Inca Mummy Girl (2.04), What's My Line, Part One (2.09), and Showtime (7.11), and mentioned in Innocence (2.14).
13.Jump up ^ Kendra arrives by plane in What's My Line, Part One (2.09), and the airport itself is shown in Choices (3.19) and Who Are You (4.16) as well as Bargaining I (6.01). The airport shown in this episode is actually Burbank Airport with "Sunnydale" photoshopped over the word Burbank. In Tabula Rasa (6.08), Giles's ticket shows an itinerary from Sunnydale Airport to Los Angeles International Airport and then to London Heathrow Airport, which is the same route announced on the public address system as Giles awaits his flight in Bargaining, Part I (6.01).
14.Jump up ^ In "Innocence" (2.14), Xander and Cordelia break into the base to steal a rocket launcher as part of his plan to destroy the Judge.
15.Jump up ^ The "Welcome to Sunnydale" sign says 32,900 in Conversations with Dead People (7.07).
16.Jump up ^ When Sunnydale is stricken by a town-wide epidemic — such as the silence spell in Hush (4.10) — no other towns seem to be nearby.
17.Jump up ^ The woods in Homecoming (3.05) are named "Miller's Woods". In Bargaining, Part Two (6.02) and Villains (6.20) the woods are large enough to get lost in.
18.Jump up ^ Giles visited there during Lovers Walk (3.08).
19.Jump up ^ The port is seen in Surprise (2.13) and Consequences (3.15). In Consequences, Giles refers to Buffy and Faith's return from the docks as "coming back to town", indicating that the docks are not part of Sunnydale itself.
20.Jump up ^ Kingman's Bluff is the location of Willow's terrible spell (Grave, 6.22).
21.Jump up ^ It is not specified how close this beach is to Sunnydale. It is seen in Go Fish (2.20) and Buffy vs. Dracula (5.01).
22.Jump up ^ Although the quarry house never appears in any episodes, it does make an appearance in the comic book series The Blood of Carthage, which explains the house's Pre-Columbian origins. The house and its also appear in the Chaos Bleeds video game.
23.Jump up ^ In As You Were (6.15), Buffy, Riley and Riley's wife, Sam, fight a Suvolte demon on a dam they only drove a short distance to reach.
24.Jump up ^ Giles drives Buffy to the desert in Intervention (5.18), and drives with the Potentials to the desert in The Killer in Me (7.13).
25.Jump up ^ In Sanctuary (Angel 1.19), cops refer to Sunnydale as being "up north"
26.Jump up ^ At the end of Chosen (7.22) the town has sunk into a large pit, and the pit is completely surrounded by desert. It is shown this way in the comic book Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #1, "The Long Way Home", pages 14-15.
27.Jump up ^ It was in the principal's office in Dead Man's Party (3.02), and in the mayor's office in various third-season episodes. The best view of the map is in Choices (3.19). Compare this with the map of Santa Barbara County at http://www.countyofsb.org/stats.asp.
28.Jump up ^ Joss Whedon post on The Bronze posting board, November 22, 1998, archived here [1].
29.Jump up ^ Doomed (4.11)
30.Jump up ^ Once early in the season, and again in Touched (7.20).
31.Jump up ^ Shown in Get it Done (7.15).
32.Jump up ^ End of Days (7.21).
33.Jump up ^ Navajo (Diné) people are mentioned in "The Glittering World" in Tales of the Slayers. Chumash are mentioned in Pangs (4.08). One group of monks were mentioned by the ancient guardian in End of Days (7.21); a possibly different group in Pangs (4.08).
34.Jump up ^ Spike and Andrew journey to a different mission in Empty Places (7.19).
35.Jump up ^ Pangs (4.08).
36.Jump up ^ "The Glittering World", in Tales of the Slayers
37.Jump up ^ Enemies (3.17).
38.Jump up ^ In The Harvest (1.02), Willow refers to an earthquake in 1937 which "swallowed half the town", including the Master's lair. In Grave (6.22), Anya says that the temple on Kingman's Bluff was "swallowed up in the big earthquake of '32". It is possible they are referring to two different earthquakes, but it is also possible that one of them is simply misstating the date.
39.Jump up ^ Enemies (3.17). A sign saying "Reelect Mayor Wilkins" is visible; since no election is currently being held, this indicates a past re-election bid.
40.Jump up ^ It can be seen in Never Kill a Boy on the First Date, Reptile Boy, Becoming, Part One, Bad Girls, Consequences, Graduation Day, Part One, Hush, and Once More, with Feeling.
41.Jump up ^ In Lovers Walk (3.08), Wilkins refers to having covered up Spike and Drusilla's rampages during season two. Snyder and the police chief discuss these coverups in I Only Have Eyes for You (2.19). Wilkins and Snyder discuss it in Graduation Day, Part 1 (3.21).
42.Jump up ^ The sign reads "Downtowner Motel/Apt." in The Zeppo (3.12) and others.
43.^ Jump up to: a b In Once More, with Feeling (6.07), the headline of the Sunnydale Press states, "MAYHEM CAUSED. MONSTERS CERTAINLY NOT INVOLVED, OFFICIALS SAY."
44.Jump up ^ The Real Me (5.02), which has been seen multiple times previously — for example, in Lovers Walk (3.08), at which time it is called Uncle Bob's Magic Cabinet.
45.Jump up ^ Joyce's will would have either left the house to Buffy or to Buffy and Dawn. In Empty Places (7.19), Dawn tells Buffy "this is my house, too."
46.Jump up ^ The "Welcome to Sunnydale" sign lists a population 38,500 in several early episodes, including School Hard (2.03) and Lovers Walk (3.08). In Conversations with Dead People, meanwhile, it gives a population of 32,900 (7.07). The sign is visible for a moment at the end of Chosen (7.22) but the population figure is not legible.
47.Jump up ^ The evacuation is seen at the beginning of Empty Places (7.19), although the Bronze is still crowded. By the next episode, Touched (7.20), the town is virtually empty.
48.Jump up ^ Chosen (7.22).


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Many scenes in the movie and television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer were shot on locations in and around Los Angeles, California.


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1 Schools
2 Residences
3 Cemeteries
4 Other locations
5 References
6 External links

Schools[edit]



Torrance High School


 Actual house used as Buffy's fictional Revello Drive residence


Griffith Park
In the 1992 motion picture version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer starring Kristy Swanson, Marshall High School at 400 Tracy Street in Los Angeles provided locations for Hemery High School.
After the events of that movie, Buffy Summers was expelled from Hemery and moved to Sunnydale, where she attended Sunnydale High School, whose exterior scenes were shot at Torrance High School at 2200 W. Carson Street in Torrance, California.
During the fourth season of the show, Buffy and her friends Willow Rosenberg and Daniel "Oz" Osbourne attended the fictional University of California at Sunnydale. Exterior shots used in the series were filmed at the actual University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) campus in Westwood, at California State University, Northridge, and at the CF Braun Business Park at 1000 S. Fremont Street, Alhambra. In later seasons, the Cal State Northridge exteriors were used for the new Sunnydale High School where Buffy's younger sister Dawn was a student, rebuilt after the original high school was blown up.
Residences[edit]
The house used for exterior shots of Buffy’s house on Revello Drive is a real house in Torrance, California, three blocks north of Torrance High School.
The mansion occupied by vampires Angel, Drusilla and Spike at the end of the second season (and by Angel in the third) is the Ennis House, designed by the celebrated architect Frank Lloyd Wright. It stands on a hilltop at 2607 Glendower Avenue in Griffith Park.
The exterior for the apartment building where Xander and Anya lived is located at 844 S. Plymouth Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. The 1936 Streamline Moderne building was designated a Historic-Cultural Monument in 2010.
Cemeteries[edit]
A makeshift cemetery was set up in the parking lot of the show’s studios in Santa Monica, and many cemetery scenes were filmed at the Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery at 1831 W. Washington Boulevard, in the West Adams District, south of Los Angeles’ Koreatown.
Other locations[edit]
Other Buffy locations include:
The football stadium and bleachers at West High School in Torrance, California ("Some Assembly Required").
Walt Disney’s Golden Oak Ranch.
The Rose Garden at Exposition Park (“Inca Mummy Girl”).
The Santa Ana Zoo (“The Pack”, “Shadow”).
Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park at 10700 W. Escondido Canyon Road in Agua Dulce, California.
Stoner Recreation Center at the intersection of Stoner Avenue and Missouri Avenue in West Los Angeles (“Shadow”, “I Was Made to Love You”, “All the Way”, “Gone”, and “Grave”).
The Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanical Gardens at 301 N. Baldwin Avenue in Arcadia (“Grave”).
Angel’s Gate Recreation Center at Gaffey and 37th Street in San Pedro (“Grave”).
Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area at 4100 South La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles (where Tara sings "Under Your Spell" in “Once More, with Feeling”).
Woodley Avenue Park between Victory Boulevard and Burbank Boulevard in Van Nuys (“Two to Go”).
The Church of the Angels at 1100 Avenue 64 in Pasadena (“Who Are You?”).
Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, a facility about an hour’s drive northeast of Los Angeles at which stealth fighters were built (the Initiative in Season Four).
The Castle Green Apartments at 99 S. Raymond Avenue in Pasadena (exterior of Glory’s apartment in Season Five).
The Four Aces Desert Film Location near 145th Street and Avenue Q, east of Palmdale (“Spiral”, “Villains”).
Paramount Iceland[1] at 8041 Jackson Street, Paramount (the ice rink in “What’s My Line, Part One”).
Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica (“Entropy”).
Six Flags Magic Mountain (“Seeing Red”) (it is next to the "Déjà Vu" ride, southwest corner of park).
The San Pedro docks (Sunnydale’s waterfront in “Surprise”).
Sherman Oaks Galleria (the shopping mall in “Bad Eggs”).
Robinson's Department Store at 7th and S. Grand in Los Angeles (the “shopping mall” in “Innocence”).
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County at 900 Exposition Boulevard (“Inca Mummy Girl”).
Linda Vista Hospital at 610 S. St. Louis Street, Los Angeles.
The "Factory" ("When She Was Bad" through "Passion" and "Lovers Walk") is at Willow St. & S. Santa Fe Ave., Los Angeles.
Long Beach Airport at 4100 E Donald Douglas Dr. Long Beach. (Sunnydale Airport in “Bargaining, Part One”)
The Sunnydale Backlot is at 1800 Stewart St., Santa Monica.
Sunnydale City Hall is at 18411 Crenshaw Blvd., Torrance.
Mr Kaltenbach's house ("All the Way") is at 4th Ave. & W. 15th St., Los Angeles.
Amy Madison's house ("Witch") was at Post Ave. & W. Carson St., Torrance.
In "The Freshman", Buffy & Eddie got lost on campus and accidentally bumped into each other in front of Macgowan Hall, U.C.L.A.
The bus stop location used in ("Inca Mummy Girl") was at Torrance H.S., the rear parking lot on Plaza del Amo (the building is next to the exit).
In "The Pack", the house where Buffy jumped on the van to protect the family inside was on Watson Ave. (across from the large stairway, left of school front).
In "Angel", Buffy was attacked by The Three at Cravens & Gramercy Ave., Torrance.
The miniature golf scenes in "Ted" were shot at the Sherman Oaks Castle Park at 4989 Sepulveda Blvd. (courses 6 & 2).
Buffy was hit by a pickup truck ("Anne") at 11th & Broadway, Los Angeles.
Buffy and Angel watched the snow ("Amends") at Angel's Gate Park (3601 Gaffey St., San Pedro).
In "The Zeppo", zombie Parker is beheaded by a mailbox on Watson Ave. (across from the Assembly Hall).
In "The Freshman", Oz, Willow and Buffy meet to the lower/right side of Powell Library (near the bulletin board). In the same episode, Buffy is seen exiting the far right door of Royce Hall.
In "I Will Remember You", Buffy and Angel kissed on the cliff at Santa Monica, at a point across from the Georgian Hotel, off Ocean Avenue near Santa Monica Boulevard.
Riley played basketball ("Out of My Mind") at Stewart Street Park.
The train in "Crush" is at the Fillmore Western Railway, 351 Santa Clara St., Fillmore.
In "Once More, with Feeling", the "Walk through the Fire" scene is at Clyde Ave. & Fallsgrove St., Los Angeles.
The museum robbed by the Trio ("Smashed") is the Natural History Museum, Los Angeles (southeast corner).
Buffy is invisible ("Gone") at Cravens & Marcelina Ave., Torrance.
"Doublemeat Palace" exteriors were shot at Sepulveda & Palms Blvd., Los Angeles.
Tara's grave ("Help") is at the Anthony Bellenson Park, northwest section. (This part of the park is better known by the name of the lake situated there; Lake Balboa)
One of the locations in "Him" is at Santa Clara & Mountain View St., Fillmore.
The Rye Canyon Loop at the intersection of Kelly Johnson Parkway, Santa Clarita, is seen several times in seasons 4-5: "Goodbye Iowa", "This Year's Girl", "New Moon Rising", "Primeval", "Into the Woods" and "Spiral".
The Griffith Park carousel in Los Angeles (visited by Riley and Dawn in “Shadow”).
Buffy finds the Dagon Sphere (“No Place Like Home”) at the parking lot at the corner of Palmetto Street and S. Santa Fe Avenue in Los Angeles. The Buffybot is destroyed (“Bargaining, Part Two”) in the same place. Buffy first meets Glory (“No Place Like Home”) in the adjacent Willow Street warehouse.
Palmetto Street between S. Santa Fe Avenue and Mateo Street in Los Angeles (street scenes with Buffy and the Hellions and with Spike and Dawn on the motorcycle in “Bargaining, Part Two”, Willow and Dawn’s monster encounter in “Wrecked”, and Dawn and Clem searching for Willow in “Two to Go”).
Antelope Valley at the northwest corner of Piute Butte (34°39'44" N, 117°51'25" W), near 151st Street East and East Avenue L (Buffy’s dream encounter with the Primitive/First Slayer in “Restless”, her vision quest in “Intervention”, and her encounter with the Shadow Men in “Get It Done”).
Sony Pictures Studio - in "Sleeper" - When Buffy was following Spike to see where he was going.
Mission San Fernando Rey in Mission Hills - in "Pangs" - where Buffy went to find Father Gabriel.
St. Timothy's Catholic Church in "The Prom" - Church interior was used for the wedding scene and the entrance that faces S. Beverly Glen Blvd. was used for the sequence where Buffy bursts into flames.
Bioness company grounds (34.455894,-118.580184) from "This Year's Girl" where Buffy and Willow encounter Faith on the UCSD campus and Bioness' helipad (34.455162,-118.580166) from "Into the Woods" where Riley departs via helicopter at the end of the episode.
The University of Southern California's Physical Education Building swimming pool (34.021315,-118.28623) is where all the pool scenes from "Go Fish" were filmed.
The fraternity house in "Reptile Boy" was filmed at the Wattles Mansion at 1824 North Curson Avenue in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Paramounticeland.com
External links[edit]
IMDb list of locations
Lists many Buffy locations throughout Los Angeles and elsewhere.
Lists many other Buffy locations.


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A Slayer, in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel (both created by Joss Whedon), is a young female bestowed with mystical powers that originate from the essence of a pure-demon, which gives her superhuman senses, strength, agility, resilience and speed in the fight against forces of darkness. She occasionally receives prophetic dreams in the few hours that she sleeps.
The opening narration in the Buffy series states "Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number. She is the Slayer."
While, in the series, they are commonly referred to as "Vampire Slayers", even by Watchers and vampires themselves, the Slayer may operate as a defender against any and all supernatural threats.
The reputation of the Slayer is well-known and revered, even throughout other dimensions. The notion of The Slayer has been compared to the equivalent of a Demonic "Boogey-Man," incredibly feared and considered by most to be essentially unconquerable.


Contents  [hide]
1 The Chosen One 1.1 The First Slayer
1.2 The Slayer line
2 Powers and abilities 2.1 Strength
2.2 Agility and reflexes
2.3 Resilience and healing
2.4 Senses
2.5 Dreams
2.6 Other abilities
3 Weapons and equipment 3.1 Scythe
3.2 "Slayer Emergency Kit"
4 See also
5 References

The Chosen One[edit]

In every generation there is a Chosen One. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons, and the forces of darkness. She is the Slayer.
— The opening narration in seasons 1 and 2 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The First Slayer[edit]
In ancient Africa, a group of tribal elders known as the Shadow Men used powerful magic to infuse a captive girl with the heart, soul and spirit of a demon.[1] This process granted the girl great strength, agility, and endurance: she became the First Slayer, called to fight the vampires and other demons that populate the Earth. The Shadow Men's descendants went on to form the Watchers' Council, an organization dedicated to finding, training, and supporting Slayers.[2]
The Slayer line[edit]
Due to the violent nature of the life of a Slayer, their average lifespan is quite short after being called. Consequently, the Shadow Men's spell also created a large number of Potential Slayers—normal girls around the world who may one day be called. When a Slayer dies, one of the Potentials—seemingly chosen at random—gains the powers and abilities of a Slayer. The Watcher's Council tries to identify and train these "Potentials" before they are called, locating some as babies, but are not always able to do so, with some girls only being found after they have been activated as the Slayer.
This process continues through the generations until 1997, when one Slayer—Buffy Summers—is killed in battle (by drowning) only to be revived via CPR.[3] Buffy retains her Slayer powers, but her clinical death is enough for the next Slayer to be called. For the next year there are two Slayers in the world: first Kendra, who was called on Buffy's death, and then Faith, who was called when Kendra was killed by Drusilla. Regardless, Buffy is still referred to as the Slayer.
Buffy's second death[4] did not result in another slayer being called because of Faith—a new slayer would not be called until her death; however, Buffy's second resurrection for some reason caused an imbalance in the Slayer line. Following her first death, Mayor Wilkins says that he does not want Buffy killed,[5] because that will cause a new Slayer to be called, and, when she is discussing why she has been revived a second time with Giles, Buffy states, "It was my time, Giles. Someone would've taken my place."[6] Following her second death, Buffy herself, addressing a group of Potential Slayers, says: "My death could make you the next Slayer."[7] However, the shooting script for the final episode on the show originally included a much longer speech by Buffy to the potential Slayers, including the line "It's true none of you has the power Faith and I have. I think both of us would have to die for a new Slayer to be called, and we can't even be sure that girl is in this room. That's the rule. So here's the part where you make a choice."[8]
The mystical "rules" governing the Calling of Slayers change again in 2003, when Buffy discovers a Scythe forged for the Slayer to wield.[2] Willow Rosenberg uses magic to tap into the Scythe's essence at Buffy's request, and performs a spell that calls every living Potential Slayer at once, thus ending the legacy of "one girl in all the world".[9]
After taking the time to find and count them, Buffy states that there are at least 1800 Slayers in the world, 500 of which are working with the Scooby Gang.[10] Potentials now awaken as Slayers when they reach suitable maturation; for instance, the Slayer Soledad was awakened on her sixteenth birthday.
At the end of Season Eight, Buffy destroys the Seed of Wonder, affecting the magical world; while all active Slayers present on Earth remain, no new Slayers can be called.
At some point in the 21st century, a Slayer faces an army of demons. As a result of this battle, all demons and magicks are banished from Earth's dimension. At this point, the Slayer line becomes dormant—while Potential Slayers still exist, none are called for two hundred years.[11]
In the far future, demons eventually find a way to return to Earth's dimension, and the next Slayer is finally called—a girl named Melaka Fray. The continuity of the Slayer line is still unclear since Melaka had a twin brother who was given the dreams and visions typically possessed by the Slayer, while Melaka received the physical attributes (strength, reflexes, stamina, accelerated healing). On top of that, Melaka's brother has died and become a vampire.[12]
Powers and abilities[edit]
The powers that are bestowed upon the Slayer are mostly physical enhancements that vary in degree from Slayer to Slayer.
Strength[edit]
Slayers are endowed with strength greater than that of regular humans, some demons and the majority of vampires. Buffy Summers, for instance, has been shown to lift, with great effort, a metal portcullis which an entire group of men were unable to budge.[13] She is also capable of bending a steel rifle barrel with little apparent effort[14] and easily bending open the bars of prison cells with her bare hands.[15] Buffy has been recorded throwing human-sized subjects sizable distances[16] and casually lifting steel girders used in construction building[17]
Faith Lehane is able to pick up the vampire Angel with one hand and easily throw him short distances, lift him over her head, and slam him into the ceiling.[18] Once, while fighting Buffy, she punched her fist into a wall.[19] She is also seen picking up a bar bell with one hand and hitting a woman in the face with it.
One example of a Slayer being stronger than most vampires is in "The Gift", when Buffy easily lifts Olaf's hammer with one hand when Spike was barely able to do so with both hands in "Blood Ties", and when she defeats the demon Doc easily when Spike is unable to. Angel also remarked in "Sanctuary" that Buffy is "a little bit stronger" than he is, though the humorous tenor of the exchange suggests he may have been understating the difference.
The Slayer's strength appears to be largely metaphysical, as it does not seem to add to their body mass and they remain buoyant enough to swim.
Melaka Fray is able to pick up an overweight vampire several times her own size and body mass, lift him up over her head with both hands and throw him over a distance of presumably over 20–25 feet, with no downward arc to his trajectory (which was only interrupted due to his hitting a metal grate, which was extensively deformed on impact).[20]
The psychotic Slayer Dana is able to, through several violent shoves, knock down a metal door as well as deform the edges of a metal gate as she tore it from its hinges.[21]
Buffy and Angel often shows inconsistencies in their characters' physical strength; for example, Buffy was unable to kick in a bomb shelter door despite multiple attempts in "Lie to Me", but casually breaks down metal doors in both "Once More, with Feeling" and "End of Days". This has been acknowledged frequently in commentaries and interviews by writers and creators of the shows. However it is stated by Riley that Buffy gets stronger "every day" and is inferred that she may be stronger due to the fact that she has been activated the longest.
Agility and reflexes[edit]
Slayers are able to move faster and react more quickly than normal human beings. Buffy has been shown snatching a crossbow bolt in mid-flight,[22] dodging gunfire from multiple ranges and setting off a bear trap, but not getting caught in it.[23] At one point Buffy was fast enough to outrun a raiding motorcyclist on his bike shortly after her resurrection.[24] Faith has been shown to dodge shotgun blasts at point-blank range and Dana was able to dodge a tranquilizer dart also fired at point-blank range. A Slayer is capable of superhuman feats of agility. She can leap to great heights;[25] though the maximum is unknown, Buffy was shown to be capable of reaching the roof of the original Sunnydale High in a very short period of time, after running up a sloping wall then flipping onto the roof.[26]
Resilience and healing[edit]
A Slayer's body is substantially more durable and resistant to blunt force trauma than an ordinary human's and there is evidence of an incredibly high pain tolerance. It is difficult, though not impossible, to bruise them, break their bones or strain their joints. Buffy has suffered from a sprained arm as a consequence of fighting vampires.[27] Melaka Fray is hit with a steel girder thrown at her from a demon and recovers within minutes;[11] she is also shown to fall from a height of over five stories to land face-first on a cement sidewalk and be only dazed before fully recovering in moments,[28] and at a later time, to fall four stories down, crash through the cement roof of an adjacent building and fall down the height of one more story, and recover instantly.[29] Buffy can leap from a window with a man in her arms, landing on the ground and letting her body take the brunt of the fall.[30] Buffy has been hit by a moving truck, got up and run off.[13] Faith has fallen from a height of three stories on top of a closed dumpster, rolled off it to hit the ground and got up immediately with no signs of damage;[18] she also was able to hold her own in a fight with Buffy less than 24 hours after waking from a nine-month coma[19]—a coma which she entered after surviving a deep stab wound to the abdomen immediately followed by a fall from the top of a multi-story building into a moving truck.[31] Also, in an attempt from the Watcher's Council to capture Faith without killing her in "Sanctuary", they prepare a tranquilizer that is capable of knocking out a man twice her size, which is more than enough to subdue an ordinary young woman her size.
Despite these feats, the Slayer is far from invulnerable. For instance, Buffy has been knocked out by blunt force trauma, such as being hit over the head with a lead pipe by a possessed Cordelia Chase in "Bad Eggs" and with a detached mannequin arm by Ethan Rayne in "The Dark Age", and was also rendered unconscious when Drusilla jolted her with a cattle prod in "Crush". In addition, the Slayer can be injured by conventional bullets, bladed weapons, and more advanced weaponry (such as the energy weapons commonly used by the Initiative) just as easily as an ordinary human can, but they can recover from even very severe injuries in remarkably short periods of time. Usually, Buffy is completely healed within 24 hours of being injured, though more serious injuries have been shown to take at least a few days,[32] and Slayers can receive scars.[33] Buffy has survived contact with a live electrical wire; the normally lethal jolt simply renders her unconscious and melts her shoe soles.[34]
The Slayer also appears to have a heightened immune system: Buffy is depicted as almost never getting sick, aside from contracting the flu during a period of great emotional stress.[35]
Senses[edit]
Slayers possess a heightened awareness of their surroundings. This heightened awareness can, with experience, allow the Slayer to know the position of an attacker and fight them blindfolded or in the dark. This is not a constant ability, however. This skill must be honed through practice and the Slayer usually must focus to achieve the full benefit, as shown in season 5 "Family", during which, when Tara casts a spell that causes demons to be invisible to the gang, Buffy orders everyone to be quiet and fights a demon without seeing it.
A Slayer also has the limited ability to detect the presence of vampires (and presumably other demons). This power must be honed as with the heightened awareness, and the Slayer must focus to achieve the full effect. This does not prevent Buffy (and other Slayers) from being ambushed by vampires. Buffy could be unusually deficient in this sense: Although she initially distrusts Angel when first meeting him and seems to sense that he is following her for a period of time, she doesn't realize until he shows her his vampiric face for the first time that he is a vampire. However, her ability might have been compromised by the presence of Angel's soul. Additionally, in "Dirty Girls," Faith attacks Spike under the impression that he is chasing an innocent girl and is unaware that he was in fact pursuing a vampire until said vampire attacks her from behind.
In the 1992 film, the ability to detect vampires manifested itself in the form of feminine cramps. (Merrick describes this as a "natural reaction to their unnatural presence.") This ability was inconsistent, as Buffy was unaware that a vampire was hiding in a photo booth right next to her. The movie, however, is not considered canon, and this aspect of her powers was not carried over to the series.
Dreams[edit]
All Slayers through the ages share a psychic link, manifested in dreams.[21] A Slayer will frequently dream of herself as a Slayer in another time and place. These dreams are usually vague, but can also be prophetic.[36] Dreams exist in their own mystic plane or "dreamscape" where for a Slayer, precognitive sense and the inherited memories of other Slayers can manifest themselves.[37] Also, Slayers have been shown to appear in each other's dreams, and Buffy and Faith shared several dreams while Faith was in a coma. Faith provided the first cryptic reference to Dawn Summers's arrival.[38]
Melaka Fray, the Slayer of the far future, lacks these abilities. Due to the unusual nature of their birth, her twin brother received these visions instead.
Other abilities[edit]
While a regular person may require eight to ten hours sleep, a Slayer seems to require considerably less but needs some rest to function.[citation needed] Buffy herself has been seen as staying awake for days although she will usually "crash" and sleep for half a day and show no lingering handicaps. A Slayer naturally has formidable fighting skills. Buffy is shown to easily fend off multiple vampires at the same time while under a memory loss spell, with no memory of her combat training—relying entirely on her natural Slayer instincts, presumably indicating an instinctual grasp of fighting.[39] Dana is seen holding her own against Spike without having any previous combat training. It is also shown that Potential Slayers have innate skills in combat, even before being called, as Amanda was able to defeat a vampire without any previous combat training in "Potential". The Slayer's Watcher trains her to hone these talents, and to teach her specific fighting skills, such as various martial arts. The training helps her to battle the occasional demon whose physical strength outclasses her own. For most situations, however, her strength suffices. To test a Slayer's natural ingenuity and practical capability, the Watcher's Council administers a test known as "the Cruciamentum" if/when they turn eighteen, which strips the Slayer of her powers and forces her to fight a powerful vampire without them ("Helpless"). It should be noted that the compound used to weaken the Slayer makes her typically weaker than most normal humans. This renders a Slayer who would still normally be physically fit without her powers remarkably feeble even for a human. This forces the Slayer to rely solely on her intellect and wit, which Buffy proves to have. She killed an insane vampire called Kralik by using his weakest point against him—his medication (without which he suffers extraordinary pain). When he rushes to take his pills, he searches for a glass of water. After drinking it, he realizes that Buffy had filled the glass with Holy Water.
There is some evidence to indicate that The Slayer might possess some supernatural influence or presence over others.[original research?] Part of the role of the Slayer is being a leader and deciding the appropriate course of action to be taken. In the course of the entire timeline, The Slayer has always instantly been acknowledged as the leader and the final decision maker, superseding even that of the Watchers. This is touched on in the episode "Chosen", with Faith and Buffy hypothesizing that one of the major reasons they don't get along is that there should only be one. This could also be the major reason why Slayers went rogue and constantly struggled for sole leadership of the Slayer Army in Season Eight and the Potential Slayers kept questioning both Faith and Buffy's judgement in Season Seven. Further evidence of this phenomenon is found with Melaka Fray, the Slayer of the future, and her vampire brother. She possesses all the strength and physical abilities, but everyone dismisses her and no one takes her seriously, though her brother, who possesses all of her non-physical abilities, was instantly accepted as a leader among his peers, despite him being newly sired and inexperienced.
Overall, the Slayer's abilities seem to be enhancements of normal human attributes, rather than extra abilities garnered from a magical source; Buffy trains constantly and works out to enhance and maintain her abilities, suggesting that they would atrophy otherwise.[25] A "normal" workout routine that would enhance a regular human's strength and speed increases her abilities much faster and at greater magnitude.[40] Also, the concoction created in the Season Three episode "Helpless" (which Giles says includes muscle relaxants and adrenal inhibitors) would have the same effects on a normal human as they did on Buffy; the effects are simply more pronounced. Also, regular illnesses such as the flu were shown to have effects on the Slayer not greatly different from its effects on humans; once again the handicap is more noticeable given the Slayer's usually enhanced abilities,[citation needed] though it was nonetheless proven to be sufficient enough that it nearly cost Buffy her life while fighting Angelus.[41]
Recently in Season Eight, Buffy has gained a multitude of new powers: her strength, speed, agility, and reflexes have been greatly enhanced, and she has also developed telescopic vision, superhuman hearing, flight, and a level of invulnerability. Willow initially theorizes that these powers are a result of Buffy unwittingly absorbing the collective powers of all of the Slayers who have died since their organization began, but Angel later claims that they are in fact a reward because of the fulfillment of her destiny and involvement with the coming of a new reality.
Weapons and equipment[edit]
Slayers typically use weapons to fight vampires and other demons. Simple wooden stakes, crucifixes, and holy water are commonly used due to their effectiveness against vampires. Swords, axes, and knives are the most common implements used for dispatching demons, though other melee weapons (generally of medieval European design) are also used. Ranged weaponry is usually confined to crossbows. On occasion, more sophisticated weaponry is used; Buffy Summers has used a military-issue rocket launcher to defeat a particularly tough demon.[42] The Slayer Melaka Fray uses weaponry native to her time period, such as rayguns, as well as traditional Slayer weapons. Buffy has a personal dislike for firearms, and has made it a rule that no Slayer in her group uses them. On the other hand, the rogue Slayer Simone Doffler and her criminal gang are enamoured of guns.
Scythe[edit]
The Scythe is a weapon resembling a metal lochaber axe with a wooden stake and a flanged mace head built into the handle. Due to its design, the Scythe can be used as an axe, sword or spear, depending on the fighting style of its wielder. The Scythe exhibits some mystical properties. A Slayer who picks it up recognizes it as a source of power, and has an instinctive sense of ownership of the weapon. When Buffy showed the Scythe to Faith, she said that she "felt like it belongs to me," but immediately surrenders it to Buffy, saying that it was hers because she was a Slayer first.[2] When Buffy discovers the weapon, she tracks its lineage to a mysterious woman who explains its origin. Centuries ago, a group of women known as The Guardians forged the Scythe for the Slayer. The Guardians kept the weapon a secret from the Shadow Men, and later the Watchers. The Scythe was used to kill the last pure demon on Earth in what would later become Sunnydale, CA. It was lost after that, until discovered by Buffy embedded in stone.[2] Willow Rosenberg is soon after able to harness the Scythe's mystical essence and activate every Potential Slayer in the world.[9]
The Scythe is seen two hundred years later in the hands of the demon Urkonn, who passes the weapon on to Melaka Fray.[43] Melaka Fray did not seem to sense anything in particular upon wielding the Scythe for the first time, likely because she is cut off from the slayer's psychic abilities. It is during Fray's time as Slayer that the Scythe was destroyed; during a confrontation with a time-displaced Buffy Summers, the latter smashed it clean in two with a backhanded punch.
"Slayer Emergency Kit"[edit]
The "emergency kit" is a bag found in the possession of Robin Wood.[1] It was given to him by his mother Nikki Wood. When he gave it to Buffy, he claimed that it was a "Slayer heirloom" that should have been passed down to the next Slayer, but he kept it instead, presumably because he didn't have much to remember her by. It's unknown how long this had been passed down, and has not been mentioned by any other Slayers, but it's assumed to be quite old considering its contents. At the time Buffy received it, it was in a brown leather bag, and contained several objects, including a boomerang, a vase, a locked box containing shadow casters, and a mystical book written in Sumerian.
The shadow casters are placed onto the smaller circular metal piece in front of a light, creating shadow images on the wall, and the book is then read to tell the story. The book will then translate itself, possibly into English, or perhaps into whatever the reader's language might be. The shadows cast by the metal figures will then become enchanted themselves and begin to move on their own, recreating the story of the First Slayer. A portal is then created, allowing the Slayer to speak directly to the Shadow Men that created the First Slayer, but "exchanging" the Slayer for a particularly powerful demon, releasing the demon onto Earth through the same portal. The Slayer can then gain more power through the Shadow Men if she is willing, but only through taking in more of the essence of the demon which gave the Slayer her powers in the first place. The only apparent way to bring the Slayer back to Earth is to bring the released demon back to the site of the portal.
The text translated from the book is as follows. "First there is the Earth. Then, there came the Demons. After Demons, there came men. Men found a girl. And the men took the girl to slay demons. They chained her to the Earth. Filled her with Dark. You cannot be shown. You cannot just watch, but you must see. See for yourself, but only if you're willing to make the exchange. This is the only way. There is no..." The page then ends, and it's unknown what comes next.
See also[edit]
Tales of the Slayer
Tales of the Slayers
Woman warrior
List of women warriors in folklore
Vampire hunter
References[edit]
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15.Jump up ^ "Two to Go". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 6. Episode 21. May 21, 2002.
16.Jump up ^ "Where the Wild Things Are". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 4. Episode 18. April 25, 2000.
17.Jump up ^ "Life Serial". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 6. Episode 5. October 23, 2001.
18.^ Jump up to: a b "Five by Five". Angel. Season 1. Episode 18. April 25, 2000.
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20.Jump up ^ Fray #2
21.^ Jump up to: a b "Damage". Angel. Season 5. Episode 11. January 28, 2004.
22.Jump up ^ "Help". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 7. Episode 4. October 15, 2002.
23.Jump up ^ "Homecoming". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 3. Episode 5. November 3, 1998.
24.Jump up ^ "Bargaining, Part Two". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 6. Episode 2. October 2, 2001.
25.^ Jump up to: a b "Buffy vs. Dracula". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 5. Episode 1. September 26, 2000.
26.Jump up ^ "Earshot". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 3. Episode 18. September 21, 1999.
27.Jump up ^ "The Freshman". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 4. Episode 1. October 5, 1999.
28.Jump up ^ Whedon, Joss (w), Moline, Karl (p), Owens, Andy (i). "Chapter One: Big City Girl" Fray 1: 7/2,3 (June, 2001), Dark Horse Comics
29.Jump up ^ Whedon, Joss (w), Moline, Karl (p), Owens, Andy (i). "Chapter Two: The Calling" Fray 2: 5, 6 (January, 2002), Dark Horse Comics
30.Jump up ^ "No Place Like Home". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 5. Episode 5. October 24, 2000.
31.Jump up ^ "Graduation Day, Part One". Buffy. Season 3. Episode 21. May 18, 1999.
32.Jump up ^ "Fool for Love". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 5. Episode 7. November 14, 2000.
33.Jump up ^ "The Harsh Light of Day". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 4. Episode 3. October 19, 1999.
34.Jump up ^ "I, Robot... You, Jane". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 1. Episode 8. April 28, 1997.
35.Jump up ^ "Killed by Death". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 2. Episode 18. March 3, 1998.
36.Jump up ^ "Surprise". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 2. Episode 13. January 19, 1998.
37.Jump up ^ Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #3
38.Jump up ^ "Graduation Day, Part Two". Buffy. Season 3. Episode 22. July 13, 1999.
39.Jump up ^ "Tabula Rasa". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 6. Episode 8. November 13, 2001.
40.Jump up ^ "Out of My Mind". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 5. Episode 4. October 17, 2000.
41.Jump up ^ "Killed by Death". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 2. Episode 18. March 3, 1998.
42.Jump up ^ "Innocence". Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 2. Episode 14. January 20, 1998.
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Scooby Gang
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The original Scooby Gang

First appearance
The Harvest (assembled)
Created by
Joss Whedon
Information

Purpose
Apocalypse-averting and demon-hunting
Membership
Buffy Summers
Xander Harris
Willow Rosenberg
Rupert Giles
Cordelia Chase
Angel
Anya Jenkins
Daniel "Oz" Osborne
Tara Maclay
Riley Finn
Dawn Summers
Spike
Jenny Calendar
Faith Lehane
Andrew Wells
Robin Wood
Kennedy

The Scooby Gang, or "Scoobies", are a group of characters in the cult television series and comic book Buffy the Vampire Slayer who battle the supernatural forces of evil. The team consists of Buffy Summers and her friends and colleagues who assist her in her duties as the Slayer. First forming in the Season One episode "The Harvest" to prevent The Master from opening a portal to hell, the line-up of the group varied from year to year, but the core that remained intact throughout the series' run was Buffy herself and her best friends, Xander Harris and Willow Rosenberg, as well as her Watcher, Rupert Giles. This group was also called the "slayerettes." The group was first referred to as the Scooby Gang by Xander Harris in the Season Two episode "What's My Line, Part One" as a reference to the group of monster-hunting teenagers from the Hanna-Barbera animated series Scooby-Doo that is otherwise known as Mystery Inc., who investigate and solve supernatural/occult monsters mysteries much like The Scoobies in Buffy. The first visible sign was in Season 1, Episode 11, where Willow is seen wearing a Scooby Doo t-shirt, Buffy sports the Daphne trademark neck scarf, and later Xander responds, "Can you say, 'Gulp'?" as Shaggy often does. Sarah Michelle Gellar, the actress who plays Buffy on the show, would later also appear as Daphne Blake in the films Scooby-Doo and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed.
The Scooby Gang usually take an unimpressed, flippant attitude towards extraordinary events and supernatural occurrences. Originally a group of teenage friends attending Sunnydale High in a town built on top of a Hellmouth, the group gradually expanded, eventually merging with the Watchers' Council to become a global organization dealing with demonic threats worldwide and training thousands of Slayers. In the beginning, Buffy often had to protect her friends from monsters, but over the course of the series most of them gained superpowers and fighting skills of their own, with Xander the only notable member with no mystical abilities or connection to the supernatural, though he does acquire extensive military knowledge thanks to a spell. Due to the show's strong themes of female empowerment, the most powerful members of the team are often female (Buffy and Willow), while the men play passive roles such as that of father-figure (Giles) and supportive best friend (Xander). Also, in keeping with the show's themes of redemption and moral ambiguity, Willow, Angel, Spike, Faith, Giles, Anya, and Andrew have at some point in their lives descended into darkness. Each of these characters has murdered at least one person during their life, although for most it was substantially more.
At least initially, in Season Eight (a canonical continuation of the series in comic book format), the Scoobies are scattered across the world. In addition to the primary gang, there are short of 2000 Slayers, many of whom work with the expanded organization in addition to witches, psychics and other staff. The core Scoobies now each act as important figures in the new Watcher's Council and maintain a role of leadership and authority amongst the Slayers they employ. With the group scattered, communication is maintained primarily through phone calls, and the group leaders (in particular the core three) now assume more superheroic positions and parallels than in previous seasons. Former allies in Season 7 such as Andrew and Rona now lead squads of their own.


Contents  [hide]
1 Alternative names
2 Scooby Gang members
3 Team variations 3.1 Season 1
3.2 Season 2
3.3 Season 3
3.4 Season 4
3.5 Season 5
3.6 Season 6
3.7 Season 7
4 Comics 4.1 Season 8
4.2 Season 9
5 Headquarters 5.1 Seasons 1–3
5.2 Seasons 4-5
5.3 Seasons 5–6
5.4 Season 7
5.5 Season 8
5.6 Season 9
5.7 Affiliated Organizations
6 References

Alternative names[edit]
The group is also sometimes referred to as the "Slayerettes," mostly in early episodes or later in the scene descriptions to refer to the Potentials, but mostly it didn't catch on with fans. Both Willow (in the season one episode "Witch") and Spike (in the season four episodes "The I in Team" and "The Yoko Factor") have used the term in the show on different occasions.
Scooby Gang members[edit]
(In chronological order)
Buffy Summers — As the Slayer, Buffy possesses enhanced abilities that enable her to battle the forces of darkness. She is the focal point of the Scooby Gang, as the team initially formed around her responsibilities as the Chosen One, and she is very close to most of its members. Although Buffy had initially been reluctant to accept her destiny, by the end of Season One she faces the prophecy of her death head-on, later revived by Xander. By Season Eight, she has become a leader as well as a Slayer, training her fellow Slayers in the fight against evil.
Rupert Giles — As Buffy's Watcher, and a father-figure and mentor to the entire group, Giles is a founding figure of the Scooby Gang, although his British upbringing resists the lighthearted nickname at first. Even after the Watchers' Council stripped him of his title in Season Three, he continued to support Buffy. He remained with the Scoobies until the end of Season Five, when he returned to England at Buffy's death. In Season Six he returns after Buffy is resurrected, then leaves again so that his presence won't hold her back from growing strong and independent. Thereafter, he is based in England where he is training a squad of Slayers, and Andrew as a Watcher. Giles was almost killed by the evil Angelus toward the end of Season Two. In Season Eight, a possessed Angel snapped Giles' neck, killing him instantly.
Xander Harris — The most consistent and reliable member of the Scoobies, the wise-cracking Xander is notable for being one of the few characters in the show with no "superpowers". Instead, his insight, compassion, and support is how he helps his friends in the battle against evil; for example, he brings Willow back from the brink of darkness with his unconditional love in Season Six. Xander also possesses some knowledge of military combat and weapons after being turned into a real soldier in a Halloween episode.
Willow Rosenberg — Willow's abilities as a witch make her one of the most powerful members of the Scooby Gang. She is also a gifted hacker. Originally she sometimes resented being known as a "sidekick", but she grew to lead the Scoobies during Buffy's temporary death between Seasons Five and Six. Although she nearly causes the end of the world after her soulmate Tara is killed, she is also responsible for magically activating all of the Potential Slayers in the world.
Angel — Angel is unique among vampires because he is cursed with a soul, Spike being the only other known vampire with a soul. He is also Buffy's lover in Seasons One through Three. Angel's ability to work with the other Scoobies on the side of good is completely dependent on his soul. Without his soul, Angel becomes Angelus, a vampire with no humanity whatsoever. In Season Two, his soul was briefly stripped from him after a forbidden moment of utter happiness. During this time he killed Jenny Calendar and tortured Giles; causing his relationship with the group to remain strained even after his soul was restored. Angel leaves the Scoobies at Buffy's graduation. Together with Cordelia, he starts his own group, Angel Investigations, in Los Angeles. Though he returned to Buffy in Season Eight, Angel was possessed and killed Giles. This caused a rift between Angel and Buffy, and Angel decided to search for a way to resurrect Giles with the help of Faith.
Jenny Calendar — The computer science teacher at Sunnydale High, who holds a secret allegiance to her gypsy clan. Her real name is Janna of the Kalderash tribe, and her secret motivation for being at Sunnydale is to make sure the curse her clan cast on Angel remains intact. However, she didn't know that a single moment of perfect happiness would break the curse, and thought it was enough just to ensure that Angel still suffered. She joins with the Scoobies while falling in love with Giles during Season Two. The discovery of her secret in "Innocence" creates a permanent rift between her and the Scoobies, which lasts until her death at Angelus' hands.
Cordelia Chase — A snobby cheerleader at Sunnydale High, Cordelia looks down on the Scoobies, whom she dismisses as unpopular. However, she often finds herself in perilous situations and relies on Buffy to save her. In Season Two, Cordelia becomes Xander's girlfriend and an official member of the Scooby Gang until she leaves for Los Angeles and joins Angel Investigations. She dies after being the vessel for a demonic force.
Daniel "Oz" Osbourne — Willow's boyfriend throughout Seasons Two to Four, Oz is a werewolf and the guitarist for local band Dingoes Ate My Baby. With his stoic sense of humor, Oz is a loyal and popular member of the Scoobies, although he does have to be locked in the library's cage for three nights each month during the full moon. He leaves the group in Season Four to learn how to control his wolf side and ends up living in Tibet with his new wife and infant son.
Faith Lehane — A troubled girl who became a Slayer as a result of Kendra's death, Faith arrives in Sunnydale in Season Three after her Watcher is killed. Although she works with the Scooby Gang and even starts to accept Giles' authority, she never really integrates with them. During one desperate fight in partnership with Buffy, she accidentally kills a man, creating a permanent schism between her and the Scoobies and eventually leading Faith to join up with The Mayor. In Season Four Faith awakens from a coma and flees to Los Angeles, where Angel again offers to help her. This time Faith repents and turns herself in to the police, remaining in jail until her escape in Season Four of Angel to help capture Angelus. After Angel is re-ensouled, she returns with Willow to Sunnydale to help the Scoobies in their final battle against the First Evil. In Season Eight, she and Giles decided to partner together in a "Slayer social worker" program to keep Slayers from going to the dark side. After the Watcher's death, Faith accompanied Angel to both aid him in his quest to resurrect Giles and to make sure that he does not become evil again.
Anya Jenkins — Born mortal a thousand years ago as Aud, Anya became the vengeance demon Anyanka after turning her cheating boyfriend into a troll. She specialized in cursing men who had wronged women. When one of her curses went in an unanticipated direction, the breaking of a curse stripped her of her powers and made her mortal again. During her struggles with her unwanted mortality, Anya falls in love with Xander, who helps her to understand human conventions. Anya often offends people due to her frank honesty and literalness. Initially very selfish, she eventually comes to respect humans and proves her loyalty to the team many times. She is killed by a Bringer during the series finale.
Riley Finn — Buffy's college boyfriend, Riley is a soldier for the government demon-hunting operation the Initiative. Riley joins the Scoobies after he learns that the Initiative has become corrupt. However, his relationship with Buffy gradually disintegrates, and in Season Five he leaves to join another army unit. In Season Eight, he returns to work as a mole for Buffy, infiltrating the organization of the villain Twilight.
Tara Maclay — Willow's girlfriend in Seasons Four to Six. Like Willow, she is also a witch. On her own, she is nowhere near as powerful as Willow, but together they make a formidable magical team. Before meeting Willow, Tara had been painfully shy, in part due to a father who led her to believe that she was demonic. Her confidence improved steadily as she formed strong friendships with several members of the Scoobies. During Buffy's temporary death between Seasons Five and Six, she became Dawn's surrogate mother. Tara is killed when Warren Mears accidentally shoots her, launching Willow's spiral into Dark Willow.
Spike — A punk vampire who has killed two previous Slayers, Spike took his nickname from one of his former killings which involved a railroad spike. His real name is William. Although he enters the series as a villain, Spike allies briefly with the Scoobies during Season Two to save his vampire lover Drusilla and stop Angel from destroying the world. Part of the deal was that he and Drusilla leave Sunnydale. However, he returns several times after Drusilla leaves him. When Spike tries to return for good in Season Four, the Initiative promptly captures him and fits him with a tracking device and a microchip that prevents him from harming humans. As a result, he allies again with the Scoobies. Over time, Spike falls in love with Buffy, and he briefly becomes Buffy's lover in Season Six. Her rejection of him inspires him to recover his soul. Most of the Scoobies remain somewhat wary of him right up until the series finale, when he fights side by side with them and, with help from an amulet given by Angel, sacrifices himself to save the world. Following his mystical resurrection, Spike joined Angel's fight in Los Angeles. Spike later went off on his own, inherited a ship full of giant insects and reunited with Buffy.
Dawn Summers — Buffy's younger sister, Dawn, is actually a mystical orb of energy who was turned into human form by her guardians. She and all those around her were also given false memories to conceal the fact that Dawn was not always part of the human world. Dawn suffers from abandonment issues due to both her mother and Buffy having died in the same year she entered Buffy's life; she considers the Scooby Gang to be her surrogate family and is very close to them.
Kennedy — One of the potential Slayers of Season Seven, Kennedy is outgoing, impulsive, and a natural leader. She also becomes Willow's lover. Along with the other potentials, her Slayer nature is activated in "Chosen". In Season Eight, Kennedy heads and trains all the Slayers in the New York City area.
Andrew Wells — Another former villain, Andrew is an immature nerd who was captured by the Scoobies. Over time, he learns to show remorse for his past crimes. Although the Scoobies are slow to accept him, he fights side by side with them during the season finale and starts training to be a Watcher in Season Eight.
Team variations[edit]
Season 1[edit]
Buffy Summers
Xander Harris
Willow Rosenberg
Rupert Giles
Angel
Allies: Cordelia Chase, starting with the episode "Out of Mind, Out of Sight"
Jenny Calendar, starting with the episode "I Robot, You Jane"

Season 2[edit]
Buffy Summers
Xander Harris
Willow Rosenberg
Cordelia Chase
Rupert Giles
Angel, until he loses his soul in "Innocence"
Jenny Calendar, until her secret was revealed in "Innocence"
Allies: Daniel "Oz" Osbourne, starting with the episode "Surprise".
Kendra Young, starting with the episode "What's My Line", until she is killed by Drusilla in "Becoming"

Season 3[edit]
Buffy Summers, after she returns from running away in "Dead Man's Party"
Xander Harris
Willow Rosenberg
Cordelia Chase, until "Lovers Walk" and then joins again in "Enemies".
Rupert Giles
Daniel "Oz" Osbourne
Angel, from around the episode "Doppelgangland" when he started assisting the whole group again.
Allies: Joyce Summers
Anya Jenkins, helped in "Graduation Day"
Faith Lehane, until she turns to the dark side and begins working for The Mayor in "Consequences".
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, from the episode "Bad Girls" until Buffy quits the Watchers' Council in "Graduation Day".

Season 4[edit]
Buffy Summers
Xander Harris
Willow Rosenberg
Anya Jenkins, from around the episode "Pangs"
Rupert Giles
Daniel "Oz" Osbourne, until he leaves town in "Wild at Heart"
Allies: Angel, returns to Sunnydale to help the Scooby Gang in "Pangs"
Tara Maclay, starting with the episode "Who Are You"
Riley Finn, starting with the episode "Doomed"
Spike, reluctantly and unreliably from the episode "Pangs" until the episode "The Yoko Factor".

Season 5[edit]
Buffy Summers, until her death at the end of "The Gift"
Xander Harris
Willow Rosenberg
Anya Jenkins
Rupert Giles
Tara Maclay
Riley Finn, until he leaves town in "Into the Woods"
Allies: Dawn Summers
Spike
Joyce Summers, until her death at the end of "I Was Made to Love You"

Season 6[edit]
Buffy Summers, from "After Life" onwards.
Xander Harris
Willow Rosenberg, until the episode "Seeing Red"
Anya Jenkins, until her relationship with Xander ends in "Hell's Bells"
Tara Maclay, until she breaks up with Willow in "Tabula Rasa". She later rejoins in "Entropy" until her death at the end of the episode "Seeing Red".
Dawn Summers
Rupert Giles, until the episode "Tabula Rasa"
Allies: Spike, until he leaves for Africa in "Seeing Red".

Season 7[edit]
Buffy Summers
Xander Harris
Anya Jenkins, rejoins in "Selfless", until her death in "Chosen."
Dawn Summers
Willow Rosenberg, rejoins the group in "Help"
Rupert Giles, rejoins in "Bring on the Night"
Spike, joins the gang in "Potential."
Faith Lehane, starting with the episode "Dirty Girls"
Allies: Kennedy, starting with the episode "Bring on the Night"
Andrew Wells, reluctantly from around the episode "Never Leave Me"
Robin Wood, starting with the episode "First Date"
Potential Slayers

Comics[edit]
Season 8[edit]
Buffy Summers
Xander Harris
Dawn Summers
Willow Rosenberg, rejoins the group in "The Long Way Home, Part 2"
Andrew Wells, in "Wolves at the Gate", and "Predators and Prey" onwards.
Kennedy, in "Time of Your Life", and from "Retreat" onwards
Rupert Giles, from "Retreat" onwards
Faith Lehane, from "Retreat" onwards
Allies: Renée, until her death in "Wolves at the Gate, Part 4"
Daniel "Oz" Osbourne, assists the group in "Retreat"
Bay, assists the group with Oz in "Retreat"
Dracula in "Wolves at the Gate"
Riley Finn, triple agent loyal to Buffy.

Season 9[edit]
Buffy Summers
Xander Harris
Dawn Summers
Willow Rosenberg
Spike
Andrew Wells
Billy Lane (taken in by Buffy at the end of "Billy the Vampire Slayer")
Allies: Riley Finn
Faith Lehane, a silent ally currently residing with Angel in England.
Angel, a silent ally currently residing with Faith in England.
Kennedy, founder of Deepscan, the Slayer private security firm
Anaheed, Buffy's new roommate, later revealed to be a Slayer.
Tumble, Buffy's new male roommate
Robert Dowling, a homicide detective in San Francisco that first appears in "Freefall"
Eldre Koh, an ancient demon that swore loyalty to Buffy after her actions freed him from his magical prison, later betrayed her to find the location of his jailer for vengeance, but reconciles with her to stop the Siphon.
Illyria (Angel) teams up with Koh and Buffy to stop Severin the Siphon but is drained of her powers. Later sides with Buffy, Koh, Willow and Xander at The Deeper Well.

Headquarters[edit]
Along with variations in the team roster, the place which serves as a sort of "headquarters" for the Scooby Gang has also changed a few times over the series. The most notable of these headquarters, before its explosion in the Season Three finale, is the Sunnydale High School library. Rupert Giles' apartment later becomes a temporary base for the gang in Season 4, until Giles becomes the new owner of the magic shop in Season 5, The Magic Box, where it becomes replacement for the school library. However, after the events of the series finale, the Scoobies have, as stated above, been spread across the world, with Buffy and Xander maintaining a "command center" in Scotland.
To the crew of Buffy, the headquarters was the set where the most exposition writing of the show took place, and thus was the most used and most hated of the Buffy sets.[1]
Seasons 1–3[edit]
Sunnydale High School library[1] Until Buffy, Willow and Xander's Graduation
Seasons 4-5[edit]
Giles' apartment until Giles buys the Magic Box
Seasons 5–6[edit]
The Magic Box,[1] under the ownership of Giles in season 5, and later Anya's ownership in season 6, with Giles as a silent partner. Until Dark Willow destroys it.
Season 7[edit]
Summers Residence[1] until Sunnydale was destroyed
Season 8[edit]
Scotland Castle, until it's blown up in "Time of Your Life, Part 2"
Scotland Mansion, until they retreat in between "Living Doll" and "Retreat"
Hidden and Disguised Castle, until they retreat for a second time onto their submarine in "Retreat, Part 1"
Oz's Sanctuary in Tibet, from "Retreat" to the latest issue
Season 9[edit]
Buffy's apartment in San Francisco.
Affiliated Organizations[edit]
Watcher's Council
Angel Investigations
Wolfram & Hart
References[edit]
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Demon

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First appearance
"Welcome to the Hellmouth"
Creator
Joss Whedon
In the fictional Buffyverse established by Buffy and Angel, a Demon is a kind of nonhuman life form separate from the animal kingdom.
The definition raises complex issues. Roughly speaking, the series uses demon to describe any creature that isn't a god, robot, unmodified human, or standard terrestrial animal. Thus, the category ''demon'' includes independent self-reproducing species, former humans that have been parasitically possessed via mystical or pseudo-biological processes, non-sentient species from adjacent dimensions, life forms that have been created or modified to serve some specific purpose, self-modifying individuals of indeterminate origin, and the hybrid offspring of any or all of the above.


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2 Species
3 Ethics
4 See also

Origins[edit]
Many demon species are native to Earth. Many more had their origin in other dimensions. Long before mankind made its appearance, Earth was dominated by purebred demons, the most powerful of whom are known as Old Ones. Though individual Old Ones constantly made war with one another, rising and falling in power within the group, the overall dominance of the Old Ones was absolute. Over time, however, they gradually lost their hold on this reality. Some individuals, such as Illyria, were ''killed'', but did not "die" in the human sense; many such demons were confined in the Deeper Well, a hole running through the center of the world. They continued to be feared for their ability to cheat death. Others escaped to other dimensions, and became unable or unwilling to return to Earth in their true forms. Among these were the cabal known as the Wolf, the Ram and the Hart. Demons are not affected by Sunlight or other ways of killing Vampires. Many Demons have a distinct method of killing and are only killed in a certain way.
Though Earth was now under the rule of humanity, the Old Ones had left behind many descendants and former servitors. These demons, far smaller and less powerful than the Old Ones, were usually the product of crossbreeding with humans and other mortal animals. Many of these hybrid species retained some ability to crossbreed with humans and each other.
Demonic reproduction is thus a diverse and complex subject. Some species, including vampires, Wraithers, and Werewolves, reproduce by infecting humans and then inhabiting and using their bodies. Others, such as Haxil Beasts and Skilosh demons, infect humans in order to use their bodies to gestate their young. Some demon species reproduce via sexual intercourse. Some indeterminate number of these species, for instance Brachen and Ano-Movic demons, are cross-fertile with humans. Some demon species reproduce via asexual methods, such as budding. Still other sorts appear to have been created or manufactured by some other entity (magician, Old One, Power), and do not reproduce on their own.
Little is known about the origin and evolution of demon populations in other dimensions. Some dimensions appear to be home to large populations of entirely non-human demonic species. Others, such as Pylea, have significant indigenous human populations.
Despite the obviously humanoid appearance of many demon species, some demon groups, most notably the Scourge, deny that they share any biological heritage with humans. This view may have more to do with ideology than biology, although they were unaffected by a machine designed to eliminate anyone with human blood.
Species[edit]
The number of demon species is evidently vast. More than 200 of them have appeared on screen or in canonical comics, and many other species and individuals have been referenced in dialogue. Their forms are likewise variable. While the majority have been humanoid, others more resemble various animal species, and still others are almost amorphous. Some have mammalian, reptilian or insectoid features, or combinations thereof.
It also should be noted that there's an entire roster of demons who aren't identified as belonging to any specific species.
Ethics[edit]
The vast majority of demons in Buffy are shown to be inherently evil and interested in bringing chaos, suffering and death to humans. The Judge, for example, derives pleasure and sustenance from burning all humanity out of a creature, and numerous demons are shown to attempt to bring about the end of the world. Others show a strong predisposition to violence coupled with a lack of empathy that leads to their performing evil acts, or are biologically required to kill humans in order to survive or reproduce. In addition, there are a large number of demons such as hellhounds which are simply nonsentient, man-eating predators with unsavory dietary requirements. However, this generalization of "demon equals evil" is challenged constantly in both series. Angel is the first example of this; vampires, demonic spirits possessing and animating the corpse of a human, are considered to be inherently evil, but Angel has had his human soul forcibly returned to him. Many demons have human characteristics and personalities.
The next example of a good demon is in the second season Buffy episode "Becoming, Part One", which introduces Whistler, a demon who tells Angel that not all demons are bad and helps set Angel on his heroic path. At the end of season three, Wesley Wyndham-Price informs Buffy that the Council of Watchers will not help her save Angel from a deadly poison on the grounds that he is, in fact, a vampire; this leads to Buffy breaking ties with the Council for over a year. One of the strains on the relationship between Buffy and Riley Finn is that he automatically assumes that all supernatural creatures are bad until, in the episode "New Moon Rising", he encounters the werewolf Oz and realizes that not only are some unworldly creatures good, but that evil is also found in humans. Spike begins as a major villain, is restrained by The Initiative to be unable to harm humans (by means of a chip in his brain), then later becomes heroic in his own right, to the point of successfully undertaking a trial to return his soul and sacrificing himself to save the world. Another popular demon character, Clem, actually aids Buffy in training potential slayers.
Angel has several characters who are demon or part demon but not inherently evil. During the first eight episodes of season one, the character of Allen Francis Doyle is portrayed as a good half-demon sent by the Powers that Be to Angel for helping him to 'Help the helpless', until his death in the episode "Hero". The third season episode "That Old Gang of Mine" centers around stopping a gang that kills all demons, bad and good, indiscriminately. By the end of the series, more of Angel's team are some form of demon (Angel, Spike, Lorne, Illyria) than human (Gunn and Wesley). In the canonical continuation, in fact, none are human.
See also[edit]
List of Buffyverse villains and supernatural beings
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Witch, Warlock, Sorcerer, Wizard

Kind
Both humans and demons can use magic
First appearance
"Witch"
Creator
Joss Whedon
For the Season 1 episode, see Witch (Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode).
In the fictional Buffyverse established by Buffy and Angel, a Witch is a person who has great knowledge and power over the use of mystical forces, commonly known as "magic" and colloquially referred to as "mojo" and "the whammy", to perform various feats that defy the laws of nature. The term "witch" is commonly used to refer to female magic-users. Male witches are known as warlocks. In the Buffyverse the term magic is commonly used as "Magicks".


Contents  [hide]
1 Magic 1.1 Uses
1.2 Metaphors
2 Identification
3 Technopagan
4 See also 4.1 Magic users in the Buffyverse
4.2 Key witchcraft-related Buffyverse episodes
5 References

Magic[edit]
As portrayed in Buffy and Angel, becoming a witch involves a great deal of practice and work. Even those gifted with an unusually high ability (Willow Rosenberg, for example) can take several years to perfect their powers.[citation needed]
Spells can be performed by anyone by use of magical items while saying particular incantations (often in Latin). However witches have greater knowledge and power over the use of magic.[citation needed]
While most every being seen on the show, from demon to human, is capable of performing magic, there are natural witches with whom the talent for the harnessing and manipulation of mystical forces appears to be a genetic trait. This talent is inherited from mother to daughter. Examples:
Catherine Madison and Amy Madison[1]
Tara Maclay and her mother[2]
While these witches do tend to be extremely powerful, ordinary people without the genetic boost, such as Willow, demonstrate that they can be surpassed.
Uses[edit]
The shows portray magic as capable of being used as a force for good and evil. Willow and Tara use magic to support Buffy in the fight against the vampires, the demons, and the forces of darkness. However the growth of power can also become corrupting. Catherine Madison used magic to take over the life of her daughter's younger body. Willow gradually began to use magic in every part of her life, until she was addicted to it. Later, after the death of Willow's girlfriend Tara Maclay, Willow sought revenge which resulted in dark magicks taking control of her, becoming what is known as "Dark Willow".[3]
Metaphors[edit]
In the Buffy series, magic is often used as a metaphor for other things. For example, during season four magic is used as a metaphor for the lesbian relationship between Willow and Tara that is only hinted at (if rather overtly)[4] until the episode "New Moon Rising" when the relationship is revealed. Also, briefly in season five and heavily in season six, when Willow becomes addicted to magic, magic is used as a metaphor for drug addiction, with Willow going through all the typical destructive behaviors and withdrawal symptoms of a drug addict.
Identification[edit]
In the season one episode "Witch" a method is demonstrated that, by performing, a witch can be identified by using various ingredients; some of their hair, a little quicksilver (mercury), some aqua fortis (nitric acid), and "eye of newt". The ingredients are heated then applied to the possible-witch. If a spell has been cast in the previous 48 hours, the witch's skin turns blue where the substance comes in contact with it. This was used to discover that "Amy" (actually Catherine) was a witch.[1]
Technopagan[edit]
The real-life belief of Technopaganism is also present in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, although they are not mentioned beyond season two and with Jenny Calendar as the only one seen on-screen. She is seen as a low-level practitioner of magic and does not consider herself a witch.[5] Even so, technopagans of the Buffyverse are not portrayed that differently from witches, they are just more familiar with modern technology and its relation to the black arts. Although not specifically addressed, the implication is that there is a difference in power levels between a technopagan and a witch, as Jenny states in the season one episode "I, Robot... You, Jane" in which Giles asks if she is a witch. Jenny's answer, "I don't have that kind of power" indicates that witches are able to perform greater feats of magic than other, more casual practitioners of magic.
Willow could be seen sometimes using modern technology and contacts to further her witchcraft (e.g. the internet). However she identifies herself as a witch rather than a technopagan.
See also[edit]
Witchcraft (cultural and folklore)
List of Buffyverse Villains and Supernatural Beings
Magic users in the Buffyverse[edit]
For a more complete list see hereJenny Calendar
Rupert Giles
Anya Jenkins
Jonathan Levinson
Tara Maclay
Amy Madison
Catherine Madison
Rack
Ethan Rayne
Willow Rosenberg
Dawn Summers
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
Key witchcraft-related Buffyverse episodes[edit]
"Witch"
"Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered"
"Gingerbread"
"Something Blue"
"Bargaining, Part One"
"Tabula Rasa"
"Smashed"
"Wrecked"
"Villains"
"Two to Go"
"Grave"
"The Killer in Me"
"Orpheus"
"Chosen"
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b "Witch"
2.Jump up ^ Family
3.Jump up ^ Villains
4.Jump up ^ Eden, Martin, "Alyson Wonderland", from Buffy the Vampire Slayer magazine #15 (UK, December 2000), page 8-14.
5.Jump up ^ I, Robot... You, Jane


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