Season Six sees Giles reluctantly stepping back to allow Buffy to gain independence.

She reluctantly allows Buffy to go to find her friends, who are coordinating a vampire hunt via walkie-talkies.

At Dawn's request, Buffy leaves the house and Faith reluctantly becomes the new leader.

There he meets the current Slayer, Buffy Summers, whom he begins training.

In the canonical comic book continuation of the series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, the Scooby Gang has expanded into a global organization, training approximately five hundred Slayers spread over ten squads.

Dawn's feelings of neglect begin to resurface as Buffy spends time training the potentials now living in their home.

Xander is turned into a soldier in the episode " Halloween ", and retains extensive military knowledge and training thereafter ; in " Innocence ", this knowledge proves essential to helping Buffy defeat a demon known as The Judge who had been believed practically invincible.

This allows him to interact with Buffy both in her civilian life and assist her with her duties as Slayer ; while Buffy has supernatural powers associated with her role, Riley must rely instead on his extensive military training.

When Buffy arrives in the school library, however, she finds that the new librarian, Giles ( Anthony Head ), is expecting her and ready to continue her training.

Buffy begins enthusiastically training with the Initiative, spending more time with Riley, and trying to impress Dr. Walsh.

Kennedy becomes one of the more prominent Potentials, overseeing their training in " Get It Done ", and giving orders to them in " End of Days " while Buffy is absent and Faith is incapacitated.

Buffy is shown to easily fend off multiple vampires at the same time while under a memory loss spell, with no memory of her combat training — relying entirely on her natural Slayer instincts, presumably indicating an instinctual grasp of fighting.

Buffy is in Sunnydale training her sister on how to fight vampires.

A room behind the shop was reserved as a training area for Buffy, where she could practice hand-to-hand combat and martial arts techniques and tactics ( first introduced in " Out of My Mind ").

Spike arrives and then leaves with Buffy and the other girls for some training.

While Buffy takes the other girls down to the basement for training, Xander catches on to Dawn's disappointment about not being a Potential.

* This episode marks the beginning of the Potentials ' formal training under Buffy and Spike.

They spot Willow and Tara heading for the magic shop, and Buffy tells Willow that she's dropping Drama in favor of more slayer training.

Buffy is training with Faith, who expresses again her views on guys.

Buffy arrives at the magic shop to train and is pleasantly surprised to see that the backroom has been transformed into an amazing training room.

Giles asks her if she's up for some training, and Buffy says she is, and they can work out after school, if he isn't too busy having sex with her mother.

Giles is training new Slayers, Willow and Kennedy are still a couple and are in South America, Xander is in Africa, and Buffy is in Rome, with Dawn in " Italian School ".

* X-Men: In one scene Andrew mentions that Buffy is in Europe training Slayers and giving them "... the full X-Men minus the crappy third act.

Buffy releases her aggressions on a punching bag in the training room until Riley shows up determined to talk to her.

In the training room, Buffy is blindfolded and her fighting skills are tested against one of the council members, but she does not pass the test.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Roles like Buffy and Cruel Intentions made her a sex symbol across the globe.

The team consists of Buffy Summers and her friends and colleagues who assist her in her duties as the Slayer.

First forming in the Season One episode " The Harvest " to prevent The Master from opening a portal to hell, the line-up of the group varied from year to year, but the core that remained intact throughout the series ' run was Buffy herself and her best friends, Xander Harris and Willow Rosenberg, as well as her Watcher, Rupert Giles.

In the beginning, Buffy often had to protect her friends from monsters, but over the course of the series most of them gained superpowers and fighting skills of their own, with Xander the only notable member with no mystical abilities or connection to the supernatural, though he does acquire extensive military knowledge thanks to a spell.

* Buffy Summers — As the Slayer, Buffy possesses enhanced abilities that enable her to battle the forces of darkness.

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.

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.

However, she often finds herself in perilous situations and relies on Buffy to save her.

During one desperate fight in partnership with Buffy, she accidentally kills a man, creating a permanent schism between her and the Scoobies and eventually leading Faith to join up with The Mayor.

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.

* Buffy Summers, until her death at the end of " The Gift "