As surprised as Willow is with Vamp Willow, she feels bound to her, and does not have the heart to allow Buffy to kill her.

When Willow discloses to Buffy what she feels for Tara, she indicates that she has fallen in love with Tara, not that she is a lesbian, and avoids categorizing herself.

" Jason Middleton feels that Buffy avoids the " final girl " character trope seen in horror films, where the androgynous and celibate heroine gets to outlive her friends and exact revenge on their killer ; in Middleton's words, " she ... gets to have sex with boys and still kill the monster ".

When Buffy keeps Angel's return from hell a secret from the other Scoobies, Giles feels betrayed by her love for the man who tortured him and murdered Jenny, but later agrees to help Angel in " Amends ".

However, with Buffy spiralling into a deep depression, Dawn feels highly neglected and is often seen alone and seeking attention from her sister as well as other members of the group.

This factor comes into play when Buffy and Angel have sex in " Innocence " as in the intimacy of that experience he feels happiness deep enough to trigger the loss of his soul.

I think she feels she's in direct competition with Buffy.

While Buffy feels terrible guilt for being a part of the Deputy Mayor's death, Faith claims not to, and resents Buffy for continuing to speak of it in " Consequences ".

Giles confesses that he is leaving and Buffy tearfully reveals that she feels deserted by everyone.

During the party, Buffy feels so uncomfortable around her family and friends she considers leaving again.

Giles drives Buffy home and she feels awful for putting her friends in serious danger from Angelus.

Then Tara tells Buffy that if it isn't love that Buffy feels, that's okay too, but Buffy states that she does not agree with Tara on that point because that would mean that she is just using Spike.

Caught between the unsavoriness of either loving Spike or using Spike, Buffy begins to desperately plead for something to be " wrong " with her so that she can blame her " wrongness " for how she feels about Spike, what she does with Spike, how she treats him and how she lets him treat her.

Faith sees herself from Buffy's point of view ( and also in Buffy's body ) that she is a " murderer "; Buffy beats up Spike in a proxy of herself because she feels " dead inside " as though she is a soul-less vampire.

Faith and Buffy bond over their shared loneliness as Slayers, and reflect how they are the only ones in the group who truly understand what it feels like to be a Slayer, foreshadowing the finale of the series.

On the first day of classes, Buffy is humiliated at being ejected from a class by a bullying professor in front of dozens of other students, and in the next class she feels overwhelmed by the heavy workload promised by Professor Walsh, wondering how she will find the time to both study and slay vampires.

However, Giles is in his dressing gown with a half-dressed female visitor called Olivia, and seems reluctant to offer Buffy any active assistance because he is no longer her Watcher and feels she is capable of handling the situation herself.

Tara confirms Willow's suspicions, adding that Buffy feels ashamed of her sexual relationship with Spike.

Buffy feels life spinning out of control.

Upstairs, Buffy is getting dressed for dinner when Spike appears in the hallway, and tells Buffy that he feels fine about her having a date with another man, although Buffy tells him he doesn't have to be noble.

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.

Xander is becoming overwhelmed by guilt over his failure to act when Warren shot Buffy and murdered Tara.

They find Buffy disoriented, frightened and confused by the modern world.

She is soon disoriented as time seems to jump between the crying woman, an attack by several demons, and Spike finding Buffy in the woods.

When Angel, disoriented and oblivious to the vortex opening behind him, questions what happened and where he is, Buffy kisses him, professes her love for him and then drives her sword through him into the vortex.

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.

* " Mary ", a song by Buffy Sainte-Marie on Illuminations

Throughout its seven seasons and a total of 144 episodes, Buffy, and by extension Gellar, became cult icons in the United States, Canada, the UK, Ireland and Australia.

They were engaged in April 2001 and married in Mexico on September 1, 2002 in a ceremony officiated by Adam Shankman, a film director and choreographer with whom Gellar had worked on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

* 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.

However, Angel was axed by The WB the year after Buffy went off UPN.

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.

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.

Although Buffy had initially been reluctant to accept her destiny, by the end of Season One she faces the prophecy of her death head-on.

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.

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.

In the fifth season, this becomes a goddess named Glory ( Clare Kramer ) that Buffy is unable to fight by herself.

She does not come from the battle unscathed and must be assisted by Buffy, but her power is evident and surprising to her friends.

Unfettered by the bounds cast by a television budget for special effects, the comic series continuation for the Buffy canon explores more fantastic storylines, characters, and abilities for Willow.

" Angel is stopped by Buffy in telling the Scoobies that the vampire self carries many of the same attributes as the human self.

She saves Buffy by removing the bullet from her chest, but later commandeers a tractor trailer, making it slam into Xander's car while he and Buffy are inside protecting Jonathan and Andrew, the other two members of the Trio.

Buffy was portrayed by Kristy Swanson in the film, and later by Sarah Michelle Gellar in the television series.

The television series shows Buffy carrying out her destiny in a small town built atop a portal to hell ( Hellmouth ), surrounded by a group of friends and family who support her in her mission.