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Buffyverse (Franchise)
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The universe of Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, some Spike comics, and in a later time period, the comic series Fray: Future Slayer. It has been given various different names by fans: Slayerverse, Jossverse and Whedonverse, but most often Buffyverse.The series follows one Buffy Summers, the most recent in a long (but not hereditary) line of "Slayers": young women who are empowered with Super-Strength, Super-Reflexes and occasional prophetic dreams by mysterious higher forces to fight off the supernatural threats that would try to destroy or take over the world. Most of these of course coming from demons, frequently in the form of blood-sucking, undead vampires. While Buffy is a very formidable and capable fighter, she nonetheless has to learn to balance her Slayer duties alongside her daily life starting from her high school days and into adulthood as well, which is not easy when the supernatural side of things seems determined to mess with her other life as much as possible. As a Slayer, she is aided by a Watcher sent by the Watchers Council, a guide who will train her and provide information on the threats she faces. As well as some loyal friends nicknamed the Scooby Gang who, thanks to her saving them, are now privy to the dangers of monsters and help her out where they can.The series began life in 1992 as a movie that Whedon wrote. But since he didn't have creative control of it, the studio ended up changing a good majority of the story and it didn't come out quite as he intended, coming across more as a parody comedy with horror elements (though did have its share of drama as well). Despite the film performing pretty decently, Whedon viewed the final product with disappointment. However, four years later, the WB had just launched its own network and were looking into producing original programming. When Whedon was approached to write a show for the network, he decided to give the concept another shot. The series pilot now acted as a kinda sequel to the movie (or rather a sequel to Whedon's original script, not what was filmed) in which Buffy moves from Los Angeles, where the film was set, to a new town named Sunnydale, but finds that it's teeming with not just vampires but various other monsters as well, due to being on top of a nexus point between the human and supernatural realms known as the Hellmouth.She teams with a new Watcher named Giles (her original Watcher, Merrick, died in the movie), befriends fellow students Xander and Willow, and is aided further by the mysterious vampire named Angel. Along the way, she gains new allies and combats various beings and sometimes even evil humans, all seeking to further their own plans. Though not every victory is a clean one, and Buffy often has to deal with the fallout, struggling to keep fighting the good fight in spite of setback and tragedy. Not that there aren't plenty of Crowning Moments of Funny as well. The series's chief strengths are the witty dialogue and the Character Development for each member of the main cast over the course of each season.The series was a major success and what finally elevated Whedon as a talented writer in the industry during its heyday. It ran for seven seasons from 1997-2003. During and after which it gained many multimedia that expanded the universe, such as comics, video games, and even a TV spin-off in the form of Angel, which focuses on the titular vampire as he heads to Los Angeles and deals with both supernatural and everyday evil while running his own detective agency. | |
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Character Overlap | |
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Character Overlap: Angel, Cordelia, Wesley, Spike and Harmony all became Angel regulars after debuting on Buffy. A few recurring Buffy characters, including Darla, Drusilla and Faith, were also transferred to Angel. In the canonical comics, Illyria from the fifth televised season of Angel crossed over to the Buffy issues for a while. | |
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Uncertain Doom | |
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Eve helped Lindsey McDonald in his plan to demoralize and destroy Angel. While Lindsey is killed by Lorne, Eve is last seen facing an uncertain fate as Wolfram & Hart collapses, with it being ambiguous if she will heed Angel's advice and flee the building or Lindsey's death and the loss of any resources, influence and purpose she once had has pushed her past the Despair Event Horizon ("Go where?" she says). | |
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Artifact Title: Zigzagged. Despite the Slayer's official title being "the Vampire Slayer", it would be more technical to call her a monster slayer, as the series had Buffy taking on not only vampires but demons, ghosts, werewolves, cyborgs, heck even a god at one point, and the Big Bads of Seasons 1 and 2 were the only seasonal Big Bads who were vampires (until Season 8, and even then the Big Bad was really a sentient universe possessing a vampire's body; then Season 12, the final comics season and wrap-up of the entire original continuity, finally has an actual vampire as the Big Bad again, Melaka Fray's twin brother Harth), owing to the principle that the Big Bads of each season represent an escalating level of threat compared to the one before. Vampires are by far the most populous demonic nuisances in the Buffyverse, however, given the way they spread, and even episodes focusing on some other creature will often show Buffy skirmishing with minor vampires as part of her nightly patrols. Also, technically, Buffy is only the Slayer during Season 1 of her show. After her brief clinical death in the season finale, she becomes an anomaly, a surviving former Slayer who nonetheless retains her powers, while the new chosen Vampire Slayers are Kendra in Season 2 and Faith from Season 3 onward. | |
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Greater-Scope Paragon | |
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Greater-Scope Paragon: The Buffyverse has the Trope Namers for Powers That Be, who hundreds of years before Angel created a prophecy regarding a vampire with a soul. However, they're unable or unwilling to directly help the protagonists, instead sending visions of people in trouble to Doyle or Cordelia, or speaking through intermediaries like Whistler and the Oracles. This may be for the best; the one former PTB who did decide to break her compatriots' rules, descend to Earth and intervene directly was Jasmine, the Big Bad of Angel Season 4, who set about eliminating The Evils of Free Will. | |
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Human-Demon Hybrid | |
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Human-Demon Hybrid: Angel: Doyle, one of the original Angel Investigations trio, was part human and part Brachen demon. Billy Blim, the titular villain of "Billy" had a human father and demon mother. According to Tim Minear and Jeffrey Bell, Billy was born when his father raped his mother.invoked Buffy the Vampire Slayer: According to Anya, most of the demons that walk the earth have some human blood in them, which accounts for their humanoid forms. "True" pure-blood demons such as the one the Mayor turned into are monstrous, primal creatures who have more in common with Lovecraft's gods than humanity. | |
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Magical Land | |
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Quest for Oz (2004): A mobile game in which Buffy must rescue Oz (her werewolf friend from the series, not the Magical Land) from Drusilla. | |
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Satanic Archetype | |
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An interesting case is that all demons, including the Satanic Archetype, are squids or half-squid in their origins but no angels actually appear. Even the servants of The Powers That Be are often demons, such as Whistler and Skip. Angels do appear in comics; Willow encounters an angel while traveling The Multiverse in the Season Nine comics, and Angel & Faith establishes that Whistler is an angel-demon crossbreed. | |
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World of Snark | |
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World of Snark: It would easier to list the characters who aren't Deadpan Snarkers. | |
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Eldritch Abomination | |
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Eldritch Abomination: Pretty much all so-called "higher beings", from the demon Old Ones to the Powers That Be. | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Both the Scooby Gang and the Angel Investigations team are this, at least at the beginning of the respective series. | |
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Our Zombies Are Different | |
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Our Zombies Are Different: "Zombie" appears to be used indiscriminately in the Buffyverse to refer to a variety of types of "walking corpse that isn't a vampire": In "Dead Man's Party", the zombies are Voodoo Zombies under the control of an evil spirit inhabiting a cursed mask. In "The Zeppo", the undead juvenile delinquents are raised by voodoo rituals, but have a Revenant Zombie's independent volition and intact personality. In the Angel episode "The Thin Dead Line", a Knight Templar police captain raises dead cops as Voodoo Zombies and has them continue patrolling the streets, ignoring their tendency to gratuitous violence. In the Angel episode "Provider", a character becomes a Revenant Zombie through, it appears, pure will to transcend death. In the Angel episode "Habeas Corpses", the Wolfram & Hart building's mystical security system has a last-ditch emergency mode of raising all dead employees as Flesh Eating Zombies, to ensure the death of whoever invaded it. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Glory is female and the first Big Bad Buffy doesn't kill. This is partly justified by the fact that her human host, Ben, is an innocent person. That doesn't stop Giles from killing Ben to be rid of Glory when Buffy refuses to do the deed herself. | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Human? | |
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Maggie Walsh is not only responsible for creating the monster Adam, but she also tries to have Buffy killed. Walsh is killed by her own creation rather than dying at Buffy's hands, though it is likely Buffy would have spared her anyway for being human. Adam, of course, is killed by Buffy. | |
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Our Vampires Are Different | |
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Our Vampires Are Different: In this series, vampires are people who die from the bite, are fed the blood of their attacker, and rise again as soulless, demon-possessed Nosferatu with a Game Face as a result, who use the memories of the people they were to "inform" their existence in a sense (without which, the demon part of a vampire would be feral and animalistic). As their souls have passed on, vampires often act on the suppressed darker impulses of the deceased humans whose bodies they now inhabit. They also have the traditional weaknesses of vampires, including the religious ones. | |
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Feminist Fantasy | |
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Feminist Fantasy: While feminists (particularly third wave) are happy to point out the places where Whedon's writing chops don't quite make the grade, they'll also point out that his work a) is intended to be feminist, b) actually is feminist 90% of the time, c) is miles ahead of most other television, and 2) is damn good television in its own right. | |
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Continuity Overlap | |
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Continuity Overlap: Buffy and Angel interacted so much during their respective fourth and first seasons that watching them in concert is almost a necessity to understand what's going on in either. This would continue to a lesser degree in later seasons; in particular season four of Angel had several hints about the events of Buffy's seventh (and final) televised season. | |
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Weirdness Censor | |
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Weirdness Censor: Before The Unmasqued World, a lot of everyday citizens in both Sunnydale and LA either rationalize away supernatural events and creatures, no matter how flimsy the explanation, or just ignore them and treat it as no big deal. | |
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Possessing a Dead Body | |
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Possessing a Dead Body: This is explicitly said to be what a vampire is. You die, and an evil demon takes over your body. There is a remnant of the human's personality in the vampire, though (to varying degrees), especially since on its own the demon part is one of the more bestial, non-sapient species of demon, so the memories left in the human brain are really all there is to form an actual personality with. But without the human soul, they have no real grasp of right and wrong and are drawn to the evil side; at best, they can fight with the good guys because of an emotional attachment to specific people (pre-soul Spike) or avoid drinking unwilling victims so they won't be staked (Harmony and the other vampires following her rules). That's unless their soul gets restored by magic, as with Angel and Spike. | |
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City of Adventure | |
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City of Adventure: Sunnydale and Los Angeles. | |
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The Hero Doesn't Kill the Villainess | |
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The Hero Doesn't Kill the Villainess: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Recurring female vampires Drusilla and Harmony are either repeatedly spared or not pursued by the heroes in a way that no other vampire in the show benefits from. This is somewhat understandable for Harmony who is an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain when she tries to be evil, and goes on to become a reality star who encourages other vampires not to feed from unwilling victims for pragmatism's sake. Not so much for Drusilla who has killed numerous people, including the Slayer Kendra. Maggie Walsh is not only responsible for creating the monster Adam, but she also tries to have Buffy killed. Walsh is killed by her own creation rather than dying at Buffy's hands, though it is likely Buffy would have spared her anyway for being human. Adam, of course, is killed by Buffy. Glory is female and the first Big Bad Buffy doesn't kill. This is partly justified by the fact that her human host, Ben, is an innocent person. That doesn't stop Giles from killing Ben to be rid of Glory when Buffy refuses to do the deed herself. Angel: Justine Cooper slashes Wesley's throat and steals Angel's baby son so Holtz could take him away to a Hell dimension. She is last seen abandoned by Wesley to start a new life. After causing all sorts of apocalyptic mayhem in order to give birth to herself and then attempting to create peace on Earth through a Hive Mind, fallen Power-That-Was Jasmine is killed not by Angel, who tries to offer her a second chance, but by her own loyal follower and "father" Connor, after she is partially de-powered and Connor crosses the Despair Event Horizon. Eve helped Lindsey McDonald in his plan to demoralize and destroy Angel. While Lindsey is killed by Lorne, Eve is last seen facing an uncertain fate as Wolfram & Hart collapses, with it being ambiguous if she will heed Angel's advice and flee the building or Lindsey's death and the loss of any resources, influence and purpose she once had has pushed her past the Despair Event Horizon ("Go where?" she says). | |
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Urban Fantasy | |
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Urban Fantasy | |
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True Companions | |
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True Companions: Both heroic teams. | |
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Present Day | |
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Present Day: Generally speaking, the televised Buffyverse took place around the same time it was broadcast. | |
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Word of God | |
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Billy Blim, the titular villain of "Billy" had a human father and demon mother. According to Tim Minear and Jeffrey Bell, Billy was born when his father raped his mother.invoked | |
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Angels, Devils and Squid | |
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Angels, Devils and Squid: An interesting case is that all demons, including the Satanic Archetype, are squids or half-squid in their origins but no angels actually appear. Even the servants of The Powers That Be are often demons, such as Whistler and Skip. Angels do appear in comics; Willow encounters an angel while traveling The Multiverse in the Season Nine comics, and Angel & Faith establishes that Whistler is an angel-demon crossbreed. Jasmine, a former Power who's the Big Bad of Angel's fourth televised season, also appears squiddy in her true form while feeding. | |
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Gamebooks | |
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The series had quite a number of novels based on it, as well as a few Gamebooks as well. However, like the first comic series, the stories are non-canon. | |
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Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain | |
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Recurring female vampires Drusilla and Harmony are either repeatedly spared or not pursued by the heroes in a way that no other vampire in the show benefits from. This is somewhat understandable for Harmony who is an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain when she tries to be evil, and goes on to become a reality star who encourages other vampires not to feed from unwilling victims for pragmatism's sake. Not so much for Drusilla who has killed numerous people, including the Slayer Kendra. | |
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Functional Magic | |
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Functional Magic: Played with. Magic apparently works off of physics, and the laws of thermodynamics i.e. conservation of matter and energy apply to sorcery, but overall magic has little to no rules and it can do anything, though this often has unintended consequences. | |
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Vampires Sleep in Coffins | |
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Vampires Sleep in Coffins: Defied. With the exception of Dracula, who embraces all the tropes. | |
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Fantasy Kitchen Sink | |
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Fantasy Kitchen Sink: Throughout both TV shows and the comics, we have such things as magic, vampires, werewolves, dragons, X-Men-style Mutants like Gwen Raiden, and Ridiculously Human Robots. | |
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Our Souls Are Different | |
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Our Souls Are Different: As well as carrying a person's consciousness, souls are a MacGuffin to make vampires become good again by restoring their conscience, though obviously having a conscience and acting on it are two different things since ensouled humans are capable of evil. | |
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No Export for You | |
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Sacrifice (2009): A Nintendo DS game styled after the original Resident Evil with fixed cameras. Was only released in the European market. invoked | |
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The Unmasqued World | |
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The Unmasqued World: After Harmony is caught on tape taking a bite of Andy Dick in Season 8, the existence of vampires becomes public knowledge (and unfortunately subject to a lot of in-universe Misaimed Fandom), as well as the rest of the supernatural by extension. | |
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Our Werewolves Are Different | |
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Our Werewolves Are Different: Lycanthropy can be transmitted by bite regardless of transformation state (Oz became a werewolf when he was bitten by his baby cousin Jordy, before he even knew Jordy was a werewolf), and werewolves display a heightened sense of smell and a vulnerability to silver. They change three times every moon cycle: the night of the full moon and the two surrounding nights. They retain very little of their human intelligence or personality when shifted, usually killing and eating people they come across indiscriminately. With meditation, chanting and herbs, Oz and the other werewolves at a Tibetan monastery were able to overcome the lunar cycle and remain in human form under the full moon, but now can change even during the day if they get upset enough. | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist | |
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After causing all sorts of apocalyptic mayhem in order to give birth to herself and then attempting to create peace on Earth through a Hive Mind, fallen Power-That-Was Jasmine is killed not by Angel, who tries to offer her a second chance, but by her own loyal follower and "father" Connor, after she is partially de-powered and Connor crosses the Despair Event Horizon. | |
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