Year One | Season One | Season Two | Season Three Season Four | Season Five | Season Six | Season Seven | Season Eight     In every generation, there is a Chosen One. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons, and the forces of darkness. She is the Slayer. In this generation, her name is Buffy Summers.     Fifteen year old Buffy began having strange, violent dreams about women from different periods in history slaying monsters. One day, she was approached by a mysterious man named who revealed her destiny as a vampire "Slayer" to her. This man, Merrick, became her first Watcher. With little training, Buffy defeated her first major enemy, a vampire leader named Lothos, but not before the death of Merrick. In a battle with Lothos' vampire lackeys, Buffy set fire to the high school gym and was subsequently expelled. (BtVs: The Origin)     To avoid the burden of her school expulsion and her parents' disintegrating marriage, Buffy ran away to Las Vegas with her sort-of-boyfriend, Pike, tracking a vampire nest to a casino called the Golden Touch. Buffy used a priest to bless the casino's sprinkler to eliminate all the vampires inside. Before her return to Los Angeles, Pike broke up with her, seeing himself as a burden that would only slow her down from her duties as the Slayer. (BtVs: Viva Las Buffy)     Returning to Los Angeles, Buffy discovered that her sister Dawn had read her diary and told their parents about the strange things Buffy had been writing about. Worried that Buffy was losing her mind, her parents sent her to a mental institution. At the institution, Buffy encountered a demon who was feasting on the tormented souls of the girls at the rehabilitation facility. After vanquishing the demon, Buffy accepted the responsibilities and dangers of her calling as the Slayer, but realizeed it was futile to persuade anyone else. Keeping quiet, Buffy was eventually released from the institution after a couple of weeks. (BtVs: Slayer Interrupted)     Buffy came home to deal with the repercussions of her parents' separation. Matters were made worse when her secret admirer, a vampire with a soul, tried to alleviate her emotional turmoil through means of magic. Malignancy Spirits were accidentally unleashed, exacerbating all of the palpable pain the Summers' family is going through: Deceit, which hovered over her parent's frayed marriage, Guilt, which blanketed their emotions, Abandonment, which gutted Buffy with a growing sense of abandonment. Buffy moved with her mother and sister to Sunnydale for a new start, where a final spirit laid waiting for them: Trepidation, which creeped into their minds with a fear of the unknown. After laying all the spirits to rest, Buffy finally settleed down, with her parents' divorce finally behind her. (BtVs: A Stake to the Heart)         Enrolling at the local high school in Sunnydale, Buffy met her future best friends, Xander and Willow, as well as her new Watcher, Giles, and Angel, the vampire with a soul who had been keeping tabs on her prior to Sunnydale. During her first year in Sunnydale, Buffy fought a powerful vampire, the Master, who overpowered her and left her to drown in a pool of water. Buffy's death freed the Master and opens the Hellmouth, but Angel and Xander found her in time for Xander to resuscitate her. (BtVs: False Memories)         No longer able to deny the feelings that she had for Angel, despite his vampiric nature, Buffy found forbidden love with him which unwittingly ended the Gypsy curse placed on him a century earlier. Losing his soul to their act of passion, Angel reverted back to Angelus, the most infamously evil vampire in history. Hating Buffy for making him feel human, Angelus became obsessed with destroying Buffy's life and killed her Watcher, Giles' love, Jenny Calendar. Angelus joined forces with Buffy's enemies, Spike and Dru, putting forth in motion a plan to destroy the world, by resurrecting Kelgor, an ancient samurai demon. With the help of another Slayer named Kendra, Buffy and her 'Scooby Gang' attempted to stop the resurrection of the demon, but failed without Giles' help, who was still a wreck from Jenny's murder. Kelgor's resurrection was followed by the return of his demonic pet bird, paving the way for an inevitable apocalypse. Buffy managed to finally save the day when Giles returned to help in an enchantment spell to take down the bird. Buffy killsedKelgor, later facing Angelus and sent him to hell. (BtVs: Ring of Fire)         Buffy's senior year in high school pit her against vampire ninjas, ice elementals, hellhounds, Hellmouth demons, a flesh-eating models, even an undead movie actor. As Buffy began to think about pursuing a career in modeling, Selke, a vampire who Buffy hoped had been killed at a mausoleum fire, came back and recruited a plastic surgeon to solve her cosmetic problems. Buffy was forced to put her modeling on hold to face her old enemy whose powers were massively increased as a result of a supernatural ingredient called 'bad blood.' On the night of Mardi Gras, Selke finally came out of hiding, now mutated from the bad blood. Once Buffy dusted Selke, the original vampire to drink from the brew, a chain reaction occured that killed the rest of the vampires who also dgested the bad blood. (BtVs: Bad Blood)     High school graduation saw Buffy battle the Mayor of Sunnydale, who ascended into a purebred demon, culminating in an explosion that destroyed the Mayor as well as the high school. Guilt-ridden and saddened by all the lives lost at graduation, Buffy became haunted in her dreams Faith, a rogue Slayer that sided with the Mayor and was left in a coma by Buffy. In the nightmares, Buffy was brutally stabbed by Faith who would then leave Buffy with the enigmatic message, "You're already dead," before she would wakes up. Meanwhile, the Mayor's spirit managed to occupy vampire bodies to use against Buffy. Buffy managed to dust each of the Mayor's bodies, until he found an unstoppable host that Buffy could not defeat, one that was already dead. Realizing that her nightmares were actually prophetic dreams to alert her of the Mayor's seemingly invincible host, Buffy had her magically inclined friend Willow cast a spell to evict the Mayor from ever occupying a host again. (BtVs: Haunted)         With High School behind her, Buffy began her freshman year at UC Sunnydale. Buffy found difficulty balancing out her college life with her slayage duties and contemplated dropping out of school. Trying to deal with such issues she overly involves herself with slaying with catastrophic results. When the Scooby Gang hear of a new "boogeyman" legend, they track down a beast that seems to need slaying yet doing so turns out to be more trouble than it's worth. Buffy was informed after the fact that the boogeyman, Mad Jack, was not a killer, but instead a sentinel that stood watch over a great evil called Ky-Laag that resided beneath the rocks of the Sunnydale Quarry. (BtVs: The Blood of Carthage) Word of Mad Jack's death traveled back to its demon cult, the Blood of Carthage, who were outraged with Buffy's carelessness and traveled to Sunnydale to prevent Ky-Laag's return. Buffy was forced to form an uneasy alliance with the Blood of Carthage to reforge the barrier that kept Ky-Laag trapped. Ky-Laag managed to escape before the barrier could be forged and caused havoc in Sunnydale, but was defeated shortly after and sent back to his prison beneath the Quarry. The Blood of Carthage then departed Sunnydale, leaving Buffy in charge of watching over the Quarry. Deciding to give college another shot, Buffy attracted the sincere attention of Riley Finn, who also happened to be a member of the Initiative, a U.S. government task force created to research mystical and demonic creatures. (BtVs: The Blood of Carthage)     As her relationship with Riley became serious, Buffy's past came back to haunt her. When monsters from L.A. begin to seek refuge in Sunnydale, Buffy believed she should go help Angel in L.A., and left Riley unpleased by the development. Venturing to Los Angeles to help Angel against a huntress named Alexa Landry that had set her sights on Angel to make him pay for past sins. With Willow's help to disable Alexa magical winning edge, Buffy took Alexa out easily and handed her over to the Watcher's Council for punishment. (BtVs/Angel: Past Lives)     During one of Sunnydale's hottest summers, the town suffered from a severe infestation of demonic insectoids. Earlier in the year, Buffy shattered the balance of the Hive when she stopped them from impregnating women with their offspring. It took the Hive months to regain balance. Once they found their footing again, they infected men with a parasitic agent that turnedg them into drone slaves. The Hive kidnaped entomologist Professor Warren Whitcomb to carry out their plans. Before they could take over the surface world, Buffy and the Scoobies discovered their lair and used a magical pesticide to destroy the remaining Hive drones. (BtVs: Out of the Woodwork)         As Buffy's mother suddenly became ill, a younger sister named Dawn mysteriously appeared in Buffy's household. Her existence was seamlessly integrated with the memories of Buffy, her friends, and her mother. Buffy discovered that Dawn was not really her sister, but instead The Key, a cosmic energy that could open interdimensional portals, and had been shaped by a group of monks into the form of the sister Buffy never had, so that she would protect it with her life.     Upon discovering the truth, Buffy was forced to sort out the truth from the false memories implanted by the monks, while also dealing with the fall out from her recent break-up with Riley. Had Dawn been the one to save Buffy after she was left to drown by the Master? Was she the one who was traumatized when Angel tries to kill her after turning bad? Was it Dawn who discovered there were 'sparks' flying between Xander and Cordelia?     Meanwhile, Yuki Makimura, a Vampire Slayer turned 'Slayer Vampire', journeyed to Sunnydale to resurrect her fallen Master. Yuki kidnapped Xander as the vessel for the Master's corporeal form to occupy, knowing full well that Buffy would come to save the day and plan to slay her in front of the Master to please him. Amidst the fight between the Scoobies and Yuki's Congregation, Dawn used a vapour blade against the Master, which destroyed his essence. (BtVs: False Memories)     Shortly after Buffy's mother died of complications from a brain tumor, demon manifestations of jealousy, Avendschrook were released, manipulating the emotions of Buffy's friends, Anya and Xander and Willow and Tara to attack one another. Meanwhile, Buffy was repulsed to discover that her sometime vampiric ally Spike had developed an obsession with her. Despite Buffy's spurning of his advances, Spike continued to pester her and helped lock the Avendschrook up, as he was immune to their powers since he lacked both soul and compassion. (BtVs: Ugly Monsters)     During an apocalyptic battle, Buffy sacrificed her life to save her sister and the world, by diving into a magical vortex that was causing dimensions to bleed into one another, in order to close it. (BtVs: Death of Buffy)         Due to the mystical nature of Buffy's death, Buffy's friends were convinced that she was trapped in a hell dimension and decided to rescue her. With the resurrection spell a success, Buffy's friends were unaware that Buffy had actually been residing in Heaven rather than Hell. Buffy's transition back to her life was difficult as she experienced the pain of having been ripped from Heaven, as well as the added responsibilities of raising Dawn and paying bills. She confided only to Spike that she had been in Heaven, and began a violent sexual relationship with him. Buffy's emotions kept her distracted when a long thought dead enemy resurfaced to exact revenge, but was killed by Spike before any real damage was done. Buffy later ended her relationship with Spike when he attempted to rape her, the aftermath of which caused Buffy to end her self-destructive behavior in order to be there for her sister. (BtVs: Creatures of Habit, Withdrawal)     When the Hellmouth swallows Sunnydale whole, Buffy and the rest of Sunnydale's residents became prisoners of a long-thought dead enemy, the robot-demon hybrid Adam, who had now become a non-corporeal entity. Adam took over the abandoned laboratories of the Initiative to harvest souls to be sold on the black market. With the help of her old flames Pike and Angel, Buffy rescued Sunnydale and shut down Adam's program once and for all. (BtVs: Note From the Underground)         Buffy's final year as the guardian of the Hellmouth, saw her close it, while having Willow use her powers to activate every potential Slayer in the world. With an army of Slayers, Buffy moved to Europe where activated Potentials were gathering. Later, Buffy and two Scythe Activated Slayer broke into the stronghold of the legendary vampire Vlad Dracula, in an effort to rescue Xander, who had been placed in a trance to serve as a manservant. After a brief battle, Dracula reluctantly agreed to release Xander from the trance and returned him to Buffy. (BtVs: Tales of the Vampires: Antique)         Buffy, Xander, Dawn, and a passel of Slayers are currently bunked out in a Scottish castle. There are 1800 Slayers world-wide, almost 500 of which are working for Buffy, and are separated into 10 squads. Viewed as terrorist cells by the American military in the wake of Sunnydale's destruction, Buffy's organization has been targeted by a mystically-aware Initiative-like government project. To combat the threats that have followed Buffy's new visibility, two other Slayers are scattered around the globe, serving as her decoys (BtVs: The Long Way Home)

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