At home, Joyce – founder of Mothers Opposed to the Occult (" MOO ") – takes credit for the locker searches, forbids Buffy to see Willow anymore, and says Buffy's Slaying does Sunnydale no good.

Anya drives a car for the first time wildly through the streets while Willow, in the passenger seat, searches for a spell to stop the troll, who proceeds to wreak havoc in Sunnydale, bashing trash cans, swinging his hammer, and declaring to the people running in the opposite direction: " You do well to flee, townspeople.

Willow trees can reach a height of, and are valued for ornamental purposes.

Design for " Tulip and Willow " indigo dye | indigo-discharge wood-block printed fabric, 1873

Instead, his insight, compassion, and support is how he helps his friends in the battle against evil ; for example, he brings Willow back from the brink of darkness with his unconditional love in Season Six.

Willow Danielle Rosenberg is a fictional character created for the fantasy television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer ( 1997 – 2003 ).

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.

Whedon created a group of friends for the main character, including Willow Rosenberg and Xander Harris.

She later stated in an interview, " I didn't want to do Willow as someone who's feeling sorry for herself.

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.

In " Gingerbread ", her home life is made clearer: Sunnydale falls under the spell of a demon who throws the town's adults into a moral panic, and Willow's mother is portrayed as a career-obsessed academic who is unable to communicate with her daughter, eventually trying to burn Willow at the stake for being involved in witchcraft ; her father is never featured.

The series ' use of magic, as noted by religion professor Gregory Stevenson, neither promotes nor denigrates Wiccan ideals and Willow rejects Wiccan colleagues for not practicing the magic she favors.

Throughout the series, magic is employed to represent different ideas — relationships, sexuality, ostracism, power, and particularly for Willow, addiction — that change between episodes and seasons.

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.

Willow goes for months without any magic, helping Buffy track three geeks called The Trio who grandiosely aspire to be supervillains.

Scared by her own power, the seventh season starts with Willow in England, studying with a coven near Giles ' home learning to understand the depth of her power and to harness it for good, rather than destruction.

Through the gamut of changes Willow endures in the series, Buffy studies scholar Ian Shuttleworth states that Alyson Hannigan's performances are the reason for Willow's popularity: " Hannigan can play on audience heartstrings like a concert harpist ... As an actress she is a perfect interpreter in particular of the bare emotional directness which is the specialty of writer Marti Noxon on form.

Unfettered by the bounds cast by a television budget for special effects, the comic series continuation for the Buffy canon explores more fantastic storylines, characters, and abilities for Willow.

Both Dark Willow and even Willow herself state that Willow's sacrifices for her friends and lack of assertiveness are her undoing.

Oz's trials in dealing with a power he cannot control is, according to authors J. Michael Richardson and J. Douglas Rabb, a model for Willow to reference when she encounters her own attraction to evil.

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

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Willow finds information on her laptop about a killing in 1955 where student James Stanley killed his teacher Grace Newman after she tried to break off their affair.

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.

Meanwhile, Giles and Willow search for information at the school library.

Willow digs up information on Dr.

Buffy and Xander try to get information from him, but Spike is simultaneously conversing with Willow, so his words make little sense.

Willow uses magic to get information from the police on Caleb, and Spike and Andrew leave to pursue a lead.

The Willow Road and University Avenue junctions with Bayfront Expressway are at-grade intersections controlled by traffic lights ; there are two additional controlled intersections at Chilco Road and Marsh Road, and the Marsh Road interchange on U. S. 101 is a parclo.

Manchuria was originally separated from China proper by the Inner Willow Palisade, a ditch and embankment planted with willows intended to restrict the movement of the Han Chinese into Manchuria, as the area was off-limits to the Han Chinese until the Qing government started colonizing the area with them later on in the dynasty's rule, especially since the 1860s.

The Qing Dynasty started colonizing Manchuria with Han Chinese later on in the dynasty's rule, but the Manchu area was still separated from modern-day Inner Mongolia by the Outer Willow Palisade, which kept the Manchu and the Mongols in the area separate.

Harding visited Snow River on the Kenai Peninsula, Anchorage ( July 13 ), Chickaloon, Wasilla and Willow ( July 14 ).

Both Willow ( in the season one episode " Witch ") and Spike ( in the season four episodes " The I in Team " and " The Yoko Factor ") have used the term in the show on different occasions.

Willow transitions into Dark Willow in " Villains ( Buffy the Vampire Slayer ) | Villains ", with Tara's blood splattered on her neck

Dark Willow is preternaturally focused on revenge, relentless and unstoppable.

People picked on Willow ... and now Willow's a junkie.

Willow takes on the leadership role when Buffy is unavailable, and her growing powers sometimes make her resent being positioned as Buffy's sidekick.

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.

Whedon made a conscious effort to focus on Willow and Tara's relationship instead of either's identity as a lesbian or the coming out process.

Some critics regard this as a failure on Willow's part to be strong ; Em McAvan interprets this to mean that Willow may be bisexual.

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.

From now on, Willow will no longer be a Jew.

" where Willow and Tara chant and perspire in a circle of light until Willow falls back on a pillow gasping and moaning.

Willow and Tara's influence on specifically younger female viewers is, according to Driver, " remarkable ".

Willow and Tara are shown in some scenes to be " intensely sexual ", such as in the sixth season episode " Once More, with Feeling " where it is visually implied that Willow performs cunnilingus on Tara.

Willow and Tara's relationship became the first long-term lesbian relationship on U. S. television.