He no longer uncontrollably changes into a werewolf during a full moon, and can now control his transformations, and shows Willow this when he takes her outside and shows her that the moon is full and he has not changed.

The next day, Willow and his children attend a celebration in their village and Willow takes part in a ' test of magic ' to become the apprentice to the village's wizard.

However, the male Willow Ptarmigan often takes responsibility of the young also, in particular in defending them against predators.

Buffy then takes Willow to stand in front of a classroom in the same nerdy clothes she wore in " Welcome to the Hellmouth " and " The Harvest " at the beginning of the series.

* This episode marks the first time that Willow takes command of the Scoobies, as Buffy has no recollection of who she is & therefore has no way of leading her friends.

He rescues her and takes her outside, only to find an axe-wielding Willow leading other Sunnydale females.

Buffy takes Willow back to their dorm and then goes to take care of Veruca.

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.

He routinely takes full advantage of this invitation, particularly during Season 5, until Willow and Tara perform the disinviting spell in " Crush ".

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

Instead, Willow takes the long way and walks there herself.

Buffy and Dawn jump into the fight and soon Dawn is hurt and depressed that her friends and sister are taking her guy away while the other three plot to win R. J. Buffy goes to kill the Principal ( who had disciplined R. J .), Willow works on a spell to make R. J. a woman, Anya takes off to rob a bank, and Dawn lays herself across railroad tracks.

D ' Hoffryn, the demon responsible for making Anya a vengeance demon, comes forth and takes Willow through a portal into his demon world to make the same offer.

* It is in this episode that Willow and Tara's relationship takes a romantic turn ; although no romantic affection is explicitly shown, it can be inferred from the quality of their interactions.

Oz takes Willow for a walk outside during a full moon, showing her that he's not in werewolf mode.

Later that night Willow takes a candle to Tara's room, where Tara tells Willow that she should be with the person she loves, and Willow replies that she is.

With some help from the rest of the gang, Buffy gets in a few good hits and takes a few as well before Willow and Tara perform a spell to teleport Glory somewhere else.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

Willow will assume leadership of the gang in several future episodes, and most prominently between seasons five and six.

At this point ( before Spike and Andrew return ) the Potentials as well as Dawn, Willow, Xander, Anya, and Giles, tell Buffy that they no longer trust her leadership.

Willow plays an integral role within the inner circle of friends — called the Scooby Gang — who support Buffy Summers, a teenager gifted with superhuman powers to defeat vampires, demons, and other evil in the fictional town of Sunnydale.

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

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.

* Kee-too-way-how (‘ Sounding With Flying Wings ’, better known as Alexander Cayen dit Boudreau, Chief of the Parklands or Willow Cree at Muskeg Lake, born 1834 St. Boniface, Manitoba, son of Pierre Narcisse Cayen dit Boudreau and Adelaide Catherine Arcand (‘ Kaseweetin ’), though he was of Métis descent he became chief of the Willow Cree and the Métis, who were living with the Cree, brother of Petequakey (‘ Isidore Cayen dit Boudreau ’), lived along Duck Lake, signed 1876 Treaty 6 and settled in a reserve at Muskeg Lake-that was later named after his brother Petequakey-but left the reserve in 1880 and lived again in the following years close to St. Laurent de Grandin mission, played a prominent role during the Northwest Rebellion of 1885 in which he participated in every battle, served also as an emissary of the Métis leader Gabriel Dumont to ask the Assiniboine for support, on 23 May 1885 he also submitted the declaration of surrender of Pitikwahanapiwiyin (' Poundmaker ') to General Middleton, was captured on the 1st June 1885, in the subsequent trial of Kee-too-way-how at Regina, Louis Cochin testified that he and the carters in the camp of Pitikwahanapiwiyin survived only thanks to the intercession by Kee-way-too-how and its people, despite the positive testimony, he was on 14 August 1885 sentenced to imprisonment for seven years for his involvement in the Métis rebellion, died 1886 ).

Spike displays unabashed grief after Buffy dies in the showdown with Glory, Spike honors her memory by remaining loyal to the Scoobies, fighting at their side and serving the role of baby-sitter / older brother / protector to Dawn, helping Willow and Tara to raise her in Buffy's absence.

In January 2011, Variety announced that Will Smith was planning to remake Annie with his daughter Willow Smith in the title role.

* Warwick Davis as Willow Ufgood: A reluctant Nelwyn dwarf and aspiring sorcerer who plays a critical role in protecting infant Elora Danan from the evil queen Bavmorda.

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.

Jenny frequently helps through her access to, and knowledge of, technology ; she and the related role of Willow represent the marriage of science and magic on the series.

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.

Willow realizes with increasing uneasiness that she knows neither her lines nor her role.

In the fourth season, as Buffy and Willow attend college, Joyce's role is scaled back considerably.

With Buffy incapable to lead or even fight because of the spell, Willow is forced to take the role as a leader of the circle, convinces Xander not to shoot at people.

In film she had a featured role in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy ( 1972 ) and played Mrs. Grey in The Eagle Has Landed ( 1976 ), the villain in the fantasy films Return to Oz ( 1985 ) and Willow ( 1988 ).

* This episode once again establishes Xander as the " heart " of the group, the one that can always grant emotional support to the others in the hard times, a role that was previously established in the Season 1 finale " Prophecy Girl " when Xander, who at the time had a crush on Buffy, revives her through CPR and in the Season 4 episode " Primeval " when Buffy, Willow, Giles and Xander all merge their psyches together in a spell with Xander representing " Animus ", the heart.

Willow and Xander walk together and talk about Buffy's struggles and Willow's worries about her role in dealing with the impending Hellmouth danger.

* Although Xander will never acquire special powers, the importance of the emotional strength his support lends the group will be demonstrated by his assumption of the role of " Animus " ( heart ) in the superbeing created by merging the psyches of Buffy, Willow, Xander, and Giles in the season 4 episode Primeval.

* One of the overarching themes of Season Four, Buffy's friends feeling alienated from her role as the Slayer, is portrayed when Willow feels left out and hesitant about Buffy joining the Initiative.