Panicked, he kills her and tries to make Buffy believe she committed the crime.

In " Seeing Red ", Warren tries to acquire mystical orbs to give him superhuman strength to rival Buffy ; when she foils him yet again, he shows up at her house with a gun and shoots her, with a stray bullet accidentally killing Tara ( Amber Benson ).

Buffy tries to get help, but Buffy is at a beauty pageant and her talent was acting so they thought the cries were part of her act.

* Kenny Fowler is a small skinny kid with nerdy glasses, who is often pushed around by other kids, and often asks the dogs for help, in a certain episode where he tries to talk to Buffy and gets nervous.

Perceiving that Buffy poses a risk to the project, Walsh tries to kill Buffy by sending her on a mission on which she is ambushed by two demons released from the Initiative's holding cells.

", mocking Green's career provokes further anger in Chris ; Chris tries to defend Green by citing Buffy the Vampire Slayer as an example of a success in Green's career, but Stewie suggests that Buffys contemporary popularity had been largely over-stated by Entertainment Weekly and other commentators.

After the Master allows Darla to destroy the minions who failed to kill Buffy, Darla tries to lure Angel to the Master's side, but Angel stakes and kills her, further thwarting the Master's plans.

Recently wanting to kill Buffy, Spike is captured by the Initiative before he can get to her and implanted with a chip in his brain that causes intense pain if he tries to attack humans to feed on them, or even to fight them.

It tries to drive the vampire to kill Buffy by reminding him of his " true " nature ( Angelus ) and it sets about accomplishing this by appearing to him as some of his victims: Daniel, Margaret, Travis and Jenny Calendar.

In the previous episode, Faith arrives in Sunnydale, as does a vampire named Mr. Trick ( K. Todd Freeman ), who tries to kill both Faith and Buffy.

She escapes and tries to leave town, only to be stopped by Buffy.

When they learn that the only antidote to the poison is the blood of a Slayer, Buffy tries to capture Faith in order to use her blood to cure Angel.

He discovers Buffy in the next room and tries to smother her, but is stopped by Angel.

Cordelia tries to explain to Giles what happened and asks to have Buffy back so that things could be the way they were ; but, before she can elaborate, she is killed by Xander and Willow, whom the Master had sent as assassins, fearing that Cordelia would summon the Slayer to Sunnydale.

Giles tries to piece together the seal while Buffy tries to save Xander from Ampata's deadly kiss.

Buffy saves Giles, then Ampata starts to deteriorate as she tries to feed off Willow.

Overwhelmed by dozens of guests she does not know, Buffy tries to talk to a distracted Willow, but gives up.

He tries to phone Buffy, but party-goers fail to relay the message.

Joyce joins her and when Buffy tries to leave the party, she stops the merriment.

Oz tries to tell Buffy about how to kill it when he is hypnotized.

As the Oracles explain that only Angel will remember the moments he shared with Buffy, Angel's theme ends on a minor key, underscoring the sacrifice being made.

Buffy is reluctant to give it, but after he offers inside information on the Initiative, and Willow helps him explain that he can't bite anyone anymore. The spirits attack Buffy, Giles, and Spike with arrows.

Buffy and Dawn try to explain Buffy's surprising recovery from being sick and their own possession of a shovel while the principal explains himself and asks Buffy to return to work soon.

Principal Wood does explain to Buffy that his memory of his mother is " fuzzy " since he was only a young boy when she died.

Buffy and Spike take the girls to a demon bar to explain the art of getting information out of the demonic patrons there.

Buffy makes breakfast for her mom, who is still suffering from headaches that the doctors can't explain.

Buffy presents the orb to Giles, but Giles can't explain it right away, though he recognizes it as paranormal in origin because " it's so shiny ".

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 "