While on a quest to learn more about her nature as the Slayer, Buffy is told " death is her gift, a message she has difficulty understanding until the episode " The Gift ", in which she sacrifices her own life to save Dawn's by diving into Glory's interdimensional portal and closing it.

While the central concept behind Buffy was " high school as a horror movie " in small-town America, co-creators David Greenwalt and Whedon were looking to make Angel into a different " gritty, urban show.

In its capacity as a media-watchdog, CSI has “ mobilized thousands of scientists, academics and responsible communicators ” to criticize what it regards as “ media's most blatant excesses .” While much of this criticism has focused on factual TV programming or newspaper articles offering support for paranormal claims, CSI has also been critical of programs such as The X-Files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which its members believe portray skeptics and science in a bad light and help to promote belief in the paranormal.

" While the other Scoobies believe Buffy was in Hell, Giles is not convinced, and his suspicions prove true when a demon's musical spell causes Buffy to reveal to them all that she was indeed in Heaven.

While his demeanor is typically mild and polite, Giles is not above using raw violence to solve a problem, such as physically threatening Principal Snyder into readmitting Buffy to school after her expulsion (" Dead Man's Party "), pummeling Angelus senseless with a flaming baseball bat and burning down his hideout upon discovering that he had killed Jenny Calendar (" Passion "), manhandling Spike while ordering him to get over his feelings for Buffy (" I Was Made to Love You "), forcing Glory's minion Slook to talk by inflicting a painful-sounding injury offscreen (" Tough Love "), severely beating up Ethan Rayne for information (" Halloween "), and suffocating a critically injured Ben with his bare hands to keep Glory from awakening in his body.

While helping Buffy battle demons in the season finale, Dawn proves herself to be capable in a fight, finally earning her sister's respect and a promise to train her.

While home alone one night, Dawn is forced to perform a solo exorcism to protect what she believes to be her mother from a demon, though it is revealed to be The First Evil attempting to cause Dawn to doubt her bond with Buffy, which she does for several episodes following this.

While starring on 90210, Perry then won a supporting role in the original film version of the Joss Whedon-written Buffy The Vampire Slayer ( 1992 ).

While infiltrating a military installation two miles ( 3 km ) south of Sunnydale, Buffy attempts to break Ethan out of his cell, but instead finds him dead, having been shot and apparently killed by General Voll in " The Long Way Home, Part Four ".

While most of humanity in the Buffyverse seems oblivious to the existence of demons, other groups and organizations that are waging their own battles against evil come to light over the course of Buffy and Angel and in related media.

While Angel and the Scoobies fight the Mayor's force of vampires, Buffy taunts the now-transformed Mayor with Faith's knife and runs into the school.

While fetching fancy company plates for a dinner with her friends, Buffy finds a dead cat.

While Cordelia searches the house, Angel shows up and takes Buffy into the kitchen.

" While Angel gives Buffy a Claddagh ring for her birthday during their tearful parting at the dock, Spike's vamps manage to steal the arm back, scrubbing the mission.

According to author Kevin Durand ( 2009 ), " While Buffy confronts various forms of evil during each episode, each season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer had its own ' big bad ' villain who dominates throughout the season.

While he succeeds in this task in the Season 1 finale " Prophecy Girl ", he does not count on Buffy being resuscitated ( after he bites her, she faints in a small pool of water and nearly drowns ; she is revived a minute or so later by her friend Xander via CPR ).

While Buffy performs CPR, she cracks one of Joyce's ribs with a startling snap.

While nervously rubbing at her handcuff burned wrists, Buffy reveals that Spike is now able to hurt her, but not other humans.

While Buffy angrily watches the vampires using and abusing her belongings through the glass roof of the frat house, Xander leaves to round up the assistance of Willow and Oz.

While Oz cleans her wound, Willow fills Buffy in on Harmony's return, including her supposed boyfriend.

While Maurice feels guilt for kicking sand into a child's eye, Roger begins to throw stones at one of the boys.

While other conventions may select guests on the basis of popularity, Worldcons select guests of honor as an acknowledgement of significant lifetime contribution to the field ; while these are often well-known figures, some committees choose lesser-known figures precisely because the committee feels the guest's accomplishments deserve more recognition from the community.

While leisurely enjoying the city of Paris with Romana, the Doctor feels effects of time distortion.

While acknowledging that " the politics of Underground have been assailed and dissected by international audiences ", she feels that " this debate is largely specious as there's no hidden agenda to this robust and not terribly subtle tale of duplicity with Mr. Kusturica's central idea being a daringly blunt representation of political chicanery that fools an entire society, and of the corruption that lets one man thrive at the expense of his dearest friend ".

While visiting the local ' great house ', Molly feels tired so she is sent to rest in the former governess's room.

While the team enjoys the party, Sage feels guilt for her actions.

While Wolverine protests against it profusely, Cyclops tells Idie to do what she feels is right.

While each of these are separate and distinct procedures, they are interrelated in the sense that each is intended to serve to help eliminate innocent suspects during an investigation, thereby presumably allowing the investigator to focus upon the person that the investigator feels is most likely to be guilty.

While she feels such technologies can be useful to society, she feels that they should not be abused.

While some bullies are arrogant and narcissistic, bullies can also use bullying as a tool to conceal shame or anxiety or to boost self-esteem: by demeaning others, the abuser feels empowered.

While Nina is primarily a pacifist, she will threaten ( or kill ) someone if she feels it necessary or to protect others.

While the bank, like any other, is run on profitable lines, it does occasionally turn away new business which it feels may compromise its ethical policies.

While transporting a snitching prisoner for the Sheriff's Department, Gabe " feels " Yulaw's presence just before he attempts to kill Gabriel Law.

While he possesses great strength and cunning, he is often depicted as lazy, preferring to send his minions, Nim and Keeg, out into the jungle to bring him food and to perform any other task he feels is beneath him.

While it is possible for the Seals to sympathize with the Angels ' ideals, ultimately, they must do what feels right for them.

While the whole arm generally feels painful in TOS, some relief can be seen when ice or heat is intermittently applied to the thoracic region ( collar bone, armpit, or shoulder blades ).

While he sometimes gets inspiration while relaxing at home, Sakimoto feels that his best ideas come to him while he is at his studio concentrating.

While Herb is portrayed as buffoonish most of the time, he does occasionally show a sympathetic side, particularly towards Art Jr., whom he feels he needs to protect though there's no love lost between the two.

While controversial, the brushback can be an effective part of pitching, although the home plate umpire can issue a warning to, and even eject, a pitcher the umpire feels is trying to hit a batter intentionally.

While he echoes concern over copyright and intellectual property law being challenged in the marketplace, he feels strongly that businesses must engage in collaboration to survive.

While Clara is setting up their Christmas tree, she feels she is close to Death's door, and decides to prepare accordingly.

While Serge becomes more and more interested in Maïté, she declares herself to be interested in nobody but feels a platonic love for François.

While the bone may feel healed and not hurt during daily activity, the process of bone remodeling may take place for many months after the injury feels healed, and incidences of re-fracturing the bone is still at significant risk.