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Kennedy
Buffy the Vampire Slayer character

First appearance
"Bring on the Night"
Created by
Joss Whedon, Marti Noxon, Douglas Petrie
Portrayed by
Iyari Limon
Information

Affiliation
Scooby Gang
Classification
Slayer
Notable powers
Supernatural strength, speed, stamina, agility, and reflexes
Rapid healing
 Enhanced intuition
Prophetic dreams
Kennedy is a fictional character in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Portrayed by Iyari Limon in the TV series, the character was introduced in the final season of the series and goes on to appear in the comic book series Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight which continues the story of the television series.
Kennedy is introduced as a "potential Slayer", one of many girls who might become endowed with supernatural abilities, destined to battle evil creatures such as vampires and demons, like protagonist Buffy Summers. Distinctly, Kennedy is also a love interest for Willow Rosenberg; Kennedy is an out lesbian with an assertive personality, which is intended to contrast with the shyness of Willow's deceased girlfriend, Tara. In the series finale of Buffy, Willow magically activates the potential in all girls like Kennedy to become full-fledged Slayers, like Buffy. Entertainment Weekly named her one of the "21 Most Annoying TV Characters Ever".[1]


Contents  [hide]
1 Appearances 1.1 Television
1.2 Literature
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

Appearances[edit]
Television[edit]
Kennedy only appears in the seventh season of the television series. Kennedy is one of the first three Potential Slayers to arrive in Sunnydale. She comes from a wealthy family in New York City and has at least one sibling, a half-sister. An out lesbian, Kennedy has known about her sexuality since the age of five (commenting that she found out watching Gone with the Wind). Kennedy is immediately interested in having a romantic relationship with Willow when the two meet in the season seven episode, "Bring on the Night".
Kennedy witnessed her Watcher's death; he was murdered by Bringers, the lackeys of The First Evil. That she knew about Watchers (as well as having some comprehension of how the Slayer line works) before being chosen indicates that she was approached by them at some point during her youth, like the late Slayer, Kendra Young.
Kennedy becomes Willow's lover before she completely comprehends Willow's magical prowess and how Willow operates as a witch. In the episode "Get It Done", she gains a first hand understanding when Willow drains a significant portion of her life force in order to reopen a portal for Buffy. This briefly puts a strain on their relationship, but they eventually reconcile.
Kennedy becomes one of the more prominent Potentials, overseeing their training in "Get It Done", and giving orders to them in "End of Days" while Buffy is absent and Faith is incapacitated. She supports Willow in her attempt to activate all Potential Slayers. After Willow's activation spell is completed, Kennedy joins Buffy and the other Potentials in the final battle against the First Evil's army of Turok-Han as a fully activated Slayer.
In Season Five of Angel, a year after the end of Buffy, mention is made that Kennedy and Willow are living in Brazil together.
Literature[edit]



 Vi, Kennedy, Buffy and Willow in the variant cover of Time of Your Life part 1
Kennedy continues to appear in literary follow-ups to the television series. In Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight (2007-11), an in-canon comic book series, in the story titled "The Long Way Home, Part III", Buffy catches up with Willow in Scotland, after the latter's year long absence. During this conversation, Buffy asks how Kennedy's doing and Willow reveals that she died, though it was only a short-lived mystical death. However, it still freaked Kennedy out and caused her to slow things down in her and Willow's relationship. In the issue "Anywhere but Here", a flashback recounts a conversation that reveals that Kennedy is worried that Willow keeps her away from Buffy's inner circle because she is ashamed of her. Willow promptly explains that she blames herself for Tara's death because she kept her close to Buffy and therefore to danger. Willow then states that she refuses to let that happen to Kennedy. In Season Eight, Kennedy directs an army of slayers in New York, along with Vi. She and Willow finally reunite in the fourth arc of the series, "Time of Your Life", in which Buffy is accidentally sent to the future and Kennedy is helping Willow in an attempt to bring her back. Over the course of the series, Willow remains distant from Kennedy, in part because she is having a sexual relationship with her magical mentor, the demon Aluwyn (a.k.a Saga Vasuki). Kennedy antagonizes Buffy when she learns of Buffy's lesbian affair with the Slayer Satsu, in part fearful Buffy is in fact gay and will pursue Willow, and later helps Satsu get over Buffy was it becomes clear she only experimenting and will not pursue a relationship with her. In "Retreat," Kennedy and her unit are forced to regroup with Buffy's main unit as the Big Bad, Twilight, closes in on them. She fights alongside the main Scoobies up until the finale "Last Gleaming." In its aftermath, after Buffy's actions have brought about the end of magic, Kennedy is dumped by Willow, who is in a personal tailspin after the loss of her powers and her connection to Aluwyn.
In Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine (2011–2013), Kennedy first appears in the "Guarded" story arc where it has revealed that since the disbandment of Buffy's Slayer organization, Kennedy has established a private security firm employing Slayers to protect its high profile clients. Buffy joins Kennedy's organization, and before long it becomes apparent that their client—a social network founder and Internet billionaire—is on the run from the demonic law firm Wolfram & Hart, who funded his website's development and plan to use it to return from their extradimensional exile. Buffy and Kennedy defeat the threat and shut down the site, and though Buffy quits the job, Kennedy pays her handsomely for her services. Kennedy's company has made her a millionaire and she sends Buffy a private jet so the trio of Buffy, Xander and Willow are able to fly from San Francisco to the Deeper Well in England in an effort to save Dawn's life. At the conclusion of the Season Nine companion series Angel & Faith, Faith leaves Angel in an effort to find her own direction in life and mentions Kennedy offered her a job as a trainer for the Slayer bodyguards.
See also[edit]
List of minor Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters
Woman warrior
List of women warriors in folklore
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "21 Most Annoying TV Characters Ever". Entertainment Weekly. April 1, 2013. Retrieved April 12, 2013.
External links[edit]
Kennedy at the Internet Movie Database
Vyra.net
 


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Melaka Fray
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Melaka Fray
Fray character
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First appearance
Big City Girl
Last appearance
Time of Your Life
Created by
Joss Whedon
 Karl Moline
Portrayed by
Michelle Wong
Information

Affiliation
Gunther
 Urkonn
Classification
Slayer
Notable powers
Supernatural strength, speed, stamina, agility, and reflexes
Rapid healing
Melaka Fray is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon with artist Karl Moline for the 2003 comic book limited series Fray, a spin-off set in the continuity of his television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The character's story was later continued in the graphic novel Tales of the Slayers, and in a Buffy crossover in the Season Eight "Time of Your Life" story arc, as well as in its motion comic companion, in which she is voiced by Michelle Wong.
In Fray, Melaka is depicted as the latest in the mystical line of vampire Slayers, chosen ones born with the strength and skill to fight the forces of evil, over two-hundred years in the future. However, unlike other vampire Slayers, Mel is unusual in that she was one of a twin; her brother Harth somehow inherited the psychic aspects of a Slayer's abilities, leaving her with only the strength, agility and other physical attributes. Prior to Mel, a Slayer had not been "called" to receive her powers for centuries.


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1 Biography 1.1 Early life
1.2 Calling
1.3 Discovering her past
1.4 Meeting Buffy Summers
2 Powers and abilities
3 Appearances
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

Biography[edit]


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Early life[edit]
Melaka Fray, born in the 23rd century, grew up in Versi (Riverside), a small ghetto type district in Haddyn (Manhattan of the future).[1] She grew up with her older sister Erin and her slightly older twin Harth.[2] In her teenage years, Melaka noticed that she had enhanced physical abilities over everyone else, but chose to believe that she was only good at things like that. Because of the low social status and the poor background from which her family came, she was forced to go 'grabbing' for food, which earned disapproval from her sister. At the age of fifteen, she took Harth with her on a grab, and the twins were attacked by a "lurk" (aka vampire) called Icarus.[3] Melaka tried to fight Icarus off but ultimately lost to him and was thrown off a building while Icarus fed off of Harth, killing him. Melaka survived her fall, only to be blamed by Erin for Harth's death. The two sisters parted ways, with Erin joining up with "the laws" (i.e. the police equivalent) while Melaka continued her life of crime.[2]
Calling[edit]
At the age of nineteen Melaka was a professional thief hired by a 'radie' (i.e. radiation caused mutant) named Gunther. Melaka also often looked after a fellow girl from Versi named Loo. Melaka was approached by a demon named Urkonn who told her that lurks were in fact ancient demons known as "vampires" and that she was destined to fight them. Mel was at first reluctant to accept or even believe that she was really "the Slayer", especially as she had never experienced any of the prophetic dreams that Urkonn described. However, after coming across a lurk while on a job for Gunther and being reminded of Harth's death, she agreed to train with Urkonn. While fighting, Melaka came face to face with Icarus and was horrified by the sight of her brother's killer, forcing Urkonn to jump to her defense. After recovering, Melaka used Gunther to track down Icarus, but she learned that Gunther had betrayed her to the law. As Erin took her sister away they were attacked by a group of lurks, who kidnapped Melaka and took her to their master: Harth.[2] Harth revealed to his sister that, as her twin, he had received her Slayer dreams and was aware of vampire history. When he was bitten by Icarus, he knew that the only way to survive was to ingest their blood, thus becoming one of them. Due to his dreams, Harth had become leader to the lurks and was determined to bring back the Old Ones. Which he then reveals his obsession with her, claiming he had always loved her and loves causing her pain. After the shock of meeting her supposedly dead brother, Melaka escaped and informed Erin of what had happened. Erin refused to believe her, so Melaka returned home and rejoined Urkonn, where she discovered Loo's lifeless body in her apartment. This motivated her to wage war on the lurks as revenge for what they had done to her loved ones.[4]
Soon afterwards, Melaka was granted the Scythe—an ancient Slayer weapon—to aid her in the upcoming battle by Urkonn. Melaka tried to unite the city of Versi against the lurks but was ignored, but after watching Melaka fight against the lurks they realized what a true threat they were. This attracted the attention of Icarus, but before he and Melaka could truly face off, Erin appeared and crashed her flying car on top of Icarus as revenge for murdering her brother.[5] Melaka led a small group of people, including members of the law, against an army of lurks, while Harth attempted to unleash the Old Ones on Earth. Melaka defeated Harth's giant demon, but Harth escaped after claiming that things were not over between them not before kissing her then running off. Afterward, Melaka confronted Urkonn, informing him that she had figured out he was the one who murdered Loo. Urkonn claimed that he needed to do whatever he could to motivate her against the lurks, and Melaka killed him, doing it quickly because she considered Urkonn a "friend". She returned to her old job as a thief, but continued fighting lurks and preparing for anything else which came her way.[6]
Discovering her past[edit]
Some time after the events of Fray, Gunther sent Melaka on a "special" grab, one he believed she would enjoy. Opening a chest, she was confronted with a bizarre "Spider-Monkey" creature which stole her scythe and led her through Haddyn to a building containing the Watchers' diaries. Reading about the lives of past Slayers, Melaka came to the conclusion that, although she was the only one of her kind in existence, she was not alone.[7]
Meeting Buffy Summers[edit]
Sometime after Fray and Tales, Melaka and Erin have teamed up to track down Harth. In one attempt to find him they hijack a moving van and discover a lurk, who they interrogate about Harth's whereabouts, the lurk reveals that Harth has teamed up with a mysterious crazy woman, who speaks in riddles and is very powerful. Mel and Erin head back to Mel's new home, the building in which she discovered the watchers diaries in Tales, to find out who the mysterious woman is. Erin meets Melaka's new pet, Gates, the 'spider-monkey' demon seen in Tales. Melaka reads about a building where she believes she can find answers to where Harth is. Erin drops her off on the building rooftop and leaves her to a fight an oncoming demon. Melaka and the demon fight but the demon is then transported away and is then replaced with Buffy Summers. After a small fight Buffy and Melaka both discover that they are both Slayers and the two soon trust each other. Melaka asks Buffy to follow her which she does, after some initial difficulty. Melaka takes Buffy to Gunther. Buffy reviews the Watcher Diaries, but finds no mention of the army of Slayers she created, to her severe disappointment. Melaka takes her on a mission to intercept some Lurks. However, she and Buffy come to disagreements about what action to take. Buffy states that they need to look at the big picture and allow the Lurks to continue their attack on an emergency vehicle in order to follow them to their larger hideout whereas Melaka opts to stop the Lurks where they are and save the lives of the paramedics. She leaps from their car, separating her from Buffy.
After defeating the Lurks, she encounters the "madwoman" who is revealed to be a once again dark and insane Willow Rosenberg.[8] She convinces Melaka to knock Buffy out, claiming that Buffy's return to the past and subsequent actions will cause the present/future world Melaka lives in to disappear. Melaka insists that she won't kill another Slayer, though Willow claims she need only keep her captive until after the temporal rift reopens and closes again, trapping Buffy in the future. However, a skirmish between Harth, who arrives angered at Willow for misleading him, and Gunther, who attacks Harth in retribution of an early ambush, allows Buffy to go free, attacking Erin and Melaka and escaping. Melaka ambushes Buffy at the site of the temporal rift claiming that she'll defeat her in order to "save the world" (the present). The two fight one another while Willow watches. Both note the other's skill, where Buffy has the advantage of a Slayer's memories and Melaka has the advantage of purpose and home turf. However, the rift opens and Buffy defeats Melaka. Willow intercepts Buffy, who is forced to reluctantly kill her in order to return to the past. Melaka is too late to stop her, feeling that she has failed once again. However, Erin notes that they still exist despite Buffy's return to the past, meaning that the future did not cease to exist as Melaka thought.[9]
Powers and abilities[edit]
Melaka is a Slayer and so possesses the physical powers of one, which includes superhuman strength, speed, agility, reflexes, durability, and accelerated healing. Her usual weapons include a blaster pistol and the mystical Slayer scythe.
Notably, she does not possess the usual psychic powers of Slayers such as prophetic dreams, as these abilities instead went to her twin brother Harth. She believes that this makes her special, as she has not inherited any traditional Slayer fighting techniques, making her unique and unpredictable. Indeed, when Buffy Summers accidentally travels to her time period, she finds it difficult to predict Melaka's moves.
Melaka is also an accomplished thief.
Appearances[edit]
Fray has made thirteen canonical appearances in the Buffyverse.
Fray"Big City Girl"
"The Calling"
"Ready, Steady..."
"Out of the Past"
"The Worst of It"
"Alarums"
"The Gateway"
"All Hell"
Tales of the Slayers"Tales"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight"Time of Your Life", Parts 1–4
See also[edit]
Buffyverse Slayer Mythology
Tales of the Slayers - Fray makes an appearance in "Tales"
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Big City Girl"
2.^ Jump up to: a b c "Out of the Past
3.Jump up ^ "Ready, Steady..."
4.Jump up ^ "The Worst of It"
5.Jump up ^ "The Gateway"
6.Jump up ^ "All Hell"
7.Jump up ^ "Tales"
8.Jump up ^ Time of Your Life Part III, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #18
9.Jump up ^ Time of Your Life Part IV, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #19
External links[edit]
Article about the miniseries from Dark Horse Comics' official website
Joss Whedon's Fray Unofficial Fansite
 


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Satsu
Buffy the Vampire Slayer character
First appearance
"The Long Way Home"
Created by
Joss Whedon
Information

Affiliation
Scooby Gang
Classification
Slayer
Notable powers
Supernatural strength
speed, stamina
agility, and reflexes
Rapid healing
 Enhanced intuition
Prophetic dreams
Satsu is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, the canonical comic book continuation of the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Her first appearance as Satsu was in the first issue of the "Long Way Home" story arc (2007). "Satsu" is a Japanese word (殺) meaning "murder" or "kill," so the name can actually be taken to mean "Slayer." It could also be a short form of the given name Satsuki (the month of May).
Satsu is introduced as a "Slayer", one of many girls endowed with supernatural abilities and destined to battle evil creatures such as vampires and demons, like protagonist Buffy Summers. Distinctly, Satsu is also a brief love interest for Buffy; Satsu is an out lesbian.


Contents  [hide]
1 Character history
2 Buffy's lesbian encounter controversy
3 Appearances
4 Footnotes and references

Character history[edit]
Satsu is a Japanese or Japanese American Slayer, first appearing in season 8, and is one of the best in Buffy's squad, along with Leah and Rowena. She is known for her funky hairstyles and wardrobe. Satsu is a lesbian, which apparently was a source of conflict with her parents. She was called as a Slayer while in the hallway at her school, causing her to fall to the floor and weep with joy.
Satsu is chosen to assist Buffy in rescuing Willow in Part 4 of the "The Long Way Home", and had previously aided Buffy many times in missions and battles. In "The Long Way Home," when Buffy is put under magical sleep that can only be broken by the kiss of one who loves her, Satsu is the one who anonymously breaks the spell, although this is not revealed until later. She makes cameos in "The Chain", and "Anywhere But Here", and has a much bigger role in "A Beautiful Sunset". In this issue, Buffy takes Satsu to a vampire nest, and they dispose of them quickly. Buffy informs Satsu that it's become general knowledge in their group that Satsu is in love with her and was the one who woke her from her magical sleep (Buffy herself admits that she figured it out by recognizing the taste of Satsu's cinnamon lip gloss). Buffy is sincerely flattered, but tells Satsu that a relationship between them would not work, and warns her that people who love her have a tragic history of getting hurt (citing Angel's banishment to a hell dimension, Spike's immolation in the Hellmouth, and Riley's struggles with masochism). Afterward, when Twilight attacks, Satsu is knocked out at the beginning of the battle.
In "Wolves at the Gate, Part 1", Satsu and Buffy have sex together and are discovered in bed by Xander, Andrew, Renée, Dawn, and Willow. "Wolves at the Gate" Parts 2 and 3 illustrate the awkwardness that follows. In Part 4 of "Wolves at the Gate", Satsu decides she needs to spend time apart from Buffy to come to terms with her feelings, and stays in Tokyo, becoming leader of the Japanese squad of the Slayer army after having one more night of intimacy with Buffy.
Kennedy visits Satsu in "Swell", both as a performance assessment and to talk to her about the Buffy situation; Kennedy leads Satsu to reluctantly accept that Buffy is straight and not interested in her romantically. Satsu proves an effective leader for her squad, and successfully commandeers a submarine for the team's use. In "Swell," Satsu's body is invaded by a small stuffed-animal-like demon called a Vampy Cat, which causes her to behave in an aggressive and misogynistic manner until Kennedy kicks her in the stomach during a fight and causes her to vomit the creature up; however, the Vampy Cat was able to extract from Satsu's mind the location of the Slayer's secret headquarters in Scotland.
In the "Retreat" arc, the stolen submarine was used by Buffy, her companions, and a large group of Slayers (including Satsu) to escape from an attack by the forces of the villain, Twilight. After Willow magically transports the submarine and its occupants to the home of their friend Oz in Tibet, Satsu temporarily gives up her Slayer powers, with the others, in an attempt to escape notice by Twilight... a tactic of which she vocally disapproves. She remains steadfastly loyal to Buffy, and at one point saves her from a sniper's bullet.
The "Twilight" arc finds Satsu in Buffy's inner circle, often using computers and other technical equipment. She reacts with anger and disgust when she observes Buffy and Angel having sex, Angel having been revealed as the true identity of the villain Twilight. She continues to be present, in the background, during the concluding "Last Gleaming" arc of Season 8.
Buffy's lesbian encounter controversy[edit]
The sexual relationship between Satsu and Buffy was a source of considerable discussion and controversy both inside and outside the series' fan base, as it was the first homosexual experience of a major character (Buffy) who had previously been portrayed as exclusively heterosexual .[citation needed] The implications were debated heavily on Internet forums and in the comic's letters column, as well as in blogs dedicated to feminist and lesbian topics,[1] and in major entertainment and pop culture news venues.[2][3]
Appearances[edit]
Satsu has appeared in 21 canonical Buffyverse episodes.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight"The Long Way Home, Parts 1-4"
"Anywhere But Here"
"A Beautiful Sunset"
"Wolves at the Gate, Parts 1-4"
"Swell"
"Retreat, Parts 1, 3, & 5"
"Turbulence"
"Twilight, Parts 1-4"
"Last Gleaming, Parts 1, 2"
Footnotes and references[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Buffy. Satsu. Sex", About Womyn (March 9, 2008)
2.Jump up ^ Vineyard, Jennifer, "Buffy The Vampire Slayer In Gay Romance For Next Comic Book Arc", MTV Movie News (March 6, 2008)
3.Jump up ^ Gustines, George Gene, "Buffy: experimenting in bed when not after vampires", The New York Times


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Amy Madison
Buffy the Vampire Slayer character

Elizabeth Anne Allen as Amy Madison

First appearance
"Witch"
Created by
Joss Whedon, Dana Reston
Portrayed by
Elizabeth Anne Allen - TV Series
Shay Astar - Motion Comics
Information

Classification
Witch
Notable powers
Powerful magical abilities
Amy Madison is a fictional character on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Elizabeth Anne Allen plays the character in the original television series, and Shay Astar plays Amy in the Season 8 motion comics. The character appears in every season of Buffy except Season Five (during which time the character was stuck in the form of a rat due to a spell cast in Season Three).
In the show, Amy is a witch. Although initially a seemingly good-natured individual, Amy gradually begins misusing her magic, eventually becoming an enemy to Willow (Alyson Hannigan) and her friends. In the series' comic book continuation, the character is more of an outright villain.


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1.2 Literature
2 Powers and abilities
3 Romantic interests
4 Appearances
5 References
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Television[edit]
Amy is a classmate of Buffy Summers at Sunnydale High School. In junior high, she would often go over to Willow's house and eat brownies to escape her mother's abuse. The character first appears in the Season One episode "Witch", when she and Buffy both try out for the cheerleading team. At first, Amy performs poorly in the tryouts, but when a series of strange injuries to other contestants move her up in the standings, the Scooby Gang suspects that something is afoul. It is revealed that Amy's mother Catherine, a very powerful witch, has switched bodies with Amy because she wants to relive her youth. Buffy and the Scooby Gang succeed in restoring Amy to her own body and (unknown to them) trapping her mother in the cheerleading trophy she won while a cheerleader for Sunnydale High (her nickname was Catherine the Great due to her cheerleading prowess). Afterward, Amy talks to Buffy and mentions that she is now living with her father and step-mother, and that she is much happier.
The character appears as a Sunnydale student in other episodes. Along with Jonathan Levinson and Harmony Kendall, she is one of many recurring student characters. In the Season Two episode "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered", Xander Harris discovers that Amy inherited her mother's power, having become a potent, if sometimes ineffective, witch. Xander blackmails Amy into helping him perform a love spell on Cordelia Chase, however, the spell goes awry and causes the entire female population of Sunnydale, sans Cordelia, to become psychotically obsessed with Xander. Under the influence of her own spell, a jealous Amy invokes the goddess Hecate and temporarily turns Buffy into a rat. Eventually, Rupert Giles forces Amy to undo both spells.
In Season Three, the character has joined a coven with Willow (now a practicing witch) and warlock Michael Czajak. In the episode "Gingerbread", the parents of Sunnydale (under the influence of the demonic Hans and Greta) become paranoid about the supernatural's influence on their children, and prepare to burn Amy, Buffy, and Willow at the stake. To escape her bonds, Amy turns herself into a rat, but then, being a rat, she is unable to remove her own spell. Willow captures Rat-Amy and keeps her in a cage until the spell can be reversed. Willow makes several unsuccessful attempts to dispel of Amy's rat form over the next two seasons. In the Season Four episode "Something Blue", Willow, who, at this time, has the power to make anything she wants happen, accidentally turns Amy back into a human; however, Willow does not even notice, and a few seconds later accidentally changes the character back into a rat. Doug Petrie, a writer on the show, describes this series of events as "as cruel and funny as anything could be".[1]
By Season Six, Willow has become an extremely powerful witch and permanently "de-rats" Amy simply by conjuring an incantation. The two become friends again, though Amy now seems to be drastically different than she was before she turned into a rat. The character had apparently been involved with the warlock Rack before becoming a rat. Amy gets Willow involved as well, leading her to become addicted to black magic. Later, when Willow decides to give up magic, Amy casts a spell on her, causing her to magically manipulate everything she touches for a while; Willow complains that Amy's actions are encumbering her attempts to quit magic. Amy responds by mocking her, implying that she did it as revenge for being trapped as a rat for years. As a result, Willow cuts Amy out of her life entirely.
Amy's final appearance in the television series occurs in the Season Seven episode "The Killer in Me." When asked her feelings about Amy's actions in this episode, Elizabeth Anne Allen said, "I think after all the things that she went through, there were a lot of reasons why she was so angry."[2]
Having physically transformed into Warren Mears, whom she tortured and flayed in a rage over the murder of her girlfriend Tara Maclay, Willow seeks help from the UC Sunnydale Wicca Group and discovers that Amy is a member. Amy explains that she had hit "rock bottom", and was doing much better now. It is soon revealed, however, that Amy is in fact responsible for Willow's transformation, the result of a hex placed on her apparently out of jealousy and spite. However, in the Season Eight comic book, it's made known this seemingly random event is actually part of a larger plan orchestrated by Warren, after Amy rescued him from death in the earlier episode "Villains."
Allen says she would have liked to explore Amy's struggle to overcome her anger, so that she could "get a grip and come back to the fold with her friends."[2]
Literature[edit]
In the first issue of the Season Eight comic book story "The Long Way Home," an expedition of the United States Army finds Amy living sixty feet under the Hellmouth after its collapse with her "boyfriend," an unrevealed creature whom General Voll regards with disgust. Her first words to an exploratory member were "I'm gonna help you kill her." In exchange for their cooperation, Amy requests unlimited access to all the government's magical hardware as well as a weapons lab for her "boyfriend"; and if they succeed in taking Buffy down, Amy wants full immunity and release for the both of them.
Amy attacks Buffy at the Slayers' base in Scotland, putting her under a mystical sleep which only a kiss of someone's love can undo. Raising an army of kilted zombies to battle the Slayers, Amy battles Willow mid-air before being stepped-on by Buffy's now-giant sister Dawn Summers. As Willow magically probes Amy's whereabouts, she is pulled through a portal to be "greeted" by a saw-wielding and skinless Warren Mears. As Warren tortures Willow, Amy faces off against Satsu and an awakened Buffy, who manages to channel enough of Willow's magic to defeat a demon which Amy conjured. Having seen her dreamspace while asleep, Buffy takes the form of Amy's worst nightmare: her mother. Distracted, Amy fails to notice a grenade thrown at her feet by Satsu, and as Buffy and Satsu charge into the room containing Willow, they see Amy appear and teleport away with Warren in her arms.
Later, in "Time of Your Life", Amy and Warren are shown working under direct orders from Twilight, under whom Voll served. Together they construct a missile covered in mystical runes and candles, and use it to destroy a Scottish citadel, killing seven of the many Slayers residing there. The couple continue to squabble over tactical and romantic disagreements; it is Amy who is able to identify the Slayers' location and powerless status in Tibet using a cat disguise, after previous magical and military attempts at detecting them failed in the "Retreat" arc.
Powers and abilities[edit]
Amy is a powerful witch with abilities inherited from her mother. These powers grow throughout the series. While initially more powerful than Willow, casting a spell to become a rat that Willow cannot initially reverse, Amy acknowledges in Season Seven that Willow has surpassed her. Willow comments that Amy's newfound power in Season Eight (which she claims has grown since the events of "Chosen") has been technologically augmented to some degree, with Amy commenting that she has grown consistently stronger stranded in the ruins of Sunnydale. In battle, Amy is able to stand up against Willow and fly by force of will.
Romantic interests[edit]
Xander Harris - After a spell Amy casts which was supposed to make Cordelia love Xander goes wrong, she, along with every other woman in Sunnydale, falls in love with Xander ("Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"). This attraction ends after Rupert Giles gets Amy to reverse the spell.
Larry Blaisdell - Amy stated that she thought Larry was considering asking her to the prom, apparently unaware he was gay and the fact that the graduation of her class occurred three years before, when Larry died.
Warren Mears - Amy's skinless boyfriend in Season Eight. It is revealed in "The Long Way Home" that the two had been in a relationship since "Villains", where after Warren was flayed alive by Willow, Amy saved his life. Amy refers to Warren as "sweetie", while he claims that "her magic is my skin."
Appearances[edit]
Amy has appearead in 15 Buffyverse episodes and comics.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Amy has appeared as a guest in 8 Buffy episodes:Season 1 (1997) - "Witch"
Season 2 (1998) - "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"
Season 3 (1999) - "Gingerbread"
Season 4 (1999) - "Something Blue"
Season 6 (2001–02) - "Smashed"; "Wrecked"; "Doublemeat Palace"
Season 7 (2003) - "The Killer in Me"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight Amy has appeared thus far in seven issues:"The Long Way Home, Parts 1-4"
"Time of Your Life, Part 1 & 4"
"Retreat, Part 2"
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Doug Petrie discusses Amy the Rat". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2011-03-20.
2.^ Jump up to: a b "Interview with Elizabeth Anne Allen". Retrieved 07//17/2007.
External links[edit]
Amy Madison at the Internet Movie Database
 


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Adam (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Anointed One (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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Bringers of the First Evil
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Caleb (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Jenny Calendar
Cordelia Chase
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D'Hoffryn
Darla (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Der Kindestod
Drusilla (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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Faith (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Riley Finn
First Evil

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Forrest Gates
Melaka Fray
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Rupert Giles
Glory (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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Halfrek
Xander Harris
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Anya Jenkins
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Harmony Kendall
Kennedy (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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Jonathan Levinson
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Tara Maclay
Amy Madison
Master (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Mayor (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Warren Mears
Moloch (Buffyverse)
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Oz (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

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Ethan Rayne
Willow Rosenberg
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Satsu (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Principal Snyder
Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Buffy Summers
Dawn Summers
Joyce Summers
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Trio (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Turok-Han
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Maggie Walsh
Andrew Wells
Nikki Wood
Robin Wood (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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