Contradicting the characterization of Willow's issues with magic as addiction, Buffy essayist Jacqueline Lichtenberg writes " Willow is not addicted to magic.

According to Buffy essayist Patrick Shade, Tara's and Olivia's fear " heighten ( s ) our sense of vulnerability and so make these scenes more frightening ".

Marcus Paul " Marc " Blucas ( born January 11, 1972 ) is an American actor, known for playing Riley Finn in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Matthew Donnally on Necessary Roughness.

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.

As a fan of the original film, Accola said she never watched the TV show, but thinks that the Buffy film is a " fun girl-power thing ".

In the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Spike refers to a scythe as the Holy Hand Grenade

During her growing film career Gellar continued work on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer ; however, she decided to leave the show after the seventh season.

Another actress, Giselle Loren, voiced Buffy for an animated series based on the show, which never aired, and the various Buffy video games.

This archetype has been widely exemplified, notably by such characters as Countess Zaleska in the 1936 film Dracula's Daughter, Barnabas Collins in the TV soap opera Dark Shadows, Mick St. John in the TV show Moonlight, Louis de Pointe du Lac in Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, Kain in the Legacy Of Kain video games, Marvel Comics character Morbius, the Living Vampire, Nick Knight in the TV series Forever Knight, Angel from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer universe, and Bill Compton in Charlaine Harris ' The Southern Vampire Mysteries.

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.

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.

In 1999, at the end of the third season, the Boston Herald called Buffy " the most gay show on network TV this year " despite having no overtly gay characters among the core cast.

" Despite Whedon's intentions of not making Buffy about overcoming issues, he said Willow's exploration of her sexuality " turned out to be one of the most important things we've done on the show ".

In the final season of the show ( 2002 – 2003 ), things starts to come around for Buffy when Principal Robin Wood hires her as a school counselor for the newly-rebuilt Sunnydale High School and has repaired her relationships with Dawn and her friends.

In 2003, Scott Lobdell and Fabian Nicieza wrote a Year One-style run on the Buffy comic book series which filled the gap between the film and the first season of the show.

He explained that the shirt was supposed to show Buffy that he had changed and give him confidence ( because the First was messing with his head and he did not want Buffy to think he was still evil or crazy ).

While the central concept behind Buffy was " high school as a horror movie " in small-town America, co-creators David Greenwalt and Whedon were looking to make Angel into a different " gritty, urban show.

Buffy, Willow, Andrew and the Slayers manage to locate Kenny and confront him about the curse, but he flees, only to show up later alongside Buffy to rescue Dawn.

Following the precedent set by Star Trek, these story arcs show alternative universes that have turned out " worse " than the " original " universe: in Stargate SG-1 the first two encountered parallel realities featured Earth being overwhelmed by an unstoppable Goa ' uld onslaught ; in Buffy, two episodes concern a timeline in which Buffy came to Sunnydale too late to stop the vampires from taking control ; Lois & Clark repeatedly visits an alternative universe where Clark Kent's adoptive parents, Jonathan and Martha Kent, died when he was ten years of age, and Lois Lane is also apparently dead.

The popularity of the show helped boost other network shows, such as Buffy, which served as its lead-in on the network's new night of programming also launched in January 1998, known as " New Tuesday ," and 7th Heaven, which enjoyed a massive 81 % increase in viewership that season.

As his relationship with Dawn in " Potential " and his support of Buffy show, Xander finds that his real calling seems to be in his role as the " eternal supporter ".

In 2009, on her album Running for the Drum, Buffy Sainte-Marie released a new version of " America the Beautiful ".

On May 25, 2009, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Roy Lee and Doug Davison of Vertigo Entertainment were working with Fran Rubel Kuzui and Kaz Kuzui on a re-envisioning or relaunch of the Buffy film for the big screen.

In December 2011, more than a year after the official reboot announcement, the Los Angeles Times site reported that Whit Anderson, the writer picked for the new Buffy movie, had her script rejected by the producers behind the project, and that a new writer was being sought.

In the 1990s, Wiccan beliefs and practices were used as a partial basis for a number of U. S. films and television series, such as The Craft, Charmed and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, leading to a dramatic upsurge in teenagers and young adults becoming interested and involved in the religion.

Some horror shows use common horror tropes such as vampires with more conventional dramatic forms like the heroic myth ( for example Buffy the Vampire Slayer ) or even gothic romance ( Dark Shadows ).

In the late 1990s, Buffy the Vampire Slayer drew a large mainstream audience into fandom ; greater demand allowed ( even obliged, for the sake of time management ) Buffy actors to charge much higher appearance fees than the Star Trek actors had.

Gellar came into prominence in the late 1990s when she landed significant parts in the successful horror films I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2 and played Buffy Summers on the WB / UPN television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for which she won six Teen Choice Awards and the Saturn Award for Best Genre TV Actress and received a Golden Globe Award nomination.

Gellar stated that she was screen tested eleven times ( originally auditioning for the role of Cordelia ), before she landed the lead in the 1997 TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, playing a teenager burdened with the responsibility of fighting a number of mystical foes, mostly vampires.

In her feature in Esquire magazine Gellar expressed her pride for her work on Buffy, " I truly believe that it is one of the greatest shows of all time and it will go down in history as that.

( For a time, this was the most of any American-produced television series except for Star Trek and Dark Shadows with its 30 or so novels published between 1966 and 1971, though there have now been more original novels published based upon Alias and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

In 2001, UPN acquired Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Roswell for their final seasons from The WB in a public bidding war between the two with producing studio 20th Century Fox Television.

UPN eventually outbid The WB for the shows and aired them together on Tuesday nights until Roswell ended its run in 2002 and Buffy the following year in 2003.

Buffy continued on UPN for two more seasons.

In its later years, as part of the network's desire to maintain its own unique identity with its own unique shows, UPN had a policy of " not picking up other networks ' scraps ", which was a strong argument when fan pressure was generated in 2004 for them to pick up Angel, the spin-off of Buffy the Vampire Slayer which had been dropped from The WB.

* As part of the contract for picking up Buffy the Vampire Slayer, UPN was obligated to pick up Angel if it was cancelled by The WB while UPN was still airing Buffy.

This caused a rift between Angel and Buffy, and Angel decided to search for a way to resurrect Giles with the help of Faith.

In Season Eight, he returns to work as a mole for Buffy, infiltrating the organization of the villain Twilight.

His film credits include Flesh + Blood, Blind Fury, Blade Runner, The Hitcher, Nighthawks, Wedlock, Sin City, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Ladyhawke, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Osterman Weekend, The Blood of Heroes, Batman Begins, Hobo with a Shotgun, The Rite and he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for Escape from Sobibor.

The Buffy series became extremely popular and earned a devoted fanbase ; Willow's intelligence, shy nature, and vulnerability often resounded strongly with viewers in early seasons.

Willow appears in every Buffy episode ( making her the only character besides Buffy herself to do so ), is featured in three episodes of the spinoff Angel, an animated series and video game — both of which use Hannigan's voice, and the comic Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight ( 2007 – 2011 ), which uses Hannigan's likeness and continues Willow's storyline following the television series.

Willow was noted to be the spirit of the Scooby Gang, and Hannigan attributed Willow's popularity with viewers ( she had by May 1998 seven websites devoted to her ) to being an underdog who develops confidence and is accepted by Buffy, a strong, popular person in school.

Through the gamut of changes Willow endures in the series, Buffy studies scholar Ian Shuttleworth states that Alyson Hannigan's performances are the reason for Willow's popularity: " Hannigan can play on audience heartstrings like a concert harpist ... As an actress she is a perfect interpreter in particular of the bare emotional directness which is the specialty of writer Marti Noxon on form.

Willow's earliest and most consistent relationships are with Buffy and Xander, both of whom she refers to as her best friends although they have their conflicts.

Scholar Farah Mendlesohn asserts that Willow's realization that she is in love with Tara allows viewers to re-interpret Willow's relationship with Buffy ; in the first three seasons, Willow is often disappointed that she is not a higher priority to Buffy, and even after Willow enters a relationship with Tara, still desires to feel integral to Buffy's cause and the Scooby Gang.

As the season draws to a close, Buffy is forced to battle her best friend when Willow becomes psychotic with dark magics after the human, Warren ( Adam Busch ) shoots and kills Willow's girlfriend Tara ( Amber Benson ) and wounds Buffy in the process.

The relationship is frequently violent, with Buffy most often initiating both the violence and the sex between them ; the violence is made all the easier when Spike finds that ( as a side effect of Willow's resurrection spell ) his chip now does not stop him from harming Buffy.

Buffy is forced to kill Angel to save the world, despite Willow's restoring his soul, and subsequently leaves Sunnydale.

In the final season, Dawn becomes more grown-up and a full-fledged member of the " Scooby Gang " as witnessed in the first few episodes as she aids Buffy and Xander during Willow's absence and is trained by Buffy in combat.

However, when experiencing the powerful negative emotion of jealousy evoked by the discovery that Tara Maclay has replaced him in Willow's affections, he does change, and is seized by The Initiative and locked in their cells until Buffy, helped by Riley Finn, sets him free.

In the season finale " Becoming, Part Two ", Xander decides not to tell Buffy about Willow's plan to re-ensoul Angel — who has lost his soul and is going to bring about the apocalypse — so that she will not hesitate to kill him in order to save the world.

Tara struggles with understanding her place among the Scoobies with Buffy ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ), the leader ; Xander Harris ( Nicholas Brendon ), Willow's friend since childhood ; and Rupert Giles ( Anthony Stewart Head ), their mentor.

Willow's powers are significant enough that she is able to battle Glory more effectively than Buffy, if not completely successfully.