is the eponymous
Fictional Character in the film ''
Buffy The Vampire Slayer '', the
Television Program Of The Same Name and its numerous spin-offs, such as novels, comic books, and video games. The character was portrayed by
Kristy Swanson in the film, by
Sarah Michelle Gellar in the television series, and by
Giselle Loren in the video games and unproduced animated series. In 2005,
Bravo TV named her as the 13th greatest television character of all time, ahead of
Hawkeye Pierce and
J.R. Ewing .
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: ''Note: This article refers to the Buffy Summers as depicted in the ''
Buffy The Vampire Slayer '' television series and other
Canonical Material . The character featured in the film ''
Buffy The Vampire Slayer '' is considered an
Alternate Universe version, as the television series and other canonical material rewrite a great deal of the events featured in the film.''
Buffy was born to
Hank and
Joyce Summers on
January 19 ,
1981 , in
Los Angeles ,
California .The episodes in which she celebrates her birthday in Seasons Two and Three aired on
January 19 , and the ones from the rest of the series aired on dates closest to the
19 January . In Season Four, Buffy informs
Riley Finn that she is a "
Capricorn on the cusp of
Aquarius ." (In the episode "
I, Robot... You, Jane ", computer screens show Buffy's birth date as
October 24 ,
1980 , and as
May 6 ,
1979 . However, in at least four other episodes of the first season, i.e. spring
1997 , Buffy and/or her mother say she is 16.) In the Season Two episode
Killed By Death , it is revealed that, at the age of eight, Buffy was close friends with her cousin Celia, and enjoyed playing superhero with her; Buffy pretended to be
Power Girl , a prophetic choice of alter ego. She looked on helplessly as Celia was murdered by a demon that killed sick children and was only visible to those who were ill, an experience which instilled a fear of hospitals in Buffy. Buffy came to idolize
Olympic Ice Skater Dorothy Hamill as she learned the sport. She became a popular
Cheerleader at Hemery High School in
Los Angeles . During her time at Hemery (
1995 -
1997 ), Buffy was elected both Prom Princess and Fiesta Queen.
The details of how Buffy learned she was the
Slayer were first presented in the 1992 movie. However, as this movie is not considered canon in the
Buffyverse ,
Christopher Golden adapted Joss Whedon's original script into a canonical comic book entitled ''
The Origin ''. In the comic, a fifteen-year-old Buffy is having violent dreams about women from different period of history slaying monsters. One day, she is approached by
Merrick Jamison-Smythe , a mysterious man who reveals her destiny as the Chosen One and becomes her first
Watcher (this scene can also be seen in the Season Two episode "
Becoming, Part One "). With little training, and help from her friend
Oliver Pike , Buffy defeats her first major enemy, a vampire leader named Lothos, but not before the death of Merrick. In a battle with Lothos' vampiric lackeys, Buffy sets fire to the high school gym and is subsequently expelled.
In the Season Six episode "
Normal Again ", it is revealed that, shortly after her expulsion, Buffy confided in her parents about what really had happened and her destiny as the Slayer. Worried that she was losing her mind, Buffy's parents sent her to a mental institution. While there, Buffy realized that attempts to persuade others of the existence of demonic forces would be futile. She kept quiet and was released after a couple of weeks. Buffy and her parents never spoke of it again. Joyce and Hank, who had been experiencing marital troubles for years, finally divorced, and Buffy moved with her mother to
1630 Revello Drive in
Sunnydale , a small town in
California .
In Season One of the series, Buffy begins to accept the responsibilities and dangers of her calling as Slayer. Hoping to be a regular student, Buffy enrolls in the local high school and meets her future best friends,
Xander Harris and
Willow Rosenberg , as well as her new Watcher,
Rupert Giles , together forming the "core four" of the
Scooby Gang . She also meets
Cordelia Chase , a condescending, arrogant cheerleader, and
Angel , a vampire with a soul (cf. "
Welcome To The Hellmouth "). Buffy is quickly forced back into the role of Slayer as she and her new friends battle vampires, monsters, and demons. She grows closer to Giles, eventually coming to view him as a father figure. The first season centers on Buffy's battle with a thousand-year-old vampire leader known as
The Master , and the
Order Of Aurelius . On learning that the infallible Pergamum Codex prophesies her death at the hands of the Master, Buffy contemplates leaving town, but accepts her fate after Willow discovers bodies of her friends slaughtered inside the school. She is overpowered and left to drown in a pool of water in the Master's dwellings, but Xander
Resuscitates her and she manages to defeat the Master (cf. "
Prophecy Girl ").
In the show's second season, Buffy continues to come to terms with her destiny as the Slayer with the help of her friends. Buffy finds forbidden love with Angel and clashes with
Spike and
Drusilla , the new vampires in town (cf. "
School Hard "). In the episode "
Surprise ", Buffy loses her
Virginity to Angel, unknowingly lifting the
Kalderash curse placed on him a century earlier. In a dark twist, he loses his soul and reverts to the evil Angelus. He becomes obsessed with destroying Buffy's life, his pathological abuse taking heavy toll on Buffy and her friends (cf. "
Passion "). As Angelus plans to destroy the world, Buffy is forced to reveal her identity as the Slayer to her mother, who demands that Buffy stay home and discuss matters with her, telling her that if she leaves now, not to come back. As Buffy fights with Angelus, trying to prevent him from opening a vortex to a hell dimension, Willow works a spell to re-ensoul Angel. The spell is successful, but it is too late, and Buffy reluctantly stabs Angel with a sword, sending him to a
Hell dimension. Traumatized by the ordeal of essentially killing her boyfriend and being alienated from her mother, Buffy leaves Sunnydale and escapes to Los Angeles (cf. "
Becoming, Part Two ").
In Season Three, Buffy must reconnect to her calling, her friends, and her family after her departure, as well as make difficult life decisions regarding her relationship with Angel. Returning to Sunnydale after several months, she reunites with her loved ones and tries to find closure to her relationship with Angel. However, Angel returns mysteriously and Buffy is still drawn to him. Meanwhile, she must also try to help rebellious new Slayer
Faith , who becomes increasingly destructive and disloyal as she indulges her dark side (cf. "
Bad Girls "). The writers stated that they created Faith as a way of exploring Buffy's dark side without ruining her character; Faith shows what Buffy could have been without friends or family.''Buffy The Vampire Slayer'' Season Three Overview DVD Featurette Alienated from "the Scoobies", Faith finds a friend in the affable yet sinister
Mayor Of Sunnydale , who is preparing to become a pure-blood demon on Sunnydale High's Graduation Day. When Buffy learns that Angel, who is on the verge of death after being poisoned by Faith, must drink the blood of a Slayer in order to survive, Buffy attempts to sacrifice Faith to save him. Their battle leaves Faith in a
Coma , and Buffy ultimately saves Angel with her own blood. In the episode "
Graduation Day, Part Two , Buffy leads her classmates in a climactic battle against the transformed Mayor and his minions, culminating in an explosion that destroys the Mayor as well as Sunnydale High. After the smoke clears, Angel leaves for Los Angeles so that Buffy can try to have a more normal life without him.
In Season Four, Buffy must balance her Slayer duties with her new life as a college student at UC Sunnydale. Her difficulty adjusting to college life is further complicated by mystical threats (including, among other things, a
Demonic Roommate ,
Campus Werewolves ,
Enchanted Beer ), the return of Spike (now unable to harm humans), and a disastrous
One-night Stand with
Parker Abrams , a charming playboy. Buffy also experiences some disconnection from her friends, who all seem to be moving in different directions. She attracts the sincere attention of
Riley Finn , who is (as she soon discovers) a member of the
Initiative , a
U.S. Government Task Force created to research mystical and demonic creatures, led by Buffy's psychology professor,
Maggie Walsh . Buffy briefly joins forces with Riley's team. However, Riley and Buffy become disillusioned with the Initiative after Professor Walsh betrays Buffy, and they discover that she is creating a race of super-warriors from the fruits of the Initiative's demon research, including the cyber-demonoid
Adam . Buffy, Willow, Xander, and Giles literally unite to defeat Adam in the penultimate episode of season four "
Primeval ", by invoking the power of the
First Slayer .
In Season Five, Buffy faces her greatest dangers yet, while finally fully embracing her destiny. A younger sister,
Dawn , mysteriously appears in Buffy's household, her existence having been seamlessly integrated with the memories of Buffy, her friends, and her mother. Buffy discovers that Dawn is not her sister and soon learns that a group of monks "created" a human body in order to hide " The Key," cosmic energy that can open interdimensional portals, from a mentally unstable and dangerous hell-god known as
Glory . In the meantime, Spike realizes that he has fallen in love with Buffy, and he becomes a more regular and reliable presence in her Slayer life, assisting in the fight against demons. Buffy suffers much emotional turmoil throughout this season, such as the deterioration of her relationship with Riley and her mother's unexpected death from a brain aneurysm (cf. "
The Body "). While on a vision quest, the spirit of the original Slayer tells her that "death is her gift", a message she has difficulty understanding. In the season finale "
The Gift ", Buffy finally realises what the meaning of the message means and sacrifices her own life in order to save Dawn's. She dives into an interdimensional portal, closing it and saving the world. She is buried on the outskirts of Sunnydale with the epitaph, "She saved the world. A lot." Finally able to rest, Buffy ascends to
Heaven and finds peace.
In Season Six, Buffy must deal with
Depression and loss. She is resurrected by her friends who believe that she may have been in hell due to the mystical circumstances of her death. Buffy's transition back to her life is difficult; she experiences the pain of having been ripped from heaven, as well as the added responsibilities of raising Dawn and paying bills. Buffy is also forced to deal with the villainous Trio, whose comically nerdy crimes grow darker as the season progresses. Taking a mundane and degrading job slinging burgers at the
Doublemeat Palace , she falls into a deep depression and begins a violent sexual relationship with Spike which leaves neither of them satisfied. Buffy later admits to Spike that she is just using him, and breaks things off because it is killing her. Spike later corners her in her bathroom and tries to
Rape her; Buffy fights him off, and Spike, horrified by his actions, leaves Sunnydale in search of his soul (cf. "
Seeing Red "). When
Warren Mears kills Willow's girlfriend
Tara Maclay , Willow becomes psychotic with dark magics, exacting revenge against Warren and planning to destroy the world. After Xander comes through for Willow in the end, Buffy promises to change her self-destructive behavior in order to be there for her sister (cf. "
Grave ").
In the seventh season, Buffy develops a new perspective on her destiny, power, and womanhood, when she is confronted with the threat of the
First Evil . The Bringers, agents of the First, are tracking down and killing potential Slayers all over the world in an attempt to wipe out the Slayer line. Buffy's home quickly becomes filled with teenage Potentials, who come to Sunnydale for protection. Buffy is the natural leader for the girls, who initially look up to her with respect. She works to train the Potentials into an army to stand against the First; however, her methods, tactics, and decisions soon begin to alienate the terrified girls. The Potentials continue to lose faith in Buffy's leadership as the dangers around them increase, leading to a mutiny; the Scooby Gang all choose a reformed Faith as their new leader, and Dawn asks Buffy to leave the house (cf. "
Empty Places "). Only Spike remains loyal to Buffy, and Buffy spends two nights of emotional closeness with him before the final battle against the armies of the First. Buffy eventually wins back the Scoobies' trust and informs them of her plan to share her power with every Potential in the world. In the show's final episode "
Chosen ", a huge battle is waged between an army of Slayers and the
Turok-Han vampires; Spike sacrifices himself to close the Hellmouth, and the Scoobies escape as Sunnydale crumbles into a huge crater.
Aside from mentions in ''Angel'', Buffy did not make her next canonical appearance until 2004 in the comic ''.
Buffy is a Slayer and has the normal powers that other slayers do, including superhuman strength, speed, agility, reflexes, and accelerated healing. Buffy also seems to possesses an enhanced type of slayer
Precognition that warns her of impending danger through her dreams. For example, her dreams warned her of both her death by the hands of the Master and Angel's death; soon after, Angel lost his soul and reverted to Angelus, holding true to her vision. Later on in the series Buffy dreams of Faith, she talks to her and finds a way to defeat the Mayor through her vision.
In addition, Buffy exhibits a strong ability to lead others in battle campaigns.
Slayers are also supposed to be able to sense vampires which Buffy, Kendra, and Faith all seemed to lack, although Buffy had on occasion appeared to have sensed the presence of demons, if only by observing their archaic sartorial choices. Like all Slayers, within Buffy's "dreamspace" are a collective of inherited slayer memories and prophecies.''
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In Season Eight, Xander comments that Buffy has some degree of mystical protection over her now, at least while she sleeps. To that end, her protection means even daggers split apart so as not to pierce her skin.''
Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Eight '' #2 Buffy's connection to Willow is now so strong, that even when unconscious, Willow's consciousness can (at will) channel an amount of her power through Buffy''
Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Eight '' #4 in a similar way to "
Primeval ".
- In the episode " Earshot ", Buffy gets an aspect of a demon that she killed, and gains the Ability To Hear The Thoughts Of Others (although not vampires, which leave no reflection in the mind). She becomes unable to control all of the thoughts in her head, so Angel kills a second demon of this type (which had gotten away) and feeds her a potion containing the demon's heart, stopping the ability altogether.
- In the episode " Primeval ", Buffy was the focus of a complex spell that briefly gave her the abilities of Xander, Willow, and Giles; the spell also drew on the pure source of the Slayer's power. She became faster, stronger and had magical abilities. For example she stopped Adam's bullets in the air and turned a missile into a dove. She was able to punch through Adam's armored hide and rip out his radioactive Uranium power core without ill effects. Immediately after Buffy defeated the nearly invincible Adam, the spell faded.
The character of Buffy Summers was initially created as a way of subverting the cliché of the typical
Horror Movie girl who gets killed by the monster. Ironically, Sarah Michelle Gellar herself has played such characters in horror movies ''
I Know What You Did Last Summer '' and ''
Scream 2 '', before parodying the typical damsel-in-distress as
Daphne Blake in ''
Scooby-Doo ''. Inspired by his own mother's strength, Joss Whedon stated that "Rhonda the Immortal Waitress" was the first incarnation of Buffy in his head; a seemingly insignificant female who in fact turns out to be extraordinary. Although Whedon's vision of female empowerment was not as apparent as he would have liked in the 1992 movie, he was given a second chance when
Gail Berman approached him with the idea of re-creating it as a television series.''Buffy'' Season Six DVD Featurette "Television with Bite"
Adapting the concept of the movie into a television series, Whedon decided to reinvent the character of Buffy slightly. The shallow cheerleader of the original film had grown more mature and open-minded, identifying with social outcasts such as Willow and Xander, and instead, the character of Cordelia was created to embody what Buffy once was."Welcome to the Hellmouth" commentary Ironically, the actress who played Cordelia, Charisma Carpenter, had originally auditioned for the role of Buffy, but the part eventually went to Sarah Michelle Gellar instead. Whedon has admitted that Buffy's personality was largely based on that of ''. Describing the tone of the show, as shown by the opening credits, Whedon said, "Here's a girl who has no patience for a horror movie. Who is not going to be the victim, is not going to be in the scary organ horror movie. She's gonna bring her own sort of youth and rockin' attitute to it.""Welcome to the Hellmouth" commentary
Buffy's personality changes significantly over the series, as audiences watch her evolve from a self-centered high school student, to a grown-up mentor to Dawn and the activated Slayers. She frequently defies the rules of the Watcher's Council and other Slayer conventions. She has a very strong and perseverant spirit as well as a natural aptitude for leadership in a crisis.
Buffy often comes off as a dumb blonde, especially when it comes to name recollection, however she usually beats her more analytically intelligent comrades to an understanding of the problems at hand. These realizations cannot be entirely attributed to her slayer senses.
Early in the television series, make-up supervisor Todd McIntosh was instructed to make Buffy "a soft and sort of earthy character." He gave Gellar a soft, muted green make-up and kept her look very natural. However, it was later decided that this was inappropriate for the character, and that Buffy needed to look more like a
Valley Girl . McIntosh switched her make-up around, giving her frosted eyeshadow and lip colours, bright turquoise and aqua marines, bubblegum coloured nails, and bleach-blonde hair, causing the character to "blossom."''Buffy'' Season Two DVD Featurette "Beauty and the Beasts"
Buffy's distinguishing features include a bite-mark scar on the left side of her neck. She originally received this scar from the Master, but has been bitten by other vampires Angel (cf. "
Graduation Day, Part Two ") and Dracula (cf. "
Buffy Vs. Dracula "). In "
The Dark Age ", Buffy received a tattoo of the Mark of Eyghon from
Ethan Rayne , but later spent her allowance on having it removed.
Buffy's first death (in the episode "
Prophecy Girl ") was a
Clinical Death , in which the heart stops beating, but there is still brain activity. People who experience clinical death have often been revived. This death activated
Kendra Young as the Slayer, and Kendra's death activated Faith.
Buffy's second, real death happened at the climax of the episode "
The Gift ", where she sacrificed herself to save Dawn and the world by hurling herself off a tower and using her own body to close a mystical portal. Her body rested for 147 days until Willow, Xander, Tara, and
Anya resurrected her in the episode "
Bargaining ".
Buffy also "died" in a magical nightmare (in the episode "
Nightmares ") and in an
Alternate Reality (in the episode "
The Wish "). In both cases, she was killed by The Master.
Buffy's romantic relationships are the focus of many stories over the course of the series. As opposed to her counterpart Faith, Buffy seeks committed relationships over casual dates, but is often drawn to dangerous lovers. While discussing a painful reunion with Angel, Buffy claims, "Isn't that where the fire comes from? Can a nice, safe relationship be that intense? I know it's nuts, but part of me believes that real love and passion have to go hand in hand with pain and fighting.
vampire suddenly jumps out of the bushes. Buffy barely reacts, casually stakes the vampire, and continues on her way I wonder where I get that from."
2 Sympathising with her friend's inability to have a normal relationship, Willow states, "Poor Buffy. Your life resists all things average." Buffy's attitude to romance is dealt with in the Season Five episode "
I Was Made To Love You ", by the end of which she decides not to be dependent on men.
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Buffy's main romantic interest in the original ''Buffy'' movie is sarcastic slacker
Oliver Pike , meeting him shortly before discovering she was the Slayer. Although they initially hate one another, as Buffy's superficial
Valley Girl perspective is at odds with Pike's ethic, the two grow closer after losing friends to Lothos and his minions, and Pike eventually aids Buffy in her defeat of the vampire king. Buffy's relationship with Pike pre-Sunnydale is considered canon, as he appears as a main character in the "The Origin". Although never mentioned in the television series, he reappears in several non-canon comic books, in which he breaks up with Buffy because he believes that their relationship puts both of them in danger.
In the third season, Buffy and Angel are forced to come to terms with the reality of their limitations as a couple. The writers explain that there was only so far they could go with that epic love story, and that being unable to consummate a relationship with someone you love is a situation that is very real for most teenagers
7. Angel realises he is preventing Buffy from leading a normal life, and leaves town, but often returns to support her in times of need.
Following Angel's departure, Buffy tries to move on by having an impulsive a one-night stand with college student
Parker Abrams .
8 She is devastated when Parker later ignores her, having only wanted to have "a good time." After recovering from that, she is then pursued by Riley Finn, a soldier in the Initiative. Although Riley sacrifices his career and friends to be with Buffy, he is continually disappointed by her unwillingness to be truly open and vulnerable with him, admitting to a surprised Xander, "But she doesn't love me."
9 Riley also feels that he isn't strong or aggressive enough to satisfy Buffy the way that dangerous vampires did, a fact that Spike picks up on, claiming, "The girl needs some monster in her man, and that's not in your nature."
10 Despite his efforts to understand Buffy's dark desires, Riley slowly drifts away and leaves Sunnydale to rejoin the military. Writer Jane Espenson admits that Buffy's relationship with Riley never really had the fire that her one with Angel did, but states that "it wasn't really meant to."
11 Marc Blucas describes his character's one-sided relationship with Buffy as being something most people could identify with.
In season six, Buffy deals with her traumatic resurrection by embarking on a highly destructive sexual relationship with Spike. Exploiting Spike's genuine feelings of love toward in return for physical solace, she admits "I'm using you. I can't love you. I'm just being weak, and selfish... and it's killing me."
12 Their relationship ends on a violent note when Spike attempts to rape a weakened Buffy, but she gradually begins to trust him again in season seven, after he regains his soul to make himself worthy of her. By the end of the show, she reaches an emotional closeness with Spike, although Joss Whedon deliberately leaves it ambiguous as to whether or not they resume their sexual relationship.
13 As Spike prepares to sacrifice himself to save the world, Buffy finally tells him she loves him, to which he replies "No, you don't. But thanks for saying it."
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In "Chosen", Joss Whedon gives fans hope that Buffy and Angel may still end up together. While she admits to having to having feelings for Spike, Buffy claims that she is still growing as a person, and has not yet decided what she wants from a relationship. Joss Whedon explains that this was his way of satisfying fans of both the Buffy/Angel and the Buffy/Spike relationships, without making her seem like "the Slut Queen of Slutdonia." Similarly, in the ''Angel'' episode "
The Girl In Question ", in which Angel and a resurrected Spike travel to Rome to find Buffy, Andrew explains to the two vampires that, "Buffy loves both of you, but she's gotta live her life." In this episode, Buffy is supposedly dating the Immortal, who Angel describes as "a centuries-old guy with a dark past who may or may not be evil."
15 In truth, Buffy has not been involved with anyone since Spike's "death" at the Hellmouth, but still enjoys sexual fantasies about both Spike and Angel, as seen in her dreamscape.
Interestingly, the writers have often toyed with the concept of Buffy and her best male friend Xander as being a romantic couple. Xander had a crush of Buffy in the early seasons, but it was unrequited, with Buffy actually rejecting him when he finally admitted his feelings.
16 When Buffy found herself greatly attracted to Xander while under the influence of a love spell, she was grateful to him for not taking advantage of the situation.
17 More recently, Buffy experiences a strange dream in which she propositions Xander and kisses him on the lips, causing his head to pop off. Marti Noxon claims that "it certainly was set up that the two of them should end up together" and thats fans continue to hope for such as possibility. Sarah Michelle Gellar has gone on record as saying, "I honestly believe
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- Buffy's unusual name was the subject of Aphrodisia's somewhat ironic ridicule in the series opener. It would be the subject of a joke as late as the Penultimate episode of the series.
- Joss Whedon has since revealed that the character of Buffy Summers is a combination of several X-Men characters. For example, her surname is taken from Scott Summers (Cyclops), and her personality is largely taken from Kitty Pryde .
- In addition to Kristy Swanson and Sarah Michelle Gellar, five other actresses have portrayed Buffy. In flashbacks, a younger Buffy has been played by Mimi Paley , Alexandra Lee , and Candice Nicole . In Season Four, Buffy suffered a magical identity crisis and, having swapped bodies with Faith, was portrayed by Eliza Dushku (in the episodes " This Year's Girl " and " Who Are You "). Giselle Loren has portrayed Buffy in the video games and aborted animated series based on the series.
- Charisma Carpenter auditioned before Sarah Michelle Gellar for the part of Buffy. She was later cast as Buffy's rival Cordelia , the part Sarah Michelle Gellar originally auditioned for.
- Julie Benz and Elizabeth Anne Allen also auditioned for the part of Buffy, ending up with the semi-recurring roles of Darla and Amy Madison , respectively.
- Despite her various strengths, Buffy is sometimes portrayed as somewhat of a Dumb Blonde ; her best friend Willow describes her in " Chosen " as "sweet girl, not that bright." Buffy even mentions this herself in the episode " Goodbye Iowa ", telling Dr Angleman, "I feel an attack of dumb blonde coming on."
- Buffy has a habit of mangling demon names, much to Giles' irritation; Bezoar becomes "Bozo", Acathla becomes "Alfalfa" and "Al Franken", Kakistos becomes "Kissing Toast" and "Taquitos", and Turok-Han becomes "Chaka Khan."
- Buffy is most often the first person to realize what's really going on, even when her seemingly more intelligent friends are unable to (as in Intervention and Touched ) and she is almost invariably the one to devise the plan of action to deal with whatever threat the group is facing. Even though she and others consider her a dumb blonde, on her SATS, she scored a 1430.
- A minor character trait of Buffy's is her aversion to studying history. In " The Harsh Light Of Day ", she sarcastically dismisses the subject as, "exciting dates and compelling places."
- A minor character trait of Buffy's is her inability to drive. She repeatedly asks her mother if she can take lessons, to little avail. When she finally does get her hands on the wheel in " Band Candy ", she doesn't know what the hand brake is for. In Season Four's " Something Blue ", she admits that "cars and Buffy are unmixy things." However, in Season Seven's " Him " she is shown to still have possession of, and drive, her mother's SUV.
- In the episode " Bargaining ", Buffy is revived and has to dig her way out of her grave; this recalls her nightmare scenario of being turned into a vampire and having to dig her way out of her grave, shown much earlier in the episode " Nightmares ".
- Over the course of the series' 144 episodes Buffy had 210 kills that can be confirmed; Vampires: 125, Demons: 59, Primals: 1(She-Mantis), Walking Dead: 2, Robots: 2 (Malcom and Ted), Misc. Creatures 17 & Humans: 3 = 210
Buffy has appeared in 151 canonical Buffyverse episodes and holds the record for second most Buffyverse episodes.
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As the main character in the franchise, Buffy has also appeared in the majority of ''Buffy''
Expanded Universe material. She first appeared in the ''
Buffy The Vampire Slayer '' film in 1992, which was the basis more the far more successful television series. She has also appeared in various non-canon ''Buffy''
Novels and
Comic Books , and is playable in all of the
Video Games .
