* Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and Dollhouse

A third core X-Men title was also introduced called Astonishing X-Men, written by Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon, following Morrison's departure.

According to Buffy creator Joss Whedon, the introduction of Dawn in Season Five was partly so protagonist Buffy Summers could experience a " really important, intense emotional relationship " with someone other than a boyfriend.

* June 23 – Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Written by Buffy creator Joss Whedon, the series follows a Slayer named Melaka Fray, a chosen one in a time where vampires ( called " lurks ") are returning to the slums of New York City, and the rich-poor divide is even greater.

Many of the original episodes were co-written by John Whedon, father of Tom Whedon ( who wrote The Golden Girls ), and grandfather of Deadwood scripter Zack Whedon and Joss Whedon ( creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog ).

Previous seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer had ended with an action episode which tied up all the threads of the season's main plot line, but series creator Joss Whedon wanted to end season four differently.

The store was also frequented by screenwriters Josh Olson ( A History of Violence ), Jeff Maguire ( In the Line of Fire ), John Langley ( the creator of COPS ), and Danny Strong, most famous for his role as Johnathan Levinson on television's Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

* Executive producer and creator Jim Rapsas cited Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a huge influence on the show, which shows in the structure and basic idea.

Hart also co-wrote ( with Buffy creator Joss Whedon ) and sang a song, " Blue ," for the episode " Conversations with Dead People ".

Buffy Summers, the protagonist of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series ( 1997 – 2003 ), was designed by creator Joss Whedon as an alternative to the " final girl " cliché.

Strange World went to seed 13 episodes in, but Gordon and Strange World writer Tim Minear's services were quickly snapped up by Buffy creator Joss Whedon on another project: Angel.

The company also launched Astonishing X-Men with writer Joss Whedon ( well known as the creator of the cult television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer ) and artist John Cassaday ( Planetary ) Astonishing featured Cyclops, Frost, Beast, Shadowcat and Wolverine.

To try to do a Buffy without Joss Whedon ... to be incredibly non-eloquent: that's the dumbest idea I've ever heard.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer ( often simplified as Buffy ) was originally conceived by Joss Whedon for a 1992 feature film.

Joss Whedon found that Hannigan was especially gifted reacting with fear ( calling her the " king of pain ") and viewers responded strongly when she was placed in danger, needing to be rescued by Buffy.

The Existential Joss Whedon: Evil and Human Freedom in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and Serenity, McFarland.

Buffy Anne Summers is a fictional character from Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise.

The film, written by Joss Whedon, depicts Buffy as a shallow high school cheerleader who is informed by a man named Merrick ( Donald Sutherland ) that she has been chosen by fate to battle the undead.

Buffy returned in Joss Whedon's television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this time played by Sarah Michelle Gellar for all of the show's 144 episodes.

Between 2001 and 2004, Joss Whedon and Jeph Loeb developed a 4-minute pilot episode for Buffy the Animated Series, which was set during the show's first season.

In 2007, Buffy's story was continued when Joss Whedon resurrected Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a comic book.

The character of Buffy was conceived by Joss Whedon as a way of subverting the cliché of " the little blonde girl who goes into a dark alley and gets killed in every horror film ".

Spike, played by James Marsters, is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.

The television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, created and largely written by Joss Whedon, also explored vampire folklore in the light of postmodern and gender feminist theory.

" Several years before Angel debuted, Joss Whedon developed the concept behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer to invert the Hollywood formula of " the little blonde girl who goes into a dark alley and gets killed in every horror movie.

Rupert Edmund Giles is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Anya Christina Emmanuella Jenkins is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

It was stated that Anya would return in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer season eight comic book series, even with Joss Whedon telling MTV that she was " definitely dead ... but that doesn't mean she's gone.

Dawn Summers is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon and introduced by Marti Noxon and David Fury on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, portrayed by Michelle Trachtenberg.

Drusilla is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt for the American television series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.

According to the Official Buffy Watcher's Guide, Whedon wrote the pilot to the TV series as a sequel to his original script, which is why the show makes references to events not occurred in the film.

The idea of the remake caused wrath among fans of the TV series, since Whedon is not involved and the project does not have any connection with the show and will not conform to the continuity maintained with the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight and Season Nine comic book titles.

The character of Buffy was created to subvert the stereotypical female horror film victim ; Whedon wanted to create a strong female cultural icon.

Whedon stated " Rhonda the Immortal Waitress " was the first incarnation of Buffy in his head, " the idea of a seemingly insignificant female who in fact turns out to be extraordinary.

" When asked how he came up with the name of " Buffy ," Whedon states " It was the name that I could think of that I could take the least seriously.

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

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

" 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.

According to Whedon, Buffy " had been brewing in for many years " before finally appearing in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer film played by Kristy Swanson.

Adapting the concept of the movie into a television series, Whedon decided to reinvent the character of Buffy slightly.

The character had intended to be a brief villain, with Whedon originally adamant to not have another major " romantic vampire " character like Angel-Marsters says " Spike was supposed to be dirty and evil, punk rock, and then dead "-but the character ended up staying for the second season, and then returning in the fourth to replace Cordelia as " the character who told Buffy she was stupid and about to die ".

In the explicitly-canonical Whedon stories of 2007, Spike and Angel first appear in a joint cameo in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight ( Dark Horse ) as part of Buffy's sexual fantasies.