Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a 1992 American action / comedy film about a Valley girl cheerleader named Buffy ( Kristy Swanson ) who learns that it is her fate to hunt vampires.

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 Medieval Hero on Screen: Representations from Beowulf to Buffy, Diana Slampyak claims that Jen is a medieval hero in exile.

* In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode entitled Him ( Season 7, Episode 6, aired November 5, 2002 ), Dawn Summers ( Michelle Trachtenberg ) is called into the principal's office to answer some questions about a boy who fell down the stairs under suspicious circumstances.

A later example is Damien Valentine's series Consanguinity, made using BioWare's 2002 computer game Neverwinter Nights and based on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

" Shortly after the show's end, Gellar stated that she had no interest in appearing in a Buffy feature film, but that she will consider it if the script is good enough.

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.

Night of the Living Dead is parodied in films such as Night of the Living Bread and Shaun of the Dead, and in episodes of The Simpsons (" Treehouse of Horror III ", 1992 ; " Treehouse of Horror XIII ", 2004 and " Treehouse of Horror XX ", 2009 ), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, South Park (" Pink Eye ", 1997 ; " Night of the Living Homeless ", 2007 ), Medium (" Bite Me ", 2009 ) and Invader Zim (" Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom " 2001 and " FBI Warning of Doom " 2002 ).

In Season Six he returns after Buffy is resurrected, then leaves again so that his presence won't hold her back from growing strong and independent.

Dawn suffers from abandonment issues due to both her mother and Buffy having died in the same year she entered Buffy's life ; she considers the Scooby Gang to be her surrogate family and is very close to them.

Willow Danielle Rosenberg is a fictional character created for the fantasy television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer ( 1997 – 2003 ).

The series begins as Buffy, Willow, and their friend Xander are in 10th grade and Willow is a shy and nerdy girl with little confidence.

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.

He began to develop for television the concept of a fashion-conscious girl named Buffy, who is imbued with superhuman abilities and attends a high school situated on a portal to hell.

She grows faint at the sight of monsters, but quickly forms a friendship with Buffy Summers ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ) and is revealed to have grown up as friends with Xander ( Nicholas Brendon ).

In the second season when the characters are in 11th grade, Willow becomes more sure of herself, standing up to the conceited Cordelia Chase ( Charisma Carpenter ), and approaching Xander, on whom she has had a crush for years, although it is unrequited as Xander is in love with 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.

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.

Created as a foil to the protagonist, Buffy Summers, she is a Slayer who comes from a damaged background and often makes the wrong decision.

Notable Watchers include Rupert Giles, Watcher of series protagonist Buffy, and Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, who temporarily takes over in season 3.

Kennedy is introduced as a " potential Slayer ", one of many girls who might become endowed with supernatural abilities, destined to battle evil creatures such as vampires and demons, like protagonist Buffy Summers.

In Season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a deadlier and more powerful vampire is introduced, given the name " Übervamp " by the show's protagonist.

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.

A story arc in Season Eight has Buffy travel 200 years into the future to battle and kill Dark Willow.

Willow and Tara's first on-screen kiss did not occur until the fifth season episode " The Body ( Buffy episode ) | The Body " in a story that diverted attention away from the display.

In the Tales of the Slayers comic one-shot " Broken Bottle of Djinn " ( 2002 ) by Doug Petrie and Jane Espenson, Buffy battles a spirit in Sunnydale High, while the Tales of the Vampires comic book story " Antique " ( 2004 ) by Drew Goddard sees her breaking into Dracula's castle to rescue Xander from the infamous vampire.

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

In Season Eight ( 2007 – 11 ), it establishes Buffy is not living with the Immortal in Rome which is simply a cover story to ensure her safety as she is now the leader of a global organization which recruits and trains Slayers to deal with demonic threats worldwide.

In the story " Wolves at the Gate ", Buffy shares a sexual encounter with fellow Slayer Satsu ; however Satsu leaves soon after because she realizes Buffy cannot return her feelings.

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.

Spike's story before he appears in Sunnydale unfolds in flashbacks scattered, out of sequence, among numerous episodes of both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.

After Buffy finished in 2003, Spike appeared in a comic story from the canonical Tales of the Vampires series.

Tipton's Spike: Lost and Found in 2006 is a Season Five story that acts as a sequel to the 1999 Buffy / Angel crossover episodes " The Harsh Light of Day " and " In the Dark ", featuring the immortality-bestowing Gem of Amarra in 2005 Los Angeles.

Much like Buffy, Angel is told in a serialized format, with each episode involving a self-contained story while contributing to a larger storyline.

In Volume I of Tales of the Slayer, a horror story collection set in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer universe, Virginia Dare appears as the vampire slayer " White Doe ," an English girl adopted by the Croatoan Indians.

Canonically, the character's story is continued in the comic book Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, in which Giles has ascended to the highest position of authority in the Watcher's Council.

At the end of the story, Dawn and Buffy mend their underlying issues, particularly that Buffy is now responsible for hundreds of Slayers and cannot devote her attention to Dawn.

The story sees Buffy and her army of Slayers magically transport themselves to Oz's sanctuary in Tibet to escape the pursuit of her masked enemy, the mysterious " Twilight ".

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.

In Jane Espenson's " Retreat " story arc ( 2009 ), as Buffy begins to realize she has developed a romantic attraction to Xander, she discovers his newfound romantic relationship with Dawn ; Xander had previously been her confidante throughout Season Eight.

Although Xander, Anya, Spike, and Dawn are happy to let him interview them, Buffy is angered by his attempt to turn everything into a story and forces him to finally face up to the seriousness of his actions.

In the " Retreat " ( 2009 ) story arc, Warren and Amy assist Twilight in tracking Buffy and Willow's movements through their use of magic, forcing the group into hiding in Tibet, where they learn to suppress their abilities, leading to an all-out brawl between Twilight's military forces and Buffy's depowered Slayers.

She returned for shorter story arcs on Buffy and its spin-off, Angel.

The character's story is continued in the comic book series Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, and she also appears in apocryphal material such as other comic books and novels.