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Whedon always intended for the character to become an icon, claiming " I wanted her to be a hero that existed in people's minds the way Wonder Woman or Spider-Man does, you know?

I wanted her to be a doll or an action figure.

I wanted Barbie with Kung Fu grip!

I wanted her to enter the mass consciousness and the imaginations of growing kids because I think she's a cool character, and that was always the plan.

I wanted Buffy to be a cultural phenomenon, period.

" In developing Buffy, Whedon was greatly inspired by Kitty Pryde, a character from the pages of the superhero comic X-Men.

He admits, " If there's a bigger influence on Buffy than Kitty, I don't know what it was ... She was an adolescent girl finding out she has great power and dealing with it.

" In a 2009 interview, Whedon revealed he only recently realised how much he saw of himself in Buffy.

After years of relating more to Xander, he says, " Buffy was always the person that I was in that story because I'm not in every way.

" Whedon openly wonders why his identification figure is a woman, but describes it as " a real autobiographical kind of therapy for me " to be writing a strong female character like Buffy.