Feminism has driven the creation of a considerable body of action-oriented science fiction with female protagonists: Wonder Woman ( actually originally created in 1941 ) and The Bionic Woman during the time of the organized women's movement in the 1970s ; Terminator 2 and the Alien tetralogy in the 1980s ; and Xena, Warrior Princess, comic book character Red Sonja and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

The only character injured in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode " Older and Far Away " ( 2002 ) wears a red shirt ; writer Drew Greenberg confirmed that this " redshirt " reference was intentional.

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.

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.

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 ).

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.

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.

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.

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

She also confesses her love to a disbelieving Spike before he sacrifices himself to save the world ; as he dies, Buffy escapes Sunnydale's destruction with the surviving characters.

The novel Queen of the Slayers ( 2005 ) by Nancy Holder offers a potential follow-up to the television series ; set after season seven, it depicts Buffy living in Italy with the morally ambiguous Immortal.

Volume II of the similar series of novels Tales of the Slayer ( 2003 ) features two stories about Buffy ; the character battles a mummified spirit in Todd A. McIntosh's " All That You Do Comes Back Unto Thee ," while Jane Espenson's " Again Sunnydale " sees a season six-era Buffy sent back in time to high school, when her mother is still alive but Dawn does not exist.

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.

" 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 ".

Spike decides to ally himself with Buffy against Angelus ; as he explains to Buffy, in addition to wanting Drusilla back, he also wants to " save the world ":

The excitement of a brawl with the Mayor's vampires helps him see that Drusilla left him because he had begun to go soft ; he resolves to win her back by torturing her until she likes him again, and tells Buffy where to find Willow and Xander.

( Though he still spars with Buffy, provided he has no real intent on harming her ) His inability to bite is comically compared to impotence, much to Spike's constant humiliation ; in " Doomed ", he attempts to commit suicide by staking himself at Xander's house, but is stopped by Willow and Xander.

When Buffy rejects his advances, Spike attempts to prove his love by kidnapping her so that she can witness him killing Drusilla for her, to little avail ; in her disgust, Buffy un-invites him from her house ( something she had not bothered to do in the almost three years since their alliance against Angelus ) and alienates him from the group.

While even folkloric vampires of the Balkans and Eastern Europe had a wide range of appearance ranging from nearly human to bloated rotting corpses, it was interpretation of the vampire by the Christian Church and the success of vampire literature, namely John Polidori's 1819 novella The Vampyre that established the archetype of charismatic and sophisticated vampire ; it is arguably the most influential vampire work of the early 19th century, inspiring such works as Varney the Vampire and eventually Dracula.

* ( Originally published as Vampire and Vampirism ; also published as The History of Vampires )

Varney the Vampire ; or, the Feast of Blood was a Victorian era serialized gothic horror story by James Malcolm Rymer ( alternatively attributed to Thomas Preskett Prest ).

* Laws of the Night ( formerly Masquerade ; based on Vampire: The Masquerade )

The device has also appeared in the American television series Star Trek: The Next Generation as the Klingon practice of discommendation ; as a threat in Ancient Greek and Persian culture in Frank Miller's 1998 comic book series 300 and its 2007 film adaptation ; and in the 2004 role playing game Vampire the Requiem.

* French — Boutet, Gérard: Pierrot and the Secret of the Fire Rocks ( 1999 ; children's book, illustrated by Jean-Claude Pertuzé ); Major, Henriette: The Vampire and the Pierrot ( 2000 ; children's book ); Tournier, Michel: " Pierrot, or The Secrets of the Night " ( 1978 ).

* " Fool for Love " 2nd flashback: Months after being sired, William, now called Spike, has through acts of public mayhem forced Angelus ' vampire group ( himself, Spike, Drusilla, and Angelus ' sire / paramour Darla ) to flee London ; Spike first learns of the existence of the Vampire Slayer.

This in turn was adapted by the English melodramatist James Planché as The Vampire ; or, the Bride of the Isles ( 1820 ) at the Lyceum ( then called the English Opera House ), also set in Scotland.

Gorey was also an unashamed pop-culture junkie, avidly following soap operas and television comedies like Petticoat Junction and Cheers, and he had particular affection for dark genre series like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Batman: The Animated Series and The X-Files ; he once told an interviewer that he so enjoyed the Batman series that it was influencing the visual style of one of his upcoming books.

* Michael Trevino, born in Montebello ; Actor, best known for his role in " The Vampire Diaries " as Tyler Lockwood.

In the popular drama series, The Vampire Diaries currently airing on The CW Television Network, the character of Elena Gilbert is a doppelgänger of the vampire Katherine Pierce ( original name ; Katerina Petrova ).

In Encounters of the Spooky Kind ( 1980 ) and the Mr. Vampire franchise, jiangshi can be put to sleep by putting a piece of yellow paper with a spell written on it on their foreheads ( Chinese talisman or fu ; ).

On 20 September 2006, the airfield also played host to television's Richard Hammond and his near-fatal drive in the Vampire Dragster ; contrary to some reports at the time, this was not an attempt at the British land speed record.

David Boreanaz ( pronounced, ; born May 16, 1969 ) is an American actor, television producer, and director, known for his role as Angel on the supernatural drama series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, and as Special Agent Seeley Booth on the television crime drama Bones.

Drusilla's history unfolds in flashbacks scattered among numerous episodes of both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel ; they are not presented in chronological order.

; Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Drusilla has appeared in 17 episodes, appearing in the second, fifth, and seventh seasons.

Christopher Golden's 2000 novel Spike and Dru: Pretty Maids All in a Row depicts Spike killing a Slayer named Sophie in the 1940s, contradicting the two Slayers whom Spike is later established to have killed ; the second Slayer Spike killed was established as New Yorker Nikki Wood.

He is also impatient to fight the Slayer upon his initial arrival in Sunnydale ; the attack is supposed to coincide with the Night of St. Vigeous ( when a vampire's natural abilities are enhanced ), but he " couldn't wait " to go after the Slayer and recklessly leads a mass assault against Buffy at Sunnydale High, which fails and results in the deaths of many Aurelian vampires.

According to the fictional universe first established by Slayer, the ' Buffyverse ,' Angel was born in 18th century Ireland ; after being turned into a soulless, immortal vampire, he became legendary for his evil acts, until a band of wronged Gypsies punished him by restoring his soul, overwhelming him with guilt.

Giles's primary role in the series is Watcher to Buffy ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ) in her capacity as vampire Slayer ; he is in the employ of the Watchers ' Council, a British organization that attempts to oversee the actions of the Slayer.

As the series went on, the significance of Dawn's arrival is revealed to the series ' other characters and they come to understand that she has not always been Buffy's sister, or indeed a sentient being ; Dawn had originally been the mystical ' key ' to unlocking dimensions, and was made into Buffy's sister so the Slayer would protect her.

Four episodes later Buffy discovers Dawn is in fact a mystical object known as The Key ; a group of monks transformed The Key into human form and sent it to the Slayer for protection from the villainous Glory ( Clare Kramer ).

# The Slayer — released with 14 seconds cut in 1992 ; re-released uncut in 2001

This is found in many sources, most often a body swap between two characters of an ongoing television series ; it occurs in the original Star Trek series twice, as well as Freaky Friday, Farscape, Stargate SG-1, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dollhouse, Red Dwarf, Avatar ; even in Archie comics.