She has inherent magical abilities and begins to study witchcraft ; as the series progresses, Willow becomes more sure of herself and her magical powers become significant if inconsistent.

In the second season when the characters are in 11th grade, Willow becomes more sure of herself, standing up to the conceited Cordelia Chase ( Charisma Carpenter ), and approaching Xander, on whom she has had a crush for years, although it is unrequited as Xander is in love with Buffy.

Through witchcraft, Willow becomes the only member of the group to cause damage to Glory.

In the final episodes of the season Willow becomes exceedingly strong, surviving unharmed when Warren hits her in the back with an axe.

Willow continues to face her grief over Tara's death and becomes involved with one of the Potentials, Kennedy ( Iyari Limon ).

With Kennedy nearby, cautioned to kill her if she becomes out of control, Willow ' activates ' every Potential Slayer in the world, causing them to become Slayers themselves.

Willow is still involved with Kennedy through Season Eight, but becomes intimate with Aluwyn while they are together.

Willow becomes very depressed and doubts herself.

Tara, however, eclipses Willow's role as the moral center of the Scoobies, and as Willow becomes more powerful and less ethical, Tara becomes a maternal figure for the group.

She becomes best friends with Xander Harris ( Nicholas Brendon ) and Willow Rosenberg ( Alyson Hannigan ), and meets her new Watcher, Rupert Giles ( Anthony Stewart Head ).

As the season draws to a close, Buffy is forced to battle her best friend when Willow becomes psychotic with dark magics after the human, Warren ( Adam Busch ) shoots and kills Willow's girlfriend Tara ( Amber Benson ) and wounds Buffy in the process.

As the series progresses, Giles increasingly becomes a father figure to Buffy and her friends Willow ( Alyson Hannigan ) and Xander ( Nicholas Brendon ).

In the episode " Something Blue ", Giles becomes blind as a result of a faulty spell cast by Willow Rosenberg.

In Buffy, Oz is portrayed as a taciturn, guitar-playing teen who becomes boyfriend to Willow ( Alyson Hannigan ), one of the show's main characters.

In the season four climax " Primeval ", Xander becomes the " heart " in the spell, which conjoins him with Buffy, Willow and Giles to defeat Adam ( George Hertzberg ), a part-demon, part-human, cyborg monster.

Tara becomes more outspoken during the sixth season about the ethics of Willow's use of magic, cautioning Willow that she depends too much on it.

Willow is taken over by a dark alter ego, going on a rampage, abandoning Tara's wishes, soaking up every dark magic text she can find and for the next three episodes, becomes so powerful that none of her friends can stop her.

As Jenny offers both mentoring and validation for Willow, she becomes a substitute mother for her.

At the most, some traditional fables are adapted and reinterpreted: The Lion and the Mouse is continued and given a new ending ( fable 52 ); The Oak and the Reed becomes " The Elm and the Willow " ( 53 ); The Ant and the Grasshopper is adapted as " The Gnat and the Bee " ( 94 ) with the difference that the gnat offers to teach music to the bee's children.

For example, once the spell is cast, Xander Harris becomes a soldier, Buffy Summers becomes an 18th century noblewoman, and Willow Rosenberg becomes an actual ghost.

Suddenly, the spell begins to work: to function as one unit, Willow becomes the spirit, Giles the mind, Xander the heart, and Buffy the hand, or strength of their ensemble.

In the one-shot comic, Willow is offered Tara as a guide for her mystical path to understanding her own powers, but rejects her as being an illusion, too much of a comfort, and not a guide who will force her to grow.

The team was based in Santa Barbara, California and commuted to Willow Springs Raceway for much of its testing sessions.

( 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.

The recent appearance of openly gay and bisexual characters on screen, such as Willow and Tara in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the characters of Queer as Folk, Jack Harkness in Doctor Who, and numerous characters in Torchwood, has added much to this discussion.

His youthful interest in witchcraft and sorcery has endured into his adult life ; though his natural aptitude for it is only moderate ( much less than that of Willow ), he does have a high amount of magical knowledge.

Lucas had hoped Willow would earn as much money as E. T.

Willow is probably too much for young children and possibly too much of the same for cynics.

Willow, however, is inherently talented and begins to progress much faster than Tara through the fifth season, including experimentations in dark magic.

" I wrote the book for Willow and for her friends and for all the little girls in the world who need affirmation about being female in this pretty much masculine world.

Although Buffy centered around its titular character, " Doppelgangland " primarily focused on the character Willow, much like the season three episode " The Zeppo " focused on the character Xander.

Series creator Joss Whedon liked the character of " Vamp Willow ", who was first introduced in " The Wish ", so much that he wrote an episode specifically for her.

Eventually, the emotion in Willow is too much and the dark magical power in her fades away as she and Xander break down in tears, embracing.

In the previous episode, Willow got high on the magic ( so much so that her eyes are almost permanently dilated and darkened to black ) and crashed a car, breaking Dawn's arm.

Willow puts up a barrier that keeps the vampire at bay, but it's almost too much for Willow and Buffy instructs everyone to run out the back.

Opened in 1942, Willow Run Airport was synonymous with the American industrial effort that contributed so much to the Allied victory in World War II.

Because of this decision to use both actors, filming the Willow scenes took much longer than usual.

Dawn's effort to calm the much more powerful Willow prove futile and serve only to annoy her, but Buffy arrives before she acts against Dawn.

Giles and Willow research and come up with a way to reunite the two Xanders but Anya expresses disappointment over this as she wants both to stick around for a ' sandwich ' maneuver, much to the disturbance of the others.

Back in the library, Buffy finally tells Giles and Willow that Angel was cured when she was forced to kill him which is the reason why she left town and was unable to deal with the trauma of it all ... much like the way Faith did at running away from Boston when she witnessed her Watcher killed by Kakistos.

Willow questions how much trust Buffy should put in with them, and then Buffy rushes off with Riley and friends when all of their pagers go off.

In the south, bordering Jamaica Pond, it includes athletic fields and three ponds: from the south, a small kettle pond called Ward's Pond, the tiny Willow Pond, and the much larger Leverett's Pond.