:* Hans Christian Andersen wrote a story called " Under the Willow Tree " ( 1853 ) in which children ask questions of a tree they call " willow-father ", paired with another entity called " elder-mother ".

At different times, Willow, Xander, and Giles caution Buffy that she does not know the Initiative's true motives and there are questions about their mission that are unanswered.

Buffy meets up with Willow who notes that Buffy is having trouble getting past Kathy to patrol without getting asked lots of questions, then leaves to see Oz.

He visits Willow and asks her advice in wooing Buffy ; Willow, still emotionally distressed, questions his motives, but eventually relents, listing some of Buffy's likes and interests.

* Willow amusingly questions Angel about hiring Cordelia at Angel Investigations.

* Buffy admits to Willow that she feels " real love and passion have to go hand in hand with pain and fighting ", and questions if a normal relationship can have the same sort of intensity.

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.

Willow starts a spell, but Anya interrupts with questions and the two begin arguing again.

The stored molasses was awaiting transfer to the Purity plant situated between Willow Street and what is now named Evereteze Way, in Cambridge.

Of the core characters, Willow changes the most, becoming a complex portrayal of a woman whose powers force her to seek balance between what is best for the people she loves and what she is capable of doing.

" Vamp Willow served as an indicator of what Willow is capable of ; immediately before she flays Warren in one violent magical flash, she uses the same line Vamp Willow used in the third season: " Bored now.

Present-day Willow is aware of her capabilities, ever watchful of what she may turn into.

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.

When Willow eventually exhibits what power she has, it briefly frightens Kennedy.

Willow worries about becoming sexually intimate with Kennedy, unsure of what may transpire if she loses control of herself.

Willow at times reminds the other characters of her religion, wondering what her father might think of the crucifixes she must apply to her bedroom wall to keep out vampires, and commenting that Santa Claus misses her house every Christmas because of the " big honkin ' menorah ".

The shallow cheerleader of the original film had grown more mature and open-minded, identifying with social outcasts such as Willow and Xander, and instead, the character of Cordelia was created to embody what Buffy once was.

At that time there were several Lutheran families living in what would later be the village of Hodgkins who were members of the Lutheran churches of LaGrange ( St. John ) and Willow Springs ( Trinity ), Illinois.

Fleming also disliked what Goldfinger was doing destroying Victorian buildings, replacing them with the architect's modernist designs, particularly a terrace at Goldfinger's own residence at 2 Willow Road.

Willow recites what he thinks is the appropriate spell, but turns the goat into an ostrich, a peacock, a tortoise, and finally a tiger, before returning Raziel to her human body.

Limited to what could be shown by the network, Tara and Willow are shown as consistently affectionate but not overly sexual.

Whedon asked Benson to appear as Tara to Willow in " Conversations with Dead People ", but Benson turned down the role, concerned what fans of the show would think about an evil Tara.

To derive the maximum pleasure from what he has done, Angelus waits outside Buffy's house to watch their shock and distress as Buffy and Willow receive the call that Jenny has been murdered.

This original route of the proposed Richmond Parkway would have bisected the swath of land on whose behalf Olmsted had pled including what is today Fresh Kills, William T. Davis Wildlife Refuge, Reed ’ s Basket Willow Swamp, Willowbrook and High Rock Park.

In the Season Four episode " Something Blue ", in what writer Doug Petrie describes as " as cruel and funny as anything could be ", Willow, who at the time has the power to have anything she says happen, accidentally turns Amy back into a human ; however, Willow does not even notice, and a few seconds later accidentally changes her back into a rat.

Anya recognizes what has happened, offers to restore Vampire Willow to her own world in return for help in retrieving her amulet, and suggests capturing the other Willow to assist in the spell.

Also, in keeping with the show's themes of redemption and moral ambiguity, Willow, Angel, Spike, Faith, Giles, Anya, and Andrew have at some point in their lives descended into darkness.

On the very day he leaves, Willow, Xander, Anya and Tara resurrect Buffy, and he comes back as soon as he hears of this.

" However, Anya returns in the episode " Doppelgangland ", duping Willow into assisting in a failed magical attempt to recover the necklace which was her power center, lost when Giles destroyed it to reverse the wish granted for Cordelia.

In the Season Six finale, Willow destroys The Magic Box, leaving Anya jobless in the mortal world.

Following his unrequited love for Buffy, these include the tumultuous relationship with rich girl Cordelia Chase ( Charisma Carpenter ), brief fling with his best friend Willow ( Alyson Hannigan ) prior to her coming out, and his long-term relationship with ex-demon Anya ( Emma Caulfield ).

Xander-centric episode " Triangle " sees him defend Willow and Anya equally from Anya's ex-boyfriend Olaf the Troll ( Abraham Benrubi ) when ordered to choose between them.

Buffy, Willow, Xander, Faith, Spike, and Ethan are all transported to the First's dimension ( which appears as a version of Sunnydale similar to " Wishverse " created by Anya ) against their will.

In " Doppelgangland ", when Anya, a vengeance demon who previously granted the wish, attempts a spell to regain her powers, it pulls the alternate universe's Willow ( Alyson Hannigan )— an evil vampire — into the current world and inevitably face-to-face with her human counterpart.

Willow assists Anya with a spell, but their conjuration goes awry, summoning " Vamp Willow " from " The Wish " rather than retrieving the magic amulet Anya sought.

Neither Anya nor Willow realizes the consequences of their spell.

Anya returns vampiric Willow to her own timeline, where she is immediately killed by the alternate Oz.

Willow, Xander, Anya and Tara talk about calling Buffy back from Heaven and their feelings in the aftermath of the truth.

Spike suspects Giles is his father ( because they're both British and Giles feels a gut-wrenching disappointment towards him ), Anya assumes she is getting married to Giles ( because she is wearing an engagement ring and they jointly own the magic shop ) and Willow and Xander think they are a couple ( because they woke up next to each other and Willow is wearing his jacket ).

Giles, Anya, Xander, Willow and Tara figure out their names from their ID's and Dawn's from her necklace.

The breaking of the spell finds Giles and Anya kissing, Willow atop Tara after a fall, and Spike and Buffy deep in mid-action conversation.

Xander then finds himself in an ice cream truck with Anya ; Willow and Tara ( wearing skimpy clothing and heavy make-up ) are in the back, and invite him to join them.

In The Bronze, he meets Anya failing as a stand-up comic, and Willow and Xander ( with a bloody chest wound ), who warn him of their attacker.

At the table are Buffy, Dawn, Giles, Willow, her girlfriend Tara ( Amber Benson ), Xander, and his ex-demon girlfriend Anya ( Emma Caulfield ).

* The First was able to come back to attempt the annihilation of the Slayer line through Buffy's resurrection, which was carried out at the beginning of the 6th season by Willow, Xander, Anya, and Tara.