The writers had intended for Joyce to be killed off to enact a major change in Buffy, affecting her season's dynamic with her priorities on family and the realization she can't kill everything that could harm the ones she loves.
Joyce appears twice in the seventh season: she haunts Dawn as a face of the First Evil in "Conversations with Dead People", and makes her final appearance again as an incarnation of the First Evil in Buffy's dream in "Bring on the Night".
With help from Spike and Doc, she performed a resurrection spell for Joyce. However, Dawn realized the inherent dangers of what she has done and that her mother may return as a zombie and broke the spell before Buffy could open the door and allow her in.
In the season two finale "Becoming, Part Two" Joyce discovers Buffy's secret identity as the Slayer when Buffy is confronted by vampires outside her family home and is forced to slay them in front of her mother. Unable to hide the truth any longer, Buffy explains to her mother that she is a vampire slayer.
In Pangs they said in the episode that Joyce was visiting relatives for Thanksgiving, so that was why Buffy was making Thanksgiving without her.
Season nine continues, after issue five's cliffhanger revelation that the Slayer was pregnant, with Buffy deciding what to do about the unwanted pregnancy – the result of a drunken night at a party. Eventually she decides to have an abortion.
“We actually had cast someone else in the pilot, and it just didn't work,” Shulman said in a DVD special features interview about why they went in a different direction for Willow. “So when we got picked up, we always felt that we were going to start again and look for another Willow. “
For the next year there are two Slayers in the world: first Kendra, who was called on Buffy's death, and then Faith, who was called when Kendra was killed by Drusilla. Regardless, Buffy is still referred to as the Slayer.
Buffy visits her friends and tells them she was in Hell during her death and appreciates that they brought her back. However, when Buffy goes outside and finds Spike hiding in a patch of shade, she admits to him that she was actually in Heaven and was happy.
In the episode "I Will Remember You," Angel becomes human, much to his and Buffy's emotional and physical satisfaction.
After sleeping together on the eve of the battle with Glory, Xander suddenly proposed to Anya. She responded badly at first, believing he was only doing so because they were going to die, but happily accepted in the end.
Whistler was a powerful demon/higher being hybrid who inherited his powers from both species, such as: Super strength: Being a demon/higher being hybrid, Whistler possessed strength inherited from both species, especially in his demonic form.
In the series finale, "Chosen", Anya fights with the others in the climactic battle against the First Evil and is brutally slain from behind, bisected by a Bringer's sword.
ANGEL COMES BACK TO BUFFY — A grieving and confused Buffy falls into the loving arms of Angel who comes back to Sunnydale after he gets word about the death of her mother. Meanwhile, a distraught Dawn takes it upon herself to perform a magic spell to bring her mom back to life.
After three seasons on Buffy, Cordelia left the series to move over to star in Angel, a spin-off series focusing on Buffy's vampire ex-lover Angel (David Boreanaz). The first season of Angel sees Cordelia move to Los Angeles, in the hopes of escaping her new-found poverty by becoming an actress.
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Riley is Buffy's first serious boyfriend after Angel.
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In the season 2 finale of Angel, the Angel Investigations team arrives back to the hotel to find a grief-stricken Willow sitting, waiting for them with some bad news: Buffy is dead.
The Trio summon a demon whose hallucinogenic venom makes Buffy believe that her implausible and nightmarish life as vampire slayer has actually been her own elaborate hallucination as a mental patient, catatonic in a hospital for the past six years.
Although more crossovers happen with other characters and Angel would return to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) never makes an appearance in Angel again.
Sadly, at the end of the series, Buffy did not end up with Angel, or anyone at all. Despite the show ending, a comic book series produced by Buffy creator Joss Whedon has continued. In the final issue of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Reckoning, Buffy also did not end with Buffy romantically involved with anyone.
The trauma of Angelus's atrocities drove Drusilla insane, and Angelus chose to turn her into a vampire, as he considered her a masterpiece, a testament to his talent. Believing death to be a mercy to her at this point, he chose to sire her to make her pain eternal as an immortal.
Realizing that since Dawn has her blood and that her own death can stop the ritual, Buffy throws herself into the portal, which closes when she dies, leaving her friends devastated. She is buried with the epitaph, "She saved the world. A lot."
An actress named Riff Regan was the original Willow Rosenberg. Regan, who starred on Sisters as Young Georgie, was cast as Willow in the unaired Buffy pilot from 1996.
In a redemptive turn, when Willow turns all the Potentials into Slayers, she glows and her hair turns white, astonishing Kennedy and prompting her to call Willow a goddess.
While Buffy fights Gnarl, Anya informs Willow that her friends did not leave her alone. Buffy pokes the demon in the eyes with her thumbs, successfully killing him and ending the paralysis of both Willow and Dawn as well as the spell making Willow and her friends invisible to each other.