Before meeting Willow, Tara had been painfully shy, in part due to a father who led her to believe that she was demonic.

Tara is killed when Warren Mears accidentally shoots her, launching Willow's spiral into Dark Willow.

* Tara Maclay, until she breaks up with Willow in " Tabula Rasa ".

When Glory assaults Tara, making her insane, Willow, in a magical rage that causes her eyes to turn black, finds Glory and battles her.

Willow and Tara move into the Summers house and raise Buffy's younger sister Dawn ( Michelle Trachtenberg ).

After failing Tara's challenge to go for one week without performing magic, Tara leaves Willow, and for two episodes Willow descends into addiction that almost kills Dawn.

As Willow gives a book report in front of her high school class, she discovers herself wearing the same mousy outfit she wore in the first episode of the show (" Welcome to the Hellmouth ") as her friends and classmates shout derisively at her, and Oz and Tara whisper intimately to each other in the audience.

No longer the conscience of the Scooby Gang, Willow cedes this role to Tara then revels in breaking more rules.

After Tara leaves Willow, Willow divulges to Buffy that she does not know who she is and doubts her worth and appeal — specifically to Tara — without magic.

Buffy earned international attention for its unflinching focus on the relationship between Willow and Tara Maclay.

In the fourth season episode " Hush ", Willow meets Tara, and to avoid being killed by a group of ghouls, they join hands to move a large vending machine telekinetically to barricade a door.

The scene was, upon completion, noticeably sensual to Whedon, the producers, and network executives, who encouraged Whedon to develop a romantic storyline between Willow and Tara, but at the same time placed barriers on how far it could go and what could be shown.

The actors were not told the end result of the Willow – Oz – Tara storyline, not sure what the eventual trajectory of the relationship would be, until Hannigan said, " Then finally it was, ' Great!

When Willow discloses to Buffy what she feels for Tara, she indicates that she has fallen in love with Tara, not that she is a lesbian, and avoids categorizing herself.

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.

Some fans loyal to Willow reacted angrily as she chose to be with Tara when Oz made himself available, and they lashed out at Tara and Amber Benson on the fansite message boards.

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.

However, the film was not a financial flop ; with strong foreign, home video, and television sales, Willow did make a profit.

Tara and Willow did not kiss until the fifth season episode " The Body ", which focused on the death of Joyce Summers.

Willow's lightning bolts caused her pain, but caused no visible damage as the hammer did, though she comments that Willow's assault " slowed her down "; by the time of the season finale, Buffy mentions that Willow was the only one of the Scoobies who was ever successful in actually hurting Glory up to that point.

Hank was friends with actor Billy Barty and had auditioned for a part in the 1988 movie Willow in which Barty had a role as a benevolent wizard, but Hank did not get the part.

A woman named Jeny Card ( aka " Remedy ") stayed without touching ground for 361 days, and later a young man named Willow did the same for over 18 months.

In sites where the numbers of Willow and Crested Tits was artificially reduced, Goldcrests and Coal Tits extended their foraging to include the inner canopy, but did not do so where the larger tits were retained.

After numerous trials in which even small atmospheric turbulence kept the aircraft from flying straight and level enough for good data, one pre-dawn flight in August 1957 yielded a map-like image of the Willow Run Airport area which did demonstrate resolution in some parts of the image, whereas the illuminated beam width there was.

He began a sequel to Trouble at Willow Gables, set in a women's college at Oxford and entitled Michaelmas Term at St Bride's, but did not finish it: " All literary inspiration has deserted me ", he informed Amis on 13 August.

Willow, who has been recovering from an addiction to dark magic, tries to resurrect Tara as she did Buffy but cannot because the death was not by mystical means.

An eight-year-old girl named Precious Reynolds, of Willow Creek, California, contracted the disease sometime in April 2011, but she did not receive medical care until mid-May, after her grandmother took her to the doctor because of flulike symptoms that grew so serious, her grandmother said they began to resemble polio.

When Willow and Tara first met in the fourth season, the writers did not intend the relationship to be romantic but the actors had such chemistry that, two episodes later, Whedon and the writing team took Alyson Hannigan and Amber Benson aside to inform them where it would go.

" It did not take a mystic to comprehend these facts, as the late Hickman Price, Jr., who bought Willow Run for the Kaiser-Frazer partners, once said: " I believed we would have a period of three or four years — I remember putting 1950 as the terminal date in which we can sell everything we can make.

Willow discovers that Jonathan did an augmentation spell that would make everyone adore him but also created a demon.

Exploration of the region intensified as news of the discoveries got out, and because of the distances and times involved in communications and travel in those times, moreover because of the remoteness of the country, the Cariboo Rush did not begin in earnest until 1862 after the discovery of Williams Creek in 1861 and the relocation of the focus of the rush to the creek valleys in the northern Cariboo Plateau forming the headwaters of the Willow River and the north slope of the basin of the Quesnel.

In 1999, library officials proposed moving the Books by Rail program to the busier Willow Creek station, but the move did not occur and the program was later canceled due to reduced library funds and a failed library funding levy.

She did it because Willow murdered a man and remained beloved – crowning Amy's envy of Willow's relatively easy successes in magic.

* Willow performs a major feat of magic successfully, although she did revert to Dark Willow before Xander pulled her from the spell.

* Although Buffy and Willow express surprise that Xander's family believed the claim that Anya's demon friends are merely circus performers, Sunnydale residents, such as the Harrises, have a long history of ignoring or explaining away supernatural occurrences, as Willow's mother did after " Gingerbread ".

This does not, however, explain why her death, near the end of series six ( When Willow saved her ) did not invoke a new slayer.

Buffy, Xander, and Dawn return home and after talking about how Willow did leave England, but she had opportunities to divert to a location other than Sunnydale.

* Willow and Anya are seen performing another spell together like they did in the season three episode " Doppelgangland ".

Willow questions what Anya did to prove her love to R. J., Anya dodges the subject with a quick lie and turns off the radio as a news report is heard about a wanted bank robber on the loose.

When they first kiss in the episode " The Killer in Me ", Willow's realization that she let Tara go reacts with a curse put upon her by another witch named Amy Madison ( Elizabeth Anne Allen ), turning Willow into Warren, Tara's murderer.

Willow and Tara's first on-screen kiss in the episode " The Body ( Buffy episode ) | The Body ".

After a vampire named Spike captures the two, Willow and Xander share a kiss that Oz ( Seth Green ) and Cordelia ( Charisma Carpenter ), their respective significant others, witness.

Following Xander and Willow's kiss in " Lovers Walk ", Oz has called a time-out on his relationship with Willow and Cordelia is decidedly avoiding any contact with Xander.

Oz declines to kiss Willow at her request, given that it's obvious she only wants to kiss to make Xander jealous.

Whedon informed them that the kiss between Willow and Tara was " not negotiable ".

Back at the dorms, Buffy and Parker are just about to kiss when Willow and Oz arrive.

* Willow and Oz talk briefly about the kiss that she shared with Xander in " Lovers Walk ".

Back in their room, Kennedy gives Willow an end-of-date kiss, with a surprising effect: Willow takes on the appearance of Warren Mears.

It also helps progress the Kennedy / Willow relationship by featuring their first kiss.

* After Willow and Xander see each other in formal wear she jokes that it's a good thing she realized she was gay, referring to a previous occasion (" Homecoming ") where she and Xander saw each other in formals and shared an illicit kiss.

Meanwhile Willow and Xander kiss and feeling guilty help Cordelia's run for homecoming instead of Buffy.

While doing research, Xander and Willow kiss again.

* Xander and Willow continue their secret relationship, actually engaging in a lengthy kiss.

Buffy tells Willow that she saw Faith kiss Angel ; Willow urges Buffy to talk to Angel about it.

" While Buffy and Spike cuddle and kiss and make plans for the wedding, Giles calls Willow for help, confessing he is totally blind.

Willow breaks the spell and Buffy and Spike find themselves in the middle of a kiss.

In this episode, Oz understands that Willow offers to sleep with him to show him that she is invested in their newly reestablished relationship, whereas in " Innocence ", he believes she asks him to kiss her ( largely ) to make Xander jealous.